Number one, let's turn in our
Bibles. I'm used to saying hymnals up
here all the time. Let's turn in our Bibles. This
thing is a little bit loud here, I think. John chapter six. John chapter six. The gospel
of John chapter six. Just recently, our Lord has fed
the 5,000. And he traveled with his disciples
to the other side of the sea to Capernaum. And when he arrived
in Capernaum, all those, many of those who were fed by the
Lord on the other side of the sea took shipping and followed
after him and they found him. And when they found him, they
came there and Jesus said it to them. They came there just
because they wanted to be fed, not because they saw a miracle.
The miracle was our Lord Jesus Christ. The feeding was a miracle
of his because as we'll read in this passage, he says, I am
the bread of life. Verse 28 of John chapter 6. After he had told them to not
labor for the meat which perishes, but for the meat which endureth
unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto
you, for him hath God the Father sealed. Then said they unto him,
what shall we do that we might work the works of God. Jesus answered and said unto
them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he
hath sent. They said therefore unto him,
What sign showest thou then, that we may see and believe thee?
What dost thou work? Our fathers did eat manna in
the desert. As it is written, he gave them
bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from
heaven, but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth
life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord,
evermore give us this bread. Jesus said unto them, I am the
bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But
I said unto you that ye also have seen me and believe not. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. and him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven not
to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will
which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should
lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that
sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth
on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up
at the last day. The Jews then murmured at him,
because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
And they said, is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know? How is it then that he saith,
I came down from heaven? Jesus therefore answered and
said unto them, murmur not among yourselves, no man can come to
me except the father which hath sent me draw him, and I will
raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets,
and they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that
hath heard and hath learned of the father cometh unto me. Not
that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God. He hath
seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread
of life. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, how majestic and marvelous and
glorious you are. Thank you, Father, for an everlasting
love, undeserved but given by you for your people that you've
chosen. And thank you, Lord, because
of that love, you sent your own son to die upon Calvary's tree,
to shed his blood, that we might have redemption and forgiveness
of sin. And thank you this morning that
we have the opportunity now to worship you. And oh, may we worship
you in spirit and in truth. We realize many who came to you
when they worshiped you, the first thing they said was, Lord,
you're sovereign. You're God. You're in control. You know all things. You guide
all things. You are all things to your people. Oh, how thankful we are for a
sovereign God who is in control. And in this worship service this
morning, may we cry out, Lord, Abba, Father. May we worship
the Lord Jesus Christ and give praise and honor and glory to
his name. For we know, Lord, that his name
is above every name. And at his name, every knee shall
bow and every tongue shall confess that you are Lord to the glory
of the Father. Bless this service. Bless our
pastors, Shirley, as they travel. We pray that you would bring
them back safely to us. Bless this message this morning. Help me
as a messenger to say the truth. To say the truth in Christ. and
lie not. Oh, Father, give us clarity. Give us understanding. Give us
hearing ears that only come from you. We confess, Lord, that we
are but sinners. We need you, your help, your
guidance. We need your power this morning.
for we know that all power is given unto you in heaven and
in earth. We know that you promised to
meet here with us where two or three are gathered. And so, Lord,
we're looking forward to meeting with Jesus Christ, our Lord. In his name we pray. Amen. Turn again with me to John chapter
6. I want to draw your attention to a couple of verses here before
we move into the message. In John chapter 6, they asked Him, our Lord, What can we do to do the work
of God? And Jesus answered, this is the
work of God that you believe on Him whom He has sent. That's God's work. We'll see
that here in just a minute, a little bit more. That's God's work,
to believe on Him whom he has sent, and he who he has sent
is our Lord Jesus Christ, his own beloved son. In verse 39,
in verse 39 he says, and this is
the father's will which has sent me. Here's the Father's will. I remember a young man back in
my college days that spent most of his time trying to find out
what the will of God was for his life. I didn't know it then. I thought
I did. But he spent years trying to
find out what God's will was for his life. I wished I would
have known what I know now. I could have told him, oh, right
here it is. This is the Father's will. This is the Father's will which
hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose
nothing, but should raise it up again the last day. Verse
40, and this is the will of him that sent me that everyone which
seeth the son and believeth on him may have everlasting life
and I will raise him up at the last day. That's the gospel. That's grace. That's sovereign
grace. That's God at work. That's God's will. Whatever other will you may think
of or try to find, at least we know from scripture what the
Father's will is. And the Father's will is all
about His Son. It's all about His Son. From
eternity to eternity, it's all about His Son. In the covenant
that the Trinity made, it was all about His Son. The Father
had a people. And He made His Son, and His
Son became surety for those people. God, He provided salvation and
redemption for those people. And the Spirit of God effectually
calls those people. And then God, in His love, wherewith
He loved us, sent His only begotten Son. God became man. Emmanuel, God
with us, sent His only begotten Son so that we could see the Father. If you've seen me, Jesus said,
You have seen the father. He said that to Philip. Philip
said, show us the father and it suffices us. Philip, you've
been so long time with me and not seen the father. Anyone who
has seen me has seen the father. And what does the father want
us to do? What is his will? To see his
son. And so I've entitled my message.
What is the work and the will of God? I can entitle it a lot
of different ways. I can entitle it sovereign grace because that's what this is all
about. Brother Henry Mahan said this is one of the clearest scriptures
about sovereign grace. Our Lord has done all that's
necessary for the salvation of his people. He is now doing all
that is necessary to effect salvation in his people. And our Lord has
not, will not, will never fail in his work or will. Can you
imagine God failing in his work? Could you imagine God failing
in his will? If He willed to do something,
don't you think it'll be done? If He works something, don't
you think it'll be done? So these men, in verse 28, came
to our Lord Jesus Christ and said, What shall we do? That is the question man brings
up in his own evil, rebellious, wicked heart day in and day out. What can I do? The Lord said,
not a thing. That's the essence of the answer.
There's not one thing you could do to do the works of God. Man thinks he has to do something. That's why Paul wrote the whole
book of Galatians. I marvel that you're so soon
removed from the gospel. From another, let's read it,
let me get it right. Galatians chapter one. Galatians chapter one, verses
six and seven. Paul said, I marvel that ye are
so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of
Christ unto another gospel, which is not another, but there be
some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. So soon removed to another gospel. The two words another here are
actually two completely different words. The first other, another,
comes from a word in Greek which is heteros and we use it heterosexual, opposite sex. I marvel that you removed to
another gospel, one that's of a different kind. And then he
said, which is not another. Now the other another here is
another Greek word, which means of the same kind. You're removed from a gospel
that's of a different kind, you're to a gospel that's of a different
kind, and you're removed away from the gospel that's of the
same kind, the true gospel, the gospel of God's grace, the gospel
of God's sovereign grace. Man thinks he has to do something.
He must exercise his so-called free will. John said we're not born again
of the will of man, the will of the flesh. We're born again by God. It's
not by your will. Paul said it in Romans chapter
nine. It's not of him that runneth,
nor of him that willeth. But I've got a free will. Yes
you do, and the only thing you can do with that is sin. Scott Richardson said it's like
a frog in the belly of a snake. The frog has just captured it.
The frog wants to get out and will do everything in its power
to get out. But it won't get out because
it's in the belly of the snake. We're in sin. We are unable to do anything
about our sin. We're sinners before a holy God. And by the way, even that has
to be taught us, doesn't it? Does every one of us have something
we want to slap our back about and say, well, I've got something
decent about me. Well, you may be a decent person,
you may be a high moral person, but all are sinners before a
holy God. Even the stars in the heavens
are unclean in His sight. Man thinks he's got to become
holy. And I've got to keep myself holy.
I read books after book, book after book after book. And so
many people tell us, we've got to do this and we've got to do
that. If we love the Lord, we've got to do this and we've got
to do that. Thank the Lord Jesus did it all. And I don't got to
do a thing. That mean you can do anything
you want to? It means that I love my Lord
so much. I want to walk as He walked.
I want to live as He lived. Not because I have to. Because
I believe that is a way to worship Him. to say, Lord, I do love
you. Proverbs 20 verse 9 said, who
can say I have made myself my heart clean? Who can say I am
pure from my sin? Not one of us. If any man say
that he have no sin, he is a liar, John said. In the next two verses
he says, and you make God a liar. Because God said, all are sinners. No man can do the work of God. If man could do the work of God,
it would be man's work, not the Lord's. Is that too simple? If man could do the work of God,
it'd be man's work, wouldn't it? Wouldn't be God's work. If
man could do the work of God, it'd be of the flesh and not
of the spirit, wouldn't it? And if man could do the work
of God, you can best bet he'll boast of his accomplishments.
He'll glorify himself and not God. Only God is able to do God's
work. It's all of grace or it's not
of grace. Pure and simple. And let me prove
that to you. Turn to Titus chapter 3. Titus
chapter 3. You'll find 1 and 2 Timothy and
right after that the book of Titus. Two books before the book
of Hebrews. Titus chapter 3. Look at verse 5. not by works of righteousness,
which we have done. But according to his mercy, he
saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy
Ghost. It's not by works of righteousness.
It's not by works. It's not anything that you and
I could ever do, could do, or want to do. It's not by that
at all. It's by the mercy of God that
we're saved. Looking back a few books there
to Romans chapter 11. Let's see if we can nail it down just
a little bit more here in Romans chapter 11. and verse 6. Well, let's start
with verse 5. Even so, then at this present
time also there is a remnant according to the election of
grace. And if by grace, then it is no more of works, otherwise
grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it
is no more grace, otherwise work is no more work. That's pretty clear, isn't it? It's not by our works. What shall
we do, they said, that we might work the works of God? Jesus
answers in verse 29, John chapter 6. And Jesus answered and said unto
them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he
hath sent." What's God's work? All God's work centered around
His Son. Our God did all the work. No wonder David said, He
is all my salvation. It's nothing we do. It's eternally
done. It's effectually done in every
one of God's people. He has put away our sins. He's
made us priests and kings unto our God. He has reconciled us
by His blood, with His blood. God's work is to cause us to
believe on His Son. That's God's work. Look in Psalm 65. Psalm 65 and
verse 4. Psalm 65 verse 4. Blessed is
the man whom thou choosest and causes to approach unto thee. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest and causes to approach unto thee. God has given His
people to His Son. We read that in verse 37. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise
cast out. God draws them to His Son. Why? Because there's only one
person that's ever pleased the Father, and that's the Lord Jesus
Christ. And God's people are accepted
in the beloved. They are in him. I'm talking
about something that is such a wonderful comfort and encouragement
to God's people that God's done all the work. It's all done. It's all settled forever. Nothing you have to do. because God will do the choosing.
God has done the choosing. God will do the drawing. God
will cause you to believe on his son. All scriptures testify
of him, don't they? From beginning to end, they all
testify to what the Lord Jesus said. All scripture testify of
me. God's work is to cause us to
believe on his son, but Or with that, this is the good
work of God's workmanship, I believe. Turn with me to Ephesians chapter
two. Ephesians chapter two. You know the scripture quite
well, I'm sure, verses eight and nine. Ephesians chapter 2, for by grace
are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it's
a gift of God. That believing is a gift of God.
That believing comes from God himself, not of works, lest any
man should boast. Notice verse 10 now, in the same
context. For we are his workmanship created
in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in them. There may be other things here
in this passage that we could put in here, but I believe the
one thing in our context here and in my preaching this morning
is the good work is believing on Jesus Christ. And we couldn't do it unless
He caused us to, unless He drew us to Himself. You see, God chose
a people for His Son. God providentially cared for
those people and brought them, drew them to His Son, the steps
of a good man or is ordered of the Lord. We say, well, that's
the Lord Jesus Christ, isn't it? Sure is. But we're in Christ,
aren't we? The only goodness I have is His. The only goodness I could be
is in Him. God's people shall be willing,
I love this, shall be willing in the day of His power. Not
hopeful, not God's intention that you would be saved. Not
God's trying that you might know and understand sovereign grace
and it'll be a part of your life. You shall. I will, you shall. That's how it works. God's people shall be willing
in the day of his power. I'm not a robot. I'm not a puppet
on a string. He just makes his son so beautiful,
so loving, so tender, so kind, so attractive that we cannot
help but come to him. That's what our God does. That's
why we call it sovereign grace. He makes them new creatures in
Christ. He gives them faith to believe. And how does that come? Turn
to Romans chapter 10. Romans chapter 10. Another familiar portion of scripture
that we read a lot, but oh, how important it is. Romans chapter
10, beginning in verse 13. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's verse 13. Verse
14. How then shall they call on him
in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in
him in whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? And how shall they preach except
they be sent? As it is written, how beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring
glad tidings of good things. By God's grace, that's what I
want to do. It's what I've prayed about all
since the pastor told me that I'd be speaking this morning,
praying that the gospel of grace would be heard. But they have
not all obeyed the gospel, verse 16, for Isaiah said, Lord, who
hath believed our report? Now look at verse 17. So then
faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. That's a miracle in itself, and
only God can do that miracle. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing
by the word of God. So the work of God is to believe
on Him whom He has sent. Now what's the will of God? Look
down in verse 39 of John 6. Verse 39 says, and this is the Father's will with that sent me and of all
which he has given me I should lose nothing but raise it up
again at the last day and this is the will of him that sent
me that everyone would see it the son and believe it on him
may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last
day. You notice it's all about the
ones that the father gave the son. That's sovereign grace. The father gave these people
to his son. When Jesus prayed that mediatorial
prayer, the real Lord's prayer in John chapter 17, I want you
to notice, from all that we've been talking about, what he said,
how he prayed. John 17. These words spake Jesus and lifted
up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy son, that thy son
also may glorify thee. As thou hast given him power
over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many
as thou hast given him. And this is eternal life, that
they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the
earth. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And
now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the
glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested
thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine
they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all
things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given
unto them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received
them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they
have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them, I pray
not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for
they are thine. all mine are thine and thine
are mine and i am glorified in them and now i am no more in
the world but these are in the world and i come to thee holy
father keep through thine own name those whom thou has given
me that they may be one as we are while i was With them in
the world, I kept them in thy name. Those that thou gavest
me, I have kept. And none of them is lost but
the son of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled.
And now come I to thee and these things I speak in the world that
they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them
thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are
not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not
that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but thou shouldest
keep them from the evil. They are not of the world. even
as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the
world, even so have I also sent them into the world, and for
their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified
through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. That they all may be one as thou,
Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in
us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me, and the
glory which thou gavest me I have given them, and that they may
be one even as we are one, I in them, thou in me, that they may
be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou
hast sent me, and hast loved them, and that thou hast loved
me. Father, I will that they also
whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may
behold my glory, which thou hast given me, for thou lovest me
before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the
world hath not known thee, But I have known thee, and these
have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto
them thy name, and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou
hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." You see, it is
given to us to believe on His name. We are given to the Son
of God. The sent one will not lose one. Not one of his sheep will be
lost. For 60 years, I believed that
another gospel, hetero, of another kind. And then God preached through Pastor Donnie
the truth to me. I heard sovereign grace for the
first time. Didn't know what to think of
it at first, but the more I studied it, the more I realized that's
the truth. That's the truth. Moses was one of God's chosen
ones, and it wasn't until 80 years old that God revealed himself
to him. There's hope for us, isn't it?
Jesus Christ is living. His sheep are still out there.
If it were not so, we'd all be with him in glory right now. Some of his sheep are still out
there and he's going and he's seeking to save those that are
lost. He came not to minister to the
righteous, but to sinners. Sinners who are in need. Did
He come for you? Has the Father's will been shown
to you? Of all that which He hath given
me, I should lose nothing, and then I'll raise it up at the
last day. Not only give that person new
life, but I'll conform him to the image of Jesus Christ. And
in that last day, I'll make him look just like him. We'll take on totally his personality,
his pureness, His righteousness, His holiness. And we'll be able
to stand before God. Isaiah stood before the throne
of God and he had to cower before God and fall on his face and
say, woe is me for I'm undone. But one of these days, because
of what Jesus Christ has done for us, because of sovereign
grace, we'll be able to stand Because we'll stand before the
Son of God. We'll stand before Jesus Christ. We'll have no condemnation fired
at us. Everything will be right. Right now, I live in this body
of flesh. Don't know about you, but not everything gets right. Bless the Lord, one day I'll
stand before Him and it will all be right for all eternity. This is the Father's will. It's
eternally decreed. No wonder they will be singing,
and we'll be singing with them one of these days. In heaven,
thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for
thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are
created. No wonder the psalmist David
said, but our God is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever he pleased. And again, whatsoever the Lord
pleased, that did he in heaven and earth, in the seas and the
deep places. No wonder God took an old reprobate
king, made him go crazy, and then gave him his thoughts back
again, and when he did, this king testified, I bless the most
high, and I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose
dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation
to generation, and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing,
and he doeth according to his will. in the army of heaven,
and among the inhabitants of the earth? And who can stake
his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? We have no right. God's will, God's work, is always
right. Our God's sovereign will is all
about His Son. Do you notice here he says in
verse 39 he was sent by the father? The father sent him. For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son. The father sent him. Must have
been a reason for it. Why would God send his own son
in the form of human flesh? thou shalt call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sins. That's why he
came. That's why he came. And he is
the only one who has ever seen the Father. Even the angels,
as we read about Isaiah bowing at the throne, even the angels
had six wings and with twain they covered their face. crying
out, holy, holy, holy. Even the angels will not look
upon him or cannot look upon him. They've not seen him. But
our Lord Jesus has. He's seen the Father. He is God
himself. No man has seen the Father at
any time. The only begotten of the Father, he hath declared
him. If you want to see the Father,
you look at the Son. And the Father says, if you want
to see anything, you look at the Son. You look at Jesus Christ. There's
where hope is. There's where salvation is. There's
where life is. He that hath the Son hath life.
There's where redemption is. There's where reconciliation
is. That's where the sinner has his sins put away in the person of Jesus Christ.
If you see the Son, you'll see the Father. And did you notice as we read
through here, our Lord did the will of the father. He did just
exactly what the father wanted him to do. He said, as we read
in John chapter 17, the words that he spoke with the father's
words, he spoke every word, just what the father wanted him to
say. And he's the only person that's ever been able to do it
because he's God. I can't do it. But he did it. He was perfect. Perfectly obedient. And because
he was perfectly obedient, he could be that perfect sacrifice
who would die upon Calvary's tree and shed his blood. And
that blood would be the redemption of our sins. Would be the payment
for the wages of sin is death. And Jesus died on that cross. If all that the father gives
him, he's not going to lose a thing. The father wants everyone to
see his son and to believe on him. What's the father's will? The father's will that a people
be given to his son. He did that. The father's will
was for people to see his son. He's doing that. As a matter of fact, only the
father could reveal that. The Lord Jesus asked his disciples
one day, who do men say that I am? Well, they came up with
all kinds of things. Then he said to them, who do
you say that I am? Peter and the other disciples
said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. They saw. And the Lord said, you know,
flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you, but my Father, which
is in heaven, He revealed it to you. The Father's will is that these
people believe on the Son. And He gives you faith through
the hearing of the Word of God to believe on Jesus Christ. It's
the Father's will that these people be taught of God. Look
at verse 45, John 6. It is written in the prophets
and they shall be all taught of God. God's the teacher. It's not my commentary on the
Word of God that means much of anything. It's God's word. That's what means something.
God's word that's forever settled in heaven. God's word that is
true and righteous. That's what means something.
And that's what he teaches his people. My sheep hear my voice,
he said. And he hears his voice through
God sent preachers. I'm so thankful for a pastor
who preaches the gospel every service. I wouldn't want anything
else, would you? I heard one young man say one
time, well, we hear the same thing over and over again. And
I thought to myself, well, you don't know who our savior is
then. Because that's all I want to hear over and over again. what our Lord Jesus Christ has
done for His people. These people are taught of God.
They learn of the Father by coming to the Son. They're blessed of
God. Verse 47, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. They're blessed of God. You didn't
have life before. God gave you life. And that life
is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life. And it's everlasting life because
it's the Son's life. I am the way, the truth, and
the life. I am the resurrection and the
life. The scripture speaks of us being
transformed by the will of God, being delivered by the will of
God, being perfect and complete in all the will of God, being
sanctified by the will of God. Let me note one more thing with
you this morning. James chapter 1 verse 18. James chapter one, verse 18. Speaking of the father, that's
who it says in verse 17, every good gift, every perfect gift
is from above and coming down from the father of lights with
whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning of his own
will, begat he us with the word of truth. of his own will. You see, salvation
is all the work of God. That's sovereign grace. It's
all the will of God. And when God works it, it's done. When God wills it, it's done. And then he says, come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy
laden. I'll give you rest. Do you know that's a command?
He is not intending for you to come to Him. He's not hoping
that you'll come to Him. He's not knocking on your heart's
door, hoping you'll open that door and come to Him. It's a
command. Come unto me and I'll give you
rest. And He gives us that command.
here this morning. Let's pray. Father, thank you that you did
all the work and you did it in your son. Thank you, Lord, that
it's all of your will. And it's all about your son. And thank you, Lord, that you're
the one who will draw us. You're the one who calls us to
believe. You're the one who will bring
us and has given us to Jesus Christ. Thank you for sovereign
grace, for your work and your will. And, oh, Father, may we
come unto your Son. May we see your Son, whom to
know is to have life eternal. Bless us as we go our way today. Bless Brother Brad as he brings
the message tonight. Keep them safe. As they travel
back from Bluefield, Lord, I pray that you will continue to bless
your people here. And oh, may your sheep hear your
voice even today. In Jesus name we pray, amen. Let's stand and sing number 120.