I'm really glad I came to church today. Amen. Well, that should be every day and every time we come together, it should be a blessing and the joy of being together. As I have studied recently and read parts of scripture, it's so obvious that a church is not about a building, of course, it's about people. And this whole thing about church is about relationships and for one another, and encouraging one another, and challenging one another. All these things that we do together. And what a blessing each service, and to hear the different contributions of all the different people who participate. And God is a good and gracious God. I want to review, but I'm going to give you a test, and I'm going to send a report back home to your mother to see how you do on this one. But if you'll turn to 2 Peter chapter 1 again, I want to through this again I think it's so important it bears that I want to go further into the Scripture. The first thing we have to understand is in verse number 3 of chapter 1 of 2 Peter, His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue. We have everything we need in the Scriptures, in the The Word of God we're given how to deal with life, that is the relationships of our life, our priority system, all the things that deal with issues of life, and then of course how to be right with God, how to be godly. And then he talks about he has given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature. the corruption is in the world through lust. It is inescapable that number one, we cannot live for God apart from the divine nature. God has given us at our salvation, a new heart, a heart that now yearns after God, a heart that longs to please God, a heart that longs to be right with God. and that that is something that is a gift of God at salvation, a gift of grace. And so our pursuit, if we are not born again, if there's not that divine nature, we really have a difficult time living in a Christian culture. We constantly run into walls and constantly find ourselves struggling with life and struggling with dealing with how to be right and godly and those kind of things. And then this passage to me is such a tremendous help to measure ourselves and to understand the process. And that's what I want to go over tonight, just to see if you got it, to understand the process. Because the words of scripture are inspired of God. And therefore, the order, the way they are said, the way things appear in Scripture is so critical. We're not just given to ourselves to make up a plan, for God has given us a plan. And the first thing I want you to see in verse number five, giving all diligence. Add to your faith. In other words, spiritual growth and victory in our lives is not something that just happens by accident. It is not just sitting somewhere and all of a sudden we just, it happens, you know? There is a pursuit. Again, I've said to you before, I've mentioned this, but if you would like to be challenged in your soul, read The Pursuit of God by E.W. Tozer. It is a challenging, stirring, humbling book. to think of humans pursuing God and wanting to be like Him and to know Him and to have a hunger for God as the heart panteth after the water brooks. So panteth my soul after thee, O God. It's a challenging thing. And Paul asked us to give diligence that we might add to our faith virtue. Now, the point I made, and this is so critical to the whole thing, The first step, faith, by faith we trust Christ, by faith we're given the divine nature, by faith we believe the promises of God. But what is the next step? And that's where so many people miss it. We have a person who we know gets saved. And the first thing we do is try to give them knowledge. We try to give them facts. We give them a book or something, and nothing wrong with books. I read books all the time. But to understand that unless there is in their heart a diligent searching for goodness and righteousness, virtue, that all the knowledge that they have really doesn't do any good. Many, many times I have endeavor to help someone, to guide them through perhaps a difficult circumstance, to show them in the Scriptures exactly what God has said. And there are very few times the Scripture doesn't speak very specifically of the answer to our dilemma or the situation we're in as far as relationships and all those kind of things. God is very clear about that in the Scriptures. And yet when we share the truth, It bears no fruit because the person we're sharing it with does not have a desire to do right. Does not have a desire to do the right thing. He's maybe considering it, possibly thinking about it, but there's really no passion to accept the truth of God and to act on that truth. So the first thing we see is after faith comes virtue. Virtue being defined as moral excellence, wanting to be. That godly person escaping the corruption of the world through lust, not yearning after things that are wrong, but rather yearning in our heart after God. Now, after diligence comes knowledge. What is the relationship? Now I have believed in Christ. I have made a choice to live for God. Now, not knowledge. What does that do? I told you I'm going to send a report card home to your mother. So let's be sure you get it right. What is the next part? Knowledge, why? I've trusted Christ. I made a decision to do right. Now, huh? Know what to do. I need to understand what to do. How does that happen? What should I avoid? What should I do? What does God approve of? What does God not approve of? So the very next step is knowledge. You know, a person who has just been recently saved probably doesn't know a great deal. They're struggling with the basic things. And so this knowledge to find it. Now, by the way, here's the difference. If a person has genuinely been saved and they made the decision that they want to be godly and follow Christ and be a good Christian, then knowledge will be accepted. It'll not be something they're debating or, well, I don't know if I'm going to do that or not. It is. They've already made that choice. I remember when we were in college, uh, back in the day, uh, before Christmas time, uh, dr. Bob senior used to preach a sermon every year to us about the dog returning to his vomit and a hog returning to his wallowing in the mire. And he said, now some of you students are just can't wait to get out of Bob Jones and go home. And some of you have already decided when you go home, you're gonna go back and wallow in the mire and you're gonna return to your vomit. And he said, you know what? He said, that shows where your heart is. And then he said, that decision needs to be made before you leave the campus that I'm not gonna go back and do that. There is a desire to do right. And after that, then I understand I need to know, I want to know, I am hungry to know what is right. So after knowledge comes temperance. What's temperance? All right, so what is the progression? Now I have knowledge, temperance is self-control. So what is the relationship between knowledge and temperance? Yeah, so now I know temperance is to control myself based on what I know. So now I've decided I understand God's will, understand his word. And let me say this, you know, I've learned this, that if I tell somebody what to do, and I'm good at that. You come off, I can tell you, I got an opinion. You know, I can tell you what to do, but if the word of God tells you and you accept it, it's very different. If you see it for yourself in the scriptures, you go, oh, I get it now. It is a matter of letting God, the Holy Spirit, speak to us through his word. Then I decide I've got to control myself. I've got to him in myself. I've got to restrict my freedoms in many cases in order that I might live for God. So after temperance comes, Why patience? By the way, the word patience means endurance. Why would he say the next thing after temperance, after controlling, trying to control yourself is patience? Because, huh? It takes a lot of work. That's a great way to say it. You have to press on, don't you? You know, we make those decisions. We make those choices. We know what to do. We understand where God wants us to change. And we start out really good and we fall. And you have to continue to press on. It takes patience. It takes endurance. Now, let me just stop here at this point and say, at any place in this progression, we can fail and stop. Many times that happens. For example, a person may say, I want to do right. I want to be virtuous. I want to live a godly life. they begin to read the scriptures and begin to find out what that means and they begin and more than more importantly god begins to put his finger on things in their life god begins to lead them in certain directions and suddenly they go wait a minute i didn't count on this that's a little bit much for me right now and so they back off so knowledge is not absolute temperance now i know what to do but I kinda like that, that's kind of a part of my life, you know, or I try and I fail so that you say, what's the use? I give up. So this process can be stopped at any place along this pyramid here. So after patience comes godliness. So what is happening now? As I have made a decision, as I have learned, as I have begun to restrict myself, as I have pressed on Not given up, I wanna be like God, I want to be right, I want to live right. So what is happening now? I am, huh? I'm being transformed into his image. You just sang about it. I become like God, I have become godly. There are things in my life that becomes different. A God produces in me the fruit of the spirit. Suddenly I am more godly than I was. And by the way, at this point, people begin to notice. I say to you, it's difficult, but I say to you, if you ask your wife or your husband or your good friend, am I a different person than I was a year ago? Have I grown? Have I changed? Has God, can you see in my life a difference? Godliness becomes obvious. So we have now godliness, and after godliness, Brotherly kindness. Now, why is that next? Mark? Because until we're first right with God, we can't be right with our brothers. Until we're right with God, we can't be right with our brothers. And by the way, brotherly kindness relates to whom? Other Christians. It's interesting that that's the progression. In other words, we learn to get along with other believers first. We learn to accept one another. You know, it is easy to see our friend's faults. Do any of your friends have faults? I have a few. Don't ask my wife, she could tell you all of them probably. We all, and it's easy, it's easy to Withdraw to be critical of others and you know, here's the thing you got to understand Do you understand do you realize that we all grow at different times in different ways You know, let me give an example I'm not a drinker. I mean liquor I drink water and all that kind of stuff I've never I've never been tempted to do it. I don't do it. I see no reason to do it Doesn't bother me a bit Did you know there are Christians who are greatly tempted by alcohol? Did you know that? Now let me ask you a question. Do I have a right to be judgmental and critical of those who drink, or maybe not drink, but have a temptation to drink alcohol when I don't? I could say, I could pull my robes of righteousness around me and say, well, I'm not even tempted with that. Good thing. Why? Because, by other things. And maybe some of the things that they're not tempted with and they do fine with, I struggle with. So do you understand brotherly kindness? It means that I am understanding that we're all growing in different places. And some things we understand and get very quickly, and some things it takes a long time. I've known people, and by the way, there are, it's not in the Bible, there are words like besetting sins that are just difficult. Don't respond to this, but could you name a sin that is a perpetual issue with you? And maybe you've been saved for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, and you still have a problem with it. Well, you know the fact of the matter is, we're all individuals, aren't we? Brotherly kindness simply means that we learn how be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. Does Christ know you? Does He know your weaknesses? Oh, do you have any weaknesses? Do you have any sins? Does Christ know that? Is He kind to you? Do you understand how gracious God is to us? That He doesn't reward us according to our sins. He doesn't deal with us according to our iniquities. He forgives, gives us by His grace. He gives us strength to overcome. Those are amazing things. Brotherly kindness and the brotherly kindness charity. Now, now, now we learn to love those outside. We learn to love those that are not lovely, those that we would not normally love. I think that's a good prayer to pray. Lord, help me to love. Give me a heart of love. I mean, it begins with brotherly kindness, obviously, but after that, to be able to love people who are sinners, to love people who are caught up in sin. We know what sin does, don't we? We know how it captivates, how it destroys. We know how sin can ruin a life. And we should learn to see them as people that Christ loved. If you read through the gospels, you can't miss that. The woman at the well, the woman taken in adultery, Zacchaeus up a tree who was a tax collector and dishonest. Jesus loved, and Jesus understood, and Jesus knew them. And he reached out to them in love, and that should be us. So that's the pyramid, that is the process. And those steps are pretty much the way things work, and you can't really avoid those. If you say I'm gonna just jump virtue and go to knowledge, you'll find out you may have a lot of head knowledge, but you're not growing and you're not being, you're not developing because you have forgotten that step. After knowledge, there are things we have to do now, not just knowing, but now acting on that knowledge. That temperance is an active word. Being willing to change based on what we're learning and then the patience to stick with it. Now I want to move ahead because I want you to see this in verse number eight, where things be, if these things be in you and abound, They make you that you should neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. What do you notice about this phrase for if these things be in you and abound, if, if this, if this is your life, if this is the way you are, then what do we learn? If these things be in you and abound, talk to me. Okay, so in you and abound is an abiding constant characteristic It is not something that you do occasionally. It's not something you decide on Sunday night and on Monday and Tuesday you forget it and This is your life. This is who you are. This is how you, the verb tense there is a continuing thing. These are in you all the time and they are abounding, which means this is not just a, you know, there is a thought and a kind of a thing that said from time to time that I kind of acknowledge God in my life. No, it's really more than that. We have to let Christ sit on the throne of our lives. We have to live in the knowledge of grace, the knowledge of being right and doing right and living according to God's word, according to what he tells us. And so the idea here is that these things permeate our lives. They are who I am. They're in me and they abound and They make you that you should neither be barren nor unfruitful. Barren under the most favorable circumstances. You are not barren, you are not unfruitful. And the word knowledge, again, is that word, I've mentioned this before, there are several levels of this word. The word gnosis is knowledge. It means to know something. Like I know this pulpit is made out of wood, and this is oak, and I have some knowledge of this pulpit, but I don't have a personal knowledge. I didn't build it. I don't know all there is to know about how it's put together. So the word here is epinosus. It means to have a complete and thorough personal intimate knowledge. So as we go up the pyramid, as we become more godly, as we apply these truths, we find that we begin to understand God. I was thinking this morning after the message about Job, and I was thinking about myself. How would I respond if something like it happened to me? And I thought to myself, you know, Job had to be a godly man. Job had to be a man that had a close, intimate relationship with God, because when that happens, human nature, a carnal person would immediately begin to complain and to charge God. It would just be what a man would do. But for a man to respond to that horrible circumstance by simply mourning but falling down and worshiping God, what an amazing, astounding thing that is. And so he had to have a intimate knowledge of God. The Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Wow. That is epinosis. And the reason we struggle with life, and this is what I wish all of us could remember and understand. You know, I've known people in this ministry in my life that would say things like, I just feel like there's more. I feel like that, you know, that I'm just not happy. I'm just not satisfied. I just, there's gotta be more. They're not talking about going through the process of spiritual change and growing closer to God. They're talking about some extra biblical experience, some kind of thing that they could do, you know, that some experience or some feeling or something. Somebody's got a secret that they're going to tell me it's going to make me better. And by the way, in every case that I remember, a person who wants that gets it, and it's not good. And you know, we have to understand that as we know God, as we understand him, then when those things come up, when, when those decisions, when those difficulties, it's not just difficulty, but the way we look at life, the way we see things, I don't want you to notice the negative because sometimes in the negative, we understand the positive. Look at, look at verse nine. But he that lacketh these things, that is, now let me say, he that lacketh these things means, tell me, it means that this person is not, they're not growing, they're not changing, they're just, you know. Now, I wonder sometimes how many people on a given Sunday morning sit in these pews and they have not grown a bit. the last year or two or three or four I wonder how many there is I wonder and I'm not trying to be judgmental I'm just sometimes I wonder about that wonder about myself too to make sure that I'm growing and changing too but you understand what I'm saying that it is possible to just be content but but the point I want you to see tonight is what I hope to drive home to you is that just being content to be who you are and not growing and changing Is going to have dramatic effect on your life and how you see the world It's going to affect your peace It's going to affect your joy It's going to affect your your perception your vision So he says those but he that lack of these things is blind And cannot see afar off I've mentioned it is the word, it is a word like my optic. It is a person who, who sees right in front of them. That's all they can see. And you know, all of us wishes that God would lay out our five year plan. You know, Lord, tell me, show me what's five years down the road. Now we know that God doesn't do that, but he does give us light under our steps and light into our pathway. Right? God, a lamp unto our steps, a light unto our path. God does show us the steps. But you see, when a person is not growing, this is what I want you to see. When a person's not growing, when a person's not changing, when a person isn't walking with God in a personal relationship, they don't have perception. I mean, things are, you know, that's as far as they can see. And boy, it is important to be able to see. It is important to see where something's going. The definition of a fool in Proverbs, a fool is someone who does things and does not understand or accept the consequences of what he's doing. He does stuff, he makes decisions, but he doesn't realize where that decision is going to lead him. And you see most Christians never plan to wander away from God and get themselves in trouble. That's just not where we tend to be. But a fool doesn't acknowledge there are consequences. I remember there was someone one time who left our church. This was many years ago. Probably in another city, another state. And before this person left the church, they told everybody they knew, they told them off. I mean, they just straightened them out, told them off, just really let them have it. About six months later, they contacted me and said, why didn't anybody at church contact me? Why aren't they talking to me? Why aren't they calling me? I said, because you told them all off and told them you don't want to see them anymore, and you called them all kinds of names. You see what I'm saying? That's a fool. You do things, maybe it makes you feel better, but the fact of the matter is, there are consequences of that. And so a person who is not drawing close to God, is not changing, is not growing, is blind and can't see afar off, there's something else. They have amnesia. Now, look at what it says. Hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sin. I ponder that a great deal. I think one thing, that applies in this passage here is that a person, many Christians, interesting enough, struggle with assurance of salvation. It's really surprising almost how many people would confess that they struggle with knowing they're really saved. And I think that's part of what he's saying here. That is, They may have been saved, but because they're not growing, there's something in us that says to us, we need to be changing and growing. We need to be better than we were, and we're not. And I need to be godly, and I'm not. And I need to be more concerned about spiritual things, and I'm not. And I think it is a logical and reasonable thing to begin to doubt my own salvation. Because that salvation is not living. Now, let me say it from a positive way. It is almost impossible to doubt your salvation when you're growing and changing. When the power of God is working in your life, it doesn't mean you're perfect, but it means you have this passion to serve and the passion to be like God, a passion to grow close to him, to know him better. You just about can't doubt salvation there because your desire in your heart is to do right. So a person who doesn't want to do right, who doesn't grow, tends to doubt his salvation. But I think there's something else. I think of the church at Ephesus. What was the indictment? The church at Ephesus had all the right rules, they did all the right things, they were diligent, they were patient, they were all this, but they lacked one thing, what was it? They left their first love. I don't think that's what he's talking about here. And see, he says, here's what Jesus says to them. He says, repent and do the first works. You know, when we first get saved, When we are changing, when we're suddenly realizing we're born again, we know God, we have that desire and that passion for God and that desire to grow and to be more like Him. And if we decide at some point in time, we become content with a mediocre life, and we don't wanna be uncomfortable in changing and letting God run our lives. I think it's really easy to forget what God has done for us. You know, serving God should be, and I think is, a very humbling thing. Would you understand this if I said, the closer you get to God, the more unworthy you realize you are? I read sometimes these old guys, and I love the old guys myself, I guess because I'm an old guy, but they're older than me, a lot older than me. And you read those guys and you think to yourself, these guys must be the worst sinner that ever lived. They talk about themselves and how their heart is so far and so cold and their mind is, and all that stuff, and I'm thinking, how can this guy be talking about this? And then I realized, what's happening? Talk to me, what just happened? They saw the wholeness of God. They got close to God. And as soon as you get close to God, or the closer you get to God, the more you see yourself. Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. And what did he say? Woe is me, for I'm undone. I'm a man of unclean lips. You see, as we draw closer to God, we realize what a great thing he has done for us. When we recognize how sinful we really are, and how our heart, I love the hymn, prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart, oh take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above. That was Charles Wesley, a man who was a giant, a man who lived for God, a man who changed two continents for God, who wrote those words. We are prone to wander, aren't we? And if we aren't growing and changing, We forget. We forget the marvelous grace of God. And I've lived long enough, and some of you have too, that many of my friends, or some of my friends at least, have ended up in disaster. Some of them are not serving God today. I could go down the list of men that I know that were serving God at one time, or maybe they were in college with me, who were bright, shining stars, who had all kinds of potential for God, And now they're on the ash heap. And you realize, you know, but for the grace of God, that'd be me. But for the grace of God, and I can't even, I wonder sometimes if God should let me there review the winding path of earth I knew, it will be proven clear and true. Jesus led me all the way. I wonder sometimes if we'll see the times that God stopped us from ruining ourselves. The times that God stopped us and put a roadblock in our way or lifted us up when we fell, fall. I wonder if we'll get to see that. What a humbling thing that would be to see and realize that. So if a person isn't growing and changing, they're blind. They can't see afar off and they've forgotten. If they've been saved, they've forgotten what that means. They've forgotten the grace of God that picked them up. Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence. Now again, there's the same phrase. Remember when he talks about add to your faith diligence, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue. So he used the same term again, be diligent about this to make your calling and election sure. Now, Peter did not write this to make people doubt their salvation. Peter wrote this because there are people in the church, the churches in the first century who claim to be Christians who are not, who claim to be Christians, but inside them there was no fire burning, there was no passion, there was no desire to be like God. And so he says to these people, and he says it in the context of spiritual growth. In other words, if a person can live and not grow and not change and remain the same or go backwards. Then you have to wonder, don't you? Hey, whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth and scourgeth many sons who receive it, right? No, he's good. He's heard every son who received it. It is God's business. God has taken on himself the shepherding of my soul. of caring for my pathway, of making sure that I am aware and that I am led, he leadeth me in paths of righteousness for his namesake. So Peter says, make sure, if you're not growing, if this passage doesn't stir your soul, if this passage doesn't make you think, you know what? I've just been sitting here in neutral. I haven't grown and changed in five years. I can't say that anything in my life is better. I have a hard time being around other believers and not being critical. I have a hard time of reaching out to people who are lost and loving them. I certainly haven't reached the top. Am I really godly? I mean, you begin to look at yourself and if that doesn't stir you, then Peter says you better to make sure. that you've really been saved. You know, salvation is more than signing a card or praying a prayer. It is receiving a new life. It is talking about believing the divine promises and giving a divine nature. And look at this next one, this is interesting. For if you do these things, you shall never fall. True or false, that means you will never sin. Now, interesting, I'm sorry to be pedantic at times, but sometimes you have to be. The verb tense here is called the aorist tense. It is something that happens in the past and is completed. So what he's saying is this, if you do these things, if you change and grow, if you allow God to change you and make you what you should be, you will never permanently stumble and fall. That fall will never be final. You know, the Lord is my shepherd. The rod and staff, the rod pokes me when I get out of line and pushes me back into the flock and urges me to move on. That's what the rod does. The staff is the crooked part. And when I fall into a ditch, And when I wander away, the crook reaches me and pulls me back. You see, it is that care of God that helps me that, yes, I may fall into a ditch, but I won't stay there. Yes, I may wander away from the flock, but I won't stay there. You see, we have to wonder. Have you ever wondered why people can live 10 years without going to church and claim to be a Christian? or even miss a month and not, I mean, I don't know, maybe I'm different than you, but when I'm not in church, I feel bad. I feel like I'm missing something. I can be gone for a couple of weeks and I feel like, man, I need to get back. When I say I love coming to church, I really do. I love being here. And so what he's saying here is if these things, Are in you then you won't ever stumble and completely fail. You will be You'll come back. You're you're you're the kind who'll want to do right. You will find a way to fix it For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly in the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ We're not home yet The Benefits of heaven the joys and all the Health and the wealth and all the things that god has awaiting us are not ours yet Oh, they're ours or do we just don't possess them yet? And he says if you are growing and changing then you'll have an entrance abundant entrance in the everlasting kingdom I remember Going to Bob Senior's funeral, Bob Jones Senior's funeral. Great service, great service. And here's the way the service ended. He's fought a good fight. He's finished the course. And henceforth is laid up for him a crown of righteousness, whom the Lord, the righteous judge shall give to him, but not to him only, but to all those who love his appearing. Wow. Wouldn't you hope that someone would say that at your funeral? That someone at the end of your life would say, they served God. They did right. They were a godly person. They were a wonderful, spiritual, godly person. It'd be a wonderful thing, wouldn't it? And that's exactly where this leads. We were talking to Will Galkin this past week, and Will's a good bit younger than me, and he was asking how old I was, which I, you know, anyway. And he said, you know, Pastor, I really hope that God lets me finish well. And I said, Will, I do too. You know, it'd be a shame, wouldn't it, to live for God for 20 years or 30 years and then just not. And he says here, if you're growing and changing, by the way, at what age do you get to stop growing and changing? You don't. I heard about a guy who was old and sick, and he spent so much time reading the Bible. He read the Bible all the time. And you know, his friends would come in, he'd be reading the Bible. And they said to him, you know, what are you doing? I mean, you read the Bible all the time. He said, I'm cramming for the finals. Hey, I can think of a lot worse things to do than to be reading the Bible when God calls me home. Those last days of my life, to be able to pray and to read the Bible, wouldn't that be a wonderful way to meet God? Not be ashamed. Growing and changing, what an important thing. And the next week, Lord willing, we'll talk about, this is so interesting, look at this. Wherefore, I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance. Verse number 13, stir you up by putting you in remembrance. Verse 15, these things always in remembrance. What do you think? You think he wants to remind people of things? The question I had was why, why do they keep talking about reminding them of things? Well, I can tell you right now, because we forget, don't we? We go out of the house with our hair all messed up because we haven't looked in the mirror. You know, we need to be reminded. Thank you, Father, for the book. In the word, you've given us so much, as you said in this passage, all things that pertain to life and godliness and Lord, so much of our struggles and difficulties with life and perception and and decision making. would be solved if we would just walk with you. The peace of our hearts. You've said in your word that you'll keep us in perfect peace if our mind is stayed or fastened on you. So much of these things that we struggle with would be fixed if we were willing to change and be like you. Lord, give us first of all a great passion, a great desire to be holy. A decision toward virtue. Give us the courage to press on when we fail and to be willing to be changed, to be willing to be changed into your image. To love the brethren, to love sinners. Help us to not be unfruitful, but to be bearing fruit for you, that you might be glorified. And we pray it in your name. Amen. Amen. Brother Rob, let's sing a song. and the choir has been starting our service with for the last several weeks, Thou Art Worthy. Why don't we stand and we'll sing. Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy, all things created Just a reminder, our German mission team will meet in the choir room right after the service. You're dismissed. you