Last Sunday night we dealt with
the white horse, the rider on the white horse. We saw that
that was the Lord Jesus Christ. There's three other horses and
there's four horses. And it was Christ on that white
horse going forth to conquer and to conquer. And I get on
Sermon Audio and I'll look at these passages and And you can
get them on PDF, and I read them. And I was reading one fellow
here on the white horse, and he said that white horse represented
evil. He said it couldn't be Christ.
And of course I've read where some say that it wasn't Christ. And the reason that he gave was
that the Lord Jesus was over there holding the book, opening
the seals. But I thought right immediately,
he don't know a thing in the world about Christ, where Christ
could be everywhere doing all things at the same time. You
know, nothing keeps him from doing everything. He saves all
of us and keeps us all saved. And we're just a drop in the
bucket compared to the multitude that he's already sent. And yet
he's sitting on his throne. And then he's here. And then how many other congregations
is he at? If you try to limit Christ, you just can't do it. You just
can't do it. Like I said last week, here he
had the seven stars in his right hand and when John saw him as
he was, he fell as a dead man. He had the seven stars. seven
preachers in his hand and he rests down with that same right
hand and touched John and said arise and fear not. Now I don't
have no problem with that. I don't have no problem with
the Lord Jesus Christ having the government upon his shoulder
and having all of his sheep on his shoulder and won't set them
down until he sets them down in glory. I don't have no problem
with him doing everything. I may write that fella and try
to straighten him out, but I tell you that probably ain't that
much straightening in the world. Tell him, you know, listen, if
you try to limit Christ to being at one place at one time, you've
done messed up. Done messed up. But here we're
going to start with these other writers. It's starting in verse
3. And when he, these are the beasts
now. And when he had opened the second seal, these are the seals,
the seven seals, this is the second seal. And I heard the
second beast say, come and see. And when he had opened the second
seal, I heard the second beast say, come and see. And there
went out another horse that was red. And power, power was given unto him that
that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they
should kill one another, and that there was given unto him
a great sword. And when he had opened the third
seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld,
and lo a black horse, and he that sat on him had a pair of
balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst
of the four beasts say, a measure of wheat for a penny, and three
measures of barley for a penny, and see thou hurt not the oil
and the wine. And when he had opened the fourth
seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold, a pale
horse, and his name that sat on him was Death. And hell followed
with him. And power was given unto them
over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword, with
hunger, with death, and with the beasts of the earth." So
we have these four horses. The first was the Lord Jesus
Christ, without a shadow of a doubt. White in the scriptures always
represents holiness, purity, perfection. The white linen that
the saints is even dressed in. And so the rider of the red horse
that comes, he represents slaughter. Represents people being slaughtered. He's given a sword. The rider
on the black horse, he's got that scale in his hands. He represents
and shows us financial hardship, poverty, and injustice that's
given in this world here. And these two horses and their
riders symbolizes how the church is persecuted by the world and
how it's hated by the world. And every time where Christ goes,
Satan follows him and starts persecuting those whom Christ
died for. And the rider in the pale horse,
he tells us who he is, he's death. That fellow on that pale horse,
he's death. Capitalized death and then hell
follows him capitalized wherever death goes else follow right
behind him And he has a sword. He has famine. He has pestilence. He has wild beasts that he's
going to use To hurt people on the earth, but all the woes that
we're hearing about here are common to all mankind Everybody
has to go through these things And there's a lot of similarities
here between Matthew 24 and Revelation 6. First of all, it says many
false Christs shall arise. Well, when you get in Revelation,
you got the false prophets, you got the beast, you got the great
harlot. So first of all, you got these
false prophets, false Christ that are rising, false prophets.
And then he says, then you're going to hear wars, rumors of
wars. There's going to be pestilence.
There's going to be disease. There's going to be destruction.
There's going to be wars. Nations are going to rise against
nations. And he said, this is just the beginning. Just the
beginning. And so those are the things that
are happening here. And Ezekiel saw the same things
that John did here. He saw the four horses. Remember I showed you that in
Ezekiel and also in Zechariah? They saw the four horses. And
they were sent to do things in the earth. Sent to do things
in the earth. And of course these riders and
these horses, and on these horses, these horses and these riders
on these horses, They're all under the control of that man
on the right horse. Because everything you hear this
says is it's given unto them, it's given unto them, it's given
unto them. They don't have the power to do anything until it's
given unto them. And who's the only one that's
got the power to give them anything? Christ has to be the one, they're
servants in Christ's hand. And never forget that. Whatever
happens in this world is the servants of Christ. These horses
are the servants of Christ. And what they're doing is the
servants of Christ. And whatever happens in this
world is Christ that causes it to happen. God Almighty causes
it to happen. And I know most people don't
believe that much anymore, but I believe it with all my heart.
I believe that God is so interested in His people and what goes on
in this world that He numbers the hairs of our head and everything
that happens, that every kind of medicine that's ever made,
everything that's ever been accomplished in this world that's been good
for mankind, God done it for His elect and the world gets
to enjoy it. There's a wicked man raising
corn and wheat right now. And we're going to eat bread.
Ain't that right? I love it that way. That gives
me some comfort and peace in this world. And people read Revelation,
they say, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going to happen? Just
exactly what Christ orders to happen. Just exactly what, do
you see? These things, all persons, all
instruments, are in our Lord's hand to accomplish His will and
His purpose. Remember, these are the seals
that are being opened. And who's the one opening them?
Christ is opening them. So they're just servants in His
hands. Now let's look at this red horse. The first one, there
in verse 2, and He'd open the second seal. I heard the second
beast say, come and see. And there went out another horse
that was red. red and what is he going to do? Well he's going to take peace
from the earth and that they should kill one another and there
was given unto him a great sword first of all it was given unto
him to take peace and then to kill one another and here he's
talking about the persecution, things that's going to happen
to people in this world, especially the Lord's people. There's going
to be war between nations. And you know, in the scriptures
it talks about, remember this, that when this was written, John
and the church in those days were being persecuted very, very,
very much. They were slaughtering the Lord's
people. They were killing the Lord's people. Nero was using
people and setting them on street corners and setting them on fire
and using them to light the streets up with. And they were slaughtering
the Lord's people. They were being greatly persecuted.
So remember that when you find out about these kind of things
here. But I know this, that wherever the Gospel goes, wherever the
Gospel in the Spirit comes, persecution always follows. People always,
always... There's people that don't want
the Gospel. They don't want to hear the Gospel.
And we have a multitude, a multitude of people in this world today
that tell you that they don't believe God, they don't believe
there's anything good, that God could not possibly run this world. Because science says He can't.
Science says that God can't do things. They could create life
now, so they say. And so we don't need God anymore. But I tell you this, Wherever
the gospel goes, there's people that come along and persecute
people. And I want to look over here
at Matthew, talking about peace from the earth. He comes to take
peace. Look at Matthew 10.34. Matthew 10.34. Look what our Master says here.
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth. See, peace is
a gift from God. It's something that you have
personally. People say, you know, people,
we want peace on earth. Well, it ain't going to happen.
As long as you got men on this earth, it ain't going to happen.
It's just not going to happen. And think not that I am come
to send peace on earth. I came not to send peace, but
to bring a sword. I come to bring a sword. I said, and listen, this sword
is symbolic of people persecuting one another, bothering one another,
hurting one another. And look what he says, I've come
to set a man at various against his father. The father is going
to say, listen, you know better than that. Don't you dare go
hear that stuff. You know you wasn't raised to
believe in sovereignty of God. You wasn't raised to believe
in grace. You was raised to believe in you're supposed to live right
and do the best you can. And you come and tell me that
you cannot do anything, that you don't have no abilities.
I know better than that to tell you. And then look what he said
to the daughter against her mother. Daughter against her mother.
How many homes have been destroyed over the gospel? How many people have been destroyed
over the gospel? How many homes have been tore
up over the gospel? And the daughter-in-law against
her mother-in-law. And a man's foe shall be they
of his own household. Now listen to this. And this
is exactly what he means when he sends a sword. This is what
he means that he didn't come to send peace. He that loves
his father and mother more than me is not worthy of me. And I'll
tell you something, you find out real quick that blood, human
blood is thicker than the blood of Christ when people start finding
fault. If the father leaves, the son
goes. And if the son goes, the wife
goes. Then if the grandchildren, they
go, then the grandchildren go. I've seen it happen too many
times. I just recently, I was talking
to somebody and several folks left and I said, I told you,
blood's thicker than water. And you know, if a man, they
say, well, listen, you go where you want to go, I'm going to
stay here and listen to the gospel. And a man, Christ says, if you
don't do that, you're not even worthy of me. If you leave because
your daddy does, and you say you believe the gospel, and your
dad gets upset with the preacher, or your mother gets upset with
the preacher, and you say, I'm going to leave, and you get up
and go with them, Christ says, you're not worthy of me. You're
not worthy of me. But I've seen it happen. I couldn't
tell you the times. I couldn't tell you that. And listen to me. When people
I've seen this happen so many times, and you have too, that
if you get bothered about something, you know, come and talk to somebody
about it. But I tell you what, don't get so upset that you take
people away. But if your wife leaves the gospel,
are you going to leave with her? If your children leave the gospel,
are you going to leave with them? That's what our Lord is saying
here. He said, I didn't come to bring peace. I told you this before, there
was a fellow that went to Brother Mahan's and he went, I mean he
was faithful. He had a boxer's name, so I won't
tell you who he was, but he had a boxer's name. A famous boxer's
name. But anyway, his wife one night
told him, kept telling him, won't you spend Sunday night home with
me? Stay home with me Sunday night.
Stay home with me. Well, he said, well, I'm afraid
I might have missed something. So he'd go on and one night she
told him, she said, stay home with me tonight. And if you don't,
I won't be here when you get back. He said, oh my, you shouldn't
have said that. You shouldn't have said that.
He said, I got to go now. And sure enough, when he got
back home, she was gone. And he was single for years,
and he got remarried, and now he goes to a little old place
called Dingus, West Virginia. You say, well, that wouldn't
hurt him to stay home with his wife. But when she says, you
know, it's either me or Christ, what are you going to do? That's what our Lord is talking
about here. This fellow's got a sword. He's going to destroy
the peace on earth. And then look what he goes on to say.
And he that loves his son or daughter more than me is not
worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross
and followeth me is not worthy of me. Three times he said not
worthy of me. And he that findeth his life
shall lose and he that loses his life for my sake shall find
it. Now let me give you a couple of illustrations what it is to
lose your life and to find it. Paul, before he was saved by
the grace of God, separated and called by Christ on the Damascus
road, he was saving his life as a Pharisee. But when Christ
smote him down, he lost it. He lost the life that he had.
He counted the life that he had but done. He found Christ to
be everything. And that's what it means. You
either want everything that you got, family's got, or you want
Christ most. And there ain't no middle ground
here. There is no middle ground. Our Lord don't give no middle
ground. No middle ground. Alright. And when he talks here
about they should slaughter one another or kill one another,
he's talking about war between nation and also the death of
Christ. He's talking about the death
of Christ, how that they killed the Lord Jesus Christ and all
the saints of God that was with him. It's like Cain, he slew
his brother. Why did he slay his brother?
Because he hated his brother. And he hated the one who trusted
Christ. And then there was given to him
a great sword. A great sword. Not just any kind
of a sword. And this sword here, he's talking
here about the sacrificial knife. They had a certain knife that
they used to slay lambs with. They had certain knives that
they used in the temple. Certain knives that they used
in the tabernacle. And they were called sacrificial
knife. Very sharp. They had a certain
purpose. That's why when Abraham and Isaac
were going up on the mountain, and Abraham, you know, Isaac
said to his father, Father, we got the wood, we got the fire,
and we got the knife. He didn't just talk about any
knife. He said, we've got the sacrificial knife. But where's
the lamb you're going to slice his throat with at? He said,
my son, I'll provide one. And so this book, the purpose
of this book of revelation here, the revelation of Christ, is
to speak to believers. And when John first saw this
vision here, they were being persecuted to death, being slaughtered.
And wherever that white horse appears, trouble always follows,
always follows. You look in the book of Acts,
And you know you find Stephen being stoned to death. And when
Peter and John were preaching, they come and told him, said,
don't you dare preach in his name again. Beat him. They went right out there and
started all over again. Put him in jail. God come and
got him out. Huh? Oh my. This is that you know and I hope
I hope that God don't let these things happen to us. I certainly
hope they don't but I tell you what if they do what are we going
to do? Huh? But in notice here the sword
is given and it's given unto him to take everything is given
all things are in the hands of God and the lamb is the one that's
reigning. Now look at the black horse and
when he had opened the third seal I heard the third beast
say, Come and see, and I beheld in law a black horse, and he
that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard
a voice in the midst of the four beasts saying, A measure of wheat
for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny, and see
thou heard not the oil and the wine. Now this black horse What
he's got in his hands, what he's riding on that, he's got a pair
of scales in his hands. He's got a pair of scales in
his hands. And people are going to talk
here and said people are going to eat their food. It's going
to have to be weighed out to them. Weighed out to them. And he says this, a measure of
wheat for a penny, three measures of barley for a penny. And what
he's doing here is talking about you're going to eat your bread
by weight. And you know when you go to... Ezekiel talks about
that. He says weigh out your money
here for your weight. Weigh out your money even for
your water. For your water. Ezekiel 4. And he said a quarter
wheat for a penny, three quarts of barley for a penny. And in
those days a penny represented a man's wages for one day. One
day. So that means that everything
that you worked for in one day was just buying enough food just
for you, not counting your family. That was just a very, very small
amount of food that you could buy for a penny. And what this
is telling us about, and you know what to remember, when that
man went out and said, listen, I need laborers to work in my
vineyard, go out and hire them, and he gave them all a penny.
All a penny. And so when you get to the end
of the day, you got a penny in your hand. And you have to go
buy something to eat. And you go buy what you got to
eat and all you can get is enough for you. You can't get enough
for your children. You can't get enough for your
wife. And if they're not working, they're gonna, people are gonna
starve to death. And what this is telling us, this is not famine,
this is poverty. It's poverty. There's plenty
of wheat to buy if you got the money. If you got the money.
And that tells us a poor man couldn't even provide for his
family. And when God brings a person to this position, it causes him
to depend upon the Lord. I mean, he really calls calling
on God. I don't know how many of you
all have ever read the book called The Mercies of a Covenant God
by John Warburton. But old John Warburton, he is
a preacher and he was poor. Oh, he was poor. And he would
go to bed at night and his children lay in their bed and cry because
they were hungry. And he'd lay awake and say, Oh
Lord, please, please, please open the door. Please do something.
Provide for my children. And there's been people in America,
I'm sure, back over the years that go to bed hungry. But I'm
telling this is what he's talking about. There's plenty of food,
but you're so poor that you can't buy it. And I hope it doesn't
get that bad here, but I tell you what, we don't know what's
gonna happen. We really don't know what's gonna happen. All
God gotta do is turn off the sun, turn up the sun, turn up
the heat, and turn down the water, and it won't be for three or
four years people will be begging for food. I mean, God can turn
this thing around in a dime, on a dime. And I say, you know,
but anyway, He said, but don't you hurt, don't you hurt the
oil and the wine. This oil and wine represents
the comforts of life. And the rich will have plenty.
They can buy all they want to eat, but not the poor. And you
remember when our Lord was using, Mary used that box of ointment
to anoint the Lord with. And old Judas says, that could
have been sold for 300 pennies and we could have given it to
the poor. You know what the Lord said? He said, you're going to
always have the poor with you. But you ain't going to always
have me. You ain't going to always have me. But let me show you
something over here in James chapter 5. Look in James chapter
5. First book after Hebrews. And you know, I don't want to
upset people, but you know if people have such control over
certain parts of society and certain parts of the workforce,
that if you don't go along with them, you won't get to work. And you know there's unions,
and if you don't join that union and don't get in that union,
you don't get to work. And there's nothing wrong with
unions, but whenever they tell you that you got to do things
their way, I think it's going too far. Huh? And he won't prosper like the
world will. And you know, and unions, they got their place.
Listen, I mean, they've done a lot of things for a lot of
people. But I also know this, that buddy, if they decide to
do something that's going to hurt you and your whole family,
you ain't got a thing in the world to say about it. And I tell you, it won't prosper
like this. But look what he said here in
James 5 in verse 1. Go to now, you rich men, weep
and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches
are corrupted, your garments are moth-eaten, your gold and
silvers cankered, and the rest of them shall be a witness against
you. And you shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You've heaped
up treasure together for the last day. Behold the hire of
the labors who have reaped down your fields, which of you is
kept back by fraud. You used them. You wore them
out. You didn't give them an honest
wage. And they worked in your fields. And they are crying out. And they was crying because of
that. And the cries of them which have reaped are entered into
the ears of the Lord of Sabbath. He said, Oh my, I wouldn't be
in a person's shoes for nothing that would mistreat and hurt
somebody like that. And I tell you, these two horses
go together. That first horse represents all
the martyrs, and the second, the oppression. And then here's
this pale horse. In verse 7, And when he had opened
the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast saying,
Come and see. They got four seals open, got
three more to go. And I looked, a pale horse, and
his name that sat on him was Death. And hell followed him. And power was given unto them.
You notice again that power is given. Everything that these
people have, these people and these horses, is given to them.
And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth
to kill with the sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with
the beast of the earth. Now when you talk about a pale
horse, Have you all ever seen anybody look really, really,
really pale? And you say, boy, you look pale.
You look sickly. Well, that's what this horse
looks like. It's not a pretty white horse that's just got a
pale color to him. He looks sickly. He's not a,
he's a gruesome color. You know why he's a gruesome
color? Because he represents death. and he represents death
and disease the horse on this rider on this horse called death
his name was death called death and I tell you something death
afflicts all oh it afflicts all believers as well as unbelievers
it takes it has death has no respect of persons it'll take
a baby and it'll take a man of a hundred years old It'll take
somebody right in the prime of their life, as they call it,
and it'll take somebody when they least expect it. It takes
whole families at one time. So death, and I tell you, he
comes on a pale horse, an old sickly looking horse. And I tell
you, behind him comes a long hail, right behind him. Death
comes along and he cuts down people. And hell waits to receive them.
But thank God, it says here, you know, it's given unto them. Death and hell cannot do what
they please. You know who has the keys of
death and hell? Look back over here in Revelation 1, 18. Power is given unto them over
the fourth part of the earth. But you know who has the power
of death? Who has the power of death? And he's given death here
now. Our Lord said in verse 18, I
am he that liveth and was dead. And behold, I'm alive forevermore.
Amen. And I have the keys of hell and
of death. Huh? And of death. So I tell you what, I want to
show you something about hell. Look in Isaiah 4. Don't you see
this? Talk about death and hell. Death
comes along and hell follows it. In Isaiah 4. Let me show
you something about hell here. And I don't like to talk about
it. I really don't. I don't want nobody to go there.
I don't. And this is one of the greatest
blessings that God gives a man. When he knows that somebody he
loves, mother, father, brother, sister, friend or whatever, if
they die and you know that they didn't know Christ, wasn't interested
in Christ, never called on Christ. So you know that they're lost.
You know that they're in outer darkness. But God puts something
in us that will not let us dwell on those kind of things. If you
started thinking about One of your loved ones, a father or
mother in hell and the agonies they're going through and the
darkness that they're in and the pain that they're suffering
and the lostness that they're suffering. If we started thinking
about those things, they'd drive us crazy. But God put something
in us that we cannot think about that thing because when death
gets you, that's where you're going to live. If it catches
you in Christ, you're going to live forever. If it comes and
catches you outside of Christ, you're going to die like you
live, lost. And that's why He said, alone
comes death and hell's right behind you. Look what it says here about
Hell in Ephesians, excuse me, Isaiah 4.14. Therefore Hell hath enlarged
herself, and opened her mouth without measure, and men, it's
talking about men here, and their glory, and their multitude, and
their pomp, and he that rejoices shall descend in death. Everybody who thought they were
something. That's where they're going. Ain't that awful? That's
awful to think about. And our Lord Jesus told us, you
know, that we, that Christ destroyed the power of death. So death
is not coming for us. Death is coming for the body.
But that's all he can take. That's all he can take is the
body. And their dominion is over the whole earth. This rider of
death and hell, he's over the whole earth. But yet he's only
allowed to hurt one-fourth part of it. Christ sets the bounds
of where he can go and what he can do. And this death has authority
to kill by four ways. First, he can kill by the sword,
by starting a war. And there's war between nations.
Secondly, he can kill by hunger. He can send a famine. And famine
always follows a war. And then the third thing he can
deal with is he can kill by pestilence. Ain't that what he says with
death and with the beast of the earth? He can kill with pestilence
and diseases and plagues. And plagues. And I tell you,
wherever death reigns, pestilence follows. You go someplace like,
like this pandemic we got. Now it hasn't bothered me a bit.
I haven't changed the way I lived and none whatsoever. It's not
bothered me. I'm not worried about it. I ain't
afraid of it. Afraid of something that God might use to take you
out with? No. I've not been, you know, I'm
not afraid of a... There's a fellow driving along
one time, and this is a true story. I can tell you his name. His wife ended up getting married
again. But he's driving along and a
rock started way up on top of this hill. It is on Route 52
in Ohio. And a rock come down through
there, bounced into his car and killed him. And it wasn't a big
rock. How in the world did that happen?
Death came. Death came. Huh? But you go to
these places and let me say this. When you go to places where people
get these awful, awful diseases and it kills them quick. Ebola
and things like that. The first thing they do is they
start isolating them bodies and they don't bury them, they burn
them. Kill the disease with burning
them. And that's what he's talking about. He'll send the pestilence.
This thing that's coming here, God sent this thing. He sent
it. Why would the world be afraid
of something God sends? If you get cancer, it wasn't
bad luck. It was the hand of God. You just
read Job 9. He said, the hand of God has
touched me. He took the crown off of my head. He turned everybody
that was for me at one time, turned them all against me. And
he said, the hand of God has touched me. Have pity on me.
He said, all that my words were
written in a book, written with stone and written down, He said,
but this I know and this is what I want people to know. He said,
know the hand of God. Now I know my Redeemer lives. And I shall see Him for myself
and not another. Here's a man sitting here in
dirt and he ain't got nobody that likes him, loves him, cares
for him, and wouldn't spit on for his own fire. And he said,
but my Redeemer lives and though He slay me, I'm going to trust
Him. Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? And I tell you what, we've watched
a lot of people, the Lord take them out of this world. And a
lot of blessed people, a lot of God's people. And what a blessed,
blessed thing it is to know when they draw that last breath, to
be absent from the bodies, to be present with the Lord. And that's why you find a believer
when I don't care what, I don't care if they've got cancer, I
don't care if they're having a heart, they have to have heart,
heart open, heart surgery, whatever it is. Believers act different
than the world does. They don't fall all to pieces
and bite their fingernails down to the quick. They say, I'm going
to quit God because God sent this to me. I'm going to quit
God, I'm going to quit the gospel because this happened. No, we
don't do that. We say it's the hand of the Lord.
Huh? That's what we'll say when we
hear about a believer going to say the Lord come and took him
home. Which way is he going to take
you? Which way is he going to take me? I don't care as long
as he takes me. Do you? As long as it takes me. Oh my. I tell you, beloved. And then he says, not only that
plagues and pestilence, disease and things like that, but look
what else he says here. And with the beasts of the earth.
With the beasts of the earth. You remember that they throwed
believers, God's children, to the lions? Fed them to the lions? Well that's why Paul says, you
know, He delivered me out of the mouth of lions. And God used
wild beasts to destroy people. And I tell you, all these things
that I've mentioned tonight, they afflict believers and unbelievers
alike. And remember this, that all these
horses, the red horse, the black horse, and the pale horse, They're
all just instruments in Christ's hand. He uses them to wean us
from this world and also to bring judgment on this world. And I'm
certainly glad that it says there, and you notice I say it again,
that this was given unto them, given unto them, given unto them,
given unto them. Who gave it? Christ did. He's the one on the
throne. So whatever God gives, Christ
is the one. It's the hand that he delivers
it with. It's got to be good, don't it? For us. It's got to
be. It's got to be. Ain't it? Why has it got to be? Because God said it's got to
be. Well, I've got to shut up. I need to stop. I get stirred up over some things,
you know. But I am so thankful. I am truly thankful. And I know
you are. That God is the author. Christ
is the author. And whatever He sends our way,
we're going to kiss the hand of His blessed providence and
say, Amen, even so. For it seemeth good in your sight.
It's the Lord. Can we do that? By God's grace,
we can, can't we? Yeah. Gary, if you had a nervous
breakdown over finding out you had that? No. He bothered you being asked.
Somebody asked me about you the other day. I said, you'll never
know anything's wrong with him. He said, never haven't felt anything.
He said, boy, ain't that something? I said, yeah, that's something. Well, let's pray. Our Father, in the precious name,
blessed name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, we praise you tonight,
bless you tonight, for this day, for the service this morning,
for the fellowship this morning, for the fellowship this evening, Hymns that were sung, so Christ-honoring,
peace like a river. I need thee, O Lord, we need
thee. Thank you for that blessed scripture that was read. We're
children of light, children of the day. And Lord, you're faithful. You're faithful that calls us.
You're so faithful. Thank you for the wondrous hymn
that was sung. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
come unto me and rest. Come unto me, thou weary one,
and lead your head upon my breast. And Lord, we do get weary. We
get weary of the world. We get weary of our flesh. We
get weary of the world and get weary sometimes that of the battle. But Lord, we're
not ready to quit. Oh no. Lord, we'll just wait
on you. And we'll trust you and we'll
believe you. And you'll give us strength.
And you'll restore us. And you'll comfort us. And you'll
be our stay. And we'll find our rest when
we're weary in you. Bless your holy name. Amen. Amen. Every hour of every day Every
moment and in every way I'm leaning on Jesus Well, I'll see you Wednesday
night, God willing.