John chapter 6. I want to read verse 28 and 29,
and then we'll skip a few verses and read some more. Verses 28
and 29, Then said they unto him, that is unto the Lord Jesus,
What shall we do that we might work the works of God? And Jesus
answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that
ye believe on him whom he hath sent. And then we skip down to
verse 35. And Jesus said, I am the bread
of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But
I said unto you that you also have seen me, and believe not. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise
cast out. Pardon me a moment. My text this morning is verse
37, but I will not attempt to preach on this like sometime
we might I want to and I know that the
Armenians that I heard back through the years they would take just
the last part of this verse and preach on it and this morning
I will take a page out of their book and preach on the last part
of this verse Now there are four major doctrines that are embedded
in this verse of scripture. And we want to talk briefly about
the first three and then spend the major part of our time on
the last doctrine that is set forth here in this verse. But let me in the way of a preface
begin my remarks by saying that regardless of what happens to
me and mine, you and yours, there are some things that never change. Some things that never change. And in our text, these four things
that we will mention in a moment, they always remain the same.
They will never ever change. Now these doctrines are foundational
truths, foundational truths that every child of God should have
embedded into their heart. These are truths that truly do
anchor the soul. Those who do not, will not believe
these doctrines forsake their own mercies. These truths are my therapy. my therapy indeed. By believing
them I will anchor fast by the heavenly shore until the storms
are all past forevermore. I will anchor my soul on these
truths. Now let me, if I can, briefly
mention three of these doctrines and then spend the remainder
of our time talking about and him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. The first doctrine that we find
embedded in verse 37 is the doctrine of divine election. The doctrine
of divine election. There are some whom the Father
chose and gave to the Lord Jesus Christ. We read in John 3.35
that the Father loved the Son, and hath given all things into
His hands. And in the book of Luke chapter
10, in verse 22, He said, All things are delivered to Me of
My Father, and no man knoweth who the Son is but the Father,
and who the Father is but the Son, and He to whom the Son will
reveal Him. Now these verses, along with
many others in the Word of God, and certainly in that classic
chapter that our brother has read to us this morning, tells
us that God was pleased to deliver all things into the hands of
the Son, and among these all things that He delivered into
the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ was a people. And we read clearly
there in John chapter 17 that the Lord Jesus said, All power
is given to me, and I have power over all flesh, that I might
give eternal life to as many as the Father has given to me. So here he says, All that the
Father giveth me. Now this takes us back to the
original position of all things. The Bible says in 2nd Corinthians
chapter 5 that all things are of God who hath reconciled us
to himself by Jesus Christ. All things are of God. And these
people that will come to Christ, these people have been given
by God the Father to the Son. Sometimes we lose sight of the
role that God the Father plays in our salvation. We must remember
that we were His before He gave us to His Son. And He delivered
us into the hands of the God-man mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ. We were placed into His hands. And so the verse says, All that
the Father giveth me, they shall come to me. Those that the Father
gives. Now, I believe this definitely
teaches that the Father has chosen His people. If you were in some
time to come, to turn to the book of Ephesians and read the
first chapter you would discover from about verse 3 down to verse
14 there is an unbroken stream of praise and glory giving by
the Apostle Paul to God for the fact of our election. He talks
about the merciful intent of God and the praise that is due
to Him, and the glory that is due to Him. It is wonderful to
believe that there's some of us here this morning that can
say that we are truly the saved of the Lord. But beloved, do
you realize that when we make that statement, we are the saved
of the Lord, that is only because salvation is entirely of God
that we can make that statement. Entirely of God from the beginning
to the end. Paul said, according as he hath
chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should
behold him without blame before him in love. So, beloved, the
doctrine of divine election, God's choice, we being in God
the Father's hands, and then being given to Christ, is so
important that we understand. This is a foundational truth
that God's people ought to love and appreciate. Let me say that
another way, that God's people will love and appreciate. Isn't any question about it?
If you understand in conversion, there's one thing about conversion
that if rightly understood and rightly experienced, Every time
the individual will come out believing that his salvation
was entirely of God, that it had nothing whatever to do with
human merit, had nothing to do with human works, It had nothing
to do with chance or choice. It had everything to do with
God's divine election. The fact that God the Father
chose us and gave us to the Son, which resulted in us coming to
the Lord Jesus Christ. So the first doctrine then that
we reflect upon here is the doctrine of election. And the second doctrine
that is embedded here is the doctrine of effectual calling. These who are given must and
shall come, however stoutly they may set themselves against it,
yet they shall be brought out of darkness into God's marvelous
light. They will be brought. They will
be brought. Jesus says, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. Shall come to me. No question
about it. They shall come, the Lord Jesus
said, unto me. Now the poet said, there is a
period known to God when all his sheep, redeemed by blood,
shall leave the hateful ways of sin, turn to the fold, and
enter in. At peace with hell, with God
at war, in sin's dark maze they wander far, indulge their lust,
and still go on as far from God as sheep can run. But see how
heaven's indulgent care Attends their wanderings here and there,
Still hard at heel wherever they stray, With pricking thorns to
hedge their way. Glory to God they ne'er shall
rove Beyond the limits of His love, Fenced with Jehovah's shalls
and wills, firm as the everlasting hills, the appointed time rolls
on apace, not to propose, but call by grace to change the heart,
renew the will, and turn the feet to Zion's hill. So there is a time. You know,
beloved, I hope that you understand that according to the Word of
God, the Bible says no man can come to Christ except to be drawn. And that word drawn simply is
a word that is very strong and it just falls short of us being
dragged by the ear unto the Lord Jesus Christ. Just falls short
of us being dragged. We shall be arrested and we shall
come to Christ. This is so important that we
see that. Now this morning in our opening scripture that we
read out of Acts chapter 18, we saw that the Apostle Paul
was in Corinth. He was there preaching the gospel
And God saved a few people. And there was much opposition
there. There was tremendous opposition
and the threat of great persecution. And the Lord appeared unto Paul
at night in a vision and said to him, he said, fear not, fear
not, no man shall set on thee to hurt thee, for I have much
people in this city. God has a people and the encouragement
for a preacher to preach the gospel is number one, the fact
of God's election, and number two, the fact of the irresistible
call of God's grace. This is the number one encouragement
for a preacher to preach the gospel. The Apostle Paul's heart,
I'm sure, was greatly strengthened to know that all of those in
Corinth, not all of them, was going to be left to go to hell,
to die in their sins, and to perish forever. But God had a
people in that city, and that he was going to save them. He
was going to call them out. He was going to bring them to
Himself. And so the Apostle Paul stayed
there a year and a half. And there was a thriving church
that was brought into existence because God told him in the night,
I have much people in this city. And Paul knew what that meant.
He knew that God not only had those people, but that he would
bring them, and that they would experience the salvation that
is in the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, Paul said in 2 Timothy
2 and 10 that he endured all things for the elect's sake,
that they might obtain the salvation that is in Christ with eternal
glory. Now, beloved, the fact that God
has a chosen people on the earth affords the only encouragement
to preach the gospel or to employ any means for the salvation of
sinners. I was reading sometime back a
message by Dr. Bennett Tyler that was preached
a long time ago, and he made these observations which I thought
was very good. In proof of this doctrine, that
election affords the only encouragement to preach the gospel, he says,
such is the nature of human depravity that means have no efficacy unless
accompanied by the agency of the Holy Spirit. Now I think
most of you understand that statement. If you do not, let me simply
put it this way, that means, that is, preaching, that is,
witnessing, that is, talking, writing letters to people about
their salvation, their soul, will have no effect apart from
the Holy Spirit of God taking His Word and using it in the
heart. The sinner is dead. in trespasses
and sins, and he is not only entirely destitute of holiness,
but his heart is fully set in him to do evil. Every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart is only evil continually. The
carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be. The natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God, for their foolishness
unto him, neither can he know them, for they are spiritually
discerned. Such is the character of man
by nature, not of one man merely, nor of one class of men, nor
of one generation of men, but of mankind universally, whether
civilized or savage. The scripture speaks of man by
nature as in a state of complete spiritual bondage. Sin has dominion over him. Now, another thing that he had
to say was, it is a depraved and perverse inclination which
hurries men and women of this world on their way to ruin. And
such complete power has the inclination of the sinner over his reason
and conscience that despite all consequences, he will persist
in his desperate course. He will shut his eyes, stop his
ears, and rush with presumptuous boldness on the Almighty's buckler. Such is the nature of sin. There
is an infatuation attending it, which bids defiance to all the
laws of heaven and earth. There is a desperation in the
sinner's heart, which is very properly styled the madness of
his heart. Now God has made himself known
in his works, and the efficacy of God's works has been tested
over and over and God has always prevailed with his elect. The
efficacy of means has been tested also over and over and they've
been found by actual experiment to be utterly powerless when
not accompanied by the agency of the Holy Spirit. My point
is that the doctrine of effectual call is a doctrine which we must
remember and think upon and I believe love and appreciate because none
of us would have ever come out of that state of nature and come
to Christ unless we had have been brought by the Holy Spirit's
power. No man can come except the Spirit
of God draw him. Now the third thing that's embedded
in this text is the indispensable necessity of faith. Now beloved,
by this shall these be known who come to Christ. Jesus says all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. Now these verses right before
verse 37, verse 35 and 36 makes it clear that the coming that
is spoken of is a spiritual coming. Also it is clear that coming
and believing are synonymous terms. He says, I am the bread
of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. Those
are synonymous terms. Other words are the same thing.
Coming and believing is the same thing. We do not come physically
to Christ. We come spiritually to Christ. We come to Him. We come to Him
when we believe on Him. We come to Him. And in verse
36, But I said unto you that you also have seen Me, and believed
not. In other words, you have not
come, and you have not believed. So it's the same thing. They
have not come. Jesus said, I've said to you
that you also have seen me and believe not. You haven't believed.
You have not believed the gospel that I preached to you. And then
he says, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. So we must believe on the Lord,
whom God hath chosen. They do willingly and joyfully
accept Christ Jesus and come to Him with simple faith, resting
upon Him as all their salvation and all their desire. They come
believing. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him. They come believing. They come
believing. They're hungry and they come
believing. They come to Him and they come
for spiritual life. Now the last thing and the doctrine
upon which I wish to speak for a little bit I will be brief
as I can be, is the doctrine of the final perseverance of
the saints. Here we see in verse 37, the
last part, the last sentence of the verse, and him that cometh
to me I will in no wise cast out. I will in no wise cast out. Do bear with me if you will. must speak on this. I feel that
it is so important that this be emphasized and Him that cometh
to me, Him that the Father brings to me, draws to me, Him that
is able to come to me, Jesus says, I will in no wise cast
out. Now the final perseverance of
the saints may be concluded from the purposes and the decrees
of Almighty God which are infrustrable and are always accomplished.
Did you get that? The final perseverance of the
saints of God may be concluded from the purposes and the decrees
of God, which are infrustrable and are always accomplished. Now the Lord of hosts, the Bible
says, hath purposed, and who shall disannul it, or make it
void and of no effect? And his hand is stretched out
to execute his purpose, and who shall turn it back from doing
the thing that he is resolved on? As he is taught, so shall
it come to pass. As he is thought, so shall it
come to pass. And as he is purposed, it shall
stand." Isaiah 14, 24 through 27. Though there may be a thousand
devices in the hearts of men and devils, They can never counteract
nor undermine the decrees of Almighty God. So you can fasten
your soul on the fact that if a man has come to Christ, because
the Father had chosen him and given him to the Son, if he has
come by irresistible grace, effectual calling, that man will never
ever be cast out. Now then, we want to talk a little
bit about this. Now there's no description given
here, whatever, except him that cometh, to describe here the
individuals being spoken of. It just says him that cometh.
We've tried to identify them already in our opening remarks
here of our message, but it means this. It means the rich man. It means the poor man. It means
the great man. It means the obscure man. It
means the moral man. Those who have sunken into the
worst of crimes and those who have risen to the best of virtues
in life. Those who are next of kin to
devils and those who are seen by the carefulness and correctness
of their lives to be somewhat like angels. Him, Him that cometh. Him, Him that cometh. What Him,
says John Bunyan, why he stops and says in answering his own
question, any Him in the world that comes to Christ shall not
be cast out. Any Him that comes to Christ. Now beloved, Him that cometh.
To come is to leave something and go to something. there is
a motion of the soul. We leave all other grounds of
trust and we take Christ to be our solitary hope. Now you can see as we give these
marks that indicate who these are, whether or not you've come
or not, have you come and left all other grounds of trust to
take Christ to be your solitary hope, your one hope of heaven
and eternity. We come to His blood to be washed. We come to His righteousness
to be clothed, to His wounds to be healed, to His life for
life eternal, and to His death for the death of our sins. We
come to Jesus for everything and the promise is that those
who thus come shall not be cast out. Well someone says suppose,
suppose one should come who is guilty of murder or of some crime,
or uncleanness, impossible to describe. Suppose he has wallowed
in his sin, year in and year out, till he's not fit to be
touched with a pair of tongs, only fit, only fit to be cast
into hell fire. Now, all the saints swept into some back corner in
hell. Well, what then? If he comes
to Christ, he will not be cast out. These that we just described
will not be cast out if they come to Christ. Him that cometh
shuts out no comer among the elect of God. Now, John Newton
was a blasphemer of so gross a kind that the sailors in the
ship in a storm, in a violent storm out on the ocean, said
that they should never get to port with such a sinner as John
Newton on board. But we know, according to what
we've read, that John Newton came to Christ. He was able to
come to Christ and was not cast out, but lived He was up in his
80s and he was not able to hardly read anymore and his mind would
wander and he was not able to stay on track but they endured
him, the people of God did, because he was one of those that had
come to Christ and the Father had not cast him out. And so
he wrote and he sung to the glory of God who had saved him. Now
John Bunyan also was such a blasphemer. He was such a blasphemer and
profane swearer that even a woman of the streets, a prostitute,
who passed him and heard him swear, said that he was enough
to corrupt the whole neighborhood himself, that he didn't need
any help from anyone else. He was astonished, John was,
that a woman of so bad a character should rebuke him. Well, John
Bunyan came to Jesus and he was not cast out. He lived to have
the honor of suffering for his master. He was in prison for
12 years and with a prolific pen wrote Pilgrim's Progress. Saul of Tarsus, you remember
him? He had stained himself with the
blood of the saints of God. When God struck him down, he
cried for mercy. And God heard his cry. He said, Lord, what will you
have me to do? Who art thou, Lord? Who art thou? And the Lord Jesus said, I'm
Jesus whom thou persecutest. And so he was not cast out. Manasseh was blood-red with the
murder of God's prophets. It is said, and I believe this
to be truthful, that Manasseh cut the prophet Isaiah in two
with a saw. Sawed him in two. But when out
of the dungeon, the low dungeon, he cried for mercy. He was not
cast out. That's Manassas. Well, every
man and woman, boy or girl, under the sound of this voice this
morning in this building, is included in this promise if he
can come to Christ. If he can get to Christ, he will
not be cast out into hell fire. He will be saved in that for
all eternity. That is the point, my friend,
that must be stressed, if you can come. to Christ, no matter
what your past character may have been, nor what your present
feelings may be about it. Him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. To me, Jesus says, Him that cometh
to me. We must come to Jesus. I'm not
talking about you coming to the front of the building. I'm not
talking about you coming to the baptismal pool. I'm not talking
about you coming to the Lord's table. It's not coming to the
church either. Him that cometh to me, saith
Jesus, take heed that you do not come elsewhere. For if you rest short of anything
but Christ, you rest short of the promise. You've got to get
to Him. You've got to get to Him. If
you don't get to Him, you will be cast out. Him that cometh
to me, saith Jesus, I will in no wise cast out. Now then, let's
look a little bit about the duration of the promise. I will not. I will never, never cast them
out. I won't. The duration of the
promise. Now once in Christ, the poet said, in Christ forever,
nothing from his love can sever. That is, for no reason, under
no circumstances, at no time under no condition, whatever,
I will receive him, save him, and bless him, and not cast him
out. That's what it means. Now after
making this promise, how could the Lord cast any of his people
out? You say, well, maybe he'd cast
one of the weak ones out. Well, we'll think a little bit
about that, but I think that we'll see that if he casts one
of the weakest out, then Why not me? Because I'd be that one
that he would cast out. How could the Lord cast you out
in consistency with his truthfulness? How could he? Imagine Christ
making this declaration and giving to us an inspired scripture. Him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out and yet casting out somebody. Even that unknowing
somebody. Well, it would be a lie. The
Scripture would be broken, would it not? Do not suppose that our
Lord would be guilty of such conduct as that. Can you believe
that our Lord could make a statement like He made here in this Scripture
and that He would go back on it? Or that He would change His
way of dealing with those whom the Father had given Him, those
who had come to Him? I do not suppose any such thing.
He could do as he liked about whom he would receive until he
made the promise. But after he had pledged his
word, he bound himself by the very veracity of his nature to
keep his promise. Do you understand that? Do you
agree with me on that? Well, what would such a supposition
involve if the Lord would have cast even one of these away? What would it involve? Well,
number one, I certainly would never preach again if I knew
that it had happened. I would never preach again. Why
would I preach if I found out that my Lord, that He was not
true to His Word? I would be done with the business
of telling men and women, come to Christ and He will never cast
you out. I'd be done with that business.
No, if one promise failed, then others more than likely, like
dominoes falling, would also fail too. Well, we could not preach, nor
could we believe in a doubtful gospel. No way. All the saints would lose their
confidence in Him. Now, brethren and sisters in
the Lord, The very anchor of my soul this morning is absolute
confidence in a God who has spoken his word and has never gone back
on one promise that he made. There's never been one promise
that our God ever gave that he went back on. And that's my confidence
this morning. That's the confidence of the
saints of God. They believe in the truthfulness
of Almighty God and that what His Word says is inspired and
we believe it. And I have told you folks over
and over, trust God, trust God, trust God. And why would I say
that? Because God can be trusted. That's why we say that. We believe
that God can and will be faithful to His Word. Now it would do
no good for Him to say I'm generally truthful. That would do no good. That's not going to help the
situation. I'm general. I mean generally I accept all
those that the Father gives me and I generally don't cast any
out. Now does that scripture read
that way? No! He says I will in no wise cast
them out. No wise! What does that mean
to you? Why would the Lord go to the
trouble of saying no wise? If He did not mean that there
was no possibility that anyone who got to Him would ever be
cast out, cast out of His presence, cast into eternal darkness, cast
into everlasting burnings. My friend, no wise, Jesus said. I will in no wise. It would not
do any good to say, I'm generally truthful. Would you trust an
individual who said, I'm generally truthful? Would you trust him?
Well, folks, you know the Bible says that man in his best state
is altogether vanity, and David said in his haste, all men are
liars, and I've told you before you could say it leisurely most
of the time, and it'd certainly be true. But would you believe
a man who said, I'm genuinely truthful? Would you believe him?
I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I'd say, well, the
time he's going to be untruthful is in his dealings with me. But
I can trust the God who said, I will in no wise cast him out. I won't do it. I'm talking about
the perseverance and the preservation of God's elect. That's what I'm
talking about. I'm saying to you that there shall be no charge
ever laid to God's elect that will damn their souls in hell.
It is impossible for a believer to commit such a sin that God
would cast them out and turn them into hell. It is impossible. It cannot be done. Who do you
think you are anyway? that you can commit a sin that's
going to thwart the purpose of Almighty God. Forget it, my friend. There isn't any truthfulness
to it. You say, well, now, wait a minute. I just think that I
can, you know, I can, I, who are you? You know, the Bible
says that in John chapter 10, I give unto my sheep eternal
life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. And my Father which gave them
me is greater than all, and no man can pluck them out of his
hand. Now beloved, listen to me. When
he said no man, no man, no man, did he not include you? Did he
not include All mankind, no man can pluck them out of his hand. Sounds to me like the sheep are
secure. I give unto them eternal life.
They shall never, never perish. Never perish. Never perish. Let that ring in your ears. Now
I'm not here this morning being a judge as to who, who is saved
and who isn't. I'm not being a judge of that.
I'm just telling you that if God chose you and gave you to
Christ when He gave all things to Him and by the effectual Spirit
of God and the operation of the Divine Spirit drew you to Christ
that there ain't no way you're ever going to be lost. There
ain't no way. Now that's clearly taught in
the Word of God and you can make whatever judgment you want to
make as to who is and who isn't saved, that's none of our business
anyway, that's God's business. The Bible said the foundation
of God standing sure having this seal, the Lord know them that
are His. The Lord knows them that are
His. He knows, I don't know and you don't know. You say I got
a pretty good idea, you don't have, your ideas ain't worth
a snap of my finger when it comes to telling me who is saved and
who isn't. We don't know anything about
who is saved and who isn't. But I do know this, that all
those whom God has chosen and given to Christ, they will come
to Him and they, when the census is taken in glory, after all
of this is over and time is no more, that every one of them
will be there. They'll all be there. Now I told
you a few minutes ago this is my therapy. I believe these things. I believe them. I believe them. I believe them for various reasons. I believe them, first of all,
because God has revealed them to me. I believe them, secondly,
because I got to believe them. I got to believe them. The only
way the sinner is going to be in heaven is that God gave him
eternal life, which no one, including myself, could take me out of. If a man can get his salvation
by his own effort, he can lose it by his own effort. But if
he was given salvation by the sovereign mercy and grace of
God, he cannot and will not ever lose it. He cannot. Who gave
you your salvation? Who gave it to you? The Bible
says, not by works of righteousness which we have done. No, you didn't
get it by works of righteousness, but by His mercy. By His mercy. That's how we got it. And we
did not get it by what we did or what we did not do. Ah, it's
a time to either believe God or just throw it all away and
burn your Bible. What do you get a Bible for if
you don't believe it? Burn it. You might just as well,
unless you're going to believe it. You say I might get around
to believing it someday, it may be too late. Believe it now. Believe what the Word of God
says. Well, we can be as sure as God's oath
then, as certain as Jehovah's being, that he who comes to Christ
shall in no wise be cast out. I bear my testimony to you as
an old sinner. And you know there are many a
day in my years that I could not
come to the Lord Jesus Christ as a saint. Couldn't come as
a saint. Couldn't do it. But there's never been a day
since the Lord saved me that I couldn't come as a sinner.
And beloved, somebody said something about me here awhile back. What
about that verse over in 1 John that says that he that loveth
not his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer
hath the eternal life abiding in him. And that was suggested to My
son Mark, and you know what I told him?
This is what I told him. I said, son, you come to Christ
as a sinner. If you can't come as a saint,
you come as a sinner. You seek the Lord now. You cry
to him now. Forget about yesterday or the
day before. Forget about it. My friend, listen. It's, have
we come today? Have we come today? The Bible
speaks of to whom coming. We just keep coming. Sinners
keep coming. They keep coming. And if you
can't come as a saint, you come as a sinner. And you just come,
and the Lord said that if you can, come to me, I will in no
wise cast you out. The songwriters said it like
I would like to say it. I came to Jesus as I was. You just have to come as you are.
I came to Jesus as I was. You say, well, I wished I was
better. Well, we can wish all we want
to, but we are sinners. I came to Jesus as I was, weary
and worn and sad I found in him a resting place and he has made
me glad I told you beloved and I hope that you won't feel bad
toward me that I told you that this is my therapy I don't take
anything I don't take anything to keep me calm or to deal with
my emotions. This is my therapy. This is what
I stand on. This is what I believe. This
is what the Word of God teaches. And I call on those of you that
are mature believers to help those along who are struggling
behind. and I counsel all of you don't
get one inch past being a sinner because if you do that hypocrisy
will ruin you. You are a sinner and you will
never ever be able to glory in anyone but a God who saves sinners. You will never be able to say
pat yourself on the back Or mama, pat me on the back, tell me what
a good boy I am. You're a sinner. But don't get
an inch past it. Because if you do, there's going
to come some time when you're just going to be wiped out. And
you're going to say, well, how can a fellow like me have any
hope? Well, trust Christ. Come to Him if you're able to
do that. The people of God are poor and
afflicted and tried. and tested people. They are. But they trust in the Lord. That's what they do. They trust
in the Lord. I'm going to believe this. I'm
going to believe what I preached here this morning. And as I said
in my opening remarks, regardless of what happens to me and mine,
you and yours, these things stay the same. And you can anchor
to them. You can anchor to them. May God
bless these things to your heart. Mitch, you want to lead us?