Good evening. Let's all turn
together to Psalm 52 for our Scripture reading. Psalm 52. Why boastest thou thyself in
mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endureth
continually. Thy tongue diviseth mischiefs
like a sharp razor working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good,
and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Thou lovest all
devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. God shall likewise destroy
thee forever. He shall take thee away, and
pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the
land of the living. The righteous also shall see
in fear. and shall laugh at him. Lo, this
is the man that made not God his strength, but trusted in
the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his
wickedness. But I am like a green olive tree
in the house of God. I trust in the mercy of God forever
and ever. I will praise thee forever, because
thou hast done it. And I will wait on thy name,
for it is good before thy saints. your Bibles with me this evening,
if you will, to Genesis 21. Genesis 21. This is about the birth of Isaac,
and I'll read the first 13 verses. There was a fellow here this
morning, he was from Austin, Texas, and him and several fellows
were working down in Nashville. There's a mill right down there.
But this is the first day they'd had off in a long time. And they
came up here. He'd been listening to me on
sermon audio for a long time. And we went out and had lunch. And he loved to have a place
to go worship. But you just never know what
God's doing. Just never know. I get emails
and things all the time from people about it. And I'm very
grateful. But you never know what the Lord's
doing. All right, the first 13 verses. And the Lord visited
Sarah, as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah, as he had
spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare
Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God
had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of
his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old,
as God had commanded him. And Abraham was 100 years old
when his son Isaac was born unto him. And Sarah said, God hath
made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
And she said, who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah
should have given children suck? For I have born him a son in
his old age. And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a feast the
same day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar,
the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, mocking. Wherefore
she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for
the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even
with Isaac. And the thing was very grievous
in Abraham's sight because of his son. And God said unto Abraham,
Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and
because of thy bondwoman, and all that Sarah hath said unto
thee, hearken unto her voice. For in Isaac shall thy seed be
called. And also the son of the bondwoman
will I make a nation, and because he is thy seed." I talk about
the birth of Isaac tonight. I want to talk a little bit about
Isaac being born. And he's born, there's several
things about his birth that's great lessons for us and also
he's was a child of promise, and then he is a type of us by
being regenerated. He is a type of the Lord Jesus
Christ in so many ways. But you know Abraham, when he
was called to go out of the land of the Arathacaldees, he went
out, not knowing where he went. And then God, when He brought
him into the land, and brought him into the promised land, God
appeared unto him and said, Abraham, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
great reward. And he said, I'm going to make
a covenant with you and you're going to be the father of many
nations. Well, the next time God appeared unto him and he
believed God and God counted to him for righteousness. The
next time God appeared unto him, he had already went down to Egypt.
And he come back out of Egypt and God blessed him again and
talked to him again, told him, said he promised him, he said,
I'm go childless. I don't have an heir. And he
said, I'll, I'll give you an heir. You're going to, you're
going to have a son out of your own bowels, son out of your own
bowels. And so then I, you know, Abraham
went down and, and, and rescued Lot from those five Kings. And then he was sitting there
at his tent door one day and the Lord Jesus appeared to him.
And he sat under that tree and fellowshiped with the Lord Jesus
Christ. And the Lord let him know what he was going to do
down in Sodom. And then Abraham built an altar
and set his tent in Mamre. And the Lord appeared unto him
again, told him, Walk before him, and be thou perfect. But
then all of a sudden, it says here, And the Lord visited Sarah,
as he had said. And the Lord did unto Sarah as
he had spoken. for Sarah conceived and bore
Abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which God
had spoken of." Now, I want to show you some things about here.
Here's the thing about it. God, Abraham, had been in sojourning
out of Arakaldeez for over 25 years. God made him a promise
that he's going to have a son. But year after year after year
after year after year went by. And he said, you know, and they
didn't have it, so that's why Sarah said, Abraham, go to Hagar. We'll have you have a son by
her. That was awful. That was an awful thing to do.
But anyway, he did it. And that wasn't the promised
son. That wasn't what God promised.
He didn't promise a son by the flesh. He promised a son from
Him. Well, I'll tell you, this is
the thing about it. We get in a hurry, Sarah got in a hurry,
Abraham got in a hurry, but God don't get in no hurry. God don't
go by our time. God don't go by our feelings.
God don't go by what, we won't happen right now. And I tell
you what, that's why the scriptures tells us that he that believeth
on him shall not make haste. I mean, we're waiting, God is
no in no hurry. And he told them, and I tell
you what, he told them so many times. And I tell you something
else we see about this here. that God is Almighty. Abraham
was old, Sarah was old. She laughed one time and said,
Shall I have pleasure with my Lord being an old woman? And
Abraham said, Shall I have a son at my age? Abraham may be old,
Sarah may be barren, But that ain't nothing to God. You know, that's what that rich
young, you know, they came and said, who then can be saved when
the Lord said it's easier for a rich man to go through the
eye of a needle, a camel to go through the eye of a needle than
a rich man to be saved. how do you just talk to that
rich young ruler? And Simon Peter said, Well, Lord,
who in the world then can be saved? You know what our Lord
said? With men, it's impossible, but with God, all things are
possible. This shows us that God only one
has the power to take a dead man a barren womb a man a hundred
years old a woman 99 and take them and cause them to have a
child because it's impossible to nature God has the power and
here's another thing that we say the faithfulness of God God
promised Abraham 25 years before this 25 years Did God keep the
promise? He kept the promise. You know,
that show God is faithful. If he makes a promise, he is
faithful. I mean, beloved, if he makes
a promise, he's gonna bring it to pass. And whatever God has
purposed, it's gonna come to pass. And here's another thing
we see here, how faith is tried and tested. Abraham waited and
waited, Sarah waited and waited and waited, and God tried them,
God tested them, God put them to the test, and that's why Abraham
considered not his own body being now dead, is what he said, but
was neither the bareness of Sarah's, but strong in faith. giving glory
to God. Oh my, believing that he is able
to do that which he had promised. He believed he was able. And
here's another thing I want us to see, that God has a set time
for everything. Ain't that what it said in verse
2? For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age
at the set time, now listen to this, which God had spoken. Now I want you to go back with
me to Genesis 21. Well, I'm in Genesis 21. I just
showed you that. Go back to Genesis 17. Genesis
17. Oh, boy. I told somebody I'm
more to be pitied than to be blamed, and that's obvious. Genesis
17, 21. Look what it says here. Look what it said. But my covenant
will I establish with Isaac. Now, this is years before he
was born. He had already been named. God told him what his
name was. But my covenant will I establish
with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time
next year. At this time I've got set, next
year, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. Look in Genesis
18, 14. We'll go back up to, back up
here and she said, The Lord spoke to him when he appeared to him
at the tent door when he was going to go down to Sodom. And
they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
Well, she's in the tent. He said, I will certainly return
unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah thy wife shall
have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent
door which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old
and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after
the manner of women. Therefore, Sarah laughed within
herself, an incredulous laugh, said, oh, this ain't gonna happen,
saying, after I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my Lord,
being old also? And listen to what the Lord said.
And the Lord said unto Abraham, worded, for Sarah laughed, saying,
shall I be sure to bear a child which am old? Listen to what
it said. Is anything too hard for the
Lord? At the time appointed, God's
got a time appointed, a set time. At the time appointed, I will
return unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah shall
have a son. That's what, God has a set time. And when the fullness of time
was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman. Tell you
a second thing about Isaac's birth here. The birth of Isaac,
he was a child of promise. He was a child of promise. Look
in Genesis 17, 15 with us. He was a child of promise. And
I tell you what, there are so many times that God made this
promise to them. He made it to Abraham, He made
it to Sarah, and all the different responses they had. But look
what happens here. God said unto Abraham, As for
Sarah thy wife, thou shalt call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall
her name be. And I will bless her and give
thee a son also of her. Yea, I will bless her and she
shall be the mother of nations and kings of people shall be
of her. Then Abraham fell upon his face
and laughed, this is a laughter of joy, laughter of thanksgiving,
and said in his heart, shall a child be born unto him that
is old, a hundred years old, and shall Sarah bear a child
that's 90 years old? Oh my. So God made this promise
to them. And he made it when they was
old and they both thought, well, how in the world is this gonna
happen? But I tell you, Isaac was a child of promise. And at
the set time when God made that promise, at the set time, they
had a child and they named him Isaac. And Isaac, not only was
he a child of promise, but he was a miracle child. He was born
of a miracle, supernatural act of God. Abraham was 100 years
old, Sarah was 90, and it says she was past the age of women. And beloved, just as sure as
that child was born, it had to be born of God because they could
not do it by nature. That's a miracle. And that's
like us. We're a miracle. We got no power
to produce life. Only God can produce life. Abraham
couldn't produce life. Sarah couldn't produce life.
Well, who's going to produce it? God's going to produce it.
And on the birth of Isaac, let me give you this. And the birth
of Isaac was typical of our Lord's birth in seven ways. in seven
ways. I told you that Isaac was typical
of our Lord, but he was typical of our Lord's birth in seven
different ways. First of all, he was the promised
seed. Our Lord Jesus Christ was the promise. God made a promise
in Genesis 3.15, the seed of the woman. He told Satan, he
said, the seed of the woman shall Crush your head and you're gonna
bruise his heel. And when the fullness of time
was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under
the law. And God said, behold, I'll give
you a sign. A virgin shall conceive and bear
a son. And you know what he said? You're
gonna name him. Why you gonna name him? We're gonna name him
Jesus. Why? Because he shall save his people from their sin.
So he was promised, Christ was promised. And a long, long, long
time passed before the promise was fulfilled. Years and years
and years passed before this promise was fulfilled. And God
said, at the set time I'll come, at the set time I'll come, at
the appointed time I'll come. And our Lord Jesus Christ, God
promised him in Genesis, Genesis 3.15, God promised him. and you
go through the Old Testament and you just watch Christ being
revealed more and more and more and more and then 400 years between
Malachi and Genesis, God never, I mean Matthew, God never said
a word to anybody. And then one day, some shepherds
was out on a hillside and the angels began to sing. What did they say? Glory to God
in the highest, peace on earth and goodwill toward men because
unto you is born this day in the city of David, a savior,
which is Christ the Lord. And I tell you what, it took,
millennial for Christ's time. And it's been millennial since
he's been here, but it ain't gonna be that long before he
gets back. A long, long time before the
promise was fulfilled. And when the birth was announced,
Sarah asked, well, how in the world can this be? I'm an old
woman. Can I have pleasure, give pleasure
to my Lord? Can I possibly bear my Lord,
my husband, a son? And you know what Mary asked
when the angel told her, come and told her, says, you're gonna
bear a child. You're gonna have a son. And she said, how in the
world can this be? I ain't never known a man. They both was, how can this be? They both said, how's this gonna
happen? Sarah said, how am I gonna have a child? Mary said, how
am I gonna have a child? And fourthly, Isaac's name was
given to him before he was born. God, you know who named him?
God did. Just like God named his son,
the Lord Jesus. He told Mary, he said, you call
her Jesus. And you know when not only that,
but God named John the Baptist, named him John. When Zachariah
was in that temple and he came back out, and he'd been in there
and he hadn't been able to speak, and she had that child, and they
thought, well, that's going to name him after his daddy. Going
to name him after his granddaddy or something. And they said,
what are you going to name him? Zachariah took a piece of cardboard
or whatever they had, or chalkboard or whatever they had in those
days, and he wrote on it, gave him a tablet, and he wrote on
it, John. Why, ain't nobody in his family
ever been named John. There is now, God named him. God named him, and oh beloved,
and our Lord's name was given to him, given to him, oh my. Isaac's birth occurred at God's
appointed time, at the set time, at God's appointed time, not
Abraham's time, not Sarah's time, God's time. And our Lord Jesus
Christ, was born on God's time, on God's time. I'll tell you
what, they kept looking for him and looking for him. And I've
read in different places at the particular time our Lord Jesus
Christ came into this world, there was any worse from 12 to
18 different people claiming to be the Messiah. And when Christ
come, that's why they'd often say, when Christ comes, shall
he do more miracles than this man? When Christ comes, will
he be? Who ever heard of anybody open
the eyes of a blind of a man born dead? Who ever heard of
a raised a man from the dead? They were just astonished because
there's all these people who claim to be the Messiah. But
not one of them, not one of them did what Christ did. Not one
of them had John the Baptist saying, there's the lamb of God.
Not one of them had God speak from heaven and say, this is
my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. Not one of them. And
our Lord, He came at God's appointed time. And Isaac's birth was by
a miracle. It was a miracle. Supernatural
birth. Our Lord's birth was a miracle.
A supernatural birth. A birth only God could produce. And I tell you, when He takes
a dead womb, and He takes a dead heart, He's the only one that
can give it life. And Abraham gave Isaac his name. You know what Isaac means? What
his name means? It means laughter. He laughed
about it. Sarah laughed about it. She had
that child. She laughed then. Oh, how she
laughed. Ain't that what it says there
in verse 18? I mean, excuse me, Genesis 21 there. And it said
in verse six, and Sarah, God has made me to laugh. So that everybody that hears
me will laugh with me. They're going to rejoice with
me. And oh my. And I tell you God, Abraham gave
Isaac his name. And oh, it was his father's delight
how he delighted in him. And God said of his blessed son,
this is my son. My son. I delight in him. I delight in him. He does always
everything, everything that pleases me. And he's the only man who
said to his father, Father, give me the glory that I had with
you before the world ever was, because I finished the work that
you gave me to do. And I'll tell you what, Isaac
was, and our Lord's birth was typical in seven ways. Now listen,
let me tell you another thing about this. Here's the third
thing. Oh, we listen. God's in not, not any hurry.
God's almighty. He's the only one that could
cause Sarah and Abraham to have a child. And how God's faithful. He promised and promised. He
promised and they kept waiting on the promise. But at God's
appointed time, the promise was fulfilled. Their faith was tested
and tried. And it was genuine. And in seven
ways, He's like our Him and our Lord was, was, their birth was,
was, was, typical in seven ways now now it's also me tell you
this way the third thing is Isaac is a type of us in our regeneration
of our new birth of our new birth it's like this before Isaac was
born you know what had to happen there had to be no ability in
Abraham and in Sarah and before we will ever have the new birth,
God's got to kill all of our power and all of our ability.
He's gonna bring us to where we absolutely know we ain't got
nothing. And if God don't give us this
birth, if God don't give us life, we ain't gonna get it. And the
older we get and the longer we believe us, the more we really
understand how it must be that God gives us this life. Oh, before
Isaac was born, God brought Abraham to be a hundred years old. And
Sarah was 99 years old and it would be impossible for her to
have a child. And beloved, it is with us and
our fallen nature. and our depraved nature, and
our hatred and enmity towards God. God had to kill all hopes
in ourselves, make us barren before him. And when he done
that, that's when he gave us life. He ain't gonna give it
till that happened. Oh my, and I tell you, and before
the birth, before there's a birth, the dead had to be quickened.
And I tell you what, That's what happened to, you know, he didn't
even count the deadness of Sarah's womb. Her womb was dead. And
before there can be the womb quickened, God had to give it
life. And before we can be quickened,
God takes dead sinners and gives them life. You know, let me tell
you something about that Good Samaritan. You remember when
they went down there and the Good Samaritan, they just call
him the Samaritan. We call him the Good Samaritan.
But anyway, the Samaritan went down there, and found that man
half dead, half dead. The robbers had robbed him and
beat him and left him half dead. Now, what in the world does it
mean for him to be half dead? Well, let me put it, this is
the way I think it is. Well, he was alive to the world,
he is alive to his own nature, fallen nature, and he was alive
to sin, but he was 100% dead to God. And that's the way it
is in this world here. We're alive to the world, we're
alive to sin, we're alive to the flesh, we're alive to our
fallen nature, but we are 100% dead toward God. And so the only
way in the world that we're going to have to have life, God's got
to do a miracle. He's got to have a supernatural
act of God. And before Isaac could be born,
God had to work a miracle. What in the world could Abraham
and Sarah do? What could they do? What could
they do? They're helpless. And then one
day she got up, she said, Abraham, I'm going to have a baby. And one day we're sitting here
and we're hearing the gospel. We listen to the gospel and the
power of God comes on us. And for the first time, we really
hear We really, really hear. You know why we hear? Because
God worked a miracle in our minds, in our hearts, in our souls. He took the scales off our eyes,
unstopped our ears, took that veil off our hearts, and we heard,
and beloved, when we heard that, our hearts did burn within us,
our hearts melted within us, and we never experienced anything
like it in our lives. And I'll tell you something,
we ain't got over that yet. The older I get, the more precious
it is. Oh, listen, no wonder we sing
Amazing Grace, for it's truly amazing. And oh, here's another
thing about regeneration. When Isaac was come into Abraham's
house, and he was born, when he was born, and he was that
child of promise, that miracle child, that caused opposition,
it caused conflict. And that's what it says here
in verse 10 of chapter 21. excuse me, in verse 9. And Sarah
saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian which she had born unto Abraham
mocking, making fun of Isaac, mocking Isaac. Now listen, let
me tell you something, as long as Ishmael there and nothing
but the flesh there and nothing, no conflict until Isaac the child
of promise come into the picture, everything was fine. And in the
flesh, that child of flesh and that child of miracle, that child
of flesh and that child of promise. And listen, they didn't know
what Ishmael was like until Isaac was born. We didn't know what
this flesh was like until we were born. That's one of the
greatest shocks you ever have after you've regenerated, after
God saves you by His grace. You mean to tell me you'll be
saved about 30 days, 45 days, two months, and all of a sudden
your flesh will go acting up, your mind will go wandering here,
and you'll have this thing, and you'll say, how in the world
could I be saved and be like this? You know, we never had any conflict.
There was no conflict in Abraham's house till Isaac got there. And
there's no conflict in our house until Christ moves in. And when
Christ moves in, that child of promise, that new birth comes
in, we don't have no trouble. But after that, that's one of
the greatest marks of regeneration is that conflict don't start
until you get born again, until God gives you life. Ain't that
right? And that's when the fight starts. And I'll tell you what, no wonder
Paul said, I see a war! A war! Yes, a war. Where's it going on, Paul? It's
going on in my members. It's going on in my mind. Going
on in my heart. Going on in my soul. Going on
in my flesh. Between my spiritual man and
my old man. When I would do good, evil's
right over here. And that that I wouldn't do,
I said, I ain't gonna do that. And he said, I turn around, that's
what I do. I know, I know the will is present with me, but
how to perform, I don't know how. And then he said, O wretched
man that I am. And then you know what the next
word out of his mouth was? There is therefore no condemnation
to them that are in Christ. This old flesh may give us a
battle, but one of these days, and that will be the next thing.
Isaac was born, the true character of of Ishmael was made and the
other was a gift of God. And I tell you what, he was circumcised. He circumcised him the eighth
day. Ain't that what it says there? In verse 4, Abraham circumcised
his son Isaac, being eight days whole. Now let me tell you something
about this eighth day. The Jewish day started on Saturday. Their Jewish day starts at 6
o'clock in the evening. They go from 6 o'clock in the
evening to 6 o'clock. And it starts on a Saturday night because
the Sabbath starts on Friday at 6 and it goes to Saturday
at 6. And so they have a seven-day
calendar. And then the eighth day is when
our Lord Jesus Christ, that's the day He rose again on the
first day of the week on a Sunday. And when they come off of the
flood, it was an eighth day. And here he is, the eighth day
always talks about being on resurrection ground. And we're on resurrection
ground. And I'll tell you, not only is
he circumcised the eighth day, but look, I want you to see this. I've quoted it to you, Colossians. Look in Colossians with me. Colossians,
let me show you something. Let's look at this together over
here in Colossians chapter two. You know, they had to circumcise
the 8th day. The 8th day being the resurrection. New day. New day. We are not
going on 7 days. We are going on 8 days. We are
going on the resurrection day. But look what, we are circumcised
too. We are circumcised too. And look what He says here in
Colossians 2.10. And ye are complete in him, which
is the head of all principalities and power, in whom, in Christ,
are ye also circumcised with the circumcision made without
hands. And listen to this, what did
circumcision do for us? It put off the body of the sins
of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. Christ cut off the
sins. They cut off the foreskin. Christ
cut off the body of sin and circumcised it, spiritual circumcision. And
then look what it says here, and then he was weaned and they
made him a great feast. Look down here in verse 8. And the child grew and
was weaned. Now come a time, back over in
Genesis 21.8, and the child grew and was weaned. And that weaned
off of his mother's milk. And the scriptures tells us,
you know, since as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the
word that you may grow thereby. And then not only that, but Abraham
made a great feast. And when God weans us from this
world, and he's doing that, he's weaning us off of this world.
When he weans us off of this world, do you know what kind
of feast we gonna have? Oh my God, the Lord Jesus Christ
said, come into the marriage supper of the Lamb, sit down. And he said, you know what he
told his disciples? He said, I'll not drink wine with you
until we drink it new in the kingdom of God. That new wine,
oh. And then let me show you this,
the last thing, the last thing in verse nine. And let me see
if I can explain this right. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar
the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, walking. Wherefore
she said, Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for the son of this
bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. The
thing was grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. And
God said unto Abraham, Don't let it be grievous because of
the bondwoman and your son. And it said down in verse 13,
And also of the son of the bondwoman I make a nation, because he is
thy seed. And Abraham rose up early in
the morning, took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar,
and put it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And one of these, see, God delivered. God delivered Isaac from that
flesh and that persecution, that one that mocked him and made
fun of him. God says, you got to go. And
one of these days, God's going to take this old man, this old
Ishmael that's in all of us. He's going to take that old Ishmael.
He's going to run him out of the town. He's going to run him
out of the country. And when he's gone, we'll be
gone too. So that child that persecutes
his flesh will be gone one of these days. And all the world
that man can do for us, give us a bottle of water and a piece
of bread. But oh my, one of these days,
God will say, that's enough. Ishmael's got to go. The flesh
has got to go. And oh my, it's a wonderful thing. It's a wonderful thing to think
that we'll be done with this flesh one of these days. There'll
be nothing else. You know, we mock ourselves.
We mock ourselves. Don't we? We mock ourselves.
We say, how in the world can I be this way? You talk to yourself.
If any of y'all ever talk to yourself, you'll do something
dumb or stupid or something. You say, oh, my goodness. You
say, did I do that? Oh, Floyd, you say all the time,
Floyd Allen, why did you do that? And that's what I say to myself.
I say, DB, what in the world's the matter if you do such a thing?
Well, I tell you what, old D.B. will be gone one of these days.
He'll put old, God'll put D.B. out there. He'll put him way
out there under the side. And ain't you looking forward
to that day? Oh, what a blessed day that's gonna be. Oh my, well,
appreciate you listening. Our Father, oh Father, Father,
precious name of Christ our Lord, thank you for allowing us this
time this evening. Thank you for taking your word
Showing us something about our Lord Jesus Christ and His birth,
and about our new birth, and how supernatural an act it is,
and what a powerful miracle it is that You perform. Lord, we
thank You for it, that this flesh had nothing to do with it. It's
all a promise, all promised, all given to us as the gift of
God, as Isaac was to Abraham and Sarah. This life is a gift
of God. Christ is the gift of God, and
we thank You for it. Bless these dear children of
God, these saints of God. Bless them going in, bless them
coming out. Bless them in their homes and
bless them with their children. Bless them on their jobs. Bless
them in their spirits, bless them in their hearts. Oh Lord,
you're the only one that can do these things. And as Brad
said, Lord, help us to be good to one another, be kind to one
another, support one another, and be an encouragement to one
another, and love one another. And we ask these things in Christ's
holy name. Amen. you