My title this morning is Think
on These Things. My text is just one verse, but
there's a whole lot of Christ in this one verse. Verse 8. Finally,
brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, Whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there
be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Think on these things. You know,
there's a whole lot of things that we can think about in this
world, isn't there? And I would warn each of us, be careful what
you spend a whole lot of time thinking about. Because there's
a lot of things that aren't worth any time at all, any of our time
to think about them at all. People spend a whole lot of time
today thinking about the political arena, don't they? And I would
caution you, don't do that. Don't do that. Now, spend enough
time that you can think about these things that you can be
an informed voter. And after that, don't give it
another thought. Spend your time thinking about
this. God's on the throne. He's on
the throne. No matter who sits in the seat
of power, our God's the one running this thing. So, you know, be
an informed voter, but don't spend an inordinate amount of
time thinking about those things. A whole lot of people spend a
whole lot of time thinking about the breakdown, the moral breakdown
in our society. And that's true, I can't argue
against it. But don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about that.
Don't spend too much time trying to worry about it and what can
be done to fix it. Because listen, we can't legislate
morality by the law. It just won't work. Instead of
thinking about how people should act, but they don't, spend your
time thinking about Christ our righteousness, that we're perfect
in him. There's a whole lot of people
spend a lot of time thinking about what they can do or what
they cannot do to prolong their life. Think about what they can
eat or what they cannot eat to make them live longer. Now, put
enough time into thinking about your body, what you eat, what
you don't eat, how you exercise and things, so that you feel
better as long as you're here. Spend the appropriate amount
of time thinking about it, but don't waste your time trying
to figure out and spend so much time trying to figure out how
you can live one day longer than God's already given you. Now,
why do I say that? Well, it's because what our Lord
said in Matthew 6, verse 27, which of you by taking thought
can add one cubit on his stature? Can't do it. So don't spend a
lot of time thinking about it. Don't spend any more time. Just
don't allow this world to have any more of your time. that is
absolutely necessary. Don't think about all the junk
of this world. And if you quit thinking about
the junk of this world, hopefully that'll free up our time to think
about some of these blessed things that Paul lists in our texts,
things that we should think on. Now, in short, I'll just give
you the cliff notes version of this verse eight, and then we'll
look at it in a little bit of detail. Here's what the apostles tell
us. Spend your time thinking on Christ. That's what he's telling
us in this verse, just all these different aspects of Christ. Thinking on Christ, thinking
on our savior, thinking on our Lord, thinking on our master,
that'll keep all the other things of this world in their proper
perspective. It's worth time thinking about
some of those things, but it'll keep them in their bright perspective.
So first Paul says, think on this. Think on whatsoever things
are true, are true. Now I know every believer is
troubled by false religion. And I would tell you that, now
recognize false religion so that you stay away from it. So that
you stay away from it and you don't fall under its influence,
but don't waste a lot of time thinking about it. Don't waste
a lot of time thinking, well, this is what this one's doing
wrong. This is what this one's doing wrong. This is what this
is doing wrong. Doesn't that sound like the attitude of the
Pharisees? Don't spend so much time thinking on what's false.
Spend your time thinking on what's true. Think on the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's the truth of God. Think
on him. Think on how the character of
God is seen in the Lord Jesus Christ. In Christ, we see God
is truly just, don't we? When sin was found on his son,
the father was just, wasn't he? And put him to death for it.
He didn't hold anything back. His unmitigated wrath for sin
fell on his son because God's just. He's inflexibly just. And at the same time, when we
see the justice of God in the sacrifice of Christ, you know
what else we see? We see God is truly merciful and he's truly
gracious to sinners. Here's how gracious God is to
sinners. He slaughtered his son so that he could be gracious
to sinners. That's grace, isn't it? That
is true grace. In Christ, we see the true wisdom
of God. God found a way to be just and
still justify the ungodly. He did it through the sacrifice
of his son as a substitute for his people. Look back at Proverbs
chapter 16. Proverbs 16, verse six. By mercy and truth, iniquity
is purged. And by the fear of the Lord,
men depart from evil. Sin and iniquity can only be
purged by mercy and truth. And the only place mercy and
truth meet together is in the Lord Jesus Christ and his sacrifice
that he truly paid the price for the sin of his people so
that God could be merciful to his people. You think on that
all you want. how God is both just and justifier
through the sacrifice of Christ our Savior. In Christ, we see
the true love of God for sinners. God must truly love sinners. If he made his son suffer the
humiliation of being made flesh so that he could be their representative,
And if he made his son suffer everything that he suffered,
and his sacrifice for the sin of his people, if he suffered
the full wrath of God for his people, boy, the father must
truly love sinners. If he put his son through that
in order to save him, he must truly love them. Now think on
these things. I mean, think on that all you
want. Think on the fact that almighty
God loves sinners. I tell you, it'll cause your
heart to soar with worship and praise. Now the pain, the heartache,
the trouble, the difficulty of this life is still gonna be there.
It will be unchanged. But your heart will soar because
of what you're thinking on. Because you're thinking on who
God is. Think on the truth of who God
is, his true love for his people. Think on true things. Think on
Christ, who's the true bread from heaven. He's the one that
gives life to our souls and sustains our souls by feeding on him.
He's the true bread. Think on Christ, the true vine.
We have life. We bear the fruit of the spirit
by being joined to Christ through union with Christ. He's the true
vine. Think on the whole word of God,
all of it, this word. is the truth of God. I know that
because our Lord said it in his great high priestly prayer, John
17, thy word is truth. It is truth. It doesn't just
say true things, it is truth. Think on the truth of God's precious
promises to his people. There's too many, there's too
many. Let's just think on the, these things are true. God's
not just saying that, this is true. Think on the glory of the
Savior. It's only revealed in this book.
I mean, you can see so many things. We had dinner with Mike and Sandy
Walker last night, Jan and I did, and they were telling us about
their trip out west and all the things that they saw, just breathtakingly
beautiful. Oh, creation is beautiful, isn't
it? It's marred by sin, it's still
beautiful, think of that. But I want to tell you where
you see the real glory of the Savior, is in his sacrifice for his people.
Think on His glory. Don't think about your circumstances. Pain and anxiety and worry will
lie to you. It'll always tell you it's worse
than it really is. Don't think about this world.
Who's doing what to whom and everything's going on in this
world. The world will lie to you. They'll lie to you. Everything
in this world will lie to us if we think about it apart from
the word of God. Look back at Psalm 119. Now I'm
telling you, this is good advice. Don't think about the world.
Don't think about the pain. Don't think about the heartache. It's real, the heartache of the
trial. Don't think on those things. Think on the word of God. Think
on the precious promises of God. That's exactly what our Savior
did. When our savior suffered, he didn't think about the suffering.
He didn't think about the darkness and the pain of his suffering.
He didn't think about the slander that he was enduring. You know
what he thought about? He thought about the word of
God, the precious promises of God's word. Let me show you that,
Psalm 119, verse 23. Princes also did sit and speak
against me, but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes, in
your word. Thy testimonies, your word also,
is my delight and my counselor." See, the Savior didn't think
about everything he was suffering, did he? He didn't think about
how mean everybody was being to him. Even as he suffered,
he found delight because of what he was thinking on. He was thinking
on the word of God, upon the precious promises of God. And
the father had promised the son in the covenant of grace, when
you suffer and you die to redeem this people, I'll accept them.
That's what he was thinking about. And his heart soared, even though
the pain was unabated. You see that? Now I'm not saying,
oh, just go have a positive mental attitude. You won't have any
troubles. Now that's just a lie. That's all there is to it. What
I'm saying is this, we can't change our circumstances, but
we can change what we think about while we're in those circumstances.
And if we dwell more on our savior and less on our circumstances,
we'll find more peace of heart. That really is true. All right,
number two, Paul says, think on whatsoever things are honest.
Now that word honest means venerable. It means things that are honored,
things that are revered, Now that can only be talking about
our Lord Jesus Christ, can it? He's honorable because he's a
son of God. He's revered because he is God. And you think about this one.
He's perfect. He's holy. He's harmless, separate
from sinners. Yet he condescends to save sinners. He condescends to eat. with publicans
and sinners. He condescends to receive publicans
and sinners. He condescends, this one who's
holy and harmless and undefiled, higher than the heavens, condescends
to be the friend of sinners. You see, in every way, in everything
about his person and everything about his character and everything
that he's done, the Lord Jesus Christ has earned the respect
of his people. And this respected, venerated
one is the friend and the savior of sinners. He's honorable. And part of what
that means is he will never lie. He'll never lie. If he says your
sins are forgiven, they're forgiven. If he says, I will never leave
you nor forsake you, I don't care how dark the night. I don't
care how stormy the sea. I don't care the pain of the
trial. He will never leave you nor forsake
you, never. He sees, he's there. If he says,
my grace is sufficient for thee, his grace is going to be sufficient
for the day because he can't lie. He's honorable. And he's revered, isn't he? He's
the object of our worship. We're careful even how we take
his name on our lips. He's so revered. He's the object
of our worship. And you know, we would never
know how to worship God in spirit and in truth. We would never
know that God can only be worshiped in our Lord Jesus Christ unless
the Holy Spirit was pleased to reveal Christ to us. See, we'll
think worship is all the form and the ceremony and the dressing
up and the candles and the lighting and the music and all. We'll
think that's worship until the spirit reveals Christ to us.
And when the spirit reveals Christ to your heart, all that other
stuff is just junk. The object of worship, the way
we worship God is by worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ. He's revered. And of all the people that the
Lord could send his word to, of all the people in this world,
let's not even talk about the world, let's talk about this
tri-state area. Of all the people that the Spirit would be pleased
to reveal Christ to, he's revealed himself in this place. I mean, I love y'all. I respect
y'all highly, but I mean, you know, the whole scheme of things,
we ain't much. And Lord's been pleased to reveal himself here.
And he's been pleased to keep his word being preached, his
son being preached in this town for I don't know how many years
now, lost track. Every place doesn't have that.
But God put it here. Oh, give thanks. Aren't you thankful? Think on that for a while. Think
on the fact that the Lord has not left himself without a witness
in this town, in a place where we can come and hear him preached. Now, I promise you, that'll make
you thankful, even though your circumstances are unchanged.
It really will. Then Paul says, think on whatsoever
things are just. And the word means righteous
or right. Now again, this can only be talking
about Christ our Savior, can it? He's the only righteous man
that ever lived. In the message in Acts 7, verse
52, that Stephen preached to the Jews and made them so mad
they stoned him. You know what Stephen, one of the things he
told those fellas? He says, you betrayed and you murdered the
just one. Capital J, capital O, a name.
You murdered, you betrayed the just one. The Lord Jesus Christ,
he's the one they murdered. He's the one they betrayed. He's
the one they rejected. And his name is the just one.
Well, that name translated just one, speaking of Christ our savior,
is the very same Greek word translated just in our text. The Lord Jesus
Christ, he's the just one. Whatever thing is just, it's
all in him. Think on him. His whole character is just.
Now here's the blessing for God's people in this. You know this,
that the Lord Jesus Christ is just. He's the just one, he's
the holy one. This just one is our Lord. The Lord, our righteousness. Jehovah said Kenu. The Lord Jesus
Christ has blessed his people to be made the righteousness
of God in him, by him, not by our works, but by him, by his
work for us. The Lord Jesus Christ made his
people to be righteous, the very same way Adam made his race to
be unrighteous, is by representation. See, we all did what our representative
did. God sees all men in one of two representatives. Adam,
the first man created, or the Lord Jesus Christ, the second
Adam. And we all did what our representative did. When Adam
sinned in the garden and opened rebellion against God, he took
that fruit and ate it. We all sinned. We all became
guilty. We all fell in him. It's not
like we sinned in Adam. We did sin in Adam. We did what our representative
did. And in the very same way, just the opposite, when the Lord
Jesus Christ obeyed the law, all of his people obeyed in him.
and they're made righteous because in Christ, we actually did obey
God's law, because we're in Christ when he obeyed. And I can show
you that, look at Matthew chapter 25. Matthew 25. Beginning in verse 34. Then shall the king say unto
them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
For I was in hunger, and you gave me meat. I was thirsty,
and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took
me in. Naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited
me. I was in prison, and you came unto me. Then shall the
righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee in hunger,
and fed thee? Or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? Or naked, and
clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and
came unto thee? And the king shall answer unto them, Verily
I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the
least of these my brethren, you've done it unto me. Now these righteous,
they sure didn't think they were righteous in their works, did
they? Because they said, Lord, when do we do all this stuff?
I don't remember doing all this stuff. You know why they didn't
remember that? They weren't keeping score. They're
not keeping track of their works to see how righteous that they
are. But they are righteous because this is what the Lord calls them.
Then shall the righteous answer him. They're righteous. These
people are righteous. And that word righteous in verse
37 is the same word translated just one in Stephen's message. And it's the same word translated
just in our text. The Lord calls his people righteous
and just. Then they are. Because God can't
call something something it's not. He can only call things
what they are. These people are righteous. They
are just. They are without sin. Now, how
in the world is that possible? It's through union with Christ.
By Christ, our representative, we did everything he did because
we're in him. Now you think on that all you
want. even though all we can see about
ourselves is sin. The righteous couldn't see anything
that they did good, could they? They didn't see it. All we see
about ourselves is sin, yet we are righteous in Christ. I only see that by faith in Christ.
You think on that all you want. And you'll find, even though
the trial is as bad as it's ever been, you're gonna find less
reason to fear it. and more reason to have peace
resting in Christ. You really do. And fourthly,
Paul says, think of what sort of things are pure. And that
word pure, it means pure from fault, and it means clean. Now
again, this can only mean our Lord Jesus Christ. You start
to see a pattern here. Everything he's telling us really
is telling us, look to Christ. He's telling us some different
aspect of the glory of our Savior. Think on him. Think on him. Think
on the purity of our Savior. Everything about him is pure.
His character is pure. His nature is pure and without
sin. His love is pure. His wisdom is pure. His word is pure. And scripture says it's this
word that purifies the hearts of God's elect. It's this word. Look at 1 Peter 1. It's Christ
who makes his people pure. Pure through faith in him and
pure by the new birth. They have a nature that's pure.
1 Peter 1. Verse 22. Seeing, you've purified your
souls in obeying the truth through the spirit. Under unfeigned love
of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure
heart fervently. How do you get this pure heart?
Being born again. Not of corruptible seed, but
incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth
forever. This word of God is the seed
that the Holy Spirit uses to give life in the hearts of his
people. You know, the first time we were born, we were conceived
by the seed of our father. And the only thing he had to
pass on to us in that seed was a sin nature. That's all he had. And we came out with that sin
nature, didn't we? We came forth from the womb speaking
lies, giving evidence we had this sin nature. But when we're
born again by the Holy Spirit, we're born from completely different
seed. And the life that is produced by that seed completely depends
upon the seed. The life is gonna be just like
the seed. This seed is pure. So the new nature, the new life
that comes forth from this seed is going to be pure. Now again, if we look at ourselves,
we're not gonna see any evidence of purity by looking at ourselves.
We look at ourselves, all we're gonna see is sin and impurity. Yet God sees things as they are. However it is God sees them,
that's how they are, isn't it? Well, God sees his people as
pure. in Christ our Savior. Now you think on that all you
want. Your circumstances won't change,
but your heart will be thrilled to think I'm pure before God,
clean in God's sight. Then I like this one. Here's
the fifth thing. Think on whatsoever things are
lovely. The word means pleasing. Now, again, see who this is talking
about, don't you? It's talking about Christ, our
Savior. He's the one who pleased the Father. The Father is well-pleased
in Him. The Lord Jesus Christ is so pleasing
that all of God's elect are accepted in the beloved. The Father is
well-pleased with all of His people, the same way He is with
His Son, because they're all in His Son. Now you think on
that all you want. We would understand if God cast
us out for our sin. I mean, for our repeated sin,
the same thing over and over and over again. We would understand
if God cast us out for our weak faith, how shameful it is after
everything God's done for me, after everything he's brought
me through, that the first little thing comes up and I doubt him.
Shameful, shameful, shameful, shameful. I'd understand if God
cast me out, but he never will do it. You know why? He's well-pleased with his son.
See, his son is lovely. And if he's well-pleased with
his son, he's well-pleased with everybody in him. God's not pleased
with me because of something I did or something I didn't do.
God's well-pleased with his people and his son because of what his
son did. So think on that. Think on the
lovely character, the pleasing character of Christ our Savior.
He's altogether lovely to everybody that knows him. He's altogether
lovely to the father. He's altogether lovely to his
people. You remember in Song of Solomon
chapter five, how the Lord, our bridegroom, came. It was nighttime. He came to his spouse and he
called to her with sweet words. He called to her with sweet nicknames
like a husband has for his wife. He called her my beloved. He
called her my love, my dove, my undefiled. This is how he
called her and she, now this is us, this is us, this is God's
people. He called her in his sweet names,
his sweet pet name, my beloved. You know, she said, I can't get
up right now. It's late and I've already gone
to bed. I'm just too tired. to get up
and let you in right now. I put off my coat, put off my
robe. Maybe that's what she means.
And I got down under these nice warm covers. And if I take the
covers off, I'm going to get a chill. I've already washed
my feet. If I get up out of this bed,
walk across the floor to the door, my feet are going to get
dirty. I just can't get up right now. And instead of just kicking
that door in and giving her what's for, the Lord reached his hand
in the hole of the door. And then he left. And oh, she
smelled the myrrh. She smelled the sweetness of
his hand. And she bounded out of bed to
open that door to find her bridegroom. But he'd gone. Suddenly it didn't
matter. She wasn't too tired now. She
wouldn't be too cold now. She wasn't worried about her
feet getting dirty now. She went out looking for her bridegroom.
Oh, the smell of him on that door. Oh, just the smell of him
reminded her of how much she loved him. She had to find him.
And she goes out to the other daughters of Jerusalem and she
says, have you seen my beloved? They said, well, I mean, no,
I haven't seen him. I'm not around here anymore.
There's all these other fellows around. Why don't you, you know,
find one of these other fellows? What is your beloved more than
another? And she said, oh, let me tell
you. And she started at the tip of his head and went down to
the tips of his toes and described everything about him. It's so
beautiful. It's so lovely. Everything, oh,
just, I mean, what a specimen he is. And this is the way she
summed it up. He's altogether lovely. That's
why he's my beloved. That's why I must have him. Now you think on this. Think
on this all you want. That the Lord of glory, I mean,
he's altogether lovely. He is so handsome. He's so beautiful. His character is so perfect. His love is pure and perfect. I mean, wow. Think about Boaz
riding up to the field that day, and there's Ruth. I mean, Boaz,
oh, my soul. I mean, he must have had thick,
black, curly hair. He's on a white stallion. I mean,
he dressed to the nines. I mean, his boots are shining. I mean, everybody saw him just,
oh, he's so beautiful. Ruth never gave a thought of
trying to date this man, much less marry him. This is a picture
of our savior. And he comes to his field and
every woman there wants to marry him. Every woman there wants
to be his bride. Oh, he's something. And you know
who he chose? He chose to save harlots. They're
all used up. They're not worth anything anymore.
The bloom of youth is gone and nobody wants them anymore. There's nothing left beautiful
about her. No one but this one who's altogether
lovely. He chose her and he took her
to be his bride. The bloom of youth is gone. All
of her beauty is gone. And he took his bride and made
her beautiful in his beauty that he put on her. Oh, you think on that. Think
on that. Then six, think on whatsoever
things are of a good report. And that good report is the gospel
of Christ. The good report is the report
that tells me who Christ is. And this report God's given us
to preach, it sounds too good to be true. That's why it's foolishness
to the natural mind. The Lord, somebody hears the
gospels and you're telling me the Lord saves sinners who don't
deserve it? I mean, they don't even have
to contribute one thing to their salvation. They don't even have
to take the first step. You mean to tell me that the Lord does
it all for sinners who don't deserve it? You're telling me
that the Lord makes his people to be perfectly righteous, and
then he doesn't even make them keep it, but he makes them righteous? That's too good to be true. There's no way I could be made
just like the Lord Jesus Christ freely without any input from
me. Well, it would be too good to
be true if it depended on us, wouldn't it? But it's not too
good to be true if our report is all on who the Lord Jesus
Christ is and what he's done for his people. Christ is the
gospel. You can't narrow this down too
narrowly. You can't get it too down to
a pinprick of light narrow. It's all of Christ. It's all
him. And we keep preaching it. We
just keep preaching the same message over and over and over
again. Isaiah in Isaiah 53 asks, Lord,
who's believed our report? I mean, it doesn't seem like
I'm getting any results here. It doesn't seem like anybody's believing this.
Who has believed our report? Well, I can tell you who's believed
it. Everyone to whom the arm of the Lord has been revealed.
The mighty right arm of the Lord is the Lord Jesus Christ. And
if the Holy Spirit's ever pleased to reveal Christ to your heart,
you'll believe this gospel. You'll believe this good report.
Now you think on the gospel of Christ all you want. Don't think on the news. It's not good for your mental
health. You want something that's good for your mental health?
Think on the gospel of Christ. Just think on Him. Then he says,
think on things that are of any virtue. And the word virtue means
moral goodness. Again, this can only be talking
about Christ. And he's the one of moral virtue. Everything he does is good. And
you know, it's good because he does it. Now, this is not pie-in-the-sky
doctrine. Look at Mark chapter five. This
is not something that is separate from our experience, separate
from our day-to-day experience, separate from the life of a believer. This is not pie-in-the-sky doctrine.
The virtue of the Lord is vitally important to our salvation, to
our spiritual healing, the healing of our wounds and bruises and
putrefying sores. In Mark 5, we have the account
of the woman with the issue of blood crawling up behind the
Lord to touch the hem of his garment. She said, if I just
touch the hem of his garment, I'll be made whole. Verse 30. And she did it. She came, she
touched the hem of his garment. And Jesus, immediately knowing
in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about
in the press and said, who touched me? You know why she was healed?
Virtue. Goodness went from the Lord to
his daughter. He called her his daughter. Through
union with Christ, the virtue of Christ is in us, and it heals
all of our spiritual wounds and bruises and putrefying sores,
and we can never be lost again. All right, last. Think on things that are worthy
of praise. Now I am trying to sound like
a broken record here. I'm trying to sound like a broken
record so we get this. Everything Paul's telling us
to think about here is just another aspect of Christ our Savior.
This thing of talking about worthy of praise can only be talking
about Christ. He's the only one worthy of our
praise. And he's worthy of our praise
simply because of who he is. I don't ever want to fall into
the trap of praising the Lord only because of what He's done
for me and only because of what He's given me. Because if I do
that, if I only praise the Lord for what He's done for me and
what He's given me, all my praise is about me, isn't it? I want
to praise the Lord for who He is. Praising for all of his perfect
attributes. Praising for his glory. Praise
the Lord. He's worthy of praise because
of the salvation that he accomplished for his people. Whether he gives
it to me or not, he's worthy of praise for accomplishing it
for his people. He's worthy of praise because he did not fail.
He's worthy of praise because of his obedience to the law.
Nobody else obeyed it. He obeyed it so perfectly he
honored and magnified the law. He's worthy of praise for a sacrifice
for his people. I want to praise him as much
as I can. Because he's high above all praise.
I mean, there's nothing about him that's not worthy of praise.
And the Lord has promised to save all of his people, all of
them. And all of their salvation is
by, through, and in the Lord Jesus Christ. And here's why
God did everything. This is a good reason to praise
God. Praise our Lord Jesus Christ,
because here's why God did everything he did regarding his people.
Ephesians one, verse six. Here's why God did it all. This was the verse we looked
at in our lesson this morning. Here's why God did it all. To
the praise of the glory of his grace. That's why God did it
all. So that his son would be praised. That's why. Now you just think
on the Savior. You just think on reasons to
praise him. You'll never run out. Just think of that all you
want. And if you're doing that, you're
thinking about all the reasons we had to praise our Savior.
You're just not going to have very much time to think about reasons
to feel sorry for yourself. See that? We'll be a whole lot
better off when we quit thinking about ourself and start thinking
about the Savior. Now I'm not saying that the things
that happen to us, the things that the Lord brings our way
are insignificant and they don't truly, honestly affect us. I'm not saying that at all. I'm
saying thinking on the Savior puts all these other things in
their proper perspective. So think on these things. Think
on these things and you'll find peace for your souls. All right,
let's bow together. Our Father, how we thank you.
for the Lord Jesus Christ, how we thank you that you would be
pleased to reveal him to the hearts of your people by faith.
And Father, I pray you'd cause us to think on him, to think
on everything about him, to become less concerned with all the goings
on of this world and more concerned with thinking. on Christ our
Savior. He is worthy. He's worthy of
our thought. He's worthy of our praise. He's
worthy of our worship. He's worthy of our adoration.
Father, cause us to think on him, that we might find more
peace, more rest, more calmness, more assurance for our souls.
It's in the precious name of our Savior we pray and give thanks.
Amen. All right.