Just suppose, just suppose this hour might be the last time the Lord
Jesus ever speaks to you by his word. It just might be. Would you listen? Would you pay attention? I pray
that you will. Turn to John chapter 12, verse
44. This is our Lord's last public
sermon. As far as we have any record,
his very last sermon preached to the Jews. Never again did the Jews, the
people, the Pharisees, the lawyers, the scribes, the Sadducees, never
again did they hear a word from the Son of God spoken to them. The title of my message is found
in verse 50, His commandment is life. His commandment is life. Now let's read that which the
Holy Spirit here records of that sermon. Our Lord Jesus last spoke
to the Jewish people. Verse 44. And Jesus cried and
said, he that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him
that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him
that sent me. For I am come a light into the
world that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words
and believe not, I judge him not. For I came not to judge
the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me and receiveth
not my words, hath one that judgeth him, the word that I have spoken. The same shall judge him in that
last day. For I have not spoken of myself,
but the Father which sent me. He gave me commandment, what
I should say and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment
is life. His commandment is life everlasting. Whatsoever I speak, therefore,
even as the Father has said unto me, so I speak. I come before you as God's ambassador. An ambassador is one who merely
carries the message of the one he represents. I come here carrying
God's message to you. You better hear what God speaks. God's message comes to you as
a commandment. It's not a suggestion. It's not
good advice. It's not wise counsel. It's not
an offer. It's a command. And I know that
his commandment is life everlasting. Now hold your Bibles open on
your lap. May God cause you to hear his word. I want to make
seven statements from these verses we have read. Number one, faith in Christ is faith in God. Jesus cried and said, he that
believeth on me believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. Faith in Christ is faith in God. And there is no faith in God
except faith in his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. All other
pretense of faith in God is a damning delusion. Now I realize that
in this generation of politically correct fools who'd rather go
to hell and deny God's existence than possibly offend any man,
that's terribly bigoted to declare that faith in Christ alone is
faith in God. But I'm not concerned about winning
a popularity contest with you. I'm concerned for your soul and
God's glory. To believe anything and call
it faith in God and not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is a
damning delusion to your soul. A damning delusion. What do you
mean by that, faith in Christ? It is to believe that Jesus,
the man, is the Christ, the son of the living God, that he, by
his incarnation, obedience, death, and resurrection, has fully accomplished
all that God Almighty in all the prophets said he would accomplish. He has saved his people from
their sins. It is to trust him alone as your
Lord and Savior, trust him alone as your righteousness before
God, to trust him alone as that one by whom satisfaction is made
to God, who alone by his blood can satisfy for your sins, your
transgressions, your iniquities. It is to trust Christ alone for
all your salvation. Faith in God is faith in Christ. and faith in Christ is faith
in God. In this passage, our Lord Jesus
is declaring for the very last time to these Jewish people who
he is and what he came into this world to accomplish as the God-man
mediator. He is not talking about himself
in his eternal Godhead as God the Son, the second person of
the Trinity. And he's not talking about himself
merely as a man, but he's talking about himself as the God-man
mediator standing before them in the flesh. He's declaring
himself as Emmanuel, as God's righteous servant. Jesus cried
with a loud voice, we read. He spoke distinctly and clearly
and passionately. He cried with a loud voice. He spoke distinctly, clearly,
and passionately. He spoke with earnestness because
he spoke that which he had in his heart. He spoke distinctly
and clearly because he would have men understand his words. God give us preachers who so
preach. He spoke boldly, confident that
what he spoke was indeed the very word of God, for he who
spoke the word is God. And he spoke it loudly, distinctly,
so that men could not possibly misunderstand that which he declared. The Jews understood clearly. They understood clearly our Lord's
teachings. They understood what he was teaching. They understood that he, being
a man, declared himself God. Now, religious theologians in
our day don't have enough sense to understand what he said. But
the Jews who didn't believe him understood what he said. That's
the reason they crucified him. They said, we're going to kill
you because you, being a man, make yourself God. He cried with
a loud voice. And as he did, he said, he that
believeth on me, believeth not on me. Now, obviously, these
words are not to be understood in an absolute sense, for that
would be a contradiction in terms. We who believe in Christ do believe
in him personally. And it's right that we believe
in him. He's the object of true faith, the sole object of true
faith. It is Christ who is set before
us in the gospel. It is the father's will, the
father's counsel, the father's pleasure, the father's work that
we believe on the son. We believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ as the sent one of the triune God. Our savior saying
he that believeth on me believes on God who sent me. He believes
God who sent me. Believing Him, we believe God. And our faith in Him is the assurance
that we're born of God and taught of God. Look back in John chapter
6. John chapter 6. In verse 45, it is written in
the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God. Every man,
therefore, that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh
unto me. They shall be taught of God.
Every man, therefore, who is taught of God, all who have learned
and heard the Father speak by his word through the Spirit,
they come to me, they believe in me. Listen to this. Hereby
ye know the Spirit of God. Every spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. Now, Ron,
that doesn't mean everybody who says Jesus Christ was born in
Bethlehem 2,000 years ago is born of God. If that's the case,
everybody who ever read a history book and believed it is born
of God. That's not what it says. To confess that Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh is to confess that Jesus, the man, is the Christ
of God who has come in the flesh. And having come, he's proved
himself to be the Christ, for he's accomplished all that the
Christ was to do. Listen again. Whosoever shall
confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him and
he in God. Confesses that Jesus is the Son
of God one with the Father the everlasting eternal Son of God
God the Son if you will Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ.
He's born of God Who is he that is a liar Who
is a liar who is a liar? But he that denieth that Jesus
is the Christ Anyone who denies that Jesus of Nazareth did indeed
accomplish all that the Christ was prophesied to accomplish
is a liar. What does the book say about
that? He is Antichrist. He's Antichrist. That doesn't
matter who it is. That doesn't matter whether it's
the Pope, or that doesn't matter whether it's Mohammed, that doesn't
matter whether it's... I can't remember the fellow who
started the Mormon outfit. Doesn't matter if it's him. Smith,
doesn't matter if it's him. Doesn't matter if it's Don Fortner.
It doesn't matter. Anybody who denies that the man
Jesus, by his obedience unto death, brought in everlasting
righteousness, and by his death on the cross put away the sins
of his people and obtained eternal redemption for them, he's a liar
and he's Antichrist. He's a liar and he's Antichrist. Brother Dunn, that means about
all the religious people I know are liars and antichrists. It
does, doesn't it? It does indeed. That means mom
and daddy are liars and antichrists. I'm sorry if that's the case,
but I'm not going to alter what God says to suit you. I'm not
going to alter what God says to try to get my mom and dad
sleeping on the backside in glory. And I'm not going to do it to
try to get you sleeping on the backside. You will either bow to and believe
the Christ of God, or you will perish in your sins. He is antichrist
that denieth the father and the son. Whosoever denieth the son,
the same hath not the father, but he that acknowledgeth the
son hath the father also. Our Savior says here in our text,
he that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent
me. He's God's representative, as
it were, the ambassador in the flesh of the triune God. But
Brother Dodd, you said he's God. He is. How can it be both God
and God's representative? He's the mediator, the God-man
mediator who comes as Jehovah's servant, his messenger. Now,
what you do with the ambassador, you do with the king, the one
who sent him. What you do with the ambassador, how you receive
or reject, how you treat or ill treat him is how you receive
or reject, treat or ill treat the one who sent him. If you
despise Christ, you despise God. If you receive Christ, you receive
God. If you refuse to believe Christ, you make the triune God
a liar. If you believe Christ, you believe
the triune Jehovah. All right, here's the second
thing. Verse 45, the Lord Jesus Christ is the invisible God made
visible. Ooh, what a statement. Christ Rex is God you can see. God made visible. He that hath
seen, that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. God is not visible. You can't see God. Now, that's shocking to some
folks. But I don't care what you've
been drinking or smoking, if you think you saw God, you hadn't
seen him. You hadn't seen him. You can't
see God. God's spirit. You can't see a
spirit. You can't see it. Turn to Colossians
chapter 1, chapter 2. Colossians chapter 2. Look at
this. He's described by Paul in 1 Timothy
6 as immortal, invisible, the only wise God. But God was in
Christ reconciling the world to himself. And God, being in
Christ, God you can see for in him look at verse 9 Colossians
2 for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily
and ye are complete in him which is the head of all principality
and power Christ is the Word made flesh God you can see And
one day we will with our eyes see God in that man, Jesus Christ
the Lord, with physical eyes in resurrection glory. But in
this passage, our Lord is not talking about seeing him with
the natural eye. Seeing him with the natural eye
won't do anybody any good. Oh, if I just had a vision of
Christ, That buffoon out in Tulsa, I thought he was dead. Somebody
told me the other night he's still alive. He saw, what was
it, a 90-foot Jesus? That ain't big enough. That ain't
big enough. And if you saw him, it wouldn't
do you any good. He's proof positive. Seeing him with a physical eye,
that won't do you any good. Lots of folks saw him with a
physical eye. Those folks who nailed him to the tree saw him
with a physical eye. Those folks who were splattered
with his blood saw him with a physical eye. Seeing things with these
eyes won't do any good for your soul. Our Lord's talking about
believing him, seeing him with the eyes of your soul, seeing
him with eyes of faith, eyes that only God can give. But God,
who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in
our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ. He's talking about seeing him
with the eyes of faith. When our Savior talks about people
seeing him, he's talking about folks believing him, seeing him
and seeing in him the glory of the only begotten, as of the
only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, seeing
him who is the brightness of the Father's glory. He says,
he that hath seen me has seen the Father. Let not your heart
be troubled. You believe in God, believe also
in me. To believe Christ then is to
see him. Faith in Christ is faith in the
triune God. To see Christ is to see God incarnate. Now here's the third thing. Look
at verse 46. Faith in Christ. True saving
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Sheds light. On everything. I'm come a light. Into the world. That whosoever believeth on me.
Anybody who sees me. Anyone who trusts me. Anyone
who comes to me. Anyone who believes on me. should
not walk in darkness. That's not saying that if you
believe on him, you ought not walk in darkness. That's saying
if you believe on him, you won't walk in darkness. Faith in Christ
sheds light on everything concerning which light is desirable. We're
made to understand things when we believe the Lord Jesus. And until you believe, you don't
understand anything. I realize I'm preaching to some
folks who've got a heapsight more education than I do. I do
that all the time. And I'm not hesitant to tell
you, until you believe Christ, you do not understand anything. Nothing. Nothing. Well, I've
got some doubts. I don't doubt you do. I would,
too, if I wasn't a believer. I've got questions. I would,
too, if I didn't believe the Son of God. But believing the
Son of God causes light to be cast on everything by which we
understand it. Let me show you. Don't take my
word for it. Turn back to the Book of Wisdom, Proverbs chapter
28. Proverbs chapter 28. Our Lord says, he that followeth
me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Believers understand all things. Proverbs 28, verse 5. Evil men
understand not judgment. Oh, if there's a God in heaven,
how could he sin famine? If there's a God in heaven, how
could there be wars and pestilence and disease? How could so many
people suffer so much? Evil men understand not judgment. Understand not judgment. Now,
you will be wise, children of God, you will be wise never to
seek understanding about anything from evil men. I don't say don't pay any attention
to them. Don't even turn them on. Don't read their books. Don't listen to them. Well, you
folks, you just promote ignorance. This kind of ignorance I can
live with. I don't need to know Father. Evil men understand not
judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things. Is that what it says? You got it right there in front
of you. I don't care which translation you've chosen to use to try to
avoid reading God's Word. It's right there in front of
you. Just open up and read it. Open up and read it. It's in every
single translation given. Evil men understand not judgment,
but they that seek the Lord understand all things. All things. We understand The source of all
things, the nature of all things, and the end of all things. We
understand that the source of all things is God. If it happened,
God did it. I don't understand that live
with it or die with it, but that's the way it is. We understand
the nature of all things in this world, typical. and all things
in this world working together for good to them that love God
and shall ultimately accomplish the salvation of God's elect
and the glory of his name. We understand the end of all
things. There's going to be a day soon
coming called the time of the restitution of all things when
all things shall be down to the praise and honor and glory of
our God. And we will then, as now, give
thanks to God for all things and we will inherit all things. And we will say when it's all
done, he hath done all things well. Here's the fourth thing. This day, this day, this gospel day, this
day between the first and second advent of our Lord Jesus. This
is not the day of judgment. Wicked men say, well, if there's
a God in heaven, let him strike me dead right now. This is not the day of judgment.
He may or may not strike you dead right now. This is the day
when there's warning of judgment. This is the day when there's
a foretaste of judgment. But if you think anything like
what you've seen with your eyes in the history of humanity is
judgment, you're deluded. This is not the day of judgment. This is the day of grace. Verse
47. If any man hear my words and
believe not, I judge him not. For I came not to judge the world,
but to save the world. Men may hear the gospel of Christ
and not understand it, and they may understand it literally and
grammatically, but not understand anything of it spiritually and
experimentally. If that's the case, they don't
believe, but rather they reject and deny the gospel. You see,
though faith comes by hearing, Not all who hear are given faith. I pray for you, whose faces I
see here all the time, for you whose faces I see here occasionally,
and for those that God may bring in here whose faces I will see
but once. As I prepare to preach, I pray for you. toss and turn
at night, Saturday nights and just, I wake up asking God, Oh
God, will you cause me to hear your word? Cause you can hear
me preach all your life. You can hear the best preachers
in the world preach all the time and love to hear him preach.
As the people of Israel talked about Ezekiel, they loved to
hear his words. Oh man, he's a stem winder. He's a spellbinding, oratorical
genius. He's the greatest preacher you
ever heard. Let's go listen to Ezekiel. You can hear him. And
not hear their words. Not hear God speak by them. They will be to you as dumb Yet, this is the day of grace. This is the day in which God
Almighty saves sinners by the preaching of his word, by the
gospel of his grace. He says, as I live, tell them,
as I live, oh, tell them, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure
in the death of the wicked. Behold. Now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. This is the day of grace. One
breath and it may be over for you. But this day is the day
of grace. This is the day when God speaks
to men by his word. Brother David Pledges told a
story I hadn't heard or told in a long time the other night.
It was a young man who sat right on the front pew when Mr. Spurgeon was preaching. He sat
right in front of his mama and daddy, sitting right on the front
pew. Little boy. And he got to the place he had
sat and leaned forward, put his elbows on his knees, and cupped
both heads behind his ears. And Spurgeon asked the boy after
services one day, he said, son, are you having trouble hearing
me? He said, oh, no, sir. Oh, no, sir? He said, I just noticed
you sitting there holding your hands behind your ears. I thought
maybe you're having trouble hearing. He said, oh, no, no. He said, mama
told me. that if God speaks to me, he's
going to speak through you. And I don't want to miss a word.
I don't want to miss a word. Oh, God speak and sinners will
hear. This day of grace. But here's
the fifth day, verse 48. There is a day of judgment appointed
by God. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth
not my words, hath one that judgeth him. The word, now notice he
says the word, not words. The word that I have spoken.
The gospel you've heard me preach. The same shall judge him. Oh
sinner, did you hear that? The gospel you hear today. And
you sit there and choose not to believe. You choose not to believe. Well,
Brother Don, you've told us that you can't believe unless God
gives you faith. I'll tell you that again. But you choose not
to believe. Acting according to your own
depraved nature, you stick your fingers in your ears and you
say, I won't hear. You choose not to believe. That gospel,
you choose not to believe. will be the gospel, the word
by which God will judge you in the day of judgment. Paul said,
God will judge you according to my gospel. You who sin against
the gospel, involve yourselves in the greatest possible condemnation. The scriptures teach plainly
there are no such thing as degrees of reward because salvation is
all of grace. The scriptures teach justice plainly, there
are degrees of damnation. Because many women go to hell
for their own transgressions. Our Lord said to the folks he
preached to, he said if the folks in Sodom had heard and seen what
you've heard and seen, they would have repented a long time ago.
Yours is the greater condemnation. You see, those heathen who perish
without the gospel shall be judged and damned by the witnesses of
creation and nature, by the witness of their own consciences, which
they had denied the law of God written upon their own hearts.
Those who had only the revelation of creation and nature and the
Mosaic law, the law written on tables of stone, shall be damned
by the witnesses of creation and conscience and the law, the
law written on tables of stone, and their condemnation shall
be greater than that of the heathen. But you, you who perish under the sound
of the gospel, shall have reserved for you the
hottest fury of God's wrath in the pit of the damned. For you
said not only against nature and creation and conscience and
the law written on your heart, constantly suppressing it. You
said not only against the law written on tables of stone. You
said against the light of the gospel of the glory of God. and despise Jesus Christ as he
set forth evidently crucified before you. You've been favored
with the revelation of the gospel, but you've rejected it and denied
it. He that believeth not, our Savior
said, shall be damned, and damned you shall be. The gospel you've
heard this day will rise up in judgment against you. You see,
for you, neutrality is impossible. Either you believe on Christ,
trusting him for all righteousness, grace, atonement, salvation,
sanctification, everlasting life, acceptance with God, or you despise
him. There's no middle ground. You
either receive his words and trust him, or you trust yourself
and despise him. You either enter in by Christ
the door or you're still trying to climb up some other way and
approach God by some other way. You either trust Christ for all
your righteousness or you really have deluded yourself into thinking
that you have some righteousness of your own, something by which
you can make yourself acceptable to God. And by your own rebellious self-righteousness,
you shall be damned. Because you do not the truth. You do not the truth. The Lord Jesus Defines the condemnation
you're under in John chapter 3 John chapter 3 Verse 16 God so loved the world
that it gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish but have everlasting life For God
sent his son into the world and To condemn the world sent not
his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world
through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not
condemned. But he that believeth not is
condemned already. Now look at this next huge word. Because. He hath not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Verse 19. This is the condemnation. Lights
come into the world, but you love darkness rather than light
because your deeds are evil. For you that do evil hate the
light and you won't come to the light lest your deeds be reproved.
That's Fortna paraphrase verses 19 and 20. All men do what their
nature determines. The natural man is conceived
with this evil nature and therefore he does evil. He hates the Christ
who is the light. He won't come to Christ, the
light, because he doesn't wish for his evil deeds to be exposed
and reproved. He won't have them brought to
the light. He's full of confusion and shame. He claims to be righteous. But if it comes to the light,
the light's going to show it up for what it is. Yet deep down
inside, you know even in your abominable, depraved self-righteousness,
that your refuge is all fig leaves and a refuge of lies." You know that. You know that.
I'm talking to you now who don't know God. You've got religion.
You've got a little dose of religion, but all your religion is wrapped
up in you because your bed's so short. You can't rest on it. You can't rest on it. That's
how it's described in Isaiah 28. Your religious bed is too
short. You just can't stretch out on
it. Now, I'm bigger than most fellows. And sometimes I'll go
places and I'll be put on small beds. Can you imagine me trying
to sleep for a week on a twin size bed? I tried it many times
and I don't get any rest. I don't get any rest, let alone
I get stuck on a cot. But at home, I got a good, firm
bed, and I stretch out on that thing, sleep so easy. That's Christ. That's Christ. Everything else is like trying
to sleep on the thin edge of a two-by-four. You get no rest. You cover. Oh, you got to cover. Yeah, you want to wrap yourself
up You've wrapped yourself up in a profession, you've wrapped
yourself up in a little religious knowledge, you've wrapped yourself
up in a little religious creed, and you've wrapped yourself in
a little religious experience, and you just keep preaching for
more cover! Because you can't wrap yourself
in your cover. And so there's no comfort for
your soul. Take on you, Jesus Christ. Wrap yourself in him. And there's comfort for your
soul. Be sure you understand our Lord's words. The ungodly will not come to
the light. The believer coming to the light
is delighted to have all his unrighteousness, his pretended
righteousness, exposed for the fig leaves that they are, that
they may be stripped from him and he may be wrapped in Christ's
righteousness. Number six, look at verse 49. In that great, terrible day of
judgment, the Lord Jesus, the God-man mediator, will either
be your everlasting executioner and your tormentor, or your everlasting
savior and your delight. For I have not spoken of myself,
but the Father which sent me, he gave me commandment what I
should say and what I should speak. Here he speaks of the
authority of the gospel, which he has revealed. It is that which
the Father gave him commandment to do as his servant, as the
covenant surety. that which the father gave him
commandment to do as our representative and as his servant who assumed
total responsibility for our souls. He agreed to it in eternity. God prepared him a body in which
to execute all that he commanded him to do. And while he was on
this earth, he proclaimed it and performed it. At last, at
Calvary, he finished all that the father commanded him for
the end gathering of his elect. And now, by this word that he's
revealed to you he will judge you in eternity and this message
you've heard today all that you have heard in the past and all
that you shall hear as long as God leaves you on this earth
in your rebellion if you die without Christ you will hear
again forever in the agonizing torments of
your guilty conscience, screaming forever in the pit of the damned
as you suffer the fire of the vengeance of the wrath of God.
Now, here's the seventh thing. In the light of these things,
I urge you to obey God's commandment. I urge you to believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, because God's commandment is life everlasting. And I know that His commandment
is life everlasting. Whatsoever I speak, therefore,
even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. This is His commandment. This is his commandment, that
we should believe on the name of his son, Jesus Christ. It's
written in 1 John 3, 23. God's commandment. Brother Lindsey
was dealing with that lawyer this morning who came to the
Lord Jesus, tempting him. What shall I do? What shall I
do? This is his commandment. Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's God's commandment. But
God said, love your neighbor as yourself. Love God with all
your heart, soul, mind, and being, and your neighbor as yourself.
Yes, sir. How can you fulfill that? How can you do that? You can't. People try all the
time. You can't do it. You can't do
it. How are you going to make up with God? You can't. Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's his commandment. Turn
back to John chapter 6 again for just a minute. The Jews asked the Lord Jesus,
verse 28, what shall we do that we might work the works of God?
Tell me what to do, I'll do it. Tell me what to do, I'll do it.
Oh brother Donovan, just tell me what to do, I'll do it. The
Moose Parks will be here Tuesday night shortly after he and Sandy
were married I was preaching for his dad in Winston-Salem,
and Moose and Sandy were there, and they left to go up to New
Jersey where her dad was living at the time he was in the military.
And we were all just about gone, and suddenly saw a car come back
in the driveway. It was Moose and Sandy. And Moose
came up to me. He said, Don, Sandy, said the
Lord showed her she's lost. She wants to talk to you. So
we went back in one of the rooms and Sandy and Moose, Moose's
dad, our pastor by the parks. But she wanted to talk to me.
We talked a little while. We talked. I said, Sandy, I don't
really tell you do except believe on the son of God. Seek the Lord. And I walked out. And I knew
everybody was shocked, but Moose told me later he's expected to
do something. Tell her to do something. Give her something
to eat somehow. No. What should we do? Preacher's
been telling you what to do all your life, and you can't do anything. Oh, but there is something you
can do. What should we do that we may do the works of God? Jesus
answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that
ye believe on him whom he hath sent. and believing on the Lord
Jesus, we don't make void the law. We establish the law. We bring to God what God requires. God says, now, if you'll do what's
lawful and right, restore what you took away, if you will make
restitution, if you'll walk before me and never transgress again
and always be perfect, then you can be saved. Well, that's easy
enough. It really is. Believe on the
Son of God and you've done that which is lawful and right and
God says your iniquities shall never be remembered again. This is God's commandment. It's
life everlasting. This is the ministration of life.
This is the means by which God gives life to sinners. If God's
pleased to take this commandment home to your heart. If God will take this commandment
home to your heart, if God will in your soul command you to believe,
you're gonna walk out those doors this morning believing on the
Son of God with life everlasting. Oh, may God do that for you.
Oh, may God do that for you, for Christ's sake. Amen.