Right now, if you would open
your Bibles to Psalm 43. Our text is going to be taken from Exodus
chapter 5, but I thought I'd read through the text as we go. Read this Psalm before the message. I keep forgetting to announce
that the Lord willing, Sunday I'll be preaching in Danville,
Kentucky. And Jonathan Tate and Dan Morgan will be bringing the
messages. here this weekend. I know that will be a blessing.
Psalm 43. Judge me, O God, and plead my
cause against an ungodly nation. O deliver me from the deceitful
and unjust man, for thou art the God of my strength. Why dost
thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of
the oppression of the enemy? Send out thy light and thy truth.
Let them lead Let them bring me unto thy holy hill and to
thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar
of God, unto God my exceeding joy. Yea, upon the harp will
I praise thee, O God my God. Why art thou cast down, O my
soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? Open, God, for I shall
yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God. Let's bow together in prayer. Our Father, we've come into this
house this evening to worship you. Father, I beg of you that
you would send your spirit upon us and enable us to do that.
Enable us to worship you in spirit and in truth. Not by going through
the motions of religion or by the deeds of the flesh, but Father,
in spirit, Let us worship you this evening. Well, I pray that
you would make the Lord Jesus Christ clearly set forth in your
word this evening. Father, enable me to preach him
a right, enable your people, enable all those who are here
tonight, Father, to hear with the ear of faith, to hear a right,
and cause us to see the glory of Christ our Savior and to trust
him. Father, show us your glory, we
pray. And Father, we thank you for
the many blessings of this life, how richly beyond measure that
you've blessed us. And Father, we're thankful. We
know everything we have has come from thy hand as a free gift
of your grace. And we ask your forgiveness for
ever murmuring, complaining, and doubting your goodwill after
all that you've done for us. We pray that you continue to
bless us in spite of ourselves. Bless this congregation, Father,
for your great namesake. Bless the word that's preached
here, that it may go forth and sound forth to find your sheep
and to bring them to the Lord Jesus Christ. Father, we dare
not forget to pray for those who are in times of great difficulty,
sorrow and sickness, We pray, especially for our brother, Ed
Sparks, that you'd be with him at this time and that you'd give
him some relief from this suffering and pain. Be with him, Father,
we pray. The others who are facing surgery
and tests and different difficulties of this life, Father, you know,
and we hold them up to thee. Pray you'd give them a fulfillment
of your promise that your grace is sufficient. All these things
we ask and we give thanks in that name which is above every
name, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. It's for his sake and
his glory we pray, amen. All right, now I've titled the message
this evening Driven to Christ, Driven to Christ. You know, the
message of all of scripture is that Almighty God elected a people
unto salvation. and the Lord Jesus Christ came
in the flesh and he fully accomplished that salvation for those people. Christ obeyed the law as the
representative of his people, so his people are free from the
law. They're free from the burden of the law. They're free from
having to obey that law as a way to earn a righteousness. They're
free from the penalty of the law because Christ died and paid
the penalty for them. Christ took the sin of his people
away from them And he made it his. And then he paid the price. He paid the penalty. He put that
sin away by the blood of his sacrifice. And now the sin of
God's elect is all gone. God's people are justified. Christ
made them innocent. By his obedience and by his death,
he made them innocent. Innocent of every charge. So
God's holy and just character demands that they must be saved. They must go free from the law,
they must be saved, and they must be finally glorified together
with Christ. Now, this is what we know. We
know God's elect shall be saved. We know that, don't we? The character
of God demands it. But, before God saves his people,
I'm telling you, he's gonna make them so miserable that they will
be driven to Christ to beg for mercy. The Lord's gonna make
them so miserable, they see they don't have any hope in themselves,
they see they don't have any other hope but Christ and they'll
be driven to Christ. The Lord's gonna make his people
so miserable under the law and the works of their flesh, they're
gonna make them so miserable in that, that they will gladly
come away from self and run to Christ. The Lord's gonna make
them so miserable So that when they do come to Christ, they're
gonna have even more joy in resting in Christ. And when the Lord finally draws
us to Christ, isn't that a joy? I mean, joy
unspeakable. What a joy, what a rest. But let me give you this little
warning. If you haven't figured it out for yourself yet, that
when we come to Christ, that does not mean that we're done
being miserable. No, the Lord's gonna send us
troubles and trials to teach us the misery of trusting in
our flesh. The Lord sends his people trouble
and trial so that his people will keep experiencing the joy
of being driven to Christ and finding rest and peace and comfort
in him. The Lord sends us trials to wean
us away from this world and make us ready to leave it. You think back when you were
25, 30, 35 years old. You had the strength of life.
Your back didn't hurt. Your feet didn't hurt. Children
were little. Children were all at home. I
mean, you know, this is the best time of life. If it was always
like that, you'd never want to leave, would you? And the Lord's
got to wean us away. and make us ready to lead. He
does that with trial, these troubles and trials that drive us to Christ. Now there is a very, very clear
picture of that in our text this evening. I want to give you just
a couple of things from it, beginning in Exodus chapter five, verse
four. The Lord uses the law to make
his people miserable so that they'll be driven to Christ.
Verse four, Exodus five, And the king of Egypt said unto them,
wherefore do you, Moses and Aaron, let the people go, or let the
people from their works, get you under your burdens? And Pharaoh
said, behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make
them rest from their burdens. And Pharaoh commanded the same
day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, you
should no more give the people straw to make brick as heretofore.
Let them go and gather straw for themselves. and the tally
of the bricks which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay
upon them, ye shall not diminish ought thereof. For they be idle,
that's why they're crying, let us go and sacrifice to our God.
Let more work be laid upon the knee that they may labor therein
and let them not regard vain words. Now Moses and Aaron came
to Pharaoh and said that the Lord God said, let my people
go. And Pharaoh says, I'm gonna tell you how I'm gonna fix this
problem. The Israelites got too much time on their hands. That's
why they're coming up with all these ideas about leaving here,
you know. Well, I'm gonna fix that problem. Pharaoh says, I'm
gonna give them so much more work to do. They don't have any
free time. They're not gonna have time to be devising all
these ways that they're gonna quit being our slaves and leave.
Now that cruelty is a picture of the law of God. The law of
God does not allow you and me any time off. God's law requires
that we work and that we obey that law. We are under that burden
of the law and we carry it constantly. 24-7, 365, all the days of our
life. And if you don't do it, the law's
gonna beat you and will ultimately damn you. And the law's not gonna
help you obey it either. Law's not gonna give you any
help in this thing. Look at verse 10. And the taskmasters
of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the
people. Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not
give you straw. Go you, and get you straw where
you can find it. Yet not all of your labor shall
be diminished. Now the Pharaoh said, we're not
gonna give you any more straw like we used to, so you can make
bricks. Now you have to go collect your
own straw. And we're not gonna help you do it. Now you better
get busy because even though you got to collect your own straw,
you still got to produce the same number of bricks every day
that y'all was used to. Now that's God's law. God's law
gives us the commandment of what God requires, but never tells
us how to do it. I mean, you just think these
people are trying to make bricks without straw. How am I supposed
to do that? How am I supposed to go out and
gather straw and still make as many breaks as I ever did? Nobody
was telling them how to do it, were they? They just said, this
is what the commandment is. Same thing with the law of God.
The law of God tells us what God requires of us. It requires
perfect obedience. But it doesn't give us the ability
to do it. The only thing the law can do
is say, get to work. And if you don't do it perfectly,
you're guilty. The law requires perfection,
even though it's impossible for us to produce it. Look at verse
12. So the people were scattered
abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead
of straw. Sounds like they couldn't even
find any good straw. They're just collecting stubble.
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfill your works. Your
daily task is when there was straw. And the officers of the
children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them,
were beaten and demanded, wherefore have you not fulfilled your task
in making brick both yesterday and today as heretofore? You
know, the Israelites were required to make just as many bricks as
they did before, but now that's impossible. It's impossible for
them to do that if they gotta go out and get their own straw
and all they're finding is stubble. It's impossible. It's impossible
to obey this commandment. The same thing is true with God's
law. Now, by nature, what we think
that the law requires of us is outward obedience. We think if
we don't take the name of the Lord in vain out loud, or if
we refrain from killing somebody that's offended us, or if I don't
go to the no-tell motel and cheat on my spouse, then I'm innocent
of doing those things. That's what we think. But the
Lord Jesus told us but I say unto you, he told us what the
law really requires. If you even think the Lord's
name, just think it in vain, you're guilty. I was reading
today that some of those old Jews, they wouldn't even write
the name Jehovah in fear that they're taking his name in vain.
The Lord told us if you get angry with somebody, Without a cause,
you're guilty of murder. Even get mad at them with a cause.
You're guilty. You're guilty of murder because
you thought it. You thought it in your heart. The Lord says
if you even look on a woman to lust after her in your heart,
you're already guilty of adultery. If you even think of sin or desire
to do wrong, the Lord say you're guilty. It's not just outward
obedience, it's obedience of the heart. And somebody says,
well, I can't do that. You know, the preacher tells
us what God's word is saying. They say, well, that's not fair.
I can't help how I feel. I can't stop these thoughts,
you know, going through my head. There's no way I can make myself
righteous. If that's what the law requires,
it's impossible for me to obey it. Just as impossible as making
bricks without straw. It's impossible because my nature
can't do it. Well, the law of God, instead
of giving me a way to earn my way to God, God's law makes me
miserable, because it doesn't give me a chance. All God's law
is trying to do is condemn me, and I can't escape it. Now, that's
pretty miserable, isn't it? And when you find yourself in
that state, a word of advice, you better not look to the law
for mercy. because the law doesn't know anything about mercy. You
better not look to the law to lessen its demands on you, because
all the law knows is perfect obedience. That's what happened
to the children of Israel. Look at verse 15. Then the officers
of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying,
Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? There's no straw
given unto thy servants. And they say to us, Make brick
and behold, thy servants are beaten, but the fault is in thine
own people. But he said, you're idle, you're
idle. Therefore you say, let us go
and do sacrifice to the Lord. Go therefore now and work, for
there shall no straw be given you, and you shall deliver the
tally of bricks. And the officers of the children
of Israel did see that they were evil, that they were in evil
case. After it was said, you should
not manage off from your bricks of your daily task. The Israelites,
they made a big mistake. They went to Pharaoh to try to
relieve their suffering. They went to Pharaoh to find
relief from Pharaoh. He's not gonna do it. I mean,
maybe they thought, well, Pharaoh doesn't know what his men are
doing to us. You know, this is unreasonable. But Pharaoh wouldn't
hear it, would he? They failed miserably. Now here's
the picture. By nature, when we find the law
of God making us miserable, you know what we do? We go back to
the law to try to find some relief. We're just going to outwork this
thing. We're just going to outwork it. We go to the law, maybe there's
some loopholes in it, but they're hidden. We foolishly Look for
some mercy or some help from the law. Maybe this thing will
be lowered down, it'll be great on the curve. But all we find
is justice. We make the mistake of going
to the inflexible law of God to find relief from the inflexible
demands of the law. And we fail miserably because
the only thing the law can do is demand perfection from us
and we can't produce it. And when we first realize that
the law is against us, you know what most people do? We find
that we're in an evil case. You know what our knee jerk reaction
is? Blame the preacher. That's what the Israelites did.
Verse 20, they met Moses and Aaron who stood in the way as
they came forth from Pharaoh. And they said unto them, the
Lord look upon you and judge. because you've made our savor
to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his
servants to put a sword in their hand to slay us. You know, people
tend to blame the messenger, not the message. They tend to
hate the preacher for the message that God's given him to preach.
And they say, I mean, all sorts of evil things against him. But the problem is they hate
the message from God. That's really the problem. They
can't get their hands on God, so they just take it out on the
preacher. Now that's just what you sign
up for. That's just what you sign up for. I was talking with
someone this week, and I told them, I understand that. I went
into this with my eyes wide open. Brother Henry warned me about
this. I signed up for it, I understand. But you better leave my wife
alone. Now we're gonna have a problem. People go after preachers like
this and let me tell you, it breaks their heart. It did Moses,
look here at verse 22. And Moses returned unto the Lord
and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil and treated this
people? Why is it that thou hast sent
me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he's done
evil to this people, neither Hast thou delivered thy people
at all? Moses is brokenhearted here.
He said, Lord, you sent me with a message of grace. You sent
me with a message of salvation and deliverance. And that ought
to make people happy. That ought to make people submissive
to you and bow to you. And all I'm getting is a bunch
of stiff necked rebels and not making me suffer for it. I'm
not seeing anybody get glad. They're all mad and they're mad
at me. What's going on? That's what Moses is asking.
Now look over Galatians chapter three. I can tell you exactly
what's going on. Got something better than what
Moses got. I got the whole book. So I know
what's going on here. The Lord lets us see the evil
that the law is to us so that we will run to Christ to obey
the law for us. That's the whole purpose of the
law of God. Galatians three verse 23. But before faith came, we were
kept under the law. Shut up under the faith, which
should afterwards be revealed. You know, the law just kept giving
us no options, so the only thing we could, we would shut up to
faith. We could see there's no other way of righteousness but
faith in Christ. Wherefore, since that's true,
the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that
we might be justified by faith. You know, on that day, The schoolmaster
was set over the student and they'd give them their lessons
and their things that they're supposed to recite. And boy,
the kids started to do something wrong. Whack them. Just whack them right on maybe
a rule or something. Just keep whacking them. Whack
them upside the head until they got it right. The law is the
schoolmaster that just keeps whacking us until we finally
see there's no hope but Christ. I can't please the law. I can't
obey the law. I'm gonna run to Christ for help,
for mercy. I'm gonna run to Christ to obey
the law for me. And I'll give you a few examples.
God's law commands us to love the Lord thy God with all thine
heart, with all thy soul, and all thy might. Now if we have
any idea what that means, we'll think that law is so mean. It's
requiring something of me that I cannot do. Then tell you what,
run to Christ to be your obedience. The Lord Jesus Christ has already
obeyed the law. He already did what pleased his
father because he loved his father perfectly. Then the law commands
us, don't tell a lie. And don't even think about telling
a lie. Don't think about telling a lie and think, eh, better tell
the truth. Don't even think about telling a lie. If you do, you're
guilty. And we think, well, the law's
so mean. I can't do that. I can't stop
those thoughts from running through my head. I don't got a chance. I'm gonna be guilty. They tell
you what to do. Run to Christ. Run to Christ
for him to be your obedience. He's already obeyed the law.
There was never any guile found in his mouth. The Lord Jesus
Christ always tells the truth because He is the truth. Now
you trust Him to obey the law. Well, you trust Him to be the
truth for you. The law commands us not to covet what doesn't
belong to us. Don't even think about it. I
mean, covet is, that's just, that's a thought. That's not
an action, that's a thought. And we'll say, well, the law
is so mean, I can't do it. I cover without even meaning
to. I mean, I don't mean to cover, you just think, oh, that's a
nice truck, you know. Brother Henry said, his mother
told him, don't say I wish I had that house, that's coveting.
Say I wish I had a house like it, you know, that's not coveting.
But we can't help but think it, can we? Well, I'm guilty, I got
no hope. Then tell you what to do. Run
to Christ to be your OB. He's obeyed the law. He never
had any reason to covet anything because it all already belongs
to him. He obeyed it. And I tell you what, you trust
Christ, and you know what you'll find out? You don't have a reason
to covet anything either, because all things are yours in Christ.
The law commands us to not commit adultery, to not even lust after
another. Well, that law is so mean, I
can't do that. Those thoughts pop into my head
even though I would never in a million years act on them.
I wouldn't even want to, but that thought pops into my head
and I can't stop it. I got no hope, I'm guilty. Then
run to Christ to be your obedience. He's obeyed the law for his people.
And he is the faithful husband of the bride that the father
gave to him. And he loves her so much He gave himself as a
sacrifice for her sin. He shed his blood to take his
bride and to wash her in his blood to wash her white as snow. Now the Lord Jesus Christ, he's
the faithful husband that you can trust. Now you run to him.
Now I could go on and on and on and on and give you examples
of this from the different commandments of the law. But for time's sake,
just let me tell you this. Every single time that you see
a commandment in God's law tell you what to do, you run to Christ
to keep it for you. We can't keep it, but he already
has. You run to Christ and you'll
see God's salvation. I promise you, you will. The
reason God gave the law is to make us see that the only way
a sinner can be righteous is by Christ obeying the law for
me. That's the whole reason for the law. God gave the law to
make me trust Christ. The Lord uses the law to put
a burden on their people that they cannot carry. So that they
will be thrilled when they hear the Savior stand up and cry,
all ye that labor and are heavy laden, come to me. I'll give you rest. I carry the
burden for you. I took the burden away for you.
I've already obeyed the law. Now come to me and rest. See,
that's the whole reason that the Lord gave the law and made
the law such a burden to us is we'll run to Christ. Now, here's
the second thing, and this is for God's people. The Lord uses
trials to make his people miserable. so that we will be driven to
Christ. You know, a person is going to tend to think, well,
once the Lord saves me, I mean, there's going to be nothing but
joy and peace and happiness from here on out. Now that's true. There will be joy and peace in
the heart. But let me tell you, there's
also going to be trials and troubles and tribulations that the Lord
sends us that are so heavy. We think they're going to crush
us. That's what we think. And these trials will make us
say the same thing that Moses said. Lord, what's going on? Why are you doing this to me?
I mean, you called me by your grace, you saved me by your grace,
and now you send me all this heartache. Lord, what's going
on? And you know the children of
Israel thought the same thing. Now it says here, they believed
Moses and Aaron when they came and told them the Lord Jehovah
has heard your cries and he's come down to deliver you. God
said he's going to bring you to the land that he promised
to give your father, Abraham, to give to his descendants. God
said he's going to give it to you. He's going to give it to
you now. He's going to bring you out of this place and set
you free and bring you to that land. It's going to happen because
God said it. And God sent us here to tell
you that's what he said. And they believed it. They absolutely
believe. That's what the scripture says.
The children of Israel believed that God had heard their cry
of misery. He saw them and their affliction,
and He's gonna deliver them from the house of the bondman. And
very soon, they will never be slaves again. Right now, they're
out there trying to make bricks without straw, trying to get
some stubble together, you know, and they're slaves. But very
soon, they're not gonna be slaves ever again. They believed that.
I mean, I bet you anything, they were packing their bags. And
since God said it, you know what they thought? They thought Pharaoh
would believe it too. Pharaoh's gonna believe this
just like we do. He's gonna believe it and let us go because God
said it. And they shouted, oh, happy day. And then their lives got harder
and more miserable than ever before. Now I tell you, as plainly and
forcefully as I can, you come to Christ. You come to Christ. But when you do, I'm going to
tell you, this will be your experience. So many babes in Christ experience
this. The Lord saves us and we're so
thrilled. We just think I'm not ever going
to have any more reason for sorrow or tears ever again as long as
I live. The Lord has given me faith in
Christ. I trust Him. And immediately, I mean, immediately
from the moment that we're born again, we start having a warfare
that we can't escape because it's coming from within. It's
coming from that old man of sin, warring against that new man
that's been born of God. And almost immediately too, we're
gonna have trouble from without. We got warfare from within, we're
gonna have trouble from without because we're gonna be shocked
to find out that people we know and love are not thrilled to
hear what God said. They're not going to be thrilled
to hear the gospel of God's grace that God used to reveal Christ
to me and save me and draw me to Christ. They don't love him
that I love so much. There's just trouble immediately. And we wonder what's going on. Why has the Lord given me this
great blessing? I mean the unspeakable gift of
his son. This gift of faith in Christ
and knowing Christ and being found in Him is so great, it's
just unspeakable. There are no words to describe
its value. And the same Lord is also sending
me such heartache and sorrow. What's going on? I thought the
Lord had promised me good. And I'm getting these trials
and these heartaches and I don't count them as good. Well, you know what? The Lord
knoweth our frame. He remembers that we're dust. He remembers that we're just
a pile of dust. We're so weak just, and we can
be blown away. The Lord knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we're dust.
But how often do we forget we're dust? pretty often, don't we? So the Lord sends us trials to
show his people how weak we are so we keep relying on Christ
alone. The Lord sends these trials to
continually drive us to Christ all the time. That's what the
apostle Peter said, to whom coming. I didn't just come to Christ
once, I'm coming again right now. Coming all the time. You know, the need for the Lord
to do this shows you a whole lot about our sinful nature. Even after the Lord saves us,
He makes us so thrilled to trust Him, and we do. Now, this is
genuine faith. God's given me genuine faith.
I am thrilled to trust Him. I trust Him. I would not dare
trust my works to bring me to God. I trust Him. But somehow, as things go along,
when things are all going so good, we start to trust our flesh.
We start to think, well, now the Lord saved me by his grace,
but the Lord's blessing me. He's not blessing Joe Blogue,
he's blessing me because of my morality. because of my orthodoxy. Boy, I don't compromise any.
I got all my doctrinal ducks in a row. The Lord's blessed
me because I'm living after Him, following His law better than
somebody else. Friends, that's trusting the
arm of the flesh. That's thinking God saved me
by His grace, but He's keeping me saved by my works. God saved
me by His grace, but He blesses me because of my works. And that's
not so. So the Lord sends us trials to
knock us down a few notches and show us how weak we are so that
one more time we'll be driven to Christ. And we'll say, I'm
trusting Him and Him alone. Now, when the Lord sends a trial
your way, and He's going to send them, isn't He? He's going to
send them. And we think they're going to rock us. We think they're
going to knock us down. Tell you what to do. Run to Christ. Don't run to the law. Don't think,
well, you know, if I start keeping the law better, I start living
better and I start doing better, the Lord will start blessing
me again. If you try that, you're not gonna fare any better than
when the children of Israel went to Pharaoh looking for help.
The law's not gonna give you any relief because you can't
keep it. Run to Christ. Do you need strength? That trial just, it rocks you.
You think it's going to knock you down? Do you need strength?
Run to Christ. He's our strength. He's the pillar
of our salvation. Oh, is that trial breaking your heart? I mean, breaking your heart. I talked with a dear, dear woman
recently, and she just hardly couldn't get it out. for crying.
Just the heartbreak of this thing. I mean, this is not pretend.
Now, this is real life. Do you need comfort? Run to Christ. He's the comforter. Has this trial got you scared
half to death? You think God's cast you off? Run to Christ. He's our assurance. Oh, if you
see Him, you have assurance. God's not going to accept me
because of what I'm doing. He's going to accept me in Christ. My assurance
is Him. Run to Him. Whatever it is, you
run to Christ, casting all your care upon Him. Four. He careth for ye. Don't just cast all your care
upon Him because He's strong enough to bear it. although that's
true. Cast all your care upon him for
he careth for you. Christ cares for his people. If he cared enough to suffer
and die in your place, do you reckon he cares enough to comfort
your heart, establish your heart, and strengthen you and give you
grace like he promised the Apostle Paul that is sufficient for you. Yes, he will. So run to Christ. Run to Christ. When my my dad died. Some dear friends of mine from
another city came to the funeral, they had two girls. They were
just a little bit younger than our girls. And, oh, I don't know,
this little girl was probably five, say. And she was just crying. She was just crying, walking
up to me, you know. And she didn't know what to say,
and I bent down and hugged her. And I pulled her face back and
looked at her, and I said, now, Katie, This is okay. This is okay. I said, have you
ever heard the preacher say that God's grace is sufficient for
thee? And she's crying. I said, you know what that means? I said, it means that God's grace
is enough to comfort. It's okay. It's okay. She's a mama now. And all these
years later, she's told me, now I know what it means that God's
grace is sufficient. Once you've experienced it, oh
my. Run to Him. Run to Him. Take your burden
to the Lord and leave it there. Leave it there. Don't take your
burden to the Lord and say, now Lord, if you help me with this,
I appreciate it and pick the burden up and take it back with
you. Leave it there. Leave it there. That will be
your comfort in trial. He's the only one who's able
to carry it, and he cares enough to carry it for you. That's how the Lord drives us
to Christ. I thank God for it, don't you?
All right, let's bow together. Our Father, we thank You for
Your Word. How we thank You for this Savior that's set forth
in Your Word, clearly preached to us, clearly revealed to us
in Your Word. Father, give us, each one of
us, the faith to trust Him, to rest in Him. Human words cannot express our
thanksgiving for such a Savior such a glorious Savior who would
do something so great for the lowlife sinners that we are.
Father, how we thank you. And I pray you take this message
as it's been preached and use it to show your people the glory
of your dear son. It's in his name and for his
sake we pray. Amen. All right, Sean.