If you will, for a scripture reading, turn with me to Romans chapter 5. If you want to, you can put a marker in your Bibles. We'll be coming back to this text in just a few minutes. Romans chapter 5. Now, let me back up into chapter 4, because this has a lot of bearing on what we're going to be looking at in chapter 5. This is talking about Abraham.

Verse 18, it says, who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken. That is, according to the promise of God. So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform. And therefore, it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now, it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him or charged to him. but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification.

Therefore, that is based on what he had just said, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. And we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope. And hope maketh not a shame, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which was given unto us.

For when we were yet without strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through the Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have received being told. May the Lord add his blessing to the reading of his word.

If you will, turn back with me to Romans 5. My text is verse 5, but I want to look at the first five verses and perhaps a few before that. My subject is hope that maketh not ashamed. Now, I sometimes offend folks with comments concerning false religion.

They don't think such things are needful, constructive, or fitting for a minister of God. But the Apostle Paul, whose ministry you cannot doubt, he wrote more than half the New Testament. We can't doubt his ministry. This minister of God told the Galatians, he said, I would that they were even cut off which trouble you. What's he talking about cut off? He's talking about being cut off from God, cut off from mercy, love, cut off from eternal life. He said, I would that they were even cut off that trouble you. He calls them perverts in the first chapter. They pervert the gospel.

In Matthew 16.6, our Lord warned his disciples about the leaven of the Pharisees.

And this was following an event where they didn't have anything to contribute to feed the multitude, and so they assumed that he was scolding them for not having bread. And they misunderstood and thought he was reprimanding them for not bringing bread with them. But in verses 9 through 11, he tells them plainly what he meant. And then in verse 12 of Matthew 16, he tells them this. Then understood they how he bathed them, not concerning the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Beware of it. John the Baptist, seeing the Pharisees and scribes coming to his baptism, called them vipers. Wow, what if I stood up here this morning and we had some visitors here and I said, you vipers, huh? You go back home and you bring fruit unto repentance. You come in here and show me some sign of repentance before you start talking about worship and hearing and forgiving and all this kind of stuff.

That's what he said. Do you think they were offended? False religion in the Bible is likened to a brothel. How much more offensive can you get? He's saying that the folks down at the First Baptist Church, let me be as clear as I can be, is nothing more than a brothel. That's what he's saying, the Methodist church. Any other church that don't preach Christ crucified is nothing in the world but a brothel. You think that's offensive? You bet it is.

Sin, this sinful religion goes by the name Babylon the Great. You remember what Babylon was all about? men by their works and will trying to build a tower into heaven, trying to find some other way into heaven other than God's way. Babylon the Great, that describes every religion on this earth except true religion. False religion, their doctrine is called profane and vain babblings in the scripture.

I ain't talking about what some preachers said. I'm talking about what men that we know had a true ministry of God said, and they said it being inspired by the Holy Spirit. He said, their talk is nothing more than profane and vain babblings. Their word, Paul said, doth eat as a cancer.

Peter said they come in unawares. That is, you don't notice them. They just kind of sneak in one day and they start coming. And they bring with them damnable heresies. Well, they're just of a different opinion. No. Damnable heresies. Denying the Lord that bought them. denying his station, denying his necessity and the necessity of his death and of his life and of his representative office. They deny the Lord the bottom and bring upon themselves swift destruction. In John's second epistle, he warns the elect lady in her house of the danger of anyone coming there to worship and lead in worship who brings not the doctrine of Christ.

He said not even greet him. Don't let him into your house, and don't bid him Godspeed. That is, have a blessed day. Don't tell him that. Why? Because you've now become partaker of his evil deeds. You're putting your stamp of approval on him when you say, well, the Lord blessed you. The Lord's not going to bless him. He doesn't bless a lie. Jeremiah said they'll cry, peace, peace, where there is no peace. And they'll say these things to heal the hurt of God's people slightly. Now let me tell you, we'll have a little English lesson here. That word slightly can mean just a little. I moved that just slightly. But it also means to steal or to take something wrongfully. You slight somebody. And that's how it's used here.

They heal the hurt of God's people by being crooked. And that's what they do when they cry, peace, peace, where there is no peace. He says of such men that their ministry is an abomination to God. And committing such abomination, they're not at all ashamed. That's how Jeremiah described it. They built a refuge for men and daubed the walls of it with untempered mortar.

They pollute me, God said. They pollute God. How they do that, they downgrade his character. They ignore his commandments and his will and his way. They pollute me, God said, among my people for handfuls of barley and pieces of bread. They're merchandisers of men's souls. And they slay the souls of them who should not die and save the souls alive that should not live.

That's how the prophet of God describes these men. False religion is plainly declared to be the working of Satan. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, with all power and signs and lying wonders. The Lord said to his own apostles and disciples, he said, the day will come when men will kill you thinking that they do God a service. And they did. All but John.

Now, if you want to ignore the danger of such things so you don't hurt somebody's feelings, that's up to you. But I feel it incumbent on me to warn folks about false religion. Peter said this, save yourselves from this untoward generation. They talk about drawing nigh unto God, but he said, They're moving untoward, they're going the other way.

And he said, Savior, how are you going to do that? Find somebody that's preaching the truth and sit down and listen to it. And read the word of God. My soul, some people come here to worship, don't even carry a Bible. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. This is God's Word. This is the foundation, the basis of our hope, is the Word of God. Yes, you hear it from the pulpit, and you may hear it from other members of the church, but you don't know if God said it till you read it, do you? I heard things my whole life. Cleanliness is next to godliness. I heard that my whole life.

That's not in the Bible. That's not the Word of God. God's not willing for any soul to perish. That's not in the Bible either. He said, God's long-suffering to us for his elect, not willing that any should suffer, but that all should come to repentance.

They leave all the rest of that off. And whether you know it or not, every unbelieving soul is walking according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now worketh in the children of disobedience. How's he doing it? Through the religion of this world and through their influence on everybody else.

You can find the worst drunk there is in Texarkana, go sit down with him in the bar and start talking religion, and he'll start talking with you. He'll converse with you. He'll tell you what he thinks. Where'd he get his information? He just listens. He just listens to what everybody says.

And that's where most people get their religion. Now having said these things, let me say this. All religion, false or true, sets things before men to give them a hope before God. The difference will be proved when the hope is presented to God, or looked at in the light of His Word.

My wife said the first time she heard the gospel, she realized and got angry. Somebody had been lying. Either this man's lying or this man's lying. When she confronted the false preacher, here's what he said. Well, I don't have my Bible with me. Or what in the world are you doing preaching and not have a Bible, or not knowing what it says? But he said, I'll tell you how it is.

Satan voted against you. God voted for you, and you hold the deciding vote. That's a lie. I'm trying to tell you there's just one truth. There's one gospel. You can read it over in Ephesians chapter 4. There's a whole verse or two there of nothing but there's just one. One spirit, one father, one gospel, one baptism. One calling. Called in one hope of your calling. There's just one hope.

And religion says, well, we're all just spokes in a wheel. No, we're not. All religions foster true such things before men that they might have a hope before God. And the difference will be proved when the hope is presented to God. You make a profession of faith, God's going to try it. Now you read 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and see if I ain't telling you the truth. He's going to try it. How's he going to try it? He's going to put it through the fire. He's going to put it through the fire. You want a pure thing of gold, it has to go in the fire.

You make a profession of faith, that's telling everybody that God has done a work in you. Now if God hasn't done a work in you, God's going to prove it. If he's done a work in you, he's going to prove it. And either way, it's going to be proved in the fire.

You're not going to escape the trials and tribulations of this world. You're not going to escape temptation. And he won't tempt his own above that which they're able to bear, but will with the temptation make a way of escape. But he's going to try you. And if it's not of God, he's going to prove it. He's going to prove it to you, and he's going to prove it to the whole world. This is not my work. This is not what I do. If it's true and genuine, he's going to prove that too. They're going to wake you up and say, well, God killed your two children.

Well, it's the Lord let him do what seemed to him right. is plainly told by our Lord that in the day of judgment, some will say, have not we prophesied in thy name? Weren't we preachers? I pastored the first Baptist church. And I prophesied in your name. Have not we cast out devils? Didn't we take that drunk, convert him, make him a church member? If not, we cast out devils. And in thy name done many wonderful works. Didn't we have a soup kitchen? Didn't we feed the hungry? That man whose house burnt down, didn't we give him some clothes to wear? If not, we done many wonderful works. You know what the Lord tells them? He said, then will I profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity. Now, I tell you, you do a good work, which is the fruit of that work that God does in you.

If you're not grafted into the vine, how are you going to produce any fruit? But if you are grafted in, you will produce these good works. And the difference between you handing that man some clothes to wear, and this man who's pretending to be a Christian hand in those clothes, is you're doing it out of gratitude. But this man's doing it to be sane. To be sane of men. So what are you saying, Pastor? I'm saying this. Religion sells men an empty poke. An empty sack.

I used to sell depression glass. that they gave away back during the Depression at gas stations and things, and people would collect it. Well, now it's antique, and it's valuable. And we'd go to auctions, and they'd have a bunch of boxes. And his helper would be looking around down in the box, and he'd say, see what's in here. And he'd pull up that Depression glass just enough for you to get a glimpse that it was Depression glass. And he'd put it back in. And he said, well, it's full of old dishes. And they'd start bidding on it. Of course, that bid would go out the roof. They thought this thing was full of depression glass. The guy that bought it, when he got the box, there was one piece of depression glass in it, and it was chipped and worthless. The rest of it was just old dishes. Religion sells you an empty poke.

They pull up something good. That's that good tasting stuff that's in rat poisoning. That's why the rats eat it. You pull up something good, and boy, you spend everything you got to have it. And you get it, and you got nothing. You bought an empty pot.

But there is a righteous hope, a godly hope, an eternal, everlasting hope, a hope that maketh not ashamed. And that's what this verse is talking about. There's a hope. that when it comes time to have it and use it, you're not going to be ashamed. You're not going to reach in there and find an empty poke. It's real. And all the shame that will come on this unbelieving world at the judgment, whenever knee bows and every tongue shall confess Jesus to be Lord to the glory of God.

Like Daniel of old, their comeliness will melt into corruption. And that's what happens to every believer. He thinks he's pretty good until the gospel comes home to him and the spirit convinces him of sin. And then he sees himself like Paul, the chief of sinners. Read Philippians, what Paul has to say about himself. He said, you think you got something to hope in? I got more. I'm a real. Child of Abraham, I'm of the tribe of Benjamin. Touching the law, I'm blameless." Huh? Boy, he had hope, didn't he?

He thought he did, till the Lord revealed how sin worked in him and took that law that he loved so much and trusted in so much and used that law to blind him and veil him of the truth, make him think he was somehow saved and doing God's work. And then he said, I saw the sin revived and I died. All of a sudden he saw himself for what he was.

He's the sinner. He's everything that God hates. That's the sinner. Oh, how often we like to look out that window and talk about the world and how ugly and bad and sinful they are. You want to know what this sin is all about? Go look in the mirror. That's right. He shows us what we are and he slays us in our own mind and we don't want anything else to do with this flesh because we know what it is. We know how sinful it is.

Religions filled with men who are ministers of Satan. Now, in case you just think I'm trying to slander men, you can read about it in 2 Corinthians chapter 10. He'll go into detail there, show you what it's all about. He said these false prophets, they conform themselves into ministers of righteousness. And just a few verses down, he says, he calls them Satan's ministers. And that's how Satan does. He promotes himself as a minister of righteousness. He just appears that way. He can dress it up that way.

All right, now let me get to my text here in Romans 5. There's four things I want us to see in this text concerning a real hope before God. how this hope begins, how this hope is conveyed, how this hope is proved, and what this hope does. So let's begin where hope begins. Romans chapter 5 begins with a therefore. As I've told you so many times, when you see a therefore, look to see what it's there for. And you look back and see what it's there for.

And in the last verse of chapter four, Paul tells us that Christ was delivered for our offenses, raised again to declare our justification. His resurrection is not what justifies us. You read on here a little further, you'll find out that his blood is what justified us. It's his death. It's his obedience, his perfect obedience and suffering. He satisfied God. That's what justifies us. But we find ourselves justified by faith. We discover what we are and who he is and what he's done. And now we see that when God raised him from the dead, God is declaring all for whom he died to be justified.

It's a general declaration. that his work has been accepted of God. Salvation is of the Lord and our God as God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ becomes our Father as he is for Christ. It's according to his eternal purpose of grace that Christ has made the full provision of God for chosen sinners. Sinners, he tells us in Ephesians 1, 3, who are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. What's he talking about?

What are these spiritual blessings? Well, he's talking about their beings. You know, if I thought that I was born into this world to be a vessel of wrath, fitted for destruction, I couldn't rejoice in that. I'd mourn all my days. But some, some were blessed a fuller time. And that's what he's talking about here.

How were they blessed? Well, they were blessed in their being. God created this vessel to be a vessel for his glory. And they're blessed. When was that done? Way back yonder. So we're blessed in our beings. We're blessed in our life. God gives a good providence. He accompanies his children with a good providence. We know that. That's what Paul wrote. All things working together for our good. So we're blessed with a with a good providence, and what about the means that God's put in place?

How'd you discover the gospel? You think you just lucked up one day and stepped in the building? No, it's God's providence brought you here. No man, Christ said, is going to come unto me unless he's drawn by the Father. He's going to be drawn of the Father to here, And then the Father's going to teach him, and when he does, he's going to come to Christ. All these means set in place by God. This work of salvation in him. Blessed, that's a spiritual blessing. Christ reign in glory. Ain't you glad he sits on the throne?

Boy, what if these presidents and kings and ministers in this world, what if they were running things? They think they are. What if they really were? Huh? We fear for our own country, and we have a pretty decent man in there. What would it be if everybody that sat in that seat really was running things?

Oh, I tell you, this is a spiritual blessing. Christ sits on the throne at the right hand of God, heart of the kings in the hand of the Lord. And what about his final coming and all the days between now and then, which may not be many? Spiritual blessings, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the difference between hearing in here and hearing here.

Everything rides on the person of Christ. Please the Father that in him should all fullness dwell. He has the preeminence. Everything rides on the person of Christ. God is our father in a spiritual sense, the same as he's the father of our Savior and Lord. These blessings are according to Ephesians 1, 4, that as we're chosen in him before the foundation of the world, and the end of it is that we should be holy in perfect harmony with God without blame. Boy, I can't look myself in the mirror and say that, but he can. I'll tell you what God sees is Christ.

And he sees us in Christ without blame. Every sin paid for in full. Fully reconciled. And loved. Secured his love in us to the Savior. Boy, I love that more than anything. Can't be separated from the love of God. Oh, that's a peaceful thought. You can go to sleep on that.

God chose us in Christ, He secured His love for us in Christ, manifested His love to us, and this He did, Ephesians 1, 5, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children. We're not just saved from sin and gathered in a little group up in heaven over to one side When folks want to know what they are, they come up out of great tribulation. All that's true enough, but he's predestinated his people, for whom Christ died, to be children. They're heirs. Heirs. Heirs of what? His grace, his glory. We're going to stand with him in his glory.

I can't even imagine what that is. I can't imagine his glory. who can command angels and as a drop of a hat just walk on water, tell a storm to be still. I can't imagine this glory and all the glories of the salvation of his elect and all of these things and I'm standing there with them and the angels looking on praising God. We're heirs of his glory, we're children, heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ. And we rejoice in the hope of glory. Ain't that what it says? Oh.

Now in time, God created the world, put a representative man in it, made him a helpmate, and set the stage of redemption and adoption upon whom he'll reveal the glory of his name in Christ. He will, as Daniel perceived it, he's going to finish the transgression, make an end of sins, and make reconciliation for iniquity, and usher in everlasting righteousness. Daniel chapter 9.

So many weeks determined, and Christ is going to come. And this is what he's going to do. He'll seal up all prophecy. And God will anoint the most holy. All hope before God is in Christ. That's as simple as I can put it. And then secondly, how is this hope conveyed? You know what a conveyor is? Go into any factory, you'll see it. The product being moved from point A to point B is going down there on a conveyor. How is this eternal provision in Christ conveyed to his people?

Romans chapter 5, verse 1. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. By faith. Abraham believed God. He believed God. And God counted it to him for righteousness. He didn't get a certain haircut. He didn't put on the Jewish little cap and all that stuff. That's not what constituted his righteousness. That man justified by faith has peace with God. God's charged him with the righteousness of his son. He ushered in everlasting righteousness.

Now listen close to what I'm going to tell you. We were justified in the mind and purpose of God when he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. Now, somebody's going to hear this message, and they're going to text me or write me a letter, and they're going to say, no, that takes away the reason for Christ coming into this world. No, it don't.

It establishes the reason for Christ coming into this world. We were justified in the mind and purpose of God before the foundation of the world. It was accomplished on the cross. When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son. Why did he send him? Because he determined that justification way back yonder in the beginning.

There's no other way that we could be holy and without blame before him in love. No other way. make full provision for us way back yonder in Christ. God hates all the workers of iniquity and curses everyone who continues not in all things written in the book of the law to do them. And when Christ was raised from the dead, having accomplished our salvation, he entered into heaven itself and obtained eternal redemption for us. Now, you can't be eternally redeemed and not eternally justified. His resurrection declares accomplished justification. But this justification is not a universal doctrine. It's particular.

The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. He'll save his people from their sins. And having justified us by his righteousness and shed blood and declared it to be accepted by his resurrection, He makes this challenge to any and all. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?

Now, you can read about that in Romans chapter 8. It is God that justifies. There's no appeal from his seat. If he justifies a man, he justifies. Who is he that condemneth? It's Christ that died. If you condemn me, you deny the satisfaction of the death of Christ, because that's where my hope is. God's justification received by faith is taught all through the book of Romans. It's a vital part of the revelation of Christ given through the gospel of Christ.

And God has and is setting forth his son, as he says in Romans 3, to be the propitiation for sins through faith in his blood. That is, we look at his blood and see that it's satisfactory, it's sufficient. His death is sufficient to satisfy God. And he does it to declare God's righteousness for the remission of sins.

God's righteous when he forgives my sins. And he's just and justifier of all that believe. The preaching of the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it. He said to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed. It declares the perfect harmony of God's justice and his righteousness in his name. And it comes through the preaching of the gospel and the inward working of the spirit of God.

All right, thirdly, how does God prove this hope? The hope that God gives to chosen sinners is not something to guess about. Well, I guess I'm saved. No, there's a little more to it than that. God not only proves it to you, but he proves it to all who know you. He tells us we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ and access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.

What's the difference? It's the difference between hearing something and spreading the gossip or actually seeing a thing and being there. That's the difference. I heard what somebody else said. I did that growing up in religion. I'd hear what these people say on testimony night. And when I was asked to give my testimony, I'd just repeat what I heard. I was just a little kid. I didn't know him better. I'm just doing what I was told.

How does this, what's this faith, how's this faith proved? Through tribulation. Proved through tribulation. He says in Romans 5, 3, and not only so, but we glory in tribulations also. Tribulations are troubles. Why would anybody rejoice in trouble? Well, listen. Knowing that trouble worketh patience. How?

Being constantly delivered out of it. And patience, experience. This is talking about a deliverance that's repeated time and again in our lives. It's the experience of every believer that God works in him a continual work of grace. That doesn't relieve us of the responsibility of having sinned or having done something wrong, but God comes along and delivers us out of it, shows us the right thing to do, and we do it. And having delivered us out of it, the next time we get in trouble, we've got a little patience. You know, I got a little hope. God got me out of that mess. He's going to get me out of another mess. It's a continual work of grace. We're being saved.

Let me show you something over here in 2 Corinthians chapter 1. Turn over there with me. 2 Corinthians chapter 1. Now you're all aware that the church at Corinth was going through all kinds of trouble. trouble upon trouble. And Paul writes to them to encourage them to stand together. And here's what he tells them. 2 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 9.

He said, we had the sentence of death in ourselves. Why? Why were we in this mess? That we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death that is in Christ, and doth deliver, in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us." That's a continual work of grace, start to finish, all of God, all of grace. Our experience of grace is that God always delivers us and is faithful to his word and his promises. And then lastly, what does hope do? What is the fruit of hope? It says in verse five, and hope maketh not ashamed.

Oh, I'm ashamed of my sin that brought about the trouble. I'm ashamed of my ignorance in how to deal with it. Ain't you? Get in a mess and you just start doing this, that, and the other because you think something needs to be done. Oh, how ignorant we are. So I'm ashamed of my sin that got me into the mess. And then I'm ashamed of my ignorance on how to deal with it. But I'm not ashamed of my hope. And here's why. Second part of the verse. Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us. Now, I've told you this story before, but I'm going to tell you again.

I was just a little kid, probably second grade at the most. And my little friend and I, we rode the bus together. And we were coming to school, and I felt this hand tugging on my shirt. And I turned around and looked. He went like that, and I held my head back, and he whispered in my ear, he said, we're rich. And I said, what do you mean we're rich? He said, well, see, he had this paper bag, and he opened it up, and it's full of money. Well, I got all excited.

I didn't know. I thought he, I didn't know where he got it. Anyway, he got off the bus, and we got together that day, and after school, There was a Western auto store down there, had all kind of appliances and kids toys. I went there and bought me the neatest looking cowboy suit you've ever seen. I had the hat, the vest, the six guns, and put it on. And man, I was so proud of that thing. I've been wanting that thing forever. And he bought what he wanted, and we both went home. Well, man, I walked through the door with that outfit on.

My mom said, where on earth did you get that? Oh, my friend Ronnie got it for me. Well, where'd he get the money? I said, well, I don't know. And he said, well, let's call up there and find out. So she called his mom, and she found out the truth about what had happened.

Turned out one of the young ladies, probably a cheerleader or something, had had money raised for uniforms and dropped the sack on the bus, and he found it. So now we had to go back to the store, take all the stuff back, and apologize. You can imagine the shame in that. And then I had to go to the little girl's house.

And I went in there, and Dad went with me, and we went in there. And this little girl's daddy was a giant. I mean, he was a big old man, big, deep voice. He went to just talking real loud and right up in my face and pointing his finger at me like that.

And they might have had the whole thing made up, I don't know. But he was doing this, and I don't think he did. I think this man was just mad. I got a good mind to have you prosecuted, and I thought I was going to jail. Man, I'm just a little old kid. I was sitting there, and my knees was knocking, and I was shaking all over with big tears running down my face. All of a sudden, my dad took his arm, put it behind him, and he said, whatever he owes, you put it on my bill. I'll pay it. You're going to prosecute him, prosecute me. I stand good for him.

That's what this verse is talking about. For the first time in my life, I realized. I mean, I knew he loved me, but not like that. That love is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost. How does he do it? In trials and deliverance, God continues to show his love, don't he? That's what that verse is talking about. And this hope maketh not ashamed. It's not going to let you stand in shame. Your grace is going to deliver you. May the Lord teach us all the truth of his word. Thank you.