Deuteronomy chapter 29. I want to read the first nine verses.
I think that will keep us busy tonight. Deuteronomy chapter
29 and verse 1. These are the words of the covenant
which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of
Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with
them in Horeb, Mount Sinai. And Moses called unto all Israel,
and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before
your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his
servants, and unto all his land, the great temptations, the trials,
which thine eyes have seen, the signs and those great miracles. Yet the Lord hath not given you
none heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear unto
this day. And I have led you forty years
in the wilderness, your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and
thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. You have not eaten
bread, neither have you drunk wine, nor strong drink, that
you might know that I am the Lord your God. And when you came
unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of
Bashan came out against us unto battle, and we smote them. And
we took their land and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites
and the Gedites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. keep therefore the
word of this covenant and do them that you may prosper in
all that you do." Now, I want us to look at this passage. It
shows, and this is the first thing we want to look at, it
shows the absolute necessity of God beginning a work of grace
within a heart. We see that here, the miracles
He kept talking about the miracles that the children of Israel,
and most of these in this generation were young when they were in
Egypt. But they saw the miracles that
God did there in Egypt. And the other ones, those who
weren't born heard about it from their parents, the great things
that the Lord had done. And He mentioned here the trials,
the afflictions that He brought upon the children of Israel,
His mighty acts. And then not only all they saw
in Egypt, but what they had experienced since then. All of them had been
out in this wilderness, most of them for 40 years. Their clothes
hadn't grown old on their backs. Their shoes hadn't grown old
on their feet. They hadn't made any bread. They lived on that
manna from heaven. The rock followed them, the water
gushing out of that rock, the miracles that they saw. And yet,
he said here, in spite of that, God has not given you a heart
to perceive, eyes to hear, and to see and ears to hear to this
day. I want us to look over in Psalm
78 just to stress this a little bit. You can put your marker
there and get around to 29, but look over, take your Bibles and
look over to Psalms chapter 78. Different places in the Psalms.
It is stressed about the miracles that the Lord did down in Egypt. And David does that here in Psalms
chapter 78. And look here in verse 40, beginning
around verse 40, down through verse 50 or 51 or so. He mentions
all of these things. You can find these elsewhere.
He mentions almost all of what the Lord did in Egypt. when he
was delivering the children of Israel. Verse 40 of Psalm 78,
How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve
him in the desert! Yea, they turned back, and tempted
God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. They remember not
his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy,
how he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in
the field of Zion. and had turned their rivers unto
blood, and their floods that they could not drink. He turned all their waters to
blood, the fountain. He sent divers sorts of flies
among them which divided them, and frogs which destroyed them. He gave also their increase unto
the caterpillar, and their labor unto the locust. He destroyed
their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost. He
gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to
hot thunderbolts. He cast upon them the fierceness
of His wrath and indignation and trouble by sending evil angels
among them. He made a way in His wrath. He
spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the
pestilence, the plague, and smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the
chief of their strength in the tabernacle of Ham. Now you can
take some time and look at that and you can go back in Exodus
where this took place and this was amazing when God invaded
that country with all these plagues and trials to bring the children
of Israel out. But look over here in verses
twelve Let's start here in verses 12 and let's read some of this
because this has to do with after Him bringing them out. Look in
verse 12, 78, 12. Marvelous things did He in the
sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt in the field of
Zoan. He divided the sea and caused
them to pass through, and He made the waters to stand as an
unheap. In the daytime also He led them
with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. He clad
the rock in the wilderness and gave them drink out of the great
depths. He brought streams also out of
the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. And they
sinned yet more against Him by provoking the Most High in the
wilderness, and they tempted God in their hearts by asking
meat for their lust. Yea, they spake against God.
They said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he
smote the rock that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Can He
provide flesh for His people? Therefore the Lord heard this,
and was wroth. So a fire was kindled against
Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel, because they
believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation. Though
He commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of
heaven, and had rained down manna upon them to eat, and given them
of the corn of heaven, man did eat angels' food, he sent them
meat to the fool. He caused an east wind to blow
in the heaven, and by his power he wrought in the south wind.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls
like as the sand of the sea. And he let it fall in the midst
of the camp round about their habitation. So they did eat and
were filled, for He gave them their own desire. They were not
estranged from their lusts, but while their meat was in their
mouths, the wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest
of them and smote them down, the chosen men of Israel. For
all of this they sinned still and believed not for His wondrous
works." Now that's amazing, ain't it? You just read that and it's
amazing. They believed not for all his
wondrous works. And what does this show us? This
shows us that everything that God is pleased to do physically,
that we can see with our eyes and hear with our ears, if He
doesn't do a work in the heart, men won't believe. And it was
this way with these people, it's the way with the Gentile people. And it's this way in the Old
Testament, but isn't it changing in the New Testament? Look over
in John chapter 12 and verse 36. Look in John chapter 12 and
verse 36. It continued right on. They didn't
believe Moses when the Lord was working by him. And you know
something? They didn't believe Christ either.
Look in John chapter 12 and verse 36. John chapter 12 and verse 36.
The Lord said, While you have the light, believe in the light,
that you may be the children of light. These things spake
Jesus and departed and hid Himself from them. But though He had
done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on
Him. And when you talk about miracles,
He had just raised a dead man. He had raised a man that had
been dead for three days. And some of these men here saw
it. And the Bible says they did not
believe. You know what they did when they
saw this miracle? Some of them went away to the chief priests
and Pharisees and they plotted to kill Him. Ain't that amazing? If you saw a man raise a dead
man, that would get your attention wouldn't it? But you know something,
if God doesn't work in a man's heart, he still won't believe.
He still won't believe. The Lord Jesus told, or Abraham
told that rich man in hell, if they believe not Moses and the
prophets, they won't be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
And boy, the resurrection of Lazarus was one place. And the
Lord said in Matthew chapter 11 verse 20, Then began he to
upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done,
because they repented not. Seeing miracles will not bring
a man to repentance. It won't unless God does the
work there in the heart. Now there are two things that
happened to these Jews that assured their dying in unbelief. Two
things. He tells us here in this text.
Look in verse 38. Two things that tells us, that
assures us these Jews for the most part was going to die in
their sin, in their unbelief. Look in verse 38. They believed
not on him, that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled,
which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom
is the arm of the Lord revealed? This was a prediction. made hundreds
of years before this that they would not believe. And without
doing violence to any of these unbelieving Jews, God predicted,
He prophesied hundreds of years before this, they will not believe
the report concerning My Son. Now boy, that's an awakening
thing, isn't it? Because you know there's been other things
predicted too. The Lord said He predicted, the
apostles predicted that there would be men in the last days
that would be mockers, turning the grace of God unto lasciviousness,
denying the Lord that brought them. You know that has to come
true. There has to be some men that
come and mock the grace of God. He said, ìBroad is the road that
leads to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat.î
You know there has to be many perishing. There has to be. Why? Because itís been predicted.
Ainít that a sobering thought? Ainít that an awakening thing?
I know that this is going to happen. I tell you, I donít want
to be one of them. Do you? I don't want this Scripture
to be fulfilled upon me. The Scripture predicts that there
would be tares among the wheat. There must be tares among the
wheat. The Scripture teaches us and predicts that on the Day
of Judgment many people would be saying this, Lord, Lord, have
we not prophesied in your name? Everybody can't believe. A lot
of people is going to perish. A lot of people are going to
stand before the Lord in judgment and argue with Him. How do we
know that? Because the Scripture predicted
it. Why didn't these Jews believe Christ? It was predicted they
would. It was prophesied they would. And all these Scriptures
must be fulfilled. So that's the first reason. If
the Scripture prophesied that something's going to happen,
it's going to happen. It's going to happen. And secondly,
here in verse 39, In verse forty, look at this,
verse forty-one, here's the second reason. First of all, the scriptures
predicted they won't believe. Lord who has believed, I'll report.
They ain't going to believe, that's predicted. Look here at
the second reason that they didn't believe. Therefore they could
not believe because that Isaiah said again, He hath blinded their
eyes and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with
their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, and be converted,
and I should heal them. These things said Isaiah, when
he saw his glory, and spake unto him." What does God have to do
to assure a man will harden his heart? What does He have to do? I'll tell you what He has to
do. Send the gospel and don't send grace with it. Send the
law to a man's conscience and don't send grace to humble him.
And you know what will happen? His heart will be hardened. God
doesn't have to positively, He doesn't have to go in there and
harden the heart against Him. It's already hard enough, isn't
it? But just send the command. Command a man to do everything
that I've commanded you this day. That's what verse 9 said
in our text. See that you do all the commandments
that I command you this day. Well, just command a man to do
that. And don't give him grace. Don't work in his heart to do
it. And you know what will happen? His heart will be hardened. His
heart will be hardened. So miracles Here these men saw
all these miracles in the Old Testament, and here these Jews
in the New Testament saw all these miracles. And what did
they want to do? Let's kill Him. Let's kill Him. It hardens the heart. Somebody
said, God may command many things of this human race and promise
upon their obedience to bless them. That's what He did to these
Jews. He said to them, keep all the
words and do them that you may prosper in all that you do. But don't send grace for that,
Lord, and they're not going to do anything. God sends out commandments,
and here's what He says, I command every man everywhere to repent. And how far has this commandment
gone that God commands us to believe in His Son whom He has
sent? He gives that commandment to
everybody, doesn't He? But if God doesn't work grace
in a man's heart, it doesn't matter if it's law, it doesn't
matter if it's gospel. Until God gives a heart to perceive,
eyes to see, and ears to hear, man's not going to do anything.
Now, that's the truth, ain't it? That's what we see in the
children of Israel. One man said, I would love to
have been eating with Christ when He fed the five thousand.
Oh, if I'd have been sitting there in that field of grass
when He took those five loaves and two fishes, oh, I'd have
believed Him then. No, you wouldn't have. They didn't.
They didn't. They said, this has got to be
that prophet that's coming into the world. But the next day,
these very people heard him preach and say, except you eat the flesh
of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. And they said, this is too hard
for us. We can't take this. And they skedaddled, didn't they?
They skedaddled. Oh, if I could have been there
when He spake to Lazarus and said, Lazarus, come forth, I'd
have believed Him then, I doubt it. I doubt it. They didn't believe Him, did
they? They even sought to put Lazarus to death. Oh, if I could
have seen Him hanging on the cross, suffering in my place,
surely, surely, I could have believed Him then. You know what
they said when they came around the cross that day? If you be
the Son of God, come down. They didn't believe Him, and
they saw Him suffering. They heard Him say, It's finished,
and gave up the ghost. Good enough for you, you imposter! I tell you, I don't care what
God shows a man in the way of miracles or lets him see. God
has to begin a work of grace in the heart. He has to open
the mind so that we can perceive, know Him, and believe Him. and
love Him. If you don't, all these miracles
and all else is nothing. I tell you what I'd want more
than anything else, and I know you do too, but the Holy Spirit
to quietly open my understanding and give me grace in my heart
to humbly believe the record that God has given of His Son. That's what I want, isn't you?
Thomas said, ìIf I donít see Him, I ainít going to believe.î
And the Lord Jesus said, ìPut your hands here, Thomas, your
fingers in the prints of these nails and thrust your hand into
My side.î Thomas said, ìMy Lord and my God.î And you know what
the Lord Jesus said to him? ìThomas, because you saw Me,
you believe. But blessed are they who have
not seen Me and they believe Me.î And these things were written
that you and I might believe that Jesus Christ is the Son
of God and believe and might have life through His name. Without
seeing Him? Without seeing Him. Blessed are
those who have not seen any miracles that I have ever done. Blessed
are those who have not felt me saw me with their physical ears,
heard me with their physical ears, and saw me with their eyes,
they've seen nothing, and they've felt nothing, but they believe
what I've told them. That's the blessed man. That's
what I want, isn't you? Feelings come and feelings go. Feelings are deceiving. Our warrant
is the Word of God. All else is worth believing.
His Word. His Word. Believe in His Word.
To have the Holy Spirit open our hearts to know the Lord Jesus
Christ. Letting us see Him in His Word
with our spiritual eyes. Letting us hear His voice with
our inner ear. That's what I want. That's what
you want, isn't it? And boy, all of this wildfire going on
today and all the signs and wonders, that's not going to save anybody.
It didn't back then and it wouldn't now. The work of grace must be
done in your heart. How does a man get an eye to
see? How does he get an ear to hear?
He's not giving you an ear to hear until this very day. He's
not giving you an eye to see. even to this very day. How does
a man get an eye? How does he get an ear? I love
Bible language, don't you? I love Gospel language. It's
strange. The world don't understand it,
but you do. Listen to Isaiah 42, verse 18. Look, you blind... That makes no sense, does it? Look, you blind, that you may
see. Lord, where do you want me to
look? Look unto me. Why? And be you saved. Who? All the ends of the earth, for
I am God, and besides Me there is no Savior. Look, where is
a man to find an eye like that? Where is a man to get an eye
like that? Listen to Isaiah 42.18, Here ye death, I just laughed. Here ye death, here and your
soul shall live. But where do we get an ear to
hear? Where do we get an eye? You know, it has to be given
to us. It has to be given to us. Look over in Proverbs chapter
20. You know this. You probably memorized
it. In Proverbs chapter 20. And look in verse 12. Proverbs
chapter 20 and verse 12. Look at this, verse 12. The hearing
ear and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. That's where we get it at. That's
where we get it. The Lord gives them. The Lord hath not given you. Is it right on God's part to
withhold that? Sure it is. Because it's a gracious
eye. It's a gracious ear. It's not
something we earn, something we deserve, even don't want it
until He puts it in our hearts to desire it. If a man is ever
saved, I'll tell you what he's going to become. He's going to
become a poor beggar. That's what he's going to become,
a poor beggar. The Lord owes us nothing but
judgment. And if we're ever going to know Him and understand His
Gospel and believe Him and love Him and delight in Him and follow
Him, He's going to have to begin a work of grace in us and He's
going to have to maintain that work of grace in us. It's got
to be something in us and it's got to be Him starting the work.
It's got to be Him. One man wrote a little poem.
He said, God will no more require of man than of himself per farm
he can. Is that right? God will no more
require of a man than of himself per farm he can. What do we do
then when we read the scriptures where the Lord said, ìMake you
a new heart.î Does God require a new heart? Well, sure He does.
Try to make yourself one. He does require more, doesnít
He? And He requires it, and He makes us to know He requires
it, that we may humble ourselves before Him and say, Lord, give
me a new heart. Ain't but one way to see Him,
and that's through the eye of faith, and we can't muster that
up. We don't have it by nature. So
what do we do? Humble ourselves before Him and
say, Lord, let me see. Give me an eye to see You. We
become beggars, don't we? God will no more require man
than of himself the farm he can. Strange words, rank Armenians,
free willers. He said to the leper, he said
to the Jews, he said, when the Ethiopian can change his skin
and when the leper can change his spots, then may you who are
accustomed to do evil do good. But let's start with Ethiopians
first. Let's watch the leper change his spots. Then we'll
see if any good can come from you and your heart. It can't,
can it? It can't. Man, if all these fellows
here had all the miracles, saw all that they saw, and they never
believed the Lord, oh, it takes God to begin a work,
doesn't it? It takes God to begin a work
of grace in a man's heart. That is all there is to it. God
has taught all of us that. Bless His name. Look back over
in our text one more time now. Look at three things here right
quickly, just for a minute. Here in verse 5 and verse 7 of
our text, Deuteronomy chapter 29. First of all, let's see here
how quickly how the Lord sustains His people. He led you forty
years in the wilderness. Your clothes are not waxen old
upon you, and your shoe is not waxen old upon your foot. Here we have the Lord sustaining
grace. He is sustaining. Nehemiah said,
Forty years did thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that
they like nothing Their clothes waxed not old, and their feet
swelled not. Now, he said, if you read this
closer, he said their clothes and their shoes never got old. They never got old. In reality,
they never got old. And in their own estimation,
they never got old. You can see some Jew getting
up. He got up and he pulled off his
pajamas and he put on his pants and he put on his shirt. He said
to himself, Wifey, when did you make this new outfit? Man, and
these shoes, they're so comfortable. Oh, let's see, husband, when
did I make that? Let's see. It was 39 years ago yesterday. And I know that because that's
the only outfit you've ever worn. Forty years! And they had the
same shoes. And they had the same clothes
on their back. But they never got old. Now, ain't that amazing? I love to go on older people's
houses sometimes and they almost brag about this. You're sitting
on the couch and they say, that couch is thirty years old. They sort of brag about that.
They don't update stuff, you know. And you don't tell them
this, but you say, I can believe it. I can believe it. Or you
go to the refrigerator and they say, you know, we've had that
35 years. And you open up the refrigerator,
the light won't come on, and the ice box, you ain't making
ice anymore. And you have to tell them if
you ain't careful. Well, it may seem like new to you, but this
is old. This is old. this salvation that the Lord
gives us, when He sustains us, it's new, isn't it? If any man
be in Christ, he is a new creature. He may have been made a new creature
40 years ago, but you know something? He is right now still a new creature. This outward man, this old man,
he's growing old. He's decaying. He's perishing.
But the inner man will never grow old. He's in the image of
God. He'll never get tired and weary.
He's new. He's a new man. I love what Lamentations
3 says about the mercies of the Lord. It is of the Lord's mercies
that we're not consumed. That time doesn't consume us.
Our labors doesn't consume us. This wilderness journey that
you and I are in doesn't consume us. Why? Because His compassions
fail not. His love fails not. His grace
never fails. His goodness, His kindness, His
long-suffering, listen, they are new every morning. Great is Thy faithfulness. Nothing
grows old in the spiritual realm, every time you hear His voice
in this Gospel, isn't it just like you heard it for the first
time? Every time you see Him, you'll be reading along, and
there your eyes are open and you see Him, and it's just like
you saw Him for the first time. Nothing grows old in this realm. It's always new. It's always
new. Everything I've ever owned, everything
I've ever done, every job I've ever had, When I first start,
when I first buy something or first start a job, I thought,
man, this is wonderful. I'll never wear this out in a
couple of months. I'm tired of it. It's grown old. Has the Lord ever grown old to
you? Oh, the hope He's given you, His love, nothing ever grows
old. never fades or wrinkles or tears. That's the first thing. Here
in verse 6, the Lord strengthens and stimulates His people. He
strengthens and stimulates His people. Look what He said in
verse 6. You have not eaten bread, neither
have you drunk wine, nor strong drank, that you might know that
I am the Lord your God. They never manufactured any bread
to eat. That wasn't where they got their
strength, was it? They never ate any bread that
they made for themselves. He said that here. And they made
no strong drink to stimulate them and cheer them along. The
Lord sustained them by His strength. He cheered them by His presence.
I was reading Martin Luther not long ago. The Germans have always
had trouble with their beer. And don't let them kid you when
they try to tell you that, well, it's because the water's bad
over here. Germans drank beer because they liked beer. And
Luther always told his congregation, he said, now listen, he said,
you've had a rough day and you're tired and you're weary. Go home
and drink your beer or two. But he said, for Christ's sake,
don't get drunk. Drunks have no part in the kingdom
of God, he said. But why did they like to drink?
They liked to be stimulated. They liked to be cheered. These
people didn't need that. They manufactured nothing. They
made no strong grain. The Lord was their strength and
the Lord was their joy. They lived upon God's daily provision. His manna that came down from
heaven and that water of life that followed them there in the
river. And some of us have been on the
way for decades, haven't we? I've been on the way for a long
time. It amazes me sometimes how I've been able to sustain
myself and why this salvation hasn't
wore out and gotten old. But you know why? The Lord has
sustained me. He's my strength. And He's my
joy, my crown of rejoicing. Everything necessary to sustain
us and stimulate us is given us, is provided us by the Lord. And when He calls you by His
grace, He'll energize you to stay on the way. He'll energize
you just like He did to these people here. Verse 7 and verse 8. Something
else. We see there in verse 5 that
He provides for them. Nothing gets old. In verse 6
that He sustains them, energizes them, stimulates them. In verse
7, He gives them victory. What victory He gave these people
over formidable enemies. Look at this. And when you came
into this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon and of the king of
Bashan, came out against us into battle, and we smote them and
took their land." Now, you and I have studied about these fellows
here before. This Og, he was a giant. In chapter 2, we studied
about this man. And Israel did not want to fight
these fellows. They tried their best to avoid fighting these
two men and their army. But you remember Og in the second
chapter, he was a giant and his bed was thirteen and a half feet
long and six foot wide. Now can you imagine facing some
people like that? He was probably twelve foot or
more tall. Four foot wide with a thirty
pound spear in his hand and a twenty five pound... You couldn't get
around that guy. He'd kick you and kill you. They
didn't want to fight him. And this other fellow here that
he talked about, Sihon, king of Heshbon, they sent to him,
they sent a messenger to him. And they begged him, please let
us come to your country. We won't turn to the right hand
or to the left. If we get hungry and you've got
some food, we'll buy it. If we get thirsty, sell us some
water. But we promise you, we will not bother any of your land.
He didn't even send a message back. He got his army together
and was going to wipe them off of the earth. And you know why
he did that? You know why he would not relent?
You know why he wanted to start a war with them? The Bible says
that God had hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate
that he may give his kingdom to the children of Israel. God
was in on it. And sometimes you and I face
a foe, we face an enemy, maybe a former friend. It may be in
the family. It may be some situation on your
job or something else. And boy, you don't want trouble.
You do everything you can to be conciliatory. You're willing
to take a loss or suffer if you can, not to cause trouble. But
it's just not going to happen. It's not going to happen. Maybe
God is in it. Maybe the Lord is going to try
you, and maybe in the end, He's going to give you the victory
over this foe, whatever it is. So what should you do? When you
face a situation, or you face somebody or something, I mean
to tell you, you don't want to go to battle with them. You don't
want any trouble. You want peace. But there's no way it's going
to happen. What should you do? Well, just wait on the Lord.
Be of good courage. He'll strengthen your heart.
Pray to Him. Seek Him. Trust Him. And wait
to see what He might do. All of us have been in situations
like that, haven't we? Where trouble comes in like a
flood. There are these giants. Little
troubles, we can handle them. But boy, sometimes you face a
giant. You face some trouble. And you
think in your heart, in your mind, man, what am I going to
do? And every way you turn, there
it is facing you. And you're afraid of it. It's
a bad trouble. It's a giant of a trouble. And
nothing you do can get yourself around this trouble. You know
why? God is in it. And when He's in
your trouble, you can't get out of it. You can't get out of it. So what do you do? Submit to
Him. Wait on Him. Trust Him. And watch
Him work. Watch Him as He knocks. You know,
we talk about, well, they're big, and we have that old saying,
the bigger they are, the harder they fall. That's the way it
is with the Lord. The bigger the giant is, the
harder it falls when the Lord takes them down. It wasn't very long after this,
you find no trace of either one of these guys' kingdom. They
completely demolished it. It was gone. I've got one last
verse I thought of and I want to read to you. It's over in Romans 16. Let me close with
this. Look in Romans 16, in verse 19
and verse 20. Well, here's a giant of an enemy,
but look what the Lord's going to do to him. Look in Romans
chapter 16 and verse 19. For your obedience is come abroad
unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf,
but yet I would have you to be wise unto that which is good
and simple concerning evil. And look at verse 20. And the
God of peace shall brew Satan under your feet shortly. Satan. Boy, he's a foal and he's
a giant and he's a god. He's a prince of darkness. But
God's going to put him under the feet of the church. And he's
going to do it shortly. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen. Lord bless this Word.