Welcome to the teaching ministry of Grace Fellowship Church in Bradenton, Florida. We welcome you to join our pastor, William Rogers, as he continues his verse-by-verse study in the Word of God. Exodus chapter 32. I'm going to read a passage of Scripture. that will appear to be, on the surface, contrary to what I've been teaching. I feel like that ought to get your attention. Exodus chapter 32. I would like to begin reading in verse 7. The Word of God reads, Then the Lord spoke to Moses, Go down at once for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, This is your God, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, they are an obstinate people. Verse 10. Now then, let me alone that my anger may burn against them, that I may destroy them, and I will make of you a great nation.' And then Moses entreated the Lord his God and said, O Lord, why dost Thine anger burn against Thy people whom Thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians speak saying, with evil intent he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth? Turn from your burning anger and change your mind about doing harm to these people. Remember Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, thy servants to whom thou didst swear by them thyself, and didst say to them, I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven, and all the land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever. Verse 14. So the Lord changed his mind about the harm which he said he would do to his people. This is one of those kinds of passages that will be dealt with in detail next Sunday. We are beginning this by looking at what we began last week. Your prayers, according to the sheet that I handed out, in the third one, you must understand that your prayers will not change God's mind. Well, here we have an instance in the Bible where a prayer appears to have changed God's mind. It is one of those kind of passages that if you were to read or someone were to present to you this as an opposition to what you have just told them about the unchangeableness of our God, they would throw it into your face and say, see, this is proof God does change His mind and that our prayers do actually influence Him and persuade Him to come to our side or our view. Well, I have begun last week talking about the mind of God cannot be changed, and that we must understand, if we're to understand this series at all, that if we are to glorify God in our prayers, perhaps we need to understand what this time of prayer is that we enter into with God. Why has He ordained the process to accomplish His plan as prayer? Why does He call on us to pray, as Jeremiah 33, verse 3 says, "'Call upon Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which you do not know.'" Why are those in there if God really does reign, and God knows all, and his mind cannot be changed. We have begun looking at this as a series on glorifying God in our prayers, and it is a tremendous opportunity for us. I would venture to say not many have had the privilege of reading and studying such a perspective as we are graciously been allowed to do. I encourage you to take notes, to write, to write down questions when you have them. The intent of this is not to come at you with a flattery of speech or with an abundance of knowledge, but to simply lay before us the proposition that prayer really does glorify God, and that if our prayers are handled correctly according to the Scriptures, He will truly be glorified in it, which begs the question, can some of my prayers not glorify God? They can. And so I think it's important for us to see these kinds of things as laid out. So last week we looked at number three. You must understand, if you're to glorify God in your prayers, you must understand that your prayers will not change the mind of God. That is building upon number one, which is you must understand that God is infinitely and absolutely sovereign. That is the starting place. That is the building block. For when that is off, you will miss it in every other point. And so that must be the correct starting place, as that God is absolutely and infinitely sovereign over all. And then we looked at, you must understand, God has commanded that we pray. And if God has commanded that we pray, then perhaps there is a more biblical approach to prayer than perhaps some of the times we've had in prayer. In fact, I don't know about you, but as I dive into this study and I begin to read and to see all that is related to us through the scriptures concerning prayer, I find myself amazed at the prayers that I have prayed through the years. It's almost as though I say to myself, which I have actually done, Lord, what in the world have I been doing in my prayers? Why in the world would I so selfishly invade the very throne room of God with such a request as this? Well, I hope that you have those kinds of questions as well. Perhaps you don't. Perhaps I am the only weird one standing in front of you today with these kinds of questions. But we must understand that our prayers are part of God's plan. He has ordained that we pray to Him. We have said that prayer is the very process by which He will accomplish His end, and that His end is unchanging. And so our prayers are part of His plan. With that being said, I want you to look at number four on the sheet. You must understand that your prayers will not change the will of God. Now, understand when I give you this that there will be some overlap as far as understanding between number three and number four, and even number five and six. But it's important to kind of break these down because it gives us a broader stroke of the brush to look at this area called prayer. You see, if I am to understand prayer at all, then I must understand that prayer cannot alter the eternal decrees of God. And that's what I am referring to here when I say that prayer does not change the will of God. This is the Decrees of God now. I know that for some the word decree can be a scary word I've mentioned it to people and they would say things like well. I don't know anything about decrees I just know this or this or this but don't let that scare you basically what I'm saying is what God has eternally purposed from before the foundations of the world and They will come to pass. They will happen. God has stated them. He has written them, and they will happen. They are unwavering, and they are as certain as anything there is in the universe. Look at Psalm 3310. It's the first one on your second sheet. It begins at the top of the paper on your verses that I've given you so you don't have to turn to these. Psalm 3310 and 11 says this, The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations. He frustrates the plans of the people. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart from generation to generation. Now, in approaching that verse and these kinds of verses, we have to ask ourselves, is this true? Do we actually believe in the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, where some verses seem to indicate for us that God does change His mind, and other verses seem to indicate to us that God does not change His mind? Which of the ones are correct? Because I have also stated that according to the analogy of Scripture that we have and that we teach from, that this is true. That one interpretation of a passage of Scripture must be laid alongside other interpretations of other Scriptures, and there can be no contradiction in any. So the verses that appear to say God does NOT change His mind, and those that appear to say God DOES change His mind, actually are the same. And so we're going to show you that. In fact, I'm going to next week give you a presentation of four verses of Scripture that may surprise you or alarm you or inform you. And so I'm looking forward to this. But the counsels of the Lord here in Psalm 3310 refer to the plans of God. You can actually take the word counsels and replace them with the plans of God. The Lord nullifies the counsels. He frustrates the plans of the people. The plans of the Lord stand forever. The plans of His heart from generation to generation. Now that is either true or false. So we're going to take the supposition that that is absolutely true according to the Word of God. The will of the Lord, the purposes of the Lord, the counsel of the Lord stands from generation to generation. You see, God is not working on plan B. or Plan C or Plan X. God has always been and will always work Plan A. He has only one plan. He has only one plan that has been worked out, and He is the architect of that plan. It is important for us to see and to understand this kind of teaching. I would venture to say that so far in looking at the three that we have looked at and now being on the fourth one of these truth statements, that you can see just how critical they are and should be in the life of a believer as far as a proper understanding of the theology that you have. This is God's plan being worked out right now. Look at Proverbs 19.21, which is right below that passage on your sheet. Proverbs 19.21. It says this. Many plans are in a man's heart, but the counsel of the Lord will stand." The counsel of the Lord will stand. This is to say God's plan and God's counsel will never change, even in light of sincere prayers. That is a hard thing for us to understand. It is meant to be for you today an encouragement for you, not a discouragement for you. Look at Isaiah 14, 26 through 27. This is the plan devised against the whole earth. And this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations. For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for his stretched-out hand, who can turn it back? You see, it's important that we do understand that these are answering this own question. There is implied in that verse the answer which says, when it says, Who can? The answer is, No one. Not man, not Satan, not king, not princes, nor rulers, nor other servants can change this. It will happen. God will bring it about. Look at Isaiah 46, 9 through 11. Remember the former things, long past. For I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is no one like me. declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times, which have not been done, saying, My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all my good pleasure, calling a bird of prey from the east and the man of my purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken. Truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it. Surely I will do it. And so this is a reference to Cyrus, a pagan king, in which he is talking about he frustrates and uses the kings of the earth, regardless of whether or not they are believers. God will do all that he purposes and all that he plans and all are unalterable. That is a very important word for us. That is a word of assurance for us. That is a word of comfort to us. Prayer does not change the eternal will and the sovereign will of God. Now, in looking at a book that I want to recommend to you by A.W. Pink, Some of you may not like A.W. Pink. Some of you may love to read A.W. Pink. But I challenge you to read this book, especially one chapter in there that talks about the sovereign will and prayer. The name of the book is The Sovereignty of God by A.W. Pink. It is a very good book. But listen to what he says. God requires that we shall worship Him. And prayer, real prayer, is an act of worship. Prayer is an act of worship inasmuch as it is prostrating of the soul before Him, inasmuch as it is calling upon His great and holy name. inasmuch as it is the owning of His goodness and His power, His immutability or unchangeableness, His grace, inasmuch as it is the recognition of His sovereignty, owned by a submission to His will." You see, biblical prayer or what he calls real prayer here is an act of worship if it is an act of worship then it is truly bringing glory to the Lord God if it is not then it is not bringing glory but listen to what he says again he says prayer redounds to God's glory for in prayer we do but acknowledge our own dependency upon him That is what prayer actually is. It is recognizing who He is. It is recognizing our total dependency on Him. He goes on to say that prayer is appointed by God for a spiritual blessing as a means for our growth of grace. So every time we enter into prayer, it is intended to grow us in the knowledge and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. He goes on to say, Prayer, real prayer, is a coming into the presence of God, and a sense of His awesome majesty produces a realization of our nothingness and unworthiness. That's what prayer is designed to do. And so we look at this as understanding that prayer does not change the will of God, as well as does not change the mind of God. So that brings me to number five. See, these move a little quicker at the backside. Number five, you must understand, if you are to glorify God in your prayers, you must understand that you are to submit your will to the sovereign will of God. Now that is an important statement. It's not one that I take lightly. It's not one that the scriptures take lightly. But if this being the case, if number five is actually true and is building upon one through four, then perhaps our views respecting prayer need to be revised and brought into harmony with the teachings of the scripture on this subject. I, for one, am standing before you today knowing that my prayers have had to be revisited, have had to revise the very purpose for which I intend to pray, the very purpose for which I simply bow before Him to bring prayers to our Father. Teachings of the Scriptures are meant to produce a change in us. The prevailing idea, A.W. Pink says, seems to be that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonoring and degrading conception of what prayer truly is. The popular belief reduces God to a mere servant, servant doing our bidding performing our pleasure granting our desires that is what he is saying as far as understanding the will of God this is to say prayer is humbling myself he says before God and saying as Jesus did in the garden not my will but your will be done That is what prayer actually is. We have been looking at a model of prayer in Matthew chapter 6. If you will, look over at Matthew chapter 6 at the model prayer that we have been looking at for weeks. Matthew chapter 6 we see the model prayer directly from the Lord Jesus mouth himself in which he is saying pray then in this way and then he gives us verse 10 in which we see in verse 10 thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven Prayer is posturing of myself under the very throne of God and denying myself in total dependency upon Him and putting my will under the sovereign will of God. If we could actually just understand that much this particular teaching on prayer it would change our whole prayer life everything about what we see in prayer would be changed you see as the model prayer has presented thy kingdom come think about this we've already talked about that kingdom we've talked about the citizens and the subjects of that kingdom but the citizens in the subject of that kingdom that we are referring to in Matthew 6 does not enter into the kingdom to direct the king. The citizens in the subject of that kingdom enter in to humbly bow before the king and to receive orders that must be obeyed. That is what he's talking about in the kingdom. Now look at number six on the list. Number six says, you must understand that God hears and answers prayers according to his sovereign perfect will. What an amazing thing for us to be able to say. I wanna say something that might shock you into hearing the worst, I mean the rest of what I have to say. This statement should be a shocking statement to you. that God has absolutely answered every real prayer ever prayed upon this earth. Now that may shock you, it may not shock you. It may create questions in your mind. You may not think, well, wait a minute. Now you can't tell me that my prayers have all been answered. And I can honestly say, every one of the prayers prayed, unhesitatingly, I affirm that statement, that they have been answered. Now, you must understand that God hears and answers prayers according to His perfect, sovereign will. So if we are still building upon this structure, and we are at the sixth thing, then we need to understand, yes, He hears and answers prayers. And we ought to also be willing to say, Lord, we praise You today. For according to your perfect will, these prayers are in the right hands. You are the one who can be trusted to handle our requests. You see, we ought to be praising God today, as I have said many times from this pulpit, that we ought to be praising Him for unanswered prayers. those prayers which were not glorifying to Him, of which were probably stimulated by selfish ambition or flesh itself. For God knows what is best, and God knows what is right for every situation. Now let me clarify something. When I say that He will answer or not answer prayers, I am speaking in human terms. God has answered and will answer every real prayer prayed. But to say that He has not answered some prayers, I'm speaking about that in human terms. Think about this for a moment. Have you ever prayed for something and not received an answer from your thinking? You see, based on the way you pray, we can be expecting an answer, like an open door, or close this door, Lord, and open this door, or for a situation to find a perfect remedy, or for a peace to be gained, or for understanding, and we don't see the actual answer to our prayer. Be assured that the answer can probably be, and usually is, a no. Very simply a no. But a no to me means sometimes that, well, he hasn't answered me yet. Perhaps I need to clarify my position a little stronger, dear Lord. So that is a supposition that we make. And let me say this, according to A.W. Pink, prayer is coming to God, telling Him my need or the need of others, committing my way unto the Lord, and then leaving Him to deal with the case as it seems fit. Can we do that? Can we honestly come and make our requests to God and then literally get out of the position of prayer and leave it with Him to answer any way He sees fit? Even a no. You know, no or no. All of it means the same, doesn't it? But we don't like no's. I know growing up I didn't like a no. Still don't like a no. My mother would say something and she said, I said no if I gave any other breath out of my mouth, it was don't talk back to me. But I said don't talk back. If I went beyond that, it was time for the belt. So, no's mean no. My mother was a firm believer that no means no. It doesn't mean ask me again in five minutes. It doesn't mean that if you do ask me again, that I'm going to have to give you time out in the corner. As a lady said to her child in the store one day when I was shopping, she said this, I have told you a hundred times no. Well, how many times does it take that you must give to your child before they understand, no. Perhaps that's something you need to know. Jeremiah 33, 33 says, call upon me and I will answer you. I will tell you great and mighty things which you do not know. Call out to me, cry out to me, says the Lord God. I will answer you. Now, it may not be the answer we choose or the answer we want. It may be a no, because we know that in Isaiah 55, the Scriptures CLEARLY say that His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts. And if we have the audacity to bring a petition to God, then we MUST have the confidence and the faith to believe that He knows what is best. Now, I want to give you a couple of examples of this. God answers prayer just a simple examples of this look in John chapter 11 and I'll just go through this some of you know already where that is is it's next to John chapter 10 and next to between 10 and 12 it's called John chapter 11 and But we read of the sickness of Lazarus, and it begins in verse 1, that a certain man was sick. And it tells us about this sickness. And we begin to work our way through the Scriptures, and the sisters sent a message unto the Lord, acquainting him, or giving him a petition of their brother's condition. And note that when this message comes to him, that their appeal was worded like this, Now notice what is not there in the passage of Scripture. It does not say, You need to do something now. We ask that you heal him on the spot. He is sick. But it does not say that. That was all. They did not ask him to actually heal Lazarus at all. They're just informing him of the petition. They did not request him to come at once to Bethany. They simply spread their need before the Lord. a way of letting him know this is a this is a sample for us this is meant for a teaching time for them as well as for us his whole observation here is from his perspective now they must know that Jesus does love Lazarus they also must know something of the nature of who he is and that perhaps he can do something we don't know what they're thinking they just make this request of him and that is where it is left with us And so what our Lord's reply was, did He respond with the appeal of what we would intimate from this? In other words, how does He respond to this kind of request? Because we said God answers prayer. from his perspective, submitting our will until the perfect sovereign will of God. And the story goes on. In fact, when therefore he heard that he was sick, look at the answer. He stayed then two days longer in the place where he was. Is he in a hurry? You see, If we could just understand that God's perspective is going to be far greater than what we can see. His sisters could not see beyond the pain of their brother being really sick. They cannot see past that. It is something that is very real, very foretelling for them to be able to humble themselves before God and say, this whom you love, he is sick. then leave it with that certainly he did answer their prayer but not in the way they had hoped in fact it says here that after this he said to his disciples Let's go to Judea again. And of course, this stimulates the discussion because he just left there, and the people were angry, and so they even think, well, okay, well, let's just all go back and die together. They're going to attack us when we get there. But he goes on with his mission, and we know he answered in John 11, 6 in allowing Lazarus to die. That is an amazing thing. Now, if he had said to the sisters, the message, go tell the sisters, his sickness is going to get worse and he will die, and leave it with that, what do you think they would have thought? It's amazing, isn't it? But they actually did not get that message, but that is the message there. God is going to do something amazing. He is going to allow His disciples to see the very glory of God. And then we get to verse 40, and He says to the sister, Did I not say to you, If you believe, you will see the glory of God? Now, His sickness was not into death permanently. His sickness was to reveal and to put on display the very glory of God. But they didn't know that. You see, we don't know HOW God is going to answer our request. We don't know HOW He's going to pay attention to the details of our needs. We just know that His perspective is FAR GREATER than what my perspective could ever be. Another one, another example could be 2 Corinthians chapter 12, if you want to turn there. 2 Corinthians chapter 12. We see an amazing story here. And you can just kind of follow through the verses as I just kind of talk my way through them. The Apostle Paul has been allowed a tremendous privilege one of which we still to this day do not know what it is. But he has been transported into the third heaven. His ears have listened to and his eyes have been able to look upon things that are amazing and extraordinary. And you've heard this story many times. But the wonders of the revelation was more than the apostle could endure. He was in danger of becoming puffed up by pride with his own flesh. He was not allowed to discuss this. Therefore a thorn in the flesh, which it says a messenger of Satan, was sent to buffet him lest he be exalted above measure. Now that is an amazing thing to look at for Paul. What did he see? What did he understand? How did he come to understand what God was doing for him? He prayed three times. He spread his need before the Lord. He bowed before him and asked God to remove this thorn in the flesh. Was his prayer unanswered? You see, it could have been that, well, it just stayed there, and so he got a no. But was it actually unanswered? Assuredly, we know God did answer him. Now whether he did this by a verbal communication, whether he did this by an illumination of the Word of God in his mind, or how he did this, we're not told. But his prayer was answered. The thorn in the flesh was NOT removed. He received an absolute, a certain no for His prayer. So this just tells us, once again, that our prayers are not always going to receive the affirmative. Our prayers, many times, will receive an absolute no. Prayer for our friends, sometimes. Prayer for the healing of people. We actually need to be careful how we pray for people. I have seen this dozens of times. In fact, over at another church, I was asked to go by the family to come and speak to a young man who was dying of cancer and had a chance to speak with him and his wife concerning the truths of the Scriptures. and shared with him Philippians 3 10 that God was allowing this in him that he might know Christ and the power of his resurrection being conformed to his death and let me tell you something when I began to share with him the sovereign will and purpose of God he got it he understood it and saw it and I could see it in him that he was seeing it His wife understood it. We wept together. Get to church on Sunday, and he was called up by that pastor to give a word of testimony, and everything he spoke was absolutely glorifying to the Lord, and how God had used that moment to comfort his heart. He knew he wasn't going to be around much longer, but the pastor had all of the ordained men of the church come forward and lay their hands on him if you cannot lay your hands on him you lay your hands forward towards him and pray for his healing that was the prayer of that morning and I'll never forget as he said we are going to pray for his healing I'm sitting there in my eyes catch his eyes And we just had just a moment of a stare with each other. And then we both prayed. I know his prayer was not that morning to say, Lord, heal me. I know that my prayer that morning was not to say, Lord, heal him. My prayer that morning would be, Lord, if it is your will, answer this according to what you know is best for him. Not that I was any super saint, but that I saw this truth being lived out right in front of me. And it is an amazing thing. All the people in that church praying that he be healed, one week later, he stepped into eternity, having been healed. It's amazing. But you see, it's all in your perspective, isn't it? It's all in understanding what God was able to do to teach him, to teach me. Whether the people of the church got it or not, I don't know. I never had a chance to follow up. But I do know this, that at the opportunity of the funeral, our pastor, somehow or another could not make it. He asked me to step in, and when I stepped in over there at that funeral home, and the family was, big family, all gathered around, and I shared that experience that I had had with him, and it was an amazing time of celebration. Because you see, they understood, just like we understand. God did what was according to His plan. God did what was in the perfect will of God. And when we pray for people, I can assure you one thing, that God will accomplish what concerns Him. God will answer that prayer according to His perfect will and sovereign plan. If we are praying that someone be healed on that day or this day, be assured of this, that if it is the day that they are to enter eternity, there is not a prayer can be offered to extend that day. It will happen. But you see, we don't want to know that. We don't want to hear that. We don't want to think. that we had nothing to do with the perfect sovereign will of God. But we did. You see, prayer for our friends is to be a prayer where we trust God. Prayer for the salvation of our loved ones is the same thing. We don't know who God is working on. We don't know how He can speak in a very moment and say, Lazarus, come forth. We don't know how that in a given moment a heart can be changed, just like yours was changed in a moment. And so we pray for God to save the lost, to save our family, even though we may realize we may never see the evidence of that. but we're not trusting me. I'm not trusting me to make sure my message is clear enough so their mind can be sharp enough to understand what I say. I'm trusting the God who is sovereign over hearts, that if it's His will to change that heart, just like He changed our hearts. You see, the sovereign will of God. is to be submitted to by our will. We don't tell Him what to do. We simply affirm to Him. Remember I said bringing glory to God is affirming the very fact of His attributes, and we understand part of this, and we begin to recognize this in prayer and ascribe it right back to Him. Number seven, you must understand that since God is sovereign, we must pray. You see, prayer is a partnership with God. God has established that we enter into this relationship with Him as a partnership. It is also a privilege to be in partnership with the very Creator of all the universe. God Himself, and He has called on us to pray. And we are participating through partnership and through privilege in the very work that He has ordained for Himself to do. And we have a chance to partner with Him. We must pray. God can do His work without us, but He has challenged us and called on us to pray. Prayer brings us excitement. Prayer brings us a fulfillment in the sense that we can participate with God so that He may be glorified in all that we do. You see, God is the one who changes hearts. I've had so many people say to me, how can you who hold to Reform Theology teach the true gospel of the Lord. And I'll say very easy, I do not know who God is going to save. I do not have a way to see who the elect of God are. I just know that as Paul, in fact, look at this, let me just, I gotta do this. Look at Romans chapter 9. I could, if we had till tomorrow, To go through Romans 9, and beginning in verse 11, talk about the sovereign will of God. In verse 13, it is written, "...Jacob I loved, Esau I hated. What shall we say then? Is there any injustice with God?" And he goes on to explain the very sovereignty of God. The scriptures say in 17, for this very purpose, I have raised you up to demonstrate my power in you, talking about the Pharaoh. Or verse 20, on the contrary, who are you, old man, to answer back to God? He goes on and explains how God is sovereign, and He chooses whom He chooses. He loves whom He will love and hates whom He will hate. And then you begin to understand by the time you get to the end of Romans chapter 9, Paul understands the very sovereignty of God. He understands that God reigns and rules over His own creation and even over the hearts of men. But look at Romans chapter 10 verse 1. Brethren, the Jewish brethren, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is what? That they be saved. You see, we don't know. Don't give up praying for your family member who may not know the Lord. You don't know what God is doing. Don't give up on the one who is sick and needs your prayers. Pray. Call on God to accomplish what He desires to accomplish. Allow yourself that privilege of entering into a very work of God that brings glory to Him by you trusting Him. I'm glad I can't see the hearts out there. that will never, ever experience regeneration. I'm glad I can't see that. What a horrible thing to see. So with us, we are to preach the gospel, for therein is the power of God revealed from faith to faith. The gospel reaches hearts. God has ordained the end of people's salvation. And the very process is through the preaching and the teaching of His Word using people. Let's pray together. As we humbly come before the Lord in prayer, you have a challenge. You can believe what the Scriptures teach or not believe it. As we come before you this morning, Lord, we go to your word, and knowing that your word is doing its work in each one of us, and as I pray this morning, I pray words from your holy word. As David said, and he cried out to you, search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my anxious thoughts, and see if there be any hurtful way in me. And dear God, lead me in the everlasting way. For it's in Christ's name we pray. You have been listening to the teaching ministry of Grace Fellowship Church in Bradenton Florida with Pastor William Rogers. We invite you to join us in worship every Sunday at 1030 a.m. We are located at the corner of Manatee Avenue East and East 9th Street on the center floor of the Manatee Central Banquet Hall. We pray that you will join us again next Sunday as we continue to teach God's word one verse at a time.