We'll have the Lord's table after
this morning's service. No evening service today. Remember those
who have requested prayer, especially Perry Shell, Pat Forkiller, Pat
Sweeney, Melvin Ledford, John Grabowski, Buford and Jesse Smith,
and the family of Juanita Stamper. Sharon called us this morning
and said she's got to take a COVID test. She'd been around somebody
who's had COVID. She tested on Wednesday and tested negative. But they want her to wait five
days to test again. And she broke a crown on her tooth. So she won't be here this morning.
Remember her in your prayers. Other than that, I can't think
of any announcements. So let's begin our worship service
with hymn number 129 at the cross. Yes. Lead poisoning. Well, how do you get lead poisoning? Oh, okay. My goodness. Well,
that's not good because that stuff lasts for a long time.
It's hard to get rid of heavy metals out of your system. Okay,
hymn number 129. Alas, and did my Savior bleed,
and did my Sovereign die? that sacred hymn, O such a work
as I. At the cross, at the cross, where
I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away,
it was there by grace I received my sight. And now I am happy
all the day Was it for crimes that I have done He groaned upon
the tree ♪ Grace unknown and love beyond
degree ♪ ♪ At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light
♪ ♪ And the burden of my heart rolled away ♪ ♪ It was there
my grace I received ♪ When Christ, the Mighty Maker,
died and rose again, At the cross, at the cross, where
I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away. It was there by grace I received
my sight, and now I am happy all the day. Canary Bay, the debt of love
I owe. Here, Lord, I give myself away. Here's all that I can do. At the cross, at the cross, where
I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away. It was there by grace I received
my sight, and now I am happy all the day. After Scripture reading and prayer,
we will sing hymn number 6, Come Thou Almighty King. If you
have your Bibles, turn to the Epistle of Jude, just before
the Revelation, the Epistle of Jude. I am going to read the entire Epistle,
only 24 verses. The Epistle of Jude. Jude, the
servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to them that are sanctified
by God the Father, preserved in Jesus Christ and called, there's
three wonderful things there, mercy unto you and peace and
love be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence
to write unto you the common salvation, it was needful for
me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly
contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints,
For there are certain men crept in unawares who are before of
old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace
of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God
and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance,
though you once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the
people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that
believed not And the angels, which kept not their first estate,
but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting
chains under darkness, under the judgment of the great day.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, in like
manner giving themselves over to fornication, going after strange
flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal
fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers, defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael, the archangel, when
contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses,
durst not bring him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord
rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those
things which they know not. But what they know naturally
as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves, woe
unto them. Well, they have gone the way
of Cain, and ran greedily after the heir of Balaam, and have
rewarded and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. These are
spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding
themselves without fear. Clouds are they without water. carried about of winds, trees
whose fruit withereth without fruit, twice dead plucked up
by the roots, raging waves of the sea foaming out their own
shame, wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of
darkness. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied
of these things, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand
of his saints, to execute judgment upon all and convince all that
are ungodly, among them all of their ungodly deeds which they
have ungodly committed, and all their hard speeches which ungodly
sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their own lust, their mouths speak of great swelling
words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
But beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before
of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, how they told you that
there should be mockers in the last times who should walk after
their own ungodly lust. These are they who separate themselves
sensual, having not the spirit. But ye, beloved, building up
yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
keeping yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy
of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. and of some having
compassion, making a difference, others saving with fear, pulling
them out of the fire, hating even the garments bodied with
the flesh. Now to him that is able to keep you from falling
and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory
with exceeding joy, to the only wise God, our Savior, be glory
and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Let us pray. We are thankful for your word
that tells the truth about who you are and what we are. It pulls
no punches on the depravity of humanity and clearly sets forth
the glory of your sovereign majesty. We thank you that we have such
a word that we can rely upon and rest upon. For in a world
that is full of lies, this is the truth. We can count on this. set our affections on things
above and not on things of the earth. Where Christ our life
is, we are dead, and our life is hid with Christ in God. And
when he shall appear, we shall appear with him also. Help us,
Lord, to realize and appreciate what we have when we have this
book in our midst. We thank you for it. We thank
you for the shed blood of Jesus Christ that put away our sin
by the sacrifice of himself. We thank you that he reigns even
now in dominion and power and wisdom. We thank you that that
sacrifice satisfied your law's requirements so much to the point
that you remember our sins no more, so much to the place that
there is no grounds upon which the law or the devil or ourselves
or you can ever charge us with sin. We thank you for such a
wondrous thought of this great forgiveness that is ours. As
we go through this day, the preaching of the gospel, the taking of
the Lord's table, let us do so with joy in our hearts and the
knowledge of what Jesus Christ came to do, He did, accomplished
it fully, and saved all those for whom He came. We praise you
and thank you for it. Help us to remember those who
are sick, those who are going through trials and tribulation.
We ask, Lord, your help for them. Strengthen them in Jesus Christ.
Help their bodies, if it be according to you a good pleasure. You know
it's our desire that they be healed. And help us now to worship
you in spirit and in truth. We pray in Christ's name. Amen. M number six. ♪ Come Thou Almighty King ♪ ♪ Help
us I name to sing ♪ ♪ Help us to praise ♪ ♪ Father all glorious
♪ ♪ O'er all victorious ♪ ♪ Come and reign over us ♪ ♪ Ancient
of days ♪ ♪ Come thou incarnate word ♪ ♪ Gird on thy mighty sword
♪ ♪ Our prayer attend ♪ ♪ Come and thy people bless ♪ ♪ And
give thy word success ♪ ♪ Spirit of holiness on us descend ♪ ♪
Come Holy Comforter ♪ ♪ Thy sacred witness bear ♪ ♪ In this glad
hour ♪ ♪ Thou who almighty art ♪ ♪ Come Holy Comforter ♪ ♪ Every
heart and name from us depart ♪ ♪ Spirit of power ♪ to the
great one in three. Eternal praises be, it's ever
more. May we in glory see, and to eternity
love and adore. I'm going to ask Steve to receive
the office this morning. There's only a few of us, so
I think one will do. Let us pray. Father, again, we
approach in the blessed name of perfect righteousness, through
the blood of Jesus Christ, through that perfect death. We thank
you, Father, that you have given him to your children, and with
him have freely given them all things. We have nothing but our
sin that we can claim as our own. All good and perfect gifts
that we have received, we receive from above, from the Father of
lights, in whom there is no variable, there's no shadow of turning.
We thank you, Father, that you have bestowed upon us your sovereign
grace, your matchless mercies and renew us every day in our
mind and our heart and fix our eyes upon Christ. Help us now
to render unto thee that which you've given us. We pray in Christ's
name. Amen. the the I invite your attention back
to the epistle of Jude. Jude says a great deal in this
little chapter, this little epistle, this church he wrote to the church,
or this epistle he wrote to the church in general. Makes no bones about pointing
out those who are opposed to the gospel and describes them
in several very important and reasonable ways. But the entire book, or the entire
epistle of Jude, addresses two basic important principles that
pertain to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an explicit
charge to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints. That gospel that came from Christ
and from the church in the early days. When he talks about the
FAITH, he is not talking about OUR FAITH that God has given
us in order for us to BELIEVE the gospel, but he is talking
about THE FAITH that is the same DOCTRINE that was delivered UNTO
the believer and to whom the believer was delivered UNTO back
in Romans chapter 6. Paul wrote these words in verse
17 and 18, but God be thanked. that ye were servants of sin,
but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was
delivered you. Being then made free from sin,
ye became the servants of righteousness, and that righteousness is revealed
only one place. It is not revealed in your lives
because there is none righteous, no, not one. It is revealed singularly
in the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul said in
Romans 1 and verse 16, For I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. for therein,
that is in that gospel, therein is the righteousness of God revealed
from faith to faith as it is written, the just shall live
by faith. Now the wording back in our text
in Jude, and this is the text I want us to take this morning,
is in verse 24 and verse 25, it says, for now unto him that
is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless
before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy to the only
wise God our Savior be glory and majesty and dominion and
power both now and forevermore. Now the wording here in Jude
is important because it sets forth a positive rather than
a negative when he says contend for the faith once delivered
to the saints. usually when contending is considered
it involves a for and against scenario but here the believer
is to contend for the gospel though he speaks against many
things here and many kinds of false teachers here he said we're
to contend for the gospel for the gospel the enemies of God
are ever present and as numerous as the imagination of men can
come up with the believers contending is not against them per se but
rather is for something. It's for the gospel. This is
what the believer is separated unto. Paul said, I was separated
unto the gospel. People talk about separation,
especially religious people talk about separation from the world
and separation from the bars and the bordellos and separation
from bad people and things like that. The gospel speaks about
being separated unto something. separated unto something to contend
FOR the faith once delivered for the saints. This is what
the believer is separated unto. This simply states that the matter
of contending is singular and it is simple. It is the EMPLOYMENT
of the gospel. That is how we contend. The believer
is not to waste his time in studying the tactics and doctrines and
wiles and errors of those who oppose the gospel. He is to contend
for the faith by continually declaring the faith. You see,
only light, only light discloses that which lurks in darkness.
That's the only thing that discloses. It is clear by the manner of
the enemy's approach, they crept in unawares, it says here in
verse 4, that they operate covertly as to intention, they are creepy,
but overtly they are in physical proximity to the assembly. He
says they're spots on your feasts of charity. They're there. They're
in the church. The gospel reveals their intention
by setting the truth alongside their error. I can't tell you
how many young preachers I've talked to over the years and
I've said what Henry Mahan said to me many years ago. He said
the only way to find out if a stick is crooked is to lay a straight
stick beside it. That's the only way. You can't
tell if something's crooked unless there's something straight laid
beside it. We know what's false because we know what's true.
We know what's true. A counterfeit is very close.
It's designed. When somebody counterfeits a
$20 bill, they don't put Donald Duck's picture on it, do they? Of course they don't. Why? Because they want it to look
like a $20 bill. And so the bank tellers and the
people in the Treasury Department, they studied the real bill, the
real $20 bill. They get to know it front and
back, so if a false bill comes up, they'll be able to spot it
because it's not like the true, and that's why we preach the
gospel over and over again. The gospel is what it is to contend
for the faith. Contending for the faith is nothing
more and nothing less and nothing else than declaration of the
gospel, the good news of what Christ has done. Secondly, this
epistle is a warning to believers to be careful. because these
enemies are clever and seek to take advantage of men, and since
this is a warning, it stands to reason that the believer is
vulnerable to their appeal to the flesh." You know, we're not,
you know, people talk about being super-Christians and all that
stuff. We're not. We're weak, frail things, and we can succumb
to false teaching easily because false teaching I said is a counterfeit.
Men are not going to come. I'm not worried about the fellow
over in Rome with the funny hat. I know he's false. It's obvious. He's not going to fool me. I'm
not worried about those who practice these foolishness of these movements
where people speak in tongues and stuff like that. I'm not
fooled by that. The Bible's clear on that. I'm
not fooled by that. What would fool me? for someone
to come along and talk about the gospel of God's sovereign
grace but somehow try to get me to go back under the law or
to trust in my own obedience as part of my salvation. That's the counterfeit. And the
only way to do that is to preach the gospel, the good news that
salvation was accomplished from stem to stern, from alpha to
omega, from a to zizard, by the work of the Lord Jesus Christ
alone and nothing else. We're to contend for the faith
once delivered to the saints. But this is a warning. You say,
well, I succumbed. Well, Peter did. And anyhow,
didn't he? Didn't Barnabas? They were having
fellowship with those believers that were saved by grace who
trusted in the merits holy of Jesus Christ. But when the Judaizers
came in down to Antioch, they began to talk about, Well, you
know, you've got to be obedient. You've got to keep the law. You've
got to be circumcised. You know, you've got to do that.
You just can't let go of those things. You've got to do those
things too. And Peter succumbed. And so did Barnabas. Peter walked
with Christ. He was part of the inner circle. Peter, James, and John were the
three that always traveled close with the Lord Jesus Christ, and
he walked away from those Gentiles that had been saved by grace.
He walked away from them, stopped fellowship with them. Why? He
was fooled for a little bit. Paul said to him, I don't frustrate
the grace of God, and that word frustrate is a real weak translation
if the word is actually, I don't despise the grace of God. What
you're doing here by leaving the fellowship of those saved
by grace and joining up with those who want to insinuate the
law into a believer's life, you're saying you despise God's grace. That's a pretty big deal. How
in the world can we stop that? How can the world avoid contending
for the faith once delivered to the saints? These men who
have crept in unawares are described as to their character and their
tactics. And because of their ability to blend in and fit in
with the church, the believer is at risk of falling into temptation. Elsewise, God would not warn
us about it. It is, however, made clear that the presence
of these men in the church is part of God's plan. There must
need to be heresies among you that that which is true might
be manifest, he says in Corinthians. They are ordained to this condemnation,
so no matter their intentions and tactics, they will not ultimately
prosper. They're going to be condemned.
They are condemned and they're ordained to that condemnation.
Also, since these men are things of time and tide, their presence
will ultimately work for the good of them that love God. To
them are called according to his purpose. Having been given
this information, the believer is not to contend with these
ordained creepers, but rather to declare the faith, the gospel,
and take care to watch and pray that he does not succumb to their
wiles. However, since the warning exists, and this is something
you ought to do when you read the Scriptures, when you see
an admonition, say, ìThis could happen to me.î When you see a
warning, say, ìThis could happen to me.î Elsewise God would not
have put the warning in there. He is not just throwing things
out for willy-nilly. He is telling us something that
COULD happen to us. There is a real possibility that
some believers or any believer may fall prey to the error. That's
why Jude wrote this letter. With the abundance of information
given, the solution to all this is clearly stated in the last
two verses. The conclusion of the epistle is this, Now unto
Him that is able to keep you from
falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory
with exceeding joy, to the only wise God and Savior, to be glory
and majesty, dominion and power both now and forever, Amen to
him who's able to keep you from falling. You're warned against
falling. And he ends this epistle and says Christ is able to keep
you from falling. That's good news. That's good
news. If the believer indeed may fall,
if he may yield to temptation, and being a believer and aware
of his frailty, does not trust his own integrity, how can he
find assurance that he will not be drawn away by these false
teachers and fall into the web of their deceit? The word of
God is a two-edged sword and a wonder. If you read the epistle
in its entirety as we just have, it's almost as if what falls
between verse 3 and verse 24 is like parenthetical. It's parenthetical. If you read
verse 3 and then verse 24, the answer is clearly revealed. Verse
3 says, Beloved, I gave all diligence to write unto you the common
salvation, which was needful for me to write unto you and
exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which once
was delivered to the saints. Now unto him that is able to
keep you from falling, keep you from falling, to present you
faultless before him in the presence of all his glory. Though all
the information given is needful, the result, the solution is plain
and simple. If the possibility of falling
exists, we are to look and to consider Him who is able to keep
us from falling. Doesn't that make sense? If there
is a possibility, or perhaps even a probability, that we will
succumb to some false error, and the solution is that Christ
is able to keep us from falling, Wouldn't it just seem utterly
reasonable to apply to Him in these things? It could be any
plainer. If you're at risk of falling,
there is one who's able to keep you from falling. Where else
would you look? To whom else would you apply
if the sure solution were nigh? In truth, Scripture says we live
and move and have our being in Him that is able to keep us from
falling. As complex and as unfathomable
the working of God's purpose and providence are, the solution
is singular and plain as can be. We cannot keep ourselves
from falling, even while contending for the faith. Christ is able
to keep us from falling. This is good news to anyone who
knows something of the influence of their own carnal nature. And
still better news follows when we fall. that sin will not be imputed
to us because He is going to present us faultless before the
throne, before His glory. This does not in any way suggest
that we should not be diligent and cognizant of the errors that
abound, and it certainly does not suggest that as many might
accuse us of that we should sin that grace may bound. This is
the assurance of the faith. Our sin, all of it, was imputed
to Christ. and we will never be charged
with it. That's what Paul said in Romans chapter four and verse
eight. There are people walking around right now upon this earth
that God will never charge with sin. He will never impute sin
to them. In chapter eight and verse three
he says, who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
It is Christ that died. Who is he that condemneth? He
is able to keep us from falling And if he yet suppers us to fall,
he will not charge us with the sin of falling. He will present us faultless.
We will blame ourselves for our failings as well we should. But
he will never say that it was our fault. Because he's going
to present us what? Faultless. How marvelous is this
sovereign, immutable grace, faultless. is a wondrous concept and unbelievable,
save for God-given faith. But what He accomplished on the
cross in reconciling us to God, according to Colossians 1, verses
19 through 22, we'll end up in the fact that we will be unreprovable
and faultless in His sight. He said He will present us. He
will present us. There used to be a, I don't know
if they still do this, In the South, there used to be young
women when they reached 16 years old. Those in the elite class
of Southern aristocracy would be presented. They would have
what they call a cotillion, and they would present these women.
They'd put them in fine gowns and little tiaras, and they would
be marched out with some handsome fella, and they would be presented. That's what this word means. he will present us before his
throne. It carries with the idea of proudly
displaying and establishing a causing to stand eternally as one who
is without fault because of the perfect salvation wrought by
Jesus Christ. They will be a true trophy of
his grace, a vessel of mercy to whom he has made known the
riches of his glory prepared for the elect from all eternity.
Standing before Christ in robes of pristine perfection. And that presentation is before
the presence of His glory. That's an interesting phrase.
It may be interpreted as Christ's own glory or before the glorified
saints or the just spirits made perfect, spoken of in Hebrews
12. Or before the angels who sing of His glory. or for the
god of all glory we don't know was before his glory these are
all reasonable interpretations are certainly true because the
end in the end christ will be glorified in his saints according
to first thessalonians and will give all glory to god the father
the last two words of verse twenty four i think give more of a centered
interpretation of the presence of his glory his words with exceeding
we exceeding joy we are often ashamed
of ourselves and embarrassed of our own hearts and our own
minds and thoughts that go through them and well we should be that's
not going to be the case when Christ presents us faultless
before his glory he's going to do it with exceeding joy exceeding joy think about that
how can he do that he can do that because of his perfect offering
his perfect offering you see when he went to the cross which
we just sung about he did so with joy Said he disregarded the shame
of it. He was humiliated as a human
being. Suffered great humiliation. He
was humbled before men, at least they thought he was. They beat
him. They plucked out his beard. They laid stripes upon his back.
They planted a crown of thorns and forced it down on his skull.
They beat him with their fists and with sticks. They spit in
his face. He's humiliated. and it says,
who for the joy set before him. What is that joy? Presenting
these wretched sinners whom he's made clean before God without any shame, faultless, unreproachable, unreprovable
in his sight joy for the joy set before him he endured the
shame or disregarded the shame is actually what it means and
is now set down on the right hand of the father you may fall
you will fall but you will rise victorious and not to be utterly
cast down as Psalm 37 says you will be brought up and the one
that assures that is that to be so is him to whom all glory
and all majesty and all dominion and all power belong. Do you
fret? I think not. Will you worry?
Why should you? He who has all glory and all
majesty and all dominion and all power is the one who presents
you, the one who died in your room instead. So the believer
contends for the faith once delivered to the saints, his only weapon
being the gospel. To expose and disclose those
who have crept in unawares who were ordained to this condemnation.
He does so in the assurance that his hope is well founded in the
absolute sovereign God of all glory. And he knows this about
him. He is able to keep us from falling. Father, bless us for understanding.
We pray in Christ's name. to the church of God. Some say
there are two, some say there are three. The two that they
talk about is baptism and the Lord's table. I believe there's
three. The third is the preaching of
the gospel, but all three of them do the same thing. They
speak of the victorious death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Baptism
speaks of the death of Christ and that we died with him, we
were buried with him in the water, and raised again to newness of
life. This table speaks of his death
and that he gave his body and his blood for our salvation.
And the preaching of the gospel declares that over and over and
over again, that as the gospel of good news that Christ died
in the womb instead of his people. This element was given to the
church and spoken of in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 by Paul the Apostle
when he talked about the night that Christ was betrayed. Now,
he took the elements of the Passover What is the Passover? The Passover
is the feast that was instituted after our Lord delivered Israel
from Egypt by the blood of the Lamb. Now here we have the Lamb
of God talking about His body and His blood broken for the
believer. And this is for the believers,
not for those who are unbelievers. If you're an unbeliever, don't
take this table. This table is for those who can
discern the body and blood of Jesus Christ. not in these elements,
but what these elements represent. That means they can discern that
Jesus Christ died for his people and secured their salvation one
way, by his body and by his blood. We take this table simply and
plainly. It's a very simple thing. We
take food, which is the unleavened bread, and we eat it. It becomes
a part of our body. It becomes a part of our being.
You can't. After a few seconds, science
cannot discern who it is in our body because it goes there to
say that we can't reach it. Same thing with wine and drinking.
These elements are used internally. We drink them and eat them because
they become a part of us. These elements are just plain
things. They are common wine and common
bread without loving. These things are to represent
Christ's body not leaven, and the wine which
never goes bad. Wine doesn't go bad in the eternal
danger, but danger you do. But it never goes bad. Never
goes bad. So these things speak of the
eternal efficiency of the Lord Jesus Christ in the salvation
of His elect. If we take this table, let's
do so with the knowledge that to take this table is to show
forth something of paramount importance in this world today.
we show forth the death of Jesus Christ. Why are we doing that? You're saying that? We did. Ratifying. That blood ratified
the New Testament of the New Covenant. It ratified it. And all that was promised to
the heirs according to promise in that living Testament of God,
that New Covenant, they have received, they are called spiritual
gifts, because children of God have all of them according to
Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3. God has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in Jesus Christ. So that's what we're celebrating. What Christ did for us. You see, that death answered
the law that required our death. satisfied justice, which required
our eternal punishment, and fixed it so that we stand
before God without sin. He remembers our sin no more,
and we stand before Him thoughtless, before His glory, presented with
exceeding joy by Jesus Christ. So let's partake of this table.
Let's ask the Lord to bless you. We're to take it as ours, let
us do so with joy. Thanksgiving, for we as a family
are born by your Spirit, washed in your blood. We are adopted
by Jesus Christ. We have that Spirit of adoption. Oh, why we cry, Abba, Father,
Papa, Papa, you are our God, we are your people. Father, we
ask that you would bless this time for us, and we might truly
be entered On the night I was betrayed,
he took bread and gave it to his disciples. He said, take,
eat. This is my body, Lord, for you. And the same night he took the cup. He said, this cup is the new
testament, the new covenant in my blood. As often as you eat
this bread and drink this cup, you do show forth my death, until
I come again. Do this and drink it." And on that last night, when
Our Lord instituted this table, when she said, I look forward
to taking this Passover with me, they stood and they sang
a hymn to Our Lord without betrayal, sang a hymn. My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest
frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ the solid rock
I stand, all the ground is singing. Well, I just thought about this. In October, we passed our 43rd
year together. Think about that. That's amazing
isn't it? Seeing our children grow up and
have grandkids. What an amazing time it's been.
How thankful I am to be your pastor and how good to be treated
as always you. David and I have said many times
that Crow and Loretta raised us. Because we were just bucks
and they weren't that old either. They were pretty young themselves.
And I'm thankful for them. I love y'all. God bless you.
We're about to get another year together. Ain't that something? Let each other out here for a
little bit.