Our text will be the last three
verses in this chapter. Blessed, blessed verses concerning
Christ our high priest, our great high priest. Before we read those
three verses, let me ask you something. You ever said to yourself,
I have, and I'm sure you have, you ever said or thought to yourself,
man I wish I had somebody to talk to. I wish I had somebody
that I was assured would understand what I'm going through. Somebody
that could sympathize with me. David, on one occasion, said,
no man cared for my soul. On another occasion, going through
a difficult time, as was often the case with David, he said,
why art thou cast down, O my soul? And we all have those times. I mean, we may not tell anybody,
but we have them. We have them. It's not peculiar
to your case. It's common among God's people. Oh, I wish somebody would understand
what I'd like to tell them. Well, you do have someone. Every
believer has someone that understands exactly, like nobody, better
than you do. what you may be passing through.
And that's exactly what our text tells us here. In Hebrews chapter
4, the title of my message is Christ Touched and Touchable. And what I mean by that, Christ
is touched and he can be touched. He identifies with His people.
We touch Him and He touches us. Just as He loves us, rather we
love Him because He first loved us. Look at verse 14. Seeing
then, in light of everything that Paul was mentioning before
concerning Jesus Christ our Great High Priest, seeing then that
we have a Great High Priest, that is passed into the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. Don't
lose heart. Don't let go. Let not your heart
be troubled. Verse 15, for we have not a high
priest which cannot be touched with the filling of our infirmities,
but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin. Let us, therefore, come boldly
unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find
grace to help in time of need. As I was studying and preparing
this message I came across the hymn by old John Newton and I
think it's a good commentary on these verses. This is what
he wrote, behold the throne of grace the promise calls me near
There Jesus shows a smiling face and waits to answer prayer. That
rich atoning blood, which sprinkled round we see, provides for those
who come to God an all-prevailing plea. My soul, ask what you will. Thou cannot be too bold. Since
his own blood was for thee spilled, what else can he withhold? That's exactly what we read in
these verses. Beyond thy utmost wants, his
love and power can bless, to praying souls he always grants
more than they can express. In verse 14 we read of those
people who have, and then in verse 15 we read of those who
have not. But it's not talking about two
different classes of people. It's talking about the same people. It talks about the priests they
have and the priests they have not. First, in verse 14, the
priest that every believer has. And we read there, concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ, He's a great high priest. How about that?
He's a great high priest. As a matter of fact, there's
none greater than Him, is there Billy? He's the one and only. He's in a class by himself. The
angel appeared to Mary and said, you'll conceive and bring forth
a son, and you'll call his name Jesus. He shall be great in every
office, in every work, no matter how you view him. Prophet, priest,
king, mighty God, savior, God, man, and the high priest, he
is great. He's great in everything that
he put his hand to. Remember, the key word, one key
word in the book of Hebrews is the word better. In every instance
that Paul compares the priest, the priesthood, the sacrifice,
the result, the outcome concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, he says,
he's better. He's better. And so it is here. Concerning our great high priest,
Jesus, the Son of God, who was passed into the heavens, now
who else could they be talking about? It can't be any better
than that. Can it? It can't get any better
than that. You remember two weeks ago, Brother
Paul Mahan, during our conference, brought a message from Numbers
chapter 6. He called the message, The Blessing.
In Numbers chapter 6, this was his text. Numbers 6 verses 22
through 27. And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this
wise, this is how you shall do it, you shall bless the children
of Israel, saying unto them, The Lord bless thee and keep
thee. The Lord make his face to shine
upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance
upon thee, and give thee peace. And they shall put my name upon
the children of Israel, and I will bless them." As Paul pointed
out, Aaron could only pronounce God's blessings. He could intercede
for God's blessings. He could offer sacrifice for
God's blessings, but he couldn't by himself bestow God's blessings. That was out of his power, out
of his ability. That's why he said, the Lord
do thus and thus, the Lord bless you, the Lord keep you, the Lord
make his face shine upon you. Oh, but our great high priest,
the Lord Jesus Christ, that one of whom Aaron was just a picture
and a type, he not only pronounces blessings, he bestows blessings. As a matter of fact, His pronouncing
of the blessing is actually the bestowal of the blessing. This
is what I mean. When He says, Thy sins are forgiven
thee, they really are. They really are. Now, anybody
else says that? It's not going to happen. It's
not going to happen. But when Jesus Christ says, I
say unto you, I say unto you, thy sins which are many, they're
all forgiven you, then it's so. It's so. We don't have to pretend
that we're forgiven. It's not something that we just
sit in the corner and say, oh, I wish, I wish, I wish it was
so. It's so. It's so. Because Jesus Christ
makes it so, our great high priest. When he says, as he did that
woman in the house of that self-righteous Pharisee, I say unto thee, go
in peace. He gives peace. When He says,
go in peace, we enter into peace, as we just read in Ephesians
2. He is our peace. He Himself is our peace. He's
the Prince of Peace and He speaks peace. Peace with God and the
peace of God as our great intercessor. In Hebrews chapter 7, turn over
there if you will. Hebrews chapter 7. Paul continuing
to compare our great high priest with the earthly. And is it not
obvious that he is better? Rather, Hebrews chapter 7, verse
22. By so much was Jesus made a surety
of a better testament, a better covenant. Not a covenant of works,
but a covenant of grace. And they truly were many priests.
And the reason was because they were not suffered or allowed
to continue by reason of death. But this man, our high priest,
our great high priest, but this man, because he continued with
ever, John, I was dead, but now I'm alive forevermore, he would
say, because he continued with ever had an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore, he is able to save
to the uttermost all that come unto God by him, He shall not
fail. There's not a case too hard for
the Lord Jesus Christ. There's not a sinner so great,
a prodigal that's wandered so far that Jesus Christ can't bring
them to bow before Him and beg for mercy, whether it's your
son or daughter, whoever it may be. As long as there's life,
there's hope. I believe We who believe in God's
sovereign reigning grace of all people are to be the most prayerful
and the most hopeful. We have no right really to despair
of anyone being beyond the reach of God's grace. And we're told
exactly the reason for that here. That he, again verse 25, is able
to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such a high priest
became us. was necessary for us, who is
holy and harmless and undefiled, separate from sinners and made
higher than the heavens, who needeth not daily as those high
priests to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins and then
for the people's, for this he did once." Once. Why once? Because once got the
job done. Once it was finished. For this
he did once when he offered up himself. For the law maketh men
high priests which have infirmity, but the word of the oath which
was since the law maketh the son who is consecrated forevermore."
Turn back to chapter 1. Here we have a description of
our great high priest at the very beginning of the epistle.
Hebrews chapter 1. It tells us who he is. Oh, and
it's evident that he's better. It tells us what he did. It's
better. And where He is now, and that's
better, God who at sundry times and in diverse manners, spake
in times passed unto the fathers by the prophets, having these
last days spoken to us by His Son, this is my beloved Son,
the God the Father spoke from heaven, hear ye Him. We'd better
listen. We'd better listen. has spoken
unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things,
by whom also he made the world. My soul, and listen to how he's
described, that is God's Son, who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding
all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself
purged our sins. I hope you're reading that. When
He had by Himself purged our sins, He didn't try to purge
them, He purged them. He didn't attempt to purge them,
He purged them. He didn't halfway purge them,
He purged them. He took them all away. That's
exactly what we read here. And after doing so, He sat down. Why did He sit down? Because
His work was done. Everything the Father sent him
into this world to do, he accomplished. He obtained. And after doing
so, he sat down at that place reserved for him that he earned,
that he merited, at the right hand of the Majesty on high. And you know what God the Father
says? Every knee is going to bow to my son. You say, I won't
bow. Oh, you will. Oh, well, you will. Oh, you'll bow. You'll bow. Oh,
I won't bow. Oh, you'll bow. Before you here
depart from me, I never knew you. You're going to bow to the
Son of God. And you're going to confess that
he's the Christ, the Son of the living God. Oh, may God give
you grace to bow now, to bow before him in mercy and grace.
Verse 4, being made so much better, there's the word again, than
the angels as he had by inheritance obtained a more excellent name
than they. It wasn't said concerning Gabriel,
he shall save his people from their sin. Oh no. Call his name
Jesus for he, he, no one else shall save his people from their
sin. With that description of our
great high priest, let me ask you, is anything too hard for
him? Anything? Is anything impossible
for him? Can His arm be shortened that
He cannot save? Is His grace no longer reigning
grace? Is it no longer abounding grace? If not then, if His grace is
reigning, abounding grace, then it must be sufficient grace. It must be sufficient grace.
Why wouldn't it be? If it's reigning, if His grace
is greater than all my sins, If his grace abounds and reigns
over sin, then it must be sufficient grace. It's enough, it's enough.
One hymn writer expressed it this way. The billows in fury
around me may beat. The cleft in the rock is my blessed
retreat. My shield and defender forever
is he. The savior whose grace is sufficient
for me. Paul, Paul. My grace is sufficient
for you. As a matter of fact, my grace
is made perfect in your weakness. My grace shines forth most in
your weakness. Oh, His grace is sufficient for
me, but it's not dependent on me. And that's good. Oh, I'm
so glad to hear that. Here's the second thing. We consider
briefly the high priest we have. Now, verse 15 tells us of the
high priest that we don't. Thank God we do not have a high
priest that cannot be touched, that doesn't identify with his
people, that doesn't sympathize with his people, that doesn't
understand what his people pass through no matter what they pass
through because he came this way before us. I was watching
the evening news, the national news the other night. They were
broadcasting A story from California about those horrible, horrible
fires going on out there, just leveling acres and acres and
home after home after home. And they had the camera on a
woman whose house was in the path of the fire that had already
destroyed so many other homes. And she was kneeling down, just
praying, praying, and this is what she was saying, Holy Mary,
Mother of God, help me. And I thought to myself, that
is so sad. That lady was sincere. Oh man,
yes, she was sincere, but she was sincerely wrong. There is
no possibility that that woman's prayer was heard. No possibility,
because Mary is not the way to God. She was never the intercessor
for anybody. Mary was favored, highly favored,
the angel told her, by God in being that chosen vessel, virgin,
that should bring forth the Son of God. But she was a sinner
needing saving, just like any other sinner that needed saving.
Mary couldn't answer prayer when she lived on earth. Neither can
she now that she's in heaven. The best thing that Mary said,
or one of the best things, was this. Obviously, in John 2 at
the marriage in Canaan of Galilee, they made known to Mary, knowing
that she was the mother of the Lord Jesus Christ, that they
had ran out of wine. So, what does she do? She can't provide it. She can't
do it, but this is what she did. Whatever He says to you, this
is for Her words, whatsoever He saith, that is the Lord Jesus
Christ, whatsoever He saith unto you, that do. Do it. Do it. Don't come to me. I'm
not the intercessor between you and God. I can't reconcile you
to God. I can't mediate between you and
the Holy God. But whatsoever He says, Do. Listen to Him. The best thing
you can do. If you would be saved, the only
thing that can be done in order to bring salvation is for God
to open your eyes. I gotta just pause here for a
minute. Because I'm well aware when I say that, there might
be some here thinking, well, that's easy, that's easy. Because
there are all over town preachers that told me that's easy. That
you can be saved just by moving your feet a few places. You can
be saved by repeating after me. And Jesus Christ says, with man,
with man, are you listening? With man, it's impossible. I hope God convinces you of that.
Salvation's not easy. Salvation's not up to you. Salvation
is up to Jesus Christ. You're in His hand and it's up
to Him whether He saves you or sends you to the hell that you
deserve. God make you believe that. You won't believe it otherwise. God Almighty has appointed only
one mediator between God and man, and it's not Mary, and it's
not Pope Paul or Pope Peter or Pope whoever that snake happens
to be at the present time. It's not a Baptist preacher or
a Catholic priest. It's the man Christ Jesus. He's our great high priest. He
intercedes on the behalf of his people and we're told as our
great high priest, he can be touched. Oh my soul. Did you hear that? Jesus Christ
can be touched. He can be touched with the filling
of our infirmities. He was touched like we're touched. What touches us touched Him. He identifies with His people. In Hebrews chapter 2 we read,
He was made like unto His brethren. because they were flesh and blood. God Almighty became flesh and
blood. Why? So that he could intercede
for them, so he could identify with them, so that he could be
a merciful and faithful high priest, so that he could know
exactly what they're going through, because he went through it too. Oh, yeah, we've got somebody
that understands. The next time you're tempted
to think And we will be. We'll go through difficulties.
Oh, I wish there was somebody I could talk to. I wish there
was somebody I could pour my heart out to. I wish there was
somebody that understands. There is. There is. There always is. Paul wrote,
if we believe not, yet he abideth faithful, he cannot deny himself. And you know what? If he were
to forget one of his own, or to turn a deaf ear to the cry
of one of his children, that would be to deny himself. He
would be denying himself because remember, we are flesh of his
flesh and bone of his bone. We are one with him. If he denies,
rejects, casts away one of his needy children, it would be the
same as denying who he is. That can never happen. You remember
that night on the stormy sea, the disciples woke him up with
this question, Master, don't you care that we're perished? Don't you care that we're perished?
What an awful thing to ask the Son of God. What an awful thing to think
about that one who loved me and gave himself for me, but I've
done that very thing. I'm guilty. Lord, don't you care? Don't you care? Why this? Why this? Why this trial? Why this heartache? Don't you?
I'm perishing. I'm perishing. Don't you care?
God, forgive me. God, forgive me. And he does. He does for Christ's sake. Oh
God, give us grace to honor him by believing what he promised.
He's able also to perform. When Christ said, I will never
leave you nor forsake thee, you can fall right down on that.
Buddy, it'll bear all your weight. It will bear every ounce of weight
that you can put on it. It won't be too much. It'll never
be too much. The old hymn puts it this way.
Does Jesus care when my heart is pained too deeply for mirth
or song? As the burdens press and the
cares distress, and the day grows weary and long, does Jesus care
when my way is dark with a nameless dread and fear? As the daylight
fades into deep dark night shades, does he care enough to be near?
Does Jesus care when I've said goodbye to the dearest on earth
to me? And my sad heart aches till it
nearly breaks, is it ought to him Does he see? And faith, the precious gift
of God-given faith answers, oh yes, he cares. I know he cares. His heart is touched with my
grief. When the nights are weary, or
rather when the days are weary, the long nights dreary, I know
my Savior cares. Fear not, little flock. Fear
not, little flock. He says, it is my father's good
pleasure to give you the kingdom. And here's the last thing. I've
been anxious to get to this. Verse 16. Here you have some
practical theology. What I mean by that, some shoe
leather benefit use. Let us therefore come. Let us
therefore. Each word is precious. Let us
therefore, in light of this blessed reality, having such a great
high priest who can be touched, that being so, then let us come. What else should we do? Let us
come. Christ bids us come. He invites
us to come. He welcomes us to Him when we
do. He Himself said, come unto Me,
all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will. There's no
question about that. And I will give you rest. Another place He said, all that
the Father giveth Me shall come to Me in Him, in Him. No matter how he comes, he might
come after denying that he ever knew me like Peter. He might
come after committing a horrible sin like David, but let him come. Him that cometh unto me, I will
then no wise cast out. There's no possibility that he
can sin beyond my grace and mercy. There's nothing he can do that
can make me stop loving him. So come, come to this great high
priest. Jesus Christ and God the Father
aren't reluctant to show mercy. No, no, no, no. They delight
in mercy. Again, Christ, in that last day,
that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried. Are you
listening? He says, if any man thirst, let
him come unto me and drink. the last page of Holy Scripture. And the Spirit and the bride
say, come. And let him that hear us say, come. And let him that
is a thirst come. And whosoever will, let him take
the water of life freely. And look at this word. Let us
therefore come boldly. Boldly? Really? Boldly? How can that be? because you're
coming in the very way God has given for sinners to come. You're
coming in God's appointed way. Don't hesitate. Don't feel awkward
about it. Don't feel out of place. You're
on the way that God has appointed. God has established a bridge
of communication between heaven and earth built upon the obedience
and the blood of Jesus Christ, and every other passage is blocked
by the holy justice of God. But Jesus Christ says, I'm the
way. I'm the way. No man comes to
the Father any other way except by me. And when we come to God
through Christ, God says, this is the way. This is the way. Just walk ye in it. You won't
be denied. I like this article by old John
Bunch. called unconditional pardon.
He wrote, there was a certain man that had committed treason
against his king. But for as much as the king had
compassion on him, he sent him by the hand of a faithful messenger
a pardon under his own hand and sealed it. But in the country
where this poor man dwelt, there were also many that sought to
trouble him by often putting him in mind of his treason. and
the law that was to be executed on the offender. And Bunyan said,
now which way should this man so honor his king? As by believing
his handwriting, which was the pardon, certainly he would honor
him more by so doing than to regard all the clamors of his
enemies continually against him. And Bunyan said, just thus it
is here. You having committed treason
against the King of Heaven, He, through compassion for Christ's
sake, has sent you apart. All but the devil, the law, and
your own conscience continually seek to disturb you by bringing
your sin afresh to your memory. But how would you honor your
King, child of God, while He that believeth the record that
God hath given of his Son, hath set to his seal that God is true. And this is the record that God
hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Bunyan said, Therefore, my brethren, seeing God our Father hath sent
to us damnable traitors, apart from heaven, even all the promises
of the gospel, and has also sealed the certainty of it with the
heart-blood of his own dear Son, let us not be daunted. Though
our enemies with terrible voices do bring our former life never
so often into our remembrance, I know that the blood of Jesus
Christ, God's Son, yet cleanseth me from all sin. Will God reject
anyone who comes the way of His Son? His Son is the way. Do we need anything more than
this? Look what it says, that we may
obtain mercy and grace. Mercy and grace. That should grab our attention.
Do we need anything more than mercy and grace? If you think
you do, I feel sorry for you. Those who have never felt their
need don't know any better, but a believer does. God's taught
him something. Now, there's a lot we don't know,
but there's some things a child of God does know. We know what
it's like to be in darkness. God brought us there. bankrupt
before the Holy Lord, God, who demands a payment, demands satisfaction,
and we don't have nothing to pay. Nothing to pay. We remember
what it's like to cry to God, have mercy upon me, I'm the sinner. Remember, as Paul wrote. We've
learned something of what the Lord meant when he said, go ye
and learn what this means. I will have mercy and not sacrifice. for I am not come to call the
righteous but sinners to repentance. Old Top Lady put it this way,
not the labors of my hands can fulfill thy laws demands, could
my zeal no respite know, could my tears forever flow, all for
sin could not atone, thou must say and thou alone. In 2nd Corinthians chapter 1
we read Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. Look
at this next expression in verse 16. Come boldly, that we might
find mercy and grace to help. Grace to help. My case is so
desperate, nothing else but grace can help me. And we read, by
grace, sovereign reigning grace, you are saved. Because without
grace, no grace equals no salvation. It's the grace of God that brings
salvation. No grace equals no faith, because
faith is a gift of God's grace. No grace equals no hope. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself
and God, even our Father, which have loved us and have given
us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Good
hope through grace. Oh, I like the sound of that.
I just like the sound of that. Good hope through grace. Nowhere else. God forgives me
for Christ's sake. For Christ's sake. Oh, that's
a good hope. No grace equals no glory. But we read that the Lord will
give grace and glory. Not that you will earn grace
and glory, but the Lord God will give grace and glory. Again,
I ask you, what is more needed, more necessary to pilgrims and
strangers? That's what believers are. We're
in the world. No need to pretend otherwise,
but we're not of the world. This world doesn't know what
makes us tick. They just don't have a clue. They just look at
us and scratch their head. That's okay. That's okay. What
does a stranger and a pilgrim in this world need more than
mercy and grace? Huh? You need anything more than
that child of God? Oh no, nothing. Well then look
at this. Let us come boldly to the only
place where we can find them, the throne of grace. The throne
of grace that we may obtain mercy and grace because look at that
one who sits upon the throne. There's nothing inherent in the
throne. Grace is not there, it's from
the one who sets upon that throne. It's the one who sets upon the
throne, that one who is the God of all grace that gives grace
to it. It's because Jesus Christ, by
which grace comes, that makes it a throne of grace. Because
He sits there. Just as there never There is
never, not a time that we stand in need of grace, that we won't
stand in need of it. There will never not be a supply
of grace to meet that need. He is the Lord, our righteousness. Here I raise mine Ebenezer, hither
by thy help I'm come, and I hope by thy good pleasure, safely
too, arrive at home. Look at that next phrase, grace
to help. Grace to help. Don't you love
that? Not grace that offers to help,
or only makes help available, but grace to help. Real grace. Real grace. You remember that,
what was that movie? The Wizard of Oz? Was it the
lion that was scared of his own shadow? And they're going through
some dark out here in the forest or something and he's standing
and he said, I'm not afraid of no ghost, I'm not afraid of no
ghost. He was lying through his teeth. He was trying to pretend
not to be afraid but he was scared to death. Child of God, we don't
have to pretend. We don't have to pretend that
God's grace is not sufficient. We don't have to sin and try
to convince ourselves. No, we know. We know that He
sets up on a throne of grace, and He dispenses grace, and He
never runs out. It's never empty. It's not even
lessened. He's always full of grace and
truth. Now you think about that. That's
encouraging. How much grace does it take to
keep you this day? How much grace will it take to
keep you from falling and to bring you to glory? And God gives
that same abounding grace to a multitude of sinners that can't
be numbered. And yet, after dispensing all
that grace, it's as full as it ever was, as though not a drop
was taken. Oh, that's the mighty grace of
our mighty God. And our great high priest says,
Lo, I'm with you always, even into the end of the world. Billy,
a few months ago I visited you in your home and you showed me
and told me about that place, that home that you shared with
your dear wife who's gone now. Her room, her books, things she
liked, still there. I thought about you, buddy. And
I know when you go back home to that place you shared with
that dear one for so many years and she's no longer there, remember
this, you're not alone, buddy. You're not alone. You're never
alone. Jesus Christ says, I will never
leave you. You have my word. I'll never
leave you and I'll never forsake you. Oh, can Christ be touched? Does he identify? Ask that leper. Ask that poor, diseased, outcast
leper. Can Jesus be touched? Does he
touch a sinner? Ask that leper who fell down
before him and said, Lord, Lord, have mercy on me. There's nothing
I need more. There's nothing I want more.
There's nothing else that can help me. I need mercy. Please have mercy. And we read
these blessed words. Jesus moved. He was touched. Moved with compassion, put forth
his hand and touched him and said, I will be thou clean. Bartimaeus, can Jesus be touched? Does he touch such a blind beggar
as you are? You know the answer. There was
a man in his last hour, moments dying, a guilty sinner on the
cross. Ask him if Jesus can be touched. He looked over at the Son of
God and said, remember me? Would you remember me? Lord,
remember me. When you come into your kingdom,
and Jesus said, I'll tell you what, verily, truthfully, I say
unto you today, that shall be with me in paradise. And our great high priest, Jesus,
the Son of God, will do the same for every one of his redeemed,
even me. Even me. Even me. How about that? Even me. Now, that's amazing. That's just
amazing. It's been a while since I read
this. I thought of it. I think it'll
be a good way to close the message, the touch of the master's hand. Was battered and scarred, and
the auctioneer thought it scarcely worth his while to waste much
time on the old violin, but he held it up with a smile. What
am I bidding, good folks, he cried, who start the bidding
for me? A dollar, a dollar, then two,
only two, two dollars, and who'll make it three? Three dollars
once, three dollars twice, going for three, but no. From the room
far back, a gray-haired man came forward and picked up the bow.
Then wiping the dust from the old violin and tightening the
loosened strings, he played a melody pure and sweet as a caroling
angel sings. The music ceased, and the auctioneer,
with a voice that was quiet and low, said, what am I bid for
the old violin? And he held it up with the bow.
$1,000, who'll make it two? $2,000, and who'll make it three?
$3,000 once, $3,000 twice, and going and gone, said he. The
people cheered, but some of them cried. We do not quite understand.
What changed its worth? Swift came to reply. It was the
touch. of the master's hand. And many
a man with life out of tune, and battered and scarred with
sin, is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless
crowd, much like the old valley. A mess of pottage, a glass of
wine, a game, and he travels on. And he's going once, and
he's going twice, he's going. He's almost gone. But the master comes, and the
foolish crowd never can quite understand the worth of a soul
and the change that is wrought by the touch of the master's
hand. Thank God we have such a high
priest that can be touched. God bless you. God bless you.