God appeared to Moses in the
burning bush. What God said to him. Now this is Moses being called
and sent, going to be sent back down to Egypt. And it's a wonderful
thing. But let's start reading here
in verse 10. Come now, therefore, and I will
send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people,
the children of Israel, out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God,
Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring
forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said, Certainly
I will be with thee, and this shall be a token unto thee. that
with that I have sent thee with that has brought forth the people
out of Egypt you shall serve God upon this mountain and Moses
said unto God behold when I come unto the children of Israel and
shall say unto me the God of your fathers hath sent me unto
you and they shall say to me well what is his name what shall
I say unto them and God said unto Moses I am that I am And
he said thus, and he said, thus shalt thou say unto the children
of Israel, I am, hath sent me unto you. And God said moreover
unto Moses, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,
the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you. This is
my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. Go and gather the elders of Israel
together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me,
saying, I have surely visited you, and have seen that which
is done unto you in Egypt. And I have said, I will bring
you up out of the affliction of Egypt into the land of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk
and honey. And they shall hearken to thy
voice, and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto
the king of Egypt. And you shall say unto him, The
Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Now let us go, we
beseech thee, three days journey into the wilderness, that we
may sacrifice to the Lord our God. And I am sure that the king
of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And
I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all my wonders,
which I will do in the midst thereof. And after that, he will
let you go. And I will give this people favor
in the sight of the Egyptians. And it shall come to pass that
when you go, you shall not go empty. But every woman shall
borrow of her neighbor and of her that is sojourn in her house,
Jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment and you shall
put them upon your sons and upon your daughters and you shall
spoil the Egyptians. You remember that God appeared
to Moses last week in this burning bush. Burning bush. A bush that was not consumed. It burned and God spoke out of
that bush. And we know that God speaks through His blessed Son,
the Lord Jesus Christ. God and Christ are one and the
same. The Jehovah of the Old Testament
is the Jesus of the New. And God revealed Himself to Moses.
And God doesn't speak in maybes, perhaps, or I think, or I hope
so. It might happen. God don't speak
that way. Look what He said here in verse
7 and 8. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of
my people which are in Egypt. I saw it. I seen it. Then look
what else he said, and I heard their cry. And then he says,
and I know their sorrows. I see, I hear, and I know. That's why God, that's why He
speaks to us. I see you. I hear you. And I know you and everything
about you. And then he said, he said, and
down there in verse, he said, I am come down to deliver them,
save them out of the hand of the Egyptian. You see God's gospel
and God speaks as if it's already done. There's going to be a while
before they come up out of Egypt, but he's already spoke. I have
come down. I have come down. And he sees
everything about him. And the gospel goes forth with
purpose. Everything God does. This is the thing that God taught
me the gospel with. That he does what he does on
purpose. There's no accidents. There's
no luck. There's no chance with God. He speaks on purpose and he said
his word will not return unto him void. He said, my ways are
above your ways as the heavens is above the earth. That's how
far his ways is above us. As far as the heavens is from
this earth. And he said, and I tell you what,
I'll send forth my word and it shall accomplish whereunto I've
sent it. And it shall not, shall not return
unto me void. And I tell you what, and he said
here in verse 10, look what God says to Moses now. Come now,
therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, and thou mayest
bring forth my people, the children of Israel out of Egypt. But he says, come now. This is
40 years. Has passed since he had taken
things into his own hands down in Egypt 40 years now now's the
time to come now. It's now moses Now the 400 years
has come to pass and come to an end. It's time for my children
to come up Now the hour, the time has come for the deliverance
of my people. Now, he says, come now the hour,
the promise is to be fulfilled that I promised Abraham and all
my children. Now is the time for Jehovah God
himself to deal with Pharaoh. and teach him some awful lessons
and now Israel is in a condition, God's brought them into a condition
to they'll appreciate God's saving them and giving them the inheritance
that He's promised. Now how in the world is God going
to deliver, there's 2 million of these people down there now,
you remember Pharaoh said we're gonna have to do something with
this bunch. We're gonna have to if we let these folks get
too many of them We're gonna have to start killing their babies
because we'll have too many of them and they'll turn against
us But how's he going to deliver this 2 million people out of
Egypt? How's he gonna save them? The
God of Hebrews, how's he gonna save? Went down there 70 souls
and they multiplied and multiplied and multiplied and multiplied
and multiplied and Is He going to raise up a great big army
and send an army down into Egypt? Is He going to send some men
in there and deceive them and sneak them out of there? That's
why some men are preaching that God's going to sneak down here
and rapture His church out and leave everybody else here for
seven years of tribulation. God don't have to sneak to do
anything. He ain't going to slip in on anybody and do anything.
That's not the way He does. He beats you head on. Is he going to do it by Gael?
Is he going to use a bunch of angels? No. Is he going to do it by going
down up here before Israel and the king of Egypt in person?
No, that's not his way. You know the way God does it?
He calls a man and he uses a man. He said, come now therefore and
I'll send you. God has appointed a man. Human ministry, not angels. He has appointed men to effect
and to bring to pass His glorious salvation. I'll send you to bring
forth my people. And this is the thing, God's
ways has not changed. He used men then and He uses
men now. You know you cannot find any
place in this Bible where God, the only place that you find
where God confronted one man by himself other than Moses and
And Adam, everybody else he appeared with by men. He appeared to Moses
in a burning bush. And he went and sought out Adam
in the Garden of Eden. But all the other places you
find he raises up a prophet and sends a prophet. Raises up a
man, you go through the New Testament. God never saved anybody. He raised
up Isaiah, what? To preach to Israel. He raised
up Ezekiel, who? To preach to Israel. He raised
up Isaiah, who? The priest of Israel. And all
these men, He raised up these prophets to send prophecies and
to warn Egypt, I mean to warn Israel. And so God's always used
me in Christ Himself. The scripture said when He entered
into His ministry, the first thing He said He was going to
do is preach the gospel. Preach the gospel. They called
Mr. Spurgeon the prince of preachers.
He no doubt was a very, very good preacher. There's no doubt
about that. But I'll tell you who the apprentice
of preachers is, the Lord Jesus Christ. I'll tell you, He's the
one to whom we're to pattern ourselves after. Not somebody
else, Christ. And our Lord Jesus Christ, He
wins. He appeared to people one at
a time. Sometimes he just send his word
and he dealt with people, you know, he dealt with a woman at
the well He dealt with the leper. He dealt with people individually
And then Peter, when Peter was called to go down to Cornelius'
house, God had to teach him that you're going to go preach to
a Gentile and preachers, Hebrews, Jews never had nothing to do
with Gentiles. But God said, you're going to go preach to
them. How in the world is a Gentile going to be brought into the
church? Somebody's got to preach to them. Somebody's got to preach
to them. Somebody's got to preach to him.
But I'm going to tell you something. Look how Moses responds to this.
I bet he jumps up and says, boy, what an honor. What a privilege. What a blessing. Here I am. I'm going to be a preacher. I'm
going to be a preacher. You just hear him say, oh boy,
grabbed his lapel and said, oh my, I'm going to get in the ministry. No, look what he said in verse
11. And Moses answered God. First
thing he said, who in the world am I? Who am I? That I should go unto Pharaoh.
Who am I? That I should bring forth the
children of Israel out of Egypt. Who in the world am I? Who am
I? This is one thing I'm sure of.
A man that's eager, eager to get into ministry. Eager to preach. I'm afraid for him. I'm really
afraid for him. I'm really afraid for him. You
know Moses, you know you think he's going to bow and worship
and honor being so honored. He'll fall in full submission
and say Lord what would you have to do? But the first thing he
said, Lord who in the world am I? Why in the world did you,
why would you choose me? There's a multitude of people
out here that you could do this with. And Moses is 80 years old now. He tried to enter the ministry
and save Israel by himself when he first went off into... And
that's what he says over in Acts 7.25. He says, Moses, supposing
that the children of Israel understood that by his hand God would deliver
Israel out of Egypt. But that wasn't the way God was
going to do it. Now, he's 80 years old now. And he's not near as eager as
he was at 40. And he had been out here tending
sheep, keeping sheep. And it had calmed him down. It
had tamed him down. And here's what happens, beloved.
He saw the weakness in himself. Oh, he saw the inability in himself. He saw what a failure he had
made out of things himself. He saw the weakness of himself
and he saw the weakness of the people when he first went down
there. He tried once and failed. But
God called him. God set him apart. God said,
I'm going to use you. And you're going to be the one
to go set my people free, Moses. And God does not make any mistakes. And I'll tell you the difference.
Let me show you. You keep Exodus 3. Look over here in Luke 9.
I'll show you the difference between those that's called of
God and those that ain't. Those that's called of God and
those that ain't. Luke 9, 57. There's a great difference in
those called of God and those who ain't. Now a man is called of God, there's
two or three things that will happen for sure. First of all God will call him
and he won't know he's called until he really actually starts
preaching. That's how you know you're a preacher, you just start
preaching. People ask you to Would you come take a service?
It seems like you got some kind of gift and people say would
you come? Speaking, you know, would you come say something?
Would you give a testimony or something? Next thing, you know,
somebody else wants you. Next thing you know, you're in
the ministry. You didn't get up one day and
say I'm gonna be a preacher. That's not the way it works.
That's not the way it works. But oh my, look what he said
here in Luke 9 57. And it came to pass that, as
they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I'll
follow you wheresoever you go. Wherever you go, Lord, I'm gonna
go, I'm gonna follow you. And Jesus said unto him, them
old foxes over there that you saw, they have holes. And these
birds that you see flying around the sky, they have nests. But
when I go someplace tonight, I got no place to lay my head.
I'm gonna go up here in the woods. I'm gonna go up here on the mountainside.
I'm gonna go up here and pray. I got no place to lay my head.
He said, well, I might ought to reconsider this business.
And then look what else he said. And he said unto another one,
our Lord said, follow me. And you know what he said? Allow
me first, go bury my father. Listen, Lord, I got other things
that I need to do before I follow you. I got things I gotta take
care of before I can follow you. I got things that I've got to
do. I ain't got time right now. I gotta go back and deal with
the things in my home and my family. God, bury my father. Our Lord
said, you let the dead of this world, you let the dead of this
world bury the dead of this world. But you go and preach the kingdom
of God. And another also said, Lord,
I'll follow you. And every one of these, look
at what they said, suffer me first. And the other one said,
I'll follow thee, but let me first. First comes me first,
me first, me first. Christ, I'll catch up with you
later. I'll deal with you later. I'll
follow you later. But they said, let me first,
let me first, let me first. And oh, look what he says now.
I'll follow you, but let me first go say goodbye to them that are
in my house. Oh boy, I've got to go tell everybody
goodbye. I've got to follow Jesus. I've
got to go to the ministry. I've got to go tell everybody
bye. Why do you have to tell everybody bye? Is your family
not going to know anything about it? And Jesus said unto him,
No man, no man, he says, have he put his hand to the plow.
And while he's got his hand on that plow, he's looking back.
You can't keep the Pharaoh and you're looking back. You can't
keep your eyes on what you're doing when you're looking back.
And he says, no man having put his hand to the plow and looking
back is fit for the kingdom of God. That's the difference. These men, they consider the
difficulties. But when God calls a man, God
calls a man He will anoint that man. He'll use that man like
he does Moses. And that man will always feel
like somebody else ought to be doing it but them. I'm going
to tell you all a secret. Brother Mahan had a preacher
school years back in the late 70's and early 80's. And he had
lots of men there. Lots of men. Lots of men that
was in that preacher school. There was one man 75 years old.
come out of free willism. Some of them are still preaching,
some of them are not. Some of them continue, some of
them quit. Some of them went and joined other denominations,
some of them quit preaching altogether. Some of them become, they denied
particular addiction, but anyway, here's the thing. Every single
one of them, here's what Henry would tell them. He said, if
you can do anything else other than preach, do it. Go get you
an education. Find you a good job. And if God's
in you, using you, He'll use you in spite of yourself. And that's what happens. He uses
men in spite of themselves. And Henry tried his best to keep
them in. And he'd always tell other preachers,
he said, whatever you do, now listen to me. We're talking about
God sending a preacher and he's calling Moses. Whatever you do,
don't lay your hands too quick on anybody. The worst thing you
can do is put somebody in the ministry. And a lot of pastors put people
in the ministry. But if God don't put you in it,
I'll tell you a little joke. It's not a place to tell jokes,
but I heard this years ago. A fellow was out one day and he saw this sign
on the side of the road, GPC. And he thought, boy, why does
GPC mean? Asked his dad, he said, well,
baby, it means go preach Christ. Well, he went and tried that
and that wasn't it. He come back and said, well, I'll tell you
what I think it means. Let's go plow corn. Just go and preach it and help
him. Go plow the corn. That's the
way a lot of fellas ought to be doing. But, oh, listen. Go back to our message here.
I was talking about calling to preach. I tell you, it's a serious
business. It's a very serious business
to take up the Word of God and to stand in front of people.
Now, I've preached as low as two or three people at a time. I've preached to 6 or 7 people
at a time. I've been in many a home and
preached to many a time in somebody's home, stacked with my Bible,
laid on a little table. It's not the people, it's not
the amount of people you preach to, it's what you're saying.
It's what you're saying. If you're going to preach to
2 people or 200 people, your message ought not change. God
does not change. And so here Moses said, who am
I? Who am I? And look what God tells
him. God makes a promise to him. And he says, certainly I will
be with thee. I'm going to go with you, Moses.
God doesn't ask a man to go by himself. The Almighty would go
with him. And he said, I'll go with you.
I'm going to go, but you're not going to go by yourself. And
ain't that what our Master said? He said, Lo, I'm with you all
the way, even unto the end of the world. And that's why Paul
said, Who is sufficient for these things? We in ourselves, nobody
is sufficient for these things. But it's God, He said, I'll go
with you. And there's not a person that's
been called of God that before he goes in the pulpit, when he's
looking at his notes or getting prepared to preach, Lord, please
don't let me get up by myself. Please help. Don't let me do
this by myself. Please don't. Well, now look
what happens now. Down here in verse 13. And Moses
said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel,
And shall say unto them, the God of your fathers has sent
me unto you, and this is what they're going to say to me. And
I go down there and say, the God of your fathers sent me,
and they're going to answer me and say, well, what's his name?
What's his name? Well, what am I going to tell
them? What am I going to tell them? You see, this is real difficulty. When he went down to Pharaoh,
and he went down to gather the elders of Israel around, he ain't
going to have no visible presence. There's nobody going to be standing
beside him that anybody can see. He was to go alone into a bunch
of slaves and gather them around and say, God sent me here to
save you out of Egypt. And then they're going to turn
around and say, well, who is he? Who is this God? What's his
name? What's his character? Prove to
me he's worthy to be trusted. And that's the same way that
today is God worthy to be trusted. Our Lord Jesus Christ, Philip
come up to him, you know, and he said in John 14 and 8, he
said, Lord, if you would, you know, and our Lord said, I go
away. I'm going away. I'm leaving here. And Philip
said, well Lord, before you go, show us the Father and that will
satisfy us. And you know what our Lord said
to him? Philip, have I been such a long time with you that you've
not seen me? He said, when you're looking
at me, you're looking at the Father. When you see me, you
see God. When you see me, you see God
in all of His attributes. You see me, you see God in His
glory. You see me, you see God in His
sovereignty. You see me, you see God in all
that He is, in all that He does, in all that He accomplished. And that's what he said. And
look what God said to Moses now. This is something. We talked about that a little
this morning. I am. And God said unto Moses, what
shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I am
that I am. And he said, thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto you. Now this is God's great name.
And it contains each tense of the verb to be. When he says
I am, that means I was, I am, and I shall always continue
to be what I was. Look in Revelation 1. Look in
Revelation 1. When God says I am, that means
I'm unchangeable. I don't change. I don't change. I was, I am, and I'll always
be. Revelations 1, now you keep Exodus
3 there. Revelations 1 in verse 8. Look what our Lord Jesus said
here about himself. Oh my. I am Alpha and Omega. You know
what that is? That's the A and Z of the Greek
alphabet. Is that not right? We got an
A and a Z in our alphabet. In the Greek alphabet, it's Alpha,
that's the first one. Omega is the last one. And then
look what he said. He's everything from Alpha to
Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which
is, which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. That blesses me just to read
that. I'm the beginning and I'm the
ending. I start everything and I end everything. I'm He which was, which is, and always will be the Almighty. The Almighty. Thank God He doesn't
change. We declare the name and nature
of God as He's been revealed. This is one thing, it's a fool's
errand to try to prove the existence of God. We don't try to prove
the existence of God. God Himself don't prove His existence. All He says was, in the beginning
was God. And everywhere it starts, the
Gospel starts with God who hath chosen you. God created. God spoke to Moses. God does
the same. And then when He said what my
name is, He said, I am, I am, What's that mean? Never was a
time I wasn't. Never will be a time I won't
be. And I'll have everything from the beginning to the end.
I don't change. I don't have to change. If I change, I wouldn't be God. And oh, we don't try to prove
His existence. I remember we was up in Michigan
one time, years ago. And we were staying in this place
that they provided for us to stay, me and a couple other preachers.
And there were some people come in there, and they said they
didn't even believe in the existence of God. And there was a preacher
there that had a good education. I mean a good education. He sat
down there and tried to prove to them the existence of God. And I told him then and there,
I said, you are wasting your time. You cannot prove the existence
of God. Either God makes himself known
to you or you won't know him. I don't care whether you believe
he exists or not. And he did. He sat up there for
hours. And them folks, all they did was just like a dog chasing
his tail. He's round and round and round. I went to bed and
left them at it. I said, oh my, I am, I am the
burning bush. I'm the God of the burning bush.
And our Lord Jesus Christ said, I am that bread of life which
came down from heaven. I am that good shepherd that
gave his life for the sheep. I am the door by which they go
in and out and find pasture. I am the light of the world and
any man that doesn't walk in my light is in darkness. I am the way to God, the way
of salvation. I am the truth, the whole truth
and there's no truth real solid God honoring truth apart from
me. And I'm the life. There's no
life for anybody, eternal life, salvation life, outside of me. And then he said, I am the resurrection. You gonna raise again from the
dead? Well, it's by me you gonna raise up. And when I raise you
up, the life that's in me is the life you're going to have.
I'm the resurrection and the life. He's the eternal I am. He said this. He said, Jesus
Christ the same today, yesterday, and forever. Huh? Oh, I am that I am. Oh, Moses going down there and
said, who sent me? I am. Oh, this is the announcement
that the great God is self-existent. All other things and everything
else exists by Him and for Him. He's from everlasting to everlasting. He is God. There's nobody but
in this universe that can say I am that I am always the same
eternally changes And if we have anything we have it by his blessed
grace And oh my this will surely surely
win the heart of the hebrews look what he said here down in
verse 15 And then he said, I tell you what else you're going to
do. And I tell you what, God said, the great I am sends you.
You go then with some confidence. And God said, move over unto
Moses, thus shall I say unto the children of Israel, the Lord
God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of election,
the God of sovereign grace, the God that calls a man out from
the idolatry. And the God of Isaac, the God
of a supernatural birth, the God of promise, promise to seed,
promise to child, the God of the supernatural birth. And then
the God of Jacob, the God of love and electing grace. Jacob
have loved, Esau have hated. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob hath sent me unto you. This is my name forever, and
this is my memorial. God, I am that I am unto all
generations. Oh, we're in that generation. We're in that. Oh my. I tell you, He's the God of every
one of them. And then look down through verse
16. Let me go down through here and just comment on these as
we go. Go down there. When you get down there, gather
all the elders of Israel together. Remember, there's 70 of them.
You know, and there's 70 of them. And He says, you go gather the
elders of Israel together and say unto them, the Lord God of
your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared
unto me. Appeared unto me. He didn't appear
to you, but He appeared unto me. Saying, I have surely visited
you and seen that which is done to you in Egypt. What God is
saying is, I come down to where you are. How did you come down? God don't have to, He says, I've
come down. He used language to accommodate
ourselves. He was still on His throne, but He's seen everything.
And oh, look what He goes on to say now. And I said unto you,
I'm going to bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt into
the land of the Canaanites. I'm going to bring you up to
bring you in. Got to bring you up, going to
bring you up. Out of there. I'm gonna bring
you up and out in verse 18. Then he's gonna take them into
a land flowing with milk and honey And they shall hearken
to thy voice It's the first thing you said they gonna listen to
you Moses. They are gonna listen to you and You're gonna come
you and the elders of Israel and you're gonna go up right
into the presence of the king of Egypt And this is what you're
gonna tell him the Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us
now let us go we beseech thee three days into the wilderness
and we may sacrifice to the Lord God now I want you to see something
now over here in verse 20 and 21 look what God says I will
stretch out my hand and I will do in the midst thereof And He
will let you go. In verse 21, I will give this
people favor in the Egyptian. When God says, I will, it's done. It's done. It's done. I will. Everything is definitely determined.
It was never, Moses you go down and do your part and when you
fail I'll come, I'll step in and help you out. It wasn't that
going on. No, no. No contingency plans
here. And then look what he says in verse 18 and 19. This is a
strange thing. I am sure, I am sure that the
king of Egypt will not let you go. No, not by a mighty hand. He ain't gonna let you go. Why? Why? It's not for Moses to question
why. But look down in verse chapter
4 and verse 1 of what he says. Didn't David Edmondson preach
from this here recently? And Moses answered and said,
But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice. For they will say, The Lord hath
not appeared unto me. That's the way we act. But God
said they're going to hearken to you. After all he had seen,
after God told him what he would do, the first thing Moses turns
around and says, they ain't going to believe me. God just said
they're going to hearken to your voice. God said they would. Is God contradicting
Moses? Is Moses contradicting God, excuse
me, to his face? Moses said, Lord, he said, you
go down and they'll hearken to your voice. No, wait a minute,
they won't believe me. I said they would, Moses. Moses is going
to tell them, no, they ain't going to believe me, Lord. Boy,
what a warning for us how we think of God and approach God
and think about things. And all this shows us that God
indeed is gracious. And listen to me now. You listen
to what I'm going to tell you. This shows us that God is gracious.
And when men say that God only uses men who are fully consecrated
to the ministry, proves this wrong. Moses stood God to his face and
said, Lord, he said, they're going to listen to you. God said,
no they ain't. Moses said, no they're not. No
they're not. And you know the measure of our
faith and our faithfulness does not determine the measure of
our success as our Lord's and as servants of our blessed master. God said, there's lots and lots
of vessels in the tabernacle, lots of vessels in the house.
But they're not all vessels meet for the master's use. He's got
vessels meet for the master's use. You see this, bless his
holy name, God's not limited by our failure. God's not limited
by our failure. Moses was timid, hesitant, and
fearful, unbelieving, yet God used him. God was to had to wait
until he found a human instrument that was worthy or fit to be
used by him He had never ever used a man on the face of this
earth We couldn't do it Couldn't do it ain't you thankful that
he abides faithful We didn't know we may even deny him, but
he can't deny us Can't do it Oh, our Father, thank you for
your blessings today. Thank you for your presence.
Oh, Lord, thank you for your presence. Thank you for the presence
in this meeting and this morning and this evening. Thank you for
your saints. Thank you for the love they have
for your word, the love they have for the gospel. Lord, it's
not natural. It's something you did. And Lord,
we bless you and praise you for it. We're like Moses. You appeared unto us. You appeared
unto us. You appeared unto us in your
blessed Son. Saved us by your grace. Thank
you, Lord Jesus. And Father, we pray again now
for those. We pray for Bill, Dorothy, as
they go through another week of treatments. Lord, God bless them,
strengthen them, encourage them. God bless Larry and Cindy. We thank you for the blessed
news we got concerning them. And Lord, meet the needs of this
body of believers. Strengthen and encourage your
people. Remember Jim. God, please provide some way
for him to, some doctor somewhere that can help him. Lord, and
you intervene, and you protect him, and you preserve him, and
you meet the needs of his heart and soul. And Lord, we thank
you for your great mercies given to us in Christ, before the foundation
of the world. In Christ's name, Amen.