Let's open our Bibles out of
Job 17. Job chapter 17. We'll begin in
verse one. My breath is corrupt. My days
are extinct. The graves are ready for me.
Are there not mockers with me? And doth not mine eye continue
in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in assurity
with thee. Who is he that will strike hands
with me? Thou hast hid their heart from understanding, therefore
shalt thou not exalt them. He that speaketh flattery to
his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. He hath
made me also a byword of the people, and aforetime I was a
tabret. Mine eye also is dimmed by reason
of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow. Upright man
will be astonished at this. And the innocent shall stir up
himself against the hypocrite. The righteous also shall hold
on his way. And he that hath clean hands
shall be stronger and stronger." He'll grow in grace. I'll tell
you how he's gonna grow stronger. By recognizing he's weaker. He's
gonna learn over and over and over again how weak he is. so
that he depends on Christ. That's how he becomes stronger
and stronger. He'll grow in grace. But as for you all, do you return
and come now? For I cannot find one wise man
among you. My days are past. My purposes
are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. They changed the
night into day. The light is short because of
darkness. If I wait, the grave is my house. I've made my bed
in the darkness. I've said to corruption, thou
art my father. To the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
And where is now my hope? As for my hope, who shall see
it? They shall go down to the bars
of the pit when our rest together is in the dust. Let's bow together
in prayer. Our Father, we bow before you
this morning. Father, we bow begging a blessing
from your storehouses of grace. Father, we bow before you, worshiping
you, acknowledging you are God above, and we're nothing but
specks of dust. And Father, we beg of you that
you'd be pleased to be merciful, that you'd be pleased to condescend
and meet with us and bless your word as it's preached. We pray
that you take the word as it goes forth and that you would
be the one to apply it to the hearts of each one here. Enable
us to see the Lord Jesus Christ as he's preached and believe
on him. Enable us to see him as our all in all, as everything
that we need. Let us leave here this morning,
hoping and resting in Christ and Christ alone. Father, I thank
you for this place. I thank you for a place you've
given us to meet together and worship. And Father, I pray you'd
protect it, that you would protect the gospel that's preached from
this pulpit, that you would cause it, Father, to go forth in power.
Father, for your glory, it certainly would be for our good. It would
be a blessing to us that you keep your gospel here, that you
continue to call out your sheep, that you continue to feed and
comfort and edify your people. But Father, for your great namesake,
Would you cause your glory to shine forth in a dark place through
the preaching of your darling son here in this place? Cause
sinners to see and run to him that you get all the glory, saving
them, keeping them, preserving them, one day when it's time
glorifying them. Father, we thank you for the
many blessings. Oh, how you've blessed us. Father,
it's so beyond measure. We can't even, we say with David,
we can't even count them all. Father, we're thankful. And I
beg of you forgiveness for the times when, after all you've
done for us, we murmur and complain against your providence. Father,
forgive us, we pray. We ask that you'd see us and
hear us only in our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, it's for his
sake His glory and His name we pray. Amen. Now the question
I want to look at this morning is a question that Job asked
in verse 15. Where is my hope? I want each
of us to ask ourselves that question right now. Where's my hope? What's my hope? Think about it. Everybody here had an answer. Our hope's in something. Everybody
has a hope in something. Maybe we hope that God'll see
us and say our good outweighs our bad. Maybe we just hope that
God'll ignore our sin. Maybe we just hope it'll turn
out all right in the end somehow. Maybe we hope God'll accept us
because I was faithful and I gave and attended services. But what's
our hope? Are any of those things a hope
that will save us? I guess that's what I'm asking.
What's our hope? But Job says in verse 15, where is now my
hope? As for my hope, who shall see
it? Now, I'll tell you why Job asked this question, because
he felt like very soon he's going to die. He didn't see how he
physically could go on living in this trial that was crushing
his body covered with boils and the pain and agony of body and
heart he was in. And he thought very soon he's
going to die and he's going to stand before God in judgment.
And when you think you're on the verge of eternity, that's
got to come to your mind, doesn't it? What's my hope? What is my
hope? What is my hope of being accepted
of God? And I tell you, that would be
a very good thing to be on our minds this morning. We will be
amazed at how quickly we're gonna die and stand before God in judgment. We're gonna be amazed how quickly
that that happens. The scripture promises that.
It's appointed unto men once to die, but after this, to judgment. And since that's a sure thing
for all of us, we'd be wise to be like Job and ask, where's
my hope? Where's my hope? Where can I
find a good hope for my soul? I tell you this often in scripture,
the word hope means an expectation. It doesn't mean, well, I hope,
you know, the outcome is uncertain, but I hope it'll turn out the
way I want. No, the believer has an expectation. It's an expectation. Now, is there any grounds by
which a sinful man like me can expect God to accept me? Is there any grounds I can expect
that? Well, Job knows some things. He knows some things about himself,
and he knows some places his hope is not. First, Job says,
my hope is not in myself. It's not in anything that I can
do. Look back at verse one. He says, my breath is corrupt.
My days are extinct. The graves are ready for me.
I'm about ready to die and go to the grave. In verse 11, he
says, my days are past. My purposes are broken off. Everything
I purpose to do that can't happen now, even the thoughts of my
heart. They change the night into day.
The light is short because of darkness. If I wait, the grave
is my house. That's where I'm gonna live.
I've made my bed in the darkness. I've said to corruption, thou
art my father. To the worm, thou art my mother
and my sister. Job knows this. He's a dead and
dying man. He knows his sinful flesh must
die and it's gonna happen soon. Job knows that his hope is not
anything that he can do or not do with his corrupt flesh, this
flesh that is dying. Dead flesh, dead spiritual flesh,
can't do anything to please the living God again. Now we know
that. Let me quote you a few scriptures
that describe man, and that's all of us. Psalm 39 verse five,
every man at his best state is altogether vanity. I mean, at
our best state, we're vanity, we're empty. We last just as
long as a breath of air. Just a puff of air, you can see
your breath on a cold winter's morning, how long does it last?
It's gone. That's us, just empty. Everything that man can do is
empty of any spiritual good, anything that can save our souls.
In Genesis 8, verse 21, the Lord said that the imagination of
man's heart is evil from his youth. You know, we don't start
out all pure and innocent and learn to be evil. We start out
that way. We start out evil. And it doesn't
get any better as we grow older. David said in Psalm 51 verse
5, Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive
me. Now, if I was shapen in iniquity as conceived in sin, what can
you expect of me? Huh, nothing but sin. David said,
my nature is sin. That's my nature. So all I can
do is sin. I certainly can't make myself
savable. David said in Psalm 143 verse two, enter not into
judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living
be justified. No man, none of us. With all of our morality, with
all of our civilized behavior and these things, we can't do
anything to make ourselves justified in the sight of Almighty God.
The only thing I can expect from what I do is death and condemnation,
because that's what all my dead sinful flesh can produce. It'll
never please God. So my hope's not in myself, that
can't be. My hope is not in my religious
friends. You know, you know this. You
know this already. I love you all and admire you
all. I am very, very, very thankful
to be able to count you as my friends. I can't put my hope in you. My
friends are cut out of the same sinful cloth that I am. They
got the same sinful nature I do. Job's the same way, look what
he says in verse two. Are there not mockers with me? And doth
not mine eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put
me in assurity with thee. Who is he that will strike hands
with me? For thou hast hid their heart from understanding. Therefore
shalt thou not exalt them. In verse 10 he says, but as for
you all, these friends, these miserable comforters that come
to him, he says, do you return and come now? For I cannot find
one wise man among you." Job tells his friends, he said, now,
boy, you boys talk a good religious game. I mean, boy, you use a
lot of religious jargon, you talk about a lot of true doctrine,
you know, you're right about what you say about, you know,
man's sin has ramifications and these kind of things. You talk
a good religious game. There are folks that Brother
Henry used to say, straight as a gun barrel and twice as empty.
Because Job calls them in chapter 16, verse 2, miserable comforters. They're saying true things. You
can't really look and say they're not saying something that's untrue,
but they're miserable comforters. They're not good friends. I mean,
just use this as an example. One of the couples here, their
spouse dies. You know, it wouldn't be... It
wouldn't be very wise to go to them and say, you know, they
wouldn't have died if they weren't such a sinner. I mean, that's a true statement,
but is it true? I mean, that's not comforting,
is it? Job's friends sound real religious,
but he said there's no wisdom in it. God said, hid wisdom from
your heart. There's no wisdom in what you're
saying. You come to mourn with me. He
says, But all I'm hearing from you is insults and mocking. See, I'm just continuing in this.
You're insulting me, mocking me. You're so self-righteous
and self-important, like you think, you know, this has happened
to me because I'm so low down. It's not happened to you because
you please God so much. God's not going to exalt that. God's not going to exalt that. You're religious friends, religious
folks. They can use a lot of flowery
religious words. They can use some great big old
religious words. But I'm telling you, they're
useless. Unless what they say points us to Christ. It's worthless. I'd a whole lot rather hear a
simple, plain man use five cent words to exalt Christ than A
highly intelligent man using $10 words that nobody can understand. And basically what it does is
exalt him. Everybody says, wow, how smart he is. I'd a whole
lot rather hear just plain, simple language that points me to Christ. That's my favorite preacher. These folks with all their religious
talk and things, I mean, I hear them sometimes, and I think,
I don't even know what they're talking about. They can impress me. I mean,
they can get over my head pretty quick, but they can't make themselves
righteous. If I try to hang around with
them, they can't make me righteous either. Then third, Job knew this. He
said, my hope is not in the riches of this world. Look over at chapter
31 of Job. It's a good thing Job's hope
wasn't in these earthly riches, because he lost them all, hadn't
he? He lost all of his wealth. Job chapter 31, Job was talking
about all the things that would be useless for him to have put
his trust in. Verse 24, he said, if I made
gold my hope, or I said to the fine gold, thou art my confidence,
if I rejoiced because my wealth was great and because mine hand
had gotten much, what Job's saying is I would have been sorely disappointed
if I put my confidence and my hope in those earthly riches. You know, you and I are wealthy. If you compare us to a lot of
people, even in our country, people in other parts of the
world, certainly people in other times in history, you and I are
quite wealthy, quite comfortable. We really are. And I'm thankful. My daughter Savannah and I had
a silly conversation recently about if you could travel in
time, would you go back to the 1800s? And here's what she and
I concluded. No. You know why? Gary, there's
no air conditioning. I mean, we got air conditioning.
That's rich. I mean, that's wealthy. There's
no indoor plumbing. I like indoor plumbing. I don't
want to have to go out to an outhouse in the cold winter or
something. I like it. I'm thankful. I mean, aren't you? I'm thankful
for those things. But let's not ever mistake creature comforts
for comfort of soul. Let's not ever think, well, just
because I've got enough money to pay my bills and I got enough
money to retire comfortably, don't think, don't use that to
think I've got enough to pay my sin debt to God, that I've
got enough to make God satisfied with me. I may have enough to
get along in this world, but unless God gives it to me, I
don't have enough to satisfy God. I don't. What did the Apostle
Peter say about that? He said, you know this, you know
this, we're not redeemed with corruptible things, the silver
and gold, for your vain conversation received by tradition from your
fathers. Our money, our earthly possessions,
our creature comforts are just as worthless as our good works.
As an offering to God, for Him to redeem our souls. Useless. A good hope of eternal life can't
be found in us anywhere. Well, Job knew that. Just look at him. Sitting there
in the ashes with a piece of broken pottery scraping the boils
off of his body. Lost everything. People in the
town, they won't talk to him. Everybody used to highly esteem
Job, they see Job now and they kind of, you know, look away. Job said, now where's my hope? I mean, when physically and emotionally
it's gotten as bad as it can get, the night can't get any
darker for poor old Job. Where's my hope? Well, this is
what Job knew. He asked the question, but he
already knew the answer to it. My hope's in Christ. As soon
as I gave you my title, you knew the answer to it, didn't you?
My hope is Christ. The only hope a sinner can have of eternal
life is in Christ, the Savior. The only reason any son of Adam
can expect eternal life is the Lord Jesus Christ. I know this. I have to be righteous to be
accepted of God. I must be perfect. Well, Christ
is my hope. Christ is my expectation of righteousness. My hope is Christ. Is Christ
my righteousness? And that was Job's hope too.
Look what he says in verse nine. The righteous shall hold his
way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. Now how did he become righteous?
Christ made him righteous. How did he have clean hands?
Christ washed him, washed him in his blood. The righteous people
are people who are righteous in Christ. They didn't make themselves
righteous by their own obedience to the law. They're righteous
because Christ obeyed the law for them as their representative.
So they're righteous in Christ. And let me tell you, that righteousness
is real and it's perfect. It's not the righteous. They're
not, well, God says that we're just going to pretend like they're
righteous even though they're really not. God can't do that. He sees things as they really
are. It's not like, well, they're not righteous now, but they will
be someday in heaven. No, the righteous are perfectly
righteous now, right now. If you believe Christ, you're
righteous now, and you'll never be any more righteous than you
are now. Their righteousness and their salvation is perfect.
You know why? Because Christ accomplished it
for them. They didn't do it themselves.
Christ did it for him. Salvation is the work of God. And everything God does is perfect,
isn't it? So that's why the righteous shall hold on his way. The righteous
won't leave Christ and become unrighteous again. The righteous
will hold on his way. You know why? God won't let him
go. That's why he's gonna hold on
his way. Here's what Job is saying. This trial has thrown me for
a loop. I mean, he's complained about
it. It's thrown him for a loop. But
he says, I also know this, I'm gonna hold on my way. I'm gonna
hold on my way because Christ won't let me go. The righteous
holds on his way because when God saves his people by his grace,
he keeps them by his grace too. The righteous holds on his way
because God's begun a good work in him. And this is what you
can bank on. If God's begun a good work, he's
going to finish it. He's going to finish it. Look
at Romans chapter eight. Here's another reason the righteous
will hold on his way. It's because of the love of God.
Not our love for God. Now God's love for us. Romans
eight. Verse 35. Who shall separate
us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution? That's where Job's at, isn't
it? In tribulation, distress, and persecution. Or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword. As it's written, for thy sake
we're killed all the day long. We're counted as sheep for the
slaughter. Nay, in all these things we're more than conquerors
through him that loved us. for I'm persuaded, I'm confident
of this, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height,
nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. That
sounds pretty sure, doesn't it? You know why it sounds pretty
sure? Because it is. It is. God's love will not let
his people go. Then look at 1 John 3. The righteous
will hold on his way. He's not going to depart from
Christ. He's not going to leave you. He's going to hold on his
way because the new nature that's born of God in him is righteous. 1 John 3, verse 9. Whosoever is born of God doth
not commit sin. For his seed remaineth in him,
and he cannot sin, because he's born of God. That new man born
of God cannot sin. Now this flesh, all it can do
is sin, but that new man born of God cannot sin. This nature of flesh is gonna
try to get us to leave God and quit trusting Christ and trusting
something that we do, and it'll never quit that as long as this
flesh lives, but the new man won't do it. Because He cannot
sin. Because His seed, the seed, the
Holy Seed of the Word of God remains in Him. He'll always
be righteous. Now God's right. He's just. He's never going to cast a righteous
person away. Because there's no reason for
Him to do it. So the righteous will hold on His way. You see,
everything the believer hopes for, everything the believer
ever expects from God, it's all in Christ. And really, it's more
accurately said, it all is Christ. It is Christ. Job admitted he
was a sinner. You and I are sinners just like
Job was. Well, what's a guilty sinner's best hope? Has to be mercy, doesn't it?
Has to be mercy. Well, I covered this in the lesson
this morning. The only hope a sinner has for mercy is for Christ's
sake. He's got to be the beginning
of it. That was David's hope. He said in Psalm 33, verse 22,
let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us according as we hope in thee. David said, my hope, my expectation
is mercy, not merit, mercy, mercy, because Christ earned it for
me. And I tell you, hoping in God's
mercy, That's a good hope. That's a good hope for a sinner.
Because David said in Psalm 130, verse seven, let Israel hope
in the Lord. For with the Lord, there is mercy. Not there could be mercy, not
sometimes there's mercy. With the Lord, there is mercy. And with him is plenteous redemption. I like that phrase, plenteous
redemption, don't you? I got plenteous in. I need plenteous
redemption. You know why there's plenty of
redemption for guilty sinners? Because the Lord has plenty of
mercy. It's a good hope, isn't it? Hope in God's mercy. Then the believer has a hope,
has an expectation in God's word, because of God's word. Everything
that the believer expects, there's a concrete foundation. a rock
solid foundation for that expectation. It's what God says in his word.
It's not what some preacher said. It's not what some preacher of
the past said. It's not what some great theologian of the
past said. It's what God's word says. We hope in God's word. David said, Psalm 119, verse
74. They that fear thee will be glad when they see me, because
I've hoped in thy word. The believer has an expectation
to one day see Christ face to face. One day we're gonna be mighty
glad to see him. And we'll say, boy, everything he said in his
word was true. I didn't understand it all exactly
at the time, but I see it now. It's a good hope in God's word.
I'm telling you, as far as your soul goes, as
far as your soul goes. If somebody can't show it to
you from the Word of God, don't you believe it? And Gary and
I were talking about this last night. Now, don't just take a
verse off the page and pull it out of the whole rest of the
Bible and say, this is what this means and this is why I'm opening.
That verse, the meaning of it has to agree with every other
verse in the Word of God. That's how you know what that
verse means. Find out what God's word says
and ask God to give you faith to believe it. If he does, you'll
trust Christ. Because that's what this book
is written for. Now remember I told you that believer's hope
is an expectation. Do you know if you believe on
Christ, you have a right to expect eternal life. You do. You have a right to expect that.
You know why? Because he promised it. He promised
it. It's right to believe the promise
of God, isn't it? You have a right to expect one day when this mess
is over to be exalted together with Christ. Now, the only reason
sinners like you and me could possibly expect that is God's
grace. He's gracious to sinners. 2 Thessalonians
2 verse 16. Now the Lord Jesus Christ himself
and God our father, which had loved us and has given us everlasting
consolation and a good hope through grace. Good hope through grace. Comfort your hearts, establish
you in every good word and word. Now, how can you expect to have
this everlasting consolation, eternal life through grace? How can you expect God's gonna
comfort your heart. You know, the Lord sends trials. He's promised he's gonna send
trials to his people. And if I've learned anything,
this is what I've learned. God's grace is sufficient. He said so in his word. He said
so in his word. You know, I've been, You all
know this. I've been taught the scriptures
from the time I could understand language. And I always believed
that that was true. I believed it because God's Word
said it. So, you know, I believe that that's true. But after the Lord sends a few
trials, and you cannot survive the next minute Unless He gives you grace that's
sufficient. And He does. Now I believe it. Now I believe
it. How can you expect God's going
to bless every good word in work? Grace. Grace. It's not me. It's not because I knew the right
words. It's not because I did the right thing. Grace, grace. It's the only reason we expect
any of these things is because of God's grace. Now look at Colossians
chapter one. This hope in Christ, I want you
to leave here this morning, hoping, confident in Christ. Here's the
thing about hope in Christ is expectation. It's a living hope. It's not just a hope that something
that we read about like you're reading the Bible, like you're
reading the history book. A hope in Christ is a living hope. It's
a living hope that God's put in his people, in their hearts.
Colossians 1 verse 27. To whom God would make known
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles,
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Before you can ever
expect glory with God in heaven, Christ must be in you first.
He's got to be in you. Nobody can expect glory in heaven
unless there's first been done a work of grace in our hearts,
in us. And that work that Paul is talking
about there, it's a mystery. It's the mystery of the new birth.
How God the Holy Spirit causes a new man to be born in the hearts
of his people. Nicodemus was smart and all of us put together.
The Lord told him, you must be born again. And the only thing
Nicodemus could think of to say is how can these things be? He
couldn't understand it. You know when you understand
it? God does a work in your heart. When God causes you to be born
again, then you'll understand. The mystery will be known because
it's been experienced. In the book of Galatians, here's
how the Apostle Paul Describe salvation. Christ being formed
in you. And Paul says, here's how much
that matters to me. Here's how much I desire that
this is my prayer for you. I travail. I mean, I work hard. It's travail pains that a woman
goes through and she's delivering a child. I travail. I work hard
in a ministry. I work hard in study. I work
hard in prayer, begging God, beseeching God to bless his word
and be merciful so that Christ be formed in you. In you. Paul describes believers as the
temple of the living God. The temple in Israel, that's
where God dwelt. The Shekinah glory of God dwelt between those
wings of the cherubim above the mercy seat. The temple's where
God dwelt. You know why scripture, inerrant,
without error, you know why scripture can call a believer, someone
in the flesh, the temple of the living God? It's because Christ
is formed in you. Christ lives in the heart. Look
back at Romans chapter eight. Now what we're talking about
here, this living hope, is vitally, vitally important. It seems like
a lot of religious folks seem to see how important the work of
the Father is in redemption. The Father had elected people.
He had to choose somebody to save or they never would be saved.
And oh, they definitely see the importance of the work of the
Son. He must be sacrificed, I see that. But for some unknown reason,
they make the Holy Spirit to just be, I mean, hardly mentioned,
hardly thought of. And if they do, they think of
it as making folks speak in tongues and, you know, froth at the mouth
and roll around the floor or something, you know. Let me tell
you this. There is no salvation if the
Spirit does not dwell in us. None. The work of the Spirit,
is just as viable in redemption as the Father and Son. Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit. I'll show you that, Romans chapter
eight, verse eight. So then, they that are in the flesh, they
that have this fleshly nature, cannot please God. But you're
not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. If so, be that the Spirit
of God dwell in you. Now, if the Spirit of God dwells
in you, you're not coming to God in the flesh, are you? You're
coming to God by faith, trusting Christ. If any man have not the
Spirit of Christ, if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ
dwelling in him, he is none of his. He don't belong to God unless
the Spirit dwells in him. Now Christ is our hope, isn't
he? That's what Job is taught. Christ is our hope. The only
expectation we have of any blessing from God is Christ. But Christ
in you, that's the evidence that God saved you. See that? That's
the evidence. Christ done a work for his people.
Now he's put their sin away. By the shedding of his precious
blood, he put their sin, he justified them. He obeyed the law for them
and made them righteous. His obedience is our obedience. Just as sure as Adam's disobedience
is our disobedience, Christ's obedience is the obedience of
his people. He's done a work for his people. This thing legally
has been satisfied. It's signed, sealed, and delivered.
But the evidence that Christ has done a work for you is he's
in you. He dwells in your hearts. Now
there had to be some legal things taken care of in this matter
of salvation. The father had to be satisfied.
His justice had to be satisfied. The debt had to be paid. But
salvation's also a new creature. It's a living hope. And the way
the Holy Spirit gives that new nature, causes that new nature
to be born, is through the preaching of the seed of the word of God.
That's why when we preach, we preach the word. We preach the
word. That's why we keep preaching
Christ and Christ alone. My heart's desire is to know Christ. And right with that, I guess
I'll be honest and say I'm selfish enough, I want to know Christ. But it affects my whole being. My whole, every action through
the week. That you know Christ. That you
know Christ. He's our salvation. and he's
our only hope. And I pray the Lord make us leave
here this morning hoping in Christ. If he does, that'd be a mighty
good thing. This is what Jeremiah said in
Lamentations 3 verse 26. It's good. Now here's a good thing. That
a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the
Lord. If we're hoping in that, That's
a good thing. That's a good thing. You know,
I think it's good to remember this. Jeremiah said that. That's
the weeping prophet. He didn't say that when everything's
going great. He had the tiger by the tail on a downhill pole
in the shady side, didn't he? He's a weeping prophet. He says,
good, we hope in the Lord. Wait for your salvation. I pray
God do that for you and me this morning. Let's bow together. Father, how we thank you that
you've given such clear direction on where our hope is, where the
hope for a sinner is found in your word. How we thank you that
you so clearly in your word point sinners to Christ. Father, I
pray you give us the life and the faith this morning to look
to him. as the children of Israel of
old in the wilderness when they are bitten by the serpents and
dying. Father, cause us to look, to
look to Christ lifted up and live. It's in Christ's name,
for his sake and his glory we pray. Amen. All right, Chris.