All right, let's read this second
Psalm. Why do the heathen rage and the
people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves
and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against
his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder and
cast away their cords from us. He that steadeth in the heavens
shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in
his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my
holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree the
LORD hath set unto me. Thou art my son, this day have
I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee
the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the
earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a
rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings,
be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear
and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry
and ye perish from the way. When his wrath is kindled but
a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Turn with me to Hebrews chapter
one. I rarely preach over 42, 43 minutes, but there has been
times, and I hope that today's not one of them, as hot as it
is. That Psalm that I read this morning, Psalm two, where the heathen
said, you know, let's break their bands asunder. Henry Mahan's
got a message. out of that psalm called Goodbye
God. And if you can find that on Sermon
Audio or somewhere, find it, listen to it. Goodbye God. Boy,
it's out there. Well, of course, anything Henry
preaches is outstanding. I listen to him often. But that
was Goodbye God. A very unusual message. I like
to hear good preaching. especially things that deal with
subjects. But here in Hebrews chapter 1,
let me read three verses for you. God, who at sundry times
and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by
the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by son, whom
he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made
the worlds. who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his person, upholding all
things by the word of his power, when he by himself purged our
sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high. I want to talk this morning about
the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. The glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is a big title. for a big
message. And when I say a big message,
I mean this is a very, very big subject. It's a big subject. And I know without a doubt, I
won't begin to describe the glories of our Lord Jesus Christ. I know
that. I know that. I've been trying
to do that for many, many, many years. And always feel like I
never get it told the way I see it. I just can't tell it the
way I see it. So I can't tell it out the way
my heart sees it, the way my heart experiences it. But here
goes, I'm gonna try again. I'm gonna keep on trying. I'm
gonna keep on taking, I'm gonna keep on shooting at the same
target. I'm gonna try again to describe just a part of our Lord's
glories. And I tell you what, if you can't
do better, and we mean that, you know, there's an article
in the bulletin, you know, The issue of the pulpit is Christ
and Him crucified. And I tell you, this is the first
thing I want us to see here before I get into the heart of my message
is that this is the final word, the final revelation from God
Himself. God, lots of times and in different
ways, spake in time fast unto the fathers by the prophets.
He spoke in dreams. He spoke in revelations. He spoke
by His voice. He spoke by manifestations of
miracles. He spoke in many, many ways.
And He spoke by the prophets. But the last time He had anything
to say to anybody was when His Son came to this world. And He
is the final thing that God had to say to anybody in the universe. Our Lord Jesus Christ, when the
Word was made flesh, sent to dwell among us, we beheld His
glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full
of grace, full of truth. And I know this, that God's final
word and final revelation, now everything that man says and
does is temporary. That's temporary. But what God
says and does is permanent. It stands forever. But let's
look at the first glory here. Let's look at the glory of His
office. Look down here in verse 2. last part of the verse when
it says whom he hath appointed heir of all things the glory
of his office god appointed his son heir of all things he said
i read it to you he has set he said i set my son my king upon
my holy hill of zion and he's God's rightful heir and what
makes him God's rightful heir is because that's that there
aren't my only begotten son this day have I begotten day now God's
got lots of sons by adoption and by new birth but God only
had one begotten son only one son like him in nature only one
son like him in power only one son that came from heaven itself
and came through the womb of a virgin and that was the son
of god and says being his only begotten son that means he is
heir of everything and god appointed him to be heir of everything
in this world and we'll deal with that in a minute but i'll
tell you he's heir of all things look with me over in genesis
24 Genesis 24 Here's your here's your perfect illustration of
this You know our Lord Jesus Christ first of all he's heir
of salvation He's the heir the only one that has salvation God
put salvation in him and In him alone if anybody's ever saved
they're going to be saved by God's Blessed Son the Lord Jesus
Christ if anybody he's made him heir over all flesh gave him
power over all flesh and he's the only one that can give eternal
life to those that he gave to him and look what he said here
in genesis 24 and look with me in verse 34 and this is eliezer going to
get a bride for isaac and he said i am abraham's servant And
the Lord hath blessed my master greatly, and he hath become great.
And he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold,
and men's servants, maid's servants, camels, and asses. And Sarah,
my master's wife, bare a son to my master when she was old.
Now listen to this. And unto him hath he given all
that he had. And that's what God did with
his son. God said, I'm gonna give you the world. your heir
of it. I'm going to give you a multitude
of people, your heir of them. I'm going to give you men's hearts,
and you'll be heir over them. I'm going to give you salvation,
and you're going to be the heir of salvation to give it to whomsoever
you will. Our Lord Jesus Christ, he's heir
over everything that rise, wriggles, and moves on topside of God's
earth. Everything. And I bless Him for
that. He's heir of the church. He's
heir over His people. He's heir over the earth. He's
heir over the fullness of the earth. He is the sovereign Lord
of this universe and everything that's in it. He's the absolute
disposer of anything that happens in this world. He's the governor
of all things. You know what the scripture says?
Upon His shoulder. Upon His shoulder. THE GOVERNMENT
REST ON HIS SHOULDER. UPON HIS SHOULDER SHALL BE THE
GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT OF WHAT? EVERYTHING. YOU KNOW HE GOVERNS REBELS? HE GOVERNS REBELS. THERE AIN'T
NOBODY OUT FROM UNDER HIS CONTROL. AND I TELL YOU THIS, HE'S KING
OVER ALL NATIONS AND ALL PEOPLE. And the Father loveth the Son,
and hath given all things into His hands. Look over in 2 Peter,
right to your right, 2 Peter chapter 3. Upon His shoulder,
He has the governments upon His shoulder. But oh listen, look
what people say here. 2 Peter 3 and verse 3. Here's
what people say. knowing this first no excuse
me i'm in the first peter 3 22 i'm sorry i'm in the wrong place
just usual first peter 2 23 22 that's for
another that's another time oh yeah but look what he said here
talking about christ being sovereign and have power over everything
in the world talking about the Lord Jesus Christ and His resurrection
who has gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God,
listen to it, angels and authorities and powers being made subject
unto Him. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
by Him, look what else it says over here in our text again.
He's the heir of all things and by Him, look what it says, in
verse two, by whom also he made the worlds. Now, you know, he's
there of all things because he made it. God said, you make the,
you know, when God said, let there be light, you know who
went and caused the light to come? The word did. And who's
the word? The word was with God. The word
was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. And you know, it says there, and look how it says worlds. They'll say world, it says worlds.
You know how many worlds are in this world? When I read that
the other day and looking at that, working on this message,
I began to think, how many worlds there are in this world? I sat
on my porch this morning and I counted several worlds while
I was sitting there. You know how many worlds our
Lord Jesus Christ has made? He made human world, He made
us, He made man. Is that not right? And that was
the last of His creation. He created the heavens and the
stars that's in the heavens, that's the celestial world He
created. Then He created the sea and all
the things that's in the sea, that's the world, that's a whole
other world down there. He created all the birds and
all the fowls, that's another world. He created all the trees,
that's another world. He created all the vegetables
that there are, that's another world. He created all the trees
and apple trees and everything that there is, pear trees. Do
you know they have this so, so creative, God made everything
that there is, our Lord Jesus Christ did. And there's the animal
world, there's the vegetable world, there's the mineral world. And you know what minerals are?
Silver and gold. And I mean, he made it all. He
said, if I wanted something, I wouldn't ask of you. He said,
the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. And he said,
listen, I had the cattle on a thousand hills is mine. If I wanted something,
you don't think I'd ask you, do you? That's what our Lord
said. And also everything, the new to all the different worlds.
And you know how He created it? By His blessed Word and in His
infinite wisdom. And there's the old creation
and the new creation. And I tell you what, the old
creation is the world that stands out and we're the old creation.
The old creation that God made, then He made new creation. When
He created us new in the Lord Jesus Christ. When He made us
new. And then look what else it says
about him in the last part of verse three, in the middle part
of verse three. Not only did he err of all things, made all
things, but he opposed all things by the same word that he created
on me. He opposed it. He made it. And
he sustains it. What makes the world go like
it does? I listened to a fellow named
Machichio Kaku. He's supposed to be one of the
brilliant, most brilliant men in the world. And he has this
show called, and he talked about the sun the other day. And told
everything about the sun, what it was, what it do, and he's
just a brilliant, he's the number one physicist about in the world.
He's just brilliant. And he says, you know, that he's
trying to come up with a theory to finish Einstein's theory about
why the world goes on like it does. And I can tell you why
it goes on like it does, and I don't have to hear Machu Chukaku
tell me either, you know. I know why it goes on, because
God opposes it by the word of His power. That's why it goes
on. You know how long the sun will
be there? Until God says you're not going to shine again. You
know how long the moon's going to be there? Until God says it
ain't going to shine anymore. You know how long we're going
to live? He sustains us until He says that's your final breath.
He's going to sustain the birds. You know, listen, the birds,
we got them little sparrows, and we watch them sparrows. And
every time one of them comes down out of the tree and gets
down there and starts pecking on the ground, I say, the Lord
put him right there at that right time. That's how he sustains
this world. Herman, he sustained you 92 years. Done a good job of it, 280. You
didn't want me to say that, did you? Listen I'll tell you what he's
just how does he do it by the word of his power? How hard do
you think it is for Christ to hold this world together? How
hard do you think it is now? We're going to turn to 2nd Peter
3. I know I'm going to the right place this time 2nd Peter 3 talking
about Christ holding this world together You know this world As far as
the way we look at things, it looks like it's just falling
apart, but it ain't. It ain't. It looks like everything's
going to fade away pretty quick, but it, it, it, look what it
says here in 2 Peter 3, 3, knowing this first, that there shall
come in the last days, scoffers walking after their own lust
and saying, where is the promise of his coming? for since the
fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of the creation." I wonder why that is, why they all continue
from the beginning of the creation. For this, now listen to this,
for this they willingly are ignorant of. Now listen to it, that by
the word of God, Creation the heavens were of old and the earth
standing out of the earth water and in the water Whereby the
world that then was being overflowed with water perished, but the
heavens and the earth which are now Listen are kept by the same
word kept in store reserved unto the day of perdition and the
day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. So everybody
they talk about, whoa, boy, this, you know, this, that, that everybody
takes, my daddy told me that one time said, I've heard about
his coming ever since I was a little boy and he ain't come yet. I
said, well, just hold on. He'll be here. He'll be here. And everything is going to continue
just like it is. Just like it is. No, but when
the world was falling apart because of apostasy and because of men
turning away from God, because of how desperately lost men was,
He came, our Lord Jesus did, and undertook redemption. for
his blessed people and then he bound up the world and he bound
up our redemption and our redemption is sure as Christ is in this
world is upheld by the word of his power and the next coming
the next coming of our Lord Jesus Christ will bring in a brand
new world brand new world and now let me go back over here
and show you something else Look what he is looking at glory
of his office. Now, look at the glory of his
person in verse three. Who being the brightness of his
glory. And the express image of his
person. The brightness of God's glory
and the special image of his person. How bright is God? Well, he's so bright that God
himself says that no man. Has seen him at any time. He
dwells in the light that no man can approach unto. Well, how
bright is God's glory? Well, God has never been seen
at any time until His Son came into this world. Now, everybody
don't see Christ's glory and the brightness of Christ's glory
being the express image of God's glory, but I see it, don't you?
I see the glory of God in Jesus Christ. I see the brightness
of God's glory in Jesus Christ. See beloved like he was on that
mount of transfiguration and he was changed before those fellas
eyes and he glistened just like the Sun and That's what he's
going to be when we see him in glory And that's what and I've
seen now in his brightness and in his glory and in his majesty
And I know that men, when they saw Him, they saw just nobody
but a man and a carpenter's son. And there's people that seem
today as just Jesus, that you need to let Him have His way
with you. I know they seem today as somebody
knocking on your heart's door, wanting to be let in. Somebody
that wants you to stand up for Him and go witness and win souls
for Him. But I'm telling you, I've saw His glory. And when
you see His glory, nothing you can do but bow down and worship
Him and bless Him and praise Him for being who He is. Nobody's
seen God at any time save the only begotten Son. And He come
down here to do what? To make Him know. If you ever
see God in his glory, you'll see him in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Huh? Oh, listen, when Moses said,
Lord, show me your glory. God said, Moses, you can't see
it. You can't see my glory the way it is. You can't do it. Said, I'll tell you what, there's
a rock over here by me. And he said, I'm going to put
you. And they didn't say, you climb in that rock. God said,
I'm going to put you in that rock. And that's what God did.
He put us in the rock. The Lord Jesus said, I'm going
to put you in that rock. And then he said, I'm going to
put my hand over you. And I'm going to cross the backside
of you and come by you. Because you can't see me, Moses.
That's why they said, can a man see God and live? Yes, he can
if he sees him in Christ. If you don't never see him in
Christ, you're just as sure to die as God's on his throne Ain't
that right? Oh, he said he's is the express
image of his person The invisible God became visible
and whatever he's the express image in him dwells the fullness
of the Godhead bodily he's the son of God and he is a man and
God is seen nowhere but in him Look in 2 Corinthians with me,
chapter 4. 2 Corinthians 4. Let's look at this together here,
just a moment. You know, there was one fellow
that saw his glory. Paul on the road to Damascus,
Saul of Tarsus on his road to Damascus, has hatred in his heart
for Christ. And then Christ revealed Himself
to him, and he saw the brightness of the sun. And the Lord put
him down, and he said, Saul, Saul, why have you persecuted
me? And when he was persecuting these people, he was persecuting
Christ. And he saw the glory of Christ that day, and he was
blind for three days. And when he opened his eyes,
he saw Christ for actually who he was. And that's what happens,
beloved. God makes our eyes see such glory,
such majesty, and such salvation, and such preciousness, and such
power, and such august majesty in our Lord Jesus Christ. That's
why we go to Him, and we look to Him, and we trust Him, and
everything about Him is right, and precious, and true. How we
need Him! That's why we sometimes just
do nothing but say, Bless you, Lord! I read something, somebody
said this more than I could say was, Bless the Lord, O my soul,
because it was so powerful and precious. That's why you can't
say enough about it. We can't get it out. We just
can't get it out. Look what it said here in 2 Corinthians
4, 3. But if our gospel be hid, it's
hid to them that are lost. If the glory of Christ is hid,
it's hid to them that are lost. And whom the God of this world
hath blinded the minds of them which believe not. Now listen
to this. lest the glorious gospel of Christ, listen to it, who
is the image of God should shine under them. So when you see God,
when you see Christ, you're seeing the image of God. You know what
our Lord, you know, Philip told him this. He said, Lord, when
our Lord said he was going away, where were you going? I'm going
away. And he said, well, before you
leave, will you show us the Father and that'll be sufficient, that'll
satisfy us. And our Lord said, Philip, have
I been such a long time with you? And you've not seen me? For he that hath seen me hath
seen the Father. I'm not looking for nothing else.
If there was a name, three angels walked in here this morning,
Shining like the sun. Their glory would not be nothing
compared to Christ. And we would not acknowledge
them angels other than being what God says they are. But I
tell you this, we'll never worship one. I'm not looking for visions. I'm not looking for miracles. I'm not looking for healing for
the body. I'm not looking for anything but the Lord Jesus Christ
who is my all and in my all. That's all I'm looking for. I'm
not looking for nothing in this world but Him. Him. Now let me show you something
else about Him, about His glory. There's the glory of His office,
the glory of His person. And look at the glory of His
sacrifice in verse 3. When He by Himself, when He had
by Himself purged our sins. When He by Himself, when He had,
past the had, it's done, it's finished. When He had by Himself
purged our sins. Oh, the glory of His sacrifice. All the blood. And you know there's
people still offering blood sacrifices in this world. They are. There's
people down in New Orleans worshiping voodoo, going through voodoo,
offering chickens and goats. Right down in New Orleans. And
all the blood ever shed on all the altars in the world since
the beginning of the world, from Abel's blood to the last blood
shed on an altar, even the Passover, that never put away one sin of
any soul on this earth. Not one of them. God was forbearing. Forbearing. He forbade the Old
Testament saints' sins. And He forbade from year to year
to year until our Lord Jesus Christ came and He put away sin
once and for all by the sacrifice. Sin was in this world, but He
put it away once for all. Now what does it mean for all?
For all time, and for all his people. There's three appearings of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Look at Hebrews 9. And all this,
and God was forbearing until our Lord Jesus Christ appeared.
Until our Lord Jesus appeared. And there's three appearings
now. Look here in verse 26. talking about Christ offering
himself for if he was like a high priest that's under the law he
would have often have to suffer since the foundation of the world
but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared what did
he appear to do to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself he
appeared to put away sin whose sin did he put away? All of his
people. God laid on him the iniquity
of us all. He was wounded for our transgression,
bruised for our iniquities. Who's us? Who's ours? Everybody
that believes him, everybody that trusts him. And then look
at the second appearing, verse 24. He appeared to put away sin,
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
which are just the figures of the truth, but listen to it,
into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us.
He has appeared and He is appearing. Where's He appearing for us at?
In heaven itself. He's right in the presence of
God for us. He appeared there for us. What
did He appear with? With His own blood. God accepted his blood. Look
at the third appearing, verse 28. So Christ was once offered
to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for Him shall
He appear the second time, and He ain't gonna bring no offering
for sin this time. He's bringing salvation. Oh,
listen. So He did appear, He is appearing,
and He shall appear. He has saved us, He is saving
us, and He shall save us by all three of those appearances. Ain't
that right? Oh, there's no more offering
for sins. And when He did it by Himself,
that means that you and I didn't have any part whatsoever in it.
We didn't have no part with Him putting our sins away. Our faith
never put our sins away. Nothing we've ever thought, nothing
we've ever said, nothing we've ever done put away one sin. And
I tell you what, and we still have no part in putting away
sin. Have you ever put away a sin
from yourself? Preachers say all the time, you
need to stop sinning. I wish by God's grace I could,
and if I didn't know the gospel, what would I do? I have quit
sinning. Where did I quit sinning at?
In Christ. He put my sin away once and for
all. I can't stop sinning now because
I don't have any. You can't quit something you
ain't got. Ain't that right? And not only that, but he said,
I'll not even remember him against him again. And I'll tell you
what, he did it once for all. You know, Philemon is right here,
back over here in Hebrews 1. Philemon in my Bible is on the
same page as Hebrews 1. And here's a perfect illustration
of what we're talking about in Philemon's verse 17 and 18. Paul talking to Philemon. And he said, if thou count me
therefore a partner, receive Onesimus just like you'd receive
me. If he hath wronged you, and that's what Christ does, he says,
Father, receive them just like it. I and my Father are one,
and you are one in my Father. And if he hath wronged thee,
or o'erth thee ought, put that on my account. That's what Christ
said. If you count me as a partner, if I'm equal with you, well then
you, count him just like me. And whatever they owe you, I'm
gonna pay it. And he did. He did. If he left one thing, if he left
an evil thought that we've had in our mind unatoned for, that
one evil thought would damn us. You know that? If he left one harsh word unatoned
for, one harsh word of our mouth, one time would damn us forever.
But bless His holy name. He by Himself purged our sins. Begone! Begone! And then let
me show you another one here. I believe this is it. I know
it's hot and I'm trying to get through this as fast as I can.
Look in verse 3 again. After He purged our sins, look
at the glory of His exaltation. He sat down on the right hand
of the majesty on high. There wasn't no place for the
priest to sit down in the tabernacle. They just labored day and night,
morning sacrifice, evening sacrifice, and all the sacrifice, blood,
burnt offering, peace offering, sin offering, just offerings
all the time, blood being shed all the time. They could never
sit down. But our Lord Jesus Christ went
into heaven itself and sat down. Where'd he sit down at? On the
right hand, now watch what it says, of the majesty, the majesty
on high. People call the queen her majesty,
call the king his majesty. There ain't one majesty in this
universe and that's God himself and our Lord Jesus Christ. Don't
never call nobody majesty. Call a ma'am, Call Him Sir. But don't ever, don't call nobody
Master on the Lord. Christ's our Master. And oh listen,
He sat down. God gave Him a name. You talk
about the glory of His exaltation. God gave Him a name. That's above
every name that's ever been. And there's been some big names
on this earth. Abraham's got a great name. Moses
had a great name. Joshua had a great name. Jacob
had a great name. Judah had a great name. Joseph
had a great name. Peter, Paul, and John had great
names. But there's only been one name
that God gave above every name. And that's His Son, the Lord
Jesus Christ. And He promised this. He said
that every knee is going to bow and confess that he's Lord, walk
forward to the glory of God himself. And I'm down right here, right
now, ain't you? Wouldn't you bow to the Lord
Jesus Christ? Bow down to him. Bow down to
him. And I tell you what, it's more
than just bowing a knee, it's taking that heart and laying
that heart prostrate. Fill this heart with your love.
Fill this heart with your grace. Fill this heart with your power.
Fill this heart with your love. Fill this heart with your might.
Fill this heart with the glory that only belongs to you. And
listen, he said he sat down on the right hand of the man. He
sat down because the work's done. Boy, I never was so glad to sit
down yesterday afternoon. I was absolutely worn out. wore out. I was exhausted. And I know you all are. You drove
all day. But I was just shocked. Done a lot of work yesterday.
And boy, when I sat down, I didn't even want to get up. In fact,
I did. And she brought me my dinner.
She brought my dinner and we sat in the chair. Oh my, and
then he sat down as our mediator. We got to have somebody between
us and God. We have a man, the Lord Jesus
Christ, our mediator. And he sat down, and there he
sat down to make intercession for us, to take up our name,
to take up our cause. And he sat down as our great
high priest, having made atonement for us. And the Father's done
all things by Him and receives everything from us by Him. We offer spiritual sacrifices
to God by Him and God accepts them because of Him. We can't
offer any sacrifice but our spiritual sacrifices. And look over in
Hebrews 12 and I'll be done just in about a minute and a half
or two, I hope. Hebrews 12 and verse 2, look what it says. This
is the reward Christ is setting down on the right hand of the
majesty of the highest. This is the reward of his exaltation,
of his humiliation, excuse me, this is the reward of his humiliation.
Paul said, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our
faith, who for the joy that was set before him, despised the
shame and is set out. at the right hand of the throne
of God. Oh my, huh? And I tell you what,
to sit down at God's right hand means three things. Let me give
them to you real quickly. To sit down at God's right hand
means three things. Rest, because it's finished. It's finished. No more work to
do. No more work for him to do. No
more work for us to do. He is finished. And secondly,
it's the place of honor and authority. Everybody says, well, he's my
right-hand man. Well, that's what God said. You're my son. You sit down right here at the
position of power, position of authority, the position of honor. Sit here on this throne right
by me. And I tell you what, and then
the third thing is sitting down is the eternal certainty of the
salvation of his people. As long as he sits on the throne,
people going to be saved, his people going to be saved. Even
them they'd heard the gospel, they're going to be saved. You
know why? Because he sat down and got right hand of God. And
how do we know we're going to be saved forever? Because he's
sitting at the right hand of God and the work's done. That's
why we know. That's why we know. He's sitting
there, it's done, it's finished. Our father, oh blessed, blessed
father, thank you for allowing us to preach your word today,
preach your gospel. And oh father, one of these days
we're going to have a heart that can worship him the way he's
worthy. We'll have a mind that can see his glory as he's worthy
to be seen. One of these days we'll have
a tongue and a voice that'll be able to speak of him the way
he is. One of these days, we'll have
a heart that can love him to what he's worthy of being loved.
One of these days, we'll have a will to worship him perfectly,
perfectly, without any flesh, without any hindrance. And Lord,
what a day that'll be. What a day that'll be. God bless
and strengthen you, dear saints. Please have mercy on Dick and
Carol as they go through this great trial here. Bless them,
please, for Christ's sake. Thank you for the gospel. Thank
you for the saints. Bring glory to yourself through
this message in Christ's name. Amen. Amen.