Three years ago, in May 1998,
the Associated Press Wire Service ran a sad, tragic story picked
up by all the major newspapers across the country, television
newsrooms everywhere. As I recount it for you, some
of you I'm sure will remember it. Phil Hartman. Now I never was a Saturday Night
Live fan. I'm usually doing better things
on Saturday Night than watching Saturday Night Live. I've never
seen the program. But he had won great fame and
notoriety through his work on Saturday Night Live as a comedian.
His wife, Brynn, to all outward appearances, had everything.
He was 49, famous, rich. She was 40, stunningly beautiful,
successful fashion model. They had two children, a boy
nine and a girl six. According to family and friends,
they were a loving, happy family. Everything was fine. Why shouldn't
they be? They had blue scooters of money,
and they carried them around with their buckets full. I had
a new boat, owned their own airplane, lived in a multi-million dollar
house, fancy cars, fame, everything everybody wants. In fact, just
a short while earlier, Phil Hartman had said to one of his friends
exactly these words, I have a plane, I have a boat, I have a house. I have a great family. In fact,
I have everything I ever wanted. It feels great." But soon it
became obvious that something was desperately missing. About
2 a.m. on Thursday morning, his wife,
Brynn, walked into the bedroom where he was sleeping and shot
him several times, killed him. A few hours later when the police
were coming to investigate, she shot and killed herself. What
happened? How come? Why would a woman,
measured by the world standards, who had everything, a woman who
possessed everything you could imagine wanting, kill her husband
and commit suicide? What was missing? What made her
do such a thing? Obviously, we don't know any
of the detailed answers to such questions. She's gone. who can
explain murder and suicide. But this much is obvious. Brynn
Hartman was a deeply troubled soul. Her money, her success,
her fame, her luxurious house, her lavish lifestyle, her husband,
her children, all proved to be utterly meaningless to her. They were totally meaningless
to her. They didn't and couldn't possibly
give her satisfaction. There was a need in her life
that all these things combined could never fulfill and satisfy. What Brynn Hartman did not have
and could not get, everywhere she saw it, she could not get
it, was peace. Oh, that elusive, precious thing,
peace. what a rare jewel, peace. When all the things that money
can buy and the world can give proved to be empty bubbles, she
did what so many others like her have done and will do. She
turned to alcohol and drugs And at last she was in her utter
distraught estate, brought so low in despair, she commits murder,
murdering her husband, and commits suicide, and robs her children,
though certainly the two things she should have cared something
for, robbed them of happiness, the parents of a home. What a
sad, sad, tragic story. but often repeated. It ought
to cause us, every time we read or hear of such things, to ask
ourselves, where can I find that peace they missed? Where can I find peace, real
peace? I'm not talking about a pretense.
I'm not talking about something you can get in a medicine bottle.
I'm not talking about a facade. I'm not talking about a show.
I'm talking about peace. Peace with God. Peace within
myself. Peace in this world. Peace with
one another. The fact is there is no peace
in any man's soul. No peace in this world. No peace
among men. Not really. Until first there
is peace with God. Where can I find it? Well, there are lots of ways people
commonly seek such peace. I'll give you two or three of
them. You who are troubled, and I know some of you are, you're
like the troubled sea, tossed to and fro, your soul, your heart,
your conscience. Oh, you may sit down like Mr. Hartman and say to your friends
and to the world, boy, everything's great. Everything's great. I've got the world by the tail
on a downhill pull. But in your soul there's turmoil,
strife, agony, misery. And if you choose the ways of
men, there are two or three ways you can change it. You can change
your circumstances. You can trade in your wife or
your husband for a newer model. You can change your jobs. Start
a new career, move to a new town. You might try to make a little
more money so that with your money you can buy yourself a
little security and buy yourself a little peace. If that doesn't work, if that's
infeasible, you could just run away from your problem. That's
what most folks do. Got trouble? Run away from it.
Either pretend it doesn't exist or run away from it. Run away
from that which appears to be your problem. That might include
trying to drown your troubles in alcohol, or stupefying your
mind with drugs, or literally, if you're a child, teenager,
run away from home, run away from your parents. If you're
a man or a woman, run away from your husband, run away from your
wife. Abandon your family, abandon
your responsibilities, abandon your children. How many have
wrecked the lives of all who should have been the objects
of their care in the pursuit of their own happiness.
But I'm not happy. The world was not made to make
you happy. I'm sorry. The world was not
designed by God to give you pleasure. It just wasn't. The world was
made for God's glory and to bring honor to Him. And that's the
only reason you exist in it. If all those don't work, you
can always take the last option. Blame somebody else. You can
find you a good, expensive analyst who will set you down, give you
some pills, and he'll tell you now nothing's your fault. Your
troubles aren't really caused by you. No, no, no, no. No, that's destructive. You've
got to learn to forgive yourself. You know I never met anybody
in my life that had trouble doing that. Never in my life. Folks have trouble forgiving
me. And forgiving you. But forgiving themselves? Oh
no. I never met anybody that had
trouble like that. Forgive yourself. The trouble is not yours. No.
And if you're really good, you can get your analyst to recommend
a lawyer, and you can sue your parents and your school teachers
because they made you change your shorts when it got dirty,
and you didn't want to, and that warped your personality. That's
your problem. That's your problem. Horrible, horrible, horrible
things. But the fact is, these things, they may lead to a temporary
reprieve. But that's all. That's all. At best, just temporary. I have,
as you have, seen multitudes. Family and friends, I've seen
many exercise just exactly those options. And they, oh, now things,
look what I've, oh, things are better now. Everything could
be all right now. Give it six months, we'll see.
We'll see. Just temporary at best. Sooner
or later the circumstances change again. The stress returns and
the turmoil returns. Because there is no peace, saith
my God to the wicked. It cannot be attained. Cannot
be attained. Not for the wicked. So where
can we find peace? How do we find peace in a world
full of woe? Let's turn back to that oft-overlooked
book of Leviticus, chapter 3. Now the book of Leviticus, you'll
remember, begins with a description of five sacrifices which God
ordained for Israel to keep. These sacrifices were specifically
given by God to be pictures of our Lord Jesus Christ and the
redemption he accomplished by the sacrifice of himself in putting
away our sins and satisfying the justice of God. But as you
read the sacrifices and the things required in the sacrifices, don't
ever imagine that they were just empty, meaningless religious
rituals in which men came and stood before a priest and watched
him carry out his stuff. You know, sort of like you might
go to a paper's church and you watch the mumbo-jumbo all the
show and you go and say, ah, that was good. No. It wasn't
a ceremony. It wasn't a ritual. It wasn't
something folks stood by and just watched. But the sacrifices
involved active worship on the part of the sinner who comes
to God Almighty. He chooses his sacrifice. He brings the sacrifice. He lays
his hands on the sacrifice. He kills the sacrifice. All because
the sinner must himself come to God Almighty by faith in Jesus
Christ, represented in the priest, in the tabernacle, in the altar,
in the sacrifice, and in all the works of the ceremony. The
poor and needy sinner came to God with a symbolic sacrifice
such as God required and found in that sacrifice, not really,
but symbolically, he found in that sacrifice both acceptance
with God by blood atonement through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and he found in that sacrifice, flowing from that
sacrifice, Ceremonially, symbolically, flowing from Jesus Christ, the
Lamb of God, everything His soul needs. That's it. Now that's
it. The sum and essence of what I've
got to say is everything that will give you acceptance with
God is found in Christ. And everything your soul needs
to give you peace in this world is found in Christ. Our needs,
you see, are basic. The needs of all men are the
same. They don't change. Not the real, basic, necessary
things we must have. They don't change from one part
of culture to another, from one society to another, from one
segment of society to another. The harlot needs the same thing
that the sweetest mama ever did. The pimp and the pusher and the
prostitute needs the very same thing that the finest man who
ever walked on earth did. Every son of Adam, every daughter
of Adam basically has specific needs which the world can never
fulfill. You see, we all need atonement
desperately. We all need somehow to find a
means by which we can find acceptance with God Almighty so that our
consciences will quit screaming and tormenting us. Every man
does. Every man by nature knows himself
guilty, you and me included. Every man by nature knows he's
broken God's law and is sentenced to God's judgment and will meet
God one day in righteous judgment and his conscience cries, how? How? How can I find peace with
God? I've got to have atonement. I've
got to have acceptance with God. That's what's pictured in the
burnt offering in chapter one. The Lord Jesus Christ is that
burnt offering. offered upon the altar of God
Almighty, consumed by the fire of God's wrath. As he bare our
sins in his own body on the cursed tree, Jesus Christ, the Son of
God, satisfied the wrath and justice of a holy God for sinners. Bless God. Oh, bless God. I come to God with that burnt
offering in hands of faith, and I have atonement and acceptance
with God that my very conscience can't find any fault with. How about you? How about you? But we need something else. Every woman being made in the
image of God, being created with a God consciousness, having the
law of God inscribed upon his heart and mind by nature, needs
consecration to God. Adam walked with God. And ever since Adam sinned in
the garden, man been walking away from God. But there's a
desperate emptiness in his soul demanding that he walk with God. Man knows what you were talking
about this morning, conversion. It's turning back to God. And though men don't know what
it is to turn back to Him, though they have no idea what it is
to come to Him, every man by nature knows somehow, somehow
I've got to bring myself back to God. Give myself to Him. And so we bring that which is
described in chapter 2 of Leviticus as a meat offering. We come to
the Lord Jesus Christ, God our Savior, bringing back to God
the very stuff of which we are made bread. This portrays the believer's
response to God's mercy. The believer's response to God's
love and grace revealed in Christ, the believer's response to blood
atonement, just as our Lord Jesus Christ gave himself entirely
to God and was accepted in the totality of his being as he gave
himself to the will and glory of his Father. So the believing
sinner comes to God. by faith in Jesus Christ, bringing
his burnt offering. And looking on Christ with a
heart full of gratitude, he said, I'm not my own. I've been bought
with a price. I belong to God, lock, stock,
and barrel. And God Almighty accepts us in
the totality of our being. I don't own anything. All I have
is Jesus. My life's his. I give it freely
to him. And God receives it. Not because
it's worth anything. It ain't. But because of the
merits of his son. In him, James Jordan, is worth
everything his son is. You got that? This is what the
tithe in the Old Testament symbolized. The reason God required the tithe
is so that men might be required constantly, week by week, month
by month, year by year to recognize and acknowledge that what they
are and what they have is God's. He gives it as He will and takes
it as He will. and the believer in this gospel
age when we don't, somebody said, you believe in tithing? No. No. Not anymore than I believe I'll
take out a whip and beat you to death because you pick up
sticks on Sabbath day. No, no, no, no, no. But I believe in
what it represented. I believe in what it represented. The believer comes with a willing,
glad heart, and gives of his substance to the cause of Christ,
acknowledging, all I am, all I have is God's. He can do with
it what he will. He gives it as he pleases, he
takes it as he pleases. And then, every one of us needs
peace. Peace. And that's what we have here
in the burnt offerings, or in the peace offerings, excuse me. Here in chapter three, the holy
Lord God describes for us this ceremonial, highly symbolic,
typical sacrifice of the peace offerings, which of course portrays
the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our peace. Here God answers the
question, how can I find peace? Now notice the order of the sacrifices. It's not arbitrary. That which
is written in scripture is written by divine inspiration, by divine
order. First, there's the burnt offering. You first got to have acceptance
with God by blood atonement or you can't have peace. And you
can't come to God. God won't accept you. God won't
receive you. You can't approach Him. You can't
draw near to Him. You can cry, oh God, you can
cry out for mercy, you can cry, God help me, you can cry, oh
Lord, anything you want. You cannot come to God until
you come with blood. The blood of God's own darling
Son. Having the blood of atonement, we come to Him and bring ourselves. And you can't have peace until
you give yourself to Him. And so the order is very precise.
Without question, believers, though redeemed by the blood
of Christ and devoted to the will and glory of God, still
live in a world of hurt. We are caught up in temptations
and trials and troubles. We must, as long as we live in
this world, endure tribulation. We must, as long as we are in
this world, suffer persecution and temptation and famine and
nakedness and peril and sword all the day long. And yet, in
the midst of all these things, the Son of God says, My peace
give I unto you. My peace, He give I unto you. Peace? Here? Peace in this? Peace in the midst of this? Oh
yeah, oh yeah. Let's look at this third chapter
of Leviticus. And I want to show you just a few things. I can't
do much more than just give you the highlights, but let me give
you those. Now, there are several things
common in all the sacrifices, that is, in all the animal sacrifices.
It must be an innocent victim. The innocent victim must be brought
to the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle. The man who comes
to God for forgiveness, the man who comes to God to worship,
the man who comes to God for praise, must himself bring the
sacrifice. He must lay his hands upon the
head of the sacrifice, identifying himself with the sacrifice. Saying
this sacrifice stands in my stead. This sacrifice bears my judgment. This sacrifice is about to endure
what I ought to endure looking away to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And then the man himself must kill it. He must take his old
knife. and slit the throat of the lamb.
He must take his own knife and slit the throat of the ox. He
must take his own knife and slit the throat of the goat. Whatever
it is he brings, he brings the sacrifice and he kills it. And
thereby says, my hands drip with the blood of the Son
of God. For I have crucified the Lord of glory. I spent my
days with my fist shoved in God's face and I'd have killed him
if I could. And when finally God came down here and let me
get my hands on him, that's exactly what I did. And then the man
gives the sacrifice over to the priest. And the priest, he alone
sprinkles the blood. He alone is that one who applies
the blood. He alone brings the sacrifice
and burns it on God's altar. He alone performs the work which
is a sweet savor unto God accepted before God in the stead of his
people. Now, we read the entire chapter,
so you just follow along with me. Let me show you four things.
Four things. First, if you look at the last
part of verse 16, there's a, what struck me as an unusual
sentence. All the fat is the Lord's. Huh? All the fat is the Lord's. Now, unlike most in our society,
I'm not fond of Laura's lean beef. I like some prime beef. I like
it where it's got lots of white stuff mixed all in it. But I
don't want all fat. But Dick says all the fat is
the Lord's. What's the significance of that?
In the burnt offering the entire animal was consumed with fire.
In the peace offering, God provides detailed instructions concerning
the parts of the body that were to be burned. And then in verse
16, the very last sentence is this, all the fat is the Lord's. How come? Now in our culture,
the word fat, it's almost a four-letter cuss word. It's fat. It's got fat in it. It's got
fat in it. It's got fat in it. Nobody wants to be called fat. Insult,
you're getting a little fat. Don't dare say to a woman, looks
like you put on a few pounds. Oh, that's horrible. Don't do
that. But in most of history and in
most cultures, the exact opposite has been true. Now, I've never
been to New Guinea or to Africa, but our friends who have spent
some time there tell me that if you were in one of those tribal
cultures, And a man said to you, your wife's a little skinny,
isn't she? It'd be a terrible insult. If you were married to
a wife who looked like a fashion model, your neighbors would feel
sorry for you. How come? Because in those societies,
most of the world has throughout history been poor. And whenever
a man began to prosper a little bit, his cheeks flushed out and
his waistline increased. And folks look at a fellow who's
getting a little chubby and they say, well, he's prospering. He's
doing all right. So that the fat represented that
which was good. And that is certainly the case
in the Old Testament. Let me show you. Hold your hands
here in Leviticus and turn to Genesis 45. Genesis 45. In the Old Testament, the Jews
looked upon the fat as being that which was good, in fact,
that which was best. In fact, the word fat is commonly
used in the Bible in this positive way. Here Pharaoh speaks a word
of promise to Joseph. He says in verse 18, take your
father and your households. And come unto me, and I will
give you the good of the land of Egypt. What's he talking about
Pharaoh? And you shall eat the fat of the land. You'll have
the best of it. You come with me now Joseph.
You sit on my throne. And I'm going to give you and
your family everything good in this land. Everything. Turn to
Numbers chapter 18. That represented abundance and
prosperity in the land. In Numbers 18, verse 12. All right, are you there? And the
best of the oil, and the best of the wine, and of the wheat,
And the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the Lord,
them have I given thee. Well, the word fat's not there.
After all, everybody knows wine doesn't have any fat in it. No,
it doesn't. But the word best is exactly
the same word. Exactly the same word. The fat
of the wine, and the fat of the oil, and the fat of the wheat.
That's what I give you. The very best. The very best. The word fat is used then to
speak of that which belongs to the Lord. It represents that
which is good, indeed, that which is the best. Now listen to how
James describes it. Every good and every perfect
gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Now
preach all this well and good, but what on earth does this fad
have to do with peace? I'm glad you asked. If we would
enjoy peace, in this world, right here, right now. If Larry Brown
would enjoy peace right where you live today, right now. If Bob Duff would enjoy peace
right now, right where you live, right in the midst of whatever
it is you're in, two things are essential. Number one, we must
recognize that the singular source Of all good is our God, and look
to Him for it. And recognizing that, recognize
that all that God does is good. Good. Good. No matter how bad it looks, it's
good. No matter how bitter it tastes, it's sweet. No matter
how disturbing it is, all that God does is good, everything. All saving goodness is God's,
it comes from Him. All spiritual goodness is God's,
it comes from Him. All eternal goodness is God's,
it comes from Him. And all providential goodness
is God's, it comes from Him. And so we know, we know. Now I'm going to tell you something,
moral quoting it won't give you any peace, and reciting it won't
give you any peace, but knowing it will flat give you peace.
We know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. You know it? Do you know it? And secondly, realizing that
all we have comes from God and belongs to God, we must with
grateful, willing hearts give Him all back again. God gave me one child. I have been purposefully Deliberately,
gladly giving her back to him every day since the day I found
out she was coming. She's his, not mine. This grandchild
we're expecting, from the day I found out he was coming. I
didn't know it was a he then. I've been giving him back to
God. He's his. God, give me one wife. She's
his. Every day, every day, she's his. My son-in-law, my granddaughter,
he is. Everything, everything, everything,
he is. And so that's the only way you
can live in peace. If we would have peace in this
world, we must recognize that there is nothing good in our
lives except that which God gave us. We didn't deserve it. We
didn't earn it. We wouldn't have it if he hadn't
given it to us. If we try to hold on to it, try
to protect ourselves from losing what we have, then the more we
have, the more we'll fret and worry about hanging on to it.
But if we can hold everything with a loose hand, everything, everything, we can
live in peace. And I promise you, Bobby, we
hold it with a loose hand only as we give it to God. That's
it. All right, now here's the second
thing. I'll move quickly now. We read in chapter 7 verses 6
to 17 that the sacrifice of the peace offering had to be eaten. God didn't make it an optional
thing. He said eat it. He didn't just say eat it. He
said you eat it starting the day you offer it. And you eat
it with the priest. And you eat it with anyone else
in the land with whom you want to share it, as long as it's
clean. And you eat it all before sun sets on the second day. Eat
every bit of it before the third day rises. Now what is the significance
of all this? You remember the fat was given
to God. The breast and the right shoulder were given to the priest
and his sons, and the rest of it was given to be eaten by the
worshipper. Here we see the Lord God himself,
the Lord Jesus Christ, our great high priest, and the redeemed
sinner, all feeding together and finding satisfaction in the
same sacrifice. finds contentment in the same
place God finds contentment. Faith finds rest in the same
place where God finds rest. Let me sit down and show you
this. It is the sin-atoning blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and
that alone which gives satisfaction to the Holy Lord God. It pleased
the Lord to bruise him. God has no pleasure in the death
of the wicked. The two texts must be understood the same way.
If God sent the whole world to hell forever, the whole world
suffering the wrath of God forever could never satisfy the justice
of God. But the Lord God held up his son in the room instead
of his people. and poured out the extremity
of his holy wrath and justice and was satisfied. Therefore,
the scripture says he is the propitiation, the pacification,
if you will, of God's holy law, the propitiation for our sins.
The Lord Jesus Christ, our great high priest, finds satisfaction
in the sacrifice of himself, he shall see of the travail of
his soul and shall be satisfied. These folks who talk about universal
redemption talk about, well Jesus sort of died for everybody, Jesus
shed his blood so everybody had a chance to get saved. Jesus,
oh, we couldn't say Jesus didn't die for everybody. That just
wouldn't be right. If Christ died for sinners who
perish under the wrath of God, Ron, he can't be satisfied. He
can't see the travail of his soul and be satisfied. That'll
never happen. He shall. See his seed. The pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand, for he'll see all his seed justified, sanctified,
glorified with him, and he'll be satisfied. This is the joy
set before him for which he endured the cross, despising the shame.
And the believing sinner takes that same sacrifice. That
sacrifice that satisfies the justice of God. That sacrifice
that satisfies the heart travail of the Son of God and is satisfied. The sacrifice of Christ satisfies
my soul. His blood has purged my conscience
from dead works. His blood has put away my sin. His blood has given me acceptance
with God. His flesh is meat indeed. His
life is drink indeed. I have drunk from this fountain
and I have found it to be true. My soul will not thirst again. I am satisfied. Whom have I in
heaven but thee? There is none upon earth I desire
beside thee. When my heart and my flesh fail
me, the Lord my God is the strength of my heart. As for me, then
shall I be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness. But watch
this. All the sacrifice had to be eaten
within two days. The worshipper could begin eating
on the very day that he offered the sacrifice. Isn't that good? Isn't that good? This religious
world today, they say, now believe in Jesus and after a while maybe
if you stay clean enough and you do
good enough, and you pray long enough, and you read up enough,
and you give enough, and you serve enough, then maybe, maybe
the Spirit of God will come on you and give you a second blessing
and you can get real peace. Now that ain't peace. That ain't
any peace. I know those folks. They're putting
on a show. You can buy pills at the drugstore
better than that nonsense. What you talking about? Believe
on the Son of God. And hear God Almighty declare
to your soul, your sins are gone forever. Enjoy peace right now. And the sacrifice must be eaten
within two days. On the third day, nothing could
be eaten. How come? Because the third day,
you remember our Lord Jesus was raised from the dead on the third
day. And his resurrection points to
our resurrection. And we will feed upon the sacrifice
and find peace by faith in the sacrifice only during the two
days of our trouble here. And here we feast upon him in
anticipation of that resurrection glory that shall follow. Paul
said, for I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed
in us. He said the whole creation is growing and prevailing, waiting
for the manifestation of the sons of God, for the glorious
liberty of the sons of God. And that's the word with which
he prefaced Romans 8, 28 through 39. Oh, but in the meantime, This will save your little boat.
In the meantime, this will give you peace. In the meantime, this
will calm your troubled waters. We know that all things work
together for good. We know if God be for us, who
shall be against us? We know that Jesus Christ has
justified us, that we are not condemned, that we stand accepted
before God, that nothing shall ever be able to separate us from
the love of God, because Christ is our We're accepted of God
in Him. Now notice this too. In Leviticus
7, verses 20 and 21, only those who stood clean before the Lord
could eat the sacrifice. But preacher, isn't Christ a
substitute for sinners? Isn't He the friend of sinners?
Didn't He come to seek and to save that which was lost? Did
He not come to save sinners? Indeed He did. Is he not a fountain open for
sin and uncleanness? Indeed he is. Well how can you
say that only those who stand clean before God can eat the
sacrifice? Now listen carefully. Only the leper in whose skin
the leprosy was thoroughly, thoroughly, completely covered with the oozing
sores was pronounced clean. He's the only one. He's the only
one. As long as there was just on the backside of his elbow,
a little spot of health, he wasn't clean. But when he's completely
covered from the top of his head to the soles of his feet with
leprosy, the priest said he's clean. He's clean. And only the
sinner who comes before God Almighty, laying his hands on God's sacrifice,
confessing from the top of his head to the soles of his feet,
inside, outside, he's nothing but corruption and defilement.
That man stands before God clean. Now his confession and his coming
have nothing to do with his cleansing. But he can't hear the word pronouncing
him clean until he confesses himself utterly unclean. Only
way you can come to God is acknowledge your sin and hear God Almighty
declare your sin taken away by the blood of his son. Amen. One last thing. In chapter 7
again, verses 29-34, the breast and the right shoulder where the priest portions. Take the breast, that piece of muscle closest
to the heart, give that to the priest. Take
the shoulder, that strong right shoulder, the right hand of loyalty,
the right hand of strength, the shoulder of strength, give that
to the priest. You see, there is no peace for
anyone in this world until by the grace of God we are enabled
to see and to believe and to trust the Lord Jesus Christ,
Zion's King and Priest, in whom and in whom alone the love of
God and the omnipotence of the Almighty is found. My great high priest is himself God Almighty. He sits
upon the throne of universal monarchy and his heart, listen
now, Rex Bartley, his heart beats with love for me. But that would be utterly meaningless
as far as my peace is concerned, except for one thing. The government
of the world is on the right shoulder of his strength. He
not only loves me, he has the ability wherewith to preserve
and keep and save me in the midst of all my troubles. And that's peace. May God make
it yours for Christ's sake. Amen.