the 33rd chapter this morning,
Job 33rd chapter. And while you turn it, let me
make a couple announcements. The ladies' lunch will be this
Thursday at 12 o'clock, regular place. And I want to say congratulations
to Caden Graham. He graduated from the technology
school up here and is a machinist. We're very thankful for that.
young man going out in the world, and we're glad to see this married
couple here this morning. Let's see, married a week ago
yesterday, is that right? New ain't it? No, it'd be a long
time for the new wears off on that. That's wonderful. Oh boy, that's wonderful, the
Lord brings people together. Wonderful. All right, I'm gonna
start reading in verse 10. Job 33, verse 10, down to verse
25. Behold, he findeth occasions
against me, he counteth me for his enemy. He putteth my feet
in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. Behold, in this thou
art not just. I will answer thee, that God
is greater than man. Why dost thou strive against
him, free give not account of any of his matters? For God speaketh
once, yea, twice, yet man perceiveth it not. in a dream, in a vision
of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings
upon the bed. Then he openeth the ears of men,
and sealeth their instruction, that he may withdraw from man
his purpose, and hide pride from man. He keepeth back his soul
from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. He is
chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of
his bones with strong pain, so that his life abhorreth bread,
and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed away that
it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the
destroyers. If there be a messenger with
him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man
his uprightness, then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver
him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom. His flesh
shall be fresher than a child's. He shall return to the days of
his youth. Back here in Job 33 with me. Job 33. Verse 22 it says, Yea,
his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. If there be a messenger with
him, an interpreter one among a thousand, to show unto man
his uprightness, then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver
him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom. He's talking
about a messenger here, one of a thousand. When God, our gracious,
gracious God, sets with His purpose, definite purpose, after a soul,
when He intends to save a soul, when He intends to go and reveal
mercy to a soul, the first thing He does is He brings him down.
Why does he bring him down? Because man's too high. Man's
too high on his own thoughts, too high on his own opinions,
too high on his pride. He even sets himself against
God because he thinks that his righteousness is good enough
to make him acceptable. And I'll tell you something else
he does when he sets on his purpose to save a soul. He empties him
before he fills him. He empties him of his self-confidence,
of his self-righteousness, of his self-hope, of his own self-reliance,
empties him of his merit, empties him of his great worth that he
thinks he is, and he wounds him before he heals, wounds him deep,
wounds him deep in his heart, wounds him deep in his mind.
Lays his heart and soul bare makes him understand some things
that he never understood before and he slays him He kills him
before he makes him alive He kills every hope every false
idol Every false thought that he ever had he kills he takes
out to kill it. He got to kill all your gods
He's got to kill all your hopes. He's got to do that. If he don't
you'd never come you'd never come And He makes him conscious
of his need before he ever meets that need. It's like our Lord
Jesus Christ says, they that are whole don't need a physician. And He's going to make a man
sick before He ever heals him. He's going to wound him before
He ever heals him. And He's got to make him conscious
of his need. You keep Job and look in John
6.44. Look in John 6.44. John 6.44. Our Lord here is talking about
men who cannot come to Him, and why they cannot come to Him,
and the only way that they can come to Him. He said in John
6, verse 44, No man, no man can come to Me. except the Father
which hath sent me draw him." That's what I'm talking about.
God doing a work on a man's heart and soul. And I'll raise him
up at the last day. It is written in the prophets,
they shall be all taught of God. I'm talking about what God teaches
a man. Every man, therefore, that hath heard, listened to
what God said, and heard from the voice of God, and heard from
the Scriptures, hath learned of the Father, he'll come unto
me." Now let me give you three reasons why men cannot come to
Christ. First reason is this, they don't
see the need to come. Men do not see the need to come
to the Lord Jesus Christ. They don't have a need. They
don't see the need to come to Him. And the second reason is
they don't see anything in Him that makes the Lord Jesus worth
coming to. There's no beauty about Him that
they should desire Him. They see no beauty in the Lord
Jesus Christ. They see no glory in the Lord
Jesus Christ. They don't see anything about
Him that is worth coming for. And the third reason is that
their hearts are more set on other things than things of the
world. When our Lord Jesus Christ, He told about a parable about
a man who made a great supper. And He sent His servants out
and said to them that were bidden to come. You know what? They
all with one consent began to make excuses. The first one said,
I bought a piece of ground, I need to go look at it. Second one
said, I bought five yoke of oxen, I need to go prove it. And the
third one said, I married a wife. And our Lord Jesus Christ, he
says, well, and that's what people are. They're more interested
in other things. They got their heart and mind on other things.
Our Lord Jesus, one fellow said, I'll follow you everywhere you
go, but let me go first bury my dead father. He said, you
let the dead bury the dead. And if you go follow me, you
come on right now. He said, let the world take care
of the world. You let dead sinners take care
of dead sinners. You come follow me. Another fellow
said, I'm going to follow you wherever you go. And he said,
but let me go tell everybody at home, bye. Let me tell them
I'm going to go serve Jesus. Let me go tell them that I'm
going to go to work for the Lord. I got saved. I'm going to do
something for Jesus. And our Lord Jesus Christ said,
you follow me. No man having put his hand to
the plow and looking back's fit for the kingdom of God. So that's
why men can't come to Christ. They don't see a need, there's
no beauty about him worth coming, and they got their hearts and
minds set on too many other things. So if they come, I just read
it to you, they must be drawn, and God in bringing them teaches
them some things. He that hath heard and learned
of the Father teaches, or they shall all be taught of God. And
one thing that God does when he teaches them and begins to
draw them, A man must be convinced of sin. He must be convinced
of sin. And I can't convince a man of
sin. You can't convince a man of sin. You couldn't even convince
yourself that you was a sinner. Only God can convince a man of
sin. Only God can make a man a sinner.
And you know, you read the 107th Psalm one of these times, and
there's four things in there where men go through, and then
the scripture says that the Lord brought them down, and they began
to cry out to God in their trouble, and the Lord heard them and delivered
them out of their troubles. You gotta be in trouble before
you'll ever be brought up out of that way. That's what happens
to you. And when a man gets lost, that's
when God is doing something for him, when he starts getting lost.
Now, let's look back here in this Job 33. When God in His blessed providence
breaks up the phallic ground of the human heart, prepares
it for a work of grace, one of the first means of blessing that
man is to send him a messenger. Ain't that what it says? If there
be a messenger with him, when God begins going to do something
for him, he sends him a messenger, somebody with a message. And
it's an act of great love, an act of great grace, an act of
great mercy that God would send a messenger to anybody. And I
told somebody just Wednesday night, I said, I blessed the
day that God crossed my path with a preacher. When God crossed
my path with the truth of the free grace of God in Christ and
taught me that God, that the gospel has concerns of person. I blessed God for that day. But
you never find anybody in the Scriptures that God didn't send
a messenger to. He sent Peter to Cornelius. house and he was a Gentile and
he said we're here to hear what God has to say to us through
you. Philip was sent down to the Ethiopian
eunuch on the road And Ananias was sent to Saul of Tarsus, when
he was set in blind as a bat. And our Lord went to the Samaritan
woman to tell her of himself." So you see, no doubt when it
says God sent a messenger, there'll be a messenger. This refers to
preachers, God's messenger. But that's not his full meaning.
It's referring to that great messenger, the messenger of the
covenant, the great interpreter between God and man. If there
be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand. This is
talking about our Lord Jesus Christ primarily. You keep Job
and look in Malachi. You go to Matthew and Malachi
is right before Matthew, last book in the Old Testament. Malachi's
last book in the Old Testament. Look what it says here about
our Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew Malachi 3.1. This refers to God's preachers,
God's messengers, but that's not the full meaning of it. You know, I'll tell you something.
I'd rather hear good preachers eat when I'm hungry. You can
eat anytime, but you can't hear good preaching anytime. Isn't
that right? And us folks go a long, long
way to hear good preaching. They have a meeting down in Apopka,
Florida, down where Greg Elmquist is. And I mean, dozens of people
drove hundreds and hundreds of miles to go here preaching. To
go here preaching, to have somebody tell them about being sinners
and how God saves sinners. That's amazing, ain't it? But
look what it said here in Malachi 3.1, talking about the messenger.
Behold, I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way
before me. And the Lord whom you seek shall
suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant
whom you delight in. Behold, he shall come, saith
the Lord of hosts." And this messenger is talking about our
Lord. Now back over in Job, when God,
where God the Father sends his son to a man, and convinces him
of who the Lord Jesus Christ is. convinces him that he is
God manifest in the flesh, convinces him of who the Lord Jesus Christ
is, and convinces him of our Lord Jesus' willingness and our
Lord Jesus' power and his ability to save, and constrains him to
believe God is intending to do something for that man when God
sends that messenger, the Lord Jesus Christ, in the power of
the gospel. I mean, He intends to do something.
There's a reason why God sent His Son into this world. That's
the reason why God sent His Son as a messenger of the covenant. He come to tell about a covenant.
All that the Father gave me, He mentioned the covenant. What
are they going to do? They're going to come to me.
He said, what are you going to do about it? I said, I'm going
to give them life and I'm going to raise them up again at the
last day. Father, they were yours and you gave them to me. He said,
I lay down my life for the sheep. So he's talking about a particular
people. He come as a messenger. And if
he intends to do something for you, he'll send you the message
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Christ himself will be that
messenger that'll speak to you. God will send Christ and make
you understand who he is. And you'll see his willingness
to save. You see his power to save. You
see his ability to save. And you'll say, well, oh my.
you mean he's willing we sung there that last song how could
it be that he would love a sinner like me how could it be and then
it says a messenger here an interpreter does there be a messenger with
him an interpreter One among a thousand. Who else can this
be other than the Lord Jesus Christ? Who else can this be?
One among a thousand. He uses a definite number to
say, to give an indefinite glory to Christ. He uses a definite
number to say, you know, has one among a thousand. And I'll
tell you what, he says he's a messenger. Now, I'll tell you something
about a messenger. He don't come in his own name.
Messenger doesn't come in his own name. They asked who John
the Baptist was. He said, I'm just a voice. That's
all I am. Just a voice. Oh, you didn't
say, I'm John the Baptist and I'm a mighty man of God. I'm
out here in the wilderness preaching. That's not what he said. No,
listen, a messenger comes not in his own name. He's sent. He's
appointed. And he's sent with a particular
message. He is appointed by God the Father,
the Lord Jesus Christ is, to be a Savior, to be a Prince,
to be a King, to be one who saves his people from their sins. He's ordained of God to be this
messenger. And then it says he's an interpreter.
An interpreter. And oh, what a blessed interpreter
he is. You know, an interpreter has
to understand two languages. He's got to hear one language,
and when it's spoken, he has to interpret it to somebody who
don't understand it. When I'm in Mexico, you know,
Milton Howard was an interpreter, Cody was an interpreter, And
Walter wasn't, you'd be speaking in English, and they'd take your
English words and speak to those people in Spanish. Well, our
Lord Jesus Christ is an interpreter, and an interpreter has to understand
two languages. And you know what? The language
that our Lord Jesus Christ understands, He understands the language of
God, and He understands our language. You see, he's the very wisdom
of God itself. He knows the mind of God. He
knows the Word of God. He speaks the Word of God. He
comes to interpret God to us. And he knows how to speak with
God, and he knows how to speak to God's heart. He knows God,
and so he can interpret what God has to say. And not only
that, He can interpret our cries. He can interpret to God languages
that we don't even know. He interprets to God our cries,
our groans, our sighs, our tears, our hurts, our cries out to Him. And then He can take what our
cries are and our tears and our groans and our sighs, and He
can take the meaning of them and interpret them to God and
tell Him what that means. You see, He understands our language. He's one with us. Having become
a man, He understands our language, and He understands God's language.
You know, He understands our language being one with us, having
become a man, one made like unto us without sin. He can speak
to the heart of God, and He can speak to the heart of man. He
has the power to reach up, and He's a daysman between us. He
can reach up and get God, and He can reach down here and get
a hold of man, and He can interpret both languages and make them
to be one. He's a daysman between us. He
can put His hand on both God and man, because He's equal with
God, and yet He's brother to simple sinful man like ourselves. He's a brother. And I tell you
something, He can interpret to the ear, but He also can interpret
to the heart. You know, He can get through
the ear, but He can also interpret God to the heart. He can make
the Scriptures come alive to sinners. He can make them come
alive to a sinner. He can take God's Law and show
them how spiritual it is. That it's not the act that a
man does. It's his attitude. It's his nature.
It's his thoughts. It's his intents. He don't have
to do anything. You don't have to do anything
for God's Law to be spiritual. You don't have to break God's
Law by getting out here and doing something. Just intend to do
it. Just have the thought of doing it. Just have the motive
to do it without ever doing it. And that's why the law is spiritual. And on he'll take God's blessed
word and he'll talk of God's justice being satisfied. And
how he satisfied it with bearing our sins in his own body on the
tree. And then he'll tell of God's
blessed mercy. And then he'll shed the love
of God abroad in our hearts. Oh my. Hell, he's a blessed,
blessed interpreter. And look what it says. One among
a thousand. One among a thousand. But who's
he's equal? Who's he's equal? Who's he's
equal to God? He said one among a thousand.
Who's he's equal before God? When God speaks of His Son, He
always speaks of Him as loved, as blessed, as mine, as one that
always hears Him. that one that He loved, that
He was daily His delight, one that dwelled in His bosom, and
so who is His equal to God? Who is His equal to the saints?
Who is His equal to us as believers? Who is the Lord Jesus Christ
equal to us as believers? Who is His equal to sinners?
Who is His equal? Oh my, to sinners in need. You
know where Song of Solomon is? Song of Solomon is right before
the book of Isaiah. Song of Solomon is right before
the book of Isaiah. And you go to Song of Solomon
chapter 5, and look with me in verse 9. Oh my, who's is equal? Who's is equal to God? Noah wasn't. Adam wasn't. Abraham wasn't. Noah wasn't. Paul wasn't. No man that ever was born is
God's equal. Christ is. And look what he said
here about him in verse 9, What is thy beloved more than another
beloved? Song of Solomon 5, what is it?
O thou fairest among women, what is thy beloved more than another
beloved that thou doest so charge us? What's so precious about
your beloved more than somebody else's beloved? Well she begins
to describe him. My beloved is white, ruddy, the
cheapest, cheapest among 10,000. His head is as the most fine
gold. Oh my, look at his head and it
just glistens, glorious. His locks are bushy and black
as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of a
dove, dark as the rivers of water. And then he's washed with milk,
white, perfect white around him, fitly set, perfectly set in him. His cheeks are as a bed of spices. as sweet flowers, his lips like
lilies dropping sweet-bellied myrrh. His hands are as gold
rings set with the beryl. His belly is bright ivory overlaid
with sapphire. It's talking about how valuable
He is, how precious He is, how glorious He is. His legs are
as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold. His countenance
is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. And listen to this, His
mouth is most sweet. Yea, He is altogether Lovely. This is my beloved. This is my friend. Oh daughters
of Jerusalem. Who's like you? One among a thousand. We sing that song, we are not
skilled to understand what God hath willed, what God hath planned.
I only know that it is His right hand is one who is my Savior. If there were a thousand saviors
in this world, Jesus Christ would be my only one. He'd be my only
one. And there He is. A lot of saviors,
but there's only one God sent. Only one messenger, one interpreter. You see, He's the door. Everything
else is just a wall. He's the light from God. Everything
outside of Him is darkness. He's very God come down to us
in human flesh. And who can equal this? If I
was lost and I needed a savior, you know what I'd do? I'd believe
Him right now. I'd believe Him right now. And
how does he come a sin? How does he come to a sinner
when he says he's a messenger an interpreter one of a that?
How does he come to him? Well first he comes to him in
the preaching of the gospel not just any gospel of the gospel
the gospel that glorifies God the gospel that's according to
the scriptures, the gospel that will really actually save a sinner,
a gospel that'll give hope to a dying sinner, a gospel that
tells that salvation's of the Lord from Alpha to Omega from
beginning to end. a gospel that gives Christ all
the glory and absolutely takes it. What did he say? He said
he takes the pride from man, he stays the pride of man. And
I tell you, not only does he come to him in the preaching
of the gospel, He comes to him in the Bible. When you start
reading the Bible and you know, you'll go check up on the preacher.
You go see if that preacher's telling you the truth or not.
If what he says is so or not, you'll start looking in the scriptures
and you'll say, yes. Oh, there he is. There he is.
I hear his voice now. I see him there. There he is.
I see him there. I see him there in Genesis 3.15. I see him there when God closed
Adam and Eve's nakedness. I see him there in that ark,
saving Noah and his family. I see him there when his blood
shed and the doors put upon the little. And God said, when I
see the blood, I'll pass over you. I see him. I see him when
John laid upon his breast. And oh, not only does he come
in the Bible, but he comes in the power of the Holy Ghost. teaching you and telling you
that there's nobody else to go to, no one else can save you,
no one has the power to save you except Him. And then He'll
say, all you that labor and are heavy laden, come unto Me, and
I'll give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn
of Me, and you shall find rest for your souls. And let me tell
you this about this interpreter. Look what else he does. He says,
There be messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand,
to show unto man his uprightness. Now he's not talking about man
having an uprightness. That's not what he's talking
about. He's talking about God's uprightness. God's righteousness. Here's what he's talking about.
To show unto man his, the interpreter's uprightness. God's uprightness.
When a man is under conviction, when God begins to convict a
man, that's something that's really, really missing now. Conviction. And what that word
conviction means, it just means being convinced of something.
God convicting you of who you are. God convicting you of your
sin. God convicting you or convincing
you of your inability. God convincing you and convicting
you that you're as far off from God as you can possibly be and
you can't find your way back by yourself. He convinces you
that you have no ability. He can conviction. He passes
a sentence on you. It's like being in a courtroom.
The judge himself says guilty. And God says, guilty. Guilty
of what? Despising me. Hating me. Not coming to me. Not trusting
me. Not believing me. Living your
life as if I don't exist. And oh my, when a man's under
conviction, you know what the first thing he starts doing when
God starts breaking it? He starts thinking, God's hard. God's unjust. This is just not
right for him to deal with me like this. This is just too hard. Look what he says up here, verse
10 of Job 33. This is the first thing a fellow
learns. He finds occasion against me.
He counts me for his enemy. God counts you as his enemy.
Oh my, what? He puts my feet in the stock
and he marks all my paths. He lets me know where I've been,
where I'm going and everything about me. And then he says, oh,
you're not just to do this to me. I'm not that bad. And the
interpreter answers back and said, God is greater than man. Why do you strive against him?
He don't give an account of his matters to anybody. Huh? And oh, look down verse 17, that
he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man.
Oh my. When the Lord Jesus Christ comes,
he makes man to discern the love, the wisdom, the grace, the pity
that God has for poor sinners. And I'm very thankful for that.
Lord, if thou shouldest mark iniquities, who would be able
to stand? But But there is forgiveness
with thee, that thou mayest be feared. What God is doing when
He does this, He's stopping a man in his rebellion. He's stopping
a man in his headlong way to hell, in the life of sin. You
know what He did to Saul of Tarsus on the Damascus road? Made him
blind as a bat. Somebody had to take him by the
hand and lead him. You say, boy, that's an awful
hard thing God do to a man. Has the best thing ever happened
to Saul of Tarsus. God to blind him. God to blind
him. Oh, Clay Curtis preached a message
here one time on the blessing of blindness. And he used that
text, the blessing of blindness. Oh, how Paul was blessed to be
blinded. How he was blinded to everything
but the glory of God and the gospel after God gave him sight.
And I tell you, there's nothing worse, listen to me now, there's
nothing worse than for a man to be happy and comfortable and
at ease in his sin. For somebody to be at ease or
happy in their sin, can you think of anything worse for God to
do to a man? To be given up by God? The Gospel
of Christ, it talks about God's uprightness here. The Gospel
of Christ makes the sinner understand God's upright. God's righteous.
God is righteous. And God is just to punish sin. And when Christ comes in the
gospel, you wonder why He hasn't already sent you to hell. You
stand amazed that He has anything to do with you at all. And I
tell you what, He'll make a man plead guilty. He'll say, I'm
guilty. Everything you say about me is
so. He tears down their self-delusions. Tears down their self-dependency. Tears down their self-righteousness.
And then you're not upset with God anymore. Not upset with God. Then look what it says in verse
24. I'll hurry on here. I know you're weary. Then he
is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to
the pit. I have found a ransom. Then he
is gracious unto him. Then, when Christ comes as the
messenger. Then, when Christ comes as the
interpreter. Then, when God makes a man see
his uprightness, then he's gracious, all of grace, everything of grace. When he's brought down, God shows
himself gracious. When God brings a man to understand
that he has nothing to pay, and admits that God is just to punish
him for his sin, then Then, then. Well, how's he's got to do this?
It's through the messenger. Then he is gracious. It's through
this messenger that God is gracious. Look what it says over here.
It said, I found a ransom in that verse. I got a little number
in my Bible that says four. And you look over there in the
middle of the, in the center column, it says an atonement.
I found an atonement. It's through the atoning sacrifice
of God's blessed Son. God put his grace in this man,
the Lord Jesus, this messenger, this interpreter, and put this
grace in this man, and in this blessed blood and righteousness
is his son. Salvations of grace from first
to last. You see, it's grace that gets
you lost, grace that finds you, grace that brings you, grace
that keeps you, and then he is gracious unto him, gratis. You know what that means? Cost
you nothing. You see, God don't sell, He gives. And a man can't be saved only
by the grace of God from the beginning, the middle, and the
end. Huh? And God says, deliver him
from going down to the pit. The pit. You know, you go through
the scriptures, how many people were in a pit? How many people
were in a pit? Thou hath brought me up also
out of a horrible pit, my feet out of the miry clay. Joseph
was put in a pit. And then he saw these caravan
coming, they brought him up out of the pit and sold him into
slavery. And the pit is used in the scripture as an emblem
of great trouble, great misery. Prisoners and slaves were kept
in a pit. And a pit's the bondage of a
soul held captive by sin, depressed, heart hurting, no help. And then
there's going to be a bottomless pit one of these days. For everybody,
every soul, every soul who did not believe the Lord Jesus Christ
and trust Him, that's where they're going to go, a bottomless pit,
a bottomless pit. And then God says, deliver him,
deliver him, justify, save him. That word deliver means to save,
save him from going down into that pit, save him from that
bondage of sin, save him from that corruption. Save him from
that horrible pit. Take his feet out of that miry
clay that's got him here. He can't get himself out of the
pit. And the great judge says, deliver him from going down to
the pit. Jonah says, you know, when he
was in the belly of hell, he says, Thou hast brought up my
life from the pit. Oh Lord, my God. Look in Isaiah
38. Look with me in Isaiah 38. Hezekiah,
here he is, he's in the pit. He's in a pit. Look what happens
to Hezekiah. In verse 1, Hezekiah 38 and 1,
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death, and Isaiah the prophet,
the son of Amos, came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith
the Lord, Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and
not live. Now look down in verse 17. This
is what God, this is what I'm talking about. Behold, for peace
I had great bitterness, but thou hast in love to my soul delivered
it from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins
behind thy back. Oh my. Deliver him, deliver him. What a merciful word. Deliver
him. What a gracious word. What a
sovereign word. Deliver him, for go down to the
pit. I found a ransom. I found a covering. I found an
atonement. And a ransom is a price set to
set someone free. God set the ransom, the blood
of his blessed son, the death of his blessed son. He himself
bore our sins in his own body on the trip. He was smitten and
afflicted of God, and we esteemed him that way. But when our Lord
Jesus Christ suffered as the head all the members suffered
in, I found a ransom. I found a ransom. I've got the
price. The price has been paid for you
to be set free from going down to the pit, to be brought up
out of the pit. I found a ransom. Our Father, in the blessed name
of Christ our Lord, thank you for the gospel. Thank you for
the gospel. Thank you for the truth. And
Lord, if you'd be pleased to bless it, we'd be thankful. If
you'd be pleased to use it, we'd be grateful. And whether you
do or don't, you're God, you'll do what you will. But I am thankful,
Lord, that you said your word would return unto your void,
that it'd accomplish whereunto you said it. God bless these
dear saints. Meet the needs of hard Savior
people in this place. We ask these things in Christ's
name. Amen. Amen.