tomorrow he's having his whole shoulder replaced and that's going to be a difficult recovery I'm sure. Let's go to Colossians chapter 3. I want to just preach on one verse and really one point in the verse. We'll read the whole thing here in a moment, but let's begin here in Colossians 3.15. Colossians 3.15. He says, Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body, and be ye thankful. Now brethren, this is the believer's rule of life right here. This is the believer's rule of life. Ruling us in spirit. Ruling us in the new man, in the new heart. Ruling us by the spirit of our Lord. He says, let the peace of God rule in your hearts. To the which also you are called in one body. We know we're under the rule of faith. We walk by faith. The law's not of faith. We walk by faith, trusting the Lord Jesus Christ. We were justified by him. We've been called by him. We're being led by him. We're being taught by him. We walk by faith, trusting the Lord. We know we're under the rule of love. Christ's love for us is our motivator. It constrains us in our heart. so that we're willing to do what we do from that one motive of Christ's love to us. And we're told right here, the peace of God rules our heart. He said, let the peace of God rule your heart. Paul said, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision. It doesn't matter if you were a Jew or a Gentile. It doesn't matter if you were brought up under the law or you never had the law. He said, but here's what matters, faith which worketh by love. And right here, the same spirit of God tells us, let the peace of God rule your heart. That word let, it doesn't mean that the saints can defy the Spirit of our Lord. It doesn't mean that we're letting peace rule, that we can defy Him. This is the way of grace. He's speaking by the way of grace. It's the gracious way Christ rules His people. When He gives His commands to His people, He says things like this, I beseech you. I beseech you. The motivation that he gives us when he gives us a precept is always of what Christ has done for us, what God our Father and our Savior has done for his people. That's always the motive attached to his precept. Listen, verse 13, what did he say there? Even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. Verse 15, let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also you're called in one body and be thankful. We're thankful because he called us. He created this peace. See, the motivation is always what he's done for his people. Romans 12, one, he said, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God. It's always what the Lord has done for us what our Father has done for us. It's always the motivator. Even when our Savior gives us command, he does it in a way to make us remember you're not under the law, you're under grace. We're not under the law, we're under grace. You are what you are by the grace of God. That's what he keeps reminding us. What do you have that God our Father and His Son didn't freely give you? That's what He keeps teaching us. We see right here in this passage. He's reminding us we are what we are by His grace. We are what we are by Christ's obedience, by Christ's blood, by the mercies of God to us. Look here, let's read the whole thing now. Begin in verse 12. Put on, therefore, as the elect of God. See there? We're elect because of grace. What God did for his people. He chose his people freely. Put on as the elect of God. Holy. Holy in Christ. Beloved in Christ. Put on vows of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, on suffering and forbearing one another and forgiving one another. If any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these, put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness, and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you're called in one body, and be ye thankful. God called you by his grace, when you were the ungodly, when you were undeserving, when you had no strength, no power. See, he's keeping us in mind of why we have peace with God, how we have peace with God, why we're the elect of God, why we're holy, why we've been beloved. The Lord did all these things to us. He was long-suffering to us, forbearing to us, meek toward us. He forgave us, those he everlastingly loved. Why did he love you? He said, I didn't choose you because you were more in number or because there was something special about you, but because I would. That's God's word. And so, now he tells, let the peace of God rule in your hearts. This metaphor, the word let and the word rule are one word in the Greek. and they're from a word that means to be an umpire. Let me read to you what John Gill wrote on this. He said, the metaphor is taken from the judge in the Olympic games who was the umpire, the moderator, and who determined whose the victory was and to whom the crown belonged. The apostle would have no other umpire among the saints than the peace of God. That's the rule determining how we treat each other, what we do, what will work peace, what will keep peace, is peace of God. That's the rule, that's the rule. So this is the believer's rule of life. Let the peace of God rule your hearts to the which you're called into one body and be you thankful. See that, I love this too. The Lord called you to this. He called you to this. He's called us to peace with God. He called us to peace with one another. He called us into one body. My brothers and sisters are one with me, just like the members of your body are one with you. That's how one we are with one another, because he called us into this oneness. And he said, let the peace of God rule. Now here's what I want you to get. This is what I'm gonna try to show us in the message. When the peace of God rules our heart, when any quarrel arises, or trouble comes of any kind, The Spirit of our Lord renews us in heart in the new man. He keeps renewing us so that he keeps us beholding it was Christ who made peace with God for us. And it was Christ who made you quit fighting God and be reconciled to God. He came and worked peace in your heart. I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't able to do that for myself. I certainly wasn't able to do it for you. He was able to do that, and he did that, and the Lord keeps us knowing Christ is our peace with God, Christ is our peace with each other, and it's Christ who made us be at peace and will keep the peace in our heart. It's him. You could read this, let Christ rule your hearts. He's the one ruling the heart. He is the peace with God. He is our peace with God, Christ is. And so, because I know he worked this for me, and I know he worked this in me, I know he's able to work it in my brother. When you see a quarrel coming, or you see a quarrel break out, you know who is able to work peace. You know Christ is able. And so, He's gonna make us ask Him to work peace. And He's gonna make us wait on Him to work peace. And while we do it, He's gonna make peace rule our heart. That's right, He'll make you be at peace in your heart. Now before we go any further, I always have to say this when you look at a word like this, a precept. Remember this, this is not telling me that peace should be ruling your heart toward me. That's not what this is telling me. It's telling me that peace should be ruling my heart toward you. You get what I'm saying? You're not able to make the peace of God rule in anyone else's heart. And a lot of times the way the Lord's gonna show you that he's the only one that can make peace and he's the only one that can sustain peace, one of the ways he'll do that is somebody will not be at peace with you. And you can't do a thing about it. You can't make them be at peace with you. But here's what he's telling us, even when that's the case, let peace rule your heart. Let the peace of God rule your heart. Even when somebody else is not at peace with you, you want them to be at peace with you. You just let the peace of God rule your heart. I'm going to show you what's involved in that. One aspect of the peace of God ruling in our own heart is this. One aspect of it is, Because you've experienced Christ was able to make peace in your heart by his power, by his wisdom, through his gospel, he makes you know he's able. And he makes you know he's able to work that in your brother. You depend entirely on him. You go to him, and you wait on him, and you speak of him, and you look to him. This is really the essence of how the peace of God rules our hearts. It's knowing Christ has got me in his hand, and he's got my brethren in his hand, and he's our shepherd ruling us and leading us, and he's able. I know his power. I know his mercy and his grace. I know he's able, so I know he's able to work in my brethren. and that's how he keeps peace in your heart. Now let's look, I'm not gonna speak a lot, I'm gonna try to read and go to some scripture and show you. Now first of all, go to Ephesians 2. You know, any time trouble comes, any trouble, you remember the Lord said, in this world you shall have tribulation. We're sinners still and you're gonna have trouble in your own flesh, you're gonna have trouble with brethren, you're gonna have trouble, especially in the world, We're gonna have trouble in the world. There ain't been a rose made yet that don't have thorns. You're gonna have trouble in the world. But he said, be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. And he said, my peace I give you, not as the world giveth. It's not the kind of peace the world gives, and he don't give peace the way the world gives peace. He gives peace as God gives peace. Now let's see how he did it. Here we go. Now the first thing to remember when trouble comes, Who made peace with God for me? Let us ask ourselves this. You see trouble, you got trouble with some brethren, you see two other brethren at odds, let us ask ourselves this. Who made peace with God for me? I didn't come into this world having peace with God. I came into this world in my corrupt, depraved mind. I thought he was my enemy, the true God. I thought the true Lord Jesus was my enemy, and I treated him like an enemy. I didn't have peace with God, and I didn't make peace with God. You hear men say, I made my peace with God. Well, one thing I know is this, when the Lord brings a man to have the peace of God in his heart, that man's gonna stop boasting that he made the peace. He's gonna start glorifying God for making the peace, and glorifying Christ for being the one that made the peace. And that's what we need to remember now. Always remember, who made peace with God for me? Peace in my heart, who made me be at peace with God? Let's see, look here, Ephesians 2.11. Wherefore remember that you been in time past Gentiles in the flesh who were called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hand. Jew and Gentile, he's talking about here, the Gentile was the uncircumcision, the circumcision was the Jew, and they hated, the Jew hated the Gentile. and it was because of fleshly reasons. Look, at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. So, that's the first thing to remember. I didn't make peace with God. I didn't make my heart beat peace with God. That was my condition right there. I was without hope. I was without God. I was a stranger, an alien from the covenants. I was without God in the world. So I didn't make peace. Do we think we're going to be able to make peace today? Do we think we're going to be able to affect peace in somebody else's heart? If we didn't, we couldn't make it in our own heart. So first of all, remember that. Secondly, but now in Christ Jesus, you who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both Jew and Gentile one. And how did he do it? He broke down the middle wall of partition between us, the law. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances. It's saying our Lord came and fulfilled the law for all God's elect and abolished that law we were under And that took the enmity away. The enmity was the Jews just looked at, we have circumcision. We eat this and don't eat that. We have lambs we offer. We come in this land. They had all the things God gave them and they thought that made them better than the Gentiles. And so they hated the Gentiles for it when they didn't understand what those things were saying. Those things were all picturing Christ who is our peace and who made peace. But he came and he is the fulfillment of it all. And when he turns you to behold, he is the peace. He's what the high priest, he's the one the high priest pictured. He's the one the spotless lamp pictured. He's the one who sanctified his people. That's what the law of meats was declaring. If you go back and read that law, God said, don't eat this meat, don't eat that meat. That's clean, this is unclean. And God declared, he told Peter, when he said, you go down there to Cornelius' house, he laid a net down with all his different meats in it. And he said, arise, kill and eat, Peter. Peter said, not so, Lord, I've never eaten anything unclean. And the Lord said, what I have cleansed, don't you call common. And that's what the law of those meats was picturing. Christ is the only one who sanctifies and makes holy. He's the only one that does it. And he came and did that for his people, so he took out of the way that law, and it says in verse 15, for to make in himself of two one new man, so making peace. and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby." That's what Christ accomplished for his people on the cross. He justified us, he made us righteous, he fulfilled the law for us, and he made us to have peace with God. And because he took that law out of the way, Then he comes and he preached this peace in our heart and made us know him. Look here, verse 17. And he came and he preached peace to you which were far off, and to them that were nigh, for through him we both have access by one spirit unto the Father. He worked for us, then he came and worked peace in us. Now therefore, you're no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and you're of the household of God. And so's that brother that has a quarrel, or that you have a quarrel with. You're built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone, in him, in whom all the building is fitly framed together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. So this is how he created peace in us. He came and preached this peace to us and created this peace in our heart, making us know He made peace for his people with God, and he makes it personal. He made peace for you with God. That's what he makes his child know. All right? When he renews this in us, say you, a quarrel's coming up, or you're feeling some kind of way against a brother, sister, and he reminds you now, you didn't make peace, I made peace. And I made peace with you and that brother. You're of the same household, the same family. And when he does this, Peace starts to rule our heart. And He makes you go to the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus and ask Him for help, ask Him for mercy and grace and for help. Go with me now to Ephesians 3. Ephesians 3. I'm just showing you. This is how the peace of God rules our heart. Right here. He makes you know through this gospel. He worked it at the cross. He worked it in your heart. He worked it in your brother's heart. And so by doing this, he draws you to the one who's able, and you start pouring out your heart to him. After Paul declared all this, then look what he said in Ephesians 3.14. For this cause, I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. Christ is the power of God. He's the strength of God. And when He dwells in the heart, He's gonna make peace rule in our heart. We still have a sin nature. We're gonna act in our flesh at times, but He's gonna keep peace ruling in the heart. And He's gonna keep you going to him and asking. That's the first thing he said, that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith, keep you looking only to him. Now, verse 17, that you being rooted and grounded in love. There's another thing that rules our heart is love. He settles you, he roots you, he grounds you, constraining you by his great love for us. so that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height that I know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God. You see, Paul's praying the Father would make peace rule in their heart, that Christ would be the strength in their heart, that they'd look to him by faith, be constrained in their heart by love, and look. He said, now to him that's able, He's able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us. Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. Hold your place right here now. Hold your place right there in Ephesians. You know, this is how He mortifies our flesh. He makes us hear this gospel. We hear Christ made peace for us at the cross. Christ came and preached peace to us, made peace in our heart. As we're hearing that, he continues to make you be at peace. And he draws you to his throne of grace to ask the Father through his name, Father, will you strengthen my brethren in the heart? Will you come and root them and ground them in love? Will you give them the faith to look to you and trust you? Because here's what you know, by his power working in it, you know he's able to do far more than you could ever think or ask him to do. And I'll tell you this, if you've been called by him and you know what a sinner you are, and you know that he saved you and that he's kept you all this time, then you can say, yes, I can tell you he's able to do all that we can think or ask. He saved me, he called me, he's kept me, I know he's able. And so Paul wanted the Lord to have the glory. He wanted God the Father to have the glory for working in his people. So he went and asked him. He prayed to the Father. You know why he did that? He'd experienced his power. He'd experienced the strength of Christ and how Christ made peace rule his heart. He knew that the Lord did it through the gospel. He knew the Lord did it through having his brethren ask him to do it. And he knew that He knew that's how the Lord works. So he didn't want to constrain people to do anything in his power. He wanted their faith to stand in the power and the wisdom of God. He said to the Corinthians, he said, I preach Christ to you. My speech and my preaching, I didn't use the enticing words of man's wisdom. Here's why. I wanted your faith to stand not in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. I didn't want you to be to do anything because I made you do it. I want it to be by the power of the Lord and by Him really giving you faith and really constraining you in heart by love and really working peace in your heart. That's not how the world works. Look just back one or two pages to Galatians 6. We really believe that Christ works peace. He's the only one that's able. We really believe that, and we believe he did it for us at the cross. We believe he does it in the hearts of his people, and we believe he does it through this gospel. So we're gonna ask him. He said, he told, in one place, Ezekiel 36, I believe, he told him what he was going to do, what he'd already purposed to do, and he said, but you're gonna ask me to do it. So he's gonna have us pray to him for these things because we want him to have all the glory. That's what Paul wanted. That's not how carnal men operate. That's not how carnal religion operates. Look here, Galatians 6.12. As many as desire, here's the motive of their heart, desire. That's the motive of the heart. Here's their motive. They desire to make a fair show in the flesh. And so they constrain you to be, and you can just about put anything in the blank. Religions constrains men to do everything under the sun. They constrain you to be circumcised, lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. If they preach Christ and crucify it, preach the salvations of the Lord. God the Father chooses whom he will. Christ laid down his life for the elect. The spirit must rebirth us and he does it by his irresistible power. We have to be kept by the power of God. We're made holy in and by Christ alone. Righteous in and by Christ alone. Kept by our Lord alone. Preach the gospel and you're gonna suffer. and when men are wanting you to join in with them constraining other people to do something and you won't join in with that, you're going to suffer from them because they're going to be upset with you that you won't join with them trying to constrain others to do something. Paul said, That's why they don't wanna suffer that persecution. So they constrain, they join in constraining. Verse 13, for neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. They may glory what they made you do. But God forbid that I should glory, saving the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision. In other words, it's not what you do and don't do that avails. It's Christ making you a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them and mercy upon Israel of God. That's the rule we're under. That's the rule of faith. We trust Christ is able. That's the rule of love. We're constrained by the love of Christ. That's the rule of peace. We know Christ works peace in the heart, and therefore we have peace knowing he's gonna work his will. Nobody's gonna frustrate him. So we, now, go with me now to James 3. But we do have a sin nature, brethren, and you're going to, you know, whatever your first inclination is, say trouble surprises you or you hear something or some quarrel cranks up, whatever your first impulse is, whatever you first thought is to do, don't do that. Because generally our first thought is fleshly. It's just a knee-jerk reaction, something sinful, self-righteous, it's just of us. But you will do that at times, and you will quarrel. That's why he's telling us this in our text. But I'll tell you this, the Lord, for his child, the Lord's gonna keep peace ruling in your heart. He's gonna keep you looking to him, submitted to him, and waiting on him. But if you start having that bitterness, that envy, and that quarreling spirit, that's not of the Lord, brethren. That's devilish now. Look here, James 3, 13. Who's a wise man and endured with knowledge among you? That means Christ then made wisdom to you by God. He gave you this. Who is it? He says, let him show out of a good conversation the way he conducts himself, his works with meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. That's what'll be in the heart, and that's what'll be created when men are trying to work their works and constrain other people. It's confusion. and every evil work under the sun. But look at this, but the wisdom that is from above, it's first pure. It's in the new heart, the holy heart, worked by Christ, it's pure. Then peaceable, it's peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy, and the fruit of righteousness, is sown in peace of them that make peace. Go back with me now to Ephesians 4. When Christ came to you, He didn't come in confusion and every evil work. He sowed in peace. He sowed in peace. So, when He's made you to know He made peace with God for you, and He's made peace with God in your heart, and He renewed you to remember this, made peace between you and your brethren. He draws you to his throne of grace to ask him for help, to ask him to work. You know what he's gonna make you do? He's gonna make you wait on him to work. Because he does not work in our time. He can work in his time. And as part of the trial, we're gonna have to wait on the Lord to work. And that's totally contrary to what our flesh wants to do. We want it now. We're gonna have to wait on the Lord. That's why he makes you long-suffering. You're gonna have to wait long till he works, and you're gonna suffer while you wait. Look, verse one, Ephesians 4.1, I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you, there it is again, I beseech you that you walk worthy, catch this wording, walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called. Wherewith? The vocation wherewith I was called, listen, these are the things he's going to say here. These things he's going to list. He worked this in my pastor. So you know what my pastor did? He sowed in peace. He preached only Christ to me. He prayed to Christ for me. He waited on Christ to work in me. In that sense, this is the vocation wherewith I was called right here. He made my pastor walk, verse two, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. That's the vocation. He works it, that's what he works in his people and makes his preachers do and his brethren do that way and they pray for it and then he works in our heart and creates peace. And now he says, now you do the same thing that they did for you. You walk with long lowliness and meekness, long suffering, forbearing, endeavoring to keep unity in the bond of peace and he makes you know how he blessed you so much, look. This is the grace he's given you. There's one body, one spirit, even as you call him, one hope when you call him, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who's above all and through all and in you all. You see how much the Lord has blessed you? He's made you one with God, one with Christ, one with his people everywhere. Those that are in heaven and those that are still in this earth, we're all one and this union will never be broken. because he's going to keep it united. What a blessing he's given us. What constraint we have to endeavor for peace. And that's how you endeavor for peace, with loneliness and meekness, suffering a long time, waiting on the Lord, forbearing, having to bear the others' burden, forbearing, in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace. Now, that's the same thing, look at Ephesians 4.4, I mean Ephesians 4.2, that's the same thing Paul's saying in our text. You know why? It's the same spirit of our Lord that gave him that word to the Ephesians is given to us in our text. I was gonna read it to you again, but I'm running longer than I thought, so I'm just gonna close. I want you to go with me now to Philippians 4. Philippians 4. So peace rules the heart, keeping you remembering, our Lord keeps you remembering how he was able to work in you and give you this peace with God, how he was able to work for you at the cross and give you this peace with God. And he made you one with your brethren, so he draws you to ask him and he makes you wait on him with loneliness and meekness and long-suffering and forbearing. and you're at peace with your brother while you're waiting because you know Christ is able. And I know he's going to keep peace between his people because he's using us to preach this gospel. He's going to do that. So I don't have any reason to be anything but at peace. I know he's going to work and His people. You know that. You know it. And so you wait on it. Now here's the precepts our Lord has given us for peace. Look here. This is what the Lord tells you to do so that you'll continue to have peace in your heart, rule in your heart. Here's what He tells you to do. Here's the first thing, verse 4. Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice. That's the first thing he says, to always be looking to Christ, always be hearing Christ in his gospel, always be looking for Christ in his word, always be rejoicing in the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen, Isaiah, he said, thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. When you trust the Lord to keep you in peace, he's gonna keep you in peace. and he's gonna keep your mind stayed on him. That's how you're gonna have peace. Not looking at the waves, not looking at the trouble, not focusing all your attention on all these other things. Look to Christ. That's what Paul said before he got to our text, remember? If you're risen with him, look to him. Here's the second thing. Let your moderation be known unto all men. This don't have a thing to do with eating and drinking. This is the only place this word's used, and what it means is, rather than being troubled and impatient and quick to act and quick to speak and rash and bitter and filled with strife, it means be patient, be long-suffering, be forbearing, be forgiving, forgiving any cause. Why? The Lord's at hand. The Lord's in you, the Lord's in your brother, the Lord's right there, He's working his will and his good pleasure. You can rest assured that's what he's doing. So you don't have to be anything but patient and calm. He's right there. He's at hand. Doesn't that give you peace to know? He's here. He's at hand. And then here's the next thing he said. Be careful for nothing. That means don't be anxious and don't be worrying. Don't be troubled. What do I do instead? But in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God. Just go to Him and pour out your heart to Him and ask Him whatever need you have, whatever need your brother have. And look, here's the promise that He promises will come, verse 7, and the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Boy, we make it difficult, don't we? We do everything but that. He says, rejoice in the Lord. Keep your focus on Christ. He said, just be calm and remember the Lord is right at hand. He's right there. Reach out your hand. Just reach out your hand. At hand means just at the end of them fingertips right there, that's where he's at. He's right there. He's that close. And he said, and just go to him and pour out your heart to him. And he will keep you at peace. He'll keep your mind and your heart in peace. And I pray the Lord will make the peace of God rule in your heart and in mine. That's my prayer. And he will. I believe he will. I know he will. Father, thank you for your word. Lord, you sent your only son and you did this for us, you reconciled us to you, made peace for your people and your dear son. And then you came and told us and gave us a new heart so that we have peace with you. Lord, we know you're able, we've experienced this power, and we're asking you, keep our hearts set on you, Keep our hearts on our Redeemer. Lord, make us to be long-suffering and forbearing and forgiving, and make peace rule our heart, Father. Make us think on good things. Make us think on the things that You've worked and keep our minds off of trouble. Keep our minds on Christ. And Lord, we ask you to do this in the hearts of our brethren. We pray for Brother Cyril. We pray for Sister Lenore. We pray for our sick brethren everywhere, for Christoph. We pray for Greg and Martha. Lord, you know the needs of your people. We pray you would provide for us and make our bodies to be well, even as you've made our soul to be well. Thank you, Lord, for your grace. Forgive us for being immoderate. Forgive us for being troubled and anxious and worrying and up one day and down the next. Oh, Lord, we don't even know the things that we do that are sin. Make us be faithful and true, knowing You're here at hand. In the name of Your dear Son, Christ Jesus, we ask You. Amen. All right, brethren. Will, you going to sing a closing hymn? Let's sing a closing hymn. I saw which one you got on that list. I want to sing it. Let's stand and sing hymn 125, Jesus Paid it All. Hymn 125.