I don't usually pay much attention
to any of the holidays as far as sermon preparation, what I
preach to you. Most of the holidays that men
celebrate in religion are of pagan origin and sadly continue
to be practiced as pagans in our society. But Thursday, our
nation will celebrate a national day of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving
is always right, always right for all people. Mr. Spurgeon said once years ago,
he said, when I see a little chick take a drink of water,
this is head to swallow, as if to give thanks to God for the
water. And we ought to give thanks to God. I realize that our nation
is not, never has been, a Christian nation. Those who talk of it
as such speak of things in ignorance. It's not a Christian nation.
There's no such thing as a Christian nation. The only thing Christian
on this earth is the church of our God. But this holiday arises
from people who had some idea of God's goodness and mercy.
with gratitude and thanksgiving, has set aside a day to specifically
praise God for his providence, for his goodness, and for his
grace. And the day was set aside in
the midst of tremendous adversity and trial. So with those things
in mind, I want us to look at Hebrews chapter 13, verses 15
and 16. May God the Holy Spirit cause
us to hear and heed the admonition that's here given to us. May
he give us grace to offer the sacrifice of praise to our God
continually. Paul is talking to us about our
standing, our position in Christ, being free from the law. He tells
us that Christ is our high priest, that Christ is our altar, that
we are now sanctified by His sacrifice, by His blood. And
He calls us to go forth unto Him without the camp bearing
His reproach. And now He says in verse 15,
By Him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to
his name, but to do good and to communicate, forget not. For
with such sacrifices, God is well pleased." Now, let's look
at these two verses word by word and line by line. By him, that's
the first thing. By him. Everything begins with
him. Everything hinges on him. We cannot worship God without
him. We cannot come to God without
him. We cannot believe God without
him. We cannot find acceptance with
God without him. We cannot be saved without Christ. So in all our approaches to God,
we must have him. When Paul says by him, he means
let us do this now by faith in him, by believing him, by his
mediation, by the merit of his blood on the ground of his righteousness,
by him. Let us, therefore, offer the
sacrifice of praise to God continually. So my first word is to you who
do not yet know him, to you who have not yet come to God by him. I bid you now, right where you
are, right now, to come to God by Christ. He is able to save
to the uttermost all them that come to God by Him, seeing He
ever liveth to make intercession for them. All who come to God,
that's what faith is, it's coming to God by Him. All who come to
God by Him by faith in him, by believing him, shall be saved
by him, because he makes intercession for them. He pleads with God
for the acceptance of every sinner who comes to him and comes to
God by him. The Lord Jesus himself calls
you to him. He says, come unto me, all you
that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. I've
read a lot of sermons and a lot of commentaries over the years
on that, and I've tried to preach on it best I know how. But somehow
we always qualify the laboring and the heavy laden condition
men are in. We always qualify what that labor
and that heavy laden condition is. Our Lord says, come to me,
all you that labor and are heavy laden. Whatever your need is,
come to Me. Come to Me. I know He's talking
about spiritual need. I know He's talking about heart
need. I hope you understand that. If there's a need in your soul
for Him, come to God by Him. And coming to God, you'll find
acceptance with Him. And this is the day to do it.
This is the day. I'm waiting for this, that, and
the other thing. The scripture speak plainly and
tells us now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day
of salvation. And Paul says, we then, as workers
together with God, beseech you. As though God did beseech you
by us, we pray you in Christ's name. Be you reconciled to God
and receive not this grace of God in vain. Don't hear His Word
in vain. Don't hear it, let it pass through
your ears and forget it. Come to God by Him now. And the
Lord God in His Word. Now I want you to hold your hands
here in Hebrews 12. And I want every one of you to turn to John
chapter 3. John chapter 3. I want to look at a real familiar
scripture. God makes this promise to every
sinner who comes to Him by faith in Christ. By faith in Christ. Not by strong faith, not by confident
faith, by faith. Like that woman with a trembling
hand, said, if I can just touch you, I'll be made whole. Like
Peter cried, Lord, I perish, save me. Here in John chapter
3, our Lord promises eternal life. He promises salvation to
all who come to God by Him. John 3 verse 16, for God so loved
the world, sinners everywhere in the world, black and white,
male and female, bond and free, rich and poor, learned and unlearned,
that He gave His only begotten Son. That whosoever, isn't that
good? Whosoever. Whosoever. A good friend of mine, Brother
Herbert Wilson, years ago told me someone came to him and said,
well, you folks don't believe in whosoever will. He said, oh,
yes, we believe that. So we just don't believe whosoever
won't. Whosoever believeth in him. That includes you and me. Whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life. That's the reason God gave
His Son. Is God willing to show mercy?
Look to Calvary, find out. For God 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, watch
it, is not condemned. Believe on Him. Believe on Him,
you have no condemnation. But he that believeth not is
condemned already, because hell is already over his head. Because
he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Men and women go to hell. Men and women are condemned,
not because their names are not written in the Lamb's Book of
Life, not because God will not show them mercy. Not because
they were not predestined to eternal life. If you go to hell,
if you go to hell, it'll be your own fault because you refuse
to trust God's Son. Why are men condemned? Because
they believe not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Look at verse 36. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. Now turn
to 1 John chapter 1. 1 John chapter 1. How can I persuade
you to believe on the Son of God? Thanksgiving would rise in your
soul if tonight you could walk out of here believing the Son
of God. If we confess our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That's
what He said. That's what He said. But preacher,
I don't see how that can be reconciled with predestination and election
and divine sovereignty. Well, I'll tell you what I'd
do. I just wouldn't fret myself too
much about that. I just wouldn't concern myself too much with
that. God Almighty declares, believe and live. Confess and
be forgiven. Look in 1 John 5, verse 10. 1
John 5, verse 10. He that believeth on the Son
of God. Now here's the question. Do I
believe Him? Not like I ought to. God forgive
me. Not like I want to. No. As a matter of fact, my faith
in Him My confidence in Him, my believing Him, is so marred with unbelief and
doubt and fear that you could hardly call it faith. But I believe
Him. I believe I have no hope before
God but Him. None. Not in anything I've ever
felt, done, said, or thought. Nothing. My only hope is Him. He that believeth on the Son
of God, listen, hath the witness in himself. He that believeth
not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the
record God gave of His Son. And this is the record that God
hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in His Son.
Well, what record? What we just read in His book.
God's given us eternal life, and this life's in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God
hath not life. Back in 1989 or 90, one Sunday
morning I was preaching at Rescue Baptist Church in Rescue, California.
And some folks came to church. by accident. They were looking
for another place and they walked in. There was a Bible conference
there. And I preached on Christ our
surety. And this old boy who had been
an Adventist all his life, I guess he was 60 years old, after the
service that morning he came up to me when everybody else
had gone, tears running down his cheeks, he said, Preacher,
do you mean to tell me If I believe on Jesus Christ alone, God has
forgiven all my sin forever, and eternal life is assuredly
mine? I said, yes, sir. That's exactly
what I'm telling you. More importantly, that's what
God said. I showed you right here in the
Word. Oh, thank God for His goodness
and grace. Now, children of God, let us
always and never have our hearts and minds fixed on Christ, consciously
coming to God by Him. Consciously coming to God by
Him. We come in here to worship, come
to God by Him. receive our daily bread, and
lift our hearts and give thanks, come to God by Him. We sing our
praise, come to God by Him. But more, consciously, always,
and ever, let us come to God by Christ, recognizing continually
that our only hope before God is Jesus Christ, the Lord, without
a mediator, We can make no approach to Him. Apart from the substitute,
we have no acceptance with God. No prayer, no sacrifice of any
kind can be accepted of God except by Christ. We cannot move our
lips acceptably before God except by Christ. But Christ is ours. We come into the temple, not
physical temple. We come into the temple. of heaven
where God sits on His throne. And the person we meet at the
door of the temple is Christ our High Priest. And we bring
our sacrifices, whatever they are, and He takes them. He takes
them and presents them to God. And now they are accepted because
the priest whom God has appointed accepts them and He brings them
in His name. That's just the way it is, and
that's just the way we want it, because we couldn't come any
other way. That's just the way we want it. We are accepted in
the beloved. Our great Melchizedek meets us
with the blessings of God. Let us then give all to him and
receive the blessing he brings. Now, you know I have no use for
crosses and religious symbols. It's just idolatry. But let me
tell you a story I read today. I thought it was great. It's
a little strict what I'm saying. There was an officer by the name
of O'Henlon in England many years ago. And as he walked his patrol
one night, late at night, he heard the voice that sounded
like a child just sobbing. And he made his way and found
this child, this little boy, 89 years old. And he said, son,
can I help you? He said, I'm lost. Please take
me home. And the officer started asking
where he lived. And he didn't know the name of
the street. And he started calling off streets nearby there. And
there wasn't any of the streets he named. And the officer was
pretty much at a loss. And finally, he remembered that
there was a church building with a tall steeple and a cross on
top of it. He said, son, you see that large
white cross over there? He said, yes, sir. I live near
there. If you can get me there, I can find my way. Oh, get me
to Christ's finished work, and I can find my way through this
world and find my way in all things. We must come to God by
Him. All right, look at the next word.
By Him, therefore. That word, as you know, points
us back to all that's in the context. Christ is our altar. And we offer our sacrifices to
God by Him. Christ, our sacrifice, has also
sanctified us with His own blood. Therefore, we are accepted by
Him. We must go forth unto Christ
without the camp, bearing His reproach, serving His interest,
the interest of His kingdom and His glory. Now watch this. By
Him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God. We have no carnal material altar. We don't want one. And we offer
no carnal material sacrifices to God. We worship God in the
spirit. And the sacrifices we offer are
spiritual sacrifices. Turn back to Psalm 51. Let me
show you this. The sacrifices God requires are heart sacrifices,
heart sacrifices. There is no thanksgiving to God
that doesn't arise from a heart of thankfulness. There is no
praise to God that doesn't arise from a heart of praise. There
is no offering to God that does not arise from a heart given
to God in faith. Look here in Psalm 51 verse 15.
This is one of those penitential psalms David wrote. This one
particularly, we're told, was written after Nathan, the prophet
of God, had come to him and spoken God's word of forgiveness with
regard to the matter of Uriah the Hittite. And David confessed
his sin, calls upon God. Now look at verse 15. O Lord,
open thou my lips. Bring, God, the calves of your
lips. You can't do it unless God opens them. But oh, if God
opens them, you bring the sacrifices of your lips. Open thou my lips,
and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest
not sacrifice, else would I give it. Thou delightest not in burnt
offerings. The sacrifices of God, watch
this, are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, oh God, Thou
wilt not despise. Now look at verse 19. Then. Then. We come to Him with a broken
spirit, broken and contrite heart, confessing our sin, acknowledging
our unworthiness, acknowledging what we are. Then shalt thou
be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt
offerings and whole burnt offerings. Then shall they offer bullocks
upon thine altar. David had just said, God doesn't
want these carnal sacrifices. He's saying, the Lord God will
never be pleased with any form of worship or any deeds, even
such outward deeds as he required in his law, except you come to
him with a broken, contrite heart, trusting his Son. That's the
only way to find acceptance with God. The first sacrifice we present
to our God is Christ himself. We come to Him, to come to God
by Him is to come to God bringing Him. You remember when Isaac
and Abraham went up to Mount Moriah? Abraham was required
to sacrifice his son on a mountain that God would show him. And
they got up and went on the third day up to the mountain. And Isaac's
carrying the wood on his back, and they got to the place of
sacrifice, and he said, Dad, we've got the wood for a burnt
offering, and we've got fire in our hands, but where is the
lamb for sacrifice? Where is the lamb of a burnt
offering? And Abraham said, my son, God
will provide Himself a lamb. And that's the lamb we bring,
Jesus Christ, who is himself God incarnate, God's own sacrifice. The second sacrifice we bring
is ourselves. Paul said to the Corinthians, first they gave their own selves
to the Lord. First, they gave their own selves
to the Lord. He's urging these Corinthians
to follow the example of these Macedonians who, out of their
deep poverty, had given so generously to the needs of others. He said,
but now their gift, that would be insignificant except for this.
First, they gave themselves to the Lord. Years ago, there was a Indian
chief. I've told you the story, but
by repetition, this came to mind again. Among the Cherokee tribes
out in Oklahoma, a missionary was out there preaching to them,
had been for some time, and this chief began to have some sense
of conviction, some sense of guilt and fear. And one night
late, he came to the missionary's tent. He came in there and brought
his tomahawk. He said, missionary man, chief,
give him tomahawk to Jesus. And missionary said, chief, Jesus
doesn't want your tomahawk. He left in a huff. Little while
he came back, he said, missionary man, chief, give him moccasins
to Jesus. And the missionary looked up
at him. He didn't get up. He said, chief, Jesus doesn't
want your moccasins. And he left in a huff again.
A little while, he came back, brought his headdress. That's
the thing that set him apart from everybody else. He said,
missionary man, chief, give him the headdress to Jesus. The missionary looked up at him
and said, chief, Jesus doesn't want your headdress. He left,
gone a long time. After a while, he came back.
He walked in barefooted, no headdress on, no tomahawk in his hand.
He said, missionary man, chief, give himself to Jesus. That's
what he requires. You. All of you. All of you. That's what faith is. Here we
are called to bring the sacrifice of praise to God. We come bringing
Christ our Lord, we come bringing ourselves and we give the sacrifice
of praise to God. Recognizing Him as God, our creator,
our father, our benefactor, our covenant keeping faithful God.
Giving sacrifice to Him, the God of all grace. Turn over to
Psalm 100. Psalm 100, Bobby read this back
in the office and I, it's just so appropriate. Hundredth Psalm.
This is the first psalm that begins with a title called a
psalm of praise. It is distinctly a psalm of praise. Numerous men have given us various renditions
of this to sing. But listen to the psalm. Make
a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye lands. Serve the Lord
with gladness, with gladness. Don't just serve Him, serve Him
with gladness. I was glad when they said to me, let us go into
the house of the Lord. Serve Him with gladness. Come
before His presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord, He is
God. There's nobody else like Him.
It is He that hath made us, not we ourselves. He made us, and
Babi Estes, He made us what we are. He made us. We are His people. We are the sheep of His pasture.
That means He'll take care of us. Read on. Enter into His gates
with thanksgiving, into His courts with praise. Be thankful unto
Him and bless His name. How come? For the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting and
His truth endureth to all generations. We have to look into this word
praise. What's involved in this? Certainly,
it's talking about singing praise to God. Certainly, it's talking
about worship, all the things that we commonly associate with
worship. But it involves these things
for certain. You don't praise anyone that
you don't adore. It is the adoration of his person.
It is ascribing to him all the honor, all the glory, and all
the majesty that belongs to him as God alone. You don't praise
anyone in whom you find no delight. To praise God is to adore him
as God and delight in him as God. Lots of folks go through the
motions of religion and they exercise all kinds of stuff in
connection with their religious activity, but they despise God's
character as God. They don't worship God. To praise
Him is to delight in Him as God. Tell me, tell me, what about
God would you change? What character, what attribute
would you alter in His holy being? What work He has decreed and
He has done would you alter? Now, we're getting real close
to home. To praise Him is to delight in
Him as God, exactly as He is. To praise Him, to adore Him,
to delight in Him, implies a confident trust in God as our Father and
our God. We not only believe that He is,
we believe that He's the rewarder of them that diligently seek
Him. And so we trust Him. We delight in Him. We find satisfaction
with Him. When we understand who God is,
when we delight in Him as God, we understand that He always
does right and always does good and always does us good. As we
trust Him, we delight in Him, giving thanks and praise to Him.
We praise Him for all His works, both in providence and in grace.
Turn over to Psalm 92. Psalm 92. The last message Brother Farrell
Grizzle preached on this earth, I heard him preach on tape. It
was from this song. He called it Incitements to Divine
Praise. And what incitements are given
here to praise our God? It is a good thing to give thanks
unto the Lord, to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High. Give thanks and sing praise to
Him. He's most high. He is most high. To show forth,
watch this, thy lovingkindness in the morning and thy faithfulness
every night. That's enough. That's enough. His lovingkindness and His faithfulness
upon the instrument of ten strings and upon the psaltery, upon the
harp of the solemn sound. He says it's a good thing to
give thanks to God to show forth His lovingkindness and His faithfulness
and use everything at your disposal to do it. For thou, Lord, hast
made me glad, watch it, through thy work. Now look here. What I'm about to say, I say
not for anyone's pity. I'm thankful for God's providence.
You're looking at a man who never knew pleasantness, never knew
gladness, never knew happiness in his life until God performed
his work of grace in my soul. And now, he's made me glad through
his work. Made me glad. As Brother Scott
Richardson put it, there's been no bad news since you got the
good news. Thou hast made me glad through
thy work. Then he mentions something else.
I will triumph in the works of thy hands. What's that? Everything. Everything. Oh, Lord, how great
are thy works. and thy thoughts very deep."
Now look at verse 6. A brutish man, an unbelieving
man, a reprobate man, knows not, neither doth a fool understand
this, when the wicked spring as grass, and when all the workers
of iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed
forever. But thou, Lord, art most high
forevermore. For lo, thine enemies, O Lord,
for lo, thine enemies shall perish. All the workers of iniquity shall
be scattered. But my horn, my horn, shalt thou
exalt like the horn of a unicorn. I shall be anointed with fresh
oil. You're going to lift me up, you're going to fill me,
you're going to give me your spirit continually. Mine eye
also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall
hear my desire of the wicked that shall rise up against me.
Verse 12. The righteous shall flourish
like the palm tree. He shall grow like the cedar
in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the
house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God." God
planted us in His house. He'll see to it we flourish.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age. They shall be fat and flourishing. How come? To show that the Lord
is upright. to show that He is my rock, to
show that there is no unrighteousness in Him. Back in the 13th chapter
of Hebrews, this praise, this adoration,
this delight and confident trust in God our Father arises from
a heart of true, intense love for Him as God. Now let me speak to you for just
a minute about this. I simply cannot bring myself
to sing about or talk about or in any way point to my love for
my Redeemer. I consider it a proud, arrogant, haughty thing, if I should stand
around and talk to you about how much I love that woman there.
And I love her. But my love for her pales beside
her love for me. It really does. And to speak of my love for my
Redeemer, Just can't do it. But this is
fact, Bob Pontcher. If we're His, we love Him. We
love Him because He first loved us. I love the Lord, the psalmist
said, because He heard my voice and my supplications, because
He inclined His ear unto me. Therefore, I'll call on Him as
long as I live. How could I do otherwise? He
reached down his hand and snatched me out of the pit of hell, set
my feet on the rock, Christ Jesus, and gave me hope of everlasting
life. Gracious is the Lord and righteous.
Yea, our God is merciful. For thou hast delivered my soul
from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. And
then the psalmist said, well, What shall I render to the Lord
for all His benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation. Best way on this earth I can
show my God my love for Him is to believe Him. I will take the
cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord as long
as I live. I'll take the cup of salvation
and worship my God as long as I live. Now watch this next word
over here in Hebrews 13, verse 15. By Him, therefore, let us
offer the sacrifice of praise to our God continually. Oh, God, give me grace to do
that. Worship is not something We do
at appointed hours, appointed times, and appointed places only. It ought to be the habit, the
dress, the adornment, the clothing of our lives. Let us offer to
God the sacrifice of praise continually in prosperity and in adversity. in wealth and in poverty, in
sickness and in health, in the good times and in the bad times. Offer the sacrifice of praise.
The preacher. My circumstances. Let me tell
you something. Bob Duff, your circumstances
and your experiences do not change the character of our God. Our circumstances and our experiences
do not alter the fact that God is to be praised. But rather,
they ought to tell us to praise Him. Praise His wisdom when we
are ignorant. Praise His goodness when we feel
nothing but pain. Give praise to Him. There was a missionary some years
ago who served God faithfully in
the southern tip of South America, a place called Picton Island. He went through a lot of difficulty,
physical hardship. emotional hardships throughout
the time of his life. In 1851, at the age of 57, he
was found dead, consumed with disease and starvation. When
he was found, his diary lay close by, and it bore some record of
the hunger, the thirst, the wounds, the emotional difficulties, the
loneliness, But the last entry in his diary was this. The last
entry in his diary. You could see his hand was just
weak and shaking. This was his last entry. I am overwhelmed with a sense
of the goodness of God. Imagine that. Not a whining,
whimpering word. Not a bitter carp of complaint. Just praise to God. Now watch
this. By Him, therefore, let us offer
the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit
of our lips. The fruit of our lips. This is
a reference back to Hosea 14.2. When the scripture says, take
with you words, turn to the Lord and say to Him, take away our
iniquity and receive us graciously, so will we render the calves
of our lips. We offer thanks to God arising
from hearts of faith, confidence. But we speak His praise, confessing
faith in Him, singing songs of praise to Him, And our speech, our conversations, our daily words to one another
and to others ought to be flavored with his praise. Twice we are
told in the scriptures, talking of all his wondrous works. I have to couch that with a word
of caution. I do not suggest and I do not mean that we should
try to talk religious, try to talk spiritual. I despise it. I despise it. Call a fellow up and say, well,
how are you doing? Well, I'm seeking the Lord. Well, that might impress
somebody. It don't impress me and it doesn't
impress God. I'm blessed. That's not what I'm talking about.
That's religious show, nothing else. What I am saying is this. We ought to speak continually
of God's wondrous works. Every time opportunity affords
itself to speak of his providence, of his grace, of his mercy, of
his salvation, of his glory, speaking to one another, speaking
to ourselves, and speaking to those who do not know our God.
Blessed be the God and Father. Let us speak well of God, the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us, who hath
spoken so well of us from everlasting to everlasting. Let us speak
well of him and speak his praise continually. All right, let's
move on. Giving thanks to his name. By Him, therefore, let us offer
the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is the fruit
of our lips, this is what I mean, giving thanks to His name. Continually giving thanks to
His name, toward His name, because of His name, publicly. And there is an indication from
the way this is written that we should come here and publicly
give thanks to Him. But privately give thanks to
Him. Continually give thanks to Him. Because He's God. Because of His Son. Because of
His grace. Because of His providence. Because
of His goodness. And then look at verse 16. Now,
he's not changing courses here in the middle of the street.
He's telling us the same thing. But to do good and to communicate,
forget not. So he says, offer the sacrifice
of praise to God continually, giving thanks, and do good. What on earth is he talking about? Now, when he speaks of doing
good here, he's not talking about what men and women look at approve
of and applaud and say, boy, look how good he is. That's not
what we're talking about. He's not talking about not doing
this, not doing that, not doing here, not doing there, don't
eat this, don't eat that. He's not talking about what men
look at as religious austerity, and they call it good and righteousness.
That's not what he's talking about. As a matter of fact, every
time in the New Testament, no exceptions, every time in the
New Testament, Good works are spoken of. Every time doing good
is spoken of. No exceptions. No exceptions.
It's not talking about the kind of clothes you wear. It's not
talking about the food you eat, what you drink. That's not what
it is. I know the religious world teaches it, but that's not what
it is. It's talking about loving folks and helping folks and serving
folks and doing good to folks, being kind and gracious and caring. That's what it is. That's exactly
how our Lord used this word in Matthew chapter 25. He spoke
about those who had done good. He said, you visited me, you
fed me, you clothed me, you helped me. And the folks who did it,
presumed they never had. When did we do that? Folks who
don't know anything about doing good always presume they're doing
good. Folks who know something about
it, folks who practice it, presume they've never done anything right.
When did we do that? When you saw that poor man sitting
there, looked like he had the weight of the world on him, And
everybody else despised him. He said, buddy, come let me take
you out to dinner. Let's sit down and visit a while. That's
when you did that. When you saw the woman sitting
there with an aching heart, and everybody just ignored her and
passed her by, and you sat down beside her and began to befriend
her, he said, that's when you did this to me. He said, you offer a cup of cold
water in the name of a disciple, you've offered it to me. Do good. Do good. Love one another. Help
one another. Communicate with one another. For with such sacrifices, God
is well pleased.