Chapter 4, Gospel of Mark Chapter 4, we'll
begin reading at verse 35. Mark Chapter 4, verse 35, and the same day when even was
come, He saith unto them, let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the
multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there
were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great
storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship. so that it
was now full. And he was in the hinder part
of the ship, asleep on a pillow. And they awake him and say unto
him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose
and rebuked the wind and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased. And there
was a great call. And he said unto them, why are
you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith? And they feared exceedingly and
said one to another, what manner of man is this, that even the
wind and the sea obey him? At the end of a long day, a day
in which our Lord and his disciples had been very busy, he took his
disciples and boarded a ship to cross over the Sea of Galilee.
Our Savior had preached in the open air to multitudes, and now
the day was drawing to a close. He's weary. When they were alone,
he taught his disciples in private the meaning of the things that
he had taught in public. But there was one more work to
be done before his work was done for that day. He couldn't be
complete in his work for that day until he had gone to Gadara,
because there was one among the Gadarenes, a maniac, a wild madman,
a man who by his own hands had ruined his life, a man who had
lived many years in the clutches of Satan, possessed of demons,
running wild among the tombs. People tried to restrain him,
but they couldn't. People tried to train him, but
they couldn't. He was one of those people that
everyone feared. He held people all around him
in terror. because nobody knew what he might
do next, a wild man running naked as a maniac among the tombs.
But that poor maniac of Gadara was one of the sons of Abraham.
God had given to his son to save in the time of love had come
when he must be called by omnipotent grace. The Lord Jesus agreed
to save him before the world began. He had now lived 30 years
walking on this earth as the representative of that Gadarene
before God, obeying God's law in perfect details, in every
detail perfectly, obeying God's law, not for himself, but for
that Gadarene, that he might establish righteousness with
which to clothe that naked Gadarene, even as he clothed his body,
he would clothe his soul with righteousness before God. He
was soon to lay down his life in the room instead of that Gadarene.
He would soon bear that gathering sin in his body on the cursed
tree. Being made a curse for him, he
would die in his stead as his substitute to satisfy the justice
of God on behalf of that poor, wretched man who cared nothing
for himself, that man for whom no one cared a thing. the Lord
Jesus would soon die in his stead and satisfy all justice on his
behalf and put away all his sins. And now the time of love had
come when this wretched man must obtain mercy. You remember in
John's gospel we read that he must needs go through Samaria
to save this Samaritan woman for whom the time of mercy had
come. And now he must needs go over the Sea of Galilee to the
other side to save the maniac of Gadara. So our Savior said
to his disciples, let us pass over unto the other side. Oh, may this be the day of his
grace for you. Who are yet without his grace,
without life before God, for you who were yet in the clutches
of Satan, for you who have ruined your lives with your own willful
rebellion, for you who are yet dead in trespasses and in sins. May the Son of God be pleased
this hour to come to you as he came to that maniac of old and
give you life everlasting by his almighty grace. Oh, that
he who delights in mercy, he with whom is forgiveness, that
his name may be feared, may he grant to you his mercy and grant
to you this hour the blessed forgiveness of all your sins. If he does, before you go out
those doors this morning, You will find yourself sitting at
the master's feet, clothed with the garments of salvation, and
for the first time in your life, in your right mind. For the first time in your life,
in your right mind. By the time I was 15 years old,
I had ruined my life. I'd ruin my life with my own
hands. Wasn't somebody else's doing,
it was my doing. Wasn't the environment I was in, my doing. Wasn't the
way I was raised, it was the way I lived, my doing, my doing. I'd ruin my life. I was rushing
madly to hell. And then just before, just before
I was 17 years old, the son of God stepped in. and gave me mercy. And this wild man has been his
right mind ever since. Right mind? The right mind is
the mind that trusts the Son of God. The right mind is the
mind that, as Brother Lindsey was teaching this morning, bows
to Christ the Lord. The right mind is the mind that
surrenders everything to the King of Glory. The right mind
is the mind that God gives in his grace, bringing repentance
and faith in Jesus Christ. Oh, son of God, do for sinners
here what you did for that Gadarene of old, that which you alone
can do, and grant salvation for the glory of your name. But before
our Lord and his disciples reach this wild Gadarene, They had
to, because he had so arranged it. They had to, because it was
so purposed. They had to, because it was best
for them. Before our Lord and his disciples
reached this Gadarene, they had to cross the Sea of Galilee.
And they had to cross the Sea of Galilee in the midst of a
great storm. As they were crossing the sea,
there arose a great storm of wind and the waves beat into
the ship so that it was now full. Can you imagine? Now, this was
not one of those little lakes we have here in the state of
Kentucky. This was an inland sea, but it was a huge sea. Often, often storms would arise. So violent were the storms on
this sea that the wind beat the water into the boat so that now
the boat itself is filled. They're panicked. They're bailing
water. They're terrified. And they go and find the Lord
Jesus asleep on a pillow in the hind part of the ship. And these
frightened disciples cried to him, Master, carest thou not
that we perish? And the Lord Jesus calmly arose. He just stood up and rebuked
the wind and said to the sea, peace, be still. Peace, be still. Perhaps he waved
his hand, calmed down. But all we read here is he arose
and said to the wind, peace be still. And the wind ceased and
there was a great calm. We look at the weather and we
say it's always calmest before the storm. Not so. Not so. With regard to spiritual things,
the calm comes after the storm. He spoke to the wind and said,
peace be still, and there was a great calm. And then he gently
reproved his unbelieving disciples, and the story ends. Now this
brief event in the earthly life of our Lord Jesus, as he ministered
to and cared for his disciples, is recorded by Matthew, Mark,
and Luke, each one recording it in great detail, and yet each
one giving us slightly different details, each one giving us a
different piece of the story. It's recorded by divine inspiration. And certainly because it's recorded
by all three of the synoptic gospel writers, surely the Spirit
of God intends for us to remember this event and to learn from
the things that are here taught by the Spirit of God. Few, if
any, of our Lord's miracles, few, if any, would so likely
impress His disciples with an unforgettable, convincing demonstration
of his divine omnipotence. At least four of these men had
been professional fishermen. They were skilled seamen. Peter
and Andrew and James and John, I'm certain, were familiar with
these terrible storms that would arise on the Galilean Sea. They
had seen many times these storms arise. They had seen many a small
ship sunk in the sea. They had seen many lives taken
in the storm. And yet, when the Lord Jesus
stood and spoke to the sea, the wind was calm. The storm ceased. Everything quiet and easy. They
had never seen such a display of omnipotence. even the wind
and the waves obey Him. They understood the voice of
their Creator and they bowed to His feet. Now there are many
important lessons taught in these verses. We would be wise to remember
them and ask God the Holy Spirit to remind us of them continually. Let me give you several. faith
in and obedience to Christ, do not secure God's saints from
the storms that other people faced. We're specifically told
that there were other ships with the Lord and his disciples as
they sailed through the storm. And those other ships carried
people apparently who had no concern for Christ or his glory
and no interest in him. that carried people for whom
he had no interest or concern. Those other ships went through
the storm and his disciples did as well. With this difference,
his disciples followed him into the ship because he said, get
in the ship. He said, let's get in the ship
and go to the other side of the sea. And so the disciples, in
obedience to the master, got into the ship. Faith in and obedience
to Christ do not secure God's people from the trials and heartaches
and pains and troubles and sorrows that other people endure in this
world. In fact, obedience to Christ
will most certainly carry you into the eye of the storm. I know we live in this day of
health, wealth, prosperity fools, people, greedy, covetous men
and women, following after greedy, covetous preachers who tell them
that God wants to heal your bank account, God wants to heal your
family, and God wants to heal your body, and God wants to do
this, God wants to do that. If you just obey him, believe
him, and send us some money, everything will be all right
for you. and obedience to Christ do not
secure you from trouble. No, sir. No, sir. Faith in and
obedience to Christ often bring you into trouble. Number two,
the fact that our Lord is seen here asleep in the back part
of the ship tells us that he was weary and tired because he
was a real man. He who died in our room instead
is a man like you, like me. He who sits upon the throne of
glory this day is a man like you, like me. That gives me hope
in a lot of ways. Bless God since there's one man
in glory Maybe there'll be another. Not only did he, that man, open
the gates of heaven for men like you and me, he who rules the
universe knows what it is to live in this world as a man. He knows what it is to go through
the storms we go through. He knows what it is to endure
the trials we endure. He knows what it is to feel the
pains we feel. Third, the fact that the wind
and the sea obeyed his word tell us clearly of our Redeemer's
majesty and greatness as the omnipotent God. Only one who
is both God and man could save us from our sins. And he who
is our Savior is the Lord Jesus the Christ. The Messiah, the
Savior, who is Lord, he is God and man in one person. Man and
God in one person. The God-man, the man-God, our
mediator. Fourth, learn this too. The greatest saints in the world, I've had the privilege of having
for my closest friends some of the greatest human beings walking
on God's earth. I'm talking about great men,
great women. Men and women who believed God.
Men and women who exemplified faith in Christ. Many women whose
lives were devoted to the glory of Christ. Many women who hazarded
their lives. Every day I knew them for the
gospel sake. Now, Joe, that's a great man.
That's a great woman. Great people. But let me tell
you something. The greatest of God's saints
in this world are sinners still. What men can compare with these
apostles of our Lord? What men can compare with them?
They spoke the truth when Peter spoke for them all and said,
we have forsaken all and followed you. When master called them,
they threw away their nets. When the master called them,
they gave up everything and walked with him for three and a half
years. They walked with Him until He
died in their stead, and arose again. Then He poured out His
Spirit upon them, and they walked with Him still until they walked
into glory. But these men, when the storm
came, when the storm came, they were
full of unbelief, full of unbelief. I have often seen men and women
in times of trial exemplify traits totally contrary to faith. And I've tried to bite my tongue,
as other folks would say, how could a believer act like that?
How could a believer act like that? I recall many years ago,
a very dear friend dying, and a young fellow who wasn't quite
dry behind the ears yet said, I don't understand why folks
are so upset. And I said, you've never sat and watched somebody
you love die, have you? How could believers act like
that? Well, the fact is, I must confess my own sinfulness. And I've learned how believers
can act like that. In time of trial, these men,
our Lord said, had no faith. Well, didn't they believe God?
Yeah. Weren't they true believers?
Yeah. Weren't they really saved? Oh, yes. But our Lord said at
this time, how is it that you have no faith? And there are times in the lives
of God's elect when we're confronted with things and our whole being
seems to be consumed with carnal reason and we have no faith. But fifthly, learn this. Our
Savior is a tender, compassionate, forgiving, faithful Savior. Though we deny Him, He will not
deny us. He speaks to His disciples, not
with the alarm with which they spoke to Him, Master, tear us
down not that we perish, but rather He arose spoke peace to
the raging storm, and turned to his disciples and said, you
see, you didn't have any reason to be
afraid of anything. What is it that ruffled your
feathers this time? How is it that you have no faith? How I thank God for free forgiveness that never
ceases. Forgiveness that's constant. Forgiveness that precedes the
evil. Forgiveness that follows us through
the evil. And forgiveness that overturns
the evil we perform. How is it that you have no faith?
Wasn't there a reason for you to be afraid? Sixth, our Lord's
reason for everything he does, our Lord's reason for everything
he does is the salvation of his elect for the praise of his glory. He took his disciples into this
boat and sails them right into the eye of a terrible tempest
because he's going across the sea to save a Gadarene for whom
the time of love had come. Everything he does, he does on
purpose, and everything he does, he does for the saving of chosen
sinners. Number seven, all who are in
the good ship grace with Christ are perfectly safe. All who are in the good ship
grace with Christ our Lord are perfectly safe. Several weeks
ago, I put a brief statement by Robert Hawker in one of the
bulletins. I hope you remember it. I hope you wrote it down
somewhere. Hawker said, if Christ is in the boat, we can smile
at the storm. If Christ is in the boat, we
can smile at the storm. And I'm here to tell you, children
of God, Christ has put us in the boat with himself. Let us
then smile at the storm and smile at Satan's rage. Now, those seven
lessons are each a sermon in themselves. But I want you to
turn back to Psalm 107. Hold your hands here in Mark
4. Turn to Psalm 107. I'm going to use this story,
as I have many times, to show you a parable of every believer's
life. When the Son of God enters the
hearts of chosen sinners in His sovereign saving power and grace,
He brings us with himself into his church and kingdom. He brings
us into the ship of his grace and salvation. And as he does,
he casts his eye and ours across the sea of time and says, let's
go to the other side. And we set sail with the son
of God across this sea of time and trouble. sailing to the other
side, which is our desired haven with Christ in glory. Well, is
it justifiable to use this event this way? Let's see. Psalm 107,
verse 23. They that go down to the sea
in ships that do business in great waters, these see the works
of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. Now, providence never
brings salvation. Judgment never brings repentance. People want preachers to chase
ambulances and go to the jail when folks get in trouble, go
to the hospital when they get sick, and try to get them to
make a profession of faith. Not this preacher. Not this preacher. I care more for your soul than
that. You see, anything built in the storm will die in the
calm. You'll take any refuge you can get and you'll throw
it away when the storm is over. But God does use the events of
a man's life. He does use the events of a person's
life to bring them to the foot of his son. And he graciously
works repentance in the soul, in the heart by the power of
his spirit. Read on, verse twenty-five. For
he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up
the waves thereof. They mount up to heaven. They
go down again to the depths. Their soul is melted because
of trouble. Their soul is melted because
of trouble. Then, they reel to and fro, and
stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. Oh, I'm real happy when I see
God bring somebody to their wits' end. For then, then, when God
creates soul trouble in you, Soul trouble. I'm not talking
about trouble with time. I'm not talking about trouble
with your marriage. I'm not talking about trouble
with your body. I'm not talking about trouble with your reputation.
I'm talking about trouble in your soul! It brings you to your
wits end. You're going to seek his mercy.
And you won't seek it until then. But just as sure as he does,
when you're at your wits end, when you've made the last shift
you can make, you've tried everything you can try, and nothing relieves
the soul trouble. Then they cry unto the Lord in
their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are
still. Then are they glad because they're
quiet, so He bringeth them, that is, this is the way He bringeth
them unto their desired haven. Oh, that men would praise the
Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children
of men. The believer's life is like a
voyage across a troubled sea to our desired haven on the other
side. Let me make five statements and
I'll wrap this up. Number one, every believer's life is a voyage. As we embark on the voyage, the
son of God takes us into the good ship, Grace, and says, let
us pass over to the other side. Both in the word of God and in
literature, Death is spoken out poetically as passing, passing
over, passing over to the other side. We sing, he will keep me
till the river rolls its waters at my feet. Then he'll bear me
safely over where my loved ones I shall meet. But this passing
over the sea is not something we shall do someday. It's something
we do every day. This morning, I got an email
from a friend up in Cottageville, West Virginia, Adrienne. You may remember the old lady
there. She and her husband and mother, Billy Vandal, built the
church building there. She's 94 years old. Friday night,
she's on her way back from the doctor, nurse driving, some drunk
ran head on into her, and that 94-year-old saint is with Christ
in glory. Like that. Like that. Isn't that good? That's wonderful. That's wonderful. Last week,
I got a call from my daughter. One of Doug's cousins, 30 years
old, blew his brains out. Well, he wasn't much older than
you, honey. He was just getting started in
life. What could happen? What could happen? He was full
of trouble, but no soul trouble. Full of difficulty, but no soul
trouble. He was at his wit's end, but
not in his soul. He was full of sorrow and pain,
but not the sorrow and pain of God's grace and conviction, just
the sorrow and pain of waste. Of waste. Wasted breath and wasted
life and wasted years. Waste. We're crossing this sea right
now. It is appointed unto men once
to die, and after this the judgment. And die you shall very soon. Soon we will leave this world
of time where everything is temporal, transient, and changing. Isn't
it amazing how wrapped up we are with things of time? Things
of time. If I drive up to a house and
I see a two-, three-, four-year-old boy out in the sandbox playing
with Tonka toys, scooping up dirt and dumping it, scooping
up dirt and dumping it and running the toys, the trucks into one
another and wrecking them and all that kind of stuff, do you
know what I do? It doesn't concern me at all, because I expect that
from two-, three-, four-year-old boys. But now, if I were to drive
up to the Walls' house and see Eric out there with his Tonka
toys. I'd say, Sam, you might all get
that boy to see a doctor. Something's wrong. It's time
he put those away. It's time he grew up a little
bit. And if I would drive up out there
and see Eric standing outside watching his daddy playing with
the Tonka toys, I'd be real concerned. And that's the way I am for you,
whose lives are governed by the bubbles of time. All that concerns you is time. What I can get today, what I
can have right now, what I can consume right now, nothing else
matters. It will, when God breaks it from
your hands, in the cold steel strength of death that brings
you before his bar. Everything here is just vanishing. What is your life? What is your
life? Oh, my life's important. Is it
really? I'm going to do great things.
Will you? What is your life? It is a vapor. Do you know how
long a vapor lasts? Do you know how long it lasts?
Go home this afternoon, set your tea kettle on the stove, turn
it up until it starts steaming real loud. Turn it off. Just set the tea kettle aside.
That's the significance of your whole life. Just a vapor. Not even a puff of smoke. Just
a vanishing vapor. Nothing else. And when this temporal
voyage is done, when we've finished sailing across this sea, we will
be landed in eternity where nothing changes ever, where everything is permanent. And the book says, he that is
filthy, let him be filthy still. He that is holy, let him be holy
still. Daniel, leave here without Christ.
You leave here in filth that only continues to the torment
of your soul forever. Leave here in Christ. You leave
here holy, with holiness that only with
increasing joy delights your soul with Christ forever. Second, life is not only comparable to
a voyage, it's a voyage across a stormy sea. We must often sail
into the tempest of sorrow, affliction, adversity, and grief. But Christ's
presence assures us of safety, no matter what the storm may
be. I remind you again, these disciples were not acting in
disobedience. I've been reading again the book
of Job, and Job's three miserable comforters, they called themselves
Frehens. They presumed, they presumed as all men in their
self-righteous arrogance, thinking themselves better than another,
presumed. They presumed that Job's troubles
were the result of Job's disobedience, his unbelief, his sin, somehow
or other. Now we, Job, we didn't see it.
We didn't see it. We didn't hear it. But looking
at you, sitting there scraping your boils, your wife telling
you cuss God and die, your sons and daughters and your riches
and your fame crumbled before you. You must have done something
horrible, Job, or God wouldn't treat you this way. The book starts off by telling
us just the opposite. The Lord God said to Satan, have
you considered my servant Job? There's none like him in the
earth. One perfect and upright, a man who fears God and discuses
evil. Well, David, that would seem
to indicate maybe Job's troubles weren't the result of Job's sin.
It wasn't his disobedience, but his obedience. It wasn't his
unrighteousness, but his righteousness. It wasn't his lack of faith,
but the reality of his faith that got him in trouble with
Satan. And the Lord God put him in the trouble. It was the Lord
God, whom Job served, who said to Satan, let me bring up an
issue with you. Have you considered my servant,
Bobby Estes? Go do anything you want to, to
him. Just don't touch him. Let me show you what a man's
like who serves God. These disciples, these disciples
followed the master into this boat, and it was their obedience
that brought them into the storm. Though our storms are many and
varied, Basically, our trials and troubles in this world come
from two sources, just two, just two. They come from the contrary winds
of our circumstances around us, things without. Oh, there's so
much outside our personal lives, outside these bodies and souls
in which we live. that's contrary to us, and we
have trouble with it. We have trouble with it. But
the trouble with those things outside us is from something
inside us. Our troubles come from the waves
of sin and unbelief within. Alan, if we just had believed
God, what a difference it'd make. Our trouble comes because we
can't believe God as we would. We can't bow as we would. We can't walk before God with
confidence as we would. We can't love God as we would. We can't do the things we would
because in us are Two diametrically opposing natures,
flesh and spirit, Adam and Christ, the old man and the new. And
the flesh will never surrender to the spirit. And yet it shall
never prevail over the spirit. So Job has tried. And his outward trials, Mark, this is almost impossible
for anyone to grasp except somebody who knows something about his
relationship with God in his heart. That man lost all of his
sons, and all of his daughters, and all of his cattle, and all
of his influence, and even the esteem of his wife. Like that. And those things didn't shake
him. In all this, Job sinned not and
didn't charge God with folly. But then God exposed Job to Job. And when he gets done, Job said,
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. But now mine eye
seeth thee, wherefore I abhor myself. I abhor myself. What a strong
word. Oh, my God, you've made me to
see what I am. And I abhor it. I abhor it. Third, we have the necessity of going
through storms in this voyage, but our voyage through this world
is a voyage with Christ. A voyage, yes. A voyage through
stormy seas, yes. But blessed be God, it's a voyage
in the company and constant presence, protection, and care of the Son
of God. He didn't say to his disciples,
you get in this ship and go to the other side and I'll meet
you over yonder. He said, let us get into the ship and let
us go to the other side. And so it is. He is with all
through the voyage. Sometimes he appears to be asleep, and that's good for you, but he's always present. Sometimes
he's silent, but we learn as much from his silence as from
his speech, if he speaks to us by his word. He's present. He's present. You remember the
meaning of that word? Selah. As we read the Psalms,
we run into it over and over again. Hear the shining. Hear the shining. Hear the revelation
of his glory. The Lord Jesus said, I will never
leave thee. nor forsake thee. Lo, I am with
you always, he promised. Fear not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy
God. I will strengthen thee. Yea,
I will help thee. I will uphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousness. Fourth, give me your attention for just
a couple of minutes. I'll wrap this up. Our voyage across this sea with
Christ is a voyage marked by miracles. Miracles. Sometimes I'll run into somebody
who has been influenced by the wild-eyed charismatics of our
day who don't have a clue what this book teaches. And they'll
say, do y'all believe in miracles out there? believe in miracles. I am a living miracle. I've been experiencing miracles
all my life. What do you mean? Oh, I'm talking
about the miracle of God's free grace. Here's a miracle. A miracle that no man can understand. except by faith in Christ. A
miracle none can comprehend. He who knew no sin was made sin
for us. Murr, would you like to take
a stab at how you're going to explain how he knew no sin and
was made sin? He became all that I am. To bear all the wrath of God
in my step, that he might make me all that he is. The righteousness
of God in him. Here's a miracle. Miracle of
regeneration. Christ in you. That's what the new birth is,
is Christ coming into you. So that we're made partakers
of the divine nature. Now, you want to explain that? You mean, you mean Christ lives
in me? I don't know whether it lives
in you or not, but it does live in me. Christ in me. So that the life now that I live
in the flesh, it's not I, but Christ that liveth in me. Because I was crucified with
Christ. The new birth is Christ in you. You believe on God, Christ
in you. You repent of your sins, Christ
in you. You walk with God, Christ in
you. The new birth is having Christ
in you, created in you in righteousness and true holiness so that you're
a new creature in Christ Jesus. It took a miracle to put the
world in place. It took a miracle to hang the
stars in space. But when he saved my soul, cleansed
and made me whole. It took a miracle of love and
grace. And here I am now. Into 44 years later. He still
walks. with me and in me and upholds
me with the right hand of his righteousness. How come? Called a miracle of
grace. That's all. One last thing. Our voyage ought to be a voyage
without fear. How is it that you're so fearful? You've seen wonders before. I have these past 43 years, as
I said, into 44 now, I've seen God do, oh, I've seen God do
things that just You who know me and love me,
if I were to talk to you about them, you'd look at me like,
I ain't sure whether you're stretching that or not. I've seen God do
things that just, nobody, nobody who didn't believe God would
believe that took place. I've seen God alter the course
of things just for me. just for me, not once, not twice,
over and over and over again. I've seen God intervene time
and again. I've seen God prevent time and
again. I've seen God deliver time and
again. I've experienced it my whole
life. And yet, when trouble comes,
God forgive me. Not when trouble comes. The coming
of the trouble seldom ever causes any problem. It's the trouble
you think is going to come. You fret and pace the floor and
worry and make plans and schemes. How am I going to do this? How
am I going to do that? How am I going to handle this? No need to be fearful. No need
to be fearful. Wait. Wait with patient faith. And they that wait on the Lord
shall renew their strength. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.
Teach me, Lord, to wait. To wait. No need to be fearful. Christ is with you, and he's
going to get you through this sea. And when he does, he's going
to bring you to your desired haven with himself. And you'll look back over all
this course of time, and you won't talk like we do now. Whew,
glad that's over. Oh, no. Oh, no. You look back
over it all, every tear, every bitterness, every joy, every
delight, every heartache, every soothing, you look back on it
all and you'll say, oh, what wisdom, what goodness, what grace. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Amen.