Alright, I invite your attention
first tonight to 2 Samuel chapter 22. I do not intend to preach verse
by verse from one passage as I normally do this evening. I want us to look at a specific
subject this evening, the subject of Thanksgiving. I've titled
the message, Give Thanks. It's what's on everybody's mind
tonight as we're all preparing to cook a big meal and get together
with family and friends tomorrow. And I love this holiday. I love
Thanksgiving holiday. It's just such a great time to
get together with your family and enjoy good food. I do that every day, but Thanksgiving
Day especially. I mean, there's a feast. But
even more important than that, you know Thanksgiving, is the
most godly holiday that we have. Christmas, getting ready to come
up, there's no God in Christmas whatsoever. Nobody knows when
Christ was born. Now, I'm not anti-Christmas. I love Christmas too. I love
that family come together, exchange gifts, and it's wonderful, but
there's no religious significance there. There's no religious significance
to Easter. anniversary of our Lord's resurrection
from the grave. It's a different day every year
for goodness sake. Nobody knows when the Lord was
raised from the dead. And again, I'm not anti Easter,
Easter egg hunting and eating ham and getting together family.
Wonderful, but no religious significance. But Thanksgiving is another matter. Thanksgiving involves giving
thanks. And who do we thank? But God. We give our thanks to Him. And
I want us to look at some very scriptures tonight and see what
the scriptures has to say about giving thanks. And what does
the scripture say are the best reasons to give thanks? The first
one here in 2 Samuel chapter 22, we give thanks for salvation
in our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Samuel 22 verse 47, the Lord
liveth and blessed be my rock. and exalted be the God of the
rock of my salvation. It is God that avenges me, and
that bringeth down the people under me, and that bringeth me
forth from mine enemies. Thou hast lifted me up on high
above them that rose up against me. Thou hast delivered me from
the violent man. Therefore, I will give thanks
unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and I will sing praises
unto thy name. Now this is the first time the
phrase give thanks is used in scripture. And it's used as David
talks about being delivered from his enemies, ascending to the
throne of Israel. But he's speaking here as the
son of David, as the Lord Jesus Christ. And these are the things
that David gives thanks for. He says, first of all, he gives
thanks that the Lord lives. The Lord lives to rule and to
reign. He lives to ensure His purpose
be accomplished. His purpose of the salvation
of His people. The Lord lives. And in Him, sinners who are born
dead and trespasses in sins, they live. They live in Him.
Before the world was created, the Father gave a people to His
Son to save. Those people were strangers from
God. They were sinners by birth, sinners by choice, and sinners
by practice. They were separated from God.
He gave them to His Son to redeem. Christ the Son, He came to this
earth and He suffered and died to save those people. And all
of those people shall be brought to Christ. They'll be brought
to repentance. They'll be brought to faith.
They'll be brought to obedience, to submit to His righteousness.
He talks about those people in verse 44. Thou also hast delivered
me from the strivings of my people. Thou hast kept me to be head
of the heathen, a people which I knew not, shall serve me. Strangers
shall submit themselves unto me. As soon as they hear, as
soon as they hear with the ear of faith, they shall be obedient
unto me, and they will submit to the Lord our righteousness.
We live because the Lord lives. David gives thanks. Then he gives
thanks that the Lord is my rock. Now our rock is not like their
rock. Our rock is a sure foundation. David says he's not just any
rock. He's the rock of my salvation. And whosoever believes in him
shall not be confounded. Whoever believes on him will
never perish. Christ is the rock of our salvation. He is the rock where we hide
from God's wrath, the storm of God's wrath against our sin.
We hide in Christ. Christ is our rock. where we
find shade to rest in from the heat of this desert world that
we have to pass through. Christ is that rock where we
can find the shade and rest. Christ is that rock where we
get the water of life. Paul said Christ is that rock.
We give thanks. Then David says we give thanks
that our Savior has been lifted up on high. The Father has lifted
him up, given him a name which is above every name. He has defeated
every enemy. So there's nothing for us to
fear. We have no reason to fear. We give thanks. And we give thanks
that our Savior has delivered us from the violent man. I'm
sure David there was talking about Saul and his army and different
things. But the Lord's delivered us.
Us. His people. He's delivered us
from the violent man. Well, who is the violent man?
Well, I can tell you primarily who he is. He's the man of our
sin. He's that old man we carry around
with us. He's that man of violence. And
the Lord's delivered us from him. Now, he hasn't delivered
us from him all the way yet, has he? Well, we still carry
him around with us everywhere we go. That old man still exists.
He's just as sinful as ever. He's just as rotten as ever.
Matter of fact, we think he's worse than ever, because now
we've got a new man that can see how rotten the old man is.
But now, that new man who's been born of God in the new birth,
He reigns. The old man no longer reigns. And here's the evidence that
the old man no longer reigns. It's now we believe Christ. Now we rest in him. We couldn't
do that before, could we? That old man will never believe
Christ. He'll never rest in Christ. But he don't reign anymore. The
new man reigns. So we believe Christ and we rest
in him. And it's only that new man who's
been born of God who can give thanks for the rock of our salvation. That's our greatest blessing.
We give thanks for salvation. Right now, look over at Psalm
30. Psalm 30. Secondly, we give thanks for
holiness. Psalm 30, verse 4. Sing unto
the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance
of His holiness. That seems like an odd statement
for a sinner to make, doesn't it? Give thanks at the remembrance
of His holiness? It seems like holiness would
always be against sinners, doesn't it? But David says give thanks. Believers give thanks at every
remembrance. Every time we remember God's
holiness, we give thanks. Now why is that? It's because
God saves sinners in holiness. That's the only way God can do
anything. Everything God does must be done in holiness. As
a matter of fact, the only way salvation can be sure is if it's
holy. It's got to meet all of God's
strict holiness and justice for it to be sure. And that's how
God saves His people. God makes all of His elect holy
by causing them to be born again. That new nature that's born in
the new birth is holy, is born from the holy, perfect, sinless
seed of the Word of God. So that man cannot sin. That's the only nature God can
accept, is the holy nature. So God makes his people not only
what he will accept, but God makes his people what he loves.
He makes them holy and God will never cast out anybody that he
loves. We give thanks at every remembrance
of His holiness, don't we? All right, now look over at Psalm
136. Psalm 136. Thirdly, we give thanks that
God's mercy is eternal. Verse one. Oh, give thanks unto
the Lord, for He's good, for His mercy endureth forever. Now this phrase, His mercy endureth
forever, is found in the scripture 42 times, 42 times, 26 times
in this psalm alone, His mercy endureth forever. Now this is
most likely my favorite psalm. This psalm is written for a guy
like me. The only way I can learn anything
is by repetition. I've just got to do it over and
over and over and over and over again before I learn it. Even
somebody like me knows this. It seems pretty obvious. God
intends for us to give thanks that His mercy is eternal. Now
mercy is God not giving us what we deserve. Now how can God not
give a sinner the condemnation that that sinner deserves? was
just one way, because he gave Christ our substitute what we
deserve. He gave him all the punishment, all the condemnation
that his people deserve, so God's elect go free in justice and
in mercy. See, mercy is an attribute of
God. Mercy is who God is. And we don't deserve mercy. God
never shows mercy to anybody that deserves it. By definition,
that's impossible. We can't deserve mercy. but God
shows mercy. He shows mercy to sinners because
God is good. Not because we're good, because
God is good. God shows mercy to sinners, not because we deserve
it, but because God is merciful. And salvation by mercy gives
hope, a good hope of salvation to the worst of sinners. And
here's the evidence now, and just, that ought to be enough,
but just in case you want some proof, God's mercy is undeserved. God's mercy forever. I like reading
what David says here, for his mercy endureth forever. But you'll
note that word endureth is in italics. It has been added by
the translators. What David actually wrote, or
maybe this was Moses, we don't know exactly he wrote this psalm,
but his mercy forever. God's mercy is forever. It has
no beginning and no ending. Something doesn't happen. in
us or something that we do, something doesn't happen to cause God's
mercy to begin with us and then endure forever. No, God's mercy
forever, without beginning and without ending. In eternity past,
before God created anything, God purposed to have mercy on
people. And that gives assurance of salvation
to every sin. Mercy gives hope of salvation
to the worst of sinners. And eternal mercy gives assurance
of salvation to every saint. God's mercy will never end. Oh, but you don't know what a
horrible sinner I am. His mercy forever. Oh, but I
did this and I thought this and I said this. How can somebody
be saved? His mercy forever. God saves
his people by mercy. God's mercy never ends. It began
with God and God will always show it to the end because His
mercy forever. All we who need His mercy, give
thanks and mercy forever. Right. Fourthly, 2 Thessalonians
chapter two. We give thanks. We thank God
for his electing love. Second Thessalonians 2 verse
12. Well, verse 11, and for this cause,
God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie,
that they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness. Now that is every one of us by
nature. Do you see yourself there? That's
what we all deserve by nature. But verse 13, but. We're bound
to give thanks all the way to God for you, brethren, beloved
to the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you
to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the
truth. God chose a sinful people to
save. We give thanks. Sinners give
thanks. If it weren't for God's electing
love, nobody would be saved. Nobody would. We would all love
unrighteousness and we'd be damned if we were left to our own nature,
but God. But God chose to save a sinful
people. Now election, the election, the
choosing of a sinner to save is something that only God could
do. Only God has the capacity to
choose to save sinners. Only God has the capacity to
choose to save those who are his enemies. Did you do that? I could. But God did. Only God
could love sinners. He chose to save them. Only God
could elect a people to save. An election is something that
only God would do. If it was left up to us to do
the choosing, who would we choose? We choose good people. We choose
our friends. We choose those people that love
us. We choose people They deserve just a little bit of help. They've
done their best. If they just had a little help,
they could be saved. That's who we choose. That's not who God
chose. God chose to save sinful people.
He chose to make them righteous through the obedience of His
Son. He chose to cleanse them from all their sin through the
sacrifice of His only begotten Son. That's the only way they
could be redeemed. Thank God for His electing us. Right? Now Colossians chapter
1. Colossians chapter 1 verse 12.
We thank God that He's made us fit to receive an inheritance. Colossians 1 verse 12. Giving
thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in life. Now election is not
salvation. Election is unto salvation. In
order for a sinner to be saved, they've got to be qualified.
Well, they can't qualify themselves, so God had to make them qualified.
That's what the word meet here means. God has made his people
qualified to be partakers of this inheritance. By his grace,
God made his people qualified through the obedience of his
son, through the death of his son. Through the blood that Christ
shed as a sacrifice for the sin of His people, God's washed them
from all of their sin. He's made them righteous in Christ. He's made them joint heirs with
Christ. He's made them children of God. There's children. So now they're
qualified to receive an inheritance. And we give thanks. It wouldn't
have happened any other way unless God did it. Made us qualified. Let me give you just a word about
this inheritance. This inheritance is not just
going to heaven. You know, so many people that's
in religion, it's all they talk about. You know, they just don't
want to go to hell and want to go to heaven. Well, duh. I mean, who doesn't? That's not
really the issue. This is the inheritance. It's
being with Christ. That's what our Lord prayed.
Father, I will. All those whom thou hast given me be with me.
for I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given
me." This inheritance is to be with Christ and to be made just
like Christ, both body and soul, for eternity. Now that's an inheritance. I'm interested in that inheritance,
aren't you? God makes His people qualified for it. Now to give
you something else about this inheritance, I watched a movie
the other day about this fellow who on Wall Street and cheated
everybody on these investments and just, I mean, thousands and
thousands of people lost everything. They just, they lost it all.
They had no retirement. And one fellow was so worried
about his poor parents, lost all their, you know, wealth.
What am I going to inherit? And never going to happen to
the child of God. Never. Peter said, brethren, we can
never lose this inheritance. It's incorruptible. It can't
be corrupted. It's undefiled. It's reserved
in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith
unto salvation, ready to be revealed at the last time, ready to be
revealed at the right time. You can never lose this inheritance.
Thank God. He's made us qualified to receive
it. All right, now Luke chapter 17. This is just like reading
this morning's newspaper. I don't know, does anybody do
that anymore, read this morning's newspaper? It's a good phrase. But it's
just like reading this morning's newspaper. We give thanks because
it's so wrong to be ungrateful. Luke chapter 17, verse 11. And
it came to pass as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through
the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain
village, there met him 10 men that were lepers, which stood
afar off And they lifted up their voices and said, Jesus, master,
have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said
unto them, go show yourselves unto the priest. And it came
to pass that as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them,
one, when he saw that he was healed, turned back and with
a loud voice glorified God and fell down on his face at his
feet, giving him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. He wasn't
even a Jew. He was a Samaritan. And Jesus
answering said, were there not ten cleansed? But where are the
nine? They are not found that return
to give glory to God, save this stranger. Remember those strangers
that are going to be brought? Here's one of them. This stranger
came to give thanks. And the Lord said unto him, Arise,
go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee whole. God forbid that we would ever
be ungrateful. Of all the things I have to be
ashamed of, I believe being ungrateful is the worst. God forbid that
we would be ungrateful after the Lord saved us, after He's
given us everything, after He's qualified us to receive this
glorious inheritance, after He's healed us of all of our spiritual
diseases. God forbid that we'd be ungrateful. I'm telling you, there's something
wrong with somebody who just will not say thank you. A college
basketball player got arrested in China for shoplifting. He's
guilty. He doesn't even deny it. He's
guilty. As I understand the law there, that fellow could have
been put in jail for 10 years in a Chinese jail for shoplifting
a pair of sunglasses. The President of the United States,
whether you agree with him or not, the President of the United
States talked to the powers that be there and got him released.
And he refuses to say thank you. There's something wrong with
that. God help us to never have that attitude. I'm telling you
that's a proud attitude. Somebody's not being humbled
at all. And that should never describe an object of God's mercy. I pray the Lord will help us
to be a thankful people. To be known as a thankful people.
To have thanksgiving be upon our lips. Like Mike prayed in
the study, not just today, not just at this time our nation
stops to give thanks, but every day. The apostle said in Ephesians
5 verse 4, neither filthiness nor foolish talking or jesting
which are not convenient. Don't let those things be on
your lips, he says, but rather the giving of thanks. Let those
things be on your lips. Let the giving of thanks be on
our lips continually. Because I promise you this, we'll
never run out of things to thank God for. We'll never run out
of reasons to tell God, thank you. It's just plain ugly not
to be grateful. All right, John chapter 6. We give thanks for our daily
food and for our daily provision. John 6 verse 11. And Jesus took the loaves And
when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples
and the disciples to them that were set down and likewise to
the fishes as much as they would. Now, you know this story, the
Lord feeding the multitude with the five loaves and the two small
fishes. But it's interesting to me that before anybody ate
any of this miraculous lunch, the Lord stopped and gave thanks.
And that's just what we should do. Stop and give thanks before
we eat. Now, you don't have to make a
religious show of doing this publicly out in a restaurant
or something. You're right to be careful not
to appear to folks to be a Pharisee. And worse yet, don't be one. Don't just not appear to be one.
Don't be one. Don't do things so people know
that you're religious. When you're in a restaurant or
someplace like that, the Lord knows you're not. I've been with
people, though, that have been in a restaurant and just felt
like it was wrong not to pray for them, and I did it. And don't
feel, at least don't feel I did anything wrong whatsoever. There's
never a wrong time. Be thankful. I reckon it's okay
if somebody thinks you're a Pharisee, as long as you're not, as long
as you're not doing it to appear to be a Pharisee. But now, in
our homes, we've gathered together in our homes before we eat, not
just tomorrow now, but every day. We should stop to give thanks,
shouldn't we? Here we sit down to a good meal
and eat. It would be so ungrateful. Go
back to our last point. It would be ungrateful not to
give thanks, wouldn't it? Everything on that table the
Lord provided. He provided all for us to eat. We wouldn't have
clothes to wear. We wouldn't have roof over our
head. We wouldn't have the table. We wouldn't have the food to
put on it if the Lord didn't provide it. So we should say
thank you, shouldn't we? And this is just my, I don't
know that I have scripture for this, just my personal opinion.
I love it. I just love it when a family
bows together in prayer. Jan and I began with just the
two of us. We bowed together in prayer, just the two of us.
Sometimes we didn't have a whole lot, but we stopped and gave
thanks to Him. Then the children came along. We'd get them together
to eat and stop and say thank you. Boy, the girls got in high
school and their activities going on. Janet just utterly demanded,
no, we're going to sit together as a family and eat. Stopped
together. Thank the Lord for the provision.
Now it's just the two of us. It's just right. It's just right. And it's good for us. It's good
for a family to stop together and say, thank you. Thank you,
Lord. Our children are taught how to say their bedtime prayers,
for them to bow in prayer, for them to stop and say thank you.
It's good for us to give thanks for our daily provision, what
the Lord has given us for today. Right now look at Ephesians chapter
1. We give thanks for each other. Ephesians chapter 1. Verse 15, wherefore I also, after
I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love unto
all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention
of you in my prayers. Paul told the church at Thessalonica,
we give thanks to God always for you, making remembrance of
you, making mention of you in our prayers. Now we should do
that. Let's thank God for each other. You know, we thank God, we thank
God for His mercy to us, His grace to us, His provision to
us. Well, thank God for the mercy He's had on others, too. Thank
God for His provision and grace to others, too. Thank God for
all the blessings He's given, not just to you, but to others.
And thank God for each other. Thank God that He's given us
in this family to help one another, to encourage one another, to
show compassion on one another, to help each other out. I thank God for you, every one
of you. I thank God for you every day.
I'm so thankful for you. I thank God He's melded our hearts
together in faith and in love. I thank God for your faithfulness,
for your generosity, for your willingness to serve in the furtherance
of the gospel. We give thanks for each other.
This would be a mighty sad place if it's just one of us, just
me here. I thank God for all of you. Now, that's a pretty
good list, isn't it? Pretty good list. A number of
years ago, Janet started out a tradition. I have a lot of
people I reckon do it, but we stop and we say what we're thankful
for at our Thanksgiving table. Well, for you kids, you can't
think of something? There's eight good ideas for
you. Have I left anything out? We could go on and on and on.
Have I left anything out? Look at 1 Thessalonians chapter
5. Let me sum it all up with Paul's words here. 2 Thessalonians 5 verse 17. Pray without ceasing in everything. In everything give thanks. For
this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Paul said
the same thing to the church at Ephesus, giving thanks always
for all things unto God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Give thanks for all things. Whatever it is that I haven't
mentioned, give thanks for. Everything. Now listen, that
includes not just our blessings, but the trials. That includes
the sunny days, And they include the rainy days, the stormy days,
the tough days, the dark days. How many of us can get news that
we didn't want to hear and say, let's all stop? Thank God. Who can do that? We should. Because you know, all of those
things, whether they're the sunny days or the stormy days, whatever
they are, they're all working together for good, for God's
good purpose somehow. Songwriter said, thanks for thorn.
as well as roses, thanks for weakness and for health, thanks
for clouds as well as sunshine, thanks for poverty and wealth,
thanks for pain as well as pleasure, all thou sendest day by day.
In thy word, our dearest treasure, shedding light upon our way.
You see, it's the word of God that sheds light upon our way,
that gives light to understand the good days and light to understand
the bad days. And why each of them came in
their time, and there's a reason to thank God for. In all things,
give thanks. Now last, verse 22. This brings us to the table that
we'll observe here in just a few moments. We give thanks for the
sacrifice of Christ our Savior. Luke 22, verse 13. And they went and found, as he
said unto them, and they made ready the Passover. And when
the hour was come, he sat down and the twelve apostles with
him. And he said unto them with desire, I desire to eat this
Passover with you before I suffer. This is the last Passover. He
said, I desire to eat this last one with you. For I say unto
you, I will not any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled
in the kingdom of God. And he took the cup and gave
thanks and said, take this and divide it among yourselves. For
I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until
the kingdom of God shall come. And he took bread and gave thanks
and break it and gave unto them, saying, This is my body, which
is given for you. This do in remembrance of me.
Likewise, also the cup after supper. This cup is the New Testament
in my blood, which is shed for you. The Lord gave thanks. He gave thanks for these elements.
He gave thanks for what these elements represents. He gave
thanks for the unleavened bread. That unleavened bread pictures
the broken body of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we do too. In just a few minutes, the men
are going to come and distribute the bread. Before they do, Eric's
going to take the bread. He's going to break it. You'll
hear it. You'll hear it breaking. When it's put into your mouth,
you take it, put it into your mouth and you chew it. You'll hear
it grinding between your teeth. Give thanks. Give thanks. That is the body, the sinless,
perfect body of our Lord Jesus Christ being broken, being beaten
and battered so much as He hung there upon the cross He didn't
even look like a man. He just looked like a slaughtered
piece of meat. And that just gives a hint of
that. gives us a picture of what our
sin deserves. Now whatever it is the sin of
God's people deserves, whatever the full extent, the full extent
of God's holy wrath against sin is, and I promise you it's something
of a magnitude we can never fully imagine, but whatever that is,
Christ suffered it all. So there's no wrath left for
God's people. God said there's no fury left
in It's all been poured out upon our substitute. And he gave his
body for you. The Lord said, this is my body,
which I've given for you to redeem you, his people. He loved his
people so much. He gave himself. He didn't bring
a lamb. He didn't buy a lamb. He didn't
buy, bring silver and gold. He loved his people so much.
He gave himself. He gave everything that he is
for the sacrifice of his people. He gave his back to the spiders.
He gave his cheeks to those who pluck out his beard, spit upon
his face. But more importantly, he gave
his soul. He made his soul an offering
for sin. And the suffering of his body,
which is unimaginable to you and me, is just the tip of the
iceberg to what our Savior suffered to satisfy God's law and justice.
But he willingly gave it for you, his people. He gave it to
His people who He loved might be redeemed from their sins.
Thank God. Aren't we thankful? We give thanks for what this
wine represents. It represents the precious blood
of Christ. It's the blood of Christ that
cleanses us from all sin. It's the blood of Christ that
makes atonement for the soul. There's life in the blood, in
the blood of Christ. God said, when I see the blood,
I'll pass over you. Justice is satisfied. The purchase
price of the church is the blood of Christ. Paul said, you told
those Ephesian elders, you take care of the church that God purchased
with his own blood. It's the price of redemption,
the precious blood of Christ. That's the only way we can be
justified, by the perfect blood of Christ. In Adam, we're far
off from God, but we're brought nigh to God through the blood
of Christ. In Adam, we've declared war upon
God, but Christ has made peace with God the blood of His cross. We give thanks. Oh, how we give
thanks. And we take these elements. I
know I'm the only one to get to speak right now and say thank
you. But you who believe, you get
your opportunity at this moment. We take these elements of the
Lord's table. What we're publicly confessing is this. Christ is
all my salvation. He gave His body me. He shed his blood for me. And
I take this claiming Christ is my salvation. And when I take
it, I'm saying thank you. This is my only hope of salvation. The only way I can be saved is
through what this table represents. The broken body and the shed
blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. And it's easy for us to give
thanks. We give thanks. All right, Eric, you men distribute
the bread if you will. The Apostle Paul, writing to
the church at Corinth, says, For I have received of the Lord
that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the
same night in which He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given
thanks, He broke it and said, eat, this is my body which is
broken for you, this do in remembrance of me." to the body, mind, flesh, the
soul, the mind, and the spirit. The body, the mind, the spirit, to the mind, the body, the soul,
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mind, the spirit, to the body, the mind, the spirit, to the
body, I wish you a good evening. Thank you. After the same manner also he
took the cup when he had supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament
in my blood. This do ye, as often as you drink
it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread
and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. Eric, would you give thanks for
the line? I bow before the Lord. Thank you,
Jesus. I would thank you for this opportunity
to gather here at the airport today. I would thank you for this opportunity
to gather together around your country and support New York. Thank you a lot. I would thank
you for your leadership. I would thank you for your leadership. The blood of Jesus Christ, I
want you to take home with you, the blood of Jesus Christ, let
it be done on this night. So, we're talking about Jesus Christ. We're talking
about the call of the Holy Spirit. So, we pray this day, we're going to hold
on the top of our hearts, and we're going to shout in the name
of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Well, I just, again, it's my
personal preference. I thoroughly enjoy being together
with you all and worshiping around our Lord's table before we go
to our tables on Thanksgiving Day. And I hope you all have
a wonderful time with your family this weekend. And Lord willing,
we'll be back together Sunday morning. Mike, you come lead
us in the closing song.