♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Amen. The Bible's turned to the book of James, if you will. We're looking in our study on Sunday morning. James 3, come to verses 13 through 18. And we looked at this last time, but I wanna read again. Begin at verse 13 through verse 18. Who is wise in understanding among you? By his good conduct, let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder in every evil practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy, good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. And let us pray. Our Lord, we thank you for your holy word. Father, we pray in these moments that you'll help us as we study, as we teach your word, we pray that we'll be humble, and Lord, just declare what thus saith the Lord, and open our hearts, oh God. Work in the life of that one who's yet to say yes to Jesus. I pray, Lord, that you'll work on their hearts even now, and draw us closer to you, and make Christ be honored and praised. We ask in his name, amen. You know, since the day we came to know Jesus as our Lord and Savior, there's a calling from the Lord that we are to follow Him. As Christians, we are to follow in the steps of our Lord and our Savior, Jesus Christ. We're called to walk in the steps of the Lord. The Bible tells us in first Peter 221 for to this you've been called because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow in his steps. And walking in those steps is also referred to as walking in wisdom. Colossians 4 and 5 says, walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Also, Paul said in Ephesians 5, 15, look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise. Wisdom is a subject of our study here in James. And we come to verse 17, we're gonna focus on verse 17 and verse 18. And we can call it the wisdom from above. That's what he says there in verse 17, wisdom from above. That is, it only comes from the Lord. We saw back in chapter one, for example, we saw this in chapter one in verse five. It says, if anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask of God and he will give to all generously. And so we have this precious gift from the Lord and every precious gift, every good gift comes from above, from heaven, from the Lord. And it's a very precious gift, this gift of wisdom. So what does it look like and how does it work? Well, there's about four main things we're going to look at. First of all, how does wisdom operate? That is, its power. We're going to look at that and then we'll see what it looks like. That is, its properties. And then what is its mission? What is its purpose? And then what is its outcome? What is its product? We're going to be looking at the product as well. So to do this, to help us to have an idea of what we're looking at here, I thought of a train. I don't know how I got that in my mind, but I thought of a train. So everybody knows something about train and tracks. And you've got the locomotive in the front. You've got some box cars, individual cars. You have a passenger car. And then what's on the end? The caboose, right? So think of a train. That's what we're going to be thinking about as we look at our subject this morning. So ready? Get on board, right? Everybody get on board. Let's hang on. I don't want nobody to fall off. I don't want to get derailed along the message here. That's my great fear, derailing the message. So here we go. How does wisdom operate? That is its power. Well, its power is because it is pure. Now we see in verse 17, I read verse 17 again, but the wisdom from above is first. First and foremost, it's pure. We're talking about its purity. Now this is going to be the locomotive. The locomotive, you know, the engine that pulls the train. So think about the locomotive, you know, there's the power that pulls all the boxcars. And this is the first thing that we're going to look at. The first thing on the list of this wisdom train, this wisdom from above, is purity. So the name of this locomotive is purity. If you don't have purity, you can't go anywhere else. You're not going anywhere. It's number one, purity. And so that's the locomotive. So keep that in mind as we look at this. The wisdom from above is pure. That is, it's untainted by sin. It is unmixed with human wisdom. This wisdom from above, it's not the invention of mankind. The Bible, by the way, in case someone didn't know this, I think you do know this, the Bible is the only book of wisdom. Now, if you want to pull out the Quran, go ahead and help yourself. If you want to put out the book of Mormons, help yourself. Listen, they are not books of wisdom. Only the Bible is God's book of wisdom. It's not a creation of fantasy. fictitious writings. It's not that, it's the pure word of God. The word of God, unmixed. Unmixed with human error. In the original manuscripts, and we have a version there, we don't have the original here, but we have a good translation. I'll guarantee you that by many scholars here. The word of God in its purity, it points to the pure son of God. Jesus is the pure son of God. He never committed a sin, no sin with Jesus. He is without sin, never did commit a sin. He is the pure son of the living God and his blood purchased our salvation. His blood is precious, pure, precious blood of a lamb without spot and without blemish. And so this locomotive is called purity. It's out front. It's pulling the other boxcars. And may I say this locomotive is loud. It's got a whistle. It's got a horn. And it's got a big light on front. So get the picture. There it is. But I can't help but think, though, as I think about that, because a lot of noise. You've got to think of the front of this locomotive, a lot of noise. But way out miles and miles in front of this locomotive, is one of these little, I don't know what you call it, but it's a couple of guys on a little thing that, you know, a lever, they push this thing up down, you know, they go down the tracks, you know, and way out in front of the train, it's John the Baptist. John the Baptist is the forerunner. He said, prepare the way of the Lord. Jesus is coming, everybody. Repent for the kingdom of God's at hand. He's out there out front. And I just can't help sitting out there just shouting aloud, you know, here he is. Jesus is coming. The light is shining. There's a lot of noise. When he came to Bethlehem, there's a lot of noise down there because it was overcrowded. They had a census, you know, and the thing was packed out. No room in the end for the baby Jesus. And, you know, there was all kinds of commotion. And even when Jesus He grew up and he started his ministry. There was a lot of noise. Oh, there were some desperate cries of people. There were people that were possessed of demons. Demons were crying out and Jesus delivered people of demons. There were people that were crying out because they were sick and they were hurting. And Jesus, he healed the sick. He healed the lame. He healed the blind folks and lots of things going on when Jesus came to town. All right. So purity is what we have here. This wisdom from above, it's first pure. That's our Lord Jesus Christ. And the Bible says in 1 John 3 and 3, everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself because Jesus or he is pure. And that's what we are to do as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Every day we should seek to draw closer to the Lord. Jesus was saying in chapter four of James, if you go to chapter four of James and verse eight, it says, draw near to God, he will draw near to you, cleanse your hands, you sinners, purify your hearts, you double-minded. So let's look at this locomotive, this purity. Let's look at what follows the locomotive, boxcar number one. Here it is, see in verse 17. It's peaceable, peaceable. That's what comes next. Now, peace, peace. Now, when we talk about peace here, that doesn't mean peace at any cost. That doesn't mean, well, just to keep the peace, I'm gonna walk away. Well, I'm glad Jesus didn't walk away. Jesus, he advanced toward the devil's territory and he won victory over the devil. And he doesn't want the church to go into retreat and hide out in a cave. Say to Elijah, what are you doing here? I got some work for you to do. Peace doesn't mean we just cover our head up. I don't keep the peace. I ain't gonna say anything, do anything. I'm not gonna be involved. No, we engage our world. We talk to the world. We talk to sinners. We talk to our loved ones. We share the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We gotta speak up. We got to go outside. A story is told of a man and a woman, how they kept peace in their home. And here's what the man said. He said, we've been married for 50 years. And listen, the reason why it's peaceful in our house, here it is. When we got married, we agreed upon something. And when she was upset and bothered about things, here's what she was doing. She's going to speak up and get it all off her chest. You know, that's what she's going to do. But when he was bothered, he would go outside. He would take a long walk. And here's what he said. You know, I suppose you might say the reason for our happy marriage is that for the most part, I've largely led an outdoor life. Do you know what? It's impossible to turn on the news these days, you turn on the news, there's trouble everywhere. I mean, there's riots, there's people who are creating all kinds of disturbance in our world, there's fighting, there's full-blown warfare going on, all kinds of trouble. And as Christians, we are in a warfare, we are in a spiritual warfare. Our warfare is not with flesh and blood. It is a spiritual warfare. And we're not to go to retreat. We are to go in the name of Jesus, standing on the promises and taking up the shield of faith and fight the good fight of faith. But we carry the gospel of peace in our hearts. Peace in our hearts. and we want others to know about the gospel of Jesus Christ. We want them to know about that peace, that peaceable, that is so good, and that's part of this wisdom that we're talking about. We'll go to another box card here. The second one is gentle, gentle. Now, gentle can also mean considerate. This is a person who is willing to yield. willing to heal. The word itself suggests a noble, patient, and fair disposition rather than one focused on asserting one's own rights. It speaks of a delightful and gracious way of being fair and reasonable. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10, verse one, he said, I, Paul, myself, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ. Jesus was gentle, gentle with people. Titus three and two, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. And 1 Timothy 3 and 3 tells us there, gentle is required for those who aspire to assume the office of an overseer. Not to be a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money. Let's go to the next boxcar, here we go. Open to reason is the next one. Open to reason. Now this is also in the King James, it says, easy to be entreated. easy to be entreated. The American standard says reasonableness, reasonable. And it means to be submissive. It means to be compliant. And this is the Christian who is easily persuaded. But listen, it's not in the sense of being weak and gullible. It's not like that. But they're willing to waive their position and to defer to another person's views as long as it's not unethical or it's unbiblical. You don't compromise Bible truth. but you're open to reason. And it gives a description of one whose disposition is he readily listens. He's open to reason. He's willing to cooperate with what is true and righteous. Let me give you one example of that. Moses was a person like that. He was open to reason. He was called the meekest person on the earth. Here's what happened with Moses. You could read about it in the, in the, in the old Testament, his father-in-law, his name was Jethro and his father-in-law noticed that Moses was always selling disputes among those people, you know, the children of Israel and a lots and lots of people. And, and every day he would be selling disputes. People would come to Moses with their problems and their, their problems. And, and Jethro said, this is not good. His father-in-law said, listen, you need to pick out some capable men. And so these men can take groups of people and do this same thing that you're doing because you're wearing yourself out. And so what did Moses say? He was open to reason. He said, yeah, that sounds great. That, that sounds wise. And that's what happens. So what do you have? You have a better Moses. You have a more productive Moses. You have a less weary Moses and a less burdensome Moses. He was able to be a better leader because he was open to reason. And that's what happened. That's the good part of wisdom from above. Gladly respond to making changes that are reasonable. reasonable without compromising godly standards though. OK, the next box card. Here we go. The next one is full of mercy and good fruits. We'll put those together. Full of mercy and good fruits. This is what this is. It's compassion. It's mercy. It's compassion in action. Compassion in action. It's love that responds to someone in need, someone who's hurting. It embraces a hurting neighbor. and takes measures to find some kind of a solution. One good example in scripture is the Good Samaritan. You know that story, don't you? You remember the traveler from Jericho on the Jericho Road? He was beaten up. He was beaten up by some robbers and left for dead. And a religious Levite and a religious priest walked on by. It didn't take time. to show concern, didn't take time to help this poor traveler who was left half dead, but this good Samaritan, and by the way, Samaritans and Jews don't get along. They don't have anything to do with each other, but this good Samaritan, he stopped. He took some time. He took some time to bandage his wounds and to put them on his own animal, and he took them to an inn. He paid some money to this innkeeper so that he could get better and recuperate. You see, mercy is connected with good fruits. It goes together. Mercy is not something that we learn about and think about. Oh, that's a good word to study. I like the word mercy. Oh, I like to sing about mercy. I like to talk about mercy. Let's study about mercy. Let's look in the Bible and find all the words we can find about mercy. No, it's off the page of the Bible and it goes to work. It's showed up in good fruits. It's an action word. It's an action word. Wisdom from above reaches down to help hurting people. Hurting people regardless of their skin color, regardless of their status in life, regardless of who they are. That's the way of Jesus. Jesus is the Savior of the world. He's not the Savior of a particular group. Jesus loves all people. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. And aren't you glad this morning He included you? I'm glad He included me. Bible says in Luke 6, 36, be merciful, be merciful, even as your father is merciful. You know what? That's a great need today, isn't it? A great need. There's a lot of hardness today. There's a lot of selfishness today, but mercy and compassion, You know, we have received ourselves great mercy. And since we have received great mercy, God wants us to show that mercy to others. Ephesians 2.4 says this, but God being rich in mercy, rich in mercy, because of the great love which he loved us, even we were dead in our trespasses, he's made us alive together with Christ, by grace you've been saved. Well, moving on down the tracks, let's get to the next one, impartial. impartial now this by the way is studying this here and Bible scholar says this is a very challenging word to for Bible scholars to really agree upon what it means some Bible versions use the word without doubting some use the word unwavering some says shows no favoritism without partiality I think it's a New King James says without partiality The word is defined as unwavering and consistency. Consistency, impartial toward others. This is the consistency of staying with the truth. I mean, you love God today, love God tomorrow. You love your neighbor today, love your neighbor tomorrow. A consistency, unwavering. That is, you are impartial. You know, so many times God's people are guilty of this, you know, and they have to say, Lord, I'm sorry. Sometimes we're, oh, we just love everybody. We just, oh, then, then next day, you know, all that's evaporated. It's kind of withered away. What happened to it? You know, but we had to ask God to help us with this. So as we grow in God's wisdom, As we grow in God's wisdom, we become more consistent, more consistent, more firm, and more stable in our devotion to God and our love and our ministry to others. Well, the next one, sincere. That means without show, without pretense, without hypocrisy. This is genuine. It's the real thing. It is sincere. It's without hypocrisy. This is a property. This is all these properties of wisdom from above, and it has no hypocrisy. It's not playing games. It's not putting on a front. It's genuine. And you know, when you look at Jesus, He said a whole lot of things about hypocrisy. He said in Luke 12 and one, He says, beware of the teaching or the leaven of the Pharisees. That is the teachings of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. That's what it is. Not only were the Pharisees hypocrites, but their teaching was full of hypocrisy. And so, whenever we discover that we're faking it as a Christian. I'll never forget this dear lady in the church I served many years ago. She was the organ player. We had a piano player, we had the organ player. She came to me, she was totally upset. And because the musician or the song leader did not help prepare her for the music and would give her some music that she was not acquainted with and told her, just fake it. Just fake it, yeah. Well, I guess I would have to do that because I can't play the organ. But you know what? We don't need to fake it as a Christian, do we? The Lord will help us. We go to the Lord, help me, Lord, to be real. Help me to be genuine. Deliver me from hypocrisy. We all got certain levels of hypocrisy about us. We're not perfect in that. But we ask the Lord to help us. Bible says in 1 Peter 2 and 1, so put away all malice and all deceit and all hypocrisy. We've got to put that all away. And as newborn infants desire the scent of the milk of the word, you may grow thereby. So we talked about the boxcars, all the properties of wisdom. Let's go to the passenger car. The passenger car, all the passengers are there. And this is the mission of Wisdom, the wisdom train, it's purpose. And you look at verse 18, let's read that again. Verse 18, and a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. Someone put a reading like this, that same verse and put it this way. Peacemakers produce in the atmosphere of peace they create, peace among the people they deal with. What he's talking about here is a harvest. a harvest of righteousness, a harvest of sinners who have been made righteous in Jesus Christ. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5, 21, for our sake, he made him to be sin who knew no sin that we might in him be become the righteousness Now listen, to go to heaven requires righteousness, but we don't have it. Romans 3 and 10 says, as written, there's none righteous, no, not one. You need righteousness, but where do you get it at? Well, Jesus gives us his righteousness. Paul spoke of that in Romans 5, 18. Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification, the life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners. So by the one man's obedience, the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more so that as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. I love that right there when he says righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So that's what we need. And Jesus came on a great mission to harvest souls. The great wisdom train, thank God for that. You know, you follow that train, it made tracks down to Egypt one time. It went down to Egypt and it delivered almost 2 million souls out of Egypt. Pharaoh had them in bondage. and God delivered them through Moses. And then that wisdom train went through the wilderness and then it made its way across the Jordan River. It went around the walls of Jericho and it blew its horn real loud and the walls came tumbling down. But it delivered Rahab and her family. And so you see the working of God's grace right there. And then you see that train, it went down to a place called Zarephath to a widow who was so hungry And Elijah the prophet came to her and said, he said, listen, the lady said, listen, he wanted her to make her making some bread. And she said, listen, I've only got enough to make for myself and my son. And after that, we're going to die because that's all we got. And the Bible says in first Kings 17 verse 13, Elijah said to her, do not fear, go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake and bring it to me. and afterward make some for yourself and your son. For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, the jar of flour shall not be spent and the jug of oil shall not be empty until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth. And she went and did as Elijah said, and she and her and her household ate for many days. The jar of flour was not spent. Neither did the jug of oil become empty according to the word of the Lord. that he spoke by Elijah. Man, I know she was so glad to see that. But you know what? That wisdom train keeps traveling on because eventually you see it comes in the days of Daniel. It came in the days of Jeremiah. It came in the days of Isaiah. It makes its way to the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and John. It comes to the woman at the well, the woman at the well. Then Jesus said, listen, I've got living water to give to you. She came to get some water and Jesus spoke to her and said, listen, I've got some living water. If you drink the water of this well, you're going to get thirst again. But I've got some water. If you'll drink of the water that I've got, it's living water, you'll never thirst again. Jesus said in John four, verse 13, Jesus said to her, everyone who drinks of the water of this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water, welling up to eternal life. And the woman said to him, sir, give me this water so that when I'll be thirsty, or have to come here to draw water. And you know what Jesus did? Jesus exposed her sin. Jesus exposed her life, her heart. And she realized this is somebody different, just a man. This was more than a prophet. Realized this is the Messiah. She gave her heart to Christ. Jesus saved her right there. And she ran into the city. She told everybody, hey, come see a man who told me everything that I did. It's not just the Christ. Is not this the Messiah? And so she got on board that passenger train. She got on board that bunch of passengers climbed on board. And it kept on running. That train went to a sycamore tree, right? That train came to a sycamore tree and there was a guy up there named Zacchaeus. He got on board. Yeah, and that train picked up a guy, a Saul of Tarsus. I mean, the light of that train was so bright that Saul of Tarsus, he was blind for three days, blinded by the light, but he got on that train, that passenger train, and God picked up some more passengers through him and through others, through his witness and his testimony. Well, there's a name on that passenger train. You see what it is? It's called the Harvest of Righteousness. It's the harvest. And I'm so glad it came where I was one day. Did that train come to where you was at? Listen, it wasn't the Polar Express. I don't need something, a dead, cold religion. Hey, it was the Heavenly Express. And when it came to my place where I was at, the whistle of the Holy Ghost blew so loud, it woke me up. and I got on board. I'm still on board. Keep on going. Keep on pressing on. Bible says in Hebrews 3.15, today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. Isaiah 55 and six, seek the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while he's near. and I hope you're on board. Because there is a final outcome of this wisdom. There's an outcome. The product in verse 18 says this, it's sown in peace by those who make peace and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. You see, at the end of this long train, there's the caboose. And there's a name on that caboose. And you can see it as the caboose just goes out in the dead there. It's the word peace. Because after Jesus gets through with you, and by the way, when Jesus gets through with everything, it's peace. You got people all over the world. Oh, we need peace. We need peace treaties. Oh man, don't keep peace treaties. You'll never see peace on earth until the prince of peace comes. And one day, thank God, He will come and He will make peace. Jesus said in John 14, verse 27, peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you, not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Have you ever been troubled? Boy, I tell you what, if you focus on the world, you get troubled. Your heart can get troubled. Things that's going on in our world. Listen, Jesus gives you peace. Romans 5 and 1, therefore, since we've been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. And so since we have peace in our hearts, we are to be participants of that peace and make peace. We are to pursue peace. You know, like someone asked this guy, he looked like a troublemaker. And they say, listen, what are you looking for? Trouble? There seem like there's a lot of people that all they look for is trouble. Mine's maybe one church I used to bet, a troubled church. I used to, you know, man, don't let this be a troubled church. I preached at a troubled church. And when that thing began to boil, it's amazing who comes out of the woodwork. It's amazing who comes out from places you don't know, you've never seen them before. But when there's trouble at church, they all show up. They like church fights. I like peace. Jesus is the Prince of Peace. The Bible says in Romans 12, 18, if possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all people. Well, I tell you, I just don't want to be around a rabble rouser. I don't know if I ever used that term before, rabble rouser. A rabble rouser, a troublemaker. Jesus said in Matthew 5 and 9, blessed are the peacemakers, for they should be called children of God, sons of God. You know, something else about a caboose, if you think about it, I don't know a whole lot about trains, been a long time since I've been on a train, but they say a caboose, and I saw some pictures of one anyway, there is an elevated, part of that caboose with windows, where crew members can look out the window. And they can see the whole line of that train all the way up front. They can see what's going on. They can see if there's some commotion going on, maybe some commotion going on in the passenger car. Maybe they get on their speaker or whatever. Y'all need to quiet down a little bit. Y'all getting too rowdy. Peacemaker. Y'all got a problem? Let's deal with it. We're gonna, at the next train stop, get off, we're gonna get off, we're gonna talk about this, you know? What's that? It's called church discipline. What is that? Church discipline, what is that? You know what? That's a part of the peacemakers. You know, the Bible talks about it. I met a couple sisters, I don't get along too well, and they're at each other. You know, we need to pull aside, what's going on? Let's talk about this, let's pray about this, let's work this thing out. Romans 14 verse 19, so then, so then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. We all have to work together at that. Now, if I decide, you know what? I'm gonna stay out of church for three months. No, that's too short, six months. Don't nobody dare do that. I know sometimes you're on a vacation. I know sometimes you're sick and all that. Six months? And you're one of the main persons that part of the local church. And you come back after six months, no one's seen hide or hair of you, right? You come back after six months. Oh, good to see you. What about a hug? No. Where have you been? Well, didn't you know? No. Can I read minds? No. I try to call you. Phone don't work. Try to text you. Text don't work. Try to email. It don't work. Try that with the local job that you work at. Mr. Employer, I know I've been out six months, but I'm going back to my regular job. No, you're fired. Well. The opposite of peace is war. That's the subject of the next verses in chapter four. We don't want to talk about that right now. War. Jesus is our conductor. He's our captain. And our final destination is Grand Central Station. in the heavenly city. And one of these days, wisdom train, the Lord Jesus, our conductor, is gonna bring that train to its final destination. What a day of rejoicing that will be. I don't think there'll be any passengers on the train when they get to heavenly city, look up to, oh, is that what, oh, yeah, man. There'll be so much shouting on that train, you'll need some earplugs. There'll be some screaming and hollering and shouting and praising God. They'll be raising all the windows down on that train. Whoa, we're here now. I see Aunt Sally over there. Excuse me folks, I just can't help myself. Can't we get in on it just a little bit? Can't we dream a little bit? Are you ready? What a day of shouting, what a day of rejoicing it's going to be. But between now and then, there's some more passengers to pick up. We got to get off the train and sow peace, make peace, preach the gospel of peace, point people to Jesus. Who's leading this train? Jesus. Ortho's a preacher. No, preacher, he's, he's, no, no. So let's pray and let's work together. Because Jesus died on the cross to purchase the ticket, the ticket. What do you mean ticket? Can I just get on board? No, you gotta have that ticket. Everybody knows you gotta have a ticket to get on board. Jesus paid for your ticket and it's free. Turn from your sins and trust Jesus. That's your ticket. It's been paid for. And it's coming down the tracks. It's coming down the tracks. What are you gonna do? Get on board or you'll be left behind. Lord Jesus, we thank you for how precious you are. And you so sweetly, gently, came our way, not because of any goodness in us. There's no goodness in us. The only goodness is in the goodness of our Lord. And you had mercy on us. Thank you for that. And I pray for any dear soul that's yet to come to faith in Jesus. I pray today they will. And we look to you, Lord. We pray you would work your will and every heart we ask in Christ's name. Amen. Amen.