Tonight we're going to observe
the Lord's table together. What a blessing that is. The
Lord said, this do as oft as you do it in remembrance of me. I've entitled the message for
this morning, God Describes Himself. God describes. himself. The only one who knows God completely
is God. No man can comprehend him, and
all we can know of God is what he is pleased to make known to
us. So really, the only one who can
accurately describe God is God. In this passage of scripture
we're going to look at God describes himself. And I want us to listen
to this like we've never heard anything before. And listen to
God's description of himself. Now the setting of this passage
of scripture is Moses praying for the people after the golden
calf incident. Look in chapter 32, verse 1. And when the people saw that
Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered
themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us
gods which shall go before us. For as for this Moses, the man
that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, We want not what
is become of him. Now you think about this. They'd
seen the ten plagues. They'd seen the parting of the
Red Sea. Moses is gone 40 days and at this time they make a
golden calf and forget Moses and forget God. Look in verse
7. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Go, get thee down. For thy people, which thou broughtest
out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. I think
that's interesting the way he says that. He doesn't call my
people this time, he says thy people. The ones you brought
up out of the land of Egypt. They've quickly corrupted themselves.
Look in verse 15 of this chapter. And Moses turned and went down
from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his
hand. The tables were written on both their sides, and on one
side and the other side they were written. And the tables
were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God,
graven upon the tables." That's talking about the Ten Commandments.
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,
he said unto Moses, there's a noise of war in the camp. And he said,
it's not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is
it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise
of them that sing, do I hear. And it came to pass, as soon
as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the
dancing. And Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out
of his hands, and break them beneath the mount. And he took
the calf which they made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground
it in powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the
children of Israel drink of it. Look down in verse 30. And it
came to pass on the morrow that Moses said unto the people, You
sinned a great sin. Now I will go up unto the Lord.
Peradventure, I shall make an atonement for your sin. And Moses
returned unto the Lord and said, Oh, this people have sinned a
great sin and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou
wilt forgive their sin, and if not, blot me, I pray thee
out of the book which thou hast written. And the Lord said unto
Moses, Whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my
book. Therefore, now go, lead the people
in the place which I've spoken unto thee. Behold, my angel shall
go before thee. Nevertheless, in the day when
I visit, I'll visit their sin upon them. And the Lord plagued
the people because they made the calf, which Aaron made. Now chapter 33. And the Lord
said unto Moses, Depart, and go up thence thou and thy people,
which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, and to
the land which I swear unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying,
Unto thy seed will I give it. I'll send an angel before thee,
and I'll drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, and
the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and to a land
flowing with milk and honey. But look what he says next, For
I will not go up in the midst of thee, For thou art a stiff-necked
people, lest I consume thee in the way. And when the people
heard these evil tidings, they mourned, and no man did put on
his ornaments. For the Lord had said unto Moses,
Say unto the children of Israel, You're a stiff-necked people.
I'll come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume
thee. Therefore now, put off thine ornaments from thee. that
I may know what to do with thee." You know, if we ever hear from
God, first thing we'll do is strip
off our ornaments. The things that we make or think
make us look good, we're going to strip them off and we're going
to come before Him in the sheer nakedness of our own sin. and our sins. You're going to
get rid of those ornaments and we're going to come to God in
honesty. Now let's go on reading, verse
6. And the children of Israel stripped
themselves of their ornaments by the Mount Horeb, the place
where God gave the law. And Moses took the tabernacle
and pitched it without the camp afar from the camp, and called
it the tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass that everyone
which sought the Lord. Now that's what you'd call a
believer. Someone who seeks the Lord. You know the best thing
I can say to myself or to you regarding any matter? Seek the
Lord. Seek the Lord. They which sought
the Lord. What did they do? They which
sought the Lord went out into the tabernacle of the congregation,
which was without the camp. Verse 8, And it came to pass,
when Moses went into the tabernacle, that all the people rose up,
and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses
until he was gone into the tabernacle. And it came to pass, as Moses
entered the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended and stood at
the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. And all the people saw the cloudy
pillar stand at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose
up and worshiped. Every man in his tent door, they
saw the visible presence of the Lord in the cloudy pillar. Verse
11, and the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh
with his friend. Do you want that kind of relationship
with the Lord that Moses had? You do. You want him to speak
to you the same way he spake to Moses through the Lord Jesus
but face to face as a man speaks with his friend. I want to be
God's friend, don't you? I want him to count me his friend. That's the blessing that every
believer possesses. But the Lord spake to Moses face
to face as a man speaks with his friend. And he turned again into the
camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man,
departed not out of the tabernacle. Verse 12, he begins his prayer. And Moses said unto the Lord,
See, thou sayest unto me. Now let's hold on just for a
second. Everything in this prayer has something to do with what
God already said. Now if I'm going to pray like
Moses, if I'm going to pray like any believer, it's going to have
something to do with what God has already said in his word. Everything he says to the Lord
has something to do with what God has already said. And Moses said unto the Lord,
See thou sayest unto me, bring up this people. And thou hast
not let me know whom thou wilt send with me, yet thou hast said,
I know thee by name. And thou hast also found grace
in my sight. You said this. I'm not taking
these words to myself. I'm not making this claim that
God knows my name. No, you said this. You said,
I know you by name. And you found grace, free unmerited
favor in my sight. You can bet Moses understood
what he's talking about when he's talking about grace. He's
talking about the same grace that Noah found in the eyes of
the Lord. He knew about that. Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. God made a difference with Noah.
Now he said, you said, you know me by name. And if you're a believer,
he knows your name. He knows your name. He knows you, and you found grace
in his sight. Verse 13, now therefore, I pray
thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, you said I did, now
if I have, here's what I need. I need you to show me now thy
way, that I might know thee, that I might find grace in thy
sight, And consider that this nation is thy people, not my
people. Thy people. Now hear what Moses
says. If I found grace in your sight,
free unmerited favor, then show me your way. Can you pray that prayer? Show me your way. You know, he made known his ways
to Moses, the scripture says, his acts to the children of Israel,
but his ways to Moses. And this is what Moses is asking,
show me thy way. Christ is the way, we know that.
He said, I am the way, the way of peace, the way of righteousness,
the way of salvation, the way of truth, the more excellent
way. Show me now thy way, and here's why I want to know your
way. Show me more thy way that I may
know thee. Not simply know things about
you, but I want to know you, the living God. Show me thy way
that I might know thee. That I might find grace in your
sight. Anytime you want to know God,
you never get very far from Him, but you never leave grace. that
I might find grace in thy sight, pure, free, unmerited favor for
Christ's sake. That's what I want. And consider
that this nation, this bunch of rebels, is thy people. Not my people, thy people. Don't look at them in any other
way. Verse 14, and he said, verse
14, My presence, no I'm not going to just send that angel. My presence
shall go with thee and I will give thee rest. Now here's the
promise of grace, His presence and rest. Now what does it mean
to have His presence? I'll tell you what it means more
than anything else. It means you're not left to yourself. The worst
thing that could happen to me, the worst thing that could happen
to you is for God to say, leave him alone. Leave him alone. Let him go their
own way. Worst thing that could happen
to me is to not have his presence. He said, I'm going to give you
my presence and I'm going to give you rest. Now that rest
he speaks of is the same rest spoken of with reference to the
Sabbath of rest. There remaineth a rest for the
people of God, for he that's entered into his Sabbath, his
rest, hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. You remember when God finished
the works of creation, he rested because there was nothing left
to do. If I ever, if you ever believe
on Christ, what we'll do we will cease from our own works. We'll
quit trying to work our way into heaven, and we'll look to Christ
only as all that's needed to bring us into heaven, and we'll
rest. We'll rest. The rest of believing, what a
joy that is. He promises, I will give you
rest. And Moses replied in verse 15,
And he said to him, if thy presence go not with me, carry us not
up here, and so we don't even want to go if you're not with
us. You know, continually how I need his presence. I don't
want to make a move. I don't want to breathe. I don't
want to go anywhere without his presence. If your presence doesn't
come with us, don't even take us. Verse 16, For wherein shall
it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy
sight? Is it not that thou goest with us? We have your presence.
So shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people
that are upon the face of the earth. You see, God's people
are a separated people. God has made a difference between
them and everybody who is in his people. 1 Corinthians 4,
7 says, Who maketh thee to differ from another? Now, if you're
a believer, you do differ from another. God's done something
for you that he hasn't done for everybody else. Who maketh thee
to differ from another, and what hast thou that thou hast not
received? He said, We'll be separate from
all thy people. And look at the separate from
all other people from the face of the earth. And look at the
intimate way the Lord speaks with Moses. And the Lord said
unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken, for
thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. Now
what else could Moses want? To have the Lord say to you,
you've found grace in my sight, and I know your name, you're
mine. What else could Moses want? Well, he wants more. He now makes
the most glorious and amazing request found anywhere in the
Word of God. Now look what he says. I beseech
thee, show me thy glory. I'm so thankful I found grace
in your sight. I'm so thankful you know me,
but here's what I must see. This is what I'm asking for.
Show me Reveal to me. I don't know it unless you do
it. Reveal to me what you consider your glory. Now Moses had seen
the ten plagues. He'd experienced the Passover. Moses had seen manna come down
from heaven. He'd seen water come out of the
rock. He'd seen the finger of God riding
the holy law of God. Moses had seen a lot, yet he
says, I've not yet seen your glory. What would you describe as your
glory? Can you ask that question? Well, let's see how God answers. Verse 19, and he said, I will make all my goodness pass
before thee. God's glory is his goodness. God's good. And everything he
does is good. His wrath is a good wrath. His mercy is a good mercy. His justice is a good justice. God's good. And His goodness
is seen in His capacity to show mercy to a bunch of people like
this. A bunch of people who so quickly corrupt themselves, who
make a golden calf and say, these be thy gods that delivered you
from Egypt. God says, I'm good. I will show mercy to that bunch. I've heard people say, God must
be just. He may be merciful. No, he must
be merciful because that's who he is. He shows mercy. He says,
I'll make all my goodness pass before thee. He says next, I
will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee. And we know
from Exodus 34, which we're going to in a minute, the proclamation
of his name is a proclamation of his attributes. When he proclaims
his name, he tells us who he is. He makes himself known. He
discloses himself. We're going to see that in a
minute, but all that means is I'm going to proclaim my attributes.
You're going to find out who I am. And then he says next in
verse 19, And we'll be gracious to whom I will be gracious. and
will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." His sovereign electing
mercy that he gives to whom he will. Aaron preached the message on
the story of every man's salvation and it begins right here, election.
That's where the story of my salvation begins, election. Him showing mercy on whom he
will show mercy. And God says, this is my glory.
Now let me ask you a question. What is the difference between
Moses saying, I beseech thee, show me thy glory, and Moses
saying, I beseech thee, show me Christ? Is there any difference? The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth. When Moses was saying,
show me your glory, he was saying, show me Christ. Lord, show me Christ. I want to know Him. I want to
be found in Him. I want to see Him. I want to
know Him. Show me Christ. God who commanded
the light to shine out of the darkness has shined in our hearts
to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. Now, in Christ, I see God's goodness. In Christ, I see every attribute
of God manifested in his salvation. In Christ, I see his sovereign
mercy. I will be gracious to whom I
will be gracious. I don't know how many times I've
heard people talk about election in this light. Well, it's a doctrine
of secondary importance. It's true, it's in there, but
you don't need to be dwelling on it. What do you think? Well, if you
don't need to dwell on the glory of God, you don't need to. But
this is God's glory, isn't it? Let's go on reading. Verse 20. And he said, thou canst not see my face, for
thou shalt no man see me and live. No man has seen God at
any time. What he is saying is, you couldn't
take the full disclosure of my glory and majesty. No man can
see my face and live. You know, even the seraphims,
in glory, what do they do? They cover their faces with their
wings. They have six wings. With two, they cover their face.
They can't look upon him. With two, they cover their feet.
They're ashamed of their walk, even though they're seraphims.
Before him, And with two they fly, ready to render obedience,
but they don't look on him. You think Moses can? You think
me and you can? He dwells in the light that no
man can approach to, to no man can see nor has seen. That's
the point. He said, no man can see my face
and live, but look what he's going to do. Verse 21, And the
Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon
a rock. And it shall come to pass while
my glory passeth by, that I'll put thee in a cleft of the rock,
and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by. Now there's
the gospel. Rock of ages, cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from
thy ribbon side which flowed be of sin the double cure, safe
from wrath, and make me pure. Oh, the gospel is so clear. You
can't see me. I'm going to put you in the cleft
of the rock, the rock Christ Jesus, and I'm going to cover
you with my hand, and I'm going to pass by. Verse 22, It shall
come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I put thee in
a cliff to the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while
I pass by. And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my
back parts, but my face shall not be seen. What are God's back
parts? Well, that's a figure of speech to accommodate us.
God's Spirit, He's not made of parts. He's spirit. He's immense. He's infinite. He's holy. He's
not part this or part that. He's not part grace and part
justice and part holiness and part love and parts all make
the whole. No, he is as he is. He's what
he is completely. He's whole. And he doesn't have
arms and legs and so on. He's spirit. When he's talking
about his back parts, what I think he's talking about more than
anything else is you're going to see my works. You're going
to see my works. You're not going to see my face,
but you're going to see my works of salvation. You're going to
see my works of majesty and glory. You're going to see what I do,
and I'm going to pass by, and that is what you will see. Only God can know God fully,
and only Christ can know the Father. You know, the Lord said,
No man knows the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever
the Son will reveal Him. We couldn't see Him the way Christ
could, but let's go on reading. Chapter 34, And the Lord said
unto Moses, You thee two tables of stone, like unto the first,
and I write upon these tables the words that were in the first
tables, which thou breakest. And be ready in the morning,
And come up in the morning unto Mount Sinai, and present thyself
there to me in the top of the mount. And no man shall come
up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the
mount, neither let the flocks nor herds feed before the mount.'
And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first. And Moses
rose up early in the morning, and went up unto Mount Sinai,
as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables
of stone. And the Lord descended in the
cloud and this is when Moses was in the cleft of the rock
and he stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord. Now here is the Lord's description
of himself. Aren't you interested to see
how the Lord would describe himself? This isn't how some preacher
would describe him or some soul winner would describe him. This
is the Lord's description of himself. And I want to hear exactly
what it is he says to describe himself. Verse six, and the Lord
passed by before him and proclaimed, the Lord, Jehovah, is what that
is. When you see that capital L-O-R-D,
Jehovah, the self-existent one. I am that I am, the one who has
no needs. Don't you love to think of his
independence? I want you to think about how
dependent you are. How dependent you are. Why? You're dependent
on him to take the next breath you take. You're dependent on
him to provide for you. You're dependent upon him to,
if you have faith, for him to give you faith. You're dependent
on him to give you grace. You're dependent on him to preserve
you? How dependent are you upon the Lord? Completely dependent. Yet the Lord is utterly independent. That's what that means. I am
that I am. Not I was, not I would be, not
I could be, not I should be, not I want to be. I am that I
am. Utterly independent with no needs. Now, listen to this statement
real carefully. God doesn't need you. You need God. Amen? God doesn't need you. He's independent. I heard somebody
once say, preaching, well God created us because He's lonely.
God's not lonely. God has no needs. He's Jehovah,
the self-existent One. As the Father has life in Himself,
so has He given to the Son to have life in Himself, that all
men should honor the Son even as they honor the Father. And
when God describes Himself, the first thing He speaks of is His
independence. He said, if I were hungry, I
wouldn't tell you. The cattle on a thousand hills
are mine. Look what he says next. Verse 6, And the Lord Jehovah
passed by and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God. Now that's the word
El. God Almighty. God the Mighty
One. Now when God describes himself,
he first describes his own independence and self-existence, and then
he speaks of his omnipotence. Almighty. The Lord God Omnipotent
reigneth. The Lord Jesus Christ is almighty. Don't you love to think about
that? He's almighty. That means whatever he wants,
he has. You know what he was doing? He
took five small biscuits and two sardines and fed 5,000 people. You know what that means? That
means at that time he actually brought matter into existence
that was not there before. Who's the only one who can do
that? God. He demonstrated the power of
creation. He demonstrated, and still does
demonstrate, the power of providence. That means He controls everything
that happens. Everything that happens is His
will being done. His own disciples said, what
manner of man is this that even the winds and the sea obey Him? He controls everything, he is
Jehovah Almighty. And what power he demonstrates
in salvation. Talking about might, you want
to talk about omnipotence? For him to take somebody like
me and make it to where I don't have any sin. Now they say, physicists
say, you can't bring something from nothing, only God can do
that, and you also can't make something not to be. It may change
forward, but it's still in the universe somewhere. You can't
make matter go out of existence, but Christ Jesus the Lord makes
my sin to go out of existence. You want to talk about power?
The power to make me perfectly conform to His image, so when
God sees me, He sees His Son. Talk about power. He says, As
the Father raises the dead and quickens them, even so the Son
quickens whom He will. Now when God in Christ describes
Himself, He describes Himself as the Independent One and the
All-Powerful One. And look what He says next. The
Lord, the Lord God, Merciful. Do you know that he delights
in mercy? First time the word's used is
with regard to Lot. The angel said, get out of here.
God's going to destroy this place. You know what Lot did? He lingered. He lingered in that place. God
said, I'm going to destroy it. He lingered. Would you blame
God for going ahead and destroying him? You know what happened? The scripture says the angels
took hold of his hand and pulled him out, God being merciful to
him. You see, the Lord is merciful.
He delights in mercy. Now the very idea of mercy, it's
got to be sovereign mercy. If it's not sovereign, it's not
mercy. If you have mercy, that means he decided to give it to
you, doesn't it? but he is merciful and next it says the Lord the
Lord God merciful and gracious. Now mercy is God not giving you
what you deserve. Grace is God giving you what
you don't deserve. I need mercy I need grace. God did not give me what I deserve
because of my sin. I deserve to be in hell. I need
him to give me what I don't deserve. Perfect justification, perfect
righteousness, a perfect acceptance, perfect standing in him. Merciful
and gracious. And it says long-suffering. Long-suffering. I love that scripture. The Lord is not slack with his
promises, some men count slackness, but is long-suffering to usward,
not willing that any should perish. You know, people say, well, that
means God's, it's not God's will for anybody to perish, doesn't
mean that at all, doesn't even say that. He's long-suffering
to usward, not willing that any one of his people perish, but
that they all come to repentance. And he goes on to say in verse
15, the long-suffering of the Lord is salvation. He's long-suffering. How long-suffering has He been
toward you? Now this is God's revelation of Himself. This is
God's description of Himself. He's long-suffering and He's
abundant, overflowing in goodness and truth. Goodness. It's the goodness of God that
leads thee to repentance. in goodness and truth. And that's
a reference to his faithfulness. He's always faithful. The faithful
Lord. Abundant in goodness and truth. And I love this next statement. Keeping mercy. Verse 7. Keeping
mercy for thousands. Now, thousands isn't everybody.
But it's a whole lot of people, isn't it? And notice it says
he keeps mercy. He doesn't let it run dry. That's
why you're preserved because His mercy keeps you. You're kept
keeping mercy for thousands. What next? This is who the Lord
is. Forgiving iniquity and transgression
and sin. This is what His goodness does.
He forgives iniquity. That's the good stuff we do.
That's the religious stuff. All it is really is iniquity.
Transgressions, that's the bad things we do. Sin, that's our
nature. That covers it all. The good
stuff, the bad stuff, and our nature. It's all sin, isn't it?
But what does he do? He forgives it. He forgives it. How should I look at my sin?
Forgiving sin. Now look what he says next. and that will by no means clear
the guilty. Visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children and upon the children's children
under the third and the fourth generation. Now this is just
as much a part of the goodness of God as the forgiving part. He'll by no means clear the guilty. What would we do with a God who
would clear guilt? We'd be in trouble, wouldn't
we? If he would clear guilty people, he wouldn't be just.
He wouldn't be holy. He wouldn't be righteous. That
would be against his character. Now this is part of his goodness,
the fact that he will by no means clear the guilty. Now that can
only be understood in light of the gospel. Justification. You see, when God saves me, he's
not clearing a guilty man. He's bringing in a righteous
man. My sin was judged in Christ. No sin will ever go unpunished. This is who God is. He will by no means clear the
guilty. If I have a drop of guilt on
me, He won't clear me. The only way He'll clear me is
if I'm without sin. And that's exactly what Christ
accomplished on the behalf of every believer. He made it to
where they have no guilt. It's called justification. I
am just in God's sight. Now, this is God's description
of himself. Somebody says, well, what about
that visiting the iniquity of the fathers under the third and
fourth generation? What's that all about? I know this. I looked at this in Sunday school. My sin will have consequences
in this life down maybe even generations. That's how evil
sin is. But thank God, if I'm a believer,
I'm without guilt before God. He's not clearing a guilty man.
He's saving a just man through the work of Christ on Calvary's
tree. Now this is how God describes
Himself. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful
and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and
truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression
and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children's children, and
of the third and the fourth generation. Now look at Moses' response.
And Moses made haste, and he hit the dirt. He bowed his head
toward the earth and he worshiped. Now this is the only response
to the revelation of God. Right now, hit the dirt on your
face and worship. You and I today, we have what's
called casual worship. That's the greatest oxymoron
there is, isn't it? Casual worship with this God?
Straighten up! Ain't no such thing as casual
worship. This is the God of the Bible, and the only response
is worship. You worship Him for who He is. and you'll only worship an absolute
sovereign. And that's what Moses is doing
at this time. And look at his prayer. Here's his response.
First he falls down in worship. And here's his response. And
he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let
my Lord, I pray thee, go among us. We need your presence. And
here's why we need your presence. We're a stiff-necked people. And pardon our iniquity and our
sin. And take us. Well, I can pray
that. Lord, take me. Nothing like I'm
going to accept you as my personal Savior. No, nothing like that.
Take me. Take me to be Thine inheritance forever. Now, that's
the response to hearing who God is, his own description of himself. There's only one response. Worship,
the confession of sin, the desire for his presence, the knowledge
of what we are. Lord, take us. Take me to be
thine. What a description. God's description
of himself. Let's pray together. Lord, in our hearts, by thy grace,
we bow before thee in worship. you for who you are, the Lord,
the Lord God, merciful, gracious, abundant in goodness and truth,
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression
and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty. Lord, this is who you are. And we're thankful. And we bow
and worship. And Lord, we cry, go with us. Grant us your presence. Lord,
we're aware that we're a stiff-necked people. Lord, pardon our iniquity. and transgression and sin, and
take us for thine inheritance. Lord, enable us to see your glory
shining in the face of thy dear Son. Bless this word for your
glory, and for Christ's sake, in his name we pray. Amen. We're going to sing as a closing
hymn, Rock of Ages. Matt's going to come lead us
in that. 126 please stand.