It's all about Jesus. And at the first, when you read this psalm and we go through it, it may not appear to be there'll be little things that you'll catch along the way. But by the time you go from the start to the end of it, it is all about Jesus. And the Old Testament, they say, is the New Testament concealed and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed. And when we have both old and new and we put them together, it gives us a complete picture. And Jesus is the alpha, he's the omega, the beginning and the end. He's the first and the last and the author and the finisher of our faith. There's a scarlet thread through the scripture, and one man titled his work the unfolding drama of redemption. This psalm is all about Jesus from the beginning of of it to the end of it, and it contains the work of the redemption of man from their sin. If you'll stand with me as we read this psalm, beginning in verse one. Psalm chapter sixty-five, verse one. Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion, and unto thee shall the vow be performed. O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. Iniquities prevail against me. As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causes to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. By terrible things and righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation, who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are afar off upon the sea, which by his strength setteth fast the mountains, being girded with power, which still at the noise of the seas, the noise of their ways and the tumult of the people. They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens. Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice. Thou visitest the earth and waterest it. Thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water. Thou prepares them corn when thou has so provided for it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly. Thou settlest the furrows thereof. Thou makest it soft with showers. Thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks. The valleys also are covered over with corn. They shout for joy. They also sing. Let's pray. Father, thank you for tonight. And I just thank you for the opportunity to be here in your house. And I thank you for your word. And I thank you for your son, Jesus Christ, who went to Calvary for me, that I could that I could know redemption and the forgiveness of sins and the cleansing from it. And that you've that you've given me the opportunity to learn and study that word and to bring forth the truth. I pray that you'll help me tonight. to bring them forth that it will be a blessing and a benefit and encouragement and and it will help someone along the way and closer to you. I pray you'll be glorified in it. And I ask these things in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you. You may be seated. This song in the beginning of it, it says, praise waited for the O God and Sion and unto the shall the vow be performed. I think what was happening, what was preceding this song was David was meditating upon as he was known to do. He was meditating upon some of the promises, some of the covenants that God had made with him. in regards to his lineage and his family, because the beginning of it, he talks about the praise that's waiting in Zion. And then in the end of it, you see the picture of the millennial kingdom. So from the beginning to the end, it was all about Jesus. And in the middle, Jesus is there, too. But I think David was meditating upon these songs like Psalm chapter 89, verses three and four that says, I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn unto David, my servant. Thy seed will I establish forever and build up thy throne to all generations. David was thinking about this, and after he was, when God was giving him the throne after Saul was being rejected, and actually this reference here is when David wanted to build the house of God, and he got turned around where he wasn't allowed to, but this is something that was brought into place at that point in his life. It says, and when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shall sleep with my father's. I will set up my seat after the which shall proceed out of my bowels and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever and that scripture is referenced in Acts chapter thirteen Verses 22 and 23 and beginning in the middle of verse 32, it says and said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will of this man seed have God, according to his promise, raised unto Israel a savior Jesus. It's all about Jesus. And I believe David was meditating upon these things that God had spoken to him in a personal way. He was thinking about this kingdom that was coming and the king that was going to come out of his loins. And God opened up through the power of the Holy Spirit. David, being a prophet, saw, got a glimpse into the future. And that's the first thing we're going to look at is the glimpse of the future in verses one and two and then verses three through eight. There's a gospel interlude. And in verses nine through 13, There's a glad day coming, and that's the millennial kingdom, and that's when our faith is going to be sight, and we're going to see Jesus, and we're going to have glorified bodies, and we're going to... we're faithful to him now, we'll rule and reign with him then, and we'll serve him in that kingdom, and those blessings are poured out in that time. The glimpse of the future that David got was he's the promises that were in view. The praise that was waiting for God. This is waited in the Hebrew. It really literally means is silent. So right here where David's David sitting and he's seeing into the future and he sees it. But it's there now because it's a promise that God is saying this is going to happen. Praise waited for the and Zion. And there has to be people that have been saved along the way. for that to for that to happen. So that's what this is what David is seeing. He's seeing what God is going to do. And he says that he says, and unto thee shall the vow be performed. He's just making a statement here about what God is going to do in fulfilling his promises unto thee shall the vow be performed. God is going to do this. And David is seeing this. And it's and it's and it's his heart and his mind is just filling up. As he as he brings forth this song, there's the praise that's waiting, the coming of Christ into his kingdom, God fulfilling his word. Psalm chapter two, verse six says, Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. This is what God was going to do. And then in Psalm chapter one, ten, verse one, it says, The Lord said unto my Lord, sit down at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. God was going to fulfill these promises through David about the lineage of his son and about the person of Jesus Christ and David's heart was filled with joy. I think I think he was filled with excitement as he saw these things and and and there's the praise is waiting in the preeminence of Christ. Oh, now that here is prayer unto thee shall all flesh come. All flesh was going to is going to go on to God and Psalm chapter one or two verses sixteen and seventeen. It says when the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. That's talking about Christ. When the Lord builds up Zion, Jesus is going to be there. And then it says he will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer. Verse two says, Oh, thou that hears prayer unto thee shall all flesh come. During the millennial reign, all flesh will go to him, Isaiah chapter two, and then in the book of Micah talks about people coming from all nations unto him, getting guidance, getting direction, getting counsel. walking in his past, and we'll bring that verse out later. Think about the verses that talk about talk about praying in Jesus's name, the power of prayer in his name. John 1413 says, And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do that the father may be glorified in the son. If you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. David was just as he was meditating upon what God was going to do, and he got a glimpse down through the ages. of what God was going to do, like a prophet, like God did with his prophets. Many times he gave them little glimpses of what he was going to do. And David had that experience. I think that's what he was. What happened in this song as we move along into verse three, there's a gospel interlude in here. And in verse three, it says iniquities prevail against me. As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. Whenever you begin thinking about God, one of the things and you start thinking about him, you're really meditating upon him. One of the things that's going to happen is is you're going to have a consciousness of who you are in your humanity. And David said, Iniquities prevail against me. He recognized the problem of sin. And it's a problem that not just he had, because he said, as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. He recognized that it was something that was a problem of all mankind. All mankind has the same problem of sin. It dwells in us. It's we are born with it. The Bible says there's none righteous. No, not one. And it says that all we like sheep have gone astray. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. This is the problem of sin that plagues all mankind, and it's upon us. It's the reason why. It's the reason why the world is in the condition that it's in. It's the reason why somebody can lie. It's the reason why somebody can steal. Because it's in the heart. It's in man. It's in us. Sin. And sin brought a penalty that man couldn't pay for. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. This is the condemnation that was upon all of us before we got saved. And it's the condemnation that remains upon anybody who's unsaved. It's the problem of sin that David saw. But what the problem of sin with knowing God and knowing knowing the Bible Knowing what God did for us in the gospel, there's a provision for sin that says thou shalt purge them away. The provision for sin is something that only God could do. Thou shalt purge them away, David says, and then he says it required sacrifice. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causes to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts. First Peter chapter one verse eighteen says, For as much as you know that you are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. And in Second Corinthians chapter five verse twenty one says, For he had made him to be sin for us. who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. And then again, in Ephesians, chapter one, verse four, says, according as he had chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. This verse is blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causes to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts. And right here in the next, in the next, in the next part of the verse, he hears, here's where Jesus Christ, when he died, he was the firstborn from the dead that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Look at this. Notice this in verse four, it says, blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causes to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts. That's singular. The next word says we, you see how that multiplied. It went from singular to multiply, because Jesus was the firstborn from the dead. Listen to what one commentator said on this verse. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, Christ whom God chose and of whom he said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. For his sake, not our own, are we chosen. In him, not ourselves, are we received by God, being accepted in the beloved. And therefore, in him are we blessed. He is our blessing with that high priest who has ascended into the holy place and entered within the veil. We enter into the house of God. We learn to dwell there and we are filled with his spiritual joys. We partake of his holy mysteries and sacraments of grace and love. The only thing that made it possible for us to enter into the courts of the Lord is through Jesus Christ. And there had to be a man that would go before us. into that in and and and and be the sacrifice for us. He was our provision for sin. And and and and he and it multiplied. He's the firstborn from the dead. And as we see the provision of sin provided for. Salvation brings completion, it brings it brings satisfaction, it brings joy, it brings happiness. Notice in verse notice in the last half of verse four, when a person think about what think about when you first got saved, we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. And you think about how after you first got saved and you didn't want to do those things of the past, you wanted them out of your life, you didn't want them anywhere near you. And you wanted to be in God's house and you wanted to. You wanted to do everything that was possible for you to get close to God and be close to God when you first got saved. That's the way it was. And David says here, he says, we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house. Colossians 2, 6 says, as you have therefore received Christ Jesus, the Lord, so walk in him. That same humility that was at work in your life when you came to Christ, it should characterize our walk after. And we'll continue in him and we'll be satisfied, that satisfaction, you know, after a person gets saved and what happens is the devil gets the devil likes to get busy and likes to throw us off track. He likes to try to bring things in and tries to do this and do that. There's three things, the world, the flesh and the devil. The world is constantly at work, just doing what it does. And we're in the world, but we're not of the world. But the world is constantly trying to influence us and affect our lives. And if we open the door and allow it, it will take away that satisfaction that we have in him. But then there's so there's the world, then there's our own flesh, our own weaknesses. And those are at work from the from the time you wake up in the morning to the time you lay your head on your pillow at night. Our flesh is weak. Our flesh is weak. Sin dwells within us. And there are temptations that we encounter throughout the day. And those will those will, if we allow them, that will take our focus off of Christ and our satisfaction with him. And we'll try to fill it with something else other than Jesus and nothing else satisfies like Jesus. Nothing in this world. There's nothing of the flesh that you can conjure up that will satisfy like Jesus. Everything is temporal. And behind those two things is the devil trying to work them into our lives from every angle that he can. to try to get you away from away from the word of God, away from your focus on him and away from that, that that love, that zeal, that desire to do what God wants you to do. The devil wants to throw you off course. And take away that satisfaction that you have with the goodness of God's house and the whole and even of the Holy Temple. Just just just focusing on him and looking to him for all that he's done for us and all that he will do in our lives if we're following after him. That satisfaction with the goodness of the house, you know, one of the things you stop and think about people changing things all across across the board in churches today, you hear about it. I'm going to tell you the number one reason why is because they're not satisfied. They don't like the hymns. I wonder if you don't like the meaning in the songs and the hymns and you've got to have this other stuff, something wrong, something wrong. This here says we shall be satisfied. And if you're satisfied with something, you're not looking to change it. And this is God's house. And so we need to be satisfied with the way it is and the way God set it up. And he says Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, not not this stuff that they that they pawn off as Christian today. It's not it. There's no satisfaction in that. But there's a purpose in our salvation. God saved us. He wants us to be happy in him. He wants us to he wants us to be happy in his house and have and have good fellowship in the house of God. But there's a purpose in our salvation, and he sees it in verse five. He talks about the terrible things and righteousness will now answer us this. The language here is that which is when when he was leading them out of Egypt, which is a picture of salvation in a Christian's life. And he says in a righteousness that will answer us. So is a person is practicing righteousness by terrible things. God does things to deliver you from sin. God does things to bless in your life and God shows himself mighty on your behalf by terrible things in righteousness. Will thou answer us? Oh, God of our salvation is the testimony that's given here. There's power in prayer and there's a purpose. God has us has us in this so that we can draw close to him. We can call upon his name and we can see him answer our prayers and have victory in our lives over sin. And the purpose of this, is the propagation of the gospel, the propagation of the gospel. Oh, God of our salvation. And here it extends. Who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are far off upon the sea? Acts chapter one, verse eight says, But you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. It's almost synonymous what's being said there. Let me read it again. Who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are far off upon the sea? How can God be their confidence if they're not saved? He can't. God can't be anybody's confidence if they're not saved. Because they have no fellowship with him, and so they had to have heard the gospel by terrible things and righteousness without answer. Also, God of our salvation, who aren't the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are far off upon the sea and in the propagation of the gospel, the power of prayer is what carries it forth. There's nothing else because we can't do it in the power of our flesh. I mean, we can try to work it up. We can try to make it happen. But if God is not working and there's obstacles to be overcome, which by his strength set fast the mountains being girded with power, that's all these are. There are obstacles that are to be overcome. Verses six and seven. set fast the mountains being girded with power, which still at the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves and the tumult of the people. These are all things that that Jesus addressed in his earthly ministry. If you stop and think about the mountains that might be in the way, Jesus said. In Matthew, Chapter 20, 21 and verse verse 20, I believe it is, and he talks, he says here, he says, and all things after After he says this, he's Jesus answered and said of them, barely I said to you, if you have faith and doubt not, you shall not only do this, which is done to the fig tree, but also if you shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done and all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing he shall receive. There's power in prayer and the obstacles that might be in front of us. God said, I'm there by his power and he can remove them by his power. Which still at the noise of the seas, remember when they were going across the Sea of Galilee and that ship? What did Jesus do? He spoke the word and he calmed it. This is all about what Jesus can do. if we have the power of prayer at work in our life and the purpose of salvation in our lives is the propagation of the gospel. In this passage, beginning from verse five through eight, it's all about getting the gospel and going forth in power by the power of prayer and the tumult of the people, the unrest, He overcomes the physical obstacles, the weather obstacles, the unrest of man. You think about the tumult of the people. What's happening over in the Middle East? That's chaos. It's unrest. What's happening in the streets of America after the verdict of this court hearing? Chaos. God can overcome all of these things and he wants to overcome all these things, none of these things. will hinder the gospel, because God's purpose, no matter what, no matter what comes along or what gets in the way, God's purpose of the gospel will go on. He will fulfill his word. David said in the beginning, praise waited for the O God and Zion and unto thee shall the vow be performed. These things are going to come to pass because God said they were going to come to pass and he's the one that can do it and bring it to pass. The purpose of our salvation is so that we can carry forth the gospel. Jesus in John chapter fourteen, verse eleven and twelve said, Believe me that I am in the father and the father in me or else believe me for the very work sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do because I go on to my father. In verse in verse eight, and the propagation of the gospel. And this is this is a verse that that I've spent much time study on. And this is a verse that that I believe has has it's like a point of reference that God has chosen. And God does things when he when he he picks certain times to do things, just like when he sent when he sent Christ, it was in the fullness of times. And when the rap, when the rapture is going to happen, when the fullness of the Gentiles has come in and and and so God chooses to do things and he has points of reference and the reason I say verse eight is a point of reference is because verse nine. Is speaking of his comment. Says now business here. He's coming again. If God is going to visit the earth and all these blessings of the millennial kingdom are going to unfold after that, then verse eight is about. The end right before the gospel, right before the rapture. That's what is that's what this reference point in time is is speaking about, that's what I personally believe the uttermost is a word that if you do a little bit of study on it, It is always related to two things. Judgment on sin and redemption, judgment and redemption, when you when you that that's the primary use of that word is used twenty eight times in the scripture. But look at this verse and what it says. It says they also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid that I tokens now make us the outgoings of the morning. and the evening to rejoice. There's a there's a change is coming. But of that day and hour, no man knoweth no, not the angels of heaven, but my father only. This is a reference point in time. That God is giving here in this song because there's a change that's coming, but what happens before that change is more important than anything else. which is why all these things that have been set up to this point, the purpose we've been saved for in the propagation of the gospel, the power of prayer that we have that's available to us. There's a couple little things about the couple of words in here that have particular significance. The word parts in the Hebrew literally means this separation by implication, a part of the body. or branch of a tree and you think about the two you think about redemption in the work of redemption and mankind with the Bible teaches Israel was what what was a branch referred to as a branch and the church is referred to as a body and that to me is significant and then are afraid that I told him the people that are afraid that tokens the word for token. This is what John Phillips says. The word token, translated token, is interesting. It is composed of two other words, aleph and toph. I think that's how you would pronounce it. The first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. As he is the alpha and omega, the first and the last of the Greek language, so he is the aleph and the toph, the first and the last of the Hebrew language. And so, these people, that says they also dwell in the uttermost parts, are afraid of thy tokens. They're afraid. There's life and death issues that they're afraid of. They have questions that they need answers to. They're afraid. We say people don't have any fear of God. But this verse here tells me there's some people that have some fear. At the tokens, there's people that are concerned about the signs of the time. They know something's on the horizon. Even the false religions teaching about white buffaloes and everything else under the sun know that something is coming soon. We know that it's Jesus. We know that. And they that dwell, they that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens. There's two other verses I want you to think about in connection with this. One of them is Acts chapter 1, verse 8. The Great Commission. He told us to go to the uttermost part of the earth. Reaching the lost. There's a reason he told us to go to the uttermost part of the earth. And then in Psalm chapter 2, verse 8, this is the conversation between God the Father and God the Son. God the Father, in verse 7, says, I will declare the decree the Lord has set unto me. Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. God is telling us some things here. I believe that. Because the next verse, he tells us that he's coming. Jesus in John chapter 9 verse 4 said, I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day, the night cometh when no man can work. Night is coming and Hebrews chapter 10 verse 25 says, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another. And so much the more, as you see the day approaching, we talk about how dark times are getting. What is dark times is, but it is, but the acknowledgement that the evening is on the way. And when the rapture happens, we that are saved will be rejoicing in the presence of God as were changed in an instant. We will be rejoicing. But there will be those that will be left behind and some that have heard the gospel, but they never saw a clear witness and they rejected it. their opportunity is passed. But for us, as we go into verse 9, it says, now visit us the earth. There's a glad day that's coming. There is a glad day that's coming for us and all tears will be wiped away. We're not going to have any memories of those that were left behind, but there will be, there will be a time that we will have to remember them and we will see them. But when, but when God comes, when Jesus comes to rule and to reign on earth for that thousand years called the millennial reign, says thou business there and water is that thou greatly enriched it just with his presence. God, and he's going to enrich it. His presence, his physical, personal presence on earth. In Isaiah, chapter 2, verses 2 and 3, it says, And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, come here and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Jesus is ruling from Jerusalem, from Zion. Our faith will be sight. People will be going there and they'll be getting they'll be getting this is what it says. and that shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. You know, it's going to go forth from there. Same thing that goes forth from this pulpit and pulpits of life and pulpits of life faith across across America. That's gone. That's gone forth down through the ages. The Bible believing people have heard through the ages that the redeemed have listened to. Some have obeyed and some have disobeyed along the way. But the same word is going to go for the same standards are going to go for. And God's people will obey will have glorified body, but the people in the millennium, they're going to be required to obey the word of God. Whether they like it or not, they're going to obey the word of God because there's going to be people during the millennium that have sin natures to deal with, but we're going to rule and reign with Christ. The river of God, from what I understand, the millennial kingdom during that period of time, the river that flows into the Dead Sea and the Dead Sea is going to come to life again and there's blessings that happen and unfold during that time. The presence of God is there. And as you read these verses, the provision of God. The river of God, which is full of water, thou prepare some corn when thou has so provided for it, the blessings upon the work that goes forth. the that thou waters the ridges thereof abundantly, thou settlest the furrows thereof, thou makest it soft with showers, and thou blessest the springing thereof." There's blessings that go in the provisions of God, those resources that he has there, but there's also something here. Did you know that corn is a crop that if you don't plant it every year, it doesn't grow back? So what's the significance of corn? Corn is something that requires faithfulness, it has to be done. If you're going to, if you're going to, you have to plant, you have to till, plant, tend before you can reap it. And so corn is something that God has given to mankind. It's been from the earliest times and it's there in the end. And it's just, it's symbolic of his, of his, of his provision. But it also teaches us some lessons about faithfulness and God blesses faithfulness. Verses 11-12 says, Thou crownest the earth with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, and the little hills rejoice on every side. God blesses. And then the people of God, in verse 13, says the pastures are clothed with flocks. The valleys also covered over with corn. They shout for joy. They also sing. Now, if you've ever seen a flock of sheep shout and sing, you need to tell me, because then the only place I think that's going to happen is Cartoon Network, not here, not here. This is talking about the people of God. This is talking about the people of God, and they're shouting and they're singing praises and hallelujahs unto their king. in the millennial kingdom. That's what they're doing. Verse 13. The people are there and they're praising God for all they've done. The people that have served him faithfully and and they're there now. They enjoy. They enjoy their Savior. Just to demonstrate that this is these flocks are people. Many references in the Scripture. Give this. First Peter chapter five verse two and three says, feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly, not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, not as being lords over God's heritage, but being in samples to the flock. That's the flock that's on the hills here in the millennial kingdom. And Jesus said in Luke chapter 12, verse 32, fear not little flock. For it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. That's the flock that's here in verse 13, praising God, the David back in the beginning when he was meditating upon how all this was going to possibly unfold, got a glimpse of the future. Then he saw the gospel interlude, how all that unfolded through time. And then there's that glad day when there's rejoicing in the kingdom. It's all there. And God is going to do it. That's the greatest thing about it is the only thing you have to do. Is get in March. And walk in step with the Holy Spirit, because he's going to lead you in agreement with this. He's going to lead you in line with this and and teach you how to pray, teach you how to win souls so that you can have a place in the kingdom. And it's by way of faithfulness and doing these things. that you'll find that spot in the kingdom where God will give you an acknowledgment for your service to him. I want to I want we hear it said many times. Don't you want to hear well done, good and faithful servant? And that's that's what we need. We need Christians today. To recognize the times we're living in the need of the hour, so that we can get to that place. What would you think if you were the person that led the last person to Christ? That constituted the fullness of the Gentiles. If you had a zeal to reach the lost and God used you. I mean, think about it for a second. What if you're that person and you have. But right now, you're not paying attention to the gospel ministry. You're not paying attention to Christ closely. God's going to fulfill his purposes with or without you. Let's close in prayer and then we'll have we'll just have a time of silence and Just to meditate upon these things, and if you want to come to the altar, if you'll stand and we'll close out the service. I'm looking forward to a day of shouting and singing where we don't have the weaknesses of the flesh, sin working within us. Let's pray. We need God to work and do work in us for the gospel ministry. Father, I pray.