That's got to be one of the best
hymns ever written. Robert Murray McShane pastored
in Dundee, Scotland, wrote the hymn. Several years ago, I sold,
I don't know how many years ago it's been now. There was a young
man who started getting our cassette tapes and he started feeding
them to his father who pastored in Dundee, Scotland, where McShane
once pastored. And I got a letter from his father.
Now, you have to appreciate the fact that Scotsmen are not known
for great generosity, and they're known for being a little bit
tight. I'm not saying he was. I'm saying
that's the reputation. I got a letter from him, and
he sent a check for $200 and said, send me as many tapes as
this will take care of. And so Shelby sent him a bunch
of tapes and sent him a bunch more and sent him a bunch more.
And he got to preaching what he was hearing. And they put
him out to pasture. We don't want that anymore. But
McShane preached the message long ago in that place, and it
continues to be preached. Turn with me, if you will, to
1 Corinthians chapter 16. 1 Corinthians chapter 16. Paul is speaking here concerning
his labors in Ephesus, and he says in verse 9, a great door
and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. A great door and effectual is
opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. For some reason in his wise,
good, adorable providence, our Heavenly Father has been pleased
to give this assembly a significant voice of influence in his kingdom
and this generation here and around the world. He not only
has been pleased to reveal Christ in us, planting the gospel in
this little insignificant, out of the way place, giving us the
blessed privilege of worshiping him in this place and hearing
from so many different gospel preachers the very best of gospel
preaching. I try to see that you hear every
man I know who can who preaches the gospel and preaches it faithfully.
You've heard the very best, the very best there are and hear
the gospel continually from them. What a privilege. And the Lord
has given us opportunity in many ways to preach the gospel through
the CDs and DVDs, the free grace radio ministry, the bulletins
that are mailed out, books, all of those things having their
influence wherever God sends them. That's a great privilege. It is a trust. The Lord God has
trusted to you and me, the glorious gospel of his dear son. We have this treasure, Paul said,
in earthen vessels. He's put it in us, not to hold
it, but to hold it and carry it into all the world. That's
our privilege, and that is our responsibility as a gospel church. The Apostle Paul says that he
was at Ephesus and while he preached there, a great door and effectual
was open to him. And there were many adversaries. Before I left here with Shelby
a couple of weeks ago, I asked you in preparation for the meetings
in England and in Ireland to pray for us, pray for God's blessing
upon the word, asking him to go before me and to prepare the
way for the word. And I want you to know God has
in measure answered your prayers and mine. If you want to hold
your hands here in Corinthians and turn over the book of Colossians.
Colossians chapter four. Paul asked the Colossians for
the same thing. He says in verse two of Colossians
four, continue in prayer and watch in the same. That is watch
in prayer with thanksgiving. with all praying also for us
that God would open to us a door of utterance to speak the mystery
of Christ. That God would open to us a door
of utterance to speak the mystery of Christ. That's the only business
we have. to speak the mystery of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's the gospel of God's grace.
To tell sinners how God saves sinners by his free grace through
the blood atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ and saves every
sinner who believes on his son. Not things that men call mysteries. I preached and I'll tell you
about it just a little bit ago one night in a brethren church.
the common ministry of the Brethren Church. It was founded upon and
it continues to be a ministry teaching dispensational premillennial
theology. It was founded on error and continues
in error. And I hope all that heard me
hear this message. It was founded on error and continues
in error. But while I was in another place,
someone came to me and asked me about my eschatological views
of things. That's just a fancy word for
prophetic views. He said, Are you a pre-millennialist
or post-millennialist and all-millennialist? I said, Well, frankly, I don't
really care. I don't really care. I'm not
interested in those things. Don't you have an opinion? I
said, Yes, I'm not going to tell you what it is. I'm just not interested
in those things. Those things are insignificant. They're meaningless, utterly
meaningless. Christ is coming. That's meaningful.
That's meaningful. All the Yik-yak concerning those
things are not mysteries. They're just confusion. The mystery
of God is the gospel of Christ. And that's what he sent us to
proclaim. What's this? He said, you pray for me that
I might be able to speak the mystery of Christ, for which
I am also in bonds. He was imprisoned for that cause. And he was in bonds in another
way. He said, as he left Ephesus,
and they came and told him, said, if you leave here, this prophet
came and bound his hands and said, you'll be bound and carried
away to Rome. And Paul said, I'm not only willing
to be bound, I'm willing to die for this cause. And Paul was
in bonds to Christ as his servant. as are you and I, if we are indeed
his servants. I'm in bonds to this. This is
this is the thing that constrains me. This is the thing that governs
me. This is the thing that motivates
me. This is the thing I must do that. I may make it manifest,
make manifest openly, clearly, plainly, not in ambiguous words
with hidden meanings, but that I may speak openly Plainly and
clearly make manifest to those who hear me the message of the
gospel. Make it manifest as I ought to
speak. Now, I can't tell you how very
thankful I am to God for you, for your faithful, faithful support
of the gospel, your faithful, generous support of your pastor,
both in preaching the gospel to you and wherever God opens
the door. I can't tell you how thankful
I am for your intercessions on my behalf continually. I thank
God for you. I thank God for the privilege
of serving him with you. And the Lord God is using this
assembly. Now, I'm always hesitant to come
back from meetings like these and give a report because I'm
hesitant. any time to call attention to
these things. I don't want even the hint of
pride and arrogance. And God, if any of that's here,
let me drop dead right now. I don't want that. I don't want
that. Not for you or for me. Oh, what a blessing that God
would allow us to be useful in his kingdom. And my only reason
for saying the things I want to say tonight to you, to this
congregation and the folks who will hear this message in other
means, because I want you to know something about what God's
doing in other places. Paul said, A great door and effectual
is open to us. I use the word us because we
are laborers together in the cause of Christ. There's no way
under the shining sun. I could do the things I do as
your pastor if you did not give me the support you give. And
I'm not just talking about financial support, taking care of my needs.
I'm talking about the support you give me as your pastor, your
faithful, faithful support. God's still working. He's still
gathering his elect. He's still sending forth laborers
into his vineyard. He's still ministering to the
needs of his saints. And in some measure does that
by our labors in his cause. We had excellent meetings in
every place. I preached in Liverpool, England, preached in Bebington,
England, just outside of Liverpool, preached over in Dudley, and
then went to Ballymunny, North Ireland, and then got home and
went down to College Grove, Tennessee, and the Lord granted his blessings
upon the word in every place. He sent his spirit before us
and prepared the way for his word. And he enabled me graciously
to preach the gospel with liberty and with ease to proclaim to
many women the message you hear all the time. And as Paul said
when he was at Ephesus, some believed and some believed not. That's the way it always is.
He says when he was at Ephesus, and there are many adversaries. There are many adversaries. Wherever
the gospel of God's free grace is preached, Satan always raises
up adversaries. Commenting on this passage, John
Gill said, the adversary Satan roars and the posse of devils
under him are employed one way or another to obstruct the gospel
if possible. And false teachers are raised
up to oppose it. That was true in Gil's day, it
was true in Paul's day, and it is true in our day. There are
many adversaries to the gospel. Wherever free grace is preached,
free will is proclaimed. Wherever the gospel of God's
grace is preached, law works are proclaimed. Wherever men
come preaching salvation by grace alone, will worshipers come proclaiming
something to do with your will, your work, and your worth. There
are plenty of adversaries now as there were then. Legalists,
workmongers, will-worshiping Arminians are always present
to oppose the gospel. I said I Try to speak with plain
words. I don't want to be misunderstood.
I want everybody who hears everything I preach to understand exactly
what I'm saying. Legalist, will-worshipping Armenians
are men and women who oppose the gospel. They oppose the gospel. All workmonger religion is an
opposition to the gospel of God's free grace. But they never prevail. They never prevail. They never
silence the word. The word of God yet has free
course. Now, let me give you a brief
report of what's transpired in the last two weeks. On the 7th
of October, as you know, Shelby and I left immediately after
service and took off to Cincinnati. And we got on a plane at 4 o'clock
and flew all night and got into Manchester, England about 830
on Monday morning. Now, just in case you haven't
heard me say it, airplanes are not made for fellows my size.
They're not even real comfortable for folks the size of my wife.
But when I'm on an airplane, I get to sit with my hands tucked
under my belt so I don't bump into folks or hit anything with
somebody's head laid back in the seat just about that close
to my nose for whatever time I'm on the airplane. They're
not comfortable and I don't rest on them. But we had a safe flight. Folks asked me, if you had a
good flight, the wheels hit the ground all right. That's a good
flight. So we got in about 8.30 on Monday
morning, and we were picked up at the airport by Brother Paul
Forrest. Paul arranged the meetings at
Stanley Park Church in Liverpool. I met him about eight years ago
for the first time when I first went to Eggleston, England, where
Brother Peter Minnie is pastor And Paul came up to services.
He's, I think, uh, I think he told me he's 40 years old now,
maybe 42 years old. I can't remember. But, uh, he
and I've had a good bit of correspondence over the years. And he asked
me when I was, uh, had left England last time. So would I be willing
to come down and preach to a small group in Liverpool? I said, I'll
be happy to. So he arranged it and he picked us up at the airport
and we had about an hour, hour and a half drive, uh, to the
motel where we were staying. He. had arranged for us to stay
at a very comfortable place at Holiday Inn Express there in
Liverpool at the Prince's Docks, I think it's called, maybe Prince
Albert Docks, I can't remember, but it was right, for you who
are old enough to remember, it was right over top of the Beatles
Museum. You could see the yellow submarine they sang about from
our window. We stayed at a very comfortable
place there. When we got to the motel, we had anticipated not
being able to check in until 2 o'clock in the afternoon because
that's the rules. And the British are real sticklers
for rules. They're the real sticklers for
rules. But the desk clerk said our room was ready. If we wanted
to check in, we could. So we got in the room about 10 o'clock
and went to bed and slept for four or five hours and got up
and went out and had fish and chips and came back and went
back to bed and slept almost all night. So we had a good night's
rest the first night we were there. And then on Tuesday, Brother
Paul picked us up, took us over to Stanley Park Church. And the
folks meeting there, I think normally there's maybe a dozen
of them. The pastor is Brother Eddie Roberts, first time I ever
met him. And they meet down in the basement
of church. in a rather rough section of
town. Matter of fact, while we were there, Paul's boy had a
friend come in to meet him after the services and gang beat him
and robbed him, took his car right outside the church door.
But they met downstairs in the basement and then after services
took me upstairs to see the rest of the building. I stepped upstairs and I thought,
wow, on earth, we meet down there in that dungeon, dungeon basement.
It was a fabulous place. I mean, just fabulous, but it
would seat, it was built to seat about a thousand people. And,
uh, so they met, I guess they still meet down in the basement.
I hope not. I, I told the pastor, I said, I wouldn't give up that
battle. I wouldn't do it. If I was preaching to two, I'd
put them on the front for you and preach to them. I wouldn't be down in
that basement. We've got a place like this to meet, but, uh, we
had a good meeting, had a very good meeting there. And the Lord
seemed to bless the word to those who heard it and got to know
the pastor a little bit and spend a little bit of time by the forest
and his family. Then on Wednesday evening, we went over to Beddington
and a meeting had been arranged there at the Brethren Church
in Beddington. Brother Andrew Dyke is the pastor
in that church. There was another preacher, an
older gentleman who had really been influential in arranging
the meetings. He was a retired pastor. Brother
John Evans. I've never met him before, but
he introduced me at the meeting and I'm going to read what he said.
I'm reluctant to do this, but I think it's important. I actually
met him in Stanley Park Church the night before and then he
introduced me to the congregation at Bevington. I've known Brother
Don Fortner for the past 10 years. Though we've never met, I began
reading his books 10 years ago, and his writings have transformed
my thinking, my ministry, and my life, as well as the lives
of several others who've also read what he's written. And he
went on to say, I seldom have my Bible open, except I have
one of your commentaries open, reading what you have to say
concerning it. And he expressed great, great gratitude for the
books. Those are your Bible class lessons. I presume all of you know that
that's where all the books come from or the Sunday morning Bible
class lessons. And this pastor began reading
them when they first started being published. Actually, when
many first started publishing books and go publications 10
years ago, the word was well received that congregation. There
were some folks who found out it was going to be there who
came down from other places and seemed to greatly profit by the
word. We had a good time of fellowship
afterwards. The British always serve tea. They have tea like badgers have
chicken. Every time they get a chance to, they have a cup
of tea and some refreshments. And so we had a good time of
fellowship afterwards. And then on Thursday, Brother Paul picked
us up at the motel that morning and took us by his house to visit
with his family. Uh, his, one of his sons was
celebrating his 19th birthday. And so we had a piece of cake
and a little bit of refreshment with them. And, uh, after brief
time of fellowship there, I guess maybe an hour or so, uh, we got
in the car and started to drive toward Dudley and, uh, preached
at Dudley, uh, Friday night and then Saturday afternoon at four
o'clock and on Sunday morning. That's at Robert Street Baptist
Church where Brother Norman Wheeler is the pastor. His wife, Hilda,
and he are just dear, dear, dear friends. Hilda is one of those
ladies who just does everything perfect. She sees to every detail
of everything and provides for all our needs. We got in a room
she had arranged and had flowers for Shelby and candy for one
of us, other refreshments, and we were just very, very comfortable
there. I'd never eaten salmon until
I ate it at her house. And she served it up so beautifully,
I just had to taste it and I've liked it ever since. But they're
just a great, great couple. I first met Brother Norman when
I went to Wolverhampton about eight years ago. But I had been
in contact with him a little bit before that. About eight
or nine years ago, Brother Sid Buggins, who's now 80, I think
he just turned 81 years old, had been receiving our DVDs,
watching them for some time and giving them to different people.
And actually they were VHS tapes back then. And somebody went
by the church door at Robert Street and just stuck a VHS tape
through the mail chute. And Brother Matt Wheeler, Norman
Hilda's, one of his, their sons, I picked up the mail and took
it over to them, and no one watched it. Had his wife watch it, and
after services the next Sunday night, the family was there,
both of his boys and both of his daughters and their grandchildren.
He said, y'all come in here and see this. You've got to see this.
Paul told us that the days when we were tired, we didn't want
to see it. But to please Dad, we went in and watched it. He
said, you've got to see this. And they started watching the messages.
And then Norman's older. He's had some sickness. Since
then, about once a week at one of their services, the congregation
watches one of the video messages. But after they started watching
the messages, I got an email one day from Matt Norman and
Hilda's younger son. Norman was very sick. He got
a developed form of epilepsy. I think it was lobo, temple,
Is that what it's called? Something like that. Anyway,
it caused him to lose his memory for a period of time, caused
him to just weep severely a lot. And he finally, he got terribly
depressed with it. Matt contacted me to let me know
about it. So one Sunday afternoon, I came
home from service and picked up the phone and called him.
And we chatted for just a little bit. Then I met him when we went
out there to Dudley the first time. And every time I've seen
him since then, Every time I've seen it, he's had some comment
to make concerning that call and how much he appreciated it,
how much it meant to him. Give you an idea how important
little insignificant things are to people, often just what they
need. When you have a opportunity,
maybe a little inspiration from God to send somebody a note or
call them, just encourage them, do it, do it. I can't tell you
how many times over the years I've written to someone, particularly
a missionary on mission field, write to him and get a letter
back from him saying you can't know how much I needed that letter
that day. So every time, every time we
are together, Norman and his family talk about how much that
call meant to Norman and Hilda and has meant to the congregation
because of our relationship together. But we met on Friday night. Had a good crowd there. And a
good many folks come from other places. And Saturday afternoon,
some other folks came. Brother Alan Jellett and his
wife Christine came up from down at Nebworth. And Brother John
Graham and his wife Ann. Another preacher, I have no idea
how old John is, but he's considerably older than I am. He'd been preaching
around London, in and around London for many, many years.
And he was hearing one of the men, one of the preachers, talk
about how the message they've been hearing from here has transformed
their lives and ministries. And he kind of laughed and said,
me too. It transformed me so much nobody
will have me preach anymore. But they meet together with a
small group in London. Several folks are black in the
congregation, small group. One of those couples, Brother
Wickham and Pam, came up. And they're just, they're, oh,
they're such a delight, such an encouragement. So, so good
to see them and to be with them. Sid and Joan Buggins, Brother
Sid has just, I wish every one of you could meet he and his
family. I wish you could meet them all. Wish you could meet them all.
But we just had delightful fellowship and I always come away blessed
of God and thankful for it. Over and over and over again,
they expressed their appreciation for you and ask about you. Ask
about you. Ask about you by name. They hear
me call your names and they see Lindsey bend over and cut the
tape off. That's all they see about Lindsey.
They want to know who that fella is that always comes to the pulpit
when you get done. And ask about folks. Somebody
asked, who is Burl? Tell me about Burl. Tell me about
Bob Pottser. How's Bob doing since he had
to have his leg amputated? I just amazed at how caring folks
are for people they've never met. And all the widow ladies
ask about Bobby. I don't know why it was the widow
ladies asking, but all the widow ladies ask about Bobby. And we
had good visits with folks. They expressed, many of them,
how much they feel a part of this congregation and want you
to know how appreciative they are for what you do. We had dinner
together on Sunday afternoon before leaving Dudley. I had
dinner at the church building and time of fellowship. And then
I had a little while, so I went to the car and got my computer
out and started showing some pictures. And I guess I spent
about an hour and a half showing pictures. First, I got it out
because Hilda wanted to see our grandchildren and see our daughter
and son-in-law. And so I showed them pictures of Doug and Faith
and all the Grace and Will, and then that got into other pictures. And they wanted to see all the
pictures. And so best I could, everybody
gathered around that little bitty screen trying to watch the pictures
I had there. And they were delighted with
that. About 3 o'clock, we left for a two-hour drive over to
where we fly out of Birmingham, England. And then got into Belfast. at about 8.30 on Sunday night. And I got there and got our bags,
went outside. I always like to have enough
time to smoke my pipe, so I went outside and smoked my pipe. Russell
hadn't showed up yet, and so I smoked my pipe again. And Russell
hadn't showed up yet, so I called him, and he said, I'm pulling
into the parking lot right now. And so we waited around a little
longer, and I smoked my pipe again. and spoke with Pipe again. I hadn't seen him yet, and so
I called him. And Russell was at the Belfast International
Airport, and I was at Belfast City Airport. So we had to get
in the car and come back over. This is Brother Russell Smith.
Russell was raised in a Presbyterian church all his life. Never heard
anything, but he was raised in a Presbyterian church all his
life. In fact, I don't remember how many years ago now. probably
at least 10 years or more since I started hearing from him. And
someone had given him one of the tapes, and he stuck it in
his car. At that time, he was working
as a military policeman for the Royal Ulster Constabulary, protecting
the nation from the IRA terrorists. And he stuck the tape in the
car and listened to it a little bit. And he said, that's a bunch
of rubbish, and threw it out the window. And somebody a little
later on gave him another tape and said, He stuck it in the
car, tape player, and listened to it a little bit, and said
the same thing, that's just a bunch of rubbish, and threw it out
the window. And a little while later, somebody else gave him
a third tape, and he stuck it in the car and started to listen,
and God got him. And he and his family have been
dear, dear friends. He arranged the first meeting
over in Valley of Money, North Island, way up on the north coast
of Ireland almost, up close to Giant's Causeway, and been going
over there Every year now for either seven or eight years,
at least twice a year and, uh, uh, have good meetings there.
They meet together with some of them and watch the videos,
just a small group. Uh, and in the car with Russell, with brother
Stuart Boyd, first time we met Stuart and Harriet. I figured
that'd be the last time I'd say Stuart, this side of glory. He'd
had a heart serious heart condition for since he was 46 years old.
He's 70. How many? 73 and just this past
May got a pacemaker defibrillator and when we first met him seven
or eight years ago he could hardly walk and just had a had a very
very tough time terribly weak bad color and since May he'd
been going out with Russell fishing and he loves to fly fish and
able to get around well and he came down to Belfast with Russell
to meet us at the airport that was a a very pleasant, pleasant
surprise. And so we rode back up to Bellarmine
with them and spent time visiting with them in the car, traveling,
and then on Monday night met for services. On the way up,
Stuart told me and Russell, which one told me they'd heard from
who, but they'd heard from a good many folks. There are people
gathered in small groups. I'm sure some we know nothing
at all about, As I knew nothing about these, there's a group
in the Isle of Wight in Scotland. Get together and watch our videos.
No pastor, no place to worship. That's all they've got. And they
hoped to come over and weren't able to make it. But then they
had heard from several preachers who had planned to be at the
meeting on Monday night. And they were. There were three
men who drove up together. None of us had ever met before.
One of them was a preacher. There was a pastor. Robert Rob,
I believe is his name, who was a reformed Presbyterian pastor
about an hour and a half, two hours away. Folks from various
congregations in different places, some some distance away from
there. And we had some liberty to preach. And there was a fellow
there. We meet in a place called Orange
Hall. Very nice place to meet. And there's a. Church of God
group that meets there, that's Pentecostal group and the pastor. of that church in Farley is about
always there. And Monday night I had some liberty
in preaching, dealing with some things that clearly were severe in his opinion, I'm sure
as he heard them. And he left quickly. Usually
he hangs around, visits and talks, but I think he heard something
this time. And he was back Tuesday night. and recorded the messages. I pray God will be pleased to
save him. But we had had just very, very good meetings in both
places. And then on Wednesday morning,
Russell and Sharon met us at a motel and we had really, really
good Irish breakfast. Now, I'm a southern fella and
I like grits and gravy and biscuits and fried potatoes and all that
stuff. But an Irish breakfast is almost worth, no, it's worth
going to Ireland to get. Fried soda bread and fried potato
cakes and fried bacon and fried sausages, fried being the optimal
word, fried tomatoes and fried mushrooms, just, that's a big
breakfast. And we visited a little bit,
started a long drive down to Dublin and visited with Russell
and Sharon on the way there. Since I was there the last time,
their daughter, Catherine, told us that God had been pleased
to save her. She's, I guess, mid-20s, maybe
30 years old. The Lord graciously, graciously
using so many things and so thankful. This Free Grace Radio ministry
has been and is being blessed of God to multitudes around the
world. You pray for God's blessings
on it. I want you to know the value.
Sometimes I know you wonder, is it worth the trouble to get
these CDs, these DVDs, these bulletins and give them to people?
You never know what God's going to do, how he's going to do it,
or when he's going to do it. Our business is to make known
the gospel, to get it out by whatever means God gives us,
and wait for God to make the word effectual. Ballot money. First night we were there, a
lady came from a reformed church and she spotted one of those
fellows who had come from another reformed church. They knew each
other by reformed. I mean, real legalistic law works,
folks. And she started downloading messages
from Free Grace Radio. And she started she went and
told the pastor about it. He said, Oh, don't listen to
him. He's an antinomy. And she was warned, don't go
hear him. He'll cause trouble. And she
looked back, that pastor said, you don't tell, I won't tell.
But she said, I don't care. She said, the message has greatly
blessed my soul. And God continues to open the
door of utterance for the gospel literally around the world. I'm
so thankful. We got back here Thursday night. just about 10 or 11 o'clock,
10 o'clock, I think it was, wasn't it, right? 10 o'clock. And by
that time, we'd been up 24 hours, got up early in the morning.
Dublin time was three o'clock, that's 10 o'clock to you. And
we're up the whole time and got home Thursday night, got to bed
about 11, had a good night's sleep. And then Bill Eldridge
met me here at nine o'clock Friday morning, and he and I drove down
to College Grove and preached the conference there. And Just
in case Brother Chris gets this, I've got to call him and tell
him if he doesn't. But they had Brother Todd Nybert
and Brother John Chapman scheduled to preach yesterday morning.
And normally they have two preachers in every service. But I've noticed
and I'm sorry, Frank, you need to hear this. I'm the worst offender
at the lessons that I give preachers to keep things down with a reasonable
amount of time. And I'm afraid I don't do that
much. I apologize. And I keep trying, but I'm not
doing much good at it. You do better. But they only had one
preacher Friday night. I think they wanted to be sure
they weren't there too late. But we had good service. I had some
liberty to preach. And we met. I saw two fellows come in the
back door. I sit there beside Chris. I said, who's that? He
said, I don't know. He said, I got a call from a
preacher down in Manchester, Tennessee. and said he wanted
to come hear you preach. He's I guess that's him. Well,
I think his name was Gary Bale. I think that's what he told me
his name was. And we had just a brief visit after the services
on on Friday night. He and this fellow who were with
him was with him headed out pretty quickly, but he asked us to pray
for him. He'd been listening to the messages
on Free Grace Radio and God's taught him the gospel. There's
just one problem. He's pastor of an independent
Baptist church that's just as free will as it can be. And I
didn't have time to tell him. I guess he must be 65, 70 years
old or better. You're in for a ride, buddy.
But if he starts to preach the gospel he's heard and says he
believes, it'll be good for him and good for folks who hear him.
So you pray for them. Turn with me, if you will, to
Isaiah 55. Isaiah chapter 55. The church at College Grove doing
great, just doing great. Brother Chris has been a good
pastor there and the assembly is just doing great. Isaiah 55
verse 11. So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void. but it shall accomplish that
which I please and it shall prosper in the thing where to I send
it. Lord God, will you be pleased
as long as we have breath to use us to send out your word
for the gathering of your elect, comfort of your saints, assistance
of your people. for Christ's sake. Amen.