All right. Well, let's look at
a few verses here. Some of the things that the scriptures
do for us, the word of God does for us. In Psalms 107, we find, We find a passage of scripture
here that really is a comforting to the heart. And I'm gonna start
reading Psalms 107. And I'm going to start reading
up in verse 15. It says, oh, that men would praise
the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the
children of men. For he hath broken the gates
of brass and cut the bars of iron and sunder. Fools, because
of their transgression and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Their soul abhors all manner of meat, and they draw near unto
the gates of death. Then they cry unto the Lord in
their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from their
destructions. Oh, that men would praise the
Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children
of men, and let them sacrifice the sacrificings of thanksgiving
and declare His works with rejoicing. Verse 20 here, we see that the
word of God comes in and heals and delivers them. The word of
God heals and delivers. Now I give that example we just
talked about Mindy and a good example of how
the word of God heals. The word of God came in and comforted
and healed a heart that was hard, not hard to God, but a heart
that was troubled and burdened and heavy and delivered her from
some stress, delivered from some depression. And so the word of God sometimes
can be that way for us. It can be a healer and a deliverer
from ourselves. Whenever you're anxious, you
can go to God's word and study God's word and sometimes the
anxiety will leave. Whenever you're sad, you can
go to God's word and study God's Word and it can make you glad.
You can go and you can be angry. Go to God's Word and it can cause
the anger to subside. And so, there is a healing factor
in God's Word. Now, we also know as far as God
himself speaking, healing to people, we still believe that
God heals people. We don't necessarily believe
in healers, but we do believe that God continues to miraculously
heal people. I don't know how many times we've
heard stories of people that didn't look like there was any
hope for them at all and God miraculously healed them of whatever
ailment that they had or issues that they had. Of course, we all know that God
heals because anytime someone gets sick and then gets better
from it, it's God that's healed them. But we see that the word
of God, as far as the scripture is given to us, can be for healing
and it can be for delivering. In John 8, there's another thing
the word of God can do for the child of grace. John chapter
8 and verse 32. Start in verse 31. Then said Jesus to those Jews
which believed on him, if ye continue in my word, then are
ye my disciples indeed, and ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free. Now, I think there's a dual meaning
to that verse. Brother Larry might throw some
light on it maybe, but. or even correct me, I may be
wrong in this area. But to me, there seems to be
a duality in this, a dual meaning. We know that Jesus is the way,
the truth, and the life. And if one is brought to know
the truth, then the truth has made them free. If you know the truth, the truth
shall set you free. There's gonna be a freedom that
you're gonna receive. But we also know that whenever
we study the word of God, there is a freeing nature or a freeing
aspect to that. We were talking about this yesterday
in our men's meeting. Whenever you come to know the
doctrines of sovereignty, the doctrines of election, of predestination,
of God's providence, of all these things, there is a freeing. in the heart and in the mind
of that, knowing that God is in control and that everything
is happening exactly the way that God intends it for it to
happen. And that there isn't anybody, you know, me and brother
Tom Armstrong, we were talking back and forth, you know, both
of us, our thoughts as preachers before coming to the doctrines
of grace, having those thoughts of, you know, I'm not saying
the right thing, doing the right thing. Souls are dying and going
off into hell and their blood is gonna be on my hands because
I didn't do enough or didn't say enough or say it right or
do like that. And just this weight that was
on our shoulders that we seem to have before we come to realize
that, hey, listen, this isn't doing, God is saving his people. Every one of them are being saved.
And it isn't the preacher or the preaching that is making
them saved. It was Christ that made them
saved. It was his mediatorial work that made them saved. It was his work on the cross
and the righteousness that's found in all that work that God
based his salvation upon. All of us are imputed with the
righteousness of Christ. We are kept in Christ before
the foundation of the world because of what Christ would do on that
cross. And so we have been given this
salvation. We have been given that without
any work on our part, whether it was work on someone's part
to come and tell us, work on our part to read it, work on
our part to believe it, that didn't have nothing to do with
our salvation. Our salvation had everything to do with the
eternal covenant and the righteousness of Christ and being the basis
and the grounds of that covenant. And so that's freeing. And so when Jesus said, you shall
know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Whenever
we come to know the truth of the gospel, what a freeing thing
that was. I remember Larry was talking
about and brother Tom was talking about it. He was raised in the
Catholic church. Tom DeClean was raised in the
Catholic church. Brother Larry was raised in the
unity movement. Both systems, religions, preach
and teach a works salvation. And you gotta maintain certain
good works. And now in the Catholic side,
they're not deluded, they realize that they can't do those and
so they have penance and all the kind of stuff that they have
to do, indulgences that they can pay, where on the unity side,
those people, they get deluded into the fact that they believe
that they become ultimately sanctified and they don't sin. So there's
a delusion on both of them's part, it's just in a different
way, but either way, they both work. And I guarantee you, whether
they're in the unity movement or not, unless they're just completely
deluded, Whenever they lay down their head at night, there is
a weight and heaviness. Did I do enough? And that Roman
Catholic side, there is that weight. Did I do enough? Did
I do enough? But listen, whether you're in
unity or whether you're in the Roman Catholic or whether you're
a Protestant, quote unquote Protestant, or a non-Catholic person, Whenever
you lay down your head at night, you don't know, did I do enough
today? I remember laying in bed as a young man and wondering,
I say my prayers and I prayed for this. I knew I've sinned
here, here and here and here and here. And so I'm saying these
prayers and then I'm sitting there and I'm trying to think,
is there any other thing that I did that I didn't ask forgiveness
for? Because if I don't ask forgiveness,
I wasn't gonna get forgiveness. And it was just a works mentality.
And I would lay there in my bunk bed with my brother above me,
and I would sit there and I would just try and try until I finally
fell asleep to remember everything. And if I couldn't remember, you
know, I get to the point where I was falling asleep or knew
I couldn't think of anything else, then I would pray, well,
God, if I forgot anything, bring it to my mind so I could ask
you to forgive me for it. That's what I would pray. There
was a weight of sin on me. Why? Because I thought that I
had to do something to be accepted by God and to stay accepted by
God. But brethren, whenever the truth
came, oh, how freeing that was. The yoke is easy and the burden
is light. And too many people say, I don't
know what you're talking about. It must be where you're at in
your little bitty tiny clicky church. But if you were out there
serving in a big, that's a heavy burden out there. No, I'm not
talking about those. Can being a pastor be burdensome? Yeah, especially in a big church
where there's a lot of people to minister to and to work with.
Yeah, but listen, it's burdensome for all of us. We all have burdens. Everyone of us in here have burdens.
We're not talking about those. We're talking about the burden
of sin, the burden of righteousness and unrighteousness. Jesus wasn't
talking about, hey, it's gonna be an easy road. You're not gonna
have to do anything. Just sit on your laurels and
wait till you go to heaven. That's not what he was saying.
He said, my yoke, my burden is light. The law of God is light. It's not burdensome for the child
of grace. Why? Because I'm the one who
has taken that burden. I'm the one who is doing all
the work. That's the work that needed to
be done and I did it. The law demanded perfect righteousness. The law demanded perfect obedience. I performed that work. The law
pronounced that you should die and be separated from God. I
did that work. So not only did I perform all
that you should have performed, I also took all that you should
have took. And so Christ is the one who
has done that. That's why the burden is light.
And so now whenever we look at that, we don't have to think,
oh, I have to pay Christ back. There's so many Christians out
there that talk about this paying the Lord back for all that they've
done. Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't serve the Lord because
we love him because he first loved us, right? And we serve,
we obey. The Bible says that if you love
me, you will keep my commands, right? So we keep God's commands.
Why? Because we love him. And we love
Him because He first loved us, so we return that love to Him.
And do I wanna serve Him? Yes, I wanna serve Him. Do I
wanna serve Him in a right way? I wanna serve Him in a right
way. Do I wanna do all the things that I can for the Lord? Absolutely,
but don't ever think that it's to repay Him, because you cannot
repay Him. You could never repay Him. That
is blasphemy to think that you could ever pay the Lord back
for what He did for you. It's an immeasurable. infinite
debt that you can't ever pay. That's why whenever he talked
about those servants, remember that was a debt that guy was
never gonna be able to pay no matter how much he thought he
could pay, he was never gonna pay and the Lord just said, the
debt's cleared, it's gone. And so we see here that the Lord
has given his word in 8 and 32 and says, the truth shall make
you free. Brethren, there's nothing more
freeing than knowing God's word and the gospel that's found therein.
It is an amazing freedom that we learn. And I'm so thankful
that the Lord has taught me that and is teaching me that. Because
if we talked about again, there's no way I could go back to that
other system. and how hard and frustrating it was. But to know
now that everything is in control by the God. Look while you're
there in John, John chapter 20. John chapter 20, verse 31. Verse 30, and many other signs
truly to Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not
written in this book. But these things are written
that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the
living God, and that believing you might have life in his name. Now, again here, if you're not
careful, you can let punctuation, which wasn't there, get you off, You can also let
Arminian thinking get you off. I don't know how many times I've
preached this in the past, and I've heard this preached in the
past. There you go. The word of God is written that
you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, so the word of
God is what causes us to believe, and that believing, once we believe,
then we're given life, okay? But remember, these things are
written, to the people of God, okay? This message is written to God's
people. And so they're already alive
spiritually. He said, these things are written
that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. It's to continually bear witness
and testimony to the fact of who Jesus is. We have written
testimony that Jesus is. If you remember when this was
being written, they were preaching something new that had not been
heard to those Jews, that this is the Son of God. Jesus is God
in the flesh, the Son of God, and he came. And so they were
preaching that, and whenever they preached that, people were
like, wait a minute, God is a spirit. I thought God was a spirit. You're
telling me he's a man. So there were people that was
believing that Jesus wasn't God because he was a man. And so
all these things were going on during this time period. You
can read about them in church history, the struggles that they
had with the different groups of people that believed that
Jesus' flesh wasn't real flesh, that he was a spirit and all
this kind of stuff. But here it says, these things
are written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ.
It's evident, everything that I've wrote, John's saying, everything
that I've written in this book to you, testifies to what the
Old Testament said that the Christ would be. He healed. Didn't Jesus heal? He raised
people from the dead. And if you remember, John the
Baptist even had that spell where he said, you know, hey, you know,
is this really him? And so his disciples went to
Jesus and said, you know, this is what John has said. And Jesus
said, you go tell this to John, that the blind are seen, the
deaf are hearing, and that the dead are being raised to life.
Well, what does that mean? Just tell me, are you the Christ
or are you not the Christ? Why did Jesus tell him that?
Because John the Baptist knew the scriptures. And he knew that
the Old Testament scriptures said that the Messiah, the Christ,
would do those things when he came. And guess what? That's
what John is saying here, the exact same thing here to us. These things are written so that
you might know. The Messiah is the one who raised
to life. We've just seen many other signs. truly did Jesus in the presence.
So all these signs were being done so that the people of God
might believe and see. Now he says, but these things
are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
son of God, and that believing you might have life through his
name. It's not saying so that believing
you will have life, and that believing, in believing ye have
life through his name. These things are written here
so that you believe you have life through his name. You not
only believe that he's the Christ, but you believe that you have
life through his name. Not through your works, not through
anything else, but through him and him alone. And so these things
are written so that you will believe those things. not so
that you'll get life. Look, if you would, at Romans
10 and verse 17. So these things are written so
that we might believe. Romans 10 and verse 17. It says, so then faith cometh
by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So there, that corroborates
what John just said. These things are written so that
you might believe. The word of God is given to you
to bring you to believe these things, okay? That's why I said earlier, whenever
we're born again or quickened of God, there has to be something,
the truth has to be put before us for us to believe. We don't just believe out of
nothing, okay? We believe in something that
is told to us, right? Remember in Timothy, it says
the gospel was given so that it might manifest the message
of life and immortality. See, we didn't start believing
that until the gospel manifested that to us. Other than that,
we just didn't know. And so here we see faith cometh
by hearing. Okay, so whenever we study the
Word of God, whenever we hear the Word of God being preached
and taught, that's where faith comes. Faith comes from hearing
these things. And again, we go back to the
example of me visiting with Sister Mindy. Hearing the Word of God
told to her, encouraging her with the scriptures about God
and about His work and about how He does things and about
His purposes and His sovereignty. What did that do? That built
her up in the faith. And she, at the end of it was,
you're right, that's right. And it's trusting. Where the
Bible says, faith comes by hearing. And hearing by the word of God. Now this is where people kind
of get mixed up in their understanding of this thing. See, the first
part says, so then faith cometh by hearing the word of God. If
we add the word of God, because that's what the implication is.
Faith cometh by hearing the word of God and hearing the word of
God by the word of God. See, that don't make sense, does
it? It's saying faith cometh by hearing, but the hearing comes
by the word of God. And that's not talking about
the written word of God. That's talking about God speaking
spiritual life into you. Matter of fact, that word there
by the word of God is rhema. That's the fiat or the command
of God. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the commanded word of God. That's why Jesus said, let those
who have ears to hear, let them hear. It might be a stretch to say this,
But there may have been some of those, when Jesus was talking,
that had yet to have ears to hear. And whenever Jesus said,
let those have ears to hear, let them hear, Jesus commanded
them to be able to understand and hear. Who before didn't understand. We know that's true. On the road
to Emmaus, those guys were walking and they had heard the message
time and time before, but whenever Jesus spoke those words to them,
all of a sudden their hearing came open and they understood
all the things that they had heard preached a hundred times
before come open to their heart. How about you? How many times
have you heard something preached or read something in the scriptures,
and then all of a sudden, after years later, you read it and
you say, That's what that's saying. I didn't ever know that. I didn't
think that. Never even was on my radar. Well,
what's wrong with you? Didn't you have ears to hear?
Didn't you hear it when it was preached? No, it was all of a sudden God
gave the word for you to hear it. Faith comes by hearing, but
the hearing comes by God speaking and saying here, the word of
God. So the word of God also is for
the building of faith as God gives it to us because the Bible
does say that he has given the measure of faith. So you can't
pump up your own faith. Some people think these are means
of grace. The more I read God's word, the more I pray, the more
I listen to preaching, the more I partake of the ordinances,
then the more faithful. the more built up I'll be, the
more righteous I'll be, the more sanctified I'll be, the more
holy I'll be, whatever you want to tag on to that, they think
that those are means of grace that actually make them become
more and more and that they can do that by their own hand. Matter
of fact, I've seen this and heard this taught growing up, you know,
that we can, the more we study God's word and learn the word
of God, the less we can sin. I'm sure that was probably, you
know, part of the unity dialogue as well, that we can pray and
study God's word. And the more that we kill the
flesh, we won't sin. And Bible here is not necessarily
saying that. God gives the measure of faith.
I look at 2 Timothy chapter three. 2 Timothy chapter 3. Luke verse 15. and that from a child thou hast
known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto
salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Well, let's
just stop right there and we'll take the last two verses here
in just a minute. So here, Paul is telling Timothy and saying,
hey, you've known the scriptures ever since you were a little
kid and these scriptures are able to make the wise unto salvation
through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. So again, I think that
we put the stress on those verses and we say it like this. We stress
the verse in this way, and that from a child, thou hast known
the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
through faith in Christ Jesus. We stress it like that when we
probably should be stressing it this way, that from a child,
thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise
unto salvation through which is in Christ Jesus. See, the
scriptures make us wise to know that our salvation is through faith which is in
Christ Jesus. See, he's not teaching salvation
by faith alone, your faith alone, he's teaching salvation by Christ
alone and his faith. that from a child thou hast known
the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
through which is in Christ Jesus. See, the stress is on the last
part. You know that the scriptures teach that salvation is through
faith which is in Christ Jesus. Not faith in Christ Jesus, but
faith which is in Christ Jesus. Now look at verse 16. All scripture, Is that including the New Testament
only? No, it's talking about the Old Testament.
As a matter of fact, when Paul was writing this, there really
wasn't a New Testament yet. All scripture is given by inspiration
of God. So here again, we find comfort,
we find all these things that we've been talking about in the
Word of God, what it can do for us. And here's the reason why. Number
one, it's given by God himself. This is, children, this is God's
word. This isn't some thought up thing
by some bunch of men that just thought something religious and
wrote it down. This isn't even the complex spiritual writings of godly men. This is the word of God. God
who is infinite, holy, just, righteous, who is who he is,
who is self-existing, who is eternal. These are his words. You have before you in those
Bibles, the word of God, not a book that contains some of
the words of God, but it is the word of God himself. God spoke that. I'm gonna use
a big word here. That is a great condescension
for God. For God to give us in this his
word is great condescension for him to do. We don't deserve that. We're not worthy to have God
not only speak to us, but to speak to us in such a way that
it is contained and written and a testimony forever for us. God's
given us this word. All scripture is given by inspiration
of God. It's given to us. That word inspiration
means it was breathed out by God. He inspired or breathed
out the words to those men and those men were given by the Holy
Spirit to faithfully write down the things that God said. And
that's what we have in front of us today is God's word. But it says all scripture is
given by God and is profitable. It's profitable to us. How many
of y'all here, I know Larry's probably heard this, I'm sure
Louetta has with her husband being a preacher over the years.
How many of y'all here heard, what do y'all preach about election? He said, you know, what's that
helping anybody? If you're out there telling people
to come to Christ, what are you gonna do? Tell them on the street,
you might be chosen by God. You might be loved by God. You
might be saved by Jesus, but you might not be also. Well,
what profit is election? What profit is it in preaching
those things? I've had people tell me that.
Said, you know, yeah, that's in the Bible, but what good is
that to be preaching to everybody? Where is there any profit in
preaching that God hates people? I've heard that. Whenever you
talk about that God, you know, everybody is told that God loves
everybody, but yet the Bible says that God hates people. And
nobody wants to say that about God. They're afraid that they're
going to be saying something bad about this ooey gooey God
that's been put up as an idol in front of everybody. The God
of the scripture says that he hates doers of iniquity. Says
that he hated Esau. Says that he hates people that
do, there's like seven or eight things that they do. He hates
those things. And it's not he hates the sin
but loves the sinner. No, it says he hates all workers
of iniquity. workers, doers of iniquity. He said, I hate Esau, not the
line of Esau. And even if he did hate the line
of Esau, that's still a line of people, individuals that God
hated. So you're not removing it by
saying, well, he was talking about nations, okay? He hates
all the nations of Edom. So still the fact remains that
God, hey, well, wait a minute, I don't like that. I don't like
that. It's not profitable. How's it
profitable to preach that? Have you thought of any reason
why it's profitable to preach that, brother? Well, I'll tell
you my thoughts on it. While some things I can think
of why it's profitable to preach certain things, there are some
things that I might not know why it's profitable, but I know
one thing, it's the Word of God. That's why it started out, all
scripture is given by inspiration. It's the Word of God, we start
there. And if it's the Word of God, then that means it's true.
If it's the Word of God, it means that it's right. If it's the
Word of God, it means that we need to, as we read earlier,
faithfully preach it, and who cares about the chaff? Preach
the word of God, but it's profitable. So it says here, all scripture
is profitable. Elections profitable, reprobation
is profitable. Hate is profitable. Wrath is
profitable. Law is profitable. All these
things that people want to stray away from that's in the scriptures
is profitable. But look what it says. It says
it's profitable for doctrine. That's the one thing that most
churches are wanting to get out of their system, is doctrine. Oh, we're
too much doctrine, not enough life application. You get your
doctrine right, your application will follow. I can tell you that. You get your doctrine right,
the application will follow. It says, it is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness. And you say, okay, well, that's
the only thing that it's good for. Well, what does all that cover?
My grandpa used to say it this way. It's profitable for doctrine,
what's right. It's profitable for reproof,
what's not right. It's profitable for correction,
how to get right. And it's profitable for instruction
on how to stay right. See, it's instruction in righteousness.
It tells us about who's righteous, who's not righteous. And it tells
us how we are to stay righteous. How do we stay righteous? By
studying the Scriptures? No, we stay righteous by how? Imputation. We stay righteous
by imputation. From the day that I was given
to Christ, which was before my birth, or before the world began,
Until the day I meet him face to face, I'm righteous in God's
eyes. Even though I actually sinned, although I actually transgress,
I'm righteous. Not because I do good, but because
I have a righteousness given to me by one who is good. for
correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of
God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Now that word perfect there means
mature, that the man of God may be mature, thoroughly furnished
unto all good works. So the word of God is given to
us and is profitable to make us wise. Look at verse two of
chapter four. I charge thee therefore before
God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and
the dead as it is appearing and as it is coming, preach the word,
be instant in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort
with all longsuffering and doctrine. The word of God is given to us
to exhort one another. You know, that right there, most
churches today, and I've seen this in the whole wake of my
stand against Billy Graham, people wanna rip that out of their book.
They wanna rip out verse two. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with
all longsuffering and doctrine. They don't want that. You're
judgmental when you do that. I've seen on Larry, Larry took
a stand against this stuff as well, and I've seen somebody
wrote on there, told him that you were an evil spirit or something
to that effect, that he was an evil spirit, that he was an anti-God
or something like that. I mean, just went on a diatribe
against him, and that he didn't have any right telling people
that they were wrong like that. Well, brethren, then explain
to me what the Word of God is here. What the Word of God is
telling us what the Word of God is for. If the Word of God is
for, is profitable for reproof and correction. If it's profitable
for exhortation in reproving, rebuking, And doing that with
long-suffering and doctrine, what's that mean? That we do
that long-suffering, we don't get impatient with them, we continue
to teach them the truth, give them the truth, stand for the
truth, but what are we doing? We're giving them the truth,
doctrine. We're preaching to them doctrine
over a course of a long period of time while they are standing
against it, while they don't want to hear it. What do we do?
With long suffering, we continue to stand for the truth. We tell
them that's not right. But listen, a lot of times we
go to, I don't say go too far. A lot of times we do mostly the
don't, that's not right. There's a lot of times that we
fail to do that's right. That's right. Encourage and exhort. A lot of times we don't do a
lot of encouraging and exhorting when people are preaching the
truth. I'm not talking about going and patting the preacher
or whoever that's talking on the back and saying, oh, you're
such a great preacher. You're such a, no, I'm talking,
exhort and encourage them in the Lord. A couple of buddies
of mine, David and Nick, one of the things that they, me and
Larry was talking about this yesterday after our deal, sometimes
we have these little sayings at the end of our letters or
as we're walking away, like God bless or stuff like that. We
don't know how to take that. It's not like I can bless you
or anything like that. God's gonna do what he's gonna
do. One of the things I was thinking after we left, these brothers
say, they always say, I pray that you're encouraged
in the Lord. I pray that you're encouraged in his word. I think
that's a great thing to say. And so often we don't hear that. I'm sure Larry gets a lot of
hate mail from all of the messages that he posts and sends out. He gets a lot of hate mail. And
how encouraging is it, brother, once in a while when you get
a message of someone saying, praise the Lord. That's the truth, that's
encouraged me, that's helped me. It's not to pump Larry up
or the preacher up or anybody else up who's delivering that
message, but it is a good encouragement. So the Bible is good for that,
to exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. What were we doing
yesterday when we gathered around the table? We were exhorting
each other in doctrine. We were exhorting each other
in doctrine. Sometimes you have to reprove and rebuke, but a
lot of times we can exhort. Now, turn with me, if you would,
back to Jeremiah. We're gonna look at two more
verses. Matter of fact, we're gonna look at this. Yes, this
one, and that'll be it. Jeremiah 15. Jeremiah 15 and verse 16. So we're, one of the reasons
we preach is to exhort. Well, here in Jeremiah verse
15, or chapter 15, verse 16, it says, thy words were found
and I did eat them. And thy word was unto me the
joy and rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by thy name,
O Lord God of hosts. So here we see that the word
of God caused the heart to rejoice. The word of God causes the heart
to rejoice. What a blessed thing that we
have the word of God. Amen. Anybody have anything that
you'd like to add or any comments that you'd like to make? Brother, I apologize. I am so sorry. I got going this
morning and completely forgot you were going to speak this
morning. Let's do it next week. Okay, I am so sorry, brother.
I understand. But I think the thing that is
amazing to me is that That's the real thing that I
think that you're pointing out. It's not just edify us, but it
glorifies God himself. And that's what he says regarding
Pharaoh for this very purpose, that my name might be declared
throughout the whole world. But anyway, we'll take a few
minutes. My apologies. I asked Brother
Larry last week if he would speak this week on something that the
Lord led him to speak on. And even yesterday, talked about,
are you going to speak in the morning? And had all that lined
out. And I just kind of got up here
and got into the mode that just carried on about today's business
here. But my apologies, Larry. I forgot all about that. So Lord
Will and Larry will be bringing that message to us next week.
Anybody else got anything? Or anything that I forgot? Okay.