Let's open our Bibles to Genesis
chapter 44. Genesis chapter 44. We'll begin our reading in verse
18. Then Judah came near unto him,
unto Joseph, and said, O my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee,
speak a word in my Lord's ears. And let not thine anger burn
against thy servant, for thou art even as Pharaoh. My Lord
asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father or a brother? And
we said unto my Lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child
of his old age, a little one, and his brother is dead, and
he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. And
thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that
I may set mine eyes upon And we said unto my Lord, the lad
cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father,
our father would die. And thou saidest unto thy servants,
except your younger brother come down with you, you shall see
my face no more. And it came to pass, when we
came up unto thy servant, my father, we told him the words
of my Lord. And our father said, go again
and buy us a little food. And we said, we cannot go down
if our youngest brother We cannot go down. If our youngest brother
be with us, then we will go down. For we may not see the man's
face except our youngest brother be with us. And thy servant,
my father, said unto us, Ye know that my wife bear me two sons.
And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn
in pieces. And I saw him not since. And if ye take this also
from me, and mischief be falling, ye should bring down my gray
hairs with sorrow to the grave. Now therefore, when I come to
thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us, seeing that
his life is bound up in the lad's life, it shall come to pass when
he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die. And
thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant
our father with sorrow to the grave. For thy servant became
surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto
thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. Now, therefore,
I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad, a bondman
to my Lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how
shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? Lest,
peradventure, I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Thank God for his word. Let's bow together in prayer,
seek the Lord's blessing. Our Father, come before you this
evening, thankful that you've given us yet one more opportunity
to have your word open to us, to have your son preach to us. And Father, I beg of you that
you not leave us to ourselves this evening, that you not leave
me to my own strength and power in preaching, and that you not
leave your people alone, not leave us to our own intellect
in hearing. not leave us to our own dead
heart to believe. Father, I pray that you would
enable me to rightly divide the word of truth, to preach your
son in his glory, preaching to sinners that sinners might hear
and believe. Father, I pray that you let each
one of us here this evening hear this glorious good news of Christ
our Savior, who has stood eternally as a surety for his people. enable
us to believe him and rest in him. He is worthy of our trust. And Father, what we pray for
ourselves, we pray for your people, wherever they might meet together
this evening. Father, you know the state of
this world, the world in which we live even better than we do.
But we see how desperately we need your gospel. I pray wherever
it's preached, you cause it to go forth in power for the glory
of your great name. And father, we bring before you
those of your people who are in times of deep waters, difficult,
difficult times. We pray a special blessing for
our sister Peg that she'd be with her tomorrow, father, that
you'd come for her and Earl's heart, that she'd be with the
doctors and nurses that treat her. They're treating one of your
daughters. Father, pray you give them wisdom, skill, and compassion. Use them to heal and touch her
body, we pray. And Father, we give thanks for
Lucy and Jack as they begin their life together, and Father, pray
you bless them mightily. All these things we ask, Father,
in that name which is above every name, in the name of Christ our
Savior, amen. I've titled the message this
evening, The Surety Speaks. Now the passage that we just
read is Judah. He's speaking to his, doesn't know it, but
he's speaking to the ruler, his brother Joseph. He's speaking
to him as the surety for Benjamin. Benjamin has been found guilty
of stealing Joseph's silver cup, and he's gonna have to become
a slave in Egypt, apparently, for the rest of his life for
doing this. Benjamin's got to be punished
for his crime. And you know, something like
this, this was Jacob's greatest fear all along, and letting Benjamin
go with his brothers. Jacob felt like he would die
of a broken heart if he would not be able to see Benjamin again.
You know, Joseph had been Jacob's favorite son, but as far as Jacob
knew, Joseph had been killed by a wild animal, and now that
Joseph is gone, now Benjamin is the favorite son. And he's
afraid the same thing's gonna happen to Benjamin. He's just
not gonna let Benjamin out of his sight. He just, he couldn't
bear losing Benjamin too. But remember, he was determined
not to let Benjamin go with those brothers. I mean, something bad
always happens when these brothers go off on their own. But now
remember, Joseph had told him, unless you bring your youngest
brother with you, you won't be able to buy any more corn, you'll
starve to death. Look back at a page of Genesis 43. Here's
the only reason that Jacob ever let Benjamin go to Egypt with
his brothers. It's something that Judah said
to his father. Chapter 43, verse eight. And Judah said unto Israel,
his father, send the lad with me and we will arise and go,
that we may live and not die. Both we and thou and also our
little ones, I will be surety for him. Of my hands shalt thou
require him, If I bring him not unto thee and set him before
thee, then let me bear the blame forever. Now Judah says, send
the lad with me. I'll be sure of it. I will take
the responsibility to bring him back and set him at your feet
again. All the responsibility is mine.
And if I fail to bring him back, you let me bear the blame forever.
You see how Judah is saying that as a type of Christ, our surety,
don't you? And that word surety, it has three main meanings. First,
it means to pledge. This was Judah's pledge to his
father. It's a picture of Christ. Before time began, the Son of
God, the Lord Jesus Christ, he made a pledge to his father that
he would redeem all God's elect that the father gave him to save.
He would redeem them from their sin. And he'd bring them all
back to God. He'd set them all at God's feet.
And the son said, if I fail to bring even one of them back,
let me bear the blame eternally. Now God's gonna lose all his
glory. The whole Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, they're
gonna lose all of their glory if the son fails to bring everyone
the father gave him to save back to the father. He made that pledge
to his father, and Ephesians 1 says the father was the first
one to trust the son. He trusted his son that he would
keep that pledge and bring his elect back to him. So second,
the word surety means exchange. Here's how the Lord Jesus Christ
redeemed his people, brought them back to God. It's in the
great exchange. Christ took the place of his
people. He traded places with his people. He was made sin for
his people. In exchange, his people were
made righteous. That's the great exchange. Christ
redeemed his elect by becoming guilty of the sin of his people
and sacrificing himself, his body and soul so that God's justice
would be satisfied. Now Christ has died. His blood,
his death put away the sin of God's people. Now God's elect
must be brought back to God. The justice of God demands it
because Christ traded places with them in that great exchange. And then third, this word surety
means to be mingled with. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son
of God is mingled with his people so closely that they are one. He's the head and we're the body,
but they're one. He made his people part of his
body, bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. Now this is how
Christ our surety brings his people back to God. Whatever
it is that happens to Christ, our certainty, happens to His
people. And whatever happens to His people,
happens to Christ. Because they're mingled together
because they're one. And after our Lord died, He was
buried. He rose again. And about 40 days
after that, He ascended back on high. And when He got to heaven,
He sat down on the right hand of God. He sat down on the throne.
Now all of God's people, Bodily are gonna have to follow him
there Because they're one with him. They're mingled with him
Actually God's elect are so much one with Christ Ephesians 2 verse
6 says God's elect are already seated in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus You who believe I hear you said But you also
sit in heavenly places in Christ because you're one with him.
He that that's our surety Now that's what Judah Jacob that
he would do for Benjamin. That was his promise. But you
read about Judah's life. Do you wonder if Judah's gonna
keep his promise? I mean, will he keep his promise and will
he be able to keep his promise? Judah did some boneheaded things.
It's one thing to make a promise, isn't it? It's another thing
to keep it. So now, when Benjamin is in real
trouble. I mean, he's in trouble. His
family's in trouble. Jacob's in trouble. Those boys
are all in trouble. They don't want to see their
father suffer like this. They're in trouble. That's when
Judah, the surety, speaks up. Judah puts his money where his
mouth is. He does the job of surety for
Benjamin so that Benjamin could go free. Now, I reckon that's
a good, heartwarming story. I tell you what's so wonderful
in this, is a picture of Christ, our surety. Our surety. I've been trying to get my head
wrapped around this all day. That the Son of God would be
my surety. I mean, that's God's grace. And
I want you to notice this too, as we go through this story again.
It's not recorded here, Benjamin said one single solitary word.
Not one. You see, if Benjamin's gonna
go free, it's not gonna be by his doing. It's gonna be by the
doing of his surety. It's gonna be by the pleading
of his surety. If you and I are gonna go free
from the justice of God, I'm telling you this, it won't be
because of anything we said or anything we did. If you're not
going to go free from the justice of God, it's going to be because
of what Christ our surety did for us. Now, Judy here, he's
only, he's just a mere man. He's just a picture of Christ. And I always like to point this
out, especially when it's so obvious, I see it. How that Christ
is always so much better than the picture. You know, if we
were there at that time, we lived at that time, say Judah was a
fellow that we knew. Now, like I said a little bit
ago, you wouldn't be quite so sure. Is Judah gonna keep his
promise? Will he? Is he gonna keep his
word? Well, you don't have to worry about that if you're trusting
Christ. If Christ is your surety, he's
gonna keep his promise. He's gonna keep his promise to
the Father. I don't care what happens. He'll not let you perish. No matter what, He's gonna keep
His promise, He's gonna save all of His people from their
sin, and He's gonna bring every last one of them home to be with
Him. In the end, He's gonna say, Father,
behold I and the children, which God has given you. Especially when I try to think
about this when I have a dear loved one that I have confidence
that they know the Lord. I always try to think about that
and remember that when I have to prepare for their funeral,
go to their funeral, and say goodbye. It's sad, isn't it? It's sad. I wish they could be
with me longer. You're never ready, are you?
Never ready. But that loved one of ours was loved of the Lord. You know why their body died? In answer to the surety's prayer,
Father, I will that all those whom thou hast given me be with
me where I am that they may behold my glory. Totally different perspective,
isn't it? Totally different perspective. In our story, Judah is a type
of Christ. Benjamin is a type of the believer.
Joseph is a type of the Father and His justice. And I want to
give you three simple gospel truths before you take home and
ponder these things in your heart. Number one is this. The whole
glory of God depends upon Christ our surety keeping His promise.
It's pictured here, look at verse 22. And we said unto my Lord,
the lad cannot leave his father. For if he should leave his father,
his father would die. They are so close. If he'd leave
his father, our father would die. And look at verse 27. And thy servant, my father, said
unto us, you know that my wife bear me two sons. And the one
went out from me, and I said, surely he's torn in pieces. And
I saw him not since. And if you take this also from
me, And mischief befalling, you should bring down my gray hairs
with sorrow to the grave. Jude is telling Joseph here,
if we don't bring Benjamin home to his father, our father's gonna
die of a broken heart. And maybe he would have to, I
don't know. I kind of think it's possible
to do that, don't you? Die of a broken heart. Now the
picture here is very, very, very important. Judah said the life
of our father is bound up. His whole life is bound up in
the life of Benjamin. His life depends on Benjamin's
life. His well-being depends on Benjamin's
well-being. Our father is so closely tied
to Benjamin that if Benjamin dies, our father's gonna die.
Now here's the picture. All of the glory of God Almighty
is bound up in the eternal life of his people. If any, this is
a number that no man can number, but if even one of those people
are not with the Savior in glory, Almighty God is going to have
to step aside and not be God anymore. He'll lose all of his
glory. He'd lose his glory because he
didn't have the power to save those he purposed to save. He
can't be God. He couldn't be God because he
wasn't sovereign enough to arrange all the events of providence
to make his purpose come to pass. He couldn't be God because if
one, he set his love on a people, and if one of those people that
the father set his love upon would perish, the love of God
is meaningless. He couldn't save those that he
loves. And if even one, even one of
God's elect perish, God could not be God because his justice
would be meaningless. You have God can't save those
that he intends to save. He can't damn those he intends
to damn either. If he's powerless to save, what
gives him the power to catch somebody in the hell? If he can't
save those that he intended to save, even though his son died
for him. Son died. He satisfied justice
for their sin. And God sends him to hell anyway?
Well, that's an unjust judge. Send an innocent man to hell.
He can't be God. An unjust judge cannot be God. He lacks the moral authority
to damn the guilty, doesn't he? I mean, those are very, very,
very serious ramifications in Christ coming and doing everything
that he promised to do. I don't want to get off down
a rabbit trail preaching against something. But this is the error
in this business of people saying Christ came and died for all
mankind. He died for everybody to give you a chance. If Christ
died for somebody and they go to hell anyway, you see the ramifications
of that? You see why this is so deadly?
Brethren, the security of our souls depends upon the Lord Jesus
Christ doing what He promised to do. Our souls depend upon
it, and God's glory depends upon it. Aren't you glad to know our surety
cannot fail? Our surety cannot lie. He can't promise to do something
and not do it. No, when He promised to save a people, He's going
to save them. Every last one of them. Every last one of them.
And he will, he will have them with him in glory. He will. The entire bride will be with
the bridegroom in glory. Where you're deep, deep, deep
in the valley and it's dark and you can't seem to to see God. You can't seem to find Him. You
call and it seems like He's not answering. I know that's a miserable
place to be, but when you're there, you hang on to this. I
don't exactly know how the Lord's going to bring you from there
to there, but I know He's going to. You hang on to this. You know how this thing's going
to end. The bride is going to be with the bridegroom. He's
going to see to it. Alright, here's the second thing. The surety made this promise
a long time ago. In verse 32, Judah says, for
thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying,
if I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to
my father forever. Now, it had to be months and
months ago that Judah made this promise. It's a long trip. They
didn't make that trip to Egypt to get corn just to last them
for a week. I'm sure they got a good bit
of corn. 12 or 10 men and how many donkeys? I mean, they carried
a lot of food. This promise was made quite some time ago. But
to Judah, this promise is just as fresh and just as meaningful
as the day he looked his daddy in the eye and made that promise.
It's that important to him. Well, here's the picture. The
Lord Jesus Christ made his promise to his father to save his people
from their sin. He made that promise a long time
ago. He made it so long ago, it was
an eternity ago. He made this promise a surety
of his people so long ago, it doesn't have a beginning. It
doesn't have a beginning, it doesn't have an ending. He made
this promise before creation. Save his people from their sin.
God created Adam, put him in the garden, and Adam fell. Just exactly like God purposed
for him to do, he fell. And from Adam to Christ, about
4,000 years. Through 4,000 years of human
time, the human race spent that entire time making a mad dash
to hell. All man did was sin. All that was in his heart was
sin. Everything that he thought about was sin. Now I know dead
is dead. When Adam fell, he died. And
I know man's heart has not grown worse. It's not grown, I don't
know if it's deader or worse. It hasn't grown more dead. It
hasn't grown deader from the time that Adam fell. But just
from my perspective, it sure seems like man's grown worse,
doesn't he? His actions have grown worse. This is what Solomon
said in Ecclesiastes 7, 29. He said, this only have I found,
that God hath made man upright, But they've sought out many inventions. Man has sought out many inventions.
You know what he means there? Man has sought out many inventions,
new ways to sin. Let's sin on an industrial scale.
You know, just like the Industrial Revolution, the steam engine.
Let's find ways to sin on an industrial scale. That's what
man's doing. But even though that's true,
nothing that man did changed God's mind. about redeeming his
people from their sin. Nothing changed the mind of Christ
our Savior to make him say, I'm not going. I'm not gonna redeem
those people. I'm just not gonna do it. His
people did not become so sinful and so vile in his sight that
they just turned his stomach. And it didn't make him say, I
can't be one with those people. I can't be one with them. They're
filthy. They're vile. Nothing made Him
say, even though they're trying to sin on an industrial scale,
nothing made Him say their debt's too big. I'm not going to suffer
that. I'm not going to suffer to pay
that. I'm not going to suffer that humiliation. I'm not going
to suffer that pain of body and soul. I'm not going to do it.
Father, I changed my mind. The Savior has a heart. for his
people. He would not change his mind.
He would not do it. Even when Peter tried to get
him to not go to the cross, what did he say? Get thee behind me,
Satan. No, he was determined. Not Judah. I'm gonna keep my promise to
my father. He was determined to see God glorified. I mean,
wasn't that his prayer? Father, glorify thou me with
the glory which I have thee for the world was. He was determined
that God would be glorified. He was determined his people
would see that glory. He was determined that his people
would be redeemed and they'd be given eternal life. And you
know why? Because he loved him so much. Even though they're not worthy
of him, like Jose going down there and taking him a wife of
Hortus, Goma. He loved him so much, he came
and redeemed him anyway. Now I said all of that to say
this, if you trust Christ, you've got
a good hope. If you trust Christ, if he's
revealed himself to you, if he's given you faith in him, he will
never change his mind. He will never cast you out. You know why? Because His promise
of grace is eternal. See, His promise means something.
His blood means something. His love means something. If
He made a promise to save you, He's gonna have you. He's gonna
have you. I know sometimes, maybe, I don't
know, I was gonna say we do. If you're like me, I think this. I think if God was like me, I'd
cast me out. I wouldn't put up with me. I
might as well put up with me. This is one of the great things.
God's not like us, aren't you glad? He will not cast away his
people that he promised to save and that he shed his blood to
save. He won't do it. All right, here's the third thing. Eventually,
the surety has to become the substitute. Verse 33. Judah says, now therefore I pray
thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad, a bondman to my Lord,
and let the lad go up with his brother. For how shall I go up
to my father and the lad be not with me? Let's preventure I see
the evil that shall come on my father. Here's what Judah is
saying. Make me guilty, so you make Benjamin
innocent. so he can depart in peace with
his brothers. Make me guilty. Make me pay the
price. I know what your justice demands.
I know what the law says. This law has been broken. This
is the penalty that must be paid. Make me pay the penalty and let
Benjamin go free. Now, this is such a wonderful
picture. This is something that if we
get a hold of it, it'll help us. It's one thing. for the son to say to the father,
let me pay the sin debt of my people. I'll just get out of
my wallet and pay it. Last Sunday night, I preached
at Todd's Road Grace Church and as we normally do afterwards,
Janet and I and our kids, we went out to get a bite to eat.
And we got there and one of my precious daughters, I won't tell
you which one, one of my precious daughters, I said, I forgot my wallet, I
forgot anything, any money. And I said, baby, don't worry
about it. I just took out my wallet and I paid for their food. Well, I mean, you know what?
They didn't really cost, there's not a lot of skin in that game,
is there? I mean, it really wasn't that big a deal. It's one thing
for the son to say, father, I'll pay their debt. It's another
thing altogether. for the Holy Son of God to say,
Father, make the debt mine. Make me sin for my people. Make me guilty. You can't put
an innocent man to death. Father, make me guilty of the
sin of my people. Make me feel the shame of it.
Make me feel the guilt of that sin. Make it mine. Make it mine
so that you cannot look on me in love and favor and mercy.
And then, in your wrath, make me pay for that sin by my cursed
death on the cross. That's another thing altogether
in getting you all doubted. Another thing altogether. But
this is the very heart of the gospel. Substitution and satisfaction. Both, substitution and satisfaction.
If you and I would be saved from our sin, if we would be saved
from God's wrath so that God's not angry with you anymore, God's
justice has got no reason to condemn you. There's got to be
satisfaction to the law. There's got to be. No matter
what we do, you and I can't make satisfaction to God's holiness.
We're unholy. We're unjust. We cannot possibly
make satisfaction to God's justice. So what do we need? We need a
substitute in Cain. We need a substitute who can
satisfy God. And that substitute is the Lord
Jesus Christ. You see, before the world was
created, the son promised he would be surety for his people.
He promised his father, I'll bear the responsibility. The
responsibility's mine. The responsibility for their
sin debt is mine. I'll take it, father. Now Christ's
surety made that promise. in eternity. Roughly 4,000 years
after Adam fell, Christ came into flesh and the substitute
went to the cross to pay the debt. See, the surety spoke and
then the substitute died. See that? Christ is all, isn't
he? He's all of our salvation from
beginning to end. When Adam fell, have you ever
wondered, Why didn't God just wipe out the whole human race
and start over with somebody that wouldn't fall? God didn't wipe out Adam's race
because Christ the surety had already promised he's going to
save some out of that race. The father already saw them and
the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He didn't wipe
them out because of the surety's promise to redeem them. And when
this creation is no more, and all of God's elect are gonna
appear in glory, you know why they're gonna appear in glory?
Because the substitute came in time and paid the debt he promised
to pay. See, the charity became the substitute. The Savior said, Father, you
have a people. You have a people. Set your love
upon them, and it's your purpose to have them brought to you,
but they can't come to you the way they are. They can't come
to you, fallen Adam. They can't come to you in the
filth of their sin. They can't come into your presence
guilty of sin and vile like they are. So Father, make me guilty. And make them innocent. Make
me guilty of their sin so that justice demands I pay the price.
See, they can't pay the price, but I can. So make me guilty
of it. Make me bear the shame and the
guilt of that sin. And let me pay the price. And
let them go free. Don't let them go free because
you overlooked their sin. Let them go free because I made them
innocent. Doesn't that sound a lot like
what Judah said? But again, now what Christ our Savior said is
so much better. You see, if Joseph did what Judah asked, Let him
stay as a bondman and let Benjamin go free. Really, justice wouldn't
have been served, would it? I mean, really, what Joseph would
have had to have done is just pretend like Judah's guilty. And he had to pretend like Benjamin
is innocent so that Benjamin could go free, but that's not
true. Justice would not be served if the innocent Judah was punished
And the guilty, Benjamin, went free. Justice really wouldn't
be served. I mean, I know somebody's serving the sentence, but justice
really wouldn't be served. When the son told the father,
father, make me guilty. Make my people innocent. That
is exactly what happened. The savior became guilty and
his people became innocent. The son died because the father
made him guilty. And God said let go free because
the son made him innocent. I know we can't fully understand
that. But that's what scripture says. For he, God the father,
had made him, God the son, made him sin for us. Who knew no sin
that we might be made the righteousness of God. Not just called the righteousness
of God in him, not pretending that they're the righteousness
of God in him, but made righteous, made innocent. You know, for the life of me,
I don't understand why people want to say that the scripture
doesn't mean what it says. You know, you've heard it. People
say, well, it doesn't really mean that. Christ really wasn't made sin.
You're not really righteous. Well, you better hope so. I tell
you, my only hope is the scripture means what it says. Because the
only way a guilty sinner can ever be made innocent is if the
Lord Jesus Christ took our sin into his own body upon the tree
and put it away by his sacrifice. That's the only way justice can
be satisfied. The only way the Father will
ever accept you and me in his presence is if we're innocent.
We have to be innocent. We have to be righteous. The
only way we can be righteous and innocent is if Christ's blood
washed away our sin. See, it's all because of Christ.
It's because the surety spoke and He became our substitute.
And He did what He came to do. Now, Lord willing, this is what
we're going to see next week. After the surety speaks, after
the surety becomes a substitute, Joseph finally had to reveal
himself to his brother. He revealed himself. I mean,
have you ever put yourself in Joseph's shoes? I'm telling you. Unless the Lord really did something,
old Frank wouldn't be doing what Joseph was doing. I mean, I'm
just telling you the flat truth. After everything that his brothers
did to him, after his years of suffering. After his years, even
after he came to the throne, his years of not seeing his father
anymore, not being home anymore, he reveals himself in love and
mercy and grace to his brothers. And it's because of the surety,
because the surety spoke, it broke his heart. And when Christ
reveals himself to us, and this is why We always preach Christ. It's always Him. It's always
Christ and Him crucified. Because it's that preaching that
Christ uses to reveal Himself to His people. And you know how
He reveals Himself to His people? He speaks as the surety. He speaks
as the surety to our hearts. Saying, your debt's mine. Now
don't you worry, your debt's mine. I loved you so much, I
sacrificed myself for you. He reveals himself to you as
the surety and the substitute. That's my prayer for us tonight. All right, let's bow together. Our Father, how we thank you
for this glorious, glorious picture of Christ, our surety, our substitute. How we thank you that one is
glorious and wonderful as your own son, would stand as surety
for sinful men and women like we are, and that he would become
our substitute, that he would take the sin of his people into
his own precious body on the tree, and put that sin away by sacrifice. And he'd reveal himself to his
people through the gospel, that he'd comfort and instruct and
encourage the hearts of his people by the preaching of him, who
he is, what he's done for his people. Father, how we thank
you. Father, I pray you take your word as it's being preached
tonight and apply it to our hearts. Father, use it to reveal yourself
to those who are lost. Use it to comfort the hearts
of your suffering people. Use it to strengthen and encourage
the hearts of your people Struggle through this long journey here
below. Use it to cause us to be pointed
to Christ and see Him and find joy and happiness for our hearts.
For it's in His precious name, for His glory's sake we pray.
Amen. All right, Sean.