Revelation chapter three, the sixth letter to the churches, God's people, that's who this is to. This city, this church is called Philadelphia, which actually means brotherly love. And as you know, that place in Pennsylvania, they claim that name. Well, it's far from a city of brotherly love. The homicide rate is very high there.

But this is to the church, and I remind you, all these letters, they're letters individually, and yet all of them apply to the church, all churches, all of God's people, okay? God's people do love one another. God puts that in them. By this shall all men know you're my disciples, Christ said, if you have love one to another. But yet we're reminded over and over again, aren't we? John, throughout his whole first epistle, keeps talking about that. And he plainly says, he that loveth not his brother, he doesn't know God. God is love. God gives us love, first of all, for himself. All things work together for good to them who love God, the God of the Bible. They're the called. The reason they love him is because he first loved them. They are the called, the loved, the chosen, the called according to his purpose by this gospel. So Philadelphia, that's what this means. And when Peter wrote that, see that you love the brethren, that's the actual word, Philadelphos.

So, and it's significant, and I'm gonna get to the text in a minute, but it's significant that the Lord does not tell the church that he loves them until now. Have you noticed that? He mentions to Ephesus, you've left your first love, but he does not tell the church until now, six letters later, And then look at verse nine in our text, chapter three. The last line, he says, I'm gonna bring people to worship before thy feet to know that I have loved thee. Right beside it, verse 19, as many as I love, I rebuke. See that? But it's significant that he waits until later.

And because God loves it. It's the love of God that drew salvation's plan, the song said, or purpose. It was the love of God that sent Christ for the great love set before him. And, but, you know, if you really love somebody, you don't have to tell them all the time. It'll show, won't it?

And the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. God does not tell his people first that he loves them. And a preacher doesn't stand up and first tell everybody, God loves you and Jesus died for you. No, no, no, no, no. The fear of the Lord is beginning with them.

Do you understand how significant this is? That he didn't bring up his love to them until much later. And this is what religion, false, and we've been, and the Lord talks about the seed of Satan and Jezebel and all of this, all through these letters, doesn't he? You've read it with me. There's so much warnings about false religion. And you read the rest of Revelation, have you? And Babylon and the great whore and all this, and this is what she does. This is how she flatters people. And she lies to people that hate God and tells them, God loves you. God doesn't say that.

You see how significant that is? Oh, he loves us all right. But we're going to know the fear of the Lord first. Man, the world uses this, uses and abuses the word love so much they made it a cheap thing. Talking about the love of God. It's fine to tell one another you love them. But you really don't have to say it all the time if you really know it, don't you? Do you? No, you don't. And what we're gonna see is how do we know God loves us? He sends the truth. He gives us the gospel. That's how you know. We're gonna see that. All right, look at it.

7. To the angel, preacher, pastor of the church in Philadelphia, write and preach these things, saying, He that is holy.

Our Lord, in all these letters, begins His letters by describing Himself, which distinguishes Him from the gods that men believe in today. And the first thing he says here, I'm holy, isn't it? Isaiah 6, holy, Isaiah said, I saw the Lord high and lifted up.

He said, the cherubs, the seraphs, all cry this day and night, holy, holy, holy. Now God's people know that. You ask God's people what is the chief characteristic of God Almighty, and they'll all tell you without exception, holy, just, righteous. When God spoke to Moses, going to show his glory, he said, I will by no means clear the guilty, holy and righteous. Isaiah 6, I saw the Lord high and lifted up, holy, holy, holy. So the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Look at the next line. Thus saith these things, saith he that is true. You know, this is eternal life. This is life eternal, our Lord said, that they might know thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he sent. This is life eternal. He that is true, he is the truth. He cannot lie. His Word is true. He is faithful. True means faithful, faithful God. He is true.

In Romans 3, Paul said this, and every single believer concurs, let God be true and every man a liar. And right now, I'm telling you, and you know it's so, Who or what can you believe today that you're hearing or you're seeing? Nothing. If that verse has never been so applicable till now, everybody's lying. And God is true. You can believe God, you should. Believe him. He's true. His word is true. His son is true. Look at verse seven.

It said, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth. The key of David and brother John, I thought he might read that in Isaiah 22. Verse 22 says of Eliakim, who's a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. and a high priest. And it says, he'll lay on his shoulder the key of the house of David. Now that's Jesus Christ. A key, a key is something that opens and locks and unlocks a door, isn't it? A key. You know, we're so strange, we don't even have keys anymore. This ain't a key, it's a fob.

And it costs about $400. Our Lord, why'd I say that? Because I hate these things, I hate them. I hate the route we're going today, don't you? You know, key. You know, a key unlocks and locks a door, and he that hath the key is the one that opens that door. If you don't have it, you can't get in unless he lets you in, can you? That's what this is saying. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, no man cometh unto the Father but by man. None. We're accepted in the beloved.

He not only has the key, he is the key. He not only opens the door, he is the door, right? He's the key, the key of the house of David. Why does he say David? Because he's the king, it's his kingdom. You don't get into his kingdom by your choice or your decision. You get in by his choice and his decision.

And it says, I love this in verse seven, It says, he that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth. He that openeth the eyes, he that openeth the ears, he that openeth the heart, he that openeth the mind, and he must do it. No man can open it, but he.

And this gives me, I love this verse, this is to the preacher. And this gives me comfort knowing that if the Lord purposes to open someone's heart to the Word, He's gonna do it. And it's not up to me. It's not by might, not by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. He said, you just preach the Word, and I'll open whoever's heart I have purposed to open. And He does. And the Word of God is His power. that openeth the heart, openeth the eyes, the ears, the mind, and no man shutteth. The person whom the Lord reveals himself to, nobody can unreveal him. What the Lord opens, no man can shut. And that gives me comfort too. If the Lord opens your heart and reveals himself to you, I can't mess it up. If he brings you into the fold, man does this give me hope. If you're really one of his sheep, I can't run you off. That gives me such hope. He that openeth, and no man shutteth. He that shutteth, and no man openeth.

In Isaiah 6, again, after it talks about the Holy Lord, he said, Isaiah, you go and preach to these people who have ears that are not listening. And he said, shut their ears. Shut their eyes, lest they be converted and I heal them. And let's harden their hearts. That's what God said. Okay, they won't listen to me, so God says, shut their ears. And don't they do that, turn away their ears from the truth. And whoever the Lord shuts their ears, no man can open them. That's why I preach with such urgency.

If you keep hearing and keep hearing, the Lord doesn't open your ears, open your heart. And then our Lord in Proverbs 1 says is coming today, that you're gonna call and I'm not gonna answer. Do you not reckon that so many people heard Noah, a preacher of righteousness in a hundred years? Do you not reckon that nearly everybody on the face of the earth heard about him and probably went to see him like people are going to Kentucky to see that idol? Don't go there. But they went, you know, let's see this phenomenon. Let's see this man building a boat on dry land. Don't you know them? They traveled to see that? And what they hear, they heard Noah with every beat of his hammer.

God is holy. God is holy. Man is sin. Man is sin. Judgment and righteousness coming. One way, one hope. The mercy and grace and love of God is in this ark. Get in the ark. Come to Christ. Come to Christ. And they would hear. And they would hear. And they went away. And eight souls went in the yard. And it says the Lord shut him in. Who opened that door? The Lord did. Who shut it? The Lord did. And no man can open it. It's shut. When what's the master of the house rises up and shuts the door? You see why every time we preach the gospel, we don't know when he's coming.

Today is a day of salvation. Isn't that what it says? Today. Come to Christ. Come to Christ. I want you to turn in Gadsby Hymnal to this. And the Lord shut Noah and his family in And they can't get out. I'm glad about that. What the Lord shuts, no man can open. Whom the Lord saved, no man can pluck him out of his hand.

Look at number 685 in Gatsby's hymnal. You're gonna love this. I quoted it the last time. I preached this six years ago on Wednesday night. And I quoted this. This is wonderful. You have it? Gatsby, Himmler, you have one in front of you? Okay. 685, you have it? Some of you older folks, I'll give you more time, Robin. You found it yet? Let your people behind you help you. All right, you got it? 685, you gotta see this.

When Noah, with his favored few, was ordered to embark, eight human souls, a little crew, entered on board the ark, his ark. Though every part God might secure with bar or bolt or pin, but to make the preservation sure, Jehovah just shut him in. The waters then might swell their tides, the billows rage and roar, they could not stave the assaulted side, nor burst that battered door.

So souls that into Christ believe, quickened by vital faith, eternal life at once receive, and never shall see death. In his own heart, the Christian puts no trust but builds his hopes on him that opes and no man shuts and shuts and no man opes. Keep reading. In Christ his ark, that's us, our ark, he safely rides, not wrecked by death or sin. How is it he's so safe above? The Lord has shut him in. Isn't that wonderful?

And somebody one time said, you know, Noah's a sinner. And if you're a sinner, you're gonna fall, aren't you? And one day after about, he was on that ark one year. And one day he woke up and stumbled and fell. But he didn't fall out of the ark. And we stumble and we fall. Fall into sin, to temptation, we fall.

But if you're in Christ, you can't fall out of the ark. The Lord has shut you in. Don't you like being shut up to faith? Not works. Free from the law, oh happy condition. We're shut up to the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. What a good place to be, all right? What a verse, that's just one verse. Verse eight, I know thy works. Behold, I've set before thee an open door, no man can shut it. There we go again.

The work of, and we've seen this, we've been looking at this, the work of the church, our principal work is the gospel, isn't it? The things of our Lord. As our Lord said from a young boy, he said, I must be about my father's business. What is the father's business? That's the vocation, our vocation. It's to glorify our God and glorify his son, to preach the gospel. My work is one thing, to preach the gospel. And yours is two, to witness, bear witness, glorify our Lord, But that's our one working, so I know your works, I know. The Lord acknowledges his church and what they do for his cause.

Behold, he says, I've set before thee an open door and no man can shut it. This really gives me hope too. Do you know how long people have wanted these doors to shut? The doors of the church, Psalm 2 said the kings of the earth, the rulers have set themselves against the Lord and against His anointing. Let's break their bands of sin. Let's get rid of this place. They can't do it. The Lord has opened this door. Have rest we are. He said no man can shut it. No man can shut it.

So I'm so thankful for that. this church, this place where the gospel is, where his name is, he's put his name here and brought a people here and the door's still open and this really gives me hope too, you know that? This really gives me hope. I really do have a burden and you do too for some that keep coming and are not yet coming and we want them to come and the door's still open and I'm so glad. That means, tells me that he might bring somebody else in. I hope so. Don't you? More than anything else. More than anything else.

So he says in our text, and no man can shut it. He said, thou hast a little strength. And you kept my word. I have not denied my name. You have a little strength. We can all attest to that. If I have any strength, it's very little. None of us would claim to have strong faith, would we? But you know what? Weak faith is still saving faith, if it's faith in Christ. If it's faith in Christ. Let me ask you this.

Let me see how little your faith is. Because faith is not in yourself. Faith is not how much you believe. It's who you believe. You understand? None of us believe him like we want to, but that's faith. All right. Let me ask you, is Christ all and in all to you? Is he all your hope of salvation? Seriously now, examine yourself whether you'd be unaffected. Do you have any hope, any trust in anything about you? Anything you have done or don't do or your sincerity or anything about you? You have no trust at all? No confidence in your life?

Is Christ your righteousness? I mean really, you hope to be in God's holy presence someday and you know you must be righteous and holy, that's who he calls his people, the righteous. Do you know that Christ is your only righteousness? Do you really believe that? Do you really? Is he your hope and peace?

Peace with God? Do you know, do you believe that Jesus Christ made peace for you with God who's angry and ought to be angry with you. But he's not because he said, he that believeth on the son hath life. And we believe those that believe Christ is their peace. Do you really believe that Jesus Christ bore the wrath of God and the judgment of God and paid the penalty for your sins on Calvary's tree and made peace by the blood of his God?

Do you really believe that? Do you believe that just a little bit or a lot? Did you hear me? Do you believe that a little bit? Do you have a little trust in yourself? No, I have none. So in other words, Believe that a lot. With all your heart, that Christ is all, I'd say you have more than just a little bit of faith. I'd say you're full of faith.

Strength, what is strength? Do you have any strength? Do you have any ability, any power, any ability to do anything to resist one temptation? Do you have any strength? Is Christ all your strength? I'd say you got more than just a little strength. You see, in our weakness, his strength is perfect.

When we come to the end of ourselves, where we can't find any reason why God would save us, and we look to Christ for mercy, that's faith, that's faith. Look at verse eight. He said, you've kept, you've kept my word and has not denied my name. We've kept his word. I want you to turn quickly. Second Corinthians two.

I remember when I first began preaching this verse, these verses, but this one verse really struck me and I tried to preach on it. I remembered like yesterday, Preaching it for Donnie Bell, he was encouraging to me as a young preacher. And I went down there to preach and my dad was there, and boy, I was just nervous. Oh, it was awful. I had to preach to my dad and Donnie.

But I preached this verse for him. And they both acted like it was the greatest sermon they ever heard. But look at it, 2 Corinthians 2. 2 Corinthians 2. And we can say this, every preacher can say this, and the people can say this with all their heart. Verse 17, you have it? We are not as many which corrupt the word of God. We don't do it. We don't do it, do we Jeff? We don't twist the word of God. We don't add to it. We don't take away from it. We don't skip over it. We don't explain it away, do we?

We go verse by verse. This church has been through about 50 books of the Bible, verse by verse. Some of them more than once. Verse by verse, not avoiding anything. There's not one word in this book that we don't like, that we're afraid to look at. Or we tremble at it, but we must preach it. Preach the word, Timothy. All of it. We don't corrupt the Word of God, we don't. But as of sincerity, we're sincerely doing this for the glory of God. We must preach what God says. That's what a preacher and those who believe, those who witness the truth say to this ungodly, God-hating world. Thus saith the Lord. I don't believe that. That makes no matter. Doesn't change a thing. This is what He says.

And this is what we're told to do. As of sincerity, we're in it sincerely for the glory of God, the love of God first, the love of His truth. And yes, salvation of souls, but we're not going to compromise to get people in here. We're not going to cut corners of the gospel to take the offense off the gospel. We're not going to do it. Sincerely, for the glory of God, salvation of soul, true salvation.

As of God, verse 17, as of God, sent by God. Remember, he said, if any man speak, let him speak as oracles of God. Thus saith the Lord. That's just your opinion. No, it's not. I'm telling you what God says. as of God, sent by God. Are there any men of God today? Of God? Are there?

If they're not, then it ought to be over. But it's not. There are some men sent of God. They didn't apply for the job. They were called, they were sent. You know by their message. What's their message? In the sight of God, they're conscious of who they represent and whose word they declare. And what do they speak? Look at it. Speak we in Christ. That's it. Is that this pulpit?

So he says, you have not, you've held, you've kept my word. And you have not denied my name. Go back to the text. You've kept my word. Kept it true. Kept true to his word. Dare not leave anything out or add anything to it. You remember the last words in this book? You add to this book. Take away. Take your name out. and add all the plagues to you. You haven't denied my name, oh my. Like the word love, men use and abuse the name God. If you fear God's name, you're very cautious to use it. You sure don't wanna take it in vain, do you? God, when we say God, we mean he is God. When we say Lord, we don't mean a figurehead. We mean Lord of Lords, absolute sovereign, reigning and ruling and controlling. God means creator, and that's who he is. God means potter. And what does that make us? Clay. Clay has no say. Cannot I do with my own what I will? Yes, you can, Lord. Yes, you can. Lord Jesus. When we call him Jesus, we mean just that.

He's Savior. He didn't try to save. He saved his people from their sins. He finished the work. There's nothing left to do. He finished. Christ. That's the Messiah. And there's only one. There's only one Messiah. Covenant head. Substitute. Second Adam from above. Lord Jesus Christ. We haven't denied his name. We fear his name. We exalt his name. We make mention his name is exalted.

That's a fact. Read verse nine. Behold, I'll make them of the synagogue of Satan. There it is again. It's all around in it. He warns every church. It's everywhere. Somebody might say, y'all talk too much about false religion. I guess you haven't read the Bible, have you? The whole Old Testament, every single prophet.

Revelation from start to finish is what God's gonna do with this mess. And he's got a church though in the midst of this mess, right where Satan's seed is. The God of this world that holds men captive. And the only thing that will release them from captivity is the gospel.

So that's what we do. That's what Christ came to do. Now make them of the synagogue of Satan that say they're Jews and are not and do lie. He said that before, didn't he? To Ephesus. Behold, I'll make them come and worship before thy feet. He's talking to the church. And to know that I have loved thee. Now, those that say they're Jews, look at Philippians chapter three. You know, he is not a Jew which is one outwardly. You know that, don't you? You know that, I see you nodding your head. Do you know how few people know that? Do you know where that is? Romans two, you know where that is, don't you? Sure you do. Circumcision is not outward, it's inward. Not with hands, without hands. God of the heart, God does it. The marks of God's true people are on the inside, not outside. Though they do somewhat display themselves. But a true Jew is one who, look at Philippians 3. Now Paul was a Jew and he took great pride in that. Look at verse five.

Saul of Tarsus was his name. He said, I was circumcised the eighth day of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I'm a Jew. He said he was a Jew. He was not a Jew at that time. He's a heathen. He didn't know God. He thought he did. He thought he knew the law. He didn't. He thought he was righteous. He doesn't know what righteousness is. He said he's a Jew. I'm a Hebrew Hebrew. Boy, he said when Christ came, slew him, put him into dust at Ananias' feet. An old country preacher. Who's Ananias? Do you know where Ananias is from? Do you? I don't either. Nobody does. Just a preacher. But he preached the gospel.

And Paul, that high-muckety buck Jew who would have been high-priest, the Lord put him in the dust at this man's feet to hear the gospel. Saul, my God, hath chosen you, that ye might know his will, and see the just one, and be his witness. He just circumcised him. Look at verse three.

We're the circumcision. We're the true Jews. Salvation's of the Jews, our Lord said. True Jews, inward, which worship God in the Spirit. Not outward, in the Spirit. Rejoice in Christ Jesus. The Jews don't even believe in Jesus Christ. Do they? They're the ones that killed him, primarily. They still don't believe that. They're waiting on the Christ to come. He's already come. Oh, we rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. No. All right, go back to our text. I've got to hurry. There's so much here.

And nothing you haven't heard, and he's mentioned to the other churches. So he's gonna bring some people that think they're believers and think they're saved and think they're Christians and good Christians, and I'm a Christian, my mom was a Christian, my dad was a Christian, I was born a Christian.

Somebody, Barnard asked a fellow one time, how long you been saved? He said, about all my life. He said, that's too long. Were you ever lost? So I'm going to bring, he said, people that think they're saved or not. People that think they're Christian and they're not. Think that they know God and they don't. Thinks they know the gospel and never heard it.

I'm going to bring them to your feet, to this church, and they're going to sit down. They're under the dominion of Satan in his seat. and I'm gonna bring them like that demoniac and sit them down and clothe them in the righteousness of Christ and sit them in their right mind, which is what?

The mind of Christ. And they're gonna know that this is the church that I love, where I send my gospel and they stand for it and nobody can shut that door. That's how you know who God loves. He sends the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what he said. They're going to know that I love you.

God doesn't love these houses of prostitution. Oh no. I was gonna have you read through Revelation, but read it for yourself. Talked about how all the merchants of the world are rich through all of this and religion and all, and they said, I'm gonna bring it down.

Verse 10, because thou has kept the word of my patience. Oh my, the word of his patience. All through scripture speaks of patience. The word of his patience is, and I was going to have you turn to Luke 21. Remember where he says, all this is going to happen because I say so.

Wars and rumors of wars and men's hearts will be failing. Why? Because God's angry. The wrath of God revealed from heaven. He said, in your patience, possess your souls. When you hear God's word, it makes you patient, wait, and wait, and hold on. What, to worry about anything? He that believeth not make haste.

Let's run to the hill. No, let's not. Let's just sit here and wait, okay? And we're not sitting at home tonight waiting on a word from the president. But we come and sit and wait on a word from the King of Kings and Lord of Lord, which gives us patience. We go home, go to sleep.

Well, the bombs would fall down. That's a fact. And we're waiting on him to come. Aren't we? Oh, the world's scoffing. See, 22,000 came and went. Where's the promises coming? Look, it's 26 years later. He ain't coming. He ain't coming when you say he's coming. It'll be a time when you think not. He sure wasn't coming in 2000, because a lot of people thought he might. So it's going to be when everybody says, well, I guess he's not coming at all.

Yes, he is. So we're waiting on the Lord. We come here and sit and wait patiently for a word from him to give us hope and patience. And we were patiently waiting on our Lord to come and get us and take us home. He said, I'll keep thee, verse 10, from the hour of temptation. This is wonderful people. He commends his church for keeping his word, not denying his name. But why did they keep His Word? Why do we keep His Word and not deny His name? Because He keeps us. But isn't that just like our Lord?

Like a father who teaches his child everything and has to do everything for it. And they do a little piddling work. You remember when your kids were really little and you'd give them something to do and they'd just mess it up. You had to go back and redo it. But you'd say, good job. Wouldn't you? Good job, son. Well done.

It is God that worketh in us, both the will do of his good pleasure. And yet he says, you've kept my word. We've kept his word because he's kept us. And this is how you know he's keeping us, to keep his word. If you remain faithful to the gospel and to each other, our Lord, it's because you're kept by the power of God. If you don't, it's your fault. You love yourself and you get all the blame. You didn't love God. You didn't love God's people. You're out for yourself. And so God leaves you alone yourself. But if you do stay faithful, it's because God has been faithful to you.

He gets all the glory. And if we leave, don't make excuses. It's your fault. Isn't that right? Let's try it. He gets all the glory. Yeah. So, read on. Verse 10, I'll keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon the whole earth, the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. We're in it, hour. Scriptures talks about years, teach us to number our days, thousand year, days are a thousand years, thousand years is a day. And here he says an hour. We're in the last hours. of the last days, you know that? This is the 11th hour. I'm certain of that from scripture. In an hour, the temptation, it hasn't changed, people. The temptation of Satan in the garden hasn't changed. It's still the same today. What did he tempt the woman with?

You'll be as God, free will, and lust the eyes and lust the flesh. Our Lord said that's all that's in the world. And that's what he, and that's what religion's doing. They speak of the world and the world hears them. We don't. We speak of another world. He that is of God, heareth us. Can we say that? Sure we can. We must. If our temptation is the very last day and Satan continues his assault, he will not overcome God's people. No way.

And John wrote to the young men and the fathers that you've overcome the wicked one. I read on. He said, Behold, I come quickly, hold that fast which thou hast. What do you have? What do you have? You know, everything we have physically and materially is fading fast, isn't it? Fading fast. When I came here, I had a head of hair. I did. That was gone real fast. But everything about us, our health, everything. Our children are gone. What do you have? What do you have left? One thing. What else do you need? That thou hast. Old fast now. And no man take thy crown. You know, this is not talking about he's gonna crown us with, no, no, no, no. It's a helmet of salvation. That crown, hmm.

Him that overcome with verse 12, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, a supporter of the gospel, of the gospel. The church is the pillar and ground of the truth. That's what the church does, brothers and sisters. That's all the church does. Two pillars in the temple, one named Jacob and Boaz upholding the temple. Both represent Christ. But Christ holds us up and we support his gospel. We hold up the head, don't we?

A pillar in the temple of God and he'll go no more out. I'm not leaving. That's what they said. They won't go out. Noah, the door's still open. Maybe the rain's not gonna fall. Seven days, God waited. Everybody laughing harder than ever. Look at them in that ark, those fools. Noah, will you go away? To whom shall we go? I believe. Let me shut the door. Amen. I'm a pillar, and you're not going out. Remember the Lord said to the people in the houses in Exodus, you stay in that house. Don't you leave that house. You stay in that house, and the cry is coming. The bridegroom cometh, and then we're going out. We're going up.

And he says, I'm gonna put, write the name of my God, a son of God on him or her, the name of the city of my God, the church, New Jerusalem, city of David, city of peace that cometh down out of heaven from my God. And I'll write upon him my new name.

Remember that? It's the word. You saw that, that no man knoweth save in him that receiveth it. The word of God written on your heart. He's magnified his word above all his name. That's what God writes on God's people's heart, and no man can erase it. Read on.

Now, did you hear all that? An ear, he that hath a single ear like the eye, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. Boy, I heard that. I heard that. Okay, stand with me. Our Lord and our God, in the name of thy Son, we thank you for your blessed word. Oh, the truth, Lord, thou art true, holy and true, just and holy is thy name. This is the truth. We know it. We believe it. You've revealed it to us, in us.

Thank you, Lord. Send in the truth. We're not worthy. of at least of all the mercies you've shown us, nor all the truth that you've declared on us, but you keep declaring it. And we have hope, Lord, for ourselves and for others, that this door is remaining open, that you might bring some into the fold. Amen. Oh, Lord, shut us in, shut us up. Don't let us leave. Leave, I leave me not alone. Still support. and comfort us and enable us to support thy truth and thy gospel and each other. In Christ's name, amen. You're dismissed. Thank you. He that oaks, and no man shuts, and shuts, and no man knows. He that oaks, and no man shuts, and shuts, and no man knows. wonderful