Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers. God's people
are strangers. Strangers and pilgrims in this
world. The world's strange to us and
we're strange to it. And when you're a stranger, you
want to go back where you're home. And we got a home to go
to. And then they're scattered. throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
Asia, and Bithynia. God's people are scattered all
over the world. God's got His elect everywhere.
Brother Bruce preached up there, what saith the answer of God?
I've reserved to myself. I've reserved to myself. And
every single soul that God ever saved, He reserved them to Himself. He reserved them to Himself.
And then look what else he says here. Elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father. Chosen of God. Loved of God. Foreknew of God. Set apart by
God. That's what he says next with
God's elect. In election and chosen. Oh, it's
a hundred and... I forget how many times it's
in the scriptures, but it's in there a lot. Elect. Chosen. my
people and letting you know that God has an elect people. Thank
God for election and not God chosen me. I'd have never chosen
Him. Our Lord Jesus says, no you're
not, you've not chosen me. We would have never chosen Christ.
We would have never done it, but He chose us. Chose us. And then he said, through sanctification
of the Spirit, the Spirit of God set us apart. The Holy Spirit
of God came and called us, effectually called us. Set us apart. Set
us apart to the Gospel. Set us apart to know our election. Set us apart. And then this is
what he set us apart to. Unto the obedience and sprinkling
of the blood of Jesus Christ. Now God told Moses, he says,
now you take the blood. You take the blood and you go
out and you sprinkle all the people with the blood. And then
when you sprinkle the people with the blood, sprinkle all
the thing in the tabernacle with the blood. And then you take
the law and you sprinkle the blood on the Word. So what he's
saying is that God has to sprinkle the blood. And that blood, when
it's on you, identifies you as God's elect, that your sins are
gone, that you're accepted of God. And we've been brought through
sanctification unto God's obedience, Christ's obedience, and His sprinkling
of blood. The blood of Christ has been
sprinkled on us. His death, we've been made partakers
of His death. When it's sprinkled on us, it
cleanses our conscience, takes away our guilt, and makes us
acceptable to God. And it's the sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you, and peace be
multiplied. Now here's the things that I
want to say tonight, if God will help me. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant
mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope or living
hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance
incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in heaven
for you who does elect God's elect, those strangers, scattered
all over the world, sanctified by the Spirit, sprinkled by the blood of Christ, who are kept by the power of
God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last
time. Here's seven things that I want
us to look at that's ours. Though we may be strangers in
this world, God's elect sanctified obedient to the blood of sprinkling
God gives us a heritage. He gives us some things and here
are seven things that he gives us in this world Seven blessed
things not only in this world, but also what's going to come
in the world to come And he says in verse 3 blessed be the God
and father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Here's the first thing
according to his abundant mercy Now here's abundant mercy. This
is the source of all the rest of the things that we've just
dealt with and will deal with. Had mercy refused to have helped
us, none of the other attributes could have helped us. Had mercy
not come, and there had not been an abundance, what else could
have possibly helped us? The condition we were in, Lost
and undone without God, without Christ, had not mercy been for
us, there'd been no hope for us either. In our case, my case,
and I believe all of our cases, required abundant mercy. A little
bit of mercy is not good. I mean, God does things on a
grand scale. Whatever He does, He does on
a grand scale. You know why? Because He's grand. He don't give just a little bit
of mercy. He gives abundant mercy. And
you talked about the height, the breadth, the depth, the length.
Of what? The love of Christ. And then
he turns around and said, I want you to know that. And then he
turns around and said, it passes all knowledge. So by the time
you learn it, you lose it. And oh, listen, that's what I
read tonight in the office tonight. If God should us mark iniquities,
who should be able to stand? But there is forgiveness with
thee, that thou mayest be feared. And all, by our case, required
abundant mercy. Where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound. That's what I mean. God gives
in abundance. And you notice it says it's God's
mercy. The God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ according to His abundant mercy. God, everything
about Him is in a grand scale. Look in Exodus 34. Look what
He says here about mercy. Exodus 34. Look what He says about mercy
over here. Thank God for mercy. Thank God
for mercy. And you know what? The Scriptures
tells us that his compassion fell not and his mercies are
new every morning. Every day you get up, he has
new mercies for you. Oh, we go about living our lives
and every morning we get up unconscious of it, God has new mercies for
us that day. But look what he said here in
verse 5. And the Lord descended in the
cloud and stood with him there with Moses and proclaimed the
name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before
him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, listen to this
now, merciful, gracious, Long-suffering here comes abundance again abundant
in goodness and truth now listen keeping mercy for thousands forgiving
iniquity and transgression and sins That will by no means clear
the guilty visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children
about the children's generation under the third and fourth generation
but he may do that, but yet he keeps mercy and keeps mercy for
thousands. He keeps it for them. God's great
in power, great in wisdom, and His mercy is like all of His
other attributes. It's God-like mercy, infinite
mercy. Measure our Father's Godhead,
and then maybe, maybe you can measure His mercy. Measure his
mercy and then look what else it says about it. It's the mercy
of the God and father by Lord Jesus Christ It's the mercy of
God in Christ That's where everything God has for us is in his blessed
son the Lord Jesus Christ All spiritual blessings are given
us in heavenly places in Christ and God's mercy is always special
always special You see His mercy in nature? You see His mercy
in providence? But oh, that He gives us His
mercy in the Son of His love! Oh, how merciful He was! We sang
that hymn, Oh, how merciful! Oh, how merciful! Oh, how merciful
thou art to me! But oh, the mercy that He shows
us in the Son of His love! That mercy that He gives us in
Christ. Oh, how merciful is God in Christ
to sinners. That's how, beloved, He keeps
mercy for thousands. And His love in the incarnate
God. His mercy given to us through
that sacrifice of our blessed Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ. This is mercy's best. Our Lord
coming. Our Lord bleeding. Our Lord dying. And God giving us mercy in Christ. And since He gives us mercy in
Christ, it has to be abundant. Has to be. And then it's called
the mercy of the Father. I know we ain't looked at this
in a long time. Psalm 103. Psalm 103. I could quote this
to you, but all for us to read it together. Psalm 103. Psalm
103. It's the mercy of the Father. It's not
the mercy or the pity of a stranger. But the pity and mercy of a father
for his son. Look there in verse 8. The Lord
is merciful, gracious, slow to anger, plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide, neither
will he keep his anger forever. I love this. He hath not dealt
with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
But as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy
toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the
west, so far hath he removed our transgression from us. Now
listen to this. Like as a father pitieth his
children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth
our frame, he remembers. We're just dust. We're just dust. And I tell you, you know, people
say, I don't want pity. I want pity from God. I do. You know why I want pity from
God? Because I'm a pitiful person before God. Pitiful person. All right, look back over here
with me now in first peter one look at another thing here Oh,
what a blessing what a blessing here that god give us abundant
mercy not just a little abundant much great And then look what
he says here Hath begotten us again hath begotten us again
Now beloved This is one of the greatest miracles that God will
ever do. Everything God does for us is
a miracle. Consider who it is that does it and who he does
it for. But hath begotten us again. The scriptures tells us
that it's in Adam we all died. Dead. Dead in trespasses and
sins. But in Christ we're all made
alive. And you know what we did to be
in Adam? Nothing. You know what we did
to become sinners? Nothing. We were born with an
evil nature. We died in Adam. We lived in
Adam. And then when Christ came, as
we was dead in Adam, what would we do to get in Christ? And how
did we become alive in Christ? Where did we get to have life
in Christ? We died in Adam, in Christ we have life. Now how
in the world is that? We didn't do anything to be an
Adam. We didn't do anything to be in
Christ. We didn't do anything to become sinners. We don't do
anything to have life. We didn't do anything to become
sinners. We didn't do anything to become
righteous. That's why it says here, He hath
begotten us again. It's God who hath saved us. And oh my. And this word begotten
is the same word as regenerated. Regenerated, born again, born
by the Spirit of God. And I do know this, look over
here in 2 Peter 1.4 with me. 2 Peter 1.4, look what it says. Oh listen, were bar I given to
us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these, listen
to this now, you might be partakers of the divine nature. We are
partakers of the divine nature. Christ is a divine person. He
is God manifest in the flesh. And so when God regenerates us,
Christ is who is put in us. Life, the life of Christ, the
new birth, the life of God himself is put in us. We're made partakers
of the divine nature. Now I know some men who says,
you know, that that word there means we have fellowship with
the divine nature. That's not what it says. When
you partake of something, that means you have part in that thing.
And we have part in the nature of God Himself. And we've been
begotten again unto a living hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. And hath begotten us again. And
what He did, He brought into existence, brought into existence
a new creature. A new creature. A person who
never existed before. He has new motives. He has a
new nature. And I'll tell you this, He has
a sinless nature. Can Christ sin? You know that incorruptible seed
that is in us cannot sin. Can Christ sin? Neither to that
new nature that us in us can sin. And I know this, that you
and I never had a problem with sin until God gave us new life. Now ain't that right? We never
had a problem with this flesh until God gave us new life. We
never had a problem with our thoughts until God gave us new
life. Their motive is and our nature
is to love God, serve God with all of our heart and all of our
souls. But the flesh, that other nature, won't let us. But we have a nature in us that
cannot sin. I can show you that in 1 John
3. I can show you that. Look here
at 1 John 3, 9. I believe that's where it's at. And we're talking about being
begotten again. Sinless nature, new nature, born from above. But look what it says here. Verse 9, Whosoever is born of
God, he said, he hath begotten us again. That's a birth. So-and-so begat, so-and-so begat,
so-and-so begat, so-and-so and everything begat is a birth.
And God beget us. He has saved us. Nicodemus, you
must be born again. How does that happen? By the
water and by the Spirit. The Holy Spirit of God comes
along and He brings and He puts a seed in our heart. And the
seed is the Gospel. The seed is the Word of God.
Being born again by the interruptible seed, the Word of God. And then
he goes on to say, He that is born of God does not commit sin. You say, when we turn around
and say that's all we are. In this body, in this flesh we
are. But we got a man in us that cannot sin. We got a man in us that cannot,
can Christ sin? And He said, Christ is in you
the hope of glory. And that's why we're called holy.
That's why we're called new creatures. That's why He gives us a new
nature. That's why He gives us a holy moment. That's why He
turns us to Himself. And the Scriptures tells us it's
a passing from what? Death unto life. Alright, listen. You know, we
know that we're going to pass from life to death one of these
days. There's nothing mysterious about
that. Nothing mysterious about life
leaving this place and going from life and this body dying. But now I tell you what, it's
really, really something that man can't do. It's passed from
death He hath begotten us again unto
a living hope. Oh my. Salvation to the Lord. Salvation to the Lord. And then
look what he hath begotten us again. Oh, I tell you, God, this
birth, without the second birth, without the new birth, the first
birth is nothing but a curse. by his own will begat he us with
what? the word of truth alright look
what else he did not only did he give us abundant mercy has
begotten us again but he gave us a lively hope begotten us
again into a lively hope or a living hope regenerated us to having a living
hope through our Lord Jesus Christ can a man live without hope I
remember being without hope. I remember years ago when I got
back into the world and spent so much time in hospitals, I
actually lost all hope that I'd be able to continue to live.
I was so miserable. And in such darkness, in such
pain, in such agony of heart and mind and soul, that I dreaded
the day to start and I dreaded for it to get night. I couldn't stand the mornings,
I couldn't stand the night. I mean, I just, oh, just in that.
But can a man live without hope? I continued living. And then
somebody told me one day, there's hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. Ray of light coming. Just a ray.
But this hope within us, it's a real hope. It's a true hope. It's an operative hope. Hope
operates in us. It's like faith. It actually
works in us. Hope works in us. That's why
it's called a living hope. Faith is living faith. Christ
is a living Savior. It's not just a wish. And hope
moves us to action. What does hope do? It looks for
the blessed appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. It ain't sitting down twiddling
its thumb, well I hope the Lord comes back. Listen, we sit with
patience waiting for the Lord Jesus Christ to come back. We're
looking for the appearing of our, this is the blessed hope
we have, the appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. This moves us to action. We're
looking for Him. It purifies us. It makes us patient. Oh my. And hope. Boy, you get
to preaching about going to be with Christ and going to be changed
in a moment in the twinkle of an eye. Oh my. They was talking about this this
morning. We was talking about people being ejected from a airplane, you
know, just to see, just ejected, throws them way up in the air. I tell you what, one of these
days we're going to be ejected. We're going to go up in a moment
and a twinkle of an eye. Now that hope begins operating
on you when you talk like that. When you talk about this corruption
putting on incorruption. This moral putting on immortality. Oh, it cheers and lifts our spirits. And I'll tell you something else,
when you're in a storm, when you're in a storm, you know what keeps you going
in that storm? The storm's going to pass. Yep.
It's going to pass. We patiently wait. This is going
to pass. And it's called the living hope
because it won't perish. It won't perish. The scripture
says the hope of the hypocrite shall perish. But you know where
our hope's at? Hebrews 6 says we have a hope. A sure hope anchored within the
veil. The Lord Jesus Christ. You know,
our hope, not only is living, but it's got an anchor to it.
We're connected to that anchor. Our Lord Jesus Christ in glory.
And it's called a living hope because it actually deals with
life. It deals with life. The Lord
Jesus may come and bless his holy name. I hope he does. I
hope he does. I hope I'm alive and I hope I'm
alive when Christ comes. I'd love for Him to come. If
He came tonight, He said, even cold, so come Lord Jesus. Every one of us, and I mean,
we wouldn't even see, none of us would see one another change
in a moment. It just happened so fast we couldn't
see it. You wouldn't know it when it
comes. And that's a living hope. But
most likely, we'll go with the course of nature. We'll go to
death. You will go to death. Oh my, that's not fearful, that's
not dreadful. Let me ask you something, talking
about this living hope. Are you afraid to be done with
fighting without and fears within? Are you afraid to put on interruption? Do you dread to be without sin
forever? Never be discouraged? Never be
downed? Oh, to rise with glory, to be
with Christ. Is that to be dreaded? Oh, you
know, The Lord, you know, this is such a blessed thing. When
God takes a believer home, you know, may take Ruby soon, may
take you soon, we don't know. But we do know this. This is
the way I react. When I reacted this way, with
my wife. I've reacted this way with a
lot of people over the years. When I hear, I know people that
you love, of course we mourn, we sorrow, we miss them. But
here's the thing about it, the minute you hear that they're
going to be with Christ, the first thing you say is, thank
you Lord Jesus, bless and be the Lord God. They are now rejoicing
with the Lord Jesus Christ. Now who wants to keep anybody
here that can go be with Christ? Get out of this old sinning,
sinning body. Listen, we have a living hope
because we have a living Savior and Lord. and all here's what
happened he begot us into this living hope look what else it
says now by the resurrection verse 3 by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead oh my we have this we have a risen
Savior and you know what this tells us that everything that
God gives us, He gives us with Christ and we are together with
Christ. I live in hopes in Christ. We
will be gotten again by Christ. God gives us abundant mercy in
Christ. And God would not suffer His
Holy One to His flesh to suffer corruption. And the reason our
Lord Jesus Christ was raised from the dead is because he says
that God was satisfied with him, accepted him, and raised him,
and he stayed here 40 days and 40 nights, and above 500 men
saw him. And then He ascended back up
to glory and sits at the right hand of God. And as He sits there
right now, He's our justification for everything we believe and
all the hopes we have. He sits at God's right hand. Listen, I've said this
a lot of times. What's my justification to say
that I'm righteous? Sits at God's right hand. What's
my justification that one day I'll be with Christ? He says
there, God's right hand. What's my justification that
God loves me in Christ? There he says it, God's right
hand. What tells me that I have no sin that all my sins is put
away? There he says it, the right hand
of God. That's my justification for everything
I believe and everything that's ever happened. there he says
and us believers we're warm with him and what happens to him happens
to us he has quickened us together with Christ and he said we are
seated together in heavenly places in Christ in Christ now look
at another thing here we have oh my some of the things that
God gives us look at this fourth look at 4th verse he gave us
this living hope this abundant mercy Give us life. Give us a living hope. Resurrected
us with Christ. And listen to this, to an inheritance
incorruptible. You know, I'll tell you something. I've been an heir a couple of
times. And, you know, sometimes it didn't
amount to anything. I mean, you know, it just wasn't
nothing to split. But here's the thing about it.
Anything that's left to you, if it's a house, if it's a car,
if it's money, whatever it is, it's corruptible. It's corruptible. You don't have anything in this
world that ends up not being corruptible. Our bodies are corruptible. Our houses are corruptible. If
you don't keep them up, they'll fall down around you. Ain't that right? But God has made
us sons, made us heirs. He's given us new life, and with
this new life, as sons of God, He gives us inheritance. And
as our life is incorruptible, we've been begun by an incorruptible
seed, and He gives us an incorruptible inheritance. Huh? He gives us
heirs, He gives us this new life, this new life, He gives us heirs,
He gives us possessions, and heaven-born children have to
have a heavenly inheritance. A heavenly inheritance. Oh my! In fact, Herman left me his house
and it was in such bad shape, I told the fellow, it's going
to take you more money than he gave for it to fix it back up. So I ain't got nothing. It was in such bad shape it would
take thousands of dollars to put it back together. If it had
been mine, I would have set a match to it and said come on out here
and watch it burn. I would have given the fire department
something to do. No, I'm serious. That's an inheritance
that's corruptible. That's an inheritance that's
corruptible. But look at this inheritance
here. First of all, look at fourfold
descriptions. It's incorruptible. Look at everything
that's already perished. Dynasties, empires, bodies, homes. All gone, gone, gone. And then
look what else it says. That it's undefiled. That means it's pure. It's pure. It's undefiled. Men go rich by
fraud. We've seen a couple of men that
they've got them by fraud and they've got them for getting
their money by deceit and every kind of ways in the world and
everybody, you know, they get what they get by defrauding people
and stealing from people and doing all things to get things.
But our inheritance is pure. It's not defiled. Nobody can
defile it. We didn't make the inheritance.
God gave us this inheritance and He's undefiled. Christ's
undefiled. We're undefiled. He gives us
an inheritance that cannot be undefiled. It's pure. Won by the obedience and sufferings
of our Lord Jesus Christ and His perfection. An inheritance
may be defiled even after it's possessed. But this one here
can't. This one here can't. And look
at its beauty about it. And that it fadeth not away.
Oh my, it won't just fade away. You know, one of the most blessed
things that people used to leave their kids is that they would
make quills. Years ago, people would make
these wonderful, beautiful, beautiful quills. And one of the things
that they'd say, I'm sure one of mama's quilts. And they'd leave you this quilt.
And I mean, that's all a lot of people. If I could just have
one of mama's quilts, and mama'd leave you a quilt. And it'd be
all, it'd be just beautiful and all the patterns in it and just
gorgeous, you know, filled with diamonds or a double wedding
ring or dust boy or something, you know, and it's laying out
there all beautiful. In a few years, you go look at
it, it's faded away. Colors has faded. Things has
faded. But this ain't gonna fade. It's
as bright and shining now as it was when God gave it to us. Oh, it fades not away. And then
look what it says, reserved in heaven for you. This inheritance
is secure. Got a reservation. A reservation
in heaven for you. When we went to this last wedding,
we had all these tables. And when you went in, you looked
to see what table you were sitting at. And then when you got to
that table, your name would be on the table where it sat. They
had a table reserved for you, your name on it. I didn't look at the things,
so I just sat out anywhere. I just would have sat out. But
here's what I'm saying is this. God's got a place, a portion,
a place reserved for no one else but you. When I get there, I'm going to
have a portion nobody else gets. I got a place where nobody else
can stand. I got a place that God's reserved
for me. No one else can fill that place.
Men here argue and scramble over inheritance. There, he's got
a reserve for us. I've said this a lot of times.
You know, you've got a big family. And you know an inheritance has
to be split between six persons. And there will be lots and lots
of stuff to give away. Lots of money maybe left or something
like that. And they'll take it and start splitting it up. But
our Lord Jesus Christ, it's like a pie. It's like a pie. You know,
they have to slice the pie and give everybody a piece of pie.
But our Lord Jesus Christ, when we get Him, we get the whole
pie. We get it all. Don't have to
share it with anybody. And we all get the whole pie.
Every single one of us get the whole thing. Alright, let me hurry. I'm taking
too long. Look at this next one here. Not
at all this inheritance. It's secure. Look what it says. Is this inheritance secure for
us? It's reserved in heaven for you
who are kept. We're kept for this inheritance.
The security of the inheritance is kept for you and you're kept
for it. You're kept. And this word kept
is a military word. It's like a city or something
that's defended and well manned by an army around it. Well, here's
what God does. He keeps us for this inheritance. He keeps the inheritance for
us. And oh my. And watch this. Look what keeps
us. The power of God. The power of
God keeps us. God's power, not our power, not
the church's power, God's power. And oh my, and I'm kept by the
power of God, and look what he says, through faith. He gives
us his faith and kept by it. And this keeping is complete,
this keeping is continuous, and then look what he says, kept
unto salvation. kept till we're finally saved
when God reveals our salvation to us at our last time. Huh? Oh, ready to be revealed. And
I tell you what, this salvation is going to be revealed one of
these days like I've already said. And it's revealed to us
now, but one of these days it's going to be a wondrous revelation
when all of us have it at the same time. We have been saved. We are being saved. And we shall
be saved. And our final salvation is ready
to be revealed. Ready to be revealed. And here's
the best of all. Look at this. The best of all.
Look back up in verse 3. This is where it all has to start. A blessed God. Blessed be God. That's where it all starts. The
mercy. He gave us it. Blessed be God
who hath given us. Blessed be God who begot us.
Blessed be God who gave us inheritance. Blessed be God who gave us a
living hope. Blessed be God. Oh, what a joy
to have a new life. What a joy to have an inheritance
in glory. What a joy to be saved by the grace of God
and have the abundant mercy of God. But the greatest of all
is to have God to be our God. God is my God. As I said, blessed
be the God. To have God as my own. Christ
as my own. The Father as my own. And look
what it says. The God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ. God says I will be their God. And they shall be my people.
Look over here at 2 Peter 2. Look here at 2 Peter and I'll
wind this up. He has given us so much, so much. But the greatest thing he gave
us is himself and his son. Gave us himself and his son.
Look what he said here in verse 9. What did I say? 1 Peter 2.9,
not 2 Peter, 1 Peter 2.9, I'm sorry. Got in a hurry. 1 Peter
2.9. Look what he says here. But you
are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation,
a peculiar people, a holy nation, peculiar people, that you should
show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness
into his marvelous light. Now listen now. Which in time
past were not a people, but are now the people of God
which have not obtained mercy but now you've obtained mercy
here we were not the people of God now we are didn't have any
mercy, now we do who did that? God called us out of darkness
over here in this marvelous light Herod Herod told his stepdaughter When she danced
in front of him and said, ask of me and I'll give you half
of my kingdom. But God hasn't given us half
of anything. God gives us the whole. And he
gives us himself. He gave us Christ. He gave us
life. He gave us everything we have.
And you know, All we can do is turn around and say, blessed
be God. Blessed be God. Blessed be His
holy name. Blessed be God now and forever
and ever and ever. Praise be unto our God. What else can we do? Just back
up and say, blessed be God. Oh, what a gospel. Oh, Lord Jesus, our blessed Savior. Oh, thank you. Praise your holy
name for allowing us, allowing us. Know in our frame that we're
but dust, and yet, Lord God, you give us hope, you give us
life. You give us inheritance and then you keep us to it. And
oh Lord, our salvation, our salvation will certainly be revealed one
of these days. When we go to be with you, we
reveal to us what you did for us. When we see you sitting there,
see you standing there in all your glory, in all your majesty,
And so, Father, we bless you and praise you in our Lord Jesus
Christ. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Blessed be your holy name. Christ's
name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's sing that chorus, that
one in the book, How Merciful. Let's sing that and then we'll
go. You'll be at liberty to go.