So thankful to be back here with
you all. Missed being here Wednesday. It was a. It was a needful trip,
but I'm very thankful that we were able to accomplish everything
that we needed to do and the Lord brought us back here safely.
Continue to pray for those who were affected in the church down
there by the hurricane. They're still working diligently
daily and so trust the Lord will meet their needs. If you'd like
to turn with me in your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 10, Deuteronomy
10. I've titled this message, What
the Law Could Not Do. What the Law Could Not Do. In Deuteronomy 10, we see the
Lord is merciful in restoring the two tablets, the Ten Commandments
that were given to Moses in Exodus. And we're actually going to look
at that here in a few minutes. Moses came down off of the Mount
Sinai, and he saw the children of Israel, they had made a golden
calf, and they were worshiping that graven image. They were
worshiping it. And Moses, being in anger, cast
down the tablets, and he broke them when he threw them down.
And so the law was no longer with them. They no longer had
those words written anymore. And here we find the Lord was
merciful in restoring the two tablets unto them. In verse one
of chapter 10 of Deuteronomy, it says, at that time the Lord
said unto me, hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first
and come up unto me into the mount and make thee an ark of
wood. And I will write on the tables,
the words that were in the first tables, which thou breakest and
thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of shittum
wood and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and
went up into the mount having the two tables of my hand. And
he wrote on the tables according to the first writing, the 10
commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out
of the midst of the fire in the days of the assembly, and the
Lord gave them unto me. And I turned myself and came
down from the mount and put the tables in the ark which I had
made, and there they be as the Lord commanded me." Now this
law was given for one purpose and one purpose only. It reveals
our sin. It identifies our sin. If you
think about whenever you clean, you ladies, I know we cleaned
this building pretty good when we moved in and you could definitely
get dust upon your hands whenever you first came into this place
or any place that hasn't been used for a while. Even your house
will collect dust over just a little bit of time. If you take a white
glove and you were to go around this place, you would find that
there's dirt hidden still that you can't see. And the best way
I can describe our sin would be, and this is a poor example,
but it would be the same thing as taking a white glove and sticking
it into ashes from a fire and how dirty that would make the
white glove. That's that's how sinful we are. That's how dirty
we are in the Lord's sight. But this was why the law was
given to show us that filth that that uncleanness in and of ourselves
to reveal it to shine a light on it and to expose our sin. Now the Lord doesn't change any
words whenever he tells him to write the The law, again, he
tells him to write the exact same thing, so it doesn't change,
and it still hasn't changed today. God's law is holy. And before
you start being concerned that I'm gonna preach a message as
lawmongering, that's not where we're heading this hour, but
it is important that we understand why the law was given, and it's
important to understand that the law was given the second
time the exact same way as the first time, because God does
not change. He's immutable. He changeth not. And so the Lord
here in verse two tells them to write the words that were
in the first table, which thou breakest. And that's exactly
what he did. Now the law cannot do certain
things. What the law cannot do is it
cannot redeem. It cannot save. The law cannot
make one righteous or make one holy. It cannot. It exposes what
we are. It exposes that we are sinners.
The law cannot put away our sin. The law cannot put away our sin.
And the law cannot enact justice twice. For the Lord's people,
justice was executed upon the darling Son of God on the cross
of Calvary. And when that law was satisfied
with the Lord Jesus Christ, all those who were in the Lord Jesus
Christ The law has nothing to say against them. We are in the
Lord Jesus Christ seated in the heavenlies, even now, the scripture
says. Cannot enact justice twice. Turn
with me to Romans chapter eight. I'd like to look at that. We'll see what the law says about
the Lord's people in Romans chapter eight. It's very clear. Romans chapter eight, verse one,
there is therefore now. And I'm going to say this probably
every time I read this, because I love the word now. It doesn't
just say there is therefore no condemnation. It says now. So
when is it now? Well, it's now right now. And
now it's now, and now it's now. I just love that. It's never
going to change. because the Lord's the one that said it.
There is now, therefore, no condemnation. The law has nothing to say. There
is no condemnation to who? Them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. Now there's
enough rope right there for a man to hang himself with, if I can
put it that way, because it says, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the spirit. And I've preached this before here. But the reason
that we walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit is because
we've been made to walk after the spirit, not after the flesh.
This is not the Lord saying, okay, there's no condemnation,
but you have to live this way in order for there to be no condemnation.
That's not what he's saying. That'd be contradictory, wouldn't
it? There's now therefore no condemnation because we have
been made to walk after the spirit. We have a new man, a new nature
that looks unto Christ for all in our salvation. Verse two continues
on by saying, for the law of the spirit of life in Christ
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For
what the law could not do, that's the title of this message, what
the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh,
God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and
for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. For what purpose? And verse four tells us that
the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who
walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit." I wish I could
understand what that means. The righteousness of the law
is fulfilled in us. Think about that. The righteousness
of the law is fulfilled in us. Why? Because we are in Christ
Jesus, that's why. That's our hope. Our hope is
not keeping the law. The law is holy and we cannot
attain to it. Our hope is that we are in Christ. Therefore,
it is fulfilled. The righteousness of the law
is fulfilled in us. We see here that he tells us the reason that
Christ had to come because. It says it was weak through the
flesh for what the law could not do in that it was weak through
the flesh. Well, that doesn't change the law, does it? Certainly
not. The flesh doesn't change the
law. It must be kept perfectly. God's law demands justice if
there is but one sin upon a person. And Christ Jesus bore the sin
of his people and successfully put them away. That's how the
righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us, because it's in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now turn with me back to Deuteronomy
chapter 10. And both hours this morning, we're going to be going
to several passages of scripture. Usually I don't do that. Y'all
know that, but it's necessary for us to do that. So bear with
me. Deuteronomy chapter 10, look
at verse four. And he wrote on the tables, according to the
first writing, the 10 commandments, which the Lord spake unto you
in the mount out of the midst of the fire and the day of the
assembly. And the Lord gave unto him, unto me, And I turned myself
and came down from the mount and put the tables in the ark
which I had made. And there they be as the Lord
commanded me." I want you to notice the words that's used
right here. He says he put the tables in
the ark. Now that ark is the mercy seat. Do we know that? The ark of the
Lord is the mercy seat. And the mercy seat is where the
Lord said, here's where I'll meet with you. By the shedding
of blood, they would bring in a sacrifice for atonement. and they would come in with the
sacrificial blood of the lamb and they would sprinkle it upon
the mercy seat. This is the Lord Jesus Christ represented in the
old scripture. So what is he telling us by telling
us that the tables were in the ark? Well, we know that it was
the Lord's will to do the Father's will. the commandments of the
Lord, the 10 commandments, the law of God was written on the
heart of Christ. He was going to please his father. He knew the law. He had made
the law. So he was going to successfully
accomplish salvation by keeping this law. It was in him. Just
as he's saying the tables are in the ark, it was in the Lord.
It was in his heart to honor the father and to keep those
commandments, to keep the law completely for his people. Let
me show you that Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10. Let's look at verse seven. Then said I, lo, I come. In the
volume of the book, it is written of me, to do thy will, O God. That was his purpose. Christ's
sole purpose was to do the will of his father. Above when he
said sacrifice and offerings and burnt offerings and offerings
for sin, thou wouldest not, neither haths pleasure therein, which
are offered by the law. Then said he, lo, I come to do
thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that
I may establish the second, by the which we are sanctified through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. He tells us here by the which
will we are sanctified. Well, whose will? Was it by the
will of man or by the will of God? It was the Lord's will that
he might sanctify us by his own body, by his own blood. He established
the first. He didn't do away with the law.
In order for God to be satisfied, justice had to be served. Death,
death had to be executed. And it was, it was executed upon
the Lord Jesus Christ for his people, bearing our sin in his
body. He executed his son that he might establish the first,
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. that he would
take it the way the first that he would establish the second
I misspoke. Now understand that we cannot
keep one commandment of the Lord, not one. If we broke one of God's
laws at any time, we've broken them all. We are guilty. The
Lord does not judge based upon your intentions or my intentions. The Lord does not judge based
upon what we would like to be or that we tried our best or
that we've lived a good life. I talked to a man last week,
I believe it was, and he said, I hope when I get there, I've
done enough that he'll let me come in. And you can't do enough. How much is enough? You have
to be perfect. You have to be perfect. That's what God demands,
perfection. And only the Lord Jesus Christ did that. I would
like to examine this in Exodus chapter 20, if you'll turn there
with me. Lord Jesus Christ kept all of
these unto his father. Exodus chapter 20 and God in
verse one. And God spake all these words,
saying, I am the Lord that God which have brought thee out of
the land of Egypt. I love the Lord's authority when he speaks,
don't you? "'I am the Lord thy God.'" That wasn't a opinion,
that's a fact. I love the Lord's authority.
"'I am the Lord thy God, "'which have brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, "'out of the house of bondage.'" That is what he
has done for his people, isn't it? He brought us out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and enabled us to
worship him, caused us to look unto Christ. Therefore, he says
in verse three, "'Thou shalt have no other gods before me.'"
Now, from the very beginning of the scripture, we see Adam
and Eve were placed into a garden and they were given one law,
one. We've been given, people say
that the Ten Commandments is the full law of the Lord. There's,
I think there's 60 different laws that were given to the Levites
alone for worship. And so we don't know all the
laws of the Lord. We'd have to study and figure
it out. There's no way we can keep it. We rest in Christ, right?
They were given one law, that was it. They weren't given 10,
they weren't given 60, they were given one and they couldn't keep
that. And when Adam and Eve died physically, when they died spiritually,
that caused them to die physically as well. The wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is eternal life. They couldn't keep
the one law, but why? What was the reasoning behind
that? Well, it was the temptation. Eve was promised power, she was
promised pleasure, and she was promised popularity if she would
take up the forbidden fruit. The scripture says that Satan
only changed one word from what God had said. He said, the Lord
knows that in the day you eat of this tree, ye shall not surely
die. He changed one word, didn't he?
He added the word not. That was it. And she believed
it. She said when she saw the fruit, that it was able to make
one wise, that it was appealing to the eye, she took it and she
ate it, didn't she? And because of her, In our father,
Adam, we all died in them. By the disobedience of one, all
were made sinners. So by the obedience of one shall
many be made righteous. So we need a substitute. No matter
whether we think that we've committed a trespass against the Lord and
against his law, we did it in our father, Adam. We were in
his loins when he committed that sin, and therefore we are guilty.
Our blood is polluted. That's why we need the shed blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ, because his was not. It's perfect blood. Now, men are doing the same thing. They are changing the truth of
God into the lie, and they are worshiping and serving the creature
more than the creator. What is the creature? Is that
a graven image that we have made that sits on our shelf? Certainly
not. There's some people that may do that, but when he's talking
about the creature, he's talking about this creature. As I point
to myself, I'm telling you, this is the creature that we worship
ourself. We worship, we love ourself. And even if people say,
I don't love myself, that's not true. If you think about the
next time, well, I won't even mention that. We love ourself,
that's our problem. We exalt ourself too highly.
We think too highly of ourself, don't we? As soon as something
bad happens, we begin to say, woe is me. We begin to murmur,
we begin to complain. That is evidence of our love
for ourself. We don't put each other above esteem one another
above each other like we should, but the Lord has given us a heart.
And the scripture says, you know, you've passed from death unto
life because you love the brethren. The Lord's given us a heart to
love the brethren. He certainly has. That's why that same heart that
he's given us of the new man, when he says thou shalt have
no other gods before me, we realized that we were guilty of that.
And we are guilty of that. But you know what? That new man
has no other God besides the Lord Jesus Christ. We kept the
law perfectly in the Lord Jesus Christ. You will never hear a
believer deny that Christ is God, that he successfully accomplished
salvation. You'll never hear a believer
do that. He's been made to believe that. That's the confession of
the believer. That's what's in his heart. So
therefore, we don't have any other gods before the Lord in
that regard. Our new man, our new man is seen
perfect in Christ Jesus. What a glorious hope. Let's read on. He says in this
next verse, verse number four, thou shalt not make into the
any graven image. Now, there's many different images
that come to mind, whether it's a picture I know around Christmas
time, we get nativity scenes out and different things like
that and. Don't do that, it's just not of the Lord. It's a
graven image. Crosses, things of that nature, pictures of Jesus,
these are graven images. These are not things that we
do in order to identify with society or to make us look like
we're Christians and we're marked by something. The Lord tells
us clearly not to do that here. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ
never had a graven image. He looked unto his Father. He
constantly was in focus of his father. That was the image that
was in his mind, to honor his father. So even if we are guilty
of this, we kept it in the Lord Jesus Christ. We've never done
it in the Lord's eyes. He's put away our sin. That's
the good news of the gospel. Let's continue reading. Verse
seven, I'm sorry. Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain. Now, men would say that there's
two ways that you can interpret this. Number one, you could say
not to use the Lord in a blasphemous way. And that's certainly true.
We shouldn't do that at all. That would make it empty or worthless
or nothing. It would devalue the name. And
that's certainly not what we do as believers. We look unto
the Lord and we use his name reverently. We look unto him
as holy and we see that. We don't use it in vain in that
regard. But another way to look at this is in marriage. When
my wife married me, she took my name. When your spouse married
you, they took your name. And so for us to take the name
of the Lord in vain could be used in that contrast where we
don't value the Lord in regards to His finished work. That's
what men do by nature. They will not have this man reign
over them. So thanks be to the Lord, we have not taken His name
in vain. He has given us His name and
He has a name that's been highly exalted above every name. The next law that was given,
the next commandment is verse eight, remember the Sabbath day
and keep it holy. Now to the Lord's people, we
understand that this Sabbath is the Lord Jesus Christ. It's
not a day of the week. There's been so many religions
formed upon things where people see something. Matter of fact,
every religion is formed by somebody thinking they're seeing something
that nobody else has saw before. The Seventh-day Adventists believe
that they worship on Saturday because it's the seventh day
of the week, and they're the only ones going to heaven because
of it. The Lord is our Sabbath. The Lord is our Sabbath. All
these laws were given to us to show us we can't keep the Lord's
law. Disciples in Matthew chapter
12, they were hungry. And it was the Sabbath day. And
they go to pick ears of corn. And the Pharisees, which by the
way, Pharisee by definition means separated ones. They saw themselves
as holy. They thought they were something
special. They were the separated ones from society. They were
better than other men. They come walking up to the Lord
and they think, well, we're going to accuse him now because the
disciples shouldn't be doing this on the Sabbath day. And
they rebuke him openly. And the Lord reminds them of
David in the Bible, when he was fleeing from Saul, he goes into
the temple and he takes the showbread, the bread that was reserved for
the worship of God. He had no business eating that
bread, but he was hungry. He was hungry. And the Lord doesn't
give condemnation in that regard to that. He says unto them, but
if you had known what this meaneth, Well, everything that he's telling
them right then, he said, if you know what this means, I will
have mercy and not sacrifice. If you knew what that meant,
you would not have condemned the guiltless. Literally his
disciples are breaking the law of the Sabbath right then. But
the Lord's telling the Pharisees, these are the ones that are guiltless.
How can that be? Because the Lord Jesus Christ
kept the law for them. They're guiltless before the
Lord. They are guiltless and the Lord's people are guiltless
before him because of what he done. The Lord goes on to say,
for the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. Christ is God's
Sabbath. We rest on Him. All of these
are just types and pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ. We rest
on our Sabbath day, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, the next one
is found in verse 12. Honor thy
father and thy mother. Now, the scripture is very clear.
In Ephesians chapter six, verse one, it says, children, obey
your parents and the Lord, for this is right. Honor thy father
and thy mother, which is the first commandment with promise.
Now, we don't honor our mother and father the way that we should,
because we're, as I mentioned before, we think too highly of
ourself, and I can spend some time with my dad and get pretty
frustrated pretty quickly. And likewise for most of you,
I'm certain. But this honoring is something that the Lord Jesus
Christ did all the time to his father. There was never a time
when the Lord Jesus Christ was on the earth that he did not
honor his father. So we have kept the law in Christ
in that regard. He honored his father perfectly.
You and I can't honor the Lord because we're sinful. We can
only worship him if he causes us to worship him. We can only
honor him if he causes us to look unto him and do so. Physically
speaking, honoring our mother and father is the first commandment
promise. It says that thy days may be
long upon the earth. Mom and dad know a little bit
more than we do whenever we're growing up. Most of the time,
they kept us out of trouble. They taught us the things, but
most importantly, mom and dad's responsibility is to teach the
responsibility to come worship God, to teach them that there
is a God, to teach them the reverence and respect the Lord. That is
our responsibility as parents. The Scripture tells us clearly
to chasten our children, and I remember in religion, I always
thought that chastening means to get a belt out and whoop your
kid. That's not what chastening means. Chastening means to teach
them. Is our Lord not teaching us to
look unto Christ? Whenever we have trials and things
that we go through, is not the Lord bringing us and turning
us again unto Him and turning us again unto Him? He's teaching
us the way we should go. He's saying, seek my face one
more time. Just like Peter walking on the water when Peter He literally
walked on the water. He literally had the ability.
The Lord gave him the faith to look to Christ long enough to
walk on the water. And yet when he took his eyes off of Christ,
he began to sink and he said, Lord, save me. That's what the
Lord does is he leaves us to ourself just for a moment and
causes us to cry out to him. That's how he teaches his children. Now in verse six, I'm sorry,
in number six in verse 13 is thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt
not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Now, these
kind of go hand in hand because by man's standards, we could
honestly say that we've never killed anybody in our life. Maybe
some of us have here. I don't know. I doubt it. But
or adultery for that matter. But the scripture is clear that
murder is not not because you physically done the act. The
scripture likens hate unto murder. If you hate your brother without
a cause, you're a murderer. The Lord's standards are not
our standards. His ways are not our ways. He tells us that If
you look upon a woman to lust after her, you've committed adultery
in your heart. We're guilty, brethren. We are guilty of breaking
every law of God, but thanks be to God, we have a substitute
in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's our hope. That's our good
news. We're not trying to steal. Now,
we're guilty of wanting to rob God of his glory. Men do by nature,
but we're not guilty of stealing any longer because Christ never
tried to steal the glory from God. He said, glorify thy son.
He asked to be glorified. And he said that he was going
to be glorified in us in John 17. But we do not want to rob
God of His glory. We need Christ. We need Christ. Verse 16 says thou shalt not
bear false witness against thy neighbor. Men lie all the time
to gain and men lie all the time and they say things they lie
on God is who they lie on. Primarily they lie and say things
like God has a wonderful plan for your life. Have you ever
heard that? God never planned anything, do we know that? Not
one time will you find in the scripture that God planned something.
God purposes and he just does it. If he purposed it, it's going
to come to pass. You and I being right here is
not a happenstance. It's not a situational, just
based upon things getting in line. This is God bringing us
here on purpose and it came to pass. We've met at Holy Grace
Church on this day, October 9th. That's what's happening. Every
second that's ticking is God's seconds. And everything that
he does is perfect. He's not planning. He's not trying. He does. I love the fact that
when the Lord spoke, it was truth, no matter what. It wasn't just
truth because that's all he could do. That's true. God cannot lie,
but it's truth because of who he was. He was the truth. So
whatever proceeded out of his mouth was instantly truth, immediately
truth because of who he was as his person. You and I can't tell
the truth. We come from our mother's womb
speaking lies. Do we see the difference? We
need the one that spoke truth all the time. We need the one
that pleased God, that satisfied God. I need to be in Him or I
have no hope of eternal life. And the last one to look at is
verse 17. Thou shalt not covet. Men covet
by wanting to be God. They want to be God. We want
what we can't have. Men always want what we can't
have. And if somebody was to disagree with me in that, I would
say, then why is Amazon a $500 billion company? It's because
whenever I come to your house and I see you have a certain
item and I say, well, I like that. I'd like to have me that.
And I'll get on Amazon and I'll go ahead and buy it. And the
next day it'll be on my doorstep. Sometimes the same day. We covet, don't
we? We covet one another and their
things, but you know, the Lord Jesus Christ never coveted. He
said, the foxes have holes, the birds of the air have nests,
but the Son of Man hath no place to lay his head. He didn't come
here to have things. He come here to do the will of
God and to save his people. Do you believe he saved his people?
He was successful. He was successful. He perfectly,
perfectly looked unto the Father. Now I'll remind us again what
the law cannot do. It cannot redeem. It cannot save. It curses us. We are cursed under
the law. It exposed our sin. Did you know
that the Lord Jesus Christ had to be cursed in order to redeem
his people? Scripture says cursed is everyone
that hangs upon a tree. The Lord Jesus Christ had to
become the cursed thing for his people. He had to bear our sin
in his own body. He who knew no sin became sin
for his people. and he satisfied the justice
of God. He saved his people. The law
couldn't redeem us. The law couldn't save us. The
law couldn't make us righteous, but the Lord Jesus Christ did
successfully. The law also can't enact justice
twice. So do you know what that means?
If you are in the Lord Jesus Christ right now, if you are
in him, justice has been satisfied. It can't say anything against
you. God is just and the justifier. God's law was given very simply
to make us guilty before the Lord, to reveal our sin, to expose
our corruption, to expose what we are, and to show us our need
of a substitute to drive us to Christ. That's why the Lord's
law was given. Romans chapter three, verse 19
says, now we know that what things, whoever the law saith, it saith
to them that are under the law. that every mouth may be stopped
and all the world may become guilty before God. Brethren, we're not under the
law because Christ Jesus fulfilled the law and we fulfilled it in
him. That's good news. I'm not trying
to please God in order to obtain salvation. I'm looking to my
substitute. I'm praying he causes me to look
unto the substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ, who successfully
honored his father, who successfully kept the law. And this is our hope. This is
our hope being found in him, not having my own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of
Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith being found
in him. That's what we're pleading for
right now. Lord calls us to be found in you, calls us to understand
and know that we are the center and you are the Savior. Brethren,
we don't glory in our sin. We're not proud of the fact that
we break these laws. We're not proud of the fact of
what we are. We've been made sinners. We don't go around bragging
about our sin. I wrote an article on that in the bulletin. What
do we brag on? The grace and mercy of God. We
praise Him and ask Him to cause us to look unto Him and rest
in Him. We're not proud that we're sinners. We're just proud
that the Lord came to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Our pride
comes in our substitute, in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where
our praise goes. Not to ourself because we're bad. Now turn with
me in closing to Galatians chapter 2. Galatians chapter 2. Galatians chapter 2 and verse
15 says we who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles.
We know that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but
by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus
Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not
by the works of the law. Well, that's about as clear as
you can get it, isn't it? We are not justified by the works
of the law. We're justified by the faith of Christ. It's not
our faith. It's not something we produce. It's the faith of
Christ that's justified us. that we might be justified by
the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law, for by
the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if while
we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners,
is there for Christ the minister of sin? God forbid, perish the
thought. Perish the thought, the Lord
is not the minister of sin, he's the minister of righteousness
and the law shows us that we are the chief of sinners and
we need his faith to be justified before God. Therefore, there's
only two kinds of people in this world, only two. Those that are
saved under the gospel, those that are saved under his doing,
those that are justified by his faith and those who perish under
the law. The law can only speak to those
who are under it, and only the ones that are not under it are
the Lord's people because he hath put away their sin. The
law cannot speak against them. We have been made the righteousness
of God in the Lord Jesus Christ because he bore our sin in his
own body. What the law could not do, what the law could not
do, Christ Jesus successfully did it for his people. Amen. Father, we ask that you would
bless your word. The Lord calls us to rest in Christ, calls us
to look unto Him for all in our salvation. It's in Christ's name
we pray, Amen.