Greetings, friends, and welcome to another broadcast of the Old School Primitive Baptist with Elder Don Martin, Sr. Stay tuned for another Gospel message of God's free and sovereign grace. Well, I greet you in that beautiful and that wonderful name above every name, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom we have heard often this day amongst the fellowship of the brethren and also in the preaching of the gospel as we have heard it thus far from Brother Michael's efforts, of which we rejoice in what was spoken in regarding the glorious gospel. I'm not going to stand long but attempt to share with you a couple of thoughts. I was up with a brother of mine at Grace Chapel and shared some thoughts out of Isaiah's writings. After driving for two hours and coming into church and kind of half-sleepy-headed from the driving, Attempted to share a couple thoughts, but didn't have the clarity of mind to say too much, but I thought maybe I would take the same scripture and start with it and look at a couple aspects of it regarding the Word of God. If you've got your Bible and you want to join with me at the 46th chapter of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 46. A verse that's felt to be real common to we who, by God's mercy and loving kindness, have been caused, now I say caused, to believe in his absolute and unconditional sovereign and free grace, love, and mercy. To an undeserving lot of people, chosen out of all of mankind to be his elect children, appointed, chosen, called, and ordained to be those of whom God the Father had determined to be called out in time by His Holy Spirit, those of whom were given to Christ Jesus even before the foundation of the world, whose names according to the Bible were written in the Lamb's Book of Life. And so what a glorious thing God has had a people even before the foundation of the world. And possibly even before the sun had its round and its beams even shone forth throughout the universe as we know it. God has had a people. And he has chosen them, not of any narratives, because he loved them, just as he chose Israel. Not because they were the largest of people or the greatest nation among the nations of the world, but because he loved them. And he chose them to be his people. He, in this dispensation of time, in this New Testament era, and New Covenant time, has got a people as well. And they are the Israel of God. Out of every continent or a nation, he's got a people. They're out there in the islands of the sea, and upon every continent along the face of the earth, he's got a people. And he's called them out as he pleases in the generations of time. And they come by way that they knew not. They come by way that they didn't look for. In my own experience, I didn't look for God. God is the one that comes to seek and save sinners. The lowly sinner don't go out seeking to be saved. And the only way that he will do so is if God has already quickened his heart and mind and made him awaken to the pains of the spirits, regenerating his heart and mind, and then causing his new birth to come about, that he might be that heir of grace and see has become his only hope and help in the time of need and regarding his sin condition. And because of the depravity of the human nature of all mankind, ever a born of woman, through Adam's fall, there is none righteous, Paul declares in Romans, no, not one. For all have gone astray, and there's none good, no, not one. And so therefore all have sinned and come short of the glory. And that glory is, as far as I'm concerned, interpreted the perfection. All have fallen short of the glory, the perfection of God. And the wages of the sin that all are guilty of is death. But there is that blessed hope that Jesus Christ is pleased to have favor on you, that are given ears to hear the truth of the gospel and believe it in the heart and mind, till the transformation of one's person, and may the new creation The Bible says, Paul writes to the Corinthian church, if any man be in Christ, and I'll use the gender also, if any man or woman be in Christ, they have become a new creature. Behold, all things are passed away and all things become new. That means that priorities have changed. Thought patterns have changed. interests, desires, priorities have all been changed. Old things have passed away. Now reading to you from the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and then the 46th chapter in verse 10, listen to what Isaiah has to say. He says, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done. Now he's talking about God, because in the verse above it says, remember the former days of old, for I am God. God is giving this revelation to Isaiah to prophesy to God's people and to say that I am God and there is none like me. There are many gods in this world, but there's none like this God. This is the Lord God Jehovah, who became Jehovah Jireh, who became Jehovah, just to send you, who became Jehovah Jesus, who is Elohim Yahweh, the God of Israel, the God of the Holy And the Bible says that, he says, I am God, I have declared, and declaring, that declaring to me is an ongoing thing. He could say, I have declared, and he said, I'm declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times of things that are not yet done. I'm declaring things." Now, he didn't say, as many say, well, God knows all things. I've heard so many preachers say, well, we know that God knows all things, and because He knows all things, and He's omniscient in that characteristic, therefore, upon what He has known down through the ages of time and the corridors of time, He has determined to choose That is a lie of the devil. That is a heresy, and that is not the truth of the matter. Our God, the God of the Bible, has declared to end from the beginning the ancient times of things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand, I will do all my pleasure. And his pleasure is, is to choose the people, as I told you about earlier, who it's not because he looked down through time and saw that they would be good candidates. They would be a good person who would have a good talent and eloquent skill to have a nice church and go out and just tell people that it's just a matter of trying to be good enough to please God and that's all you need to do. No, he chose the people that were I remember this, when I was first brought to knowledge of my sin, at the age of 27 in 1971. And God began to deal with my heart. And the gospel was shared with me by a young man, and I was given a Bible by this young man. that he demonstrated, I took the Bible as a gift and I took a poem. And it wasn't too long after that, you've heard his testimony, I believe, Brother Jerry. But I took that Bible home and a few weeks later, I took it in the solitude of my home and in the quietness of the evening and my little daughter was in bed and my wife was at a Tupperware party. I just remember that just as clear as a bell. I took that little blue Gideon Bible, I opened it up and began to lift it. through the pages of it. And it had a Roman's Road in the front of it that we're all familiar with from being involved in churches in the past that were those that were out soul winning and trying to take and persuade people to become Christians. And I read in there about how the Bible said that all have sinned and that all have fallen short of the God's glory, as I mentioned earlier. There's none righteous, no, not one. But the gift of God was eternal life through Jesus Christ. Now, I had been to Sunday school as a young boy when I was probably from about four to the time I was eight years old. And that was about the end of my church history. After that, my mother and father divorced, and we moved away from where we lived. And I lived with my mother, and church life was not part of our life. But now here I am, 27 years old, been married, and got a small child, a daughter, and a friend to give me this little Bible book. And here I am reading this in God's divine timing, in the solitude of my home this particular night, as God had determined to be, as He has declared here. I'm talking to you about one of those things he was talking about right here. I took that little book and read it. My heart was overwhelmed with the fact that Jesus Christ would be the one that would give me life eternal and sins forgiven. And I fell down on my knees and began to weep. And I said, Lord, I said, God, and I never have prayed a prayer other than Lord, if I should die, you know, the old prayer that mommas say usually with their children. That's the only prayer I ever knew. And I hadn't said that so long that I even forgot what it even was about. But this particular night, I got on my knees and I began to weep. And I said, Lord, if this be true, if the Bible be really true, And then I ask you God to have mercy and forgive me, because I didn't have any problem that particular night. of knowing that I was a sinner. Anytime before that time, Brother Jerry, I was satisfied with my life. I was going through life. I had a good job. I was doing fine. I had hobbies I was satisfied with. I thought that I had a handle on life. But this particular night, God stopped me in my mad pursuit of the way I was living and arrested me in my path. I called out unto Him as Father for the first time in my life. I addressed God of this book as Father. I said, Father, if that be true, forgive me of my sins. And I began to weep like a baby. And there was a weight that was lifted off of my body, heart, and soul like I've never experienced before. And I am persuaded that the Holy Spirit of God that had got my attention and had regenerated this inward man and made a new creature in here by putting His Holy Spirit and caused me to be born of the Spirit that night. Now I know not everybody We're all unique in God's determined purpose. of the things of God. We don't all agree and know the things that we've been taught by God along the way. We can agree on the most part, but there's things that you've been taught, Brother Jerry, and had a handle on, that God may not have been revealed to me. So Christian maturity is unique in itself, and a preacher of the gospel needs to be aware of that when he tries to minister to people. that in my 38 years of trying to look at this book and gain something from it, and I trust the Holy Spirit has given me some revelation of it, I know that everybody here has not looked at it possibly that long and come to an understanding of all the things that I seem to have have come to the same place. But there is one thing for sure, we have come to a place to know that God is the only one that can transform the heart and mind of an individual. He's the only one that can deliver one from the tragedy's curse. He's the only one that can do as he pleases in the armies of heaven, and he rules the reigns among them and also among the inhabitants of the earth, and there's no man that can say unto him, Why dost thou thus or so? We know that he's the only one that is the true potter that takes out of one lump of clay and makes one vessel for his glory and honor and another vessel for destruction, if it so be, his will. We do know that. We do know that he's an almighty God. So this little group here together has come at least to that point and agreed that far because our Bible says that this same God who declared the end from the beginning, And from the ancient times, the things that are not yet done, saying my counsel shall stand, I will do all my pleasure. There's not anything that God has determined, decreed, and ordained to do that he will not bring to pass. He will do all his pleasure. No man, no human creature, nothing on earth or in heaven shall circumvent his work of grace. There's not enough demons in hell, or demons to be destined for hell. There's not enough demons in the realm of the angelic host. And the devil himself can uphold, sir, the works of God's grace, mercy, and loving kindness towards his elect children chosen in Christ Jesus. Now, in saying that, that God has declared these things, and that His counsel is going to stand, and He's going to do those things in the future that are not yet done, I want you to go to the New Testament with me. I want to take you to look at John chapter 9. I'm going to look at two occasions that God had declared in His determined purpose to bring to pass that is supernatural and is beyond the understanding of the human intellect. In chapter 9 of John's Gospel, I'm reading chapter 1, and Jesus, he passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. Now Jesus was going about his public earthly ministry, and he passed by this certain area. And he saw this man which was blind from his birth, the Bible says, and his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? The disciples, they were really puzzled about this man. How come he was blind from his birth? Was it his sin? Or was it his parents' sin? What's the cause of this man's impermanence? And look what happened there. Jesus said, and Jesus answered, Now, we know that there's no man that is exempt from sin. Now, what Jesus is saying here when he said, neither has this man sin, he's saying that neither is it the man's sin that caused the problem of his imperfect day, and he says, nor his parents, but that the work of God should be made what manifests in him. Now listen to me, this man that was declared in Isaiah's prophecy This is something that was not yet to be brought to pass in Isaiah's time frame, but yet down 700 and some years to come. This is one of those things that was declared to come about for the glory of God Almighty. This man was made blind for God's divine purpose, and before it says Jesus there, for this man was made blind because that the work of God should be made manifest in him. He was made blind that Jesus taking the clay and putting it upon his eyes and going and washing his eyes and he would be able to see for the glory of God and to determine that Jesus Christ is God. And that he has the power of God and that he is deity and that he is the He is a God-man. He is Immanuel, which prophesied also from Isaiah. He said that he's going to be called, his name shall be Immanuel, the everlasting Father. That's Jesus Christ we're talking about. What's Immanuel mean? The interpretation of Immanuel is God with us. The Emmanuel, God with us, said that this man did not become blind because of his sin, nor his parents' sin, but God Almighty caused him to be born blind, that in time, in the time that God had determined, declared, and decreed, he would be made able to see, that people would see the signs and wonders brought about by the God-man Jesus Christ. text tells you here, he went through a whole chapter here of 41 verses trying to persuade the Pharisees exactly what happened here. They asked him, I don't know, I think like about two or three times, they asked his parents. They asked the man. Who did this? The man didn't know at first. And then they asked the parish, and the parish said, I don't know. All I know is that our son, he was blind, but now he sees. I'm telling you, something happened here, brothers and sisters. There's a miracle happened here. God Almighty got a hold of him. and told him what to do. And he went and he watched. And he did what he said the Lord Jesus told him to do. And he says, and when I did this, he says, my eyes were opened. I was able to see. Well, they just kept on. They kept on. And the Bible said, let me go on down here. It says, verse 37, And it says, And Jesus said unto him, well, let's go to 35. Jesus heard that they had cast him out of the temple when he had found him. He said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? And he answered, and he said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. He opened this man's eyes, and now he's got him to the place where he's introduced himself to him, and he is the Son of God. The Son of God is the one who has made you able to see. And it says here, and he talked with him, and in verse 38, he said, and they said, Lord, I believe. Let me tell you something. If you were born blind from the time you were born, and God had made you able to see, and then God, the God-man Jesus had come to you and told you, who he was, let me tell you something, it is by the sovereign grace and love and mercy of God that this man was made able to know who Jesus Christ was. And he was caused, you hear the word caused to believe, for he says, he says, I believe, in the next sentence, and he worshipped him. Let me tell you something, that is one of the first things that occurs when a man or woman, boy or girl, is caused to believe on the person. Savior of sinners. They worship Him. They don't worship another. They worship Him. And the Bible goes on to say, And Jesus said, For judgment I come not unto this world. For they which see not might see, that they which see might be made blind. Oh, He comes to open blind eyes spiritually. Even one like myself in 1971 who was spiritually blinded. and couldn't see the truth and wasn't looking for the truth. But he opened my blind eyes, Brother Jerry, that I could see that Jesus truly was my only help and hope at that time. And he came and delivered me from the dread curse of sin and death that was brought upon me by the path of his curse. And to everyone that believed it, that even is sitting here tonight. The Bible goes on to say, and some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these things and said unto him, Are we blind also? And Jesus said unto them, If it were blind, if you were blind, you should have no sin. But now ye say, We see, therefore your sin remaineth. They didn't see nothing. They just thought they saw because they were Jews. All they saw was their religion. All they saw was Judaism. All they saw was the law, the ordinances, the statutes. And that's all they knew. And they figured if that's what they did, and that's what they sought to pursue to be justified before God, that they was able to see. But Jesus said to them, Now you say you see, but you don't, you're blind. You're blind in the back. And the only way that they're ever going to be made to see, as some were in time throughout the writing of Acts as the gospel was preached, as God opened their eyes. Look at Lydia. A cellar of purple. And the Bible says that God had opened her heart. Now let me tell you something. Unless God Almighty opens the heart of an individual to attend to the things that are preached in the gospel of Jesus Christ, no man, no woman, shall ever be able to perceive it and understand it. Lydia, a seller of purple, it says in the book of Acts, God opened her heart that she would attend to the things that were preached regarding the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and she believed upon the gospel. She believed what was being said. Just like the Ethiopian eunuch. He looked in the book of Isaiah. He was coming through there. I don't know what you're reading." He said, well, I really don't. I'm kind of confused here. Is this man here, Isaiah, that wrote this, is he talking about himself or is he talking about another? And the Bible says that Philip, he preached unto him, who? Jesus! That's the only one that can save sinners. That's the only message that can help anybody. Now, I want to go over to the 11th chapter, John. We know what that chapter is about, don't we? It's about another situation. It's about one who was the brother of Martha and Mary. The name was Lazarus. And he was sick, and he died. Now, the Bible says that a certain man sick named Lazarus, verse 1, chapter 11, Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha, down in verse 4, when Jesus heard that he was sick, he said, This sickness is not unto death. Now let me show you a couple of things here, if God gives us a minute. He said here that this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God. Isn't that interesting? Can you be sick for the glory of God? Absolutely you can, baby! I can show you many scriptures in the Psalms where David said, many are deflections of the righteous, but the Lord shall deliver them from them all. Let me read you just a couple up here. I think in probably about the 119th Psalm, there's quite a few of them in there. For instance, listen to this now. It says in Psalm 119, in verse 71, It is good for me that I have been afflicted But David said, it was good that I was afflicted. Now, how many would say it's been good that I've been sick or afflicted with this infirmity of my body, that I'm not murdered by statues? Only by grace can a man say such a thing as that. We find over in the 119th Psalm, verse 107, I am afflicted very much, O quicken me, O Lord, according to thy word. We find that in the 153rd verse of the 119th Psalm, consider my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law. David was afflicted. And you say, well, you mean to tell me God, who back in Isaiah 46 had declared these things to come to pass? Yes, He did in David's life, and all those around the times of the prophets, and even 700 and some years up to today. God is causing His children, as He pleases, to be afflicted for His glory and His honor. He'll lay me down in a hospital bed tomorrow, and He's going to get the glory out of it, and for a divine purpose. And I'll lay there and I'll suffer through it, and because God has promised that he'll never leave me or forsake me, I can be assured that I'm going to endure it to the end. Even at the end be this moral body laid to rest awaiting the resurrection. That's what it takes, Brother Jerry. That's what it's going to take, as simple as that. But no, the Bible says that Jesus Jesus said that this sickness is not unto death in verse 4 of chapter 11. But over here in chapter 11 verse 13, it says, How did Jesus spoke of his death? But they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest and sleep. But listen to this now. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. He said over here, he says that this sickness is not unto death, but to the glory of God. But over here he says, Lazarus is dead. Now was he not dead or was he dead? He was dead. He was dead. Jesus said he was. And he goes on to say, in verse 25, After they had rolled back the opening to the tomb, of which Martha and Mary said, oh, wait a minute, no, we don't want to do this. He's been in there three days. He's stinking. And they rolled it back. In verse 25, Jesus said unto her, after he said, he said unto her, he says, that I am the resurrection. and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Now we're waiting on a resurrection of our mortal bodies to be transformed into immortality and incorruption. That's only going to happen by one way, and that is by Jesus Christ He is not going to do it in any other means or manner other than himself, son. And the Holy Spirit, which is the one that's with the Father and the Son, that's going to quicken the dead and the great and the small and bring them all in that general resurrection out of the sea even and out of the graves in that general resurrection time. Yes, the Bible goes on to say, he says that, in verse 15, I am glad for your sakes that I was not here. Jesus said to Martha and Mary, he said, look, now keep in mind that he loved Martha and Mary, and he loved Glassman. But he says, you know, he says, I am glad for your sakes that I was not here, to the intent You may believe, nevertheless, let us go unto him." And that's when they said, oh, well, we don't want to go there. And oh, but about ten of them, he'd been dead three days. He said, let us go over there. He said, I'm the resurrection and the life. He said, he that believeth on me, though they were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? He answered the question. And she said unto him, yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which shalt come in the world. Man, that's all that's necessary, is that profession of faith. Yes, I believe that Jesus is the Christ, that he is the Son of God, which had come into the world. One that says that with the heart and mind and soul, by the work of God's grace, is certainly giving evidence that they're a child of God. Okay, we go on to say, and now we find that Jesus said that, I'm glad I wanted to hear, but now we find that there's a transition in the feelings of the God-man Christ. He went by saying, I'm glad I wasn't here to the extent that you may believe. Now, that's kind of an interesting text right there, because we find over here in the shortest verse in the New Testament, in verse 35 of John 11 here, were two words. He had feelings. He has the same feelings we have. He's been touched with the infirmities of our flesh. That's why the Bible says that we don't have a Savior that cannot identify with our physical problems, our mental anguish. Let me tell you something. If he can't identify with my mental anguish, my anxieties, My panic attacks that I had been known to have in times past, and what in the world was he doing, sweating as it was, drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane as the God-man? Let me tell you, he can identify with us. You talk about some sort of a post-traumatic stress syndrome, brother, he had one in the Garden of Gethsemane. He knew what was coming upon him. He knew the cross was going to come and just round the corner. He knew they were coming to come after him with stoves and knives and they were going to take him and cause him to carry that cross to a certain distance until Simon came. He knew that he was going to be nailed there and those spikes driven through his palms and through his feet and that his stomach was going to be sliced open and blood and water would be running out of his body. And he would shed his blood on that cross in behalf of the elect of God that was chosen in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world of which we said about earlier. But Jesus wept. And he didn't weep for Lazarus' sake, he wept for Martin Mary's sake. He was sad that they were sad. They were crying, brokenhearted, they were distraught, they were in despair. And Jesus went because He loved them. Let me tell you something. We've got a God tonight, a Savior, that's seated at the right hand of God the Father, making intercession for us perpetually. That means without end and is not stopping. He's continually making intercession for us and He knows everything that we're faced with and everything we're going through. I don't care what it is. He knows about it, and as a child of His, He shall be faithful to see you through it and cause you to persevere in it. And Jesus wept, because Mary and Martha, they were weeping, and others were, the Jews were weeping. It says in verse 33, but it goes on down to verse 39, and it goes on to say, Jesus said, take away the stone and Martha, the sister of him, That was dead, and I said to them, Lord, oh, by this time he's going to stink. It's been how many? It's been four days. Jesus said unto her, I say unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou wouldest see the glory of God. Didn't I say to you a few days ago? Do you believe you see the glory of God? Didn't I say it to you, Martin? Didn't I say it to you, Mary? Then stand by. Hang on, folks. Just listen up, because here's what happened here. Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and he said to the Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. Oh, Jesus, lift up. And he said to the father, he said, I am thankful, my father, that thou hast heard me. And he goes on to say, he said, I am thankful, Lord, that you have heard me. He says in verse 42, and I knew that thou heareth me, how many times? Always. And he says, but because no, because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. He said that prayer to the Father. and express what He did to the Father, that those that were around about standing there by that tomb, Martha, Mary, and other Jews and friends and folks around there, they listened to Jesus pray, and He did it on purpose that they would hear Him pray, and that they would know who He was. Jesus came to do these signs and wonders for a purpose. It wasn't just to be a Benny Hinn Jr. He came here to be the authentic God's man. He came to come here and do signs and wonders to express his deity to these unbelieving Jews and Gentiles alike. and to express the fact that God had come, Emmanuel had arrived, Isaiah's prophecy is now being fulfilled in this aspect. Now this is just two things about the blind man and about Lazarus. There's all the other signs and wonders he did and all the apostles and disciples did in the preaching of the gospel in the early church and in the Acts of the Apostles were all part going to come to pass, because I've declared it. We go on to say here, the Bible says, after he said that, I said what I've said, God has sent me to say this. And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice. He didn't say, oh, blasphemous, go forth. He cried with a loud voice. He spoke with authority. Because when God spoke, they were always with authority. When God spoke, listen, on the Mount of Transfiguration, it is so called, Peter, James, and John was up there, right? Okay? And there was Jesus. And there was Moses and Elias. Okay, there's a representative of the law, Moses. There was Elijah, the classic representative of the prophets. They're there and they stood there. And the Bible says that as they stood there talking with Jesus, that God spoke from heaven. audible, the voice of God, saying that this is my beloved son, hear ye him, and that voice slew them to the ground. Jesus said this, rise, rise up, and the Bible says, the Bible What that was indicating was, Law, the Moses, the prophet Isaiah was moved out of the picture, removed out of the way. And that no man now is to hear anything except the Son of God and what he has to say. Jesus only. That Jesus only is what we preach. This is what the message is about. We don't preach a law or gospel. We don't preach about the prophets gospel. For the Bible says John said that the law and the prophets ended with John the Baptist. fulfilled what he had to do when he baptized Jesus, that was the end of the prophetical work of the prophets of old, and there have been no prophets since then. There's not been no new prophecies since that time, except the only ultimate grand prophets for the potentate, the only almighty one, Jesus Christ, who has come to prophesy those things which are yet to come and has given revelation to the Apostle Paul as he writes to the Thessalonian church and said that the Lord himself is going to come back again. And he's coming back. And the way things look around this world, and around our even little civilization here in North America. It's looking like it may be sooner as well. Concluding, the Bible says, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth and look what happened here. And he that was dead, he wasn't sleeping, He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was round about with a napkin. And Jesus said unto them, Loose him, and let him go. Now let me tell you something. If he was merely sleeping, as some assume, and try to justify how this occurred, How could you have gray clothes wrapped around your head and a napkin over your face and be able to breathe? You can't. He was dead! And the Bible says that Jesus said, come forth, and he came out of there. And the Bible says in verse 45, than many of the Jews. which came to Mary, and hath seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. That is why God had declared seven hundred and thirty some years before these things to come to pass in John chapter nine with a blind man born from his birth. and from one who is sick unto death, to be raised from the dead for the glory of God. It's all for the glory of God. Is there anything in this book that ain't for the glory of God? Jerry, we have spent such precious time speaking and fellowshiping with the brethren here this day and since we have arrived here about that this whole book contains nothing that is all of God, and He does as He pleases, as He has decreed, determined, and predestined, fulfilling His will and purpose in all things, for the glory and the praise of His holy name. And I'm telling you that Christ, this same Jesus, all He knows, all that we go through in this life, Take heed, dear saints. He knows our problems. He knows our heartaches. He knows our infirmities. And those things that have been determined shall manifest Christ's glory and praise in the end result. I can assure you of that. To God be the glory, and I thank you for your kind attention. God bless you.