Yea, I am God, and there is none
else. I am God, there is none like
me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times
of things that are not yet done, calling things that don't exist
as if they do. My counsel shall stand, and I
will do all my pleasure." And then he says in the last part
of verse eleven, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it, I will also
do it. You know, we want to worship
God, and the only way in the world we can worship God right
is from what He makes Himself known about in the Scriptures,
how He makes Himself known in His Word. Not like we think He
is, not like we hope He is, not like we had shaped Him in our
mind. He says they take a bag of gold, weigh it out, take some
silver, weigh it out, and they make them a gold, and they bow
down to it, and they set it in its place. Our God can't be set
in its place. We're the ones that need to set
in our place. We need to be the ones put in our place. And only
when we know God as he's made known in the scriptures will
we take our place rightly before him. You remember our Lord Jesus
Christ had told that woman at the well, she says, you know,
our fathers worshiped in this mountain. And our Lord Jesus
Christ says, you know not what you worship. You don't know what
you worship. He said, whatever you worship,
it ain't God. And Paul told the Athenians,
he said, Him therefore whom you ignorantly worship, Him I declare
unto you. And so I don't want to worship,
I don't know what, and I don't want to worship ignorantly. I
want to worship God as He is. And so when we talk about His
attributes, why do we want to talk about His attributes? Well,
let me show you a couple of things in Job, just a minute. Job 22, let me show you why we
preach these attributes, why we talk about God. And attributes, you know, God
is, these are not separate parts of God when we talk about His
attributes. They're not separate parts that make up a whole. All
these are just the perfections of God. There's only one God. But He has these different aspects.
Well, He told us to show forth the praises of Him that called
Him out of darkness, to show forth His great and glorious
light, to show His perfections. God is one, and yet He makes
Himself known in all these attributes, all these characters, all these
perfections, all these things that bring glory to Himself.
And here in Job 22, and I think it is verse 21, look what it
says. This is why we preach these attributes
and talk about the doctrine of God. Acquaint now thyself with Him
and be at peace. When we actually know God, and
we acquaint ourselves with God, and acquaint ourselves with His
character, and His nature, and His person, and His power, and
acquaint ourselves with Him in Christ, and be at peace, therefore,
good shall come unto thee. Look over here in 26 and verse
14. It says here, lo, these are parts
of his ways, just parts of his ways. But how little a portion
is heard of him. But the thunder of his power,
who can understand? So you see, we know that we can
know him, but yet he's incomprehensible. But I want to talk tonight about
the decree of God, the purpose of God. And it says that as I
have spoken, it will come to pass as our purpose, so shall
it stand. Now, when we talk about things happening in our lives,
men call them accidents, they call them chance, they call them
luck, they call it fate, they call it destiny. But all that
happens in time, regardless of what we call them, is nothing
but the working out of God's eternal purpose. Whatever happens
in this world, in our lives, whatever anybody want to call
them, all it is is the working out of God's eternal purpose.
And that's why we don't believe in Lady Luck. We don't believe
in Mother Nature. We don't believe in misfortune.
We believe in God's eternal purpose and His decree. Now, you know,
we call them decrees because we don't understand. We have
to think in terms of things happening in time. But the decree is singular. God decrees His decree. He said,
As I fall, so shall I stand. I declare the end from the beginning.
So we say decree is singular. God's decree is singular. All
it is is His purpose of determination, respecting everything that's
future. And everything to us from this moment on, from right
now, everything to us is future. But everything God's decree has
regard to everything that's future. Yesterday's gone, so now His
decree is going to be carried out through all eternity. He
plans the end from the beginning. And when the Scripture speaks
of God's decree, it's always one. Always one. Whenever you
find that word, purpose, we know that all things work together
for good to them that love God, to them that are called according
to what? His purposes? No, according to His purpose.
Ain't that what it tells us? It says God's eternal purpose,
which He purposed in Christ. It doesn't say His purposes.
It doesn't say His wheels. It is one. Decree is one. Purpose is one. Will is one.
And we talk of His decrees because we don't see the whole. We see
them carried out in time a little bit at a time. Just a little
bit at a time. But, beloved, God doesn't require
a distinct purpose for every event that happens. He don't
say, well, I'm going to decree this thing for this is going
to happen at this time, that's going to happen, a distinct purpose
for everything that happens in time. No, no. He don't take like
us, one step at a time. I mean, beloved, He declared
everything that would happen before it ever happened, before
the world ever began. You know, known under God are
all His works from the beginning. And He is infinite. He is infinite. In God's decree, I'm going to
say decrees. But God's decrees are called
His counsel. I shall work all things after
my own counsel. Counsel means, you know, when
you want to counsel somebody, you go ask the priest, I'd like
to have your advice. I'd like to have your counsel.
Well, God's decrees are called His counsel because they're wise,
and He doesn't have to counsel with anybody because He knows
everything. He's infinitely wise. And they're not only called,
his decrees are called his counsel for their wives, but his decrees
are called his will. His will. For he's under no control. Would his will not be done? Would
his will ever be thwarted? Is his will never be carried
out? Has he ever willed to do anything and it didn't come to
pass? He acts according to what is said in Isaiah 45, there it
says, 46, he acts, he does all things according to his own good
pleasure? He talks about the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God. And oh, let me tell you
this about the decrees of God, the purpose of God relate to
everything that's future without exception, including me. Everything
in my life, including me. Whatever's done in time, and
I love this. I love to talk about God this
way. I love to understand God this
way. Oh, I want to be acquainted with Him in this way. Whatever's
done in time was foreordained before time began, whether it's
great or whether it's small. Huh? Whether it's good or whether
it's evil. whether it reaches all creatures
or reaches to all events. Life and death, our state in
time or our state in eternity was decreed by God Almighty before
we was ever brought into this world. You know our state in
time, I'm a man because God said I'll have a man. I'm white because
God said he'll be white. I was born in Ohio because God
said I'd be born in Ohio. I was born to the parents that
God purposed me. You know why I ain't black? God said he'd
be white. You know why I got gray hair
right now? God said, He numbers the hairs of your head. He said, a sparrow shall not
fall without your Father's will. Our days are numbered. He set
the bounds of humanity. And, O Beloved, He determines
our state in eternity. He says, elect according to the
foreknowledge of God. We have been chosen. We've been
predestinated. And whom He did predestinate,
He also called. Whom He called, He also justified.
Whom He justified, He also glorified. And every one of those things
was in the past tense before we ever read a Bible. Before
we ever knew God. Ain't that right? He said the children, yet not
being born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose
of God, according to election, might stand. Huh? Now, even one of those children
hadn't been born, but their state for time was already fixed. Their
state for eternity was already fixed. Everything about their
life was already fixed. Oh, beloved, God didn't create
this world, didn't leave His creation and let it wander aimlessly.
He set the bounds of man. You know, when I'm leaving this
world, when my time comes, you know, when I'll be sick, when
God wills me to be sick, you know, I'll be well. When God
wills me to be well, I'll have a good mind as long as God wills
me to have a good mind. He raises up, He sets the bounds
of nations. You know, He's telling you how
many nations have been and is never going to be again? And
there's coming a time if we live long enough that this nation
will cease to be. And there'll be another nation
that he'll raise up. And he sets the bounds of creation
itself. He said, I'll create a new heaven
and a new earth. That means that he set the bounds of this creation
itself. One of these days, this creation's
going to cease to be. Huh? Oh, God ever fixed everything
in time and fixed everything in eternity for everyone and
for everything. Boy, it would be awful to run
through this life depending on luck, chance, carrying a rabbit's
foot, having a good luck charm. Wouldn't that be awful? They
got cereal called lucky charms. Let me tell you something about
God's decree. First of all, it's eternal. He
doesn't take life like we do, just one day at a time. And I
remember years ago that that's exactly how it was. I thought
you could change God's mind. That if you was in trouble, you
could change His mind, and if you got in the right frame of
mind, it'd change His mind about you, and it'd change your situation
and circumstances. But He don't take one day at
a time like us. If He has to change anything
at any time that He has decreed, then that means there's a flaw
in His wisdom, And that means that he has not got the power
to control the things that happens in this world. It would be to
say God's knowledge is limited because he predestinated and
foreordained or decreed something that got out of control. And
that could never happen. And I tell you, beloved, God's
understanding comprehends the past, the present, and the future. He sees everything in this universe
at one and the same time. And he foretold our future before
we ever were. He said, before I formed you
in your mother's belly, I knew you. No, that's what he says. Jacob was a supplanter before
he ever came out of his mother's womb or ordained of God to be
Israel. And to be the father of Abraham
was determined to be the father of many nations. And our beloved,
he brought it to pass, and he'll finish his purpose towards us.
He chose us in Christ's will before the foundation of the
world. That means that his will was for us before the end. That
means he decreed that we'd be believers. As many as were ordained
to eternal life, what did they do? They believed. God has saved
us and called us with the holy calling, not according to our
works, but according to His own purpose. Purpose and grace. When was this given us in Christ
before the world began? He predetermined our faith and
our position in Christ. And we know what men will do.
I'll tell you that. He'll finish His purpose. Of course, we know
what men will do without God. being a fallen creature. And
oh, I thank God that I know what God's will is going to be. I
mean, it's going to be done. I may not know what it's going
to be, but I know it's going to be done. And not only is His decree
eternal, but His decree is wise. Look over here in Psalm 104.
His decree is wise. You'd think He'd decree anything
that's unwise. We'll sit down and try to figure
out the best way to go in some time. Sometimes we'll get stumped. I mean, you know what? How am
I going to deal with this? How am I going to deal with that?
How can I fix this? How can I fix that? How can I get out of this
situation? How do I get myself in this situation? We just get
ourselves mind-blown. God don't do that. Because He's wise. We're not
too wise, Armand Bradley. Psalm 104 and verse 24, look
what it says here. O Lord, how manifold are thy
works, listen to this, in wisdom hast thou made them all. The
earth is full of thy riches, in wisdom he made all of his
works to be. Oh, beloved, his decree, his
decree respecting the fall and our salvation by grace, the wisdom
of God in that. If had not Adam failed, And God
had provided us a Savior before that fall, and for purpose, to
save men by grace. What would we have known about
God apart from that? Do you know there's only two
things we would have known about Him? That He not chosen to save us by grace
through Adam's fall, and His decree concerning that. All we'd
know about God is that He's the Creator, and that He's just. We wouldn't know anything about
His love, His grace, His forgiveness, His righteousness, His power,
His goodness, His longsuffering, His patience, His forbearance. We wouldn't know. All we'd know,
He's the Creator, and if we mess up, He's going to punish us.
That's all we'd know. But now we know Him in grace. We know Him in Christ. who came
and made God and all of His attributes known. You know, Dan preached on Joseph and his
brethren, both services Sunday. But here's a decree concerning
Joseph. God made a decree concerning
Joseph. He decreed that Joseph be sold
into slavery. And what happened to that decree?
What happened to that purpose? God sent him beforehand and put
him in prison, made him a slave, Seven long years in prison brought
him out, made him throw, made him lord over everything in Egypt. For one reason, to save his brethren. He said, and you meant it for
evil. And that's what men always does. You mean it for evil. And
man's evil beloved looks like he's controlling things, but
God said, I meant it for good. He sent me before you to save
you, to save a remnant." That's what he said. And that says,
and so God takes the wrath of men, the wrath of those eleven
brothers. And He makes that wrath of God,
that wrath of man, praise His holy name. And they took Christ
and hated Him, despised Him, rejected Him, but God said He
was foreordained, He was predestinated, He was delivered by the determinative
counsel and foreknowledge of God into the hands of wicked
men. And yet, beloved, man did it for evil. They said, we'll
never, never have to put up with this blasphemer again. But the
wrath of man, praise God, they meant it for evil. And look at
the good God brought out of it. The salvation of a multitude
that no man could number. That's the decree of God. That's
what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about
being wise. Not only they're eternal and
are they wise, they're free. They're free. What do I mean
they're free? Well, look over here in Isaiah 40 and I'll try
to show you. Isaiah 40. God's decree is free, and His
purposes are free, or His purpose is free. Now, you and I can be coerced.
We can be tempted. We can be influenced. We can
be led. But God can't. Nothing's going to influence
His decree or His counsel. Everything he does is free. Isaiah
40 and verse 13 says this, Who hath directed the Spirit
of the Lord, or being his counselor, hath taught him? With whom took
he counsel? Who instructed him? Who taught
him in the path of judgment? Who taught him knowledge, and
showed to him the way of understanding? Who said this is the best way
to go? This is the way I do that advise you. This is the way,
this is the best way to go right here. Nobody ever done God that
way. Ever decree, His decree is free,
His purpose is free. He was alone when He made His
decree. Nothing influenced His determination. Nothing influenced His decree.
Nothing influenced His purpose. He was free to decree or not
to decree. He could decree one thing and
not another. You know that? He could have
done that. God is independent and sovereign in everything that
He does. And let me tell you something else about His decree.
Not only are they free and eternal and wise, but they're absolute
and they're unconditional. They're absolute. They'll never
be changed. And they're unconditional. And
what do I mean by that? God's decree. are not dependent
upon any condition being met or performed before he'll carry
out his will or his decree. That's why we used to pray, Lord,
if you'll save me out of this, if you'll do this for me, then
I'll do that for you. You know how many soldiers in
war How many people in jail? How many people in prison? How
many people that's got in trouble? They say, Lord, if you'll get
me out of this, I promise you, I'll serve you. So, you know,
His decree is, His purpose on them will be determined by, or,
you know, God will if. But there ain't no ifs in the
decree of God. There's no ifs in the purpose
of God. And where God has decreed an
end, Everything has got to come to an end. Christ is the end
of the law for righteousness to everyone they believe in. God has decreed an end, and He
decreed the means to get to that end. He declared the end when
He first started. And He decreed salvation for
His elect. But He also decreed that they
should be given faith. He didn't say, I'm just going
to save them without any faith, without any means. No, no. If that was so, we wouldn't need
preachers. If that was so, we wouldn't need churches. If that's
so, we wouldn't need a Bible. But he decreed salvation for
his elect. He decreed that they'd be given
faith. You know, he says, Paul said,
Brethren, we're bound always to give thanks unto God for you,
because He has from the beginning chosen you unto salvation. That's
election, chosen. But now, what did he do? He says,
through sanctification of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit is going
to come and set you apart. And secondly, through the belief
of the truth. And oh, and the third thing is, well, until he
calls you. The fire of the gospel. So as many as were ordained to
eternal life, what happens? They believe. Well, they get
the faith. God gives it to them. He gives
it to them through the preaching of his gospel. You see, beloved,
if we had to meet a condition before God could work out His
decrees, then who has the power and the wisdom? Evidently, God
don't. We would. If He couldn't carry out His
purpose with us having to meet a condition, then that makes
us the one with the purpose and the power and the wisdom and
the freedom. But God works all things after
the counsel of His own will. And let me tell you this, let
me show you this. His decrees, let me deal with
His decrees and our responsibilities. You know, here's a decree of
God. Seek ye my face. Seek my face. You know what happens. Thy face, O Lord, I will seek." He said, Blessed is the man whom
God chooses. Oh, yes, yes, yes. But now listen
to it. And calls us to approach unto
Thee. He calls us, but we're going
to approach. He decreed that we'd do that. We don't know God's
eternal decrees until they come to pass. We know what happened
in the past, but we don't know His decree until it comes to
pass. We don't know who the elect are until they believe. We don't
know who the sheep are until He calls them. We don't know
what God's purpose for us is tomorrow and until we get to
tomorrow night. That's why we say the will of
God be done. If it's God's will, I'll do it.
And oh, God's Word is inspired. Yes, it is. Every word of it
is breathed. Men wrote it, and they weren't
machines. Oh, listen, Christ our Lord is
both God, He knows all things, and yet it says He increased
in wisdom. He was almighty, and yet He was
crucified in weakness. These are great mysteries, but
these are the decrees of God. He decreed that Christ would
be God manifest in the flesh. He decreed that He would increase
in wisdom and stature in both favor with God and man. I don't
understand that. How could He increase with favor
with God when He was God? How could He be God with all
power and yet be crucified in weakness? These are mysteries. And, oh, beloved, let me say
this in closing this, and then I'm going to go on to something
else. If God didn't decree all things, what's the alternative? What's the alternative? If God didn't purpose all things,
what's the alternative? Everything's left to chance. Everything's left to blind fate. We make our own destiny. We're
the captain of our own souls. We're the masters of our own
fate. And if God didn't decree all
things, what's the alternative? Where would our peace be? Where
do our assurance come from? To whom could we flee for a refuge
in time of need? How would we deal with things
that happened in this life if God didn't decree everything?
We say, boy, I sure was unlucky. Blind fate dealt me an awful
blow. It's awful, the things that happens
to me. But, oh my, we say, it is the
Lord. It is the Lord. It is the Lord. Well, I wanted to deal with two
of his attributes tonight, and I'm going to quickly deal with
another in just a few minutes. And over here is Psalm 139. Let
me show you this. I know you're tired, and I'll
try not to take just a few minutes on this. Psalm 139. You know, God is Omni. Not only
does He have His decree, but He's Omni. And Omni means all.
Omni means all. Completely. And so I want to
talk about He's omnipresent, He's omnipotent, and He's omniscient.
He's all-knowing, He's all-present, and He knows all things, and
He's everywhere at all times. Look here at Psalm 139. O Lord,
Thou hast searched me and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting
and my uprising. Thou understandest my thought
afar off. Thou accomplished my path, and my lying down, and
art acquainted with all my ways. There is not a word in my tongue,
but, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast set me
behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon me. Listen here. Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain
unto it. Where shall I go? From Your Spirit,
or where shall I flee? From Your presence." Now, David's
saying here, God's everywhere. God knows everything, and He's
got all power to keep me. I was laying in bed the other
night, thinking about preaching is up tonight, and I was laying
there in the dark, and I said, Lord, I was praying. I said,
Lord, you know, here I am in the dark. And yet, it's just
like daylight to you. You see me right here just like
it's the sun to this meridian splendor. Nobody else does. But God is
just like daylight, just like this light's here and there compared
to how you see me. Ain't that a blessing? Some say
God doesn't know. All things. But oh, beloved,
that's not what David says. He says, Such knowledge is too
wonderful. You know where to get out, and you don't want to
get out, and you don't want to go in, and you don't want to go out. Such thou knowest
it all together. He knows everything, everything
possible and everything actual. We, me and you, we wonder what
will be. We wonder what will be. God knows
what will be. We wonder what has been. God
knows what has been. He knows all events. He knows
all creatures. He knows the past, the present,
and the future. No wonder David says such knowledge
is too wonderful for me. Everything, Hebrews 4.13 says
this, everything is open and naked. Open and naked before
Him with whom we have to do. Right now. Right now. And I'll
tell you this much about God's knowledge, His omnipresence,
His omniscience, His omnipotence. God's knowledge is perfect. He
never errs. He never changes. He never overlooks
anything. You look this up when you get
home. Ezekiel 11.5. When he told Ezekiel, he says,
you go tell them fellows over in Jerusalem. He says, you thought
that I didn't know what was going in your mind. He said, I knew
everything that was in your mind. He said he knows our thoughts
afar off. Absolutely nothing escapes the knowledge of God.
And I know, beloved, He's invisible to us, but we're not invisible
to Him. Adam wasn't hid from God by the
trees of the garden. We play hide-and-go-seek when
we were kids, and, beloved, sometimes you get hid so good they never
could find you. But you can't hide from Him, and you can't
hide too good to hide from God. He's invisible to us. Adam wasn't
hid from God in the trees of the garden. Neither was his nakedness
hid from God by the fig leaves. No one saw Cain slay Abel. Nobody was there when Cain slew
Abel. But God said, your brother's
blood cries unto me from the ground. God was there when it
happened. No one knew Achan had stole that golden wedge and hid
it. But God knew who had it, God knew when he got it, and
God knew where he hid it. Huh? David sinned and tried his
best to cover up all his sin, but God sent Nathan to him when
he thought he was all covered up and says, David, you're the
man. Oh, my. And this is one of the most comforting
truths to God's people. It's God's omniscience, God's
omnipresence, and God's omnipotence, and omnipresence, and omniscience.
And, oh beloved, God knows me. When David says, you know me,
you know me, you know me all, he said, God knows me! He knows what I was! He knows
what I am! And He knows what I'll be! We're known of God, Paul says. And even though He knows me,
knows what I was and knows what I'll be, yet He loved us. And even when we were dead in
sins, even when we were yet in our sins, God commended His love
toward us. Christ died for us. He says,
I know my sheep. I've called thee by thy name.
And not only does He knows us and knows us by name, beloved,
He knows what we'll do. He knows what we'll do. I've
got a dear, dear, dear preacher friend that's going through one
of the awfulest trials that any human being could be called to
go through. Right now, it is awful. And I think of him and pray for
him and weep for him. I'll sing another day, this is
the first scripture I'll sing. You can look up at yourself when
you get home. Job 23 and 10, the Lord knoweth the way that
I take. When he hath tried me, I shall
come forth as gold. And beloved, not only does he
know this, but he knows what we'll do. He knows the way that
we take. I may not know. My friends may
not know. My wife may not know, our children
may not know, our husband may not know, but God knows the way
that we'll take. He knows when we're in weakness
and weariness. He knows our frames and He remembers
that we're but dust. When it feels like it's just
a week you can't bear another day or another hour, He says,
Beloved, I remember that you're dust. And when our souls are
in doubt, And we become suspicious of ourselves. We cry out, here's
David did in 139th Psalm, says, search me, O God, know me, try
me, and if there's any evil way in me, save me from it. Oh, ain't it wonderful to know
that God knows you like that? When we have failed miserably,
and I've done it more times than I'll ever be able to count in
a lifetime. stumbled so badly, not acted as a believer, honored
his Master. And the Lord Jesus says, by the
Holy Ghost and in the preaching, Lovest thou me, the only thing
we can say, Lord? Thou knowest all things. And God's knowledge is why we
pray so earnestly. You know what He says before
they call? I'll answer. And while they're yet calling,
I'll answer. That's why we pray so earnestly.
He's going to answer. He knows the thoughts. He knows
the intents of our heart. And I'll tell you, beloved, He
blesses us for Christ's sake, but He blesses us more for what
we intend to do than what we actually do. You know that? How many times have we intended
and we didn't carry it through? Oh, bless His holy name. He knows
a sigh. When you hear somebody sigh,
you know they've got a heavy heart. You know they're in trouble. You know they're being tried
when you hear somebody sighing. And He knows our sighs. He knows
our groans. He knows our tears. And He knows
us as individuals. Individuals. And we won't be
overlooked. We will not be overlooked. It won't be overlooked. And how
important is it? How important is it to know that
God's omniscient, that He's all-wise? Oh, if anything were to happen
without God directing it, without God willing it or permitting
it, it means He didn't know, and then immediately He ceased
to be God. Oh, God's knowledge, God omniscience,
is the determining factor of what happens in time and what
happens in the future. He does according to His will
in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth,
and no man can stay His hand or say unto Him, I'll do that.
Psalm, Proverbs 19, 21 says there's many devices in the hearts of
the man, but God's counsel, God's will, God's purpose, That's what's
going to stand. And nothing in the future is
uncertain, for as God's counsel are concerned, there's no shadow,
no variables, no shadow of turning about. He declares the things
that are not as though they already were. And, oh, beloved, He called
all the things that would happen before they happened. And let
me tell you this, His knowledge wasn't the cause of it happening.
He just didn't look down and say, well, this is going to happen,
so I'll purpose it to happen. No, no. His knowledge was that
the cause of His happening is His will is. For He knows all,
He willed all. So, beloved, let's adore Him.
Let's adore Him. Wonder and awe and worship before
our God. We're like Ager, you know, and
God gave her a bottle of water and a loaf of bread and sent
her out with Ishmael. And there she sat under that bush, crying,
oh. And then she got up and her eyes,
and there was a well. You know what she says? Thou,
God, seest me. Thou, God, seest me. I ain't
got no water. Thou, God, seest me. I've got
this baby raised. Thou, God, seest me. I ain't
got no food. Thou, God, seest me. Oh, beloved, everything in my
life was and is open and naked before Him, and yet, yet, He
thanketh upon me." Oh, you see what it is to study God, deal
with His attributes. Don't you want to be acquainted
with Him? Oh, bless His holy name. Our Father, O our Father, our
great, blessed, and glorious God, no wonder, no wonder your word
says who is like unto you and who is your equal. Oh, Father,
our souls rest tonight. Our hearts rest tonight. Our
life rests tonight. find such comfort, such strength,
such hope, such life. And these things that we know,
these things that you've taught us, these things that's alive
and real to our hearts, this is not something we imagine,
it's not something we theorize about. These are truths that
we've experienced in our heart. We bless you that you are God.
None like you. Thank you for knowing us. And
oh, Lord, you know me. You know me. You know everyone
here. You know what's with them. And
Lord, you'll take care of every one of us like it's just us and
us alone. We thank you for that. Thank
you, Lord. Blessed be your name. Amen. Amen.