to say, I admire your pastor,
these other men, these faithful pastors, and you, my friends. And you all have done a lot of
work here. It doesn't go unnoticed. Things
look great, thankfully. We ought to take great care that
everything connected with our service to our God, the house
we worship in, the way we do things, reflects our attitude. toward the God we worship and
the gospel we preach. I commend you for making this
place look so good and so comfortable. But I've got a message that's
popping to get out. I believe I've got something
for you. Turn with me, if you will, to Zechariah, the 14th
chapter. I'm tickled to death to have
a lot of our folks here visiting with you. I'm glad they came
down. Most of them I knew were coming, some I didn't. But they're
just on loan till tomorrow. You send them back tomorrow. We've come tonight to Jerusalem. We really have. To keep the Feast of Tabernacles. We really have. To keep the Feast. Those folks back in the Old Testament
just gave us the picture. We have come to Jerusalem to
keep the feast of our God. If indeed we come here, gathered
in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, we come here and gather
around the throne of our God We've come not to Sinai, but
to Mount Zion, to the General Assembly in the Church of the
Firstborn, to Jesus and the blood of sprinkling in heaven itself. We worship around the throne
of our God. And we do so in anticipation
of that day when we shall worship uninterrupted around the throne
of our God. How we complain. Brother Tim mentioned in his
message a little bit ago about being moved to worship God for
a couple of hours. But then how quickly our hearts
freeze in death and indifference. But it won't be that way long.
Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. How often our
hearts are raised with rapturous thoughts of eternity. And I'll
tell you when they are. When our sins are felt most keenly. Confessed most bitterly. as the mercy, grace, and love
of God shines with extraordinary brilliance from the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ assuring us all is well. Our sins are forgiven and He
will not impute sin to our souls. Then Faith embraces the Savior
a little more firmly, a little more confidently, with a sweeter
blessedness of that hope that is set before us so that we confidently
and joyously expect the appearing of the great God and our Savior.
The morning sun is most welcome. After a dark, stormy night, the
rays of the dawning day cheer our hearts as they break the
dark clouds and penetrate, as it were, in our very souls. Peace
is most peaceful after a season of great distress, tossing storms
and doubts and trouble. I don't know why that is, except
that's just the way it is. We never really appreciate blessedness
until we experience great woe. We never really appreciate peace
with God until our lives are turned upside down. It is the fiery trial of our
faith. that the Spirit of God tells
us in 1st Peter is more precious than gold that perishes. Not the faith itself, though
that is a precious gift of God, but the trial of your faith.
Though it be tried with fire, more precious than gold that
perishes. How come? Because it sets your
heart more fully upon the Redeemer. and causes you more graciously
and vividly and fully right now to be receiving our salvation,
receiving it with joy unspeakable and full of glory as we look
away from all things here to Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing
makes the thought of heaven sweeter, more delightful than the trial
and tribulations through which we must enter the kingdom of
our God. What rapturous thoughts of heavenly
joy fill our hearts when the cares and woes of this world
heavily press upon our souls. Brother Bruce Crabtree and I
were up in Great Falls, Montana three or four years ago preaching
for Brother John Mitchell. His daughter, before I preached
one night, sang a song. I'm sure some of you've heard
it. I had never heard it. And I've been repeating it. Unconsciously, I don't keep up
with the amount of time. I expect I'll repeat it sometime, several
times, every day for the last four years. We read of a place
that's called heaven. It's made for the pure and the
free. These truths in God's Word He has given. How beautiful heaven
must be. In heaven, no drooping, no pining,
no wishing for elsewhere to be. God's light is forever there
shining. How beautiful heaven must be. Pure waters of life are there
flowing. And all who will drink shall
be free. Rare jewels of splendor are glowing. How beautiful heaven must be. The angels so sweetly are singing
up there by the beautiful sea. Sweet chords from their gold
hearts are ringing. How beautiful heaven must be. How beautiful heaven must be. Sweet home of the happy and free. fair haven of rest for the weary. How beautiful heaven must be. As Zechariah closes his prophecy,
that's what his mind has before him. That's what's on his heart. Now throughout this prophecy,
Zechariah has been assuring us So this was written to the children
of Israel back yonder when they came out of Babylonian captivity,
I know, for us. For our learning, for our admonition,
for our consolation, for our peace, for our joy, for our faith. That's the reason they went into
captivity, to teach us the things Zachariah is writing here. And
throughout this passage, throughout this chapter, he's been assuring
us that the work of God on our behalf, and the work of God for
us and the work of God in us and the work of God with us is
sure and absolute and success is just around the corner. The
ultimate consummate success of the work is just around the corner. Now the Jews have been in captivity
And the Lord told them, you're going to be there for 70 years,
because you deserve to. They'd lost their land, they'd
lost their temple, they'd lost their city. Everything destroyed,
everything carried away. And for 70 years, they lived
in Babylon. And then at the appointed time,
as God promised, they were brought out of that Babylon, brought
back to Jerusalem. And commissioned by the very
king who held them captive, to rebuild the city and rebuild
the temple. And do you know where they got
the money to do it? Take this, let's just take care
of it. He paid for the reconstruction, but everything was constantly
in turmoil. Everything was constantly shifting. And that foundation stone laid
before Joshua, the high priest. And God said, this is a picture
of that day that's coming when I'll In one day, remove the sins
of the land. In one day. And he said, as that
foundation stone was laid, Zerubbabel, who laid the foundation stone,
will take the topmost stone, the headstone, and lay it in
its place with shoutings crying grace, grace unto it. And he
gives illustration after illustration, saying this is what's going to
happen. And then as Zechariah moves toward the end of the prophecy,
He keeps talking about that day, that day, that day, that day,
that day. That day which began with the
coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer. this day of great grace in which
we live. When God gathers His residue,
His reddened, His elect out of the four corners of the earth,
He opens the heavens and pours out His Spirit, causing the Spirit
of grace and supplication in the hearts of chosen sinners
to make effectual His grace, causing sinners to look to Christ,
looking on Him whom they pierced, and mourning for Him. And as
they look to Him, God the Holy Spirit opens in their souls a
fountain for cleansing, for sin, and for uncleanness. That fountain
that's open in the experience of grace is that fountain that's
spoken of when the Lord God said, Awake, O sword, against the man
that is my fellow, and smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall
be scattered. And I will turn my hand. Oh, the little ones. I'll gather
them out of the places where I've scattered them that I might
gather them. And then he begins to talk about
that day and the sweet gathering of God's people, gathering us
together in this 14th chapter. He talks about us coming to worship
our God. And he brings us in verse 20 and 21 to the consummation
of God's great work of grace. He says, now this is the way
it's going to work. When the Lord Jesus, our mighty Zerubbabel,
brings forth the headstone, and he finishes the work altogether,
and delivers the kingdom up to the Father, and says, I've finished
it all. I've finished it all. This is
what the result will be. In that day, there shall be upon
the bales of the horses holiness unto the Lord. I remember reading
that way back in the beginning of the book, Exodus chapter 28. God's describing the garments
of the priest, particularly the garments of one priest, the great
high priest, in all his gorgeous array. in all his splendor and
beauty, in all his majesty, no king in Israel was ever arrayed
like that priest. No king in Israel. And the Lord
says, now right in the front, right here, right here, when
you put his miter on his head, right here, you make this gold
plate. Pure, solid gold. Not overlaid with gold, pure
gold. And everything he does, this
is what I'm gonna say holiness to the Lord holiness to the Lord
well that's certainly talking about our Lord Jesus Christ and
Chris Cunningham you see we are in Christ made priest unto our
God made priest get to go into the
holiest of all by the blood of Christ and live there Now watch it. They're going to
have bells on the horses, and on those bells they're going
to have this inscription written in large capital letters, HOLINESS
UNTO THE LORD. And the pots in the Lord's house,
who's this house? You, His people, shall be like
the bowls before the altar, full of sacrifices to our Lord. great
in number, yea, every pot in Jerusalem, every single pot in
the whole church of God, and in Judah shall be holiness to
the Lord of hosts. And they shall sacrifice, I'm
sorry, they, that sacrifice shall come and take of them and seethe
their head. And in that day There shall be
no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts. When God gets done. When God gets done. That's my
subject. When God gets done. The older I get, the more interested
I am in the conclusion of things. I'm far more interested in what
the end of something is going to be than I am in the process. And that's true of most things. Of most things. Now certainly
there is a sense in which these words may apply to all of God's
people living in this world by faith in Christ. As we worship
our God in spirit and in truth, continually drawing nigh unto
God by the blood of Jesus Christ, we worship Him with everything
we are and have. That's what our Lord said, you
can't be my disciple. You can't be my disciple. Unless
you sell what you have, come follow me. You can't be my disciple. unless you hate the world, even
your own life, and your own family, and come and follow me. You can't
be my disciple. You can't follow me, except you follow me completely,
with all your being. That means when you take your
horse out and plow the field, or you take your horse out for
a leisurely ride, or you take your horse out and use it for
your neighbor's benefit, whatever you do, your horse is God's and
set for his service and his glory. And the pots in your house are
dedicated to him. The most common things, those
ordinary things of life that men look at and say, so we're
talking about spiritual things now. Me too. Me too. I'm going to get in the vehicle
and drive home tonight spiritually. Worshipping God. Drove down here
that way. Worshipping God. Dedicated to
God's service. And God's glory. And God's honor. And God's people. Every part
in the house. Every part in the house. Holiness to the Lord. But God forgive me. mingled with
that holiness to the Lord, there's still a whole lot of
Canaanite here, corrupting and defiling. Yet, even now, the
Lord God accepts our sacrifices through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
They are acceptable to God by the blood of His Son. Isn't that
something? That's all. He accepts what we try to do
for him. And that's all I can say. I try
to preach for him. I try to love my wife for him.
I try to be your friend for him. I really do. But my soul, most
of it's for me. My God, I wish it was. But it
is so. That's just the way it is. Canaanites still here in this
land. But it won't be so for long.
It won't be so for long. And in the meantime, God's word
is, go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, drink thy wine with a merry heart,
for God accepteth Thy works. If that don't put a bounce in
your step, I don't know what will. God accepts it. I wouldn't. And you wouldn't. But God does. God does. Zechariah's words, however, in
these last two verses can't possibly have full, complete fulfillment. as long as we live in this world
of war. And what he's talking about here
is intimately connected with the Feast of Tabernacles in the
Old Testament. The most fully described of the
Old Testament feast. Now, God required Israel under
the law to keep seven feasts every year. Seven of them. And
I know folks say, well, you can't do that. and be reasonable. Three of them stood out above
the others. The Feast of Passover or Unleavened Bread, the Feast
of Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. Those three times
a year, men were required to leave their homes, no matter
where they lived, and go spend a week in Jerusalem worshiping
God. Well, what if somebody comes
to steal my wife? What? That's not real. Why should
somebody come and take my children? Why did they come and steal my
property? God gave a word when he gave the law. He said, I'll
fix it so your neighbor doesn't even want them. You're not going to lose
anything by worshiping and serving me. Not going to happen. But these feasts
all had something to do with portraying the blessed work of
God's grace in saving His people. Had something to do particularly
and distinctly with God's great operations of grace for us in
and by Christ. The Passover, of course, you'll
recognize, refers to the deliverance of Israel out of bondage by the
sacrifice of the lamb and the eating of that lamb, and then
going out of Egypt by God's mighty hand. And it was done as a type
and picture of Christ, our Passover, who is sacrificed for us. And now we live keeping the feast,
feeding on Him. Feeding on Him. We eat His flesh.
and drink his blood. Eat his flesh and drink his blood. That's what faith is. That's
what it is. I often try to illustrate things
best I can. Let's pretend this right here
is a piece of chocolate cake. I used to sit at stake, but now
I can't have chocolate cakes. I'll pretend it's chocolate cake.
And I'm going to take a bite. You know what it is now? It's
mine. It's mine. It's going to go through
my body. And everything worth anything
in that chocolate cake is mine. And you can't get it. It's mine. That's what it is to take the
righteousness of Christ by faith. He's mine. I want to have a drink
of milk with that chocolate cake. You know what that milk is now?
It's mine. It's mine. Everything in it worth
anything is part of me. It's mine. It's in me. It's one with me. It is me. It's mine. And you can't have
it. But Christ, if you eat His flesh
and drink His blood, you can have Him. And me too. You can have all of Him. And
me too. And you can feed on Him all the
time. And me too. And that's called faith. Keeping
the Feast of the Passover. The Feast of Pentecost was kept
during the time of the harvest. Portraying the in gathering of
God's elect in the great harvest of our souls We saw it displayed
manifest in a manifest way in Acts chapter 2 after our Lord
was crucified and risen from the dead He poured out his spirit
as the Prophet said he would the king of glory upon all flesh
and all of a sudden one day he gathered 3,000 souls here and
that was just the tip of the iceberg, the beginning of the
gathering of the residue of the people. And that's what's going
on throughout this gospel age. If you want to know what's happening
today, what is it, October 27th, is that what it is? 2002? Don't read the newspaper,
read your Bible. What's happening today? Oh, man,
did you hear about that fire? Did you hear about those terrorists?
What about the economy? Did you hear about God? He's
gathering the residue of the people. That's what he's doing. That's what he's doing. He raises
up nations and tears them down, but nations are nothing. He said they're nothing. Read
the book of God. Well, that doesn't include America.
Yes, it does. Nothing. Nothing. They're nothing. Just a drop in the bucket. There's
one nation that's something. This holy nation he's building.
He's gathering. And He gathers it out of all
the nations of the earth by raising them up and tearing them down.
That's exactly right. That's what God's doing. And
then the Feast of Tabernacles. This typified the consummation
of redemption in resurrection glory. The gathering of the redeemed
into heaven at Christ's second coming. If you read the scriptures
carefully, you will find that I was surprised to see this.
I was surprised to see this. The Old Testament law describing
all things connected with the Feast of Tabernacles is given
in greater detail than any other ceremony or ritual in the Old
Testament. given in more detail. You read
about it in Leviticus 23. You read about it in Numbers
29. You read about it in Exodus chapter 20, let's see, Exodus,
what is it, 28? No, 23. And Deuteronomy chapter
60. It's all about keeping the Feast
of Tabernacles. This Feast of Tabernacles, in
vivid portrayal, reminded Israel of what God had done for them,
was doing for them, and would do for them when all is over. What God had done for us is doing
for us and shall do for us when all is over. They dwelt in booths to remind them that they were
pilgrims in a land that was opposed to them. And dwelling in those
booths, they were subject to every kind of abuse and danger
in enemy, and subject to none. Because the Lord God was their
light and their shield, their protector and their provider,
every day. Every night, he shined his light
above them. Every day, a cloud to cover them
from the heat. A wall of fire round about them
to protect them from every enemy defending them, caring for them. Don't forget, in the best of
times, God's your defender. He's your protector. He's your
keeper. And He that keepeth Israel shall
never slumber and shall never sleep." They dropped in booze
to remind them that everything here is temporary. Everything here is temporary. These bodies. You know, We have a real strong
attachment to a lot of things. Men love their families. Women love their families. I
guess you might somehow use the word love for dogs. We sure get
attached to them, don't we? We get attached to them. I don't
even like cats. I've got one, I'm attached to
it. They don't even like them. Don't ram me, but I like that
one. Don't want yours, but I like that one. And we get attached to bricks
and mortar and tires and red paint and noisy engines. But I'll tell you what everybody
sitting here loves in this world more than anything else with
regard to this world. is the body in which you're sitting
here. Oh, we love it. When this earthly
house of this, what is it? Tabernacle is dissolved. I never knew anybody to love
a pup tent. That's what it is. Just a pup
tent. Not even a good pup tent, it's
dissolving. Oh, but when it is finally dissolved,
we shall have a house eternal in the heavens, a building of
God, not made with hands. And God shall tabernacle forever
with men on a new heavens and a new earth. And everything about this tabernacle,
everything about this tabernacle is intimately connected, or this
Feast of Tabernacles, is intimately connected with the incarnation
of God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. That's what Zachariah
had been talking about the whole time. Talking about the whole
time. This Feast of Tabernacles was
one of those feasts that had so many specific things about
it. This feast began on one Sabbath
day and continued for seven days and included a second Sabbath
day. This feast lasted for eight days.
Eight days. That's because it portrays what
no other feast could really portray. It portrays not only the beginning
of the new creation, but the eternity of the new creation. It portrays Jesus Christ, our
Lord, who took on Himself. That's not right. That's not
what the book says, is it? Who was made flesh. Permanently made flesh. Aren't you glad? Tell me, God
the Son came down here in your nature to redeem your worthless
nature. Yes, your nature as well as your
soul to redeem you and me. And He's sitting in glory in
your nature to save you. He's sitting in glory in your
nature performing all things for you. And He knows just what
you need. He's in your nature. He's in
your nature. And He shall bring us at last
in the perfection of His nature, which is our nature, in perfect
humanity. And the tabernacle of God shall
be with men forever. It began in the first Sabbath,
the coming of our Redeemer. It takes in two Sabbaths. Another
Sabbath. In Matthew chapter 28. Speaks of the resurrection. The
opening verse reads like this. And in the end of the Sabbath,
as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week. Would
you like me to give you a literal translation? A literal translation. This is exactly what it says.
I don't know why our translators translated it the way they did. In the end of the Sabbath, as
it began to dome toward the Sabbath. Well, maybe I do know why they
translated it the way they did. Because that seems redundant. That seems
impossible. If you understand it only by
carnal reason. But the Sabbath day was Christ
our Redeemer. The Sabbath portrayed Him. The
Sabbath portrayed His work. The Sabbath was not given, as
our brother so well told us just a few minutes ago, it wasn't
given to make our lives miserable. That's not why God gave the law
concerning the Sabbath. It was given to point us to rest. and the works finished from the
foundation of the world. He brought to their consummation
when He finished His work and entered into His rest and sat
down on the right hand of the Father. Then He tells us, now
it's finished. Nothing more to do. Redemption's
finished. And now, giving us life and faith,
He says, come unto Me. All ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I'll give you rest. Have you ever been really, really,
really tired? You were yesterday morning, weren't
you? Man, that bed felt good, didn't it? Are you tired in your soul? Tired of laboring, trying to
make yourself right with God. Tired with guilt, oppressed and
crushed down. Tired with the fear of hell and
the hand of justice heavy on you. Come to Christ and rest. Stretch your soul out on this
bed and you will have rest. And when The day's work presses
you down with heartache and trouble. He says, take my yoke upon you.
Slip under my yoke. The last thing you're willing
to do. I know. I know. Man, we have difficulties. We have troubles. We would walk
down that aisle on melting glass rather than trust Christ if we
thought we could. And we'd give it a try knowing we can't. That's
the way we are. But he will graciously force
you, you get it, someone will say, if you're his, to bow down. And he will make you willing
to slip under his yoke. And just as soon as you quit
fighting, you shall find rest unto yourself. And you won't if you quit fighting.
You won't. It won't happen. But bless God, there's another
Sabbath. There's an eighth day to this
feast. And that's what Zechariah is describing in verses 20 and
21. There's an eighth day to this feast. And we're going to
cease from all our toil. Not from our service. Somehow people have this idea
that when we go to heaven we're going to, you know, float around
on clouds and strum harps. Now just can't you picture me
doing that for eternity. No. You know what we're going
to do in glory? When God makes all things new.
I'm just speculating about a lot of this because most of it's
not revealed. But we're going to serve him
day and night. Day and night. I used to scrub toilets for a
living. And you know what I was doing when I was scrubbing toilets?
I was serving my God. Just as really as I am right
now. I used to load freight for a
living. Serving God, loading trucks. The worst of the bad
jobs I had This back in 1968, 69, like it is now, copper got
to selling for a lot more than it ever had before. I got a good
job. Middle of winter, I was sitting in a junkyard burning
rubber off copper wire before some fellow making money on it,
50 cents an hour. Why would you do that? That's
what God gave me to do, serving him. But I didn't like it a bit. It was all toil. Man, I'd hate
to spend my life doing that. It was all toil. Somehow, when
God makes all things new, we're going to serve Him completely
in every aspect of life with no toil. With bells on the bridle of every
horse. Bells. What's more delightful
than bells? What a delightful sound! Bells!
Bells everywhere! Ringing to the Lord! Holiness
to the Lord! Oh, God give me grace so to serve
you with gladness now, with bells of delight. And in that day,
even that which now appears to us to be common and insignificant. Even that which now appears to
us to be unclean. The horse was an unclean animal.
An unclean animal. And here he is, pictured as an
instrument of service to God's saints in glory, with a gold
plate right on his forehead. Holiness to the Lord. There is
a time coming of which Zechariah speaks called the time of the restitution of all
things and it's all by that man who is God who tabernacled among
us and laid down his life for our souls and lives for our everlasting
glory. During the Feast of Tabernacles,
I forgot whether Brother Moose Parks, Brother Tim James, we
were talking about this this morning, reminded me, during that week,
do you know how many sacrifices they offered? 900 lambs sacrificed every year that
week. But every day, the number was
diminished. Every day through the week, they
kept bringing it down. Because like Zachariah, they
were focused on one thing, Him who is the sacrifice by whom
we're accepted and ransomed and saved by the grace of God. And He will one day deliver the
kingdom to the Father, present us holy, and unblameable and unreprovable in the perfection of holiness
to the Lord. Because that's the way we really
are in Jesus Christ our Redeemer.
And there shall be No more the Canaanite in the land. Imagine that. Imagine that. Do you know what God commanded
Israel to do when he commanded them to take possession of the
land of Canaan? He said, kill everybody. Is that what he commanded
Bruce? Kill them all. Kill every blasted
one of them. Don't let any of them survive.
Except Moab. He wouldn't let him touch Moab.
Why? Moab is just as wicked as the
rest of them. Just as idolatrous as the rest of them. Well, there
are many reasons, but I'll give you just one. If it were his purpose to do
so, God could make you in the experience
of things right now. totally without sin in your being. Couldn't he? If that were his
purpose. But he's left us here to struggle
with these Canaanites in our breast, called flesh, that hate
God. that we might be able, perhaps
feelingly is the word, to minister to other fallen Canaanites like
us. Teaching them it's feelingly
all right to trust the only savior of fallen
men. But soon, the Canaanites, every lust of sin, every vile
affection, every evil thought shall be eradicated. when Christ
in my nature appears in His glory and takes me where He is. Oh, mighty Savior, come quickly. Come quickly. Amen. I was thinking just before he
said that, come quickly, what John wrote. Even so, come quickly. Aren't you glad that day is coming
soon? I don't want to be what I am
anymore. Do you? Thank God. That's so encouraging, such a
blessing. If you have to travel home tonight,
be careful. Lord bless you. Thank you for
coming. seeing everybody so much. And if you can stay tomorrow
morning, 10 a.m., we'll start at 10 in the morning. And Brother
Tim and Brother Bruce will preach to us starting at 10 a.m. It's been so good. We look forward
to this time for a long time, long time. Since April, we've
been looking forward to this. knowing it's going to be a blessing.
And when it comes, it's more of a blessing than you ever imagined
it could possibly be. What a wonderful thing to gather
with God's people and worship the Lamb who's worthy. And I'm
grateful that you're here, and I'm here with you to do that.
So be careful if you do have to travel back. It's been good
to see you. And we'll see you next year, Lord willing. Stay and eat if you can tonight,
as late as you can. Got a lot of food. Enjoy fellowshipping
with you. I'm trying to think if there's
anything I'm forgetting. You ladies go ahead, by the way.
Y'all go and whoever's serving tonight, go ahead and get ready.
I know you need a little bit of a head start. I'm thankful
for these ladies. Blessing from the Lord. They
do so much work, and I appreciate them. Well, that's a crew, isn't
it? They can handle whatever needs
to be handled. Let's be dismissed in prayer
and thank the Lord for his blessings on us. He doesn't have to speak
to us. He's spoken to us tonight, hasn't he? By his grace. Let's bow in prayer. Lord, we
do thank you in your gracious providence that you've brought
us here, given us a desire to hear your word, to hear of the
Lord Jesus Christ. We don't know where we'd be without
your grace and don't even want to think about it. Thank you
for keeping us, sustaining us, holding us up. Thank you for this wonderful
gospel that we've heard tonight. What good news for a sinner that
because of the Lord Jesus Christ and what he's done, we've been
saved in every sense of the word, and shall be forever with him
in glory. We look forward to that day. Lord, help us to serve you as
we ought while we're here, and to be truly thankful in our hearts
for all that you've done for us, to worship you. Give us grace to worship you.
As Paul said, both now and forever, starting right now. May we exalt
the Lord Jesus Christ and just never stop. You're so worthy
of all glory and honor. Use us for thy glory and honor. Thank you for this meeting and
for these men that have preached to us. We know it's by your grace
and strength and power and wisdom that they've done so. We thank
you for your blessing. Continue to be with us and meet
with us in this time, this weekend. And may Christ continue to be
honored. In His precious name we pray. Amen.