turn together to the book of
Exodus, chapter three. Exodus, chapter three. Moses is now eighty years old. When he was forty years old,
he had the world by the tail in a downhill pull. He was next
in line for the throne in Egypt. He was the possessor of everything
a man could desire. And now for 40 years, this man
who knew he was to be the one sent of God to deliver Israel,
at least he thought he knew that 40 years earlier, he's been out
in the desert in Midian for 40 years. And he's just about as
far out of the loop, as they say, as a fellow could get. He
is not some great mighty prince in Midian. He is not a man of
great nobility in Midian. He married a man who seemed to
have some possessions and some power, and he became servant
to Jethro, his father-in-law, into whose family he had married.
He didn't marry a man. He married into the family. married
his daughter, Jethro's daughter, and he'd been keeping his father-in-law's
sheep. Now, I don't know how things
were in that day, but for me, I can't imagine anything more
debasing, more humbling, more likely to rob a man of a sense
of manhood than living on the charity of his wife's father. And Jethro sent Moses out to
keep his sheep. Moses was tending his wife's
sheep. How different that was than the
life he had in Egypt. There everybody bowed and scraped
when Moses walked the streets. But now Moses is not surrounded
with luxury and refinement, but with sheep. He's a nobody, an
insignificant outsider living on the charity of his father-in-law. While he was in Egypt, he had
been zealous for Israel, to deliver the children of Israel, but now
he had been in Midian for forty years. He appears to be on the
fast track to nowhere. He probably had long ago given
up the idea that God had something for him to do. He must surely
have thought within himself day after day after day as he followed
those sheep and led those sheep and fed those sheep and folded
those sheep. I was mistaken. I will spend
my days now in obscurity and die in obscurity. He could not
have been more mistaken. Exodus chapter 3, verse 1. We find Moses in a place that
he calls the mountain of God. Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro,
his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock
to the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of God
even to Horeb. One day while he's taking care
of Jethro's sheep, Moses comes to this place called Mount Horeb. He calls it the Mountain of God. Now when I say he calls it, he
calls it the Mountain of God by divine inspiration. Mount
Horeb is exactly the same as Mount Sinai. The two names are
given for the same place. And here Moses calls it the Mountain
of God. Why do you suppose? I'm certain
that one reason is just this. The Lord God would have Moses
to understand and have us to understand. Even before the law
was given at Mount Sinai, the whole purpose of the law was
to bring us to Christ. And here is the place where Moses
meets God, and any place where God Almighty meets you and speaks
to you and reveals himself to you. may well be called the mountain
of God. Here in Mount Sinai, Mount Horeb,
the mountain of God, Moses sees something astounding. He sees
something suddenly that must have simply been an eye-popping
vision. He would in days to come see
many things, astounding things, glorious things, shocking But
nothing would have the effect on Moses that this had on him. Nothing would govern his life
like this vision governed his life to the day that he died.
In fact, when he was dying, Moses speaks to the children of Israel,
and he spoke to them about what transpired here, and he spoke
to them about the goodwill of him that dwelt in the bush. You
can read it for yourself in Deuteronomy chapter 33. When Moses saw what
transpired here, he must have simply been overwhelmed. Verse
2, The angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out
of the midst of a bush, and looked, and behold, the bush burned with
fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn
aside and see this great sight. why the bush is not consumed.
The revelation of God in the burning bush, which was given
to Moses, wasn't given to him just so that he could have a
hair-raising, spine-tingling, thrilling, sensational experience.
It wasn't given to him just so that he could have some great
thing to talk about to other people. The Lord God appeared
to Moses in the bush to teach him vital lessons. Lessons that
he must learn and lessons that we must learn. Lessons about
God himself. Lessons that Moses must learn
about himself. Lessons that he must learn about
God's people and about God's salvation. These are the lessons
which motivated him, directed him, ordered his steps, and guided
him all the rest of his life. And God will be pleased now to
show us what he showed Moses and make this the mountain of
God to you and to me. I promise you, if we see these
things and hear what he heard from God himself, our lives will
be altered forever. Moses had been educated the son
of Pharaoh in Egypt. He had the best education a man
could get. But he was about to get a lesson
in the school of grace, and that's the place where God's people
are all taught. He was about to get a lesson from God himself,
and that's where all true prophets, all true gospel preachers learn
what God would have them to do. Moses went to school at Burning
Bush Bible College, just like Jonah went to school at Whale
Belly Seminary, and this is what he saw. First, an angel. He says, the angel of the Lord
appeared unto him in a flame. Now you know what the word means.
The word angel simply means messenger. Now please do not misunderstand
what I'm saying. There are, it appears to me in
scripture, a host of spirit beings referred to as angels who are
God's messengers. They are created by God from
eternity to be ministering spirits sent forth of him from everlasting
to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation. They were
created according to his eternal decree likely at some time shortly
after he first made the heavens and the earth before man was
placed upon it. Those angels, however, are not
the only ones spoken of in Scripture as angels. Most of the references
that I have found in scripture with regard to angels do not
speak of some spirit being. Most of the references, if you
read them in their context, speak about an individual, a man, the
angels of the churches, the messengers of the churches. In the last
day he will send forth his angels to gather the tares out of his
kingdom and bind them for the burning. It's the same angels,
those messengers of God sent forth with the word of his grace,
by which he gathers his wheat into his garner by the preaching
of the gospel. And at the same time, he binds
up the tares for the burning in the last day. And frequently
in the scriptures, when you read about an angel, particularly
when you read about the angel of the Lord appearing in the
Old Testament, Often the angel that John saw, the angel standing
with one foot on the earth and one on the sea, with the book
of God in his hand, the angel who comes down with a mighty
chain and binds Satan and casts him into the pit. And throughout
the Old Testament, when you read about the angel of the Lord appearing
to men, that angel is none other than Jesus Christ, the angel
of the covenant. Now, this is not guesswork. Turn to Malachi chapter 3, I'll
show you. Malachi chapter 3. Jesus Christ is the messenger
of God. Did you get that? There are many
messengers from God. He is the messenger, the only
one by whom God can be known, the only one in whom God can
be seen, the only one by whom God speaks to men. Malachi 3,
verse 1. Behold, I will send my messenger,
and he shall prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom
ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger,
the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in. Behold, he
shall come, saith the Lord. Jesus Christ is that one who
has seen God, the only begotten Son, who dwells in the bosom
of the Father and has declared Him." Well, what was that bush
in which the Lord God revealed Himself to Moses? The word translated
bush is not referring to just any bush. It's not referring
even to just any shrub. The word translated bush here
refers specifically to a thorn bush. Why that? You remember what the curse was
that God pronounced in Genesis chapter 3. As a result of sin,
this earth will bring forth briars and thistles and thorns. And so the Lord God appears to
Moses in this thornbush, that which was the constant reminder
of sin and the curse. This thornbush which comes to
the earth because of God's curse on the ground, and thus reveals
to Moses that he will take that which is even the result of the
fall. He will take even that which
is the emblem of the curse, and he will overrule it and use it
for the accomplishing of his purpose of grace toward his people. We were discussing this back
in the office just a moment ago. like to talk about God's sovereignty
over lots of things. You know, the religious folks,
when they have a lot of trouble, they fall back and say, well,
the Lord's sovereign. He knows what he's doing. But
when they talk about God's sovereignty, they always seem to limit it
greatly. Indeed, they do limit it greatly.
And most people will never imagine God being absolutely sovereign
over everything. Now, understand what I'm about
to tell you. I've said it many times. I hope
you'll hear me. Either God is absolutely sovereign
over all things, all the time, or there's no such thing as God. There's no alternative between
an absolute sovereign and absolute atheism. Either God rules everything. the smallest particle of dust,
the smallest particle of the air, directing everything exactly
as he will. You can't believe one thing written
in this book. You can't trust him to fulfill
one promise, because he doesn't control everything. He doesn't
really control anything. How often have you thought you
were in control of something? Just so. Be driving down the
road. Think you're in control. And
hit just a little bit of oil in the road. I did not long ago. And found out I wasn't in control
of anything. Because I couldn't control that
little bit of oil in the road. If you don't control the small,
the minute, the insignificant, you don't control the big. God
controls everything. the good and the bad, so that
the book of God says the king's heart is in the hands of the
Lord. Like rivers of water, he turneth
it whithersoever he will. Well, but how can you say God
rules even bad things? Doesn't that make man a robot?
I don't care what it makes man, but I'm telling you to make God
any less is to make him no God at all. Adam fell in the garden. Adam's responsible for what he
did, but Adam fulfilled God's purpose. Judah commits incest
with his daughter-in-law Tamar, but Judah's incest with Tamar
results in the coming of God's own son in human flesh. David
murders his friend Uriah and takes his wife, but David murdering
his friend and taking his wife results in Jesus Christ coming
into this world in human flesh. Now you can do one or two things
with that. You can shudder or you can worship. You can sit back and say, well,
that charges God with sin and blaspheme His name. Or you can
worship His name. And God's people worship Him.
He appears to Moses in a thorn bush. Now, we have here clearly
a type and picture of our Lord Jesus Christ dwelling in our
nature. The Lord Jesus came here though
without sin, though he knew no sin and did no sin, and no guile
was found in his mouth, yet he took on himself our fallen nature. No, not our sinful nature. He took on himself the nature
of a man. He assumed humanity and joined
himself to us as one because there's no other way whereby
he could bear our sins in his body on the tree. No other way
whereby he could suffer the wrath and justice of God. No other
way whereby he could die in our room instead as our substitute. And when the Lord Jesus bore
our sins in his body on the tree, he bore all the wrath and fury
of God Almighty for us, and here is this cursed bush burning,
fire burning the bush, burning in the fire. But what a strange
thing. The bush isn't burnt. It's not
consumed. The sacrifices, you will remember,
were laid on the brazen altar and burned. with the fire that
constantly burned before the tabernacle and the temple of
our God, representing God's furious wrath against sin. And the fire
consumed the sacrifice, and the ashes were carried outside the
camp and thrown away. Here is God's sacrifice, our
Lord Jesus Christ set forth in picture, burning with the wrath
of God. But this sacrifice does not find
itself consumed with the fire, but rather he consumed the fire
of God's holy wrath. Let me show you. Turn to Colossians
chapter 2. Colossians chapter 2. When he
was made sin for us who knew no sin, it was that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him. And the way he does
that is by putting away sin. Putting away sin by the satisfaction
of justice. Colossians 2 verse 9. In him,
in this man, Jesus Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
in a body. That's what that word bodily
means. Now that's more than I could
get said if I preached on it for a thousand years. How can
all God dwell in a human body? I don't know, but he does. In
him dwelleth all the fullness of God all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily, and you are complete in Him. You, who are God's people,
you're complete in Him, which is the head, the ruler, the one
who has dominion over all principality and power, in whom also You are
circumcised with that circumcision made without hands into putting
away or putting off the body of sins of the flesh by the circumcision
of Christ. What's he talking about? Read
the next verse. Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are
risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who
hath raised him from the dead. When we were baptized, we were
symbolically buried with him in baptism. raised up with him,
confessing that we are raised up with him symbolically, and
we are raised up with him through that faith which God has given
us in Jesus Christ. Verse 13, And you, being dead
in your sins, and the uncircumcision of your flesh, the filth of your
flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you
all trespasses? Now how does he do that? How
can God forgive sin? Will the Lord God just say, well,
I understand, I'll forgive your sin? It can't be. Not a just God. Not a just God. It can't be. Sin must be punished
or law is meaningless. Sin must be punished or chaos
rules. Well, how then can God forgive
sin? Only in a way that magnifies
both his justice and his mercy, both his truth and his grace.
Look what he says. This is how he's forgiven you,
your trespasses, all your trespasses. Blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us. Remember he said, I am he
that blotteth out, blotteth out thy sins as a thick cloud, blotteth
out. blotting out the handwriting
of the ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us. What's he talking about? All
the law of God that condemned us, and took it out of the way,
nailing it to His cross. God forgives sin through the
sacrifice of His darling Son, by the bloodshedding of His own
dear Son, by satisfying all his wrath and justice in our stead. What is our nature? At the best,
but a poor, dry thorn bush, fit for the burning. And yet, as
Moses saw the bush burning with fire, the very fire of the Shekinah
glory of God, and not consumed, so our nature with Christ in
it, burned with that same glory. John said, we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth. But there's something else here.
There's clearly a picture here of God's people. The Lord Jesus
dwells in our nature by grace, and he dwells in us by grace. Christ in you. Christ in you. He said, I will come to you,
and I will dwell in you, and I will be your God, and you shall
be my people. Christ in you. They're standing
in front of you, a man, fitly portrayed by a dried thorn bush
with no roots. fit for nothing but burning. A man standing before you who
is fitly portrayed by that which is cast off, forgotten, and useless. But the Son of God loved me and
gave Himself for me, and dwells in me, makes me His, and makes
me His holy temple. And Bobby Estes, the same thing
is true of you. He takes such worthless things
as we are, cursed creatures, fit for the burning, and comes
and dwells in us. As Moses stood there staring
at that bush, he must have thought about the children of Israel,
his brethren back in Egypt. They were at that time, in a
burning, fiery furnace of affliction. That's a pretty good picture
of God's church in every age in this world. Our Lord Jesus
said, in the world you shall have tribulation, and that never
ceases to be. But God's people, while they
live in this world of woe, and live through the ages of time
while we live in this world constantly oppressed and persecuted and
maligned and slandered and misused and abused by others in the world.
God's people are a people constantly preserved by him so that no harm
comes to them as a result of all the afflictions they experience,
either by the chastening hand of our Heavenly Father or by
the hands of wicked men, no harm shall come to the just." Can't
happen. God preserves His church in the
midst of all difficulties. Turn to Isaiah 42. Let's read
that blessed word one more time. Now, Lord Jesus said, these things
have I spoken to you, that you might have peace in the world.
You shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome
the world. That means you have too. Isaiah
43, verse 1. Now thus saith the Lord that
created thee, O Jacob, he that formed thee, O Israel, fear not,
for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name.
Thou art mine. What does that mean? When thou
passest through the waters, and you will pass through them, I
will be with thee. And through the rivers they shall
not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the
fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle
upon thee. You remember when those three
Hebrew men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, were thrown into
the burning and fiery furnace because they would not worship
the king's idol. They wouldn't bow down and worship
that pagan image that was made and that were demanded to worship. What happened to them in that
fire? What happened to them? Two things happened to them.
The ropes with which they were bound were burned in the fire. And somebody like the Son of
God came down there and walked with them in the fire. This didn't
happen to them. They weren't scorched, and they
didn't even smell like they'd been in a room full of smoke.
They were constantly cared for by God. Oh God, give me grace
and teach me so to trust your word that I fear nothing except
not fearing you. And then Moses is taught something
about God's character. Now he was a believer, I'm certain,
before this. I'm certain of that because he
left Egypt 40 years earlier in an act of faith as a believer. The Holy Spirit tells us that
plainly. Now, I say that, and I want to stress it just a little
bit, because when you read the Scriptures, preachers often,
and others as well, will look at a passage and say, well, now
this is where Jacob will say it. This is where Abraham will
say it. This is where Noah will say it. This is where Peter will say
it. You'd better be careful about that. You'd better be careful
about that. Because the book usually doesn't identify a specific
time when any of God's people were saved in the scriptures.
Lydia, yes. Matthew, yes. And Peter and his
brother when the Lord Jesus called them as he did Matthew. The Apostle
Paul, Saul of Tarsus, yes. But throughout the Old Testament
particularly, you're not going to likely identify the point
in time where one of God's people is granted faith in Christ. Moses
knew much about God before this. He knew God and knew much about
Him. Moses understood God's promise to Mother Eve about a coming
Redeemer. He understood and believed what
God said to Abraham in the covenant He made with him. He understood
that everything with regard to God's promise, with regard to
God's work, with regard to God's providence, centered in the coming
of one who would crush the serpent's head and be made king over everything
and everyone. He believed Christ would come
and redeem his people. And Moses understood clearly
that he was the man whom God Almighty had raised up to deliver
Israel. He understood that when he went
out and sided with his brethren when an Egyptian slew one of
his brethren. But Moses didn't know everything. Isn't that amazing? Here's a
man who didn't know everything. He's 80 years old, but he didn't
know everything. In fact, none of us do, especially
about God. though many appear to think they
do. Moses had some things to learn,
and we do too. And thank God he constantly teaches
us. What did this bush reveal about
God? Surely Moses must have recognized, as he stood in front of that
bush, something he was going to need to lean on in days ahead. The God we worship He's absolutely
sovereign over everything. Look here. He even rules and
overrules what men call the laws of nature. Here's a fire with
no heat. Here's a bush burning, but it's
not burned. The Lord God Almighty rules and
overrules all things exactly as He will. for the saving of
his people and the glory of his name, and he does it all the
time. I'm certain, I'm certain, and
you may recall several years ago I preached a message to you
on the goodwill of him that dwelt in the bush out of Deuteronomy.
The only other time Moses ever mentions this, from right here
in Exodus chapter 3, is right before he died. But I'm certain
this was on his heart and his mind all the time. Now, Moses,
remember. Remember. Remember what you saw. Remember who you heard. God spoke
to you out of a bush which he caused to be blazing before you. But you walked up there close
to the bush and felt no heat, and the bush was not consumed. He'll take care of you. Did the Lord promise to sin bred
from heaven? Well, that's nothing. I saw Him
in the bush. Did the Lord promise that He
would deliver Israel from the hand of the Egyptians? Well,
that's nothing. I've seen Him in the bush. How do you know
that Pharaoh is going to let us go? Because I saw Him in the
bush, and that's what He told me. That's what He told me. God
rules everything. Moses must have recognized something
here of God's great self-sufficiency. as God. He is God, like the bush,
never spent, never used up. His strength is never depleted. His wisdom is never diminished. His grace is never lessened. His sufficiency is always constant
and always infinite so that He sends us through this world and
we never lack from Him neither what's needed for the day-by-day
bread sustaining us nor for the day-by-day grace sustaining us
as well. His grace is sufficient, infinitely
sufficient. It's been a while since I thought
much about it. There have been days when I thought
about it a great deal, and I ought to think about it more. Do you
remember what the Lord God did for that poor widow who took
her last little measure of meal and her last little bit of oil
and gave it to Him? She was going out and gathering
some sticks to make one last little bit of cornbread for her
and her boy so they could go ahead and die. And God's prophet
came to her. And she went and took everything
she had and cast it at the feet of her savior through whom that
prophet spoke. And every day, every day, she'd
go out and get a little bread. And she went to an empty barrel.
Every day went to an empty barrel and got the meal she needed.
Every day she went to a cruise of oil out of which she had poured
the last drop she had and got all the oil she needed. Will
you hear me? Our God is infinite in His sufficiency. And that's not just for Himself.
His sufficiency is for us and it's ours. And Moses learned
something about God's holiness when he saw Christ in the bush.
As he began to approach the bush, we read in verse 2, the angel
of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire and out of the
midst of a bush. I can well imagine how much Moses
wanted to get closer and hear everything he could. I would.
But as he drew near, the angel of the Lord said in verse 5,
Draw not nigh hither, put off thy shoes, off thy feet, for
the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Nothing is sweeter than a special
distinguishing call of God's grace such as Moses had in verse
4 when the Lord spoke to him out of the bush. He said, Moses,
Moses. He calls in a special way to
make a special revelation of himself. He calls his own sheep
by name and leads them out. You remember when Martha, I'm
sorry, when Mary Magdalene was at the tomb and the Lord Jesus
was there and she thought he was the gardener, he had hidden
himself from her, as he often hides himself from us. But she
was about to be made the recipient of a blessing nobody else had
ever had. She was about to be the first person on this earth
to whom the risen Son of God would make himself known, to
whom the risen Son of God would speak. And as she was turning
to walk away, the Lord Jesus said to her, Mary? And she turned and said, My Lord,
my Lord, You see, when He hides Himself from us, it is but to
favor us. It is but to draw us after Him. And when He is pleased to call
us, we will run after Him. Here the Lord speaks to Moses,
and He tells him, now don't come, wait, pull your shoes off. The
place on which you are standing is holy ground. Wherever God comes, That's holy. This is a holy place. Not because
of the building. No, no. Because God meets us
here. Wherever he comes, that's holy. And there we must come with reverence,
recognizing that the least particle of dirt from our shoes would
defile. Now, this is not a prohibition
for Moses to come. Not at all. He simply tells him,
pull off his shoes before he comes. Because we cannot approach
God but by another. We cannot come to God but by
a mediator. And we come to him recognizing
that, bowing before his holiness, trusting his Son. Look at verse
6. Moses learned something about God's salvation. The Lord Jesus shows himself
to Moses as the eternal God, the God of covenant grace by
whom his people would be raised to everlasting life. He's the
God of all grace who will assuredly save his people. Moreover, he
said, verse 6, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now, the last person
to whom the Lord had revealed himself in an open way was Jacob,
back some years before, making known his covenant, the last
time he had spoken this word about his covenant. And now the
Lord speaks to Moses, and he says, I am the God of your father,
and not just your physical father, the God of Abraham and of Isaac. and of Jacob. He does not say,
I was the God of your father. I was the God of Abraham. I was the God of Isaac. I was
the God of Jacob. But rather he says, I am. You
remember how the Lord described himself to John? I am he which
was and is and is to come. And he repeats that a number
of times in the book of Revelation as he gave those visions to John.
Why? Because He is the eternal. He is the eternal and everything
with Him is. Always has been and always will
be. There's no succession with Him.
There's no change with Him. There's no variation with Him.
Now, we won't turn to it and look at it tonight. But you would
never gather, you would never, I don't care how long you read
this verse and meditated on it and prayed on it, I don't care
if you looked at it and saw a bush burning yourself right now. You'd
never understand what the full ramifications of that statement
are until you come to our Lord's statement to the Sadducees who
came to Him denying the resurrection. And the Lord Jesus quotes Exodus
chapter 3 and verse 6. And says, now this is proof of
the resurrection. God said, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. I'm not the God of the dead,
but of the living. He's declaring, as he stands
before Moses in the bush, I am the one by whom Abraham lives. And the one by whom Abraham shall
live. I am the one who is the resurrection
and the life. I am the one who calls my people
from the death of Sid, and I will call them from the death of the
grave, and I will raise them up in everlasting glory. And
then in verse 7, he shows Moses something about his compassion
and pity for us. And the Lord said, I have surely
seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt. and have
heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters. Now watch
this. For I know their sorrows. In all their afflictions, He
was afflicted. How often we think God doesn't know. How often we think He's left
us to ourselves and He doesn't understand what we're going through.
Now listen to me. The God we worship is God in
our nature. And He burned with everything
that burns you. Oh, but Pastor, he lived in absolute
holiness. He did. He did indeed. But there
came a time when he was even made sin. And he knows that which
torments your soul. Everything that hurts you, he
knows. And knows by experience. And
is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. The Lord Jesus came down here
to deliver His people from their sins, and deliver them He does,
verse 8. He says, I am come down to deliver
them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that
land. Now watch this. into a good land
and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the
place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I'm going
to bring them to possess that land, that picture of heavenly
glory that soon shall be ours. Verse 9, Behold, the cry of the children
of Israel is come up unto me, and I also have seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppressed them. Come now, therefore, I
will send thee to Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people,
the children of Israel, out of Egypt." Now turn to Acts chapter
7. Let's read the Holy Spirit's
commentary on that, and I'll be done. Verse 36, He brought them out. After that, He had showed wonders
and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the
wilderness for forty years. He came down to bring us out
of the curse and out of darkness and up to glory, and that's what
He's doing. for all his people, all the time. Amen. All right, let's stand
together. We'll have a word of prayer.