Wonderful evening so far. Turn
with me now to Exodus. Let's read the first 11 verses.
And I'll bring you another message on the Passover. And the Lord
spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This
month shall be unto you the beginning of months. It shall be the first
month of the year to you. And I tell you, when Christ becomes
real to us and Christ saves us by His grace, that's the beginning. That's when our life began to
live. That was our beginning. Speaking
unto all the congregation of Israel, saying in the tenth day
of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb according
to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house. And if the
household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor
next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls. Every
man according to his eating shall make your account for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You
shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall
keep it up until the 14th day of the same month, and the whole
assembly of the congregation shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood
and strike it on the two side post and on the upper door of
the post where when they shall eat. And they shall eat the flesh,
and that night roast with fire, and unleavened bread, and with
bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sod it
all with water, but roast with fire his head with his legs,
and with the pertinence, or the pertinent things thereof. And
you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, and that which
remaineth of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. And
thus shall you eat it with your loins girded, your shoes on your
feet, your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it haste in
the Lord's Passover." Now it's the blood, beloved,
it's the blood that cleanses us from our sin. It's the blood. God said, when I see the blood,
I'll pass over you. It's the blood that makes atonement
for the soul. And I say, God said, when I see
the blood, I'll pass over you. You can't see. You're in here.
He's out there. We're down here. He's up there.
And wherever he sees that blood, he just passes over. Passes over. The blood is our place of safety.
Oh, and what a safe place it is to be under the blood of Jesus. Safe in the shepherd's fold. My and I tell you the blood is
our salvation It's the blood without the shedding of blood
there's no remission of sin And the token that God gave it proves
that he has been satisfied and will accept all where the blood
is seen and that's why Peter said we've come under the sprinkling
of the blood and And I tell you the Holy Spirit takes the blood
of Christ and implies it to us and sprinkles our conscience
and our conscience as purged from dead works to serve the
living God. But now I want to go on and say
this, but it's the lamb eaten. The lamb taken and eaten. Ain't
that what he said? Eat this bread. You got to eat
this lamb. You got to eat it. And then when
we take and eat this lamb, this roast lamb, that's what brings
us into fellowship and communion and union with our Lord Jesus
Christ. He himself said, except you eat my flesh and drink my
blood, you have no life in you. And I tell you, beloved, it's
taking Christ by faith and eating, eating Him. Eating our Lord Jesus
Christ. Eating Him in the Gospel. Him
being our food. Him being our nourishment. Him
being our bread. Him being our water. Him being
our light. It's the lamb eaten that nourishes
our minds and feeds our minds. Feeds our souls. Our hearts And
he's sufficient for the whole man Now back over here at verse
3. Look what he says a lamb according
to a house He said take them every man a lamb according to
the house of their fathers a lamb for a house What that means is
as a lamb for us and all our children. I There's a lamb for
us and all our children. And then verse 5, it says, your
lamb will be without blemish and without spot. And our Lord
Jesus Christ is a lamb without spot and without blemish, who
is foreordained of God for us. And He said He'll be a male of
the first year in His prime, in His strength, in His glory.
And I tell you, you keep Him up 14 days, and you go out there
and you look at Him. I mean look at him, go at him,
look at his head, look at his legs, look at everything about
him. If there's a spot in him, you can't offer him. But oh,
it gotta be without blemish. And you shall keep it up, examine
it, examine it. I believe they went out every
day and examined that lamb. And I'll tell you something,
beloved, God Himself, God Himself, there's only been one man on
this earth that God examined, that God can look at, and God
would approve of, and that's His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And He started His ministry when
He was 30 years old. Before that, he was an obscure
man. Nobody knew who he was. But when
he entered the ministry, when he was 30 years old, he stood
up in that synagogue in Nazareth and began to read the scriptures
out of Isaiah 61. From that, you know, God looked
at him and said, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. And our Lord said, he does always
Please me. The only human being on this
earth, a perfect man, the Lord Jesus Christ. And if God said
and He sees the blood where His blessed Son was then applied
to a man's heart and soul, God sees that and He looks at him
and looks at him with approval. Ah, bless His name. And then
look what it says. in the last part of verse 6,
keep it up that 14th day and watch what it says, the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening. Do you hear what it says? The
whole assembly. Everybody is going to kill it
at the same time. All of Israel. Oh, there was,
oh, how many lambs you reckon there was that night? But God
said, let the whole assembly of Israel, the whole bunch, everybody,
go have a lamb. And there was many, many lambs,
but God considered it as just one lamb for a whole nation.
And all my one, He viewed it as one for one people. But I
want us, we saw the Passover last week. Let's look at eating
the Passover this evening. And look what it says here in
verse Well, let me get over here. Okay. And he says here in verse 8.
Let's start at verse 8. Look at it with me. And they
shall eat the flesh, and that night roast with fire, and unleavened
bread, and with bitter herbs shall they eat it. They shall
eat the flesh, roast with fire. Now when we talk about fire,
and the Bible talks about fire, Fire is emblematic of judgment.
The fire consumes the sacrifice. The fire of God fell. The fire
of God got burned in His anger. Fire is emblematic of judgment.
Wherever the fire fell on the sacrifice, the sacrifice was
judged. And the fire was what burnt the
sacrifice. The fire was what was the judgment
upon the sacrifice to consume the sacrifice. And it said, our
God is a consuming fire. And you shall eat this roast
with fire. And our Lord Jesus Christ, oh,
how he passed into the fire of God's wrath for us. When our
Lord Jesus bowed down there in Gethsemane and began to weep
and pray and began to, his sweat became as it were, great drops
of blood. He said, Father, if it be possible,
If there's any way, if it be possible, let this cup pass from
me. It wasn't the death itself. It was that cup, that wrath of
God, that separation from God. That was the agony of his soul.
That's what he couldn't bear. The sin was awful. And it was
because of the sin and Him being the Lamb of God and the sin offering
and substitute and sacrifice. And when our sin was found on
Him, our Lord Jesus Christ, He knew that there would come a
time when God Himself would turn His back on Him. The one who
said, this is my beloved Son. He said, this is not Him on that
cross. That's all my sheep. That's all
my left on that cross. What are you going to do? I'm
going to burn him. I'm going to let my wrath come
down on him. I'm going to let my wrath fall
hard on him. I'm going to let my wrath come
down on him so hard. And I tell you what, I'm going
to turn out the lights. I'm not even going to let that
man see what goes on. And I tell you what, the fire
of God's wrath burned on His blessed Son. And I tell you what,
there was a time when it was finished, there was a time when
it was done, and our Lord Jesus Christ, His last words, His last
words, it is finished. What does that mean? He consumed
all the wrath of God. There's none for me. He satisfied
God. God satisfied with me and Him.
Oh my, that's what our Lord Jesus meant. Except you eat my flesh
and drink my blood? When you gonna do that? When
we hear the gospel? Oh. And we got to know Him. And I'll
tell you, we must know Him as the despised and rejected one. We see Him on the cross as God's
wrath is poured out upon Him. And He drank the drugs of that
awful cup. Look in Isaiah 63. Let's look at this together. Oh, our blessed Savior. What
a Savior. What a Master. What a blessed
one that He would so willingly Willingly do this. Listen to this. I love this passage
of scripture. Who is this that cometh from
Edom? Edom is Esau. That was the same
name they gave to the nation of Esau. Edom. But Dagon is from
Basra. This that is glorious in his
apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength. I that speak
in righteousness, mighty to save. He tells us who he is. I talk
in righteousness and I'm mighty to save. And wherefore art thou
red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth
in the wine vat? I have trodden the winepress
alone, and of the people there was none with me. He by himself
purged our sins. For I will tread them in mine
anger, trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled
upon my garments, and it will stain all my raiment, the blood
of those whom he tread the winepress for. And listen to what he says,
the day of vengeance is in my heart. The day that I'm gonna
make everyone pay for all that they did. But listen to this,
and the year of my redeemed has come. I looked, there's none
to help. I wondered that there was none
to uphold me. But what did you do, Lord? Therefore
my own arm brought salvation unto me and my fury it upheld
me. Oh my! He tread the winepress
alone and the only object of our faith and of true faith is
the Lord Jesus Christ crucified. Now listen to me and people say
well I'm trusting in the cross of Christ. Listen, I'm trusting
in the Christ that was on the cross And there's a world of
difference in those two things. Now, I'm trusting the cross.
I'm trusting in Christ who's on that cross. The cross itself
don't save. It was who's on that cross. It's
not the amount of blood that was shed. It was whose blood
that was shed. It's Christ. Christ suffering. Christ dying. Christ bearing
our wrath. Christ atoning for our sin that
saves. And as they ate that lamb, roast
with fire, they believed God. He, this lamb here, that this
means that God is satisfied because He's seen the blood and now we're
going to eat this. This lamb has died. The blood's
been applied. God's going to pass by us, but
oh, He gave us such a wondrous meal to eat before we go. Huh? Oh, he was the just for the unjust.
Now listen to this, down in verse 9. And he'd not of it raw, nor
sodden at all with water. Now what in the world's happening? You know, our Lord Jesus Christ
was a substitute. He stood in somebody else's place. He stood in the place of all
his elect, all of his people. And we can never ever separate
our Lord Jesus Christ from His atonement. Don't eat it raw.
It must be roasted with fire. Look with me in Matthew 6, 16,
excuse me. You know, folks, when we talk
about eating it raw, there's a lot of folks that don't have
a clue what it means for Christ to be roasted. Look in Matthew
16, 21. You know, people want a personal
Savior. Everybody likes to talk about
Jesus as their personal Savior. And He must be yours. He must
belong to you. Salvation is between one man
and his Savior, one man and his Lord, one man and his Master.
But people want a personal Savior. They want him without his cross.
They want him without his sufferings. They want him without him being
roasted in fire. They want the benefits of Christ,
but not the sufferings of Christ. Now look what he said here in
Matthew 16, 21. From that time forth began Jesus
to show unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem,
must do it, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests
and be killed and raised again the third day. Then Peter took
him. This is astounding. Every time
I read it, it astounds me. Peter took him and began to rebuke
him. Can you imagine somebody rebuking
the Lord Jesus Christ? Began to rebuke him saying, Be
it far from thee, Lord. And the martyr says, pity thyself.
Be it far from thee, Lord. This shall not be unto thee. It's not right for you to suffer.
It's not right for you to die. It's not right for somebody to
hurt you. It's not right for somebody to
mistreat you. It's not right that you should
die. But listen to how our Lord reacted to it now. But he turned. Looked old Simon Peter square
in the eye. Get thee behind me Satan. Do
you see that big S? You think Satan don't use preachers? Do you think he's ever used you? Get behind me, Satan. Satan's speaking through Simon
Peter. You're an offense to me. For thy savers there don't delight,
there doesn't enjoy the things that be of God, but those things
that be of men. You want me without my cross? You want me without my suffering?
You want me without my death? You want me without God's wrath? That's what men want. Then said
Jesus unto his disciples. Here is where it hit rubber hits
the road. If any man is going to come after me, get behind
me and follow me. First thing he's got to do, he's
got to deny himself. He keeps his mouth shut. Your mouth's stopped. Your opinions
are stopped. Your ideas are stopped. What
you think about God's got to change. First thing you do is
you say, I ain't got nothing, I don't know nothing, and I can't
do nothing. And I'm sorry, I'm like Job,
I heard about you the ear to the ear. Now my eye sees you
and I'm going to put my hand over my mouth. And then not only that, but he
gets across with me. And then you follow me. You follow
me. Oh my. And that's why it says
don't eat it raw. Don't eat it raw. Don't eat it
raw. You know, people don't mind having
Jesus as a prophet. Back when I was a hippie years
and years ago. Long hair, way, way down there. Jesus was, you know, they got
a song, Jesus is just alright with me. Had a little bumper
sticker on my car, said Jesus. Something about Him being a prophet.
People don't mind Jesus being a prophet. They don't mind him
being a great, great, wonderful teacher. Oh, what a wonderful example
he is. They don't mind him being a social
worker. They don't mind him being a marriage counselor. They don't
mind him being a wealth maker. They don't mind him being a healer
of the body. But that's to eat the lamb raw.
That's to eat it raw. Huh? That's to eat the lamb raw. They said, you got to have the
lamb roast with fire, not raw. You approach God without Him
being roasted under the wrath of God's fire? Oh, I wouldn't
be in your shoes for 10,000 worlds like this. You know Christ unto
us that are being saved. Christ is the power of God. The power by which God does everything. The power by which He saves us.
The power by which He keeps us. And He's the wisdom of God. How
God can be just and justify us in His blessed name. And then
He says here, don't eat it with sodden water. Sodden with water. Don't let the atonement of Christ
be watered down. That's what it means. Don't let
it be watered down. How can you water it down? Very easy to water
it down. Us preachers watering it down,
they're watering it down all over the United States, all over
the world today. But I'll tell you what, we're not going to
water it down. Our Lord Jesus said, I lay down my life for
who? For everybody that will let me
save them. For everybody that will walk down this aisle. for everybody that will accept
Jesus and let Him into their heart. No, I lay down my life
for the sheep. No man takes it from me. I've
got the power to lay it down. I've got the power to take it
up again. Herein doeth my Father love me.
Oh my. And I'll tell you something else
about this lamb. This lamb was for Israel. It was for a particular
people. No, no, no, and I'll tell you
that's why our Lord Jesus Christ said he has power over all flesh
All flesh, but you know what he said I give eternal life To
as many as that has given him He said in John 17 and 9 he said
I pray not for the world But for them that thou hast given
me out of the world all that the Father gives me all that
he gives me shall come to me they are coming oh in the day
of his power they are made willing they are coming and he that cometh
to me there ain't a thing in the world he
could ever do to make Christ cast him away. And I'm thankful
he said that. Because I've done a thousand,
ten thousand things that would cause him to cast me away. And he ain't yet. That was you. Oh, I'm glad he said that. Oh, listen, when our Lord Jesus
said, except you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have
no life in you. You know what they said when
He told them that? He said, well, this is a hard saying. Who can
hear it? Oh, I tell you who can hear it.
My sheep hear my voice. Them my hard sayings to me, are
they you? Well, that's a hard saying. I
tell you what, I'm just going to quit. If you're going to be
that hard about it, and going to be that strict about it, and
going to be that narrow about it, I just quit. You going to
go away too? No, no, no, no, no, I ain't going.
Why? Because you Lord got the words. You're the only one in this universe
that's got the words. Words of eternal life. And I've
heard them words. How did you hear them? You gave me ears. I'm a sheep. Oh my, I know this, if our Lord
Jesus Christ suffered for you, if Christ is your Passover, then
you do eat his flesh and you do drink his blood in these services
like we do now. And if he did this for the world,
then the whole world would be saved. Not no ifs, ands, or buts
about it. And then all look what else it
says down here. Don't eat it raw. Don't eat it
sod with water. Just don't water it down. We're not going to water down
the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ. We're not going to make
it no whiter than God made it. Do you know how white God made
it? I lay down my life for the sheep. These are my people. Christ Jesus called his name
Jesus for he shall save his people from their sin. There's always
distinguished. God commended His love toward
us. God makes a distinction between
His people and the world. And I'm thankful He does. And
I'm thankful that I... Oh, bless His holy name, that
He gave me ears and I could hear Him. Me and Paul May is talking the
other day when we're preaching the gospel. I'm telling you grace,
wherever grace is at, grace responds to grace. Wherever Christ is
in a man's heart, Christ in a man's heart responds to Christ and
the Scriptures. If Christ is in you, then you
respond to Christ when He's preached to you from the Word of God.
And I'll tell you something else about it. Listen, I've heard the gospel
where I thought if I never had been saved before, I've been
saved tonight because I believe every word that man said. You don't ever feel like that.
I heard that and I said, oh my, if I ain't saved before, I'm
saved now because I believe every word of that. Oh my goodness,
like Tim James said one time, and let me tell you this real
quick while I'm thinking about it. Tim is just, he's got a new
book out, the only one he's ever done, on the book of Galatians.
If you want one of them, I'll order us a bunch of them and
have them delivered here. But Tim, they just heard of it
yesterday. But oh my. But now look what
it says down here in verse 11. And thus shall ye eat it with
your loins girded, shoes on your feet, and your staff in hand.
And listen to this. And eat it in haste. Eat it in haste. What does that mean? Eat it. Take it right now. Take it right
now. Eat Christ now. Take Christ right now. Have that
Lamb now. You got to have Him right now.
Don't wait. Come and come now. Get where
that blood's at now. And I tell you when we ate, He
said, eat it in haste. When we wait, we're looking for
some reason in ourselves. That's why we shouldn't eat it
in haste right now. We're looking in something within
ourselves whether we should believe or not. Or some reason in ourselves
why God would receive us or some reason why He won't receive us.
And He said, eat it in haste. Just eat it in haste. Now, right
now. And I tell you, these folks,
I'm telling you, they're standing there, they're eating this thing,
they're eating it in haste. God told me to eat it. Eat it
quick, eat it all. And so come, take the Lord Jesus. He's the only one that can satisfy
your soul. Eat it in haste. And then look
what he said in verse 10. And you shall let nothing of
it remain until the morning. Eat it all. Don't let nothing
of it remain. I mean eat it all. And what that
means is we have to have a whole Christ. We've got to have all
of Him. All of Him. Don't let nothing
of it remain. We must have a whole Christ.
We must have a whole lamb. Or none of Him. And no lamb. Oh my, eat all of it. Gotta have
a whole Christ. Gotta have a complete Christ.
Gotta have a perfect Christ. Gotta have a holy Christ. Gotta
have a righteous Christ. And some want His example, but
not His doctrine. Some His doctrine, but not His
precepts. But there's nothing of Him that
must be left, for there's no more in Christ than we absolutely
need. Everything there is in Christ
and everything about Christ, we utterly and absolutely need
it. There's nothing superfluous about
Christ. And if He's going to be your
substitute, He'll also be your King. And if He's going to be
your Savior, He's also going to be your Lord. Not the Lord
just to trust, but also to obey. I love to call Him Master. That's
what I love to call him. I love to call him Master. I
love that word Master. That means you're a servant.
He's the one. He's the Master. He's the Lord. He's the King. And when I come
to Him and you come to Him, we come to one on the throne. And when we come to Him, we come
to one who is Lord. And when we come to Him, we come
to Him not to pick and choose what we'll believe and what we
won't. We believe all of Him and everything there is better.
And He tells us to do something? Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Oh, He's
not only justifier, but our sanctification. Look what He said back up here
in verse 9. eat it not of it raw, nor sod
it all with water, but roast with fire." Now listen to this,
his head, his legs, and everything pertinent to him, pertinent to
that lamb. Huh? Is Christ divided? We've got to take him off. Everything
that pertains to him, that's what he means. Oh, the head with
the legs, you've got to take it off. And then look in verse
8. And they shall eat the flesh,
and that night roast with fire. And listen to this, an unleavened
bread. Unleavened bread. Purge out the old leaven of traditions,
works, merit, envy, malice. We've all been taught, we all
know that it's true, that leaven is a type of sin. Leaven is typical
of hypocrisy. So we must receive and believe
our Lord Jesus Christ sincerely, honestly, humbly. If you take
the whole Christ, then He gets the whole you. Does that make
sense? If you get the whole Christ,
then He gets the whole of you. Does anybody here as a believer
withhold anything from Christ if they know it? You know one
of the griefs that we have is that we cannot give ourselves
to Christ completely the way we'd love to do it. But one of
these days, bless His name, He'll get all of us. He'll get all
of us, for sure. without any flesh. Oh what a
day that's going to be. Oh my. And be honest here before
God. That old leaven. Don't trifle
with the Lord if you want to play out and to pretend. Don't
do it here. Don't do it here. That's what
he told his disciples. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. And then look what else he said
there in verse 8. Not only eat it with unleavened
bread and with bitter herbs shall they eat it. What's these bitter
herbs? Now, these bitter herbs was to
enhance the flavor of the lamb as it was roast. Give it a wonderful
taste. And I tell you what, now remember,
remember the bitterness, the bitterness of your bondage. When
you was in sin, and you was in legalism, and you was in fundamentalism
and self-righteousness, and Christ began to make you feel the bitterness
of your bondage, and then when Christ come and set you free,
how sweet, how sweet Christ was. And oh, we eat Him with the bitter
herbs of repentance. of repentance. Oh Lord, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry I thought that.
I'm sorry I said that. I'm sorry I felt that. I'm sorry. Oh God, I'm sorry for being sorry. Bitter herbs of repentance. The
bitter herbs of our unworthiness and our poorness of spirit. And as long as we're in this
world, as long as we're in this world, there'll always be bitter
herbs that go with believing. Our afflictions, our trials,
our sin, and all these bitter herbs that God gives us, that
just makes Christ so much sweeter to us, so much dearer to us,
much more precious to us. Huh? Oh my. I remember Mary wanted
to hear about Christ every day when she was sick. Read the Bible
to me. Read the Bible to me. She'd comment
on what we'd go about. It has to be a reward for both
of us. But it made Christ so sweet.
And Joe and Bruce going through this right now, it makes Christ
so sweet. The darker the night, the brighter
the light. Ain't that right, Gary? I tell you what, if you eat the
lamb, the bitter herbs go with it. But who cares as long as
we have the privilege of eating the lamb. If God gave us nothing
but sweetness, Oh, what a sorry lot we would be. Huh? So we got to have some bitterness.
Got to have some bitterness. And this is how you're going
to like this. Look down at verse 11. And thus shall ye eat it
with your loins girded, shoes on your feet, your staff in your
hand. You got to have your traveling
clothes on. You're fixed to leave here. We
eat it with our traveling clothes on. This world's not our home. And Christ has clothed us. We're
clothed with the garments of His righteousness. This world
is not our home. We started an exodus. We're headed
for the promised land. Here we have no continuing
city. But we look for one to come.
Oh my. And we have our loin skirt about
with the truth. We have the helmet of salvation,
the shield of faith, the robe of righteousness, and our feet
are shot with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Oh my. I want to close with reading
a couple of verses of scripture out of Hebrews. Oh, we got our
clothes on. I got our traveling clothes on,
don't we? Oh, Hebrews chapter 11. Oh, we got our traveling
clothes on. Got our traveling clothes on. Oh, look at Hebrews 11, verse
9. Oh, we're talking about This world
is not our home. We just passed. This is a dressing room. God is dressing us up to
go to glory. And I tell you what, when He
calls us out here to go to our exodus, we already got our clothes
on. So when we land over there, everything
we need when we face God, we got it all. by faith Hebrews 11 9 he soldiered
as a pilgrim in the land of promises in a strange country ain't this
world strange to us? it gets stranger all the time
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob the heirs with
him of the same promise what was he doing running around this
strange place? he looked for a city which hath
foundations, whose builder and maker is God." Look down at verse
13. Every time you see a horizon,
you say, when I get over that horizon, do you reckon I'll see
that city over there? I'll tell you what, he sees it
now. These all died in faith. not having received the promises,
having seen them afar off, we see them right now, and were
persuaded of them and embraced them, we embrace them too. And
they confess by doing that that they were strangers and pilgrims
on the earth. Ain't that what we are? For they
that say such things, declare plainly, they're looking for
another country. They're looking for another place
to live. And truly, If they had been mindful of that country
from which they came, anybody look back? Oh no, ain't nothing
back there. They might have had opportunity
to have a return. But now, but now, they desire
a better country. That is a heavenly country. Wherefore
God is not ashamed to be called their God. Now listen to it.
For he hath prepared for them We've got our clothes on. We're ready to go. We've got
the lamb. The blood's been shed. Oh, our blessed, blessed Savior.
How wonderfully gracious. How wonderfully merciful. How
wonderfully kind, how wonderfully loving and kind and good you
are. Oh Lord, we get overwhelmed with
your grace, get overwhelmed with your word, get overwhelmed with
what you've done for us. Oh, sometimes it just sweeps
over our soul with such glory and such power and such joy.
And oh Lord, we thank you for it. Thank you for this body of
believers. Thank you for those who through
your providence are not here tonight, but Lord are with us
in spirit and with us in heart. God bless them. God strengthen
them. God encourage them. And Lord bless this congregation
as they go to their jobs, go to their homes, go to their daily
lives. Oh Lord, we all ready to go.
We got our clothes on. If we happen to be at work when
you call us, we're dressed. If we happen to be at home in
our bed, we're dressed. Wherever it may be when you call
us, we're already dressed. You dressed us yourself. You
put that robe on us, them shoes on our feet, that ring on our
finger, and we thank you for it and bless you for it in Christ's
name. Amen. Amen. Amen. They sang 268 before in the hymn
book. 268, and then you'd be eliminated. 268. Let's stand together.