Lord's been good to us this morning, hadn't he? Amen. Praise the Lord for a spirit of worship and fellowship and love. Genesis chapter 15 this morning. Genesis 15. I want to tell you all again, I love you. I really do. And I thank God for you and for our church. We don't have a perfect church. Say amen. But we got a good church where we're getting there. And if there's something deeply wrong or something that's bugging you, will you pray about it? Because the only way I know it can be fixed is if the Lord fixes it. Amen? I've tried a bunch to get involved a lot of times. I thought, I'm going to do it my way. I get out of time. I do it the wrong way. I'm learning. Trust in the Lord and lean not into thine own understanding. Amen. You pray about it. But we got a great church, and it's a blessing. Great people love each other. And it's good to be here this morning with you. It's wonderful to be here with the Lord's people. Even started early in Sunday school. We had a wonderful, we didn't even really have a teaching lesson today. We had a more of a, we, talked about the struggles of life. And it was a blessing to be able to talk about that with friends. I've even thought maybe we should even, I don't know, rethink the name Sunday School. It's more than just a school. It's a place where small groups connect with each other, that identify with each other different chapters of life. Our class, we go to, we nicknamed it the struggle bus, because our age is the age when you barely get to church. You barely got, you barely found that last shoe. You sometimes forget to fix your kid's hair, but you made it. And sometimes we come in the room, we're like, oh, barely made it, barely got here, but had a wonderful class time. And I want to encourage you to get connected with a group like that. You might identify more with the, with the, the young heart class. You might identify more with Goodness, some of you might be in your 50s, though. You might identify more with the little kids class. You go in there. You have a good time. But it's a way that you can connect with groups of people. And in a larger setting, it's hard. The Sunday school is great for that. And I'll encourage you to do that. But oh, we haven't forgotten to take up the offering yet. We let the Lord decide. Amen? It's not that we're not going to do it, but there ain't no sense in ruining a good worship time by stopping to take up offering. We'll do that another time. So we'll do that at the end of the service. All right, Genesis chapter 15. Verse number eight. I think it wasn't that long ago I preached from this text. I used to jot them down like when I preached from it, but I noticed then I'm tempted to not do it again because I think, well, I did it like last year. But maybe the Lord wants me to do it again. So now I don't record it when I did it. So if I have done it recently, good, because the Lord must want us to go over it again. And the more, the better. And if it should be 50 times before I should pass away, then so be it. That would be the Lord's will, because that's what we want. Genesis chapter 15, let's start at verse number 5. If you're there, say amen. Amen. The Bible says, and he brought him forth abroad, Abraham. The Lord brought Abraham forth abroad and said, look now toward heaven and tell the stars if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, so shall thy seed be. And the Bible said, and this is a critical verse in Scripture. This isn't the subject of the sermon. But this is a linchpin verse. This is a verse that is so critical to the theme of the Bible. that we know it is justification by faith, that you're saved by grace through faith. In verse number six, and he, Abraham, believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness. So just Abraham believed God, and God placed righteousness on the behalf of Abraham right then. And that's what happens to believers. You believe the account, you believe that God gave his son and Jesus died and was buried and rose again and you believe that for salvation, right then God imputes, lays righteousness on your account. And it's been that way from the beginning. So the Bible says he believed and it counted it to him for righteousness. Verse number seven. And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it. And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? And he said unto him, take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. And he took unto him all these and divided them in the mist. Another theme throughout Scripture, this covenant is sealed in blood. And he took unto him, verse 10, all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another. But the birds divided he not. Now verse number 11 will be the emphasis. And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. Father in heaven, thank you, Lord, for this morning. Thank you, Lord, for our Sunday school time, the fellowship between Sunday school and church. Lord, I worship that we can worship you in spirit and song. Lord, that we could draw attention to your greatness. Lord, we thank you for that. Thank you, Lord, for our prayer time. Lord, I thank you in advance what will take place through the preaching of your word. Lord, help me, please. Forgive me of my sins. Lord, open my mouth, open our ears, open our hearts to receive this truth. And may us be willing to allow the Holy Spirit of God to speak to us intimately, personably, and Lord, have us to respond willingly to whatever may be needed in our hearts. Lord, do a work of grace in our minds and hearts, our lives, and make an eternal difference by your word. Lord, we love you and thank you and praise you. In your name, Jesus, Lord, we ask these things. Amen. Verse 11, and when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. We live in East Tennessee, and we know that any dead thing on the road, or in a field, or in a yard, it don't take long before the buzzards start to gather. Just about a week and a half ago, there was some buzzards back where I live, and sitting on a fence, and I thought, there must be something dead there. And I forgot about it. And then a couple days later, my kids, they found a dead deer there. And there were the buzzards. There they were. And it don't take long. It's amazing. I don't know how they do it, even. It's incredible. Kind of like a fly. You had a picnic. Before that, there was no flies at all. Then you have a picnic. Wham! I don't know how they do it. It's amazing. Buzzards are like that. I don't know where they might come from. But you let a rabbit die on the side of the road, and before you know it, the buzzards have gathered around it. And that's what's happened here with Abraham. Abraham, God said, I want you to get, I want you to get certain things, certain animals, a heifer, a sheep, goat, a ram, a turtle dove, a young pigeon. I want you to sacrifice them to me. And we're going to make a covenant together. And that's what Abraham did. And he laid it out there. God said, you do this, I'm going to show a sign, and we know, if we read on in the chapter, how the Lord visited Abram that evening and sealed the covenant, that he would, in fact, be that he would have a child, and through that child, all the nations of the earth would be blessed, speaking ultimately of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so Abraham did this, and then immediately, not soon after, there come the fowls down upon the carcasses. And Abraham, verse number 11, spends his afternoon shooing them away. That's what he's doing. He's doing this while he's waiting on God. And the reason why he shoos them away is because Abraham views what's taking place here as something of great value. God said, I want you to do this. And Abraham did it. And then here come the buzzards. And the buzzards come and they try to pick and eat on the carcasses that are a sacrifice to God as a seal of the covenant between him and Abraham. So Abraham, he's correct. He views this as a sacred thing. He views this as something supremely important to him. This is a big deal, he thinks. This is what God wants me to do. This is what God has told me to do. This is what God has commanded me to do. This is what God has compelled me to do. And then who are these buzzards here? They come and they're trying to pick away at the very thing that connects me to God. That's what Abraham's thinking. So Abraham spends the afternoon and he's shooing them away. He says, what is he saying? He could say this, get away, get away, get away. This is between me and God. You get away, you get away. This activity is an activity that me and God are doing. Right now, me and God are doing something, you buzzard. You get away from here. This doesn't concern you at all. You're trying to get in between me and God. You're trying to ruin this relationship that me and God are having. I want you out of here. I want you to leave." And he drives them away. I bet you sometimes it was just an abuser. They're pretty, if you've ever been next to one at a red light, they're agitated, they're a weird creature. I guess they're somewhat needful, I suppose. They fight each other over the meat. They're not at all kidding around. It might take some aggression to shoo him away, and then if you shoo him away, they might light up on a tree. You have to be vigilant. They're not just going to go away. And so Abraham's doing this. He's on duty. He's on guard. And he's driving them away. The word drove in verse 11 speaks of a violent activity even. He's not just, I wish you all would leave me alone. He's not doing that. He's not saying, oh, this is rather unfortunate. He's not doing that. He's running and shooing them off. He's saying, get away from here. And he runs over there and runs them off. And he runs over here and he runs them off over there. And he spends much energy driving them away. And if he doesn't do this, there'll be nothing left on the boat. If he doesn't do this, these buzzards will pick away and pick away and pick away until there's nothing left of the very thing that connects Abraham to God. And so Abraham is shooing them off because this is the seal of the covenant. This is what connects me to God. So he's driving it away so we can make an application here. Whatever connects Abraham to God is threatened by these buzzards, and so Abraham drives them off because that is what connects him to God. They're trying to come literally in between him and his relationship to God. And so the application is, is we've got to do the same thing. That's what we have to do. In our lives, there's so many distractions, so many temptations that try to take us away from our sacred duty, that are always trying to steal a symbol of the covenant between us and Christ. The object or the means by which we connect to God is under constant threat from this world. Amen? It's always trying to pull us away. The buzzards of secular society are constantly trying to pick away from the thing that connects you from your relationship to God. Constantly. There's so many distractions. There's a distraction buzzard. There's even an obligation buzzard. There's a TV buzzard. There's a food buzzard. All of these things are trying to pick at our connection to God, just like they were from Abraham. And so Abraham, he's spending much energy driving them away. They're trying to pick at his devotion. They're trying to pick at his worship time. And if Abraham lets these buzzards do it, there will be nothing left, nothing left on the bone, and God, listen, God will be left with the scraps. if Abraham isn't vigilant, shooing them away. Because this is what Abraham offered to God. Abraham says, I'm offering this to you, God. And if he don't drive them away, all he can offer to God is scraps. Do you see the connection now? God don't want our scraps, amen? God don't want part. And Abraham is saying, if we could articulate his activity, here's what he's saying in his heart. He's saying, I'm not going to let you fly off with a hair. All of this goes to God. I'm not going to let you fly off of here with a piece of this eyeball of this goat. No. The whole thing goes to God. God told me to give you all of this, and that's what I'm going to do. And if He don't do it, God will be left with scraps. And if you and I don't shoo the buzzards away, picking at our sacred duty between us and God, you and I will offer God scraps instead of what God has intended to be. your relationship to him. So that's what you gotta do. Now you can say, well, how am I gonna do that? Now, there ain't much strategy in driving things away. You're just gonna have to shoo, you know? There's not much time to say, well, if I come at it from this angle, if I wait, no, you just, like, here's what, this would be a good application or illustration. However you shoo the flies away is how you shoo the devil away. However, you get rid of the mosquitoes, the pest of life, that try to ruin this good picnic, maybe. I mean, you smack it. And you better do it quick, because if you don't, you'll be eat up with skeeters, right? You do all you've got to do to not let that little mosquito ruin the good fun that's trying to, don't let a mosquito come between the good fun that you're supposed to have with your family. And don't let the buzzards of secular life, even, Try to peek at the very thing that connects you with God. If you're not careful, the devil will drive you away from a good pastor. You know it? If you're not careful, the devil will drive you away from a good relationship. If you're not careful, the devil will drive you away from a right relationship to God. If you're not driving them buzzards away, I mean they're going to pick and pick and pick and pick and before you know it, what you intended to offer to God is nothing more than the scraps that you let your dog lick. off your dinner table, off your plate. Don't give the Lord scraps, amen? Now that's not our intentions, but that's exactly what will take place if we don't, you get out of here, if we don't shoo them away. There's something else in this narrative that I just saw this week. is that Abraham, he's doing this for a good while. So he kills in the afternoon, he's driving them away, and the Lord shows up after sunset. So Abraham is at this business all day long. And what I think's interesting about this is that Abraham is a man and he's got a family. At this point, he's got a child, he's got Hagar and Ishmael, and he's got things going on. And he is devoted to this time that he has with God. So Abraham chose as his first priority God over his family here. So Abraham not only is driving the fowls away, but he chose time with God, and he's at it all day long, as a first priority in his life over even getting home, over even spending time with Miss Sarah. And I imagine the temptation that Abraham's feeling. I don't really know the dynamic of their relationship, but maybe it's quite possible that Sarah is cooking dinner right now. Maybe it's possible that Sarah is expecting him sometime soon. Maybe it's possible that Abraham said, and if you've been married any length of time, here's what normally happens. The wife will say, when do you think you're going to be home? That's what's going to happen. And I bet you Sarah said, wonder what time you're going to be getting home. And Abraham probably said, well, I don't really know. But he still, he hangs with it. And his first priority, even though there's family temptations, I know I mean that in a good way, to drift away from God. There's family connections that might pull him away from God. Abraham is still dedicated to this activity that he's doing with God. So here's what he's doing. He's putting God over everything here. He's driving the fowl of the airway. He's putting God over his even family duties. Now I know a lot of people, they misquote this text in the book of Ephesians. That a husband is supposed to love his wife even as Christ loved the church. I say amen to that. He is supposed to love his wife. as Christ loved a church and gave His life for that. But don't forget, Jesus also did all things that pleased His Father. And a husband has to do all things that please his God, even if it doesn't please his wife, or his spouse, or his kids, or his friends, or his buddies, or his job, or anything. Abraham is devoted To God. That's it. Completely. Abraham did not say, Oh Lord, excuse me. I must go away. I know I've offered this great sacrifice. I drove the fowl away a long time. Seems like he would have showed up by now. But I've got to be getting home now. Because if I don't get home, then Miss Sarah's going to be upset with me. Because tonight she's making roast. And you know how it is, oh Lord, since she's made roast, I have to go. And she's worked so hard. And I don't want her to worry. But wouldn't it be better to say, Miss Sarah, I'm sorry it's taking a little bit longer. But I don't want God to be disappointed. I don't want God to be let down. And if I'm going to ever be anything to you and our future heir that God has promised to come from our loins, then I've got to devote myself to Him. First. First. What we need in America today, in our country today, in our neighborhoods today, in our churches today, in this church today, is a dad who will drive away the foul of the air from things that are sacred, and a dad who will be first committed to his God, and love God with all of his heart, with all of his mind, with all of his body, with all of his might, He'll love the Lord God over his wife and over his children. And he'll say, I can't right now. I have to go be here with God. I can't right now. My duty is first to God. I can't right now because I have to spend time with God, with God. Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing every once in a while in the home If the kids ask their mother, where's daddy at? And the mother could say, instead of saying he's playing Call of Duty, that the mother can say, well, right now he's praying. Right now he's praying. Could you imagine what not only would happen from that prayer, that a man has dedicated time to God, And he's had to drive some buzzards away to do this. You know, like the deck really needs to be fixed. And the downspouts come undone. And the oil needs to be changed. And this has to happen. But he drove some buzzards away because he chose this one thing that is most needful. Could you imagine what would happen in your home if this week would be the first time that that's happened? And your wife says, Daddy's praying. Daddy's reading the Bible right now. You know what would happen to those kids? What would happen to that marriage? If daddy had sacred duty, if daddy had a divine purpose in his life, and literally everything is subordinate to that, That Abraham, though this is highly controversial in modern times, but not at all controversial in heaven. That Abraham was not made for Sarah, but Sarah was made for Abraham. And Abraham's first priority before his wife is his Lord. That's his first priority. That's it. And he is there, on into the evening, driving the foul of the air away. And I know in the back of his mind, because he's a good husband, he is. And we know he's a flirty husband. You remember that? He's flirting with his wife. He keeps dating his wife. You know, he's flirting with her a little bit. And he can, because that's his wife. Amen? Husband, you can flirt all you want to with your wife. Just don't flirt with my wife. See how it works? I mean it. That's the truth. You flirt with your own wife. And you can. And you should. And you must. You know what happens even, this wasn't going to be about marriage, but you're flirting with your wife, you know, however you do it. And there's some tension there because maybe you got sacred duties to do. And you flirt with her and say, hey, I'll be back after a while, you know. But I right now. I thank God for that. I mean it. You know, a lot of times we think, you know, like pastor appreciation month or day. Really, I could say, thank God you have the pastor's wife you have, because you know what I can say to Brittany? I can. And it's to her credit and to the glory of Christ in her life. I could say, hey, I got to study right now. And I mean it without, I mean it. She's so good. So good about it. Because it takes time. It takes time to grow in grace. And may God give me more time to do it. There you are with your wife. You go, hey, when I get done praying, when I get done shooing the fowl of the air away, how about we watch that movie? And you pick which one it is. We'll even watch The Notebook together. Terrible movie. Amen? Men? Amen. I'll say, we'll watch John Wayne together, Brittany. You know, last time I tried, we'll watch the baseball game together. I left the room, come back, changed. I don't get it. I think it's romantic. Okay, so Abraham, first seen. This is between me and God. God, I'm offering you this. And that could be a lot. I mean, wow, you could take this so many ways. Your connection to God is Jesus. And so you gotta drive the buzzards away from your relationship to Christ. And you do. I mean, you gotta drive the buzzards away from prayer time, church time, Bible time, good work time, all kinds of stuff. And so Abraham, scene one, he's shooing them away for I don't know how long, however long it takes. However long it takes. And you know what he's thinking, because he's a man and he's married. And look, he might not drive around in a car, but there's nothing new under the sun. And this man's in a relationship. And we even see, if we can't wean the story, they've got miracle things they're struggling with. They've got Hagar on the scene. I mean, they're dealing with Ishmael. Ishmael's picking on Isaac. I mean, then they go down to Egypt. They've got to work out of town. I mean, it's the same thing. In the back of his mind, I know what he's thinking, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. Wives, I want to encourage you right now. You know what you need even more than husband time? You need your husband with Jesus time. That's what you need, more even. And if your husband... Think about it. You want a good husband. You let Jesus spend time with your husband. Because He can make you the husband of your dreams. You and your husband can't do what Jesus and your husband can do. You let your husband come down off the mountaintop of Jesus. You let Him walk into the front door of your house. His countenance, I mean it. This isn't hyperbole. This isn't a figure of speech. His countenance will be different. You let Him come out of His prayer closet. The whole family atmosphere changes. You let Jesus change your husband. Allow Him And I use that term loosely because the Lord is to be his head. Let him off the hook and let him spend time with Jesus. It'll bless your family and sanctify your kids. And he will become that grandfather that your grandkids will say, I remember my papa. was a man who walked with Jesus. I remember my papa, when he'd come out from the barn, he wasn't always shooing horses. When my papa was on the lawnmower, he wasn't just cutting grass. That reminds me, do you know Jesus can meet you on your lawnmower? I'd rather have Jesus on my lawnmower with me than a beer in my cup holder, I'll tell you that. I remember last year I was listening to a sermon while I was mowing. You can do two things at once, you know that? I mean to tell you, while I was cutting grass, but the Lord started cutting on me. And I mean it, I felt so close to Jesus while I was cutting grass. I felt like, you know I've heard some people say, I was so in the Spirit, I could rip the pew up and carry it like Samson carried the gate to the Philistine down the road. I could feel like I could just, I mean so glorious, I could throw the lawnmower in the neighbor's yard. Abraham, you get out of my life. You get out of me. You get away from me and my relationship to God. You get out of here, he said. And also, he's dealing with this. This is more important. This is more important. This is more important than any secular duty. God wanted to meet with me. God said do this. This is more important. This is more important than anything. even in his family life. Last thing, thirdly, the first one, he's driving the fowl of the air away. The second one, he chose God as his first priority, even over family. Third thing, and lastly, he chose to wait rather than to hurry. He chose to wait rather than to hurry. Abraham does this in the day. It's all the way up into the evening before the Lord shows up. He must not have been a Baptist. You know that? Because Abraham would have said, if he was like most of us Baptists, well, it's like 12.03 right now, and I got to go. It's 12.03 right now, and that line at Captain D is getting long. And I got my bulletin, I get a dollar off. They still do that? It's almost like you're saying, I came here to get my bulletin so I can get a discount at Captain D's. Couldn't be that. No. We used to be Captain D's Sundays. They still got the buffet. I remember it. You know, they don't have the buffet anymore. See how life's falling apart. I remember getting out of the building and saying, you get that bulletin. Did you get a bulletin? Did you get a bulletin? And some families are, you're still 10, even though I know you're 14. You're 10 years old. We got to hurry. Get in the car. The preacher preached long enough. And while you're eating, I just went on and on and on and on. Oh, I was just under the impression that this day was about the Lord. You know, at real, it's how. Amen or me? And it worked out. I told you I loved you before the preaching started. I know I knew we'd go in this road, but I still love you. Amen. I still love you. He chose to wait rather than get in a hurry. It's harder today. I think maybe this might be harder than it was for him. Abraham lived in a society where you had to wait. You had to wait on your horse. You had to wait on to get saddled or your camel. You had to wait to get there. Now we live in a country, in a society, in a time we don't wait for nothing. We don't wait for websites to load up anymore. Y'all remember that? You remember that? It's hooked in your phone line. We don't do that anymore. And right now, if our cell phone would buffer for a second, we're mad and we'll get off that screen and go to the next one. We don't wait for pay anymore. We now have direct deposit. I remember the good Friday. You'd stand in line at the bank. I remember when you used to know your bank teller. You remember that? I remember you saw the same people at the same time at the same bank every Friday. Now, where's my money? I want it deposited right now. We don't wait for anything anymore. We don't wait for nothing. And it's tricked us into thinking that we don't have to wait upon the Lord. And isn't it amazing as a society that they've outrun God? We've lost the ability to wait. We used to have to wait and God could deal with us. We'd wait to get on a train. We would wait for this and wait for that. And while we're waiting, God would act and God would move and God would deal. But now we're so distracted. Because instead of waiting, we'll do something else. And when the TV comes on and commercials start, we'll get on our phone. We're not waiting for anybody anymore. We're not waiting for anything, and we sure ain't going to wait on God. And if He wants to deal with us, He better hurry. He better hurry, because I'm in a hurry. Abraham wasn't in a hurry. He wasn't. Haven't you heard? They that wait upon the Lord renew their strength. They that wait upon God are blessed, the psalmist says. The best thing in life comes from waiting. Baseball players wait on the perfect pitch. I mean, young couples, young people wait on the perfect couple to come along, or the perfect spouse. I mean, you want a good steak, you're going to have to wait. I mean, the best things in life come from waiting. And the best blessing you'll ever have is waiting upon God to show up. And when He does, You don't worry about the time no more. You don't worry about the time. If Abraham didn't drive the fowl away, he wouldn't have met God. If Abraham would have let even a family obligation come between him and God, he wouldn't have met God. If Abraham didn't wait, he wouldn't have met God. He drove the fowl away. Drove them away. I hope and pray today that we can have some application from this, that we'll value sacred things, that we'll wait upon the Lord. If we don't, I mean, if we don't wait on God, we'll marry the wrong person. I mean, we'll have maybe even the wrong situation, like Abraham and Sarah couldn't wait and they had a kid, Ishmael, that caused them all types of trouble. If we just wait on God, it'd be better. I even think about Rebecca and Jacob. If they'd have waited, maybe it wouldn't have been such a bad thing. But they got in a hurry. He waited. He drove them away. And he chose God over even things that are even important to him. He drove them away. I hope and pray you're driving something away today. I hope today that you'll think with me from a few sermons ago, and you'll realize that Jesus to you should come before even your husband, even your loving dear wife. Because what your wife even wants more than you, and she might not even know at the time because I don't, is a husband on fire for Jesus. just lit up with Christ. Let me chase a rabbit for a second. You know what a marriage wants? A marriage needs and what a family needs and kids needs? They need a daddy to come out of his prayer closet and say this with loving conviction to back up with scripture and say this, hey, we're going to go this direction. And the wife says, amen. And the kids say, why? And the dad says, because that's the will of God. And the wife says, amen, amen, because that's what the Lord wants for this family. Would to God maybe some young men today would have open ears and open hearts and say, I'm not going to be like the world wants me to be. I'm going to drive the foul away from my life. Because if you don't, all that will be left is scraps. Maybe there's some need here this morning. As we stand to our feet, what Psalm are we going to sing, Bryson? Page 273. Is there some fowl that needs to be shooed away? Is there some time that needs to be devoted to God? Is there some waiting necessary? Listen, if you've got to wait, if you've got to wait until the Lord shows up, if you've got to wait, listen, then time is not your greatest blessing. It'll be the Lord. It'll be the Lord. Maybe this morning there's some need. Maybe there's something you need to pray about. Maybe by you coming down the aisle, you're saying, I want some of my friends and family to pray with me. Maybe there's some matter in your life that deserves the Lord's attention. And why don't you say, oh Lord, here I am. Lord, I need Thee. Oh, I need Thee. Help me, oh God, because I don't want anything. to pick at the relationship that you and I are to have. Maybe this morning, even, you started doing worship and you realize that I can't worship Jesus like that because I don't know Him. I want to tell you Jesus loves you. Jesus died on the cross for your sins. They buried Him on the third day He arose from the dead. And if you'd believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt be saved. And if you would right now turn from your direction and turn to Christ, that's repentance. and you'd believe on Jesus and say, yes, Lord, I trust Thee, I'll follow Thee. He will save Thee, and He will not turn Thee away, and He'll give you everlasting life. He promised you that. Maybe this morning you've realized through the work of the Holy Spirit that you don't know Jesus. I would encourage you to come to Him today in faith. And maybe this morning you need God's grace over any matter, and you come. As we sing together, you obey the Lord this morning.