study in Genesis chapter 42. Genesis chapter 42. The name of the message is corn
without price. Corn without price. Genesis chapter
42. We'll read verses 26 to 38. Genesis chapter 42 verses 26
to 38. And they laid their asses with
the corn and departed thence. And as one of them opened his
sack to give his ass for preventer in the end, he is spiced his
money. For behold, it was in his sacks
mouth. And he said unto his brother,
And my money is restored and low. It is even in my sack. And
their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one
to another, What is this that God hath done unto us? And they
came unto Jacob, their father, unto the land of Canaan and told
him all that had befell unto them, saying the man who is lord
of the land spoke roughly to us and took us for spies of the
country. And we said unto him, we are
true men. We are no spies. We be 12 brethren, sons of the
father. One is not. And the youngest
is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. And the man,
the Lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby I know that you
are true men. Leave one of your brethren here
with me and take food for the family of your household and
be gone and bring your youngest brother unto me. Then shall I
know that you are no spies, but that you are true men. So will
I deliver you your brother and you shall traffic in your land.
And it came to pass, as they emptied their sacks, that, behold,
every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when both they
and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. And
Jacob, their father, said unto them, Have ye bereaved of my
children? Joseph is not, and Simeon is
not, and ye will take Benjamin away? All these things are against
me. And Reuben spake unto his father,
saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee, deliver
him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. And
he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother
is dead, and he is left alone. If mischief befall him by the
way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs
with sorrow to the grave. Now in the last study, on the
life of Joseph, we left off at verse 24 of Genesis chapter 42. And we saw that Joseph's 10 brethren
came to Egypt and they came to buy food for their families because
they were starving. They were hungry and their food
stores had run out. And so they had come to buy corn
from the man who dispensed the corn. And we looked at how they
did not know who Joseph was. They had no clue. who Joseph
was, he's older now, 21 years or more had passed. And they
did not know they were before the ruler of Egypt who was their
brother Joseph. They had no clue that the ruler
of Egypt at that time, only Pharaoh higher was their very brother
Joseph who they'd sold into slavery. And Joseph spoke to them through
an interpreter. But Joseph understood what they
were saying, even though they didn't know it. And Joseph had
accused them of being spies. And when they denied the accusation,
Joseph agreed to let all of them, but Simeon, go back to their
father. But they were sent to their father
with clear instructions to return with their youngest brother,
Benjamin. Or Simeon would remain a prisoner.
He'd remain a prisoner. Now remember, all that is happening
before us is purposed by our great God. All purposed and planned,
and now it's all coming to pass. It's all coming to pass by our
great almighty God's power and His will. And it's all coming
to pass, we remember, to get His chosen people down to Egypt. That's why all this is coming
to pass. It's all according to his will and purpose. Before
he could set them free from Egyptian bondage. They had to become Egyptian
slaves. Before he could set them free.
And a wicked Pharaoh would be raised up who knew not Joseph.
And he'd be a cruel taskmaster master over God's people. And
then God would deliver his people with an almighty hand, with his
almighty hand, strong hand. strong hand, and he would set
his people free, his chosen people free all by his sovereign power. And we know salvation is of the
Lord, it's all by his salvation or by his almighty sovereign
power that his elect are set free from the bondage of our
sin, too. You see, it's it's such a picture. It's such a picture
of we who are the elect of God. And how we're set free from the
Egyptian bondage, which would be our sin, because Egypt is
a picture of the world. We're set free from that bondage
too, by God's almighty sovereign power. All by Him and what He's
done. And again, all this was prepared
and executed by our great God. Why? That His name would be declared
throughout all the earth. Romans chapter 9 verse 17 says
for the scripture saith and the Pharaoh even for the same purpose
have I raised the up that I might show my power in thee. That's
the whole reason he was raised up that God might show his power
in the great deliverance of his people. And also the destruction
of Pharaoh and his armies. My that I might show my power
in thee and that my name might be declared throughout all the
earth, and it is, isn't it? His name is declared throughout
all the earth, beloved, and we speak of the great deliverance
all the time. We speak of the great deliverance that God that
God did for Israel, because, again, it pictures the great
deliverance that he's done for us. Oh, my. And all again by
his almighty hand. Never forget that all by his
almighty hand. My. So again, what a picture, what
a picture we have of our deliverance from the bondage of sin, deliverance
from the power of Satan, deliverance from the power of darkness. And
God's eternal purpose, remember, determined the fall of Lucifer,
the fall of Adam, the whole world coming into condemnation. The
perfect redeeming work of the Lord Jesus Christ that paid the
ransom, the full ransom for his people was all planned and purposed
by our great God. He planned and purposed it all,
and he executed it all, beloved. He executed it all. And Christ
justified His people. He suffered and died for them.
And through the preaching of the gospel too, when we're born
again by the Holy Spirit of God, we're delivered from spiritual
death, delivered from spiritual bondage, we run to Christ, don't
we? We flee right to Him. And the
eternal salvation of God's covenant people, remember too, the eternal
salvation of God's covenant people, which is His elect, was all planned
and purposed in eternity. I was looking at a literal Greek
Bible that I picked up, and in it, it said, before time was. Before time was. Before there was ever any angels,
before there was ever anything. See, time is a creation of our
great God. Remember that. Planned and purposed in eternity.
So we can say, and not in a haughty way at all, but we can say that
God planned and purposed to save us. And I know we say it all
the time, but really let it sink in. Before there was ever time,
before there was anything, he planned and purposed to save
us in Christ. And he chose us, beloved. Each
one of us from our generation. Because remember, he knows the
end from the beginning. It's amazing. God's grace is
truly amazing. When you stop and just contemplate
these things, we know these truths, but when you stop and you really
start to chew on them, they become wondrous, absolutely wondrous,
because we know we're not deserving, don't we? And they become wondrous,
wondrous. And then we say, oh, the grace,
how great a debtor I am. Oh my, oh to grace how great
a debtor daily I'm constrained to be, let thy goodness like
a fetter bind my wandering heart to thee. Oh what mercy. So the eternal salvation of God's
covenant people was purposed by Him before time began and
executed by Him at His own appointed time too, remember that. Not
only did Christ come into the world at the appointed time of
God, but we heard the gospel at the appointed time of God.
It's wonderful. Charlie and Denise, it's not
by chance you guys came here. Remember, we talked about it
many times. You see now that it was appointed of God for you
to come here and to hear the gospel and to rejoice. It's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. Wonderful. It's incredible. So we can say
then with the saints, to the praise of the glory of His grace,
this salvation, this mighty salvation is to the praise of the glory
of His grace. His grace, this mighty deliverance. Now we don't
always understand things in our lives and why they work out the
way they do. We don't have any idea, but we as believers can
take comfort in knowing that things work out the way they
do because God has purposed them to be that way. And sometimes
they're really hard. They are. They're real and they're
hard. But always remember your King
is with you. He'll never leave you nor forsake you. Never. He's
ever with you. Ever. Ever. Oh my. And they work out for our good
and for His glory. Even though we don't always see
that, do we? We don't. We don't. But they do. That's what the Scripture declares.
So think of this. Joseph didn't know why these
things were falling out. Last week we looked at how he
was in anguish. He was in anguish with his brothers
when they threw him in the pit. And they just turned a deaf ear
to him. He wasn't just sitting in there going, well, you know,
I hope my brothers take me out of here. No, he was crying out
to them, beloved. He was in anguish of his soul.
Why is this happening? Why? Why are you doing this? Could you
imagine his cries? These are his brothers. He loves
his brothers. I got to talk to my brother this
week, my middle brother. You know, it's so good just to
hear his voice. just to hear his voice. I can't imagine how Joseph felt
when here they just pitched him into this pit. I couldn't imagine
my brothers doing that to me. But it happened to him. And he
was in anguish, beloved. Anguish of soul. He didn't know
why this was happening. Oh my. He was in anguish. And again,
his brothers just turned a deaf ear to him. We see that in verse
21 of Genesis 42, 21. And they said one to another.
We are guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish
of his soul. They saw it. They heard it. And when he besought
us, we would not hear. Therefore, is this distress come
upon us? You see that in verse 21 of this chapter. So he didn't know why these things
were falling out the way they were. But later on we see in
Genesis chapter 50, and this is by the grace of God and by
the grace of God alone, he tells his brothers that all these things
came to pass, including him being sold into slavery, thrown in
the pit, sold into slavery, being part of his wife, trying to seduce
him, then being thrown into prison for that. For when he said, no,
no, he says, but as for you, you thought evil against me,
but God meant it unto good. Only a man, a man can only say
that by the grace of God. Only by the grace of God, beloved.
Now you meant it for evil, but God used it for good. To bring
to pass as of this day to save much people alive. My goodness. So let's continue where we left
off in Chapter 42 here, Genesis. Let's also take note that when
we're looking at this and we'll look at the further in the life
of Joseph, we see the patience and long suffering of our great
God, the patience and long suffering of our great God in accomplishing
what he had purposed. And he does this in a gracious
way, beloved. He does it in a gracious way.
He reveals. himself to his born again people.
He says this, and I say, I have spoken that I will also bring
it to pass. I have purpose that I will also do it. Isaiah 46,
11, that which he has purposed, he will do. That which he has
spoke, he will do. And so knowing this precious
truth and knowing that we know this by divine revelation, this
should fill our hearts with praise and adoration for our great God. You know why it should fill us
with praise and adoration? Because think of the long-suffering
and patience he had with you and I. Just think of that. When we were dead in trespasses
and sins. Oh my. Oh, he's long-suffering
and patient with us, isn't he? And he's even long-suffering
and faithful. long-suffering and patient with us even as we
go through the pilgrimage after we're saved even. Because do
we not sometimes grumble? Well, we're all guilty of that.
I am. Let's be honest, we're all guilty
of that sometimes. And He's patient with us and
He's long-suffering. He loves us so much. Oh my gosh. It's incredible. It's absolutely
incredible. His long-suffering with us. His
long-suffering with us. And think of His patience and
long-suffering with each of us before our appointed time of
deliverance. Oh, my. Oh, how long-suffering our great
God is with His people. We should be moved in our hearts
when we think of His patience and long-suffering with us. It
should make in us It should make us patient and
long-suffering with others. And it does, doesn't it? It does.
We put up, you know, that's how it is. Grace people, we don't
react the way we used to react before we were saved. Now, sometimes
we do, sometimes in the flesh we do, but we're long-suffering
with people and we're patient with people. And that's the grace
of God working in us, beloved. That's the grace of God working
on us. Let's read verse 25 here. were common as we go. Then Joseph
commanded to fill their sacks with corn and to restore every
man's money in his sack, to give them provision for the way, and
thus did he unto them. So Joseph was ruler over the
land of Egypt. And we know it from our past
studies that Joseph had been given all authority from Pharaoh.
He'd been given all authority from Pharaoh himself to rule
as it pleased him. Therefore, Joseph could distribute
grain the grain that was stored as he saw fit, as he saw fit. And we see in verse 25 here that
Joseph commanded the servants to fill his brother's sack with
enough corn to take care of their needs, right, and of their household
as well, and the cattle. They had all the provisions that
they would need for their journey back home. Now Joseph, without
letting his brothers know, gave command, gave command, To restore
every man's money, every single cent. Every single cent. Now, think of how the Holy Scriptures
proclaim, now think of this. They went down to get corn from
Joseph. Joseph is a pitcher of our king.
The only one who can distribute the bread of life. The only one. Right. And he, they go down there,
they get the corn, he fills their sacks full. And then he puts
the money back in, right? So what is the corn for them
then? It's free. It's free, right? Didn't cost
them a cent. Remember Joseph's a pitcher of
Christ. He's the bread of life. He distributes his spiritual
blessings to whomever he pleases. Turn, if you would, to Isaiah
55.1. Look at this scripture come alive
right here. Look at this scripture come alive right before our eyes,
beloved. Isaiah 55. Look at this. Now, they paid the money, right?
And Joseph had all that money stuck back in the sacks and hidden
away in the sack. And they got all the corn they
needed. to feed their families, to feed their cattle. Eventually
it's gonna run out, they're gonna need more, it's a seven year
famine. But look at this, look at this. Isaiah 55, one. Ho, everyone that thirsts, come
ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye buy and
eat. Yea, come buy wine and milk without money and what? Without
price. It's a picture, beloved, it's a picture of grace. It's
a picture of the gospel of God's free and sovereign grace. It
doesn't cost us anything. It cost Christ. But we get this
corn, the corn of heaven, the bread of heaven, we get it without
money and without price, beloved. What a picture, just tucked away
in there, isn't it? Isn't that beautiful? Just tucked
away in Genesis 42 there, beloved. Oh, they didn't have to pay anything
for that corn, it was free. It was freely given to them too
by Joseph. Well, our heavenly Joseph, he
gives us corn, doesn't he? Oh, yeah, he gives us the gospel.
He shed his precious blood for us, beloved. The corn they receive
costs them no money, and we are told to come to Christ just as
we are, poor bankrupt sinners, beloved, without money and without
price. And the mercy we receive costs
us nothing, nothing at all, but it's freely given to us. And
it comes to us how? By the hand of our great heavenly
Joseph. the Lord Jesus Christ, without
money and without price. My, just tuck the way in there. Precious, precious truth, beloved.
Now let's read verses 26 to 28. And they laid their asses with
the corn and departed thence. And as one of them opened his
sack to give his ass provider, in the end he espoused his money. For behold, it was in his sack's
mouth. And he said unto his brethren,
My money is restored, and, lo, it is even in my sack. And their
heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another,
What is this that God hath done unto us? So we see that Joseph's
brothers had loaded the coroner on the beast of burden, and they
left Egypt to return to their home in Canaan. And when they
stopped that first night on their journey, they stopped at an inn,
and one of the brothers opened up the sack of corn, so he wanted
to feed his donkey. So he goes to feed his donkey,
and what does he see? He spots his money bag. He spots
the money bag that he paid for the corn in the sack. And he told his brothers, and
they all opened up their sacks, of corn, and they found their
money there also. And then, their hearts are gripped
with fear. Their hearts are gripped with
fear, as they thought it was a trap. They thought it was a
trap and that the Egyptians would probably pursue them and take
them back to Egypt to be punished. Little did they know that their
brother Joseph had commanded that those gold sacks be put
back in, those gold, yeah, the gold sacks, the coins be put
back in, in with the corn, hidden within the corn. They had no
idea. They had no idea. No idea at
all. They had no idea that it was
the benevolent kindness of their dear brother Joseph. He didn't have to do it, did
he? No. See the parallels again. But
he did it. Because he desired to do it. My goodness, beloved. Oh, my,
what a savior we have in the Lord Jesus Christ, and we can
again, we clearly see it, see that they had no idea that it
was the benevolent kindness of Joseph. Because we see at the
end of verse 28, they said one to another, what is this that
God had done unto us? Now Joseph's brethren were still
under conviction. Remember earlier in that last
week in our study, we saw that they were actually repentant
for what they did to Joseph. They were repentant for what
they did to Joseph. And they acknowledged it. But notice here,
they even say that this is purposed by God by their question. What
is this that God had done unto us? See, they believe in the
sovereignty of God. They believe in the sovereignty
of God. And what they did not know is that they had just stood
before Joseph. They knew they had been in the
presence of the sovereign ruler over all of Egypt, but they didn't
know that their own Joseph was he. Their own brother Joseph
was he. They had no idea. They had no
idea that God had exalted their brother Joseph to this position
in Egypt. They had no idea. No idea at
all. this position of great authority.
And we know that Joseph will reveal himself to his brethren
as we continue in our study. We know that this time was coming,
but it was not yet time was not yet time. And so, again, we see the patience
and the long suffering of our great God for the appointed day
when the Lord Jesus Christ, our elder brother, would reveal himself
to us. And when the Holy Spirit grips our heart with fear, sometimes
we feel like God is causing bad things to happen because we know
we've sinned against him and we know we deserve nothing but
God's eternal wrath, but oh, he comes to us in mercy, beloved.
And perfect love casts out fear. Just remember, remember God's
eternal love to you is his people. Remember that. Let that just
comfort your soul. His love doesn't change for us,
no matter what our circumstance changes, don't they all the time?
But his love for us is eternal, beloved. It doesn't change. It
doesn't change at all. And remember the things that
are happening to us, don't all, you know. Things that are happening,
he's not punishing us for our sins because our sins have been
punished at Calvary's cross already. No. Whom He loves, He chastens. He does that. He does that. Just like any loving Father would
do. And rejoice, you who are the child of God, because He's
delivered you from the wrath to come. He's delivered you from
the wrath to come. Because that wrath fell upon
Christ in our place. And our great God has a right
to do with His own whatever He's pleased to do, doesn't He? He
has a right to do whatever he's pleased to do. And he chastens,
sometimes he chastens us. But always remember, he chastens
us in love. Never, never in anger, never
in anger, never. And what happens to a child of
God was ordained by God, by him for our eternal good and for
the glory of our of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now let's
read verses 29 to 38. And they came unto Jacob, their
father, into the land of Canaan. and told him all that befell
unto them, saying, The man who is Lord of the land spoke roughly
to us and took us for spies of the country. And we said unto
him, We are true men. We are no spies. We be twelve
brethren, sons of the father of our father. One is not. And the youngest is this day
with our father in the land of Canaan. So they're telling again
to Jacob what what befell them and the man. The Lord of the
country said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true
men. Leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for
the famine in your households, and be gone. And bring your youngest
brother unto me. Then shall I know that ye are
no spies, but that ye are true men. So will I deliver you, your
brother, and ye shall traffic in the land. And it came to pass
as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle
of money was in his sack. And when both they and their
father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. And Jacob said,
Jacob, their father said unto them, me have ye bereaved of
my children. Joseph is not, and Simeon is
not, and ye will take Benjamin away? All these things are against
me. See right there, Jacob's got
his eyes off the Lord. Beloved, he's got his eyes off
the Lord. Spurgeon wrote a whole sermon on that. He's got his
eyes off the Lord right there. Because he says, all these things
are against me. No, they're not. Even though
they seem like they are, they're not. They're not. But that can
be true of us, even, can't it, in situations? We can all be
guilty of this. We don't look at our dear brother
and say, well, look at Jacob. No, because we know we're frail,
too. We do the same things. No, they're not against you,
Jacob. And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, slay my two
sons. Now, here's Reuben. He's telling Jacob how sincere
he is. And Reuben spake unto his father,
saying, Slay my two sons. If I bring him not to thee, deliver
him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. And
he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother
is dead, being Joseph, and he is left alone. Because they came
from the same mother, remember? If mischief befall him by the
way in the which he go, then shall you bring down my gray
hairs with soil to the grave. So we see that by God's ordained
providential care, Joseph's brothers had a safe trip home too. Don't
miss that. Raiders didn't fall upon them.
Bandits didn't fall upon them. How? By the providence of God,
beloved. This is why we pray for travel
mercies. By the providence of God, by his ordained providential
care. And don't forget, anytime you
go somewhere and you come back home safe, that's by the providence
of God, beloved. It is, even if you're just driving
to the grocery store. It's by the providence of God,
because you know how we know that? Because we hear these sirens
all the time, don't we? We hear these sirens all the
time. Oh, my. And that's a reminder
for us, isn't it? That's a reminder. Sister Barb,
you work in a hospital. You see it all the time. It's
a constant reminder, constant reminder. Life is short. So never
forget God's providential care all the time for us. So they
made it safe back to the land of Canaan, back to their father,
back to their own families as well. And one can only imagine
what went through the mind of Jacob as he heard that Simeon
was now being held by the ruler of Egypt. You think, well, my
son's dead. My goodness. And now he hears
that he won't be released unless they bring Benjamin, his dear
son. His dear son. So again, he thinks two of his
children are now dead, Joseph and Simeon. And we see that fear
has gripped the heart of Jacob. Fear has gripped his heart. Jacob
wasn't about to allow Benjamin to go down because he feared
he'd never see him again. We see that confirmed in verse
38. And now we can have empathy again
with Jacob, can't we? How he must have felt. It did
seem like everything was against him, humanly speaking. And we
can see how this brings forth and shows us that Jacob was a
man plagued with unbelief, just as we are at times. See? These Bible characters are just
like us, beloved. They are no different than we
are. Sometimes they get vaulted to a position, and it is wonderful
to read these stories. But you know, even Joseph was
probably plagued by unbelief at times. He's in anguish in
the pit, isn't he? Screaming to his brothers probably.
No idea what's going on. Oh my. My, oh my. So let us keep in our forefront
of our minds that the precious scripture which proclaims, if
God be for us, who can be against us? Live with that verse. Live with that verse, beloved
God. If God be for us, who can be against us? Keep that verse
close to your heart. Because it's God who justifies
us. So even when it seems like everything is against us, if
God be for me, who can be against me? That's what we can say. And we
can rest in that. And it's hard sometimes, isn't
it? I'm being honest, it's hard sometimes. But it's the truth
there for us. If God be for us, who can be
against us? Because it's God who justifies. Oh, it's wonderful. Wonder of wonders. What a wonderful
truth for God's children to be constantly reminded of the fact
that our eternal God has always been for us. Think of that. He's
always been for us. Mine. Those He chose in Christ
before the foundation of the world, He always will be for
us. Wonder of wonders. Contemplate this wonderful truth.
In our natural state, we did not know this. And we are in
awe as born-again believers to know this blessed truth. He was
for us when He sent His Son into this sin-cursed world. Do you
know that? He was for us when He sent His Son into this sin-cursed
world to ransom us with His own precious blood, to take care
of our sin-debt in full by the supreme sacrifice of Himself.
He was for us when He came into this world. He was for us when
we came into this world, dead in trespasses and sins. He was
for us, because He's known us from before the foundation of
the world. Even though we were dead in trespasses and sins,
He was still for us. We were running from Him, we
were sinning against Him with every breath we took, and yet
He was still for us. He was for us by when the power
of God, the Holy Spirit, He bought us under the preaching of the
glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and He delivered us from
darkness. He delivered us from the darkness that we were in.
And He translated us into the kingdom of our great Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ, our exalted King. He was for us then. He
was for us then. And He has been for us every
step of our pilgrimage journey, no matter how painful and how
difficult it is. He promises to never leave us
nor forsake us. And He will be for us until we
cross the Jordan, beloved, until we cross the Jordan, which is
our death, where we will be ushered into eternal bliss to be with
Him forever. And then we will see the one
who's ever been for us, who's ever been for us. And so knowing
that absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God, which
is in Christ Jesus, we can say boldly, Oh, if God be for us,
who can be against us? My. Look at verse 37 quick. I'm going to run out of time
and Ruben spake unto his father saying, slay my two sons. If
I bring him not to the deliver him into my hand and I will bring
him to the again. So we see here that Ruben, being
the oldest of the brothers, took it upon himself to answer their
father now. And Ruben knew, knew that there was only one way that
Simeon could be released from the bondage that he was in right
now, and that was to present Benjamin before the Egyptian
ruler. This was the only way that it
could be done. And this was the only way that they'd even get
more corn, because they're going to need more corn. And Reuben
spake these words, and it proves that he would do anything, everything
to protect Benjamin and bring him back to Jacob, going as far
as to say, slay my two sons. if I bring him not back to thee.
So Reuben's letting Jacob know that he understood how his father
felt because he had the same fatherly love for his two sons
as Jacob had for Benjamin and Joseph. But we see in verse 38 that Ruben's
words fell upon death years. And he said, my son shall not
go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he be left alone.
If mischief befall him by the way in which he go, then shall
you bring down my gray hairs with Saul to his grave. He wasn't
about to let Jacob, or he wasn't about to let Benjamin go down
to Egypt, no way at all, no way at all. But we know that God's
sovereign ruling power His will overrides all that man has to
say. All that man has to say. Glory
to His name. Heavenly Father, we thank You
again for allowing us to gather together and look into Thy Word.
Oh, how precious it is as we look at the life of Joseph and
we see Thy sovereign hand at work. Glory to Your name. And we know that if you be for
us, oh Lord, who can be against us? No one. No one can compare
to the power and might and glory. No one. Let us let us burn that
truth into our hearts. Oh, Lord, if if you be for us,
who can be against us? Because it's you who justifies
us. Oh, my. Oh, my. Let that be a comfort
to our souls this week as we go through this world and the
cares of this world and the cares of our lives come upon us. Lord,
let us ever look to the in Jesus name. Amen.