Good evening. Oh, there's Brother Gary. He came back. Brother Ron, would you mind to put up the words of Break Thou the Bread of Life one more time, please? And we can just go to verse one. There we go. I just want us to think about what we just sang. And if you didn't sing it, you should have. Break thou the bread of life, dear Lord, to me. As thou didst break the loaves beside the sea. You know, I was reading that this morning in my personal reading. I'm in the book of Mark and reading how Jesus took the loaves and broke and gave it to people and just kept breaking and just kept giving. Wouldn't it have been great to be there and have Jesus break the loaves and give it to the disciples? Then here it comes from Jesus's hand. Yeah. Anyway, as out it's break the loaves beside the sea, but the bread of life here is going to get us into the word of God beyond the sacred page. I seek thee, O Lord. Yeah, reading the Bible is not like reading any other book. I have the privilege to teach literature, and we read lots of books, and we read lots of stories from lots of different authors, but we're not really seeking the author. We want to understand what the author wrote and all of that kind of thing and maybe get some benefit of, you know, how we might improve our life based on some lessons that we see there. But beyond the sacred page, I seek thee, O Lord. When we come to the scripture, we're not just reading a book to try to understand it the way we would any other book of literature or any book of science or any book of technology or history. Whenever we read the sacred page, we are seeking the one who wrote it. We want to get in touch with the God who inspired the Bible. My spirit pants for the old living word. Let's go to the next one, Brother Ron. Break thou the bread of life, O Lord, to me. Okay, now get this. That hid within my heart thy word may be. So we want the scripture to be in our heart. Mold thou each inward thought from self set free. Boy, wouldn't that be wonderful? Set free from self. You know, how many of the difficult, agonizing thoughts that we have are just set on self? But through the word of God, the Lord can set us free from self and let my steps be all controlled by thee. That's what we really want in our life as a Christian, isn't it? Let's go to the next one there. Open thy word of truth that I may see thy message written clear and plain for me. You know some things you can read you can open it up and read it and it just goes boom you know it just hits you right in the face you got it but but as I told you I was reading in the book of Mark just for my own my own personal Bible study time and I've been looking over the same four verses now for a few days so that to really have the message clear and plain for me. Then in sweet fellowship walking with thee thine image on my life engraved may be. So then, as we're in the word of God, and the message of the word of God becomes clear to us, then in sweet fellowship, walking with the Lord, his image on our life becomes engraved. So that people, whenever they interact with us, when they see us, they're going to see the image of Christ there. And that's going to come through us receiving the message clear and plain. How much might we be missing in our lives just because we don't read the Bible? And that's what this song is all about, our personal reading of the Bible time. Well, let's go to the next one there. Bless thou the truth, dear Lord, to me, as thou didst bless the bread by Galilee. Then shall all bondage cease. All fetters fall. Well, what kind of bondages do we do we have? Bondages to past memories? Things that we just need to let go of. It's in the past, it's over with, it's gone. And any offenses that were made against us, they're over with. They're over with. Sometimes people are mad at people that have been dead for years over things that happened decades ago. Okay, we need to be released from that bondage. Then shall all bondage cease and all fetters fall. When? Bless the truth, dear Lord, to me. Then shall all bondage cease and all fetters fall. And what will I find? Then I shall find my peace, my all in all. All right. I think there's another verse up there, too. Oh, send thy spirit, Lord, now unto me that he may touch my eyes and make me see. Show me the truth concealed within thy word. And in thy book revealed, I see the Lord. You know, I'm so grateful that the Lord put me into a position that I had to teach English. You know, it was a have to whenever it started out, but I have come to really love it over the years. And in fact, I was showing some of our students how to diagram sentences today, and I had just used diagramming sentences to study that passage of scripture in the book of Mark that I was talking about. But you know, you can only go so far with that. You can go so far with that. But then there are the times that you read a passage and the Holy Spirit just opens it up. You may not even know what the Greek word was and barely understand what the English word was, but the Holy Spirit makes it real and lets us know that this applies to you. This applies to you. I remember when I was first saved, I will tell you, I was just a guy that really needed to be saved, and had just come out of my junior year in high school, just started my senior year, and I had always made, man, if I made a C in English, I was happy. That's just how it was. You know, history was A's all the way through, but English, that was another story. But anyway, whenever I picked up the Bible and started reading it, I didn't know the difference between maketh, doeth, and thee, and thou, and all of that. But you know, as I started reading it, the Lord opened it up in spite of that. So as I've heard that one brother say, yeah, when you get saved, you need to learn a holy language. So that's the King James version there. But anyway, the Holy Spirit opens up the word of God to us. And of course, the more we can understand the specific words of it, the more the Lord can open it up to us. It's just remarkable that just, I guess, as people say, peeling the layers of the onion. There's just so much. Show me the truth concealed within thy word and in thy book revealed, I see the Lord. I see the Lord. Is there another one, Ron? That's it. OK, wow. Well, I probably should just say, well, that's the that's our message tonight. But what a what a you know, we sometimes we sing such marvelous and wonderful, powerful truth. And I was just really struck as we were singing that tonight that, Lord, I really want that to be my experience with you and your word every day. How wonderful to walk in sweet fellowship with you in your word and through it to have your image stamped in our life. And that's what we want, isn't it? We want souls to be saved, but how are souls going to be saved? It's as they see Christ in our life, one, and as we share the message of Christ with our words, two. Right. So it takes both. We've got to we've got to really manifest the love and the spirit and the presence and the power of Jesus Christ in our life. Well, thank you all for enduring message number one. Now here's message number two. So let's bow for prayer and we will finish up Psalm 110 tonight. Dear Father, we do come before you so grateful to you, Lord, for your wonderful love and mercy and grace to us. Lord, we know that in ourselves we stand before you completely unworthy, completely selfish, and proud, and disobedient, and everything imaginable that is so much a characteristic of this flesh. But Father, we know that in spite of that, you love us, that you made it possible for us to be forgiven through Christ's death, through his coming and paying the penalty in our place on our behalf. that we might be forgiven and be given a new birth and made a new creature in Christ Jesus acceptable to you. Father, we pray that you'll bless your word now to our hearts and our minds, transform our lives as we come to learn more about the Lord Jesus Christ. May we grow in our love and respect and appreciation for him tonight. And we pray in his name, amen. Well, I'd like to begin just with an introductory verse here in 2 Kings chapter 6. This is an account of the prophet Elisha. What happened was that the king of Syria had come to fight against the nation of Israel. And the prophet Elisha was, through direct revelation of God, knew what the strategy of the Syrian army was, and he told it to the king of Israel. Of course, anyway, the king of Syria thought that he had a spy in the midst and all of that. Of course, we always have a spy in the midst, don't we? The Lord is always with us. He always knows everything that we're thinking and saying and doing. But anyway, eventually, here's what happened. Let's go here to 2 Kings 6, verse 14. Therefore sent he thither horses and chariots and a great host. And they came by night and compassed the city about. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early and gone forth, behold, and host, compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master, how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not. Elisha answered his servant, Fear not. They that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. We'll just end right there with that passage. And you know what we really need as we come to the word of God is for the Lord to open our eyes that we might see the realities in the spiritual realm that we can't see with our physical eyes. So we want the Lord to do that for us tonight in his word. Well, I have a visual aid. Can you all see that? Do we need to turn off the backlight? Oh, there it is, okay. All right, now you can for surely see it. I just wanted to put this up here to keep this visual in front of us that as we read this Psalm, we have the Lord, who's the ultimate authority, and then we have David's Lord. And David's Lord, of course, is the Messiah or the Christ. And then there's David down below at the bottom, as they say, the bottom of the totem pole. So let's go there to Psalm 110. Psalm 110, a Psalm of David. The Lord said unto my lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning. Thou hast the due of thy youth. And this portion of the psalm, first of all, points out that David's Lord is a king. David's Lord is going to rule in the midst of his enemies. And David's Lord is going to rule from Zion. Now Zion is the name of the mountain that Jerusalem is built upon. So David's Lord is going to rule from Mount Zion, from Jerusalem. Last time we got together, we went over to Psalm number two to see the details of how that was going to come about. that the kings of the earth were set against the Lord and set against the Lord's anointed, the Lord's Messiah, the Lord's Christ. Nevertheless, he was going to rule even though the kings of the earth were set against him. Important lesson to learn there, isn't there? The kings of the earth are still set against the Lord and still set against his Messiah, still set against his Christ. And we've had a bit of a respite from that here in the United States over the past couple of hundred years. But it looks as if that respite is coming to a close, isn't it? And we're seeing a more of a movement against the Lord and against his Messiah. When there's a movement against the Lord and against his Christ, certain things start happening. One of the things that starts happening is that people no longer regard the Bible as authoritative. Instead, they regard the hypotheses and theories of men to be authoritative. So as a result, most people in our country today believe that we evolved by chance rather than being specifically created by God. People have set aside God's absolute morality in favor of fluid morality. You know, people say, well, that may be true for you, but it's not true for me. That's still a very common thing to hear. But whenever you respect the word of God, you don't talk like that. Right now, I know that there are people I've talked with people that are Christians and have a profession of faith, but they'll still say, well, you know, that's that may be true for those people, but it's not true for me. And so Christians are even influenced by that because we're we're in a time that that even even the Lord's people, to a large degree, are not influenced by the word of God. That's because the rulers have set themselves against the Lord and have put in place educational institutions and governmental institutions that defy and turn away from the Bible. Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? Well, if you ever go, listen to the park ranger tell the story about how the Grand Canyon was formed over billions of years of evolution and natural processes that brought about the canyon. Of course, that's their theory. Of course, it could have been cut rather quickly with a major worldwide flood, but they're not going to talk to you about that. No, they want to tell you about the theory, but that's a governmental agent speaking directly against the Bible. So the kings of the earth are still set against the Lord and against his Messiah. And of course, we see that today, don't we? And by today, I mean today. Today with the people that want to destroy the nation of Israel, God's promise was that he would bless those that blessed Abraham, curse those who cursed Abraham, and the people are still out to destroy the descendant of Abraham. So enough for that. All right. Also, last time we saw who the identity of the of the Messiah is and the Messiah himself told us. So let's go let's go to that passage. Matthew, chapter 22. Matthew, chapter 22. To see who is this Lord that David is talking about in this psalm. Matthew, chapter 22. Notice what is said here. Matthew 22 and verse 43. The Pharisees were gathered together. Jesus asked them saying, what think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? They say unto him, the son of David. And you know, that's a good answer because the Lord made the promise to David in first Chronicles chapter 17, verses seven through 14. And we looked at this last time, but the promise to David that the savior was going to come through David. Let's see, and they said unto him, the son of David, he saith unto them, how then does David in spirit call him Lord? Saying the Lord said unto my Lord, sit down on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions." So, and of course, this is the illustration that we have up here. So there's David, and the one who's the go-between between David and the Lord, that's actually David's son. That's actually David's son, who is David's Lord. And so what we see in the first three verses here is that David's son is the king. He's going to rule. And we saw that. We spent some time on that last time, talked about how his people were going to be willing in the day of his power. And that reminded me of Romans chapter eight. You know, in Romans chapter eight, the scripture tells us that, well, let's take a look at that because that has bearing on his people being willing in the day of his power. You know, one of the things that we struggle with in our Christian life is simply the willingness to be the kind of person God wants us to be. And of course, the reason that we struggle with that willingness is that the flesh is unwilling. The flesh is still selfish. The flesh is still, well, sinful. And in Romans 7, Paul said, I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. He said, to will is present with me, but how to perform it, I find not. So in the flesh, we have a constant enemy fighting against, making us unwilling. But in the day that he comes, it's going to be different. Romans chapter eight, look with me at verse 20, Romans 8 20. It says this, the creature, the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain until now. And not only they, not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, or that is the inheritance, even, what is it that we're waiting for? The redemption of our body. the time that this body is redeemed. And of course, the word redeemed means to be rescued, released, released, and the time is going to come that we'll receive a new body. like Christ's body, and then there won't be any struggle. Won't that be wonderful? To be willing in the day of his power. And of course, that's when he returns. So, well, let's continue on. In verse 4, the first thing that we saw was that David knew that his Lord was a king. and that his Lord was going to rule over the earth in spite of the fact that his enemies didn't want him to rule. Let's go back now to Psalm 110. But the next thing that we see in that Psalm, beginning in verse four, is that David's Lord, the Christ, the Messiah, is not only a king, but he's a priest. And he's made a, let's take a look at this. The Lord hath sworn and will not repent. Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. So David is looking at his Lord, seated there at the right hand of God. You're going to rule over everyone, and you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. So whenever David needed an intermediary to go to God, he didn't go to Levi. He went to the priest that's there after the order of Melchizedek. That's who David's priest was. Let's go to the book of Hebrews chapter seven. Hebrews chapter seven. No wonder there are some religions that have sought to destroy this book throughout the ages. especially sacerdotal religious institutions, religious institutions that are dependent upon a human priesthood. They want to destroy this book because this book here in Hebrews chapter 7 shows the complete inadequacy of any human priest to be a go-between between any human being and God. Hebrews chapter 7, let's begin in verse 11 and just read along with me here. If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for under it the people received the law, what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek and not be called after the order of Aaron? The children of Israel, the children of Abraham, of course, they had gone into Egypt and were slaves in Egypt for 400 years. And then under the leadership of Moses, The Lord brought them out of Egypt, redeemed them, released them, rescued them through the blood of the Passover lamb from Egypt. And they came out and they went down to Mount Sinai and God made a covenant with them down there. And the covenant that God made with them was a covenant that he would bless them if they would obey his commandments. And one of the commandments, set of commandments that God gave to them was to build a house was to build a house and to ordain certain people to be there that were going to offer the sacrifices in that house of God. And so all of that was just a picture. And the Lord told Moses that it was a picture. He said, I want you to make this tabernacle according to the pattern that I showed you whenever you were up in the mountain with me. So Moses saw the way things really were up there in the mountain and then he came down and made a model. He made a replica of what was in the mountain. So what happened with the people of Israel was that they looked at the model and they mistook the model for the real thing. So they were thinking that, well, yeah, if you go and offer these sacrifices, that then you'll be forgiven the blood of the bulls and goats, that's gonna take away your sin. That's what they were thinking. But the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin. He tells us that here in Hebrews chapter 10 in the first few verses there. And he even told the people of Israel that the Lord is not pleased with the blood of bulls and of goats and rams and all of that, no. The Lord's looking on the heart, but he did give them that model. And the problem was that the people looked at that model, that replica, that visual aid, and they mistook it for the real thing. Kind of like if you've got a picture of your spouse in your house, all right? And you miss your spouse so much, you just go over and pick up that picture and give it a big hug and kiss, you know? Okay, well if you're, you know, but what if your spouse is standing right there behind you? That's what they were doing. They were enamored with the picture while turning away from the reality. If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for under it the people received the law, what need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek and not be called after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, there was made of necessity a change also of the law. For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. For it is evident that our Lord, there's that term, our Lord, sprang out of Judah. right out of Judah and then out of David, of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. And it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude of Melchizedek, there arises another priest, and there he's referring to the psalm that we're looking at, Psalm 110, who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. For he testifieth, thou art a priest forever. after the order of Melchizedek. For there is verily a disanointing of the commandment going before, for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof." So all the commandments related to the Levitical priesthood and temple and all of that are annulled because they're weak and profitable. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by the which we draw nigh unto God. And insomuch as not without an oath, he was made a priest. For those priests were made without an oath. Of course, they were made without an oath because they were going to die. Those priests were made without an oath, but this with an oath by him that said unto him, the Lord swear. The Lord swear, and will not repent, thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death. Wherefore, but this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore, he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Aren't you glad that you have the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior to make you acceptable to God? And he'll never fail. He's never going to die. He's always there so we can rest. Didn't he say here he's able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him? My Bible has a little note here that says an alternate reading to the uttermost or evermore. He's able to save ever more those that come to God. That sounds like eternal security, doesn't it? Right there in the book. So David's king, is also a priest. And last time we looked at a couple of verses to see prophecies of a king that's going to be a priest. So we're not, for the sake of time, we won't go back to those. I'd like for us to wrap up by looking at the fact that David's Lord is a king and he's a priest and he's a judge. He's a judge. Let's look at the last few verses of the Psalm here. Psalm 110. Mm-mm. Verse 5, the Lord at thy right hand will strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen. He shall fill the places with the dead bodies. He shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way. Therefore shall he lift up the head. So what David was seeing here was Christ in power. Christ in power. You know, I think most folks today, when they think of Christ, they think of the babe born in a manger that went about healing and that that was ultimately rejected and crucified and and and gone to heaven. But the truth is, our savior, our Christ is powerful. In fact, he said, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. He has all authority. I'd like for us to look at a couple of verses here quickly. Matthew chapter 24. Matthew 24. And the Lord himself talked about this when he was among us. Matthew chapter 24, verses 29 and 30 says this. Immediately after those days, shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light. And the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn. and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. So that's what David was seeing here. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. And also Revelation 16, let's go there, Revelation 16, beginning in verse 14. Revelation 16. Verse 14 says, let's see. 14 through 16, it says, they are the spirits of devils working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. Armageddon. So that's the Lord coming to face all the kings of the earth that are set against him. But when he comes, he's coming to judge. He's coming to judge. Let's go to 2 Thessalonians 1. When the Lord returns the next time, He's coming with honor. He's coming to be honored, and he's coming in honor. The scripture tells us in Proverbs, in a couple of places, it says, before honor is humility. When Christ came the first time, he did come in humility. But when he comes next time, he's coming in honor. He's coming in power and great glory. And notice what Paul tells us here in 2 Thessalonians he's going to do when he returns. 2 Thessalonians 1.6-9 It is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you, and to you who are troubled It's a righteous thing to recompense unto you rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. So he's coming in judgment. When he comes next time, he's coming to judge, just as David foresaw and prophesied therein in Psalm 110. He will be in triumph. Let's go to Revelation chapter 19 to see the description of his coming in triumph. Revelation 19 verse 11 John says, I saw heaven opened, and, behold, a white horse. And he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. And his eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called the word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God. And if you go over to chapter 14, where it talks about him treading that winepress, it says that the blood of that winepress is gonna be up to the horse's bridles. Yes. Okay. He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God, verse 15. Verse 16, he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. And I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowl that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God, that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses, of them that sit on them, the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. Let's go back to Psalm 110. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen. He shall fill the places with the dead bodies. He shall wound the heads over many countries. And then finally, the last verse there, he shall drink of the brook in the way, therefore shall he lift up the head. Drinking of the brook in the way, that's referring to swift judgment. He is coming swiftly. He's not going to stop and have a party. When he comes, he's coming swiftly. He's going to be, in a sense, refreshed by a quick drink from the brook. Kind of like Gideon in Judges chapter eight, verse four. It tells about how Gideon, the Lord prepared some men or had some men that were going to go with Gideon to fight against the enemies, the Midianites. And who did the Lord choose to go with Gideon to destroy the enemy? It was the men that lapped, the men that went down to the water and went like that to get a drink instead of getting down on their hands and knees, you know, face down. But the men that could drink quickly and stay on the move. So those men went with Gideon and it says they were weary yet pursuing. They continued on until they had destroyed the enemies. And Christ, when he comes, he's going to come and he's going to continue on. The idea is complete destruction, complete destruction of them. There's not going to be a break in the action. He's going to drink from the brook in the way and continue on until they're totally destroyed. Lifting up the head. Lifting up the head. Psalm number three, verse three talks about lifting up the head. And there's a there's a couple of ways that the scripture refers to lifting the head. One is victory. One is victory. Psalm number three, verse three. But thou, Lord, art a shield for me, my glory and the lifter of my head. And also Psalm number 27, verse six. Psalm 27.6 makes this statement. And now shall mine head be lifted up above all mine enemies round about me. Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy. I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord. So lifting up the head is an indication of victory. Christ is going to have victory. But not only is his head going to be lifted up in victory, But he is the judge. He's the one that's going to decide whose head is going to be lifted up. Do you remember the account in Genesis chapter 40? Remember the butler and the baker who were in prison with Joseph? And they had their dreams. And Joseph interpreted their dreams and he told the butler, in three days, Pharaoh is going to lift up your head and place you back in your position. And he told the baker, in three days, Pharaoh is going to lift up your head and execute you. So the lifting up of the head by the judge. The judge is the one that decides how people's heads are going to be lifted up. And there are some other scriptures about this, but I'd like for us to close with these two. One is the book of Acts chapter 17. Christ is the judge. Acts chapter 17. And verse 31, Acts 17, 31, tells us that Christ is the judge. It says this, Acts 17, 31. He, God, hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained. What we saw in Psalm 110, that the Lord planned all the way back in the days of David and before, who was going to judge the earth. By that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. And then finally, the gospel of John chapter five. John chapter five and verse 22. Christ makes this statement. The father judges no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the son, that all men should honor the son, even as they honor the father. He that honoreth not the son, honoreth not the father which has sent him. May the Lord open our eyes to the greatness of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the fact that not only did he come and die on the cross to pay for our sins, but he's going to rule the earth one day, and he's going to put down and destroy all those that are set against him. But in the meantime, He is offering salvation to everyone that will come unto God through him. He is the high priest. He is, by God's oath, the one through whom we can come to God and be forgiven of our sins and receive the gift of eternal life. OK, Revelation 1-7 simply says, Behold, he cometh. Behold, he cometh. May the Lord make each one of us ready by being believers in Christ, but also living for him. Amen. Brother Pat.