It's good to see everybody. It's
been a while. Some of your wives are
sick, you said. Well, a lot of people are sick,
aren't they? The Lord's been so kind, so merciful. I tell
you, if we're not on oxygen and full of pain, we're not getting
what we deserve, are we? Not in the hospital someplace,
nursing home. If we're walking, living, having
our being able to move about is because of the Lord's merciful
providence over us. I want to read a passage, a very
familiar passage I think to you in Matthew chapter 25 and beginning in verse 31. May the Lord be pleased to Meet
with us and let us worship Him this afternoon for a few minutes.
Matthew chapter 25 and look in verse 31. When the Son of Man shall come
in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He
sit upon the throne of His glory. And before Him shall be gathered
all nations, And he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd
divideth his sheep from the goats. And he shall set the sheep on
his right hand, let the goats on his left. Then shall the king
say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of
the world. For I was not hungered, 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 thee we not hungry, 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 and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Insomuch
as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,
ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them
on the left hand, Depart from me, ye curse, into everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was not hungered,
and you gave me no meat. I was thirsty, and you gave me
no drink. I was hungry, and you took me
not in, naked, and you clothed me not, sick and in prison, and
you visited me not. Then shall they also answer him,
saying, Lord, when saw we thee not hungry, or thirst, or a stranger,
or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch
as ye did it not unto one of the least of these, ye did it
not unto me. And these shall go away unto
everlasting punishment, but the righteous unto life eternal. Our Lord Jesus himself called
this day The last day. In the scripture,
this verse, this passage of scripture that I read to you is referred
to as the last day. All the Father has given me,
I shall lose nothing but raise Him up again at the last day. And this is that day the Lord
Jesus predicted, that He referred to. The hour is coming, He said. And here it came. that all that
are in the grave shall hear his voice. All of them is going to
hear his voice. Sometimes, I'm often told this,
I walk, I have a little place marked out where I walk and I
walk through a cemetery. Different reasons I do that.
I like to walk through the cemetery. Sometimes I talk to those people.
I imagine if some of the neighbors that live close by heard me,
they'd probably think, that man is crazy. But I preached to them. One day I remember preaching
to them and telling them to get out of the graves. Get up. Calling
their names. I've gone through there so often,
I know many of their names on the tombstone. But nobody got
out. Nobody arose. No one heard my
voice. But there's coming a day when
they will come out. Because the Son of God will call
them out. Those that are in the graves
shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they shall arise. Those that have done good to
the resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to
the resurrection of damnation. And here that day has come. You go back over in the Old Testament,
this day is predicted. Daniel spoke of many that sleep
in the dust of the earth, and I suppose he means all. They
shall arise, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting
contempt. But here they are. All nations
now stand before the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord told Isaiah,
he said, I swear by myself The word is gone out of my mouth
that unto me every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear. Surely to him shall all men come. Even those that are incensed
against him, they'll come. Many people's coming now. Aren't
you glad you came? Aren't you glad you've come beforehand?
You've come, you've got down at His feet, you've sought Him
for mercy, you've obtained mercy. Most people's not coming now,
but everybody's coming. On this last day, everybody will
come. Our text is the fulfillment of
so many passages of scriptures that have predicted this day. There's those that have professed
that, in the Lord Jesus, I have righteousness and strength. And
they'll profess the same thing there, that they did here. Those
who hated the Lord Jesus, they're coming. Everybody's coming, just
as it's predicted here. That day is called the last day. The last day. You know, in the
scriptures, we have recorded the first day and the last day. The first day of time is recorded
in this Bible. When you go all the way back
to the beginning, in the beginning when God created the heavens
and the earth, and there was darkness over the face of the
deep, and God said, let there be light, and there was light,
and He divided the light from the darkness, The day, the light
he called day, the darkness he called night, and said that was
the first day, and here's the last day. And between these two
spans, the first day and the last day, is where you and I
live, isn't it? This is between these two dreadful
eternities. We look back into eternity past,
and we look ahead into eternity that's to come and you and I
are right in the middle of those two eternities and how would
we measure such a short span of time between the first day
and the last day if you had a scale how small would the dot be to
measure between the first day and the last day and here is
the last day the last day of time But you know, really it's
just the beginning. It's the last day of time, but
it's the threshold of eternity. Time will end and eternity will
begin at this last day. Matthew chapter 25. We're told
here in verse 46 that these shall go away unto everlasting punishment. but the righteous until life
everlasting. You know in this world there's
only two positions that men occupy. In this whole world everybody
fits into one of these two positions. The righteous or the wicked. The saved and the lost. The believers
and the unbelievers. In this life, everybody fits
in one of those two positions. Now the world doesn't like that.
The world wants to believe that there's three positions. They're
not quite saved, but they're not quite lost. They're somewhere
in between. And here we're told not only
that there's two positions that man occupies, but When you come
to that world up yonder, there's only two there too. The cursed and the righteous. Depart you cursed or come you
righteous. Only two positions there. Men
are cursed because they're lawbreakers. They violated their conscience.
God told them what to do. He told them what not to do.
And there's no language where that is not spoken to men's conscience. There may still be places in
this world that have no Bibles. They don't even have the Ten
Commandments written down. But they got it up here, haven't
they? The things that's made preaches to them. And it condemns
them. Their conscience condemns them.
The written law of Moses, the moral law condemns them. They're
cursed. They're cursed for what they
do. They're cursed for what they don't do. They're cursed. And
here you have the blessed. They're blessed of the Father. Come ye blessed of my Father. They're blessed with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Blessed in the
Son of God, blessed for His sake. And that's only two positions.
There's two places to go, isn't there? He just mentions these
two places. Come ye blessed in my Father
and heard the kingdom prepared for you, or depart ye cursed
into everlasting damnation, everlasting punishment. Only two places that
men are going to wind up at. And men entertain this notion
in their hearts that there's got to be someplace else. They're
not quite good enough to go to heaven, they know that. But they're
not quite bad enough to go to hell. And they dream that there's
someplace in between. But there's not. There's not. It's either everlasting happiness
or everlasting misery. But there's nothing in between
that. The Lord Jesus described their
punishment here and I doubt if it's the manner of the punishment
as much as it is the severity. He calls it here fire. In other
places he calls it outer darkness. In other places he calls it the
bottomless pit. And I doubt if that's the manner.
I don't know and I'm not saying it's not literal fire. Maybe
it is. But when you and I think of fire,
what do we think? We're afraid of it, aren't we?
You take a raging fire, we're afraid of it. Why? Because it
devours. Nothing can stand before it.
This is a fire that the Lord Jesus said would devour people's
hopes. It would devour their comforts,
their ease, devour everything. The rich man asked for a drop
of water and never got it, did he? That's what fire does. There won't be one single thing
in eternity that the wicked have that they'll hold on to that's
good, that has any comfort about it. What about a bottomless pit? When you think about a bottomless
pit, that means all support has been moved. That means God has moved. There's
nobody in this life, the Lord Jesus Christ was the only man
living that knew what it was to be forsaken of God. And nobody
else apart of this side of hell knows what it means to be forsaken
of God. David talked about being in a
pit wherein there was no standing. And what does it mean to be forsaken
of God? It means he refuses to uphold
the soul anymore. He removes all support, and the
soul falls, and it falls, and it falls without any support.
Darkness! What does it mean by outer darkness?
This is the punishment of the wicked. What does that mean,
to be cast into outer darkness? Well, it means God's not there.
Men pray in this life, depart from me. He will someday, won't
He? He will someday. And what will that be where God
is not? Total darkness. Total darkness. And the righteous, come you righteous,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you. This is their blessing,
that everlasting kingdom. The Bible says they shall reign
with Christ forever. If we suffer with Him, we'll
reign with Him. What will it mean to reign in
life? Well, we don't reign over anything
here, do we? It seems like we stand in jeopardy every hour. Paul said, I die daily. We're
always dying, aren't we? Dying to one thing or another.
But yonder will reign in life with Jesus Christ. We'll sit
with Him in His throne. There'll be nothing in or there
to disturb a man's comfort. and His peace and His joy and
His happiness. I love to think of heaven as
a happy place. I tell you, the older I get,
I tell you, there's just nothing hardly in this world to make
you happy, is there? Especially if you watch the news. Everything makes you sad. Don't
you long for heaven? That's a happy place. There'll
be no dark valleys when Jesus comes. There'll be no sorrows. There'll be no tears. There'll
be no pain. There'll be no sense of sin or
death or dying. All of these things will pass
away in that everlasting kingdom of happiness. Come, you blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world. And you notice here in verse
31, and this is what I wanted to just talk about just for a
minute. Did you notice who's on the throne?
Did you notice that? When the Son of Man shall come
in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He
sit upon the throne of His glory. You know He's on the throne right
now. It didn't mean that on that day he's going to retake the
throne. He's on the throne now. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15,
he must reign. Jesus Christ, the Son of Mary,
is reigning over everything, everybody, every circumstance,
all the birds of the air, all the fishes, every grain of sand
that flies through the air. Jesus Christ is reigning over
everything as you and I are gathered here today to worship Him. He's on the throne, and it's
the throne of His glory. On this day that we've read about,
He's reigning in judgment. He's revealing men's eternal
destinies. He's executing men's judgments. bestowing blessings, come ye
blessed my father, executing judgment, depart from me ye cursed. He said himself that the father
judgeth no man, but he's committed all judgment to the son, and
he's given him authority to execute judgment, because he's the son
of man. Why did the father put this in
his hands? That all men should honor the
son, even as they honor the Father. And His throne here is identified
as the throne of His glory. Everything about that day is
about Him. It's all about Him. It's all
about His glory. I love the way the Holy Spirit
writes this here. Before Him shall be gathered
all nations. He shall separate them one from
another. He shall set the sheep on His
right hand. He shall set the goats on His
left hand. He says, Come, ye blessed. He
says, Depart from me, ye cursed. Nobody does anything but at His
Word. He's up on the throne of His
glory. It's all about Him. It's always been about Him, hasn't
it? It's never been about you. It's never been about me. It's
always been about Him. There's something more important
than my salvation. And I tell you, that's important
to me, since I found out I've got a soul. But there's something
more important than me and my salvation. That's His glory.
That's why this world was made. That's why this world exists,
because of the Lord Jesus Christ, His glory. The Bible says in
Him, What a statement this is. Listen to this. In him dwells
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. When you look and consider
the Lord Jesus Christ in his body, while he was here upon
this earth a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, in his
body dwelt all the fullness of all the eternal God is. Whatever
makes God God, in His very essence, in His very being, Jesus Christ
is the fullness of God. He's not just like God. He is
God. In His eternal attributes, in
His humanity, Jesus Christ is God. And it pleased the Father
that in Him should all fullness dwell, And you are complete in
Him who is the head of all principalities and powers. And you know something? God don't have anything for a
poor sinner but what He's put it in His Son,
Jesus Christ. You can't know the love of God,
that everlasting love of God, except you see it in Jesus Christ.
Because that's where God's put it. That eternal salvation, God
has put it in His Son. That's where it's at. Saving
mercy, covenant mercy, free grace, it's in His Son. Everything that
God requires, everything that you and I need, God has put it
in His Son, Jesus Christ. And those who look for anything
from God in a way of saving apart from Him, will be eternally disappointed. It's in Jesus Christ the Lord. The glory of Jesus Christ. He's the King. It's all about
Him. This day is about Him. It's always been about Him. Those
who speak of Him and think of Him in a way that diminishes
His glory, do not think rightly of Him and do not speak rightly
of Him. For He's all glorious within
and without. He's vitally, vitally linked
to everything you and I love and think about. When we think
of election, is it not all about Him? It's all about Him, isn't
it? We talk about unconditional election. We talk about personal election.
We use those adjectives to describe election. But what's election
really about? Is it not about Him? He says
to His sheep, His sheep. Is election not all about God
choosing us in Christ? How can we talk about election
without talking about Jesus Christ? Election is about God giving
a great host of Adam's fallen race to His Son to save them. That's what it's about. Somebody
says, I don't like that at all. Then you don't like Him. You
don't like Him. Because election is about Jesus
Christ the Lord. And those who don't like it here
don't like Him here and they don't like Him younger. Because
you see the sheep given to him of the Father before time, and
they're on the dead judgment. What does he do? He separates
his sheep from the goats. What will election mean to people
there on the last day? What will it mean to people then?
Don't want to have anything to do with it. What will it mean
then? I'll tell you, it'll mean everything, won't it? To be one
of his sheep? To be called of Him and say,
come and sit on my right hand. It's all about Him, election
is. It's all about Him. Behold, I am the children whom
God hath given me. He's given me. That's why we
love election and it's more than just a doctrine to us, isn't
it? It's about Him. being chosen in Him, being given
to Him. We talk a lot about predestination,
and when we do, we talk about Him. What is predestination? But God predestinating us to
be conformed to the image of His Son. That's what predestination
is. Somebody says, I don't understand
it. Well, let me explain it to you. It's God predestinating
people to be conformed to be just like his son. Now who in his right mind could
find anything wrong with that? I was preaching on the radio
and one man said, I was preaching on Romans 8, 29, on God confirming
us the image of Christ. And the man said, you're stripping
man of his dignity. And I imagine he thought I was
stripping man of his free will, you know. You're not leaving
a man a choice or whatever. You're stripping a man of his
dignity. Well, here's the true dignity of a man. To be conformed
to the image of Jesus Christ. That's the apex, the highest
of dignity. To be like His Son. And God has
predestinated the elect to be just like Him. And the work's going on slow,
isn't it? But it's going on, isn't it? It's going on. And it won't cease until He says,
Come ye blessed of my Father. And when He says that, they're
going to be just like Him. It's Him. Predestination is about
Him. Some people just change one system
for another system, don't they? They change the system of Arminianism
to the system of Calvinism. I'm not talking about a system.
I'm talking about being like Jesus Christ. God's purpose to
make you just like Him. We talk about creation. When
we talk about creation, we talk about the Lord Jesus Christ who
created all things. I believe myself that this world
is very young. I really do, and you may not
agree with me, but I believe this world is very young. I believe
around 6,000 years ago or so, it was spoken into being by Jesus
Christ, the Son of God. And I think one of the reasons
the evolutionists are talking about 300 million years, And
all this evolving and us coming out of trees, swinging with our
tails and all of this stuff. You know one of the reasons I
think they're so hung up on that? And most of them don't know it.
It has to do with somebody's glory. It has to do with the
glory of the Son of God who made everything. He was in the world
and the world was made by Him. He's amazing, ain't He? He's
the Creator. God made all things by Jesus
Christ. You look up tomorrow at the sun
shining, that belongs to Jesus. He made it. You go out tonight
and you see the sky full of stars and the moon shining, those belong
to Jesus. He made them. This earth with
its sea, and His skies and the little creatures crawling around,
they belong to Jesus. He made them. You, you have your
being because He made you. You're His. He made you. The
rolling hills, the grass, everything belongs to Him. He made it. He made it. I love to just talk
about Him sometimes, don't you? Just to think about Him. Here
He is on the throne of His glory. And you know He's always been
there. When He ascended to heaven as the mediator, He sat down
there. But now He's concealed. There's
this veil between us and Him. We can't see Him. But someday
the sky is going to roll back and there He is. revealed in
all His glory upon His throne. And you know something? Nobody's
going to make a move. Nobody's going to do anything
but at His Word. And you know something? Nobody's
doing anything now at His Word. Everything looks out of control.
Everything looks like there's desperation. But He's on His
throne. He's ruling. He's reigning. That's
His glory. My Son, set at my right hand
until I make all your enemies your footstool. We think of calling. Sometimes
we talk about irresistible calling. We talk about particular calling. You know what we talk about when
we talk about calling? We're talking about the shepherd
going after his sheep until he finds it. That's what we're really
talking about. We're not just talking about
trying to bring people to this position where they believe in
the irresistible grace. We're talking about the shepherd
going and looking for the sheep and never giving up. until he
find it and lay it on his shoulders and bring it in home. Call it. All the Father gives to me shall
come to me. It's written in the prophets,
they shall all be taught of God. Every man who hath heard and
learned of the Father, he comes to me. That's calling. If any
man thirsts, let him come to me. To me, to me, to me. It's all about coming to Him,
isn't it? Coming to Him. Oh, I believe
in irresistible grace. Have you ever come to Him? Has
the Shepherd found you and brought you to Himself? Has He laid you
on His shoulders and brought you home to the Father? Oh, it's
about Him. It's all about Him. You'll notice here in this text
I read to you that even those saints standing right there before
Him never came into His kingdom until He said, Come, you blessed
among us. Even there they won't come until
He says come. You wouldn't have come to Him
here if He hadn't have called you. Nobody comes to Him unless
He calls them. That's when you came to Him to
be saved by Him. To give yourself up to Him is
when He called you. And you know something? If He
ever quits calling you, you'll quit coming. I think sometimes
the reason God lets us get so cold and indifferent in our hearts
is just to let us see, if I stop calling, you'll quit coming.
Do you ever get so cold and indifferent it scares you to death? You thought,
oh Lord, how long? I can't continue here. I'm going
to quit praying. I'm going to quit believing.
I'm going to quit coming. And he lets us get there sometime
to make us see you're still utterly dependent upon me to keep calling
you. I was reading Adam Clark. He's the head honcho for the Armenians. He made a statement I was reading.
I got his commentary around. I want to know what those fellows
think about things. He gave an example on calling. Why a man comes to Christ. He
gave this example. He said if you put green grass
in front of a sheep, that will draw. If you put nuts in front
of a child, that will draw. Well, here's the only problem.
Green grass is natural to a sheep. And little nuts may be natural
for children to play with and crack. But for a lost, helpless,
dead sinner to come to Christ is not natural. For anybody who loves his sin,
loves his self, and loves darkness to come to the Lord Jesus Christ,
that's a miracle. It's a miracle of grace. And
no man will come and no man can come except the King bring him
into his chambers of love. There has to be a radical change
for a man or a woman to come to Christ. It's just not natural. If you truly come to the Lord
Jesus and you come to God by Him, don't give your human nature
any credit because it had nothing to do with it. The Lord had to
break in upon you. He had to enlighten your understanding
because you were ignorant. There's none that understands,
so there's none who seeks after God. He had to give you light
in your darkness. He had to change your affections.
A man won't come out of his sins. A man won't come away from the
love of his self. Don't expect him to. We tell
men all the time, come to Christ. Come to the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the hope of all who seek
Him, the help of all who find Him. Come to Him. We know all
along that it's contrary to nature for them to do it. They just
won't do it. They have to have their affections
changed, don't they? There has to be a need of Him,
a need to have their sins washed, a need to be forgiven, a need
to be justified and clothed in His righteousness. He has to
create that need in the heart. And I guess the last thing He
has to break and bend in His direction is our old stubborn
wills. And it ain't just about a doctrine
of irresistible grace. It's about the King on His throne
coming to your heart and coming to my heart. And so working in
us that He brings us to Himself. It's about Him, isn't it? It's about Him. And we talk about
particular redemption. I'm just saying we talk about
these things. It's good. We have to talk about them in
terms we know to talk about. Limited atonement or whatever
we want to call it. But what's redemption about?
It's about Him. It's about the Redeemer. That's
all it's about. I think. If people ever get a
glimpse of His glory, who He is, even when He was here in
His humanity, they could never believe that such a glorious
person could hang on the cross and bear a man's sins, and then
that man perish after all. Since you saw His glory, can
you believe it? Can you believe that one drop
of such precious blood could be shed in vain? That He could
ever fail in doing whatever He purposed there upon the cross
of Calvary? I tell you, when I saw His glory,
when I first saw His glory, when the Holy Spirit first opened
my heart to let me see who He really is, I had no trouble saying
He could never die in vain. If He bore a man's sins, I'm
telling you there comes a day when God forgives those sins.
Justice cannot payment twice demand. Not when the Redeemer
has died. Not when the Redeemer has paid
His debt. That's what it's about, isn't
it? Redemption is about the Redeemer. Don't tell us about a redemption
that doesn't redeem. Don't tell us about a Savior
that doesn't save. It may sound good to say that
Jesus did just as much for those in hell as He did for those in
heaven. That may sound real kind, but
that diminishes His glory. And anything that diminishes
His glory has nothing to do with it, brothers and sisters. He's
on His throne. He's the King. He's the Lord. Can you imagine yourself tonight
standing at that day? Can you imagine yourself standing
at this day? And put your name in here when
he says, Come, you blessed. Just imagine here you stand and
imagine him speaking to you. Come, Dave, you're blessed to
my Father. Come, Lindsey, you're blessed
to my Father. Come, Matt, you're blessed to
my Father. Imagine you standing there and hearing His voice say
this to you. Oh, if you could get a hold of
that, brothers and sisters, if we could get a hold of this and
live in the light of this by the help of the Holy Spirit,
how would this affect our life here? If we could live the rest
of it in the light of that day standing there and being among
them that He speaks to. God, You blessed them, my Father. What are they going to be doing
for all eternity? You know what they'll be doing for all eternity.
They'll be shouting His praises. That's why He calls us. As soon
as He saved you, you know what you begin to do? You began to
praise Him, didn't you? Oh, and what will you do yonder?
When He calls you, come you, blessed are my Father, into this
everlasting kingdom of happiness. And when you see the other, with
cast down countenances and weak, frail bodies, be driven off into
a lake of fire. And here you are in this everlasting
kingdom of happiness. What will you do in that day?
You'll do what you long to do here. Praise Him with all your
heart. Oh, Lord, upon Your throne, praise
You for choosing me. Thank You for redeeming me. Thank
You for calling me. Thank You for keeping me in that
sin-cursed world by Your power. Thank you for calling me from
the grave. Thank you for telling me to come
into your kingdom. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Some fella said to me one day,
he said, what do you think we'll do in heaven? He loved to fish. I don't know if he'll do much
fishing in heaven. He won't have time. You ain't going to let nobody
or nothing take you away from what your heart's been longing
to do all along. Praise in Him. Praise in Him. He's called us out of darkness
into His marvelous light to show forth His praises. Charles Spurgeon had an old lady
in his congregation. She came up to him and she said,
Spurgeon, if God saves me, He'll never hear the last of it. He'll
never hear the last of it. And that's what it'll be there.
We'll be singing His praises, thanking Him for all eternity,
that this glorious, eternal, Triune God chose us, redeemed
us, called us and kept us and glorified. And we'll say, Lord,
not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be glory. You want to be saved? You're
tired of trying to save yourself? Tired of playing? Tired of pretending? You want to be saved in such
a way that He gets all the glory? and come like the old leopard
did and get down at his feet and say Lord if you will you
can make me whole. Nobody's ever been turned away
there. Not by this king, not by this savior. Let's pray. Oh blessed Lord Jesus our great
and eternal God how glorious you are and the Trinity of your
sacred persons. God, our Heavenly Father, you
put it in our hearts to call you our Father. And if you're
not our Father, we have no Father. We're utterly orphans if you're
not our Father. We've denied all other. We address
you and call you our Father. Lord Jesus, the Son of God, our
Redeemer, who purchased us at a great cost to yourself upon
the cross at Calvary. We bless you for it. We praise
you for it. You are all in all. You've taught
us this. You've taught us this in our
very souls, the bottom of our hearts, that we are nothing and
you are all in all. You're everything. You are a
curse and you are a blessing. You are hell and you are heaven.
You are death and you are life. You are sin and you are righteousness.
You're everything. And we praise you for it. Oh,
Holy Spirit, blessed revealer of the things of God. We bless
your holy name. We bless you for your presence.
We bless you for your power. We bless you for your willingness
to abide and accomplish the purpose of God in this world. Oh, I pray
tonight that you'll strengthen your saints. I pray that you'll
call your people in this day, call them out of darkness into
your light for your glory. Oh, great and sovereign, triumphant
God, we worship you tonight. We pray for this dear people
that come here. I pray your richest blessings
upon them for your glory. I pray that they'll leave here
tonight with the knowledge of Christ the Lord. To worship Him. To give themselves up to Him.
To live in your life, Lord. To walk with you. To be happy
in you. To be content with you. To long
for that day of your period. We pray for this church. We pray
for Brother Don and Sister Shelby. Would you strengthen them? Would
you bless your work here through your poor servants? And for your
glory, we ask these things. Amen.