I want to begin reading here
in verse 16 of Luke's Gospel, chapter 14. Then said he unto him, the Lord
Jesus answering this man, A certain man made a great supper and bade
many. and sent his servant at supper
time to say to them that were bidden, Come, for all things
are now ready. And they all with one consent
began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have
bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it. I
pray thee, have me excused. And another said, I have bought
five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them. I pray thee, have
mixed you. And another said, I have married
a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came and
showed his lord these things. Then the master of the house,
being angry, said unto the servant, Go out quickly unto the streets
and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, the maimed,
and the haught, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, It
is done as you have commanded, and yet there is room. And the
Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges,
and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I
say unto you, that none of those men which were bidden shall taste
of my supper. The Lord Jesus, as He often did,
used that occasion of something that was taking place to preach
a message. He often did that. If He was
sat in talking with people and He saw a seed sower sowing seed
in his field or his garden, immediately a message came to His mind and
He preached it. This Pharisee here had invited
the Lord to eat dinner with him. And the Lord had observed how
they chose out the chief seats there in the dining hall. And he told them not to do that. Take the back seat, he said.
Be humble about it. When you have a dinner, don't
call the rich. Don't call your family. Don't
call your friends. Call the poor. Call those who
are crippled, those who can't repay you. And you'll be blessed
for that. And then a fellow made this statement
in verse 15. He said, Blessed is he that shall
eat bread in the kingdom of God. And then we have this parable
beginning in verse 16. And what a parable it is. A certain
man and a great supper. A certain man and a great supper. And it seems to indicate here
that this was a great man. must have had means. And I'll
tell you one thing he had. He had confidence. He had confidence
that those he invited to his supper he was able to provide
for their nourishment and their satisfaction. He told us there
in verse 16, he bids his servant go out and bid them that were
invited to the wedding. And then there in verse 21, he
sends his servant out even to bid more to come, command more
to come. And then verse 23, he sends him
out and doesn't specify any number. This says, compel him to come
in. were told about this same man who made a marriage for his
son in Luke chapter 22, or Matthew 22, and he sent his servants
out there to invite him to the wedding feast, and he had so
much confidence that he could supply a dinner for everybody
who came, he didn't even put any number upon it. He just said,
you go out into the highways and thy ways, and as many as
you find, bring them to the wedding feast." So he must have been
a man well known in this community. He was obviously a man of great
means and great confidence, as well as goodness and generosity. A certain man. And the meal that
he provided, a certain man, a certain man. And I tell you who this
represents to us. I know it's just a parable, but
I tell you it represents a reality. It teaches us a reality. Because
this man is the God-man. This man represents to us the
Lord Jesus Christ. He is indeed a man, but he's
God. He's the Creator. He made us
and not we ourselves. He made the stars and spread
them out as a tent for a man to dwell in. He spoke and brought
all things into being. He made us and He upholds us. He gives us the rain this morning
and He gives us fruitful season and fills our hearts with gladness. That's the man that this parable
represents to you and to me. He's indescribably great. Jesus amazes this man. And I tell you, he's often known,
when he was here upon this earth, to provide suppers and dinners. And sometimes it was amazing
what a feast he provided. He didn't usually just feed a
handful of people. He looked at it as a challenge. He looked and saw thousands of
men, not counting women and children. And he, when he fed a multitude,
he always had more left over than when he started. He's a
great man. This man, God man. But I tell
you, it just wasn't thousands, but sometimes he had his private
dinners with just his own chosen people. He called his little
band of apostles from fishing all night, Glenn, and there they
came to shore, and they had bread and fish on the colt. Hungry,
cold, from fishing all night, disappointed, and the Lord Jesus,
this man, had prepared them fish and bread. And what did he say?
Come and dine, the Master calleth. Come and dine. You may feast
at Jesus' table all the time. He who fed the multitudes and
turned the water into wine to the hungry calleth now. Come
and dine." That's this man. That's this certain man. And
we're told here that a certain man, this God-man, he made a
great supper. A great supper. And what a supper
it is. What a supper this God-man has
provided. He's provided soul food. He's provided food for a man
and woman's spirit. What if you heard from some great
man that he invited you to dinner, and if you come and sat at his
table, he had bread that he got from heaven? Would you be interested
in that kind of bread? This is the bread that this man
has set the table with. He said, I'm the bread that comes
down from heaven. And listen, this is an extraordinary
quality of bread. If any man eat of this bread,
he shall live forever. He's got meat. He sets his table
with meat. I don't know about you, but I
tell you, bread and meat, I love that for dinner, don't you? I
can make a meal out of bread, and I love meat with it. Well,
when Jesus sets the table, he sets it with meat. And you know
what that meat is? My body. Oh, my broken body. My body is meat indeed. And blood? He sets his table
with blood? You say, Bruce, that's somewhat
repulsive. It is if you look at it physically.
But this is soul food. The words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit and they are life. He that eats my flesh and
drinks my blood hath eternal life." Oh, what a supper then. See why it's a great supper.
And listen to this. He not only has bread, he not
only has flesh and blood, but he provides milk. He provides
milk. nourishment, as newborn babes
desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby."
He sets his table with milk. Listen to this. There's water
on his table. I've ate with enough of some
of you to know that almost every meal you drink water. You like
water. Well, the Master sets water on
his table, but it's not ordinary water, Listen to this, what he
said, "...whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give
him shall never thirst again. But there will be in him a well
of living water springing up to life everlasting. If any man
thirst, let him come to me, let him come to the supper that I
set, and drink of this water, the water of life, and he shall
live forever." But listen to this. He also sets wine on his
table. I'm not much of a wine drinker
myself. I like it too much, so I just don't drink it. But they
drink it in the Scripture. And I tell you what wine will
do. It's said in the Scripture to give a man joy. It's the wine
of joy. It'll make a man's spirit glad.
It'll make your soul leap and sing. Wine. And here's what he
says, Come ye, buy and eat, ye coming by wine and milk without
money and without price. Wine. Now there's some times
in my life I say with shame looking back, I know the effects that
wine will have upon you. It'll make you happy. It will
make you too happy. But that's what this wine will
do in your soul. It will make you glad and happy. Come to my table, he said, and
buy wine without money and without price. Why do you spend your
money for that which is not bread, he says, and your labor for that
which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and
eat that which is good, and let your soul satisfy itself with
fatness." This is soul food. Come and dine. And listen to
Proverbs chapter 9. Wisdom has built her house, and
she has hewn out her seven pillars. She has killed her She has mingled
her wine, she has furnished her table, she has sent forth her
maidens, she crieth upon the high places of the city. Whosoever
is simple, let him turn in hither. As for him that lacks understanding,
she says to him, eat of my bread, and drink of my wine that I have
mingled, forsake the foolish, and live, and go in the way of
understanding." Are you simple? Are you foolish? Yet you're invited
here to the Master's table to eat and to drink, and He'll make
you wise. Oh, what a great supper then,
what a great supper. This certain man represents to
us the Lord Jesus Christ, and this supper is the gospel feast. It's the gospel. My soul shall
be satisfied with marrow and fatness. Oh, how sweet are thy
words to my taste. This is the gospel supper. What
am I saying? I'm saying this, the body of
Jesus Christ has been broken for sin, and His blood has been
poured out to make reconciliation. Justice has been satisfied. The Holy Ghost has been sent
to dwell in the heart of everyone who believes upon Him. The work is finished. It's done. The supper's been cooked, it's
been set upon the table. Nothing is required but to come
and dine. Come and dine, the Master called. A certain man made a great supper. Oh, what a great Lord we have.
What a merciful Lord, what a generous Lord that we have. He gave Himself
upon a tree. He bled and poured out His blood
for our sins in great agony. But now, what do we have? Salvation. Reconciliation. Forgiveness of
sins. Life eternal. That's what this
supper is about. That's what it's about. Come
and eat of those things. that will save your soul, that
will give you life everlasting. Well, I'd say such an invitation
would attract the masses. Wouldn't you? I bet you it empties
out the shops. I bet you the places of entertainment
shuts down and turns out their lights and they all head for
the supper. Wouldn't you think that? When
the word gets out to the farmer, I bet you he leaves his plow
sitting in the field, puts the old horse in the barn, the mother
leaves her dishes in the sink, the children stop their chores
and the playing with their toys, and the highways are filled with
people headed to the master's house. Oh, what a supper! Nothing's more important than
the supper. Do you think that happened? We had hoped that would
happen. But knowing man like we know
man, that's not what happened. He says here in verse 18, they
all with one accord began to make excuses. Look in verse 18,
we have the first excuse. Here was a businessman. He was
in real estate, we're told, that he had bought some property and
he said, I've got now to go and check it out to see if it's worth
what I paid for it. Now, that's not very wise, I
would say, would you? To buy a big piece of property.
It obviously was important to him. He had to go see it. But
let me ask you this question. Why didn't this man, instead
of saying, Would you have me excused? I'm going to see my
property." Why didn't he send a little note to the man he bought
the property off of and say, you'll have to excuse me because
I've been invited to the kingdom of God. I can be there tomorrow,
but tonight I'm going to the master's table. Why didn't he
say that? In verse 19 we have another businessman. This man dealt in oxen. He bought and sold oxen. The Scripture says there in verse
18, in verse 19, another said, I bought five yoke of oxen, and
I go to prove them. But listen now. This was in the
evening. This was supper time. And you
that say we shouldn't call it supper, I've got the Scriptures
on my side. You ought to call it dinner,
and dinner is lunch. But with me, lunch is dinner,
and supper is in the evening. And I get that from the Bible.
But it was late in the evening, you see, and here was a man that
said, I'm going over there, I bought some oxen, and I want to hook
them up and crown them. Well, it's not time for that.
It's time to shut the business off. It's supper time. It's time
to go eat. The Master has invited us to
his table. But these aren't reasons, you
see. These are excuses. These are excuses. Now somebody's
going to say, and I imagine this is something more to ponder,
what does it make any difference anyway? Bruce, why even make
an issue out of this? Why try to place guilt and a
burden upon these people for not coming? They're free to buy and sell
and go look at what they've bought. Why are you trying to put guilt
upon them for not coming? They're their own men. Why don't
you just leave them alone? What obligation did they have
to come anyway? Well, that's a good question,
ain't it? That's a good question. Why did the Master get angry
at them for not coming? Were they obligated to come?
Why, no, somebody would say. Don't make a big issue out of
it. Well, I tell you, they knew they were obligated to come.
They made an issue out of it. They didn't just brush it off
for the main part. Both of them said this, I apologize
for not coming, and I pray you have me excused." Oh, they knew
something about this man, didn't they? They knew he was a man
of reputation. They knew when you got an invitation
from this man, you should take it seriously. He was a good man,
a just man, a generous man that helped the community, was well
known. And when you got a note from
him and said, come to the wedding, they knew. They knew. You better give this some serious
thought. Look, that's no mere man. That's no mere man. Oh,
their conscience bothered them. They knew they shouldn't come.
That's why they said, I pray you have me excused. Oh, please tell that man, I know
that I should go. I ought to go. And I know what
I'm going to do instead of going could be put off for another
time, but I pray you, would you tell that good man? I tell you,
they felt an obligation to them. They felt a duty. They knew they
should have went. Maybe you're here today and you're
lost. You're lost. And I've come here to tell you
to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'm nothing but just a servant.
But I tell you that don't leave this place, don't leave this
building without coming first to the Son of God to be saved
by Him. Get rid of all these other things
in your mind of what you've got planned for this afternoon, or
what's going on some other time, and right now, come to the Lord
Jesus Christ. The supper's ready. Come. When? Now. I've not come to entertain you.
I've not come to give you my opinions. I'm just a servant. I'm a slave of the Son of God,
and He sends me to you to say, Come right now. And listen. Listen. If you leave
here without coming to Christ, you're going to feel guilty about
it. You're going to be concerned
about it. You're going to be uneasy that
you didn't. And you know why? Because you
know you ought to come. You know you ought to come. And not sharing my voice and
doing what I tell you my Master tells you to do is going to leave
you without excuse, without a reason. Now, look at the next one. Look in verse 20. Now, here's another fellow, and
he's a little bit more bold than the first fellows. He didn't
even seem like he was going to offer any excuse at all. Look
what he said. And another said, I have married a wife, and I
therefore cannot I cannot cut. Ain't it strange how men will
use things? Adam said, the woman that you
gave me, she made me eat the fruit. Is that what he said?
She made me do it. She just kept on. Here's a man
that says, this wife of mine won't let me come and eat. Blaming
somebody else. But notice this in verse 21. Look at this. So the servant
came and showed his Lord these things. Now here, listen, here. I've got to go back to my master
when I leave the church today. And I've got to tell him why
you won't come. I've got to go tell him. I've
got to say, Lord Jesus, I got up this morning. And I preached
that you had prepared this supper. And I told them that everything
was ready to come and come now. But Lord, they did not come.
I've got to give account of what I've told each one of you this
morning. And if you leave here and you
don't come, I wish you would tell me why so I could go tell
him. If you can give me excuse or
reason why you will not come right now in your heart to the
Son of God, then I wish you would tell me. Then I would go tell
him, Lord, here's what that person told me. Here's what he told
me. See how serious this is? We're
not talking about somebody calling you up and saying, would you
meet me down at McDonald's at 12 o'clock? I want us to have
a Big Mac and a large fry and a Diet Coke and talk things over. This is not a mere man. This
is the God who holds your breath in His will, and He's extended
mercy. You're here this morning because
God has extended mercy to you. Take this serious. Don't give
excuses. Don't brush him off as though
this is not important. This is not a mere man. This
is God speaking. This is God. What do you want me to tell him?
I'm his servant. I've got to tell him something.
I ought to do. I ought to do. I'll just go right
back to him tonight and I'll talk with him about it. Or do
you want me to tell you? You may not want to tell me,
but confront it yourself. If you leave here this morning
and you don't come to this supper, then confront the reason in your
own mind. Verse 18 says, they all with
one accord. You know there's people, and
probably you consider these people here, they probably didn't even
like each other. It could have been they'd known
each other. Let's just suppose that be the case. And this man
who married a wife knew this guy who bought oxen and he didn't
even like him. He despised him. Thought he was
a cheat. And this man who bought land
didn't like the guy that married the wife. Maybe it was an old
girlfriend and he took him away. They didn't even like each other.
They hated each other. But they had this one thing in
common. This one thing that bound them together. All three of them
slighted the goodness of this great man. And you know there's
going to be people standing on the day of judgment. There's
going to be more of us, good people, as far as this world
is concerned, that hated things like murder. They despised things
like lying and theft and rape. But they're going to stand there
at the judgment And they're going to be bound together with these
immoral people? And what's going to bind them
together for all eternity is that none of them would come
to Jesus Christ to be saved by Him. And they'll cuss each other
for all eternity. They couldn't get along in this
life, and they can't get along in that life to come. But they've
got this one thing in common. None of them would come to Christ
for life. With one accord, one accord. Look in verse 21 again. Look
in verse 21. So that servant came and showed
his master these things. And the master of the house,
being angry, angry, Well, I tell you what, to sly mercy, to just
brush off the goodness of God, makes him angry. He gets upset
about that. Mercy is a precious thing. The
offer, the offer of the gospel, and I'm not offended by that,
the offer of the gospel is something that if it's slighted, It offends
the Lord. It makes him angry. And he was
angry. So he said to the servant, look
at this, he said to his servant, go out quickly into the streets
and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor, the maimed,
the haught, and the blind. Here is the poor maimed, the
poor blind, the poor haught. Can you imagine when this servant
went to people like this, and there they sat, some of them
had no legs, probably they were maimed, that's what that means,
missing some limbs. They were crippled, they couldn't
walk, lame in their feet, they were blind. People like this
had no ability to get up and go to the supper. Can you imagine
when the servant walked up to this fellow, and there he sat
and had only one leg? And he couldn't walk on it? And
he was blind to the boot? And the fellow said, listen,
there's a supper. The master has fixed a supper,
and he sent me out to tell you about it. Why, he said, man,
what's the matter with you? Look at me. First of all, I'm
a poor man. I don't have any means. Secondly,
I'm a crippled man. I couldn't walk to get there
if I had to. And thirdly, I'm blind and I
don't even know the way. But there was something the Master
said to this servant this time that he never said the first
time. The first time he sent him out and he said, you bid
them to come. But this time he said, you bring
them. I love that, don't you? You bring them. Can you imagine
you look and here comes this servant and he's got a cart and
he's got it full of blind and crippled and lame. He's got one
sitting on a horse and he's got the other one under his arm leading
him and guiding him. These people have no ability
to get that. They need help getting that.
You may feel that way this morning. You may say, Bruce, I have been
trying to come to the Lord. I have been seeking Him. I have
been praying to Him. To no avail. Well, let me tell
you this. It is not always easy to come
to Christ. I am not saying it is always
easy to come to Christ. But I am saying this. He will
help you come. I tell you, head in that direction.
And you will see. He will give you grace to come. You may be like that fellow that
cried, Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief. But I tell
you, when you start crying, He'll start hearing, and He'll start
helping you to come. He'll do it. He'll do it. He'll help you to believe. He'll
give you grace to come. He'll give you grace to bow before
Him and believe His Word. Draw me, the church said of old. Draw me. Pray that to Him. Draw me. You say, Bruce, I just
don't know the way. Then pray as David did. Lord,
teach me. Teach me. Draw me. Teach me. Bring me. Help me, Lord. I want to be saved. Help me. Help me. Bring them. Bring them in. I love verse 22. I love this servant. What he
said here in verse 22. And the servant said, Lord, see
there who this was? This man was the Lord. And he
said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded. There's the difference. There's
the difference. He sent his servant out first
time to bid them to come. You bid them to come. They're
welcome. They're welcome. I want them to come. Bid them
to come. But this time, it was a commandment, wasn't it? Boy,
this servant knew the difference, too. He knew the difference.
He said, Lord, it's done as Thou hast commanded. Oh, I pray this
morning. I pray this morning, as I try
to preach to you, that the Lord just won't bid you come and leave
it up to you. I pray He'll send a commandment
for you to come. I pray He'll send the Holy Spirit
or His heavenly sovereign servant. And when He comes to your heart,
He'll say, Bud, you're coming today. You've never come before,
but I'm bringing you today. I'm bringing you out of yourself.
I'm bringing you out of the kingdom of darkness. I'm bringing you
out of your sins. I'm bringing you to the Savior.
I've got command from heaven, and you're coming. Oh, I hope
He says that today. I hope He commands it. I tell
you, there's power in the words of the King. And when He sends
out a commandment, hell trembles. Flesh bows. before this King. Oh, as Thou hast commanded. I
love that, don't you? As you have commanded. And this
is what He said. We have done, I have done as
Thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. Oh my! He went out to tell people
to come, to command them to come, knowing all along, knowing all
along, that His Master was able to save every last one that comes
to God by Him. He wasn't afraid that He was
short on grace, that His mercy would be all used up. There's
room. There's room at the cross for
you. Though millions have come, there's yet room for one. There's
room at the cross for you. And verse 23, look at this. And
the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and
hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be full. This was way out in the country.
He left the city and all of its population where there was plenty
of work, and went out into the country, the highways. They used
to build hedges along the highways. Because they had their farms
behind the hedges. They farmed them. They had their
slaves there. The poorest people lived out
in the country. And they would plant these thick hedges where
when people came walking along the road, they could just jump
up in their fields and get the fruits and the vegetables. But
the poor people were out in the country. The poorest of the poor. I never will forget when some
of us went down to Merida, down in Fuquetown. And they had done
told us that they were going to take us out to dinner. I think
it was the night or a couple of nights before we came back
home. They had these haciendas. They
were huge rooms where the owners of plantations would make for
the whole families to get together. They ate and had entertainment
during these haciendas. And they had remodeled this huge
hacienda. And boy, you talk about beautiful. Oh my goodness, they took us
there, Cody and his family, Walter and his family. There's about
30 of us, I think. And I'd never seen such a more
beautiful restaurant in all my life. And they set us down. There
was just one big long table that went probably from here to the
back of the wall. We all sat down at that table. They brought
us all of this food in. True Mexican food. I mean, it
was Mexican food grown and cooked in Mexico. And my, it was good. It was good. But we went out
to the country. We were going out into the country
before we went to the Hacienda. And I never in my life saw such
poverty. It was awful. There's one scene
that's etched in my memory. Here we were. We were dressed
nice. We were in our nice vehicle.
I think that's when they had the Suburbans. And we were going
out into the country and Cody was driving slow. We came up on this one particular
grass hut with just an old dirty floor in it. And outside stood
these two young children. And I made eye contact with a
little boy. And he was so dirty and he was
so ragged. He was barefooted. Walking around
out there in the dirt. You think if we had stopped that
suburban, and got the dad and the mom and their children around,
and we told them, tomorrow night we're going to the Hacienda, and we're going to eat a fine
supper, and we want you fellas to come and go with us. You think
you may have a little difficulty convincing them to go. Yes, you
would have. You sure would have. You know what they would have
said to you? No, that place is not for me. You expect me to
go up there like this? I don't have any clothes for
a place like that. They wouldn't even let me in
the door. I wouldn't feel at home there.
No, no, I'm not going up there. You better get out of here. You're too uppity for me. You're
not up for class. Look, I live in a grass hut with
a dirt floor. Look at myself. Look at my children. I don't even have a razor to
shave my face with. No, I ain't going to Novosibirsk
to eat eloquent food. I tell you, you'd have to do
some arguments, you'd have to do some compelling to get a family
like that to go eat with you at a place like that. There are some people, not many
of them, but there are some people, and I don't know if they've been
awakened by the Lord, I don't know what's going on in their
conscience, in their hearts, but there are some people I don't
know. Maybe it has something to do
with some false humility. I don't know. But I know there
are some people that do not feel themselves worthy to come to
the Lord Jesus Christ. They're so miserable. They're
so sinful in their own eyes. If you mention something about
coming to Christ, oh, that's not for me. That's not for me. That's for your kind of people.
That's for church people. That's for good people. And I'm
telling you what, you'll be hard-pressed. You'll be hard-pressed. You'll
have to compel them. You'll have to constrain them
to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. There are some of those folks
of old that the Prophet told us about. They said, we've loved
strangers, therefore there's no hope. So after them will go. I talked with a man just the
other day, and this broke my heart. He said, I've sinned away
the day of grace, I think. I'm afraid I've sinned away the
day of grace. But what if he hasn't? What if
that's just the devil telling me that? Oh, I ain't worthy to
come any more. I ain't no sense of being gone. The Lord said, compel them to
come in. Why? Because they're the poorest
of the poor. They think they're not welcome
here. Tell them! Tell them! My neighbor
had a bunch of Mexicans yesterday working over at his house. And
I talked to them, but they didn't understand what I was saying.
But, oh, my soul, I wish I could speak Spanish. I wish I could go there and tell
those fellows about a Savior who is mighty to save. Men who
are a long, long way from home, a long way from their family,
whom this world and society looks down upon and accuses of unfit,
come to Christ. Come to Christ. Here's how it happens. Everybody
that comes to this supper has to stop at the door and be washed. Don't they? As soon as you enter
this way, you stop and you're washed. He loved us and washed
us from all our sins. I don't care who you are. I don't care what your occupation
is. You have to be washed to get
into this dinner. And everybody that comes starts
right there. That gives us something in common,
doesn't it? And when you're washed, there's
a robe that you put on. There's a dinner garment that's
given you. And everybody puts them on. And when you get in there, you'll
feel right at home. Because everybody's talking about
the very same thing. The generosity of the master
of the house. The goodness, the grace of the
master of the house. So you see, you'll feel right
at home. Come and welcome, because you'll feel right at home. Isaac Watts said this. How sweet
and awful is the place with Christ within the doors, while everlasting
love displays the choices of His story. While all our hearts
and all our souls join to admire the feast, each of us cry with
thanksful tongues, Lord, why am I a guest? Why was I made
to hear Your voice and enter while there is room? when thousands
made a wretched choice and would rather starve than die. And he
gives the reason. T'was the same love that spread
the feast that sweetly forced us in, else we had still refused
to taste and perish in our sins. Pity the nations, O God! Constrain
the earth to come. Send thy victorious word abroad,
and bring the strangers home. We long to see your churches
full, that all the chosen race, may with one voice in heart and
soul, sing thy redeeming praise. God help us all to come. God
give us grace to come. I will in no wise cast him out. Let's pray.