Amen. All right, we're in Micah, Micah. Micah, chapter 1. And I'll begin, just read down through a few verses here. Micah, chapter 1, the word of the Lord that came to Micah, the Moresh tithe in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Hear all ye people, hearken o'er earth and all that therein is, and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. Well, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. and the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft as wax before the fire, and the waters that are poured down a steep place. For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? What are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem? Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I do thank You. I do praise You. And Father, oh, to be like You and like Thee is the yearning of our hearts, God. And we amaze and wonder and worship at Jesus Christ, Your Son. And Father, we're thankful that beyond our understanding, Your blessed Son, by Your Spirit, lives in our heart. Father, I ask you to fill me with your spirit and just help me to minister to the church, dear God, your word. Help those in the nursery tonight and fill with thy spirit watching the children, dear God. I thank you for the services this morning, for all who came, for the word that went forth, Father, here and with those who are with us online. And God, our ever hope is always in your living word. It's always that your son would be glorified and that we would be changed, Lord. And we know that you have made us able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit, Father. And so we are ever and wholly dependent upon you and need to just be more and more God. So do thy work in our hearts tonight. Help us to be a witness around the world through our missionaries, a witness where we live, Father, and in this place as well, in whatever ways that you would provide for us to do so. And God, we thank you for the promise of your coming. We pray that you'd help us to be faithful, laboring, reaching out, in love with the gospel toward others, and Father, ourselves, submitting ourselves to you, being in subjection to you, that in addition to the saving and life-giving gospel, that our very lives might bear witness to the transforming power of that truth. Father, if people will simply believe. Please help us in that, God, we pray. Help us edify us, glorify your blessed son. Father, we pray in Jesus' name, amen. Amen, you may be seated. We continue our study through the Minor Prophets on Sunday nights, verse by verse, and we're going through the Minor Prophets. Of course, they're called the Minor Prophets, not because they're any less important than the others. Their letters just aren't as lengthy as the five that we dub the Major Prophets. And certainly, we can be amazed because we are reading history as we read this book. This is more accurate than the history books. And one of these things, if you've gone to college or even high school, you always wonder, why do they have to change the history books every year? And history doesn't change. It's already happened. And what are they changing? Why was it that every year the history book was the most important book and they had to redo that? Well, listen, a lot of that's because it's secular history. And yeah, there's a lot of errors and stuff and things they correct. And there's a lot of there's actually a lot of truth, too, that they want to hide, I think. And and so that so they'll change things for that, too. But listen, when God speaks of history, it's correct, isn't it? and it's accurate and we know that. And so we marvel as we read these things that what God said took place. And Solomon said, that which thou hast pronounced with thy mouth hast performed with thy hand. And God works it out. So we're looking now at the minor prophet Micah. He is a contemporary with Hosea. Hosea, we know, being probably his ministry being the longest of all the prophets. So he is still doing his prophecy at this time, as well as Isaiah. And he is prophesying Judah. And so Mike is contemporary with these prophets. And we learned last week also that according to the book of Jeremiah, Micah's prophecies fueled that great revival that came under King Hezekiah. And there was a great repentance and a turning from the very things that Micah preached against. We'll see that some more as we go through the book of Micah. But his prophecies, Micah's probably extended right up to that revival, making him prophesying for about 33 years or so. The book of Jeremiah, looking back to him we saw last week, As they're debating what to do with Jeremiah, who hasn't come on the scene yet in Micah's time. They're looking back to Micah. Then rose up Jeremiah 26, 17. Then rose up certain of the elders of the land and spake to all the assembly of the people. saying, Micah the Morestite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord? And the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls. So they recognized that Hezekiah's repentance was through Micah's preaching. And also that they believe that Judah was spared an earlier judgment because of that turning, because of that obeying the word and listening to what Micah the prophet, and of course Isaiah is preaching right along the same time too, preached. But the great revival, we went into some detail last time about that great revival. It was quite a great revival. We won't go through that again for sake of time tonight. But as we consider Micah, Micah's name means, who is like God, who is like God. And when we look at our Old Testament, we see three different spellings of Micah, and they are three different spellings in English, which represent three different Hebrew renderings of the same name, Micah. And so there's some different people under this same name. By the way, the three different renters all mean the same thing, who is like God. And a few of those, one of those is Micaiah, you might remember him. He was a prophet in the time of Ahab's reign. It's another, a little different Hebrew rendering of the same name, Micah. And there Micaiah is spelled M-I-C-A-I-A-H. We have Micah here, M-I-C-A-H. Micaiah. So that different English spelling represents that little different Hebrew rendering of the same name. And you might remember that Ahab had sinned against God. He brought their worship into Israel and all that. And God had pronounced that he would be dying and be judged for his sins against Naboth and his vineyard that he stole there. So God determined that Ahab was going to die in that battle. And you might remember Ahab called all his false prophets up, you know, shall we go up to battle? And they said, yeah, go up, the Lord's going to give you victory. And so all the prophets lied. And then Jehoshaphat was with Ahab, but he said, don't you have any prophets of the Lord? Lord, he is, well, there's one, but he never said anything good about me. You know, his name's Micaiah. And so he prophesied him, and sure enough, Micaiah told him that God was going to judge him. And so that was kind of the, he shared, Micaiah shares really the same name as Micah. And then there's another rendering of a third Hebrew word that is a little different variation of the same name, Micah. And in our Bible, it's M-I-C-H-A-I-H. We'll find that name again. And in 2 Chronicles 13.2, Micaiah is the wife of Rehoboam. In 2 Chronicles 17.4, Micaiah is a prince during the reign of Jehoshaphat. In Jeremiah 36.11, Micaiah is one of King Jehoiakim's scribes. And I missed Hezekiah a little earlier. In 2 Chronicles 34.20, one of Hezekiah's scribes. In Nehemiah, the time of the return, Micaiah, spelled with a C-H. is a priest in Nehemiah's time. And also you'll find the name Micah spread out a bit in the Bible too, multiple times in Chronicles, M-I-C-A-H. So it's a name that is popular in the Bible. And it certainly means who is like God. I thought it interesting that there's another Micah who is not famous. There's an infamous Micah. You might remember the time of judges. And he had a house of what? A house of gods. So what a contrast. We have a Micah, which his name means, who is like God, and he has a house of gods. So apparently he believes, well, everybody is like God, you know. He didn't live up to his name, because who is like God obviously means, it's a rhetorical question. No one is like God. God stands alone. But that Micah in Judges, he didn't live up to his name. Whereas Micah, in the time of Ahab, certainly did. And Micah here, preaching along with the others in Judah and Israel, just before they're taken away to captivity, certainly is a good representation of that name as well. And so we praise the Lord for that. We saw also that his prophecy is divided into three messages. The first is a call to the people, Micah 1-2, which we'll begin looking at today. The second is a call to the heads of Jacob. The third is a call to all the nations to witness God's dealings and pleadings with Israel. So starting down through Micah 1, Micah 1, verse 2, Now hear all ye people, hearken, O earth, and all that therein is, and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple. So Micah uses this hear all ye people, hearken. This is the same pronouncement as his predecessor Micah or Micaiah in the time of Ahab used, thus indicating that his message is going to be a continuation of judgment to come, even of what Micaiah was saying unto Ahab. God's beginning to judge you. And by the way, Micah now picks up on his namesake, Micaiah, and uses words from the same message that Micaiah said to Ahab. And he uses kind of the same phrase. Here's what Micaiah said. Micaiah said to Ahab, the king of Israel, said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. And what did Micah say when he told Ahab, Micaiah, I'm sorry, say, well Micah, same name, just a little different rendering. Micaiah said, he tells him that God is going to cause him to lose that battle just as he prophesied. And there was another false prophet that rose up and contradicted what Micaiah said at that time. And here's what Micaiah said, finishing in that conversation with Ahab. If thou return at all in peace, hearken, O people, every one of you. Same words that Micah picks up here, same phrase. If you return at all in peace, hearken, O people, every one of you, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And so he is going to, in that sense, pick up where Micah is going to pick up where Micaiah, his namesake, left off in judgment to the Northern Kingdom and to Judah as well, focusing on Jerusalem and Samaria. Hear all ye people hearken! O earth, and all that therein is. He cries out in like manner, like Job and like Moses. We think about Moses crying out in Deuteronomy 32, 1. Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak. And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. Job cries out the same way. These are all predecessors of Micah, obviously. Oh, earth, cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. And so there's this kind of that prophetic, that prophetic crying out there. And by the way, Jeremiah will follow in that pattern when he comes on the scene a bit later. Jeremiah 619, Hear, O earth, there it is, behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor my law, but rejected it. O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord. And certainly just a prophetic cry out there. As I was thinking about that, I thought it amazing that sometimes the beasts of the earth put us to shame. in their obedience to God. You know, when we see God directing the beasts, we're reminded that we are the only creature that God gave a free will. Because there's no question. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that the beasts have a will and somehow they just humbly worship God. No, beasts operate by what? Instinct. and God controls them. In a sense, we could say like a robot. If God wants a stone to speak, the stone will speak, okay? If God wants a donkey to talk, the donkey will talk. And the donkey... God doesn't come to the donkey and say, now I want you to talk donkey to Balaam. And the donkey says, well, I don't really feel like talking today, God. That doesn't happen, okay? The donkey doesn't have a will in which he will somehow choose to reject God. No, God the Creator says, I'm gonna make this donkey talk. But you know, it's interesting that he doesn't do that with us. He gives us the power to resist his spirit. And by the way, the wisdom and the humility to yield to it as he convicts our heart. Amen. And let him speak through us. I always like the illustration of Balaam as he's going there when he shouldn't have gone. And my wife actually pointed out this to me one time. I hadn't seen it before. She pointed it out to me. But it's interesting that when Balaam is going in disobedience where God told him not to go, Balaam's going for the money, he's going to go prophesy. He got promised some treasures and presents and stuff. So he figured it didn't matter what God said. And so he's on his way. And God sends an angel to interrupt him on his trip. And the donkey sees the angel. And what happens as they're going? Three times the donkey tries to turn away from this angel. First, he strays off into the field and Balaam starts beating on him. Get back into the field. He drives him back into the field. And then the donkey comes to a place where there's a vineyard. There's a couple of stone walls on the side and it's pretty narrow. And the angel of the Lord with his sword appeared before the donkey again. The donkey sees it, and Balaam apparently don't, and the donkey swerves to the side and crushes Balaam's foot against the wall there, and he starts beating him again, getting back in the way, you know. And then the Bible says the angel of the Lord goes a little further on down the path in that vineyard and comes to a narrow way where there's no place, no way to get around, and the donkey just flat lays down. We had a horse do that one time at the riding stable with a lady on. I'll tell you about that story sometime. But that donkey, he just lays down flat and Balaam starts beating on him and he's getting mad at that donkey. And so the Bible says in Numbers 22, 28, the Lord opened the mouth of the ass and she said unto Balaam, what have I done unto thee? Thou hast smitten me these three times. And Balaam said to the ass, because thou hast mocked me, I would there assorted my hand, for now would I kill thee." I was like that. You say, well, it's amazing that the donkey spake. It's amazing that Balaam answered him and talked back to him. So he goes on, so they asked Balaam, am I not thine ass upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? Was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, nay. So the donkey spake and Balaam said nay. What amazing, how amazing. God is amazing. But yeah, sometimes creation illustrates more obedience than we do. I think about the ravens bringing food to Elijah when he was at that brook Cherith. I think about the fish who swallowed the coin and then put Peter's hook in his mouth so Jesus and Peter could pay their taxes. I think about the unbroken, tamed cult there that Jesus chose to ride into Jerusalem. And He illustrates through creation how we ought to obey Him. And we have far more to rejoice than the beasts of the earth, amen? We've been made in the image of God. And if He can make them obey Him, we ought to yield to Him. and obey Him. We ought to use the liberty in Christ that we have to love God and love one another, amen, and serve God and serve one another. So he goes on, here o'erth, hearken o'erth, and all that therein is, and let the Lord God be witness against you. Let the Lord God be witness against you. I was thinking about that. None who are judged are not going to be able to say that they weren't warned. Well, God, we didn't know. We weren't warned. And I shared this passage before, Amos 3, 6, and 7. Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Do nations attack nations without God's permission? No, they don't. God controls all that. He either moves them to or He permits them to. He's in absolute control. And he's in absolute control of the Ukraine thing going on over there. He either moved Russia to do that or he allowed them to do that. We don't know why. And we don't know which one. But we know that he's in control. And what we're supposed to do is do what we are to do through it. Pray for them and let God work in our hearts through that. Let the Lord God witness against you. Judgment won't come unwarned. God sends his prophets to tell about salvation. God sends his prophets to tell people to walk with him. God sends his word. And he what? He convicts every Christian by the Holy Spirit when we sin, amen? And he doesn't send judgment. He doesn't send chastisement without telling us the what for. I was talking with someone today about that grave feeling of, well, I'm just not right with God. I just don't know what it is. Well, that's not God. That's a false conviction from the devil. The Holy Spirit, what? He reproves, rebukes, and exhorts. The Spirit does. God's Spirit is not vague about our sins, okay? When we sin against God, the Spirit convicts us, okay? And then we can repent of that. We can confess our sins. Confess means to say the same thing that God says about them. If we don't know what they are, we can't say that, can we? And if we want to know what our sins are, I've never had a problem praying about my sins. God, show me if there's something I'm doing wrong. I've never had a problem being very clear about that. Show me a sin that I've committed and then confessing that. And I recognize the devil likes to sow doubts that I believe don't come from God. You begin to wonder, well, I'm just not right with God. Are you perfect? No, you're not. And neither am I. And yes, you have the law of sin living inside of you still. We all do. And maybe some of it comes from that. But that doesn't mean that you're always living by it, amen? That doesn't mean that you have to walk in that. knowingly, and thank God we can have victory through that. Let the Lord God be witness against you. I was thinking about that. If we'll let the Lord be witness who declares our sins to us, we know that he will tell us the truth about our sin. If we let the Lord be our witness, God, you show me. in my life what's wrong. Show me where I'm sinning against you. Show me what I need to do. If we'll let the Lord be with us against us, we know we'll have a correct witness. Amen. We'll know we'll have a clear witness. He won't be in error when he declares it. It'll be exactly right. Neither will he exaggerate or dismiss it when he declares to you and I our sin. He'll show us the unadulterated truth so we can come to Him. And as the song says, just as I am and waiting not, to rid my soul of one dark blot. And to thee whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. We can sing, just as I am, without one plea, but that thy blood was shed for me. See? When He declares that sin, I know how I am. I know what sin I did. I know what I need to confess when I come to Him. And I can come to Him just as I am, without filthy sin, and ask Him to forgive me and cleanse me. Amen? And then I can be cleansed and forgiven, and I can go forward and not go back to that thing. Amen? That's repentance. That's repentance, and that's what God wants us to do when we stray from that path, and to come to Him, find out what that is, get that right, confess it, and go forward by the grace and power and for the glory of God. Malachi 1.2 finishes the verse, let the Lord be witness against you. The Lord from His holy temple, the Lord from His holy temple, We had an elderly man in our church in St. Petersburg, and his name just flew out of my head, honey. Do you remember what his name was? I see you smile. You know him, Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill, yeah. And he would stand, he wouldn't say much, but he would stand once in a while when they asked for testimonies, and he would say, the Lord, but the Lord is in his holy temple. Let the earth keep silence before him. Habakkuk 220. He would say that. And he would come. He was faithful to come to church. His health wasn't real good. He rented an apartment downtown in St. Petersburg, Florida. And it wasn't a real nice place. His suits were threadbare. And the pastor's wife, Carol, she sewed his suits for him a few times, and others did in the church as well. But he would just stand and give that testimony. When he went home to be with the Lord, he had left all his inheritance to the Lord. And I don't remember exactly how much it was, but the church immediately, with that inheritance, began to build a new building, and they bought three brand new vans. There was a man that lived very simply for the Lord, and he just took everything that he had. He could have been in a nicer place. He could have probably had a nice house. But for whatever reason, the Lord led him to live that way. That would be his simple testament. The Lord is in his holy temple. You know something? When I heard that, my heart kept silence before the Lord. And I thought, God, you are a mighty God. Look how you're working to that man's heart. And there's a man who left here and none of us had any idea how rich he was. And I mean now both spiritually and materially. None of us had any idea. I was thinking about that. The Lord, the Lord, Be witness against you the Lord from his holy temple. This idea of the Lord from his holy temple, we find it three times through the Old Testament. We find it in Psalm 114. The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men. What do we learn with this idea of the Lord in His holy temple from Psalm 114? His eyes behold, His eyes behold, His eyelids try the children of men. The Lord sees all. He sees everything. His eyelids try, and eyelids is just, I studied that out, it's just a Hebrew way of repeating something for emphasis. It's saying the same thing as His eyes. His eyes, His eyelids, behold, His eyes behold, His eyelids try the children of men. Not only does He see all, He sees every deed. He sees every action, He knows every thought that we think. He's in His holy temple. His eyes behold, and then His eyelids try. He also, what, discerns. He judges. He knows not only everything that we do and say, He knows why we did it and why we said it. He knows everything that's unseen about it. He knows all of our motives. He knows everything within us, why we did that or why we didn't do that. Why we said that or why we didn't speak up. And He sees it all. And He knows it all. Every deed, He has weighed out perfectly. And he knows every word, every thought that we allow to tarry in our head. He knows why we're thinking it. He knows what we're thinking and why we're thinking it. OK. And that's our God from his holy temple. OK. Or as Psalm 11, 4 puts it, the Lord in his holy temple. So he's always discerning, always knowing every act, every deed, every thought, every intent, every motive. So let the Lord declare your offense. Believe Him. He knows better, you better than you know yourself. He knows me better than I know myself. By the way, your heart and my heart will try to deceive us into believing all is well. There's nothing to fear, even though you may be in the midst of your sin, our old deceitful heart will try to tell us. No, God is seeing, God is all knowing, God is all discerning from his holy temple. And then that verse, the other place we find it, we find it here in Micah 1.2, we find it in Psalm 11.4, and then back at 2.20, that verse that Mr. Hill used to stand up and quote. That was a prayer of Habakkuk. Remember Habakkuk? He was concerned. He knows that God is seeing and discerning everything. Then why are you letting all this wickedness proceed in Judah? And as he questions God for a while in chapter 1, he goes on and kind of expecting an answer. And then he's expecting a rebuke because, I'll wait and see how the Lord is going to rebuke me. And so he waits for the answer in chapter 2 and God lays it out. Judah's sin and how he's going to bring Babylon down on him. to be their punishment. King Nebuchadnezzar is his servant and he's going to bring Babylon to punish him. Habakkuk is astounded. They are far more wicked in Habakkuk's mind than Israel. Wait a minute God, you're just, you're going to bring, you're going to judge a people by a people that's more wicked than him? Can you do that, God? And he went on and on. And then he said, I'll wait and see what God answers me. He questioned God. Well, God answered him. And God showed him he was going to judge them. And you know what Habakkuk's answer was when God showed him the vision and showed him the judgment? It continues in Habakkuk 3, the prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet on Shiginov, the idea of an instrument indicating he was a priest. Oh Lord, I have heard thy speech and was afraid. Oh Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years, make known. In wrath, remember mercy. God, you are righteous. God told him what? His soul that is lifted up in him. I don't remember exactly, but it's not right with God. But the just shall live by faith. That's what God told Habakkuk. You think you're more righteous than Babylon? You're not. Nobody is righteous, God says, from His throne, in my eyes, but by their faith in the Messiah. No one. No one is righteous in God's eyes, in their standing, but by that justification by faith preached very clearly in the book of Romans. Nobody and God told Habakkuk that and he was amazed at that And so his answer is but the Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him He says goes on in verse 16 Habakkuk 2 16 when I heard my belly trembled My lips quivered at the voice Rottenness entered into my bones and I trembled in myself that I might rest in the day of trouble. I He went on, when he cometh up to the people, because God told him he was coming, he will invade them with his troops. And then in back it continued, although the fig tree shall not blossom. Neither shall fruit be in the vines. The labor of the olives shall fail and the field shall yield no meat. The flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength and he will make my feet like hinds feet. He will make me to walk upon my higher places. And it was to the chief singer on my stringed instruments. Isn't that amazing? God in his holy temple, what do we see? What do we see that? When God, according to Micah 1, 2, in his holy temple, his eyes behold and his eyelids try. He sees all. He judges all. He discerns all. And then, by the way, when he sees all and judges all and discerns all, he doesn't just do that to see all and discern all and to judge all, or in other words, to know whether it's good or evil. He does that to act. He does that to do something with he has seen and heard and judged. And that's exactly what he told Habakkuk that he was going to do. He says, and now the all seeing God from his throne has seen and discerned and judged. And now Habakkuk, here's what I'm going to do. And where was Habakkuk left? He had nothing left to say after that. And so when our all-seeing, all-knowing God from his throne judges our actions, we'll have nothing to say about it. Because it'll be what? It'll be perfect. It'll be in righteousness. It'll be in holiness. It will be in perfect measure. And there won't be anything. We'll be rendered speechless just like Habakkuk. We'll just say, God, well, In the midst of judgment, remember mercy, God, because we want some things from you that we don't deserve, amen? And by the way, God has plenty of that, doesn't He? He couldn't have proved it more in Christ. And so we think about that. When He sees and discerns and acts, there will be no repeal or rebuttal. And that's the God we serve. That's the one who's watching us from his throne. But never forget, that's the one who came down from his throne and stepped on this earth and put on a body so he could still fulfill his righteous judgment but so we ourselves wouldn't have to experience it. We could have grace. We could have His mercy, because we are His, and He can do with His own what He will, amen? But He will not overpass His judgment to offer mercy to the world, will He? No, He fulfilled that, and now He offers mercy to all, and we are thankful for that. And so Micah is Encouraging Judah and Israel, get your eyes on God. Know who he is. prepare your hearts for repentance, and let God be witness, let God be judge. Really worship Him, put away your idols, and give back to God. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your blessings. Lord, I thank you for your goodness. And Father, it is amazing to ponder the eternal realm, to ponder the spiritual realm. We often have been held in awe and wonder as that which we behold in this physical body that you've created, in the universe that we live in. But more recently for me, it's been even more amazing to me that you told us that you create the spirit within man. You create the things that we can't even begin to figure out how you create, and we can't look at it with a microscope. We can't hear. We can't hear them, Lord, audibly with our ears and and the spirit in us. Father, but we know that your word is a living word. You quicken the spirit in us. You bring us to life. when we trust Christ as our Savior, and you make it, God, so that again, Father, our hearts are towards You, and we want to follow You, God, and we thank You. Lord, we praise You for that. Father, I just pray that You would draw us closer to You, Father, that we would, in reverence and thankfulness, worship the God that we are beginning to know more and more, God, and yet need to know far more. Father, of your grace and your glory, your goodness to us in Christ, your holiness upon your throne, and God, in the time that we'll be with you, what a glory that will be. What a day that will be, we sing, when my Jesus I shall see. And Father, thank you. I praise you, God. And to help us until you come, Lord, to endeavor to be the witnesses that you want us to be. Father, to live with you, walk with you, to love those in our realm, Father, and in our town and around the world through our missionaries, Father, as you would give us the opportunities, Father, to do so.