with me to Malachi chapter 3.
Malachi chapter 3, last book in the Old Testament. If you
went to Matthew, it's the book right before the book of Matthew. Before I read, let's go to the
Lord in prayer. Our Father, in the blessed name
of the Lord Jesus Christ, in his blessed, holy, glorious name,
that name that's above every name, that name, that person,
that blessed one in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells
in bodily, that one that we're complete in, perfect in, that
one whose righteousness we stand in, that blessed one to whom
we approach you and mention his name. And because of the love
you have for him, love you have for us, that we're accepted in
the beloved. Oh, thank you, Lord, for hearing
us, receiving us, accepting us, and giving access to us through
our Lord Jesus Christ. And Father, we pray for those
who are not with us through providence, through sickness, through weariness,
We ask for your blessings upon them, your strength on them,
the encouragement on them. And I pray, Lord, that you'd
restore those that are sick and frail. And I, Lord, we pray that
you'd meet with us tonight. Oh, God, please come among us.
Please come among us. Come down in power. Come down
in your presence. Come down in the Holy Ghost.
And your preachers are standing preaching tonight all over the
United States and the world. God bless them. Lord, use them. Lord, your people are so few
and far between. Lord, unite our hearts in love. Unite our hearts in fear. Unite
our hearts in the message of the grace of God. Unite our hearts
in the Lord Jesus Christ. And Lord, We come again to pray
for our children and our grandchildren, people we love so much and yet
have no interest whatsoever. But Lord, you can cause them
to have an interest. You can in the blink of an eye,
in the twinkling of an eye. If you can change us in a moment
in the twinkling of an eye from this body to that body of Christ,
Lord, you can do the same for a soul dead in sin. without any
interest in you. In the blink of an eye you can
open a man's heart and make him be a seeker after you. And we
praise you and bless you for all that you do for us in Christ's
name. Amen. Amen. I want you to look here with
me in Malachi 3 and I want to start reading in verse 13 down
to the end of the chapter. This is God speaking now, speaking
through the prophet. Your words have been stout against
me, saith the Lord. Oh, you stand up against me,
you've got things to say about me. And your words have been
stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet you say, what have we spoken
so much against thee? You have said, it's vain to serve
God. And what prophet is it that we
have kept his ordinance? And that we have walked mournfully
before the Lord of Hosts. What good is it to do this? And
now we call the proud happy. Yea, they that work wickedness
are set up. Kind of like in our day, ain't
it? The wicked are set up. Yea, they that tempt God are
even delivered. But then look what a difference
he says here. That's the people that don't
know God. It swirls upside down. They call
the proud happy. The wicked, they that work wickedness,
they are set up. And then he says, Then they that
feared the Lord. What a contrast. Then they that
feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened
and heard and a book of remembrance was written before him for them
that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name. And they
shall be mine, saith the Lord, of host in that day when I make
up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man spareth his own
son that serveth him. Then shall you return and discern
between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves
God and him that serves him not. It says here then they that feared
the Lord, And also in the middle of the verse says there's for
them that feared the Lord before him. There's two sides of fear. There's a negative fear and a
positive fear. And a positive fear would be
a fear that would keep you from doing things that's foolish.
Keep you from harming yourself. That's why we teach our children.
Don't go near that. Don't touch that. Don't bother
that. That'll hurt you. And we try
to instill fear in them over things that may harm them, may
hurt them. And that's why we teach our children, we protect
our children. And it'll keep people out of
danger. And then a negative fear is a fear that brings about torment,
that brings anxiety, that brings worry and fretting. A fear of
always the worst is going to happen. That kind of fear, in
fact John said it this way, fear hath torment, perfect love casteth
out fear. Now not that our love is perfect,
but his love is perfect. When you understand that he has
a perfect love, and a perfect love for you, and a perfect love
that will never change, then that will cast out the torment.
that you know that God Himself will take care of you. And I
tell you it can be crippling, it can become a phobia. That's
why they call all these phobias, that's a fear of this, that and
the other. But look over in Job, you keep this and look in Job
chapter 3 and verse 25. Job 3, 25. You know fear is a good thing, And it can be an awful bad thing.
I remember years and years ago that I spent a pretty good bit
of time in mental hospitals. And that's one of the things
that I had. I had a torment. I feared. I was in such fear
and anxiety of torment. I was always afraid that I would
cross over and never be able to get back. I was afraid that
I'd lose my mind and I could never get it back. I was afraid
that I'd never get over some things and it was an awful fear. And then after God began to deal
with me and brought me to Himself, I began to talk to Him about
those fears. I began to talk to Him about
those awful things that I was going through in my mind and
in my soul. And I began to talk to Him about
it because it was dishonoring to Him. It would not honor Him.
It would not glorify Him for me to walk around with that kind
of fear, that kind of torment, that kind of burden on me. And
the Lord helped me to get over that. He helped me. I'd be afraid
to go certain places. I'd be called to go somewhere
to preach and I'd think, oh I can't go there because if I go there
this will happen to me or that will happen, another thing will
happen. So it was a real troublesome thing. And God had mercy on me
and saved me from that. And I'm very thankful. That's
the kind of fear that's a bad thing. That's a negative fear.
That's not what we want. But look what Job said here in
verse 25 of chapter 3. For the thing which I greatly
feared is come upon me. The thing that I greatly feared
has come upon me. and that which I was afraid of
is come unto me." That that I greatly feared. He didn't say what it
was. But that that I greatly feared. I know he loved his children.
Maybe he was afraid of losing his children. I know he was wealthy. Maybe he was afraid of losing
his wealth. I know that a man who's healthy, he don't want
to lose his health. So he says, that that I was greatly
afraid of, he said, that's exactly what come on me. That's what
come on me. But now back over here where I was at in Malachi,
but there is a fear, a blessed fear, a glorious fear, a fear
that God himself puts in a man's heart. And he says in verse 16,
Then they that feared the Lord. Down in the last part of the
verse, Them that feared the Lord. Fear of God. The scripture says
that the fear of the Lord is the beginning. just the beginning
of wisdom. It don't say it's all wisdom,
but it's the beginning of it. That's when a fellow starts getting
some sense, when he starts fearing God, when he starts having a
fear of God, when he starts understanding that God is God and that He is
not, that God is eternal and you are flesh, you're bound by
time and space. And so a fear of God, a fear
of dishonoring Him, a fear of displeasing Him, That's a blessed
thing. And I tell you, when a fellow
begins to fear the Lord, he has just started to get some sense.
But I want to give you three things, three things about the
Lord's people in this verse. Look what it says. First, there's
three things. The first is they had a reverence
for God. Then they that feared the Lord. You know, that fear
of God causes a reverence for God. It causes a a reverence
for God. The fear that we're talking about
is not afraid of being punished by Him. I fear not God punishing
me. I don't fear Him giving me retribution
for something that I do wrong. Some sin, if I go out here and
commit a sin, I'm not afraid that God's going to give me some
awful retribution and He's going to punish me when it's all said
and done. That's the kind of fear that has torment. He's not
going to give me no righteous retribution, but it's a fear. This fear, this reverence that
He's talking about here is a reverence and a fear that want to please
Him. You want to honor Him. You want
to no longer afraid of His presence. No longer afraid of His presence.
It's not feeling like you've got to do something before you
can come into His presence. You don't have to do anything
to come into his presence. You have access into his presence.
But you know in Adam, when God created Adam, he came forth from
God's hands and God breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life and he became a living soul. God would walk down in
the cool of the evening in the Lord Jesus Christ and talk to
him. And then one day when he took that fruit that God forbid
him to take, his eyes was open and he was naked. And God came
down in the cool of the day and He said, Adam, where are you?
I'm here to walk. He knows where Adam was. He wanted
Adam to know. But I said all that to say this,
that Adam put on a fig leaf and went over and tried to hide from
the presence of God, walking with Him one day, the next day
hiding from His presence. Now that's something when we
have a fear of God, taught by God, put in our hearts by the
Lord, we are not afraid of His presence. We rejoice in His presence. We beg for His presence. We desire
His presence. We don't want to hide from Him.
That's one of the blessed things we enjoy most of all is that
we know we're open and naked before Him. That He knows the
thoughts and intents of our hearts. and all listen the fear of God
I'm telling you beloved the fear of God listen to me now and I
know this is so the fear of God influences our attitude and our
disposition in our circumstances what I do what I said I said
it the fear of God Fear of God influences our attitude when
we're in trouble, when our circumstances seem to be against us, and it
changes our disposition in all of our circumstances, whether
it's sunny or dark, whether it's raining or sun shining. whether
we're in trouble, coming out of trouble, or going into trouble.
I tell you what, the fear of God, because we trust Him, we
know that our God will not put anything on us that we can't
bear, put us in any situation that He won't give us grace,
put us in any kind of position where He don't uphold us in those
things. And that's why we, because of
our fear of God, we're not going to go around complaining. Because we fear God, we're not
going to go out here and rake somebody over the coals and mistreat
somebody. We're not going to do that. I
have people, and I've told you this I don't know how many times,
people ask me all the time, how you doing? I say, I have no complaints.
I don't. Tell me anybody that the Lord's
been better to than me and I'd like to meet them. Introduce them to me. You know God has kept me all
these years and look at you. Oh, you know why it changes our
attitude and our disposition? The fear of God does this because
we trust Him. I am the Lord and I change not. Tell you something else about
the fear of God. Not only does it give us reverence for Him,
but it affects our worship. The fear of God affects our worship.
Look over here in Malachi chapter 1 verse 6, the fear of God affects
our worship. You know, people, people don't,
you know, most churches just couldn't bear to be in a worship
service the way we do. They just couldn't bear it. You
know, if people can't testify, if they can't get to sing a song
or have a special, and you don't recognize somebody's had a birthday
or somebody's anniversary or something like that, if you don't
recognize people in their flesh, the next thing you know, they're
upset with you. And all we do, we try to keep the flesh as much
out of the way as possible. We sing a couple songs, we read
some scriptures, we pray and we preach. We don't say, anybody
got anything to say? No. No, no. Look what he said
here in Malachi 1.6. A son honors his father, and
a servant his master. If then I be your father, where's
mine honor? And if I be your master, where
is my fear? Huh? Oh, listen, that's what
he says. And so listen, I tell you, when
man fears God, he's going to honor him, he's going to worship
him, he's going to adore him. And you know, in Hebrews 12,
28, I just had you look at that.
That was right there. But look in Hebrews 12, 28, talking about
worshiping God. You know, a fear of God affects
our worship. The reverence produces a godly
fear, you know, and we understand that God is, if He's in our presence,
it's all. I remember I've been in some
services where it absolutely felt like the presence of the
Lord was there so strong and so powerful that I was actually,
I was just pinned to my seat almost. I can remember two services
particularly that it was like that. And I mean after the service
is over, everybody sits there. Because the power and glory of
God was there so strong that people just sat there. They didn't
want to move. The power and presence of God
was there. And I tell you, you're worshiping
whenever your God is in such a place that you're afraid to
move. And oh, listen to what He said here in Hebrews 12, 28. Wherefore, we received in a kingdom
which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we may serve
God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. Oh, why? Because our God is a consuming
fire. And we know that about Him. And
we don't want Him to consume us. Oh, no. We want to worship Him. We want
to honor Him. We want to bless Him. And then
back over here in Malachi 3, look at this again. Malachi 3. Oh, this fear, they reverence
Him. And then it affects their worship. And look what else it
says about them. There was a thoughtful people.
Right down in the last line of verse 16. It says, Them that
feared the Lord and that thought upon His name. They reverence
Him. They worship Him. And then they
think about Him. They even thought upon His name.
And what is it to think upon His name? It's to think upon
who He is. It's to think upon who He is. Oh, bless His holy name. His
name is His character. His name is precious. The name
of the Lord is a strong tower, and that means it's a high tower,
and the righteous run into it, and what have they done? They're
safe in that name of the Lord. How many times have you called
on the name of the Lord and hid in that name, trusted in that
name, believed in that name, cleaved to that name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, of God Himself, God Almighty. Oh, listen. That's why he asked Moses, he
said, show me your glory. And he said, I'll show you my
glory. He said, I'll tell you what. He said, this is what I'm
going to do. I'm going to cause my goodness
to pass before you and proclaim The name of the Lord. What is
your name? I am that I am. I am the creator. I am the light. I am the life. I am righteous. I am holy. I do inhabit eternity. And oh, listen, His name. Oh,
what His name means to you. We thank upon Him. Oh my, listen. In other places it says that
God is not at all in their thoughts. And He's always in our thoughts
when we get in a situation. We automatically say, Lord, You
guide me. Lord, You direct me. Lord, help me. Lord, please don't
let me do this. Lord, keep me from that. Lord,
do this. We know all the while, calling
on the name of the Lord all the time. His name is powerful. We plead his name, his character,
and call upon him. Our Lord Jesus says this, wherever
two or three are gathered together, what? In my name. Guess what? I'm going to be right there with
them. Let me ask you this. When you
think on God, you think about God, you have thoughts of God,
how do you describe him? How do you describe him in your
mind? How do you think of him in your
mind? Huh? Well, how does God describe
Himself? How does He describe Himself?
He has lots and lots of titles. I am the Lord. I am holy. Huh? I am almighty. I'm a just God and I'm a Savior.
I have an eternity. I dwell in the beauties of holiness.
He said, I'm judge of all the earth and I must do right. I'm
holy. I'm good. I'm gracious. I'm all-knowing. I'm eternal. I'm a Savior. Look
what he says about us over here in 1 Samuel chapter 12 and verse
23. Look what he says about us over
here, about His name and us. 1 Samuel 12, 22. Oh, he says, remember when David
prayed in the 23rd Psalm and he says, the Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want. He got down in verse 3 and he
says this, lead me in the paths of righteousness for thy name's
sake. For the sake of your name, lead
me in the paths of righteousness. The seraphims, you know what
they cry out before the Lord? Holy, holy is the Lord God. And look what he said here about
us in 1 Samuel 12, 22. For the Lord will not forsake
his people. Now why? For his great name's
sake. Oh, listen. Why ain't he gonna
forsake us? Because He's got His name. His
name's at stake here. His glory's at stake here. Huh? Oh, listen. And it pleased the
Lord to make you His people. And I tell you what, beloved,
the Lord's got our name. And, oh, listen. We think about
Him. I think about Him. I've preached
on what we call the five points of Calvinism tulip and that so
many times over the years and I'm still love those five things. You know why I love them? Because
God taught me that I am absolutely no ability, no power and that
had he not unconditionally elected me, I would have never been saved. And had not Christ died for me,
particularly for me and said blood for His sheep, then I'd
never been redeemed. Then if He hadn't sent the Holy
Spirit to teach me that, open my heart to those things, then
I'd have never known any of the other things else that happened. And then He has to call us irresistibly,
and then He's going to keep us. Why? For His name's sake. And then here's the third thing.
You know this affects our worship. You know this reverence does,
the thoughtfulness of it. And then look at the testimony.
Look what it said here in verse 16 again. They and they that fear the Lord
spake often one to another. What did they talk about? Oh my, speak often one to another. Oh, I tell you what, I know those
who love the Lord love one another. And our Lord Jesus Christ, He
says, you know, we speak of Him, we talk of Him, and we talk about
Him. I, you know, I've got friends
and preachers that I talk with and we talk for, talk for rarely
less than 40, 45 minutes. Go through scriptures, go through
messages, And all that because we speak often one to another.
Speak about Christ. Speak about the gospel. Speak
about our love for one another. Speak about the church and Christ
living for it and dying for it and giving himself for it. We
speak often one to another. Now let me give you three things
about our Lord. About the Lord here. Three things
about His people. Reverence, thoughtfulness, and
a testimony. They speak often one to another.
Talk about Christ. And look what he says here. Three
things about the Lord. First of all, he listens to his
people. And it says in the middle of the verse, And the Lord hearkened
and heard. They that feared the Lord spake
one to another. And the Lord listened and talked. And the Lord's listening to them
talk. Oh, listen, they're talking about
me. You know, my ears were burning or something. And I said, yeah,
if your ears are burning, that means somebody's talking about
you. But our Lord, I mean, He hears us. We start talking about
Him. Start calling on Him. Talk about
His sovereignty. Talk about His glory. Talk about
His Son. Talk about His grace. Talk about
His love and His justification and the gifts that He gives us,
the faith, the repentance, the love that He puts in our hearts.
Oh, listen, we start talking about those things, the Lord
listens. The Lord listens. The Lord's
ear is not short. The Lord's ear is not heavy that
He cannot hear and He's arm heavy that He cannot say. Look in Psalm
94. Look in Psalm 94. We're going
to stay over here just a minute. or two or three. Psalm 94. He listens to his people. The
Lord hearkened and heard. You know, remember when our Lord,
you know the disciples, they'd often get off to the shelf and
they'd start talking about which one of them was the greatest
and they'd start talking about things and our Lord said, what
was you talking about? You know why? He knows exactly
what they're saying. He wants them to admit what they're
talking about. He wants them to admit that they had no humility,
that they all wanted to say, I'm the best preacher in the
bunch. I can hear old Peter. John, I tell you what, I'm closer
to the Lord than you are. I don't know. I lean on his breast
an awful lot. Oh, John says, boy, I've got
faith that I can call fire down from heaven. I mean, them fellows
walking along, see, who in the world's the best among us? Who's
the greatest among us? That's what that's talking about,
and our Lord says, what are you fellas talking about? You don't
think he heard them? Oh my, so whenever you think
you're pretty good, he's listening. Oh, look what he said in Psalm
94.9. He that planted the ear, shall
he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall
he not see? If he gave us the ear, don't
you think he can hear? If he gave us his eyes to see,
don't you think he can see? Look over at Psalm 116. I've
told you all this before. I heard Scott Richardson bring
one of the best messages I ever heard out of these two verses
one day. Up at Mabscot, West Virginia,
he preached from The first two verses here, Tim James preached
on rend your heart, not your garments. Remember those two
messages. Look what he said here, I love
the Lord because He hath heard my voice. And He's heard my supplications. Not only did He hear me, but
He inclined His ear unto me. Incline his ear on people that's
hard of hearing. You know, they used to, they
had these big old things that stick in their ears like a horn,
you know, and they'd stick it in their ear, it had a big horn
on it so people could hear good. And Floyd, I remember Floyd used
to sit and do like this often. He'd do like that, cup his ear
to hear better. God don't have to cup his ear.
He don't have to cup his ear. No, he doesn't. You know what?
And not only that, but He inclines His ear unto me. You know people
speak, some people speak very, very softly. You know, especially
when they get weak and sick and you've got to get down real,
real close to them to hear them. They don't get much above a whispering.
What? What'd you say? What'd you say? You just barely can't hear them.
Well, God don't have to do that either. He hears every word. And I tell you, the Lord heard
And look what he says, Therefore, because he hears me and clings
his ear unto me, I'm going to call on him just as long as God
lets me live in this world. Huh? He hears what is said, especially
about himself. He hears what's said about himself.
Back over here now in Malachi. He hears what's said about himself.
He said, it's what he said at the beginning where I read to
you. He said, boy, your words are kind of stout against me.
You're saying some things about me. You're standing up like you
know what you're talking about about me. And you don't know
what you're saying. You're using some pretty stout
words against me. And I tell you, he hears what
we say about him and he hears what we say about each other.
He hears what we say about each other. And I tell you what, he's interested
in our words. He's interested in what we say.
Yeah, he's interested in our words. Want me to show you that?
Matthew chapter 12. Matthew 12. So he's interested
in our words. That's why he asked his disciples,
what do men say about me? What do people, what are they
saying about me? Because he was interested in what people said
about him, what they thought about him. He knew already, but
he asked them, said, what do men say about me? He's interested
in people's words, their views of him, their thoughts of him,
what they say about him. But look what he said here in
verse 34, Matthew 12. Oh, generation of vipers, how
can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth speaks And a good man out of the good
treasure of his heart, he brings forth good things. And an evil
man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But
I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they
shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment. For by
thy words, thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned. So the Lord heard us. He's listening
at us. He's listening at us. He hears
what we say about Him and He hears what we say about each
other. And then look what else He does back here in Malachi.
Look what else He does back here in Malachi. Not only does He
hear, but look what else He does. He remembers. The Lord hearkened
and heard, and a book of remembrance was written." Watch this, before
him. A book of remembrance written
for him. What's this book of remembrance
all about? Well, it's for them that feared
the Lord that spake often one to another. And the Lord listens
to what they got to say. There's lots of books. I remember
preaching here just a few weeks ago on the book of life. Paul
talked about those whose names were written in the book of life.
And he says all my members not yet being were written in thy
book. Kept in thy book. In Psalm 56. But I'm going to tell you some
things that I know is not in this book of remembrance. What
would be the first thing you'd think of that's not in the Book
of Remembrance? Sin's not in it. There ain't no sin in it. He said he don't remember our
sin. So I know sin's not in it. I know that's not in there. And
I'll tell you something else that's not in there. Not any
good work that you and I ever done is in that Book of Remembrance.
No, ain't got no, he's not wrote down all the good things that
we've done. Says now I'm gonna really give them a blessing when
they get here. No, that's not in that Book of
Remembrance. No, no. You know and I, it's like this
Book of Remembrance. You take the Old Testament sayings.
Let me give you a couple of illustrations. It says that Jud, you know Lot,
seemed as a man who told tales to his people. foolishness to
his children when he tried to tell them about God going to
destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. And so God had to reach, the
angel had to reach and drag him out of Sodom. He sat there, he
took his family there, and he lived there, and they vexed his
righteous soul. But I tell you what, when you
find out in the New Testament, you know what's called about
it? Lot was a just man. Abraham, you find him lying twice, But in the New Testament, everything
they say about Abraham, he said, you know what he said? I want
you to walk in the footsteps of that faith of our father Abraham.
You go go to the Old Testament and find anybody you want to,
and they all got sin, they all failed. But when you come to
the New Testament, none of that's mentioned. It's always faith,
looking for Christ, trusting Christ. Huh? Moses killed a man
and buried him in the sand. And he had to go to the backside
of the desert for 40 years. And the New Testament says that
he chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God and the
reproaches of Christ to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
Huh? Oh, listen. I'll tell you what
he does remember. He remembers each and every one.
that He chose. We didn't know we were chosen
when we were, before Adam was ever created, God chose us. And
He remembered every soul He chose. He remembers every soul He loves. He remembers every soul that
He calls. He remembers every soul, and
every time, and every hair on their head, and He says they
ain't gonna fall, every hair on their head is numbered by
Me. Ah, listen. And oh, He remembers
that having loved us, and having chosen us in eternity. He remembers
that we are but dust. And as a father pities his children,
even so the Lord pities them. Why? Because He knows that we're
done. He's got it in His book that
we're just done. And He pities us. And He ain't
gonna get out of His book and start reading a lot and a lot
of things about what we did and didn't do. It's a book of remembrance. Those folks beg about me. And then let me show you the
last thing. Down in verse 17. Look what he says here. And he's
faithful. And they shall be mine, saith
the Lord of hosts. In that day, when I make up my
jewels, I'll spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth
him. They're gonna be mine. Who? Everybody's
in that book of remembrance. Those that feared the Lord, that
spake one to another. The ones that he heard. See,
they're going to be mine. Going to be mine. All that the
Father giveth me shall come to me. Him that cometh to me. I'm
not going to cast him out. And every one that cometh to
me, I'll raise him up in the last days. I'll raise him up. And oh, the Lord, the foundation
of God standeth sure. The Lord knows them that are
his. And look what he says. They shall be mine when I make
up my jewels. Be mine. God's foundation stands
sure. They shall be mine. They're mine
to choose. They're mine to love. They're
mine to save. They're mine to keep. They're
mine to feed. They're mine to teach. They're
mine to lead. They're mine to glorify. They
are mine. And look what it says if you
got in your margin. You know what the jewel says
here? A special treasure. When I make up my special treasure, having loved his own, which were
the end, he loved them unto the end. Look what he says, and I'll
spare them. I'm going to spare them. I'm going to spare them.
Oh, I'm going to spare them lots and lots of things. I'm going
to spare them so many things. As a man spares his own son.
Wouldn't want his son to suffer this. Wouldn't want his son to
go through this and the other. But God spares us, his Jews, and he didn't spare his own son. Because we were his, they are
mine. They're my special treasure.
I gave them to my son. And they're so special to me
that my son, boy, there's sin in his own body on the tree.
I didn't spare him. that I might spare them. Amen. Blessed Father, blessed, blessed
Father, Abba Father, in the precious, precious name of our Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ,