If you'd open your Bibles with me, we're in another of those flashbacks of Jeremiah looking back on something that happened earlier, but just like you and I, we do the same thing. When we're telling a story, we'll be telling it and all of a sudden a thought comes to us of something in the past, we bring it up. I'm glad the Holy Spirit brought it up. in Jeremiah's giving to us of second Kings because we get to know another perspective on Gehazi that we might not have otherwise and we need that perspective on his life. We're talking about the Shunammite woman that we talked about way back in chapter 4. Here we are in chapter 8 verses 1 through 6. We're talking about God's restoring. Pastor Kevin, Wonderful songs that you've chosen. Wonderful. Even what the enemy means for evil, God means it for our good and for our glory. Even in the valley, He is with us. Turn to 2 Kings 8. I want to read just verses 4 through 6. Pastor Larry read the whole 6 verses. Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done. And while Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her saying, restore all that was hers together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now. Isn't that an amazing story? It's an incredible timing of the Lord. His providential restoration again. She was barren, God gave her children. What a restoration for that. sad woman who had an elderly husband. Then the son died. Elisha prayed, the child was restored. What a great restoration. Now during the famine when she's gone to Philistia, she's gone seven years, her land is taken perhaps by the crown that was the law of the land, that the king would get the land. Now he gives it back. You talk about restoration. This is providential restoration again and again and again. Let's ask the Lord to use this message for his glory. Father, our heart is touched this morning by the way you work. And you don't always work the way we think you will. You are far kinder than we could ever dream. And yet, Lord, you're far more exacting of your saints than we might ever think. You could ask Gehazi. This is a flashback before his covetous moments. Oh, God, teach us. Teach us through this incredible flashback of Jeremiah on the life of Gehazi and the Shunammite woman. For Jesus' sake we pray, prepare us for the Lord's Supper and we'll give you praise. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. God is the God who restores again and again. He even restores what the locust has eaten because of our own sin. When we think about Him restoring, When we've been obedient to him, it sounds like, yeah, that's right. But the entire book of Joel is about the grace of God in restoring to the disobedient. The disobedient who repent and there's a full and complete restoration and God gives back what the locust have eaten. It's a heavy thing to consider all that we lose and all that we've lost because of our sin. And yet when we turn from God and choose to live selfishly, there are consequences. There always will be consequences for our sin. That's why Jesus had to go to the cross for you and for me. And yet hard as it is to imagine, God still loves His children after we disobey, and when we repent, He will restore what we have lost during our times of disobedience. Joel 2, 12 to 27. And I want you to turn there with me. I believe I want to take, as we begin this message, a few moments to read these 16 verses, Joel 2, 12 to 27. And I want to set the stage for this message by showing you the kind of God we have. We have a God who restores. So if you'll turn there, here God is calling the solemn assembly of His people, His idolatrous people. They've lost everything. They're in a famine like you've never seen. There's nothing. The animals are dying. The people are dying. It's another time, but it's a similar situation. Joel 2, 12 to 27, if you open your Bible, you can follow along, or if you have your smartphone or whatever you've got there, you can follow along with me. Yet even now declares the Lord, return to me with all your heart, listen to the plea of the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning, and rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. And He relents over disaster. Who knows whether He will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God. blow the trumpet in Zion, consecrate a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the people, consecrate the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, even nursing infants, let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber. Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep, and say, Spare your people, O Lord, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the nations, Where is their God? This is the picture of the calling of the solemn assembly, the weeping of the ministers, and all the people right down to the little babies that are nursing. And then what does God do? This idolatrous, evil nation, this nation that has forgotten Him and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs and the Molochs and the Chemoshes, all of them. Then the Lord became jealous for His people. He became jealous for his land and had pity on his people. The Lord answered and said to his people, behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you'll be satisfied, and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations. Oh, the love and grace of God. I'll remove the northerner, all those locusts far from you. I'll drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the Eastern Sea, and his rear guard into the Western Sea. The stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he's done great things. Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things. Fear not, you beasts of the field, starving beasts, for the pastures of the wilderness are green. The tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and vine give their full yield. Be glad, O children of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication. He has poured down for you. Abundant rain, the early and latter rain as before. The threshing floors shall be full of grain. The vats shall overflow with wine and oil. I will restore. to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you, and my people shall never again be put to shame. You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and there is none else, and my people shall never again be put to shame." Here's the picture of God restoring disobedient nations, disobedient Israel, restoring His people who have sinned terribly because they have confessed and repented. As I've studied this passage of Scripture, God has shown me three telling pictures of Pictures that have arrested my attention and I am asking God that they'll be riveted to your eyes and to your hearts and to your ears. These strong pictures of how He works in His grace, different kinds of grace as it were, in the lives of the obedient and the disobedient. It's not a picture that God will not hold us accountable for our sins. He will hold us accountable for our sins. He will and He does. But we have a fuller story of His grace here than we may know right now. Maybe you know about His grace, but we misunderstand it, and sometimes we turn it into cheap grace. It doesn't matter how we live. God doesn't care. Oh no, He cares. He's a holy, just God. The first picture is that God's grace keeps us safe when we obey His will, even when it costs us dearly and it's hard to obey. Secondly, God's grace stops us, cold, stops us in our tracks when we as His faithful servants willfully walk away from His path. And thirdly, God's grace restores to us what has been lost as a result of our willing obedience. And as I told you, I could add, even when we confess and repent of our disobedience. Now let's look at these one by one before we share the Lord's Supper. First of all, God's grace keeps us safe when we obey His will, even when it costs us dearly and it's hard to obey. You'll notice in verses, chapter eight, verse one to three here, that Elisha comes to the Shunammite woman, and this is a flashback. It's years after the story we have in chapter four, but it's a flashback. And Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, Arise and depart with your household and sojourn wherever you can, wherever you find a place to go. For the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years. So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned of all places in the land of their enemy, the Philistines. Seven years. And at the end of seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land. Now, she's before the king in this passage, appealing for her land, and Gehazi is there testifying. I want you to know when God calls us to a task in life, whatever it is, often that task may stretch us. You ever notice that? It may seem to demean us. It may make us have to suffer. And it can often take us far outside our comfort zone. For this rich lady, this Shunammite woman, she owned property. She had a nice house. She had built another room up there for the man of God and for his servant Gehazi. She's being told by the man of God. She's got land, she's got acreage. She's being told, leave it all and go to any place you can find. Get out of here, a famine is coming. Now, he didn't tell her that in the middle of the famine. He told her that before the famine ever came. He told her that in a good time. She might have said, She didn't, but she might have said, thanks, Elisha, for telling me about this. I'll wait and see some signs of the famine. If it happens, that would be a great hardship, you know, for my husband, he's old, and for my son, for us to just take up and split out of here and go to some other land. I don't know, it would be a great hardship for us without any immediate reason to go, I guess we could go to nearby Philistia, go to Gath someplace, to the land of our enemies, but the famine isn't here yet, Elisha, and what if your fears turn out to be untrue? Won't the famine be as bad everywhere as it is here in Shunem? Doesn't that sound the way we reason with God? Isn't that the way we talk? He tells us what to do and then we tell him what might be better. Isn't that amazing? We do that with God. He gives us a command and we start weighing our options. Do you remember Abraham's nephew Lot? Lot lingered in Sodom and Gomorrah when the two angels came to say, get out now, God's sending fire. He's sending sulfur. He's sending brimstone. He's ruining this town. It'll be shellacked. It'll be gone. It'll be burned up. And he lingered. He lingered. And the angels warned him and his wife and his two daughters, get out now. And finally, the angels had to pull him out of town. You know, today, many believers, many believers, as well as unbelievers, linger in sin and linger in shame. We linger in attitudes, we linger in actions of sinning, and we say, I think it'll be okay. I think it'll be okay. I know God, He's a God of grace. And God repeatedly urges us to flee from the wrath to come, to flee from our sinning, to flee from His judgment on that sin. Many still linger today, every day, we're one day nearer to eternity, one day nearer to our death. Many linger, though they know not the day or the hour, when the Son of Man is gonna return. And if He returns and our lamps aren't trimmed, we'll stand before Him ashamed. Let's not linger, let's not hesitate to obey. Like this woman from Shunem, she did at once what he commanded, even though it was a time of plenty. When he told her, he left, he obeyed the word of the Lord. This past Friday morning, we were going out to Denny's with Mike and Kathy. On the way out there, I don't know where our discussion was, I don't even remember the context of it. But I remember an old Appalachian gospel song that I sang to them. And it's a song, I believe, that says it in just a very few words, kind of a chorus of an old song. It's called, This is Your Life, and You Can Lose It. And I don't believe many of us as Christians know how close we play to the edge, how close we play to the edge with sin. Song goes like this, this is your life and you can lose it. This is your life, you can abuse it, heaven or hell. just as you choose it. But remember, it's God's love you're throwing away. It's your life that you can lose. It's your life you can abuse. Heaven or hell, just as you choose. But remember, it's God's love you're throwing away. And I want you to know, by the grace of God, He's saying to you today, you make your choice, but there's judgment ahead if you won't put away your sin and confess and repent. Now notice this Shunammite woman. She's told, leave your home, leave your acreage, take your husband and your son and get out of here. Yeah, but he's old. No, she got out of there. This Shunammite woman got to make a choice as to where to go and why in the world she ever thought of Philistia, the land of the arch enemy of the Israelites, I don't know. She went to the land of the giants, the land of Goliath in David's day, but apparently, apparently during that period of time, because she comes back okay, God just kept her safe. He kept her safe in the land of her enemy seven years, but somehow along the way all of a sudden you hear nothing about her husband. So her husband apparently died during that seven-year pilgrimage. Much like Pastor Larry, if you come tonight and hear the message, you'll hear about Naomi's husband, Elimelech, and two sons, Mahlon and Chelion. All of them died and left behind only Naomi, who went home in the end with one woman, one of the wives. They all three died while they were sojourning in Moab during another famine in Israel in Bethlehem. Now we first heard about this Shunammite woman in chapter 4. Here is Elisha going back and forth between Bethel and Mount Carmel. They're schools of the prophets and he comes through Shunamm. And as he passes through Shunamm, she says to her husband, notice this man of God, we got to give him a meal. And then We got to give him another meal. And you know, we ought to really put up a, we ought to put up a room above our house. We ought to make a room. When you help me, sweetheart, we'll build a room up there and we'll make it big enough for him to have a bed and a place to study. It'll be for him and Gehazi as they come to town. They do it just because of their kindness. And Elisha, bless his heart, he wants to bless her for what they've done. And so he comes to her and he says, tell me, what can I do for you? Could I speak to the king for you? Maybe there's a request you have of the king. And I know the king. She says, no, I live among my own people. I've got my own acreage, my own house. I've got all I need. And so he turns to his servant Gehazi, who is a man of God too. He's a servant. We so often don't give him any credit. Here's a man that lived, the protege of Elisha. And he says to Gehazi, do you have any ideas? He says, he's an observant servant. He has a listening ear. And he says, She pines, she pines over the fact that she doesn't have any children. She'd love a son, but her husband is very old, so I don't know if there's any hope for that. Elisha calls the woman and he says that next year at about this time you'll have a child and she did and Many years go by and he gets to be a preteen or a teen and he's out reaping barley or wheat He's out in the harvest. They got a threshing gang and they're cutting the wheat They're making it into shocks and it's a hot day and all of a sudden he comes to his daddy and he says I'm sick I'm sick. He says to the servant carry and carry my boy back to his mom at the house he carries him back and she puts him on the front porch there in the rocking chair she holds it when she holds him and he dies in her arms and she takes off she takes off and she says I need a donkey and she goes for a ride a long ride to Carmel and as she goes there she comes and Elisha sees her coming and he says to Gehazi, I don't know what it is, but go find out. And she wouldn't tell Gehazi a blooming thing. She wouldn't let him know what was going on. But finally, Elisha gets to her and he says, what's wrong? And she says, come with me, come with me. You told me I would have a son. Didn't you promise me a son? And so he comes and he says to Gehazi, run ahead of me and put my staff on. Little old boy, didn't do any good. Didn't do any good at all. But he finally comes and he stretches out himself on this little boy and he rises from the dead. What a restoration. What a restoration. To her, God was the God that restores. I want you to know that I've noticed enough in my life, and I hope you've noticed long enough, that God is the God who restores. Over and over, he's the God who restores. Now, she's got some beautiful land, and she's got to leave it behind with prompt obedience. She escapes the famine, but she loses her land. She found out from Elisha that a terrible famine was coming. That was a kindness that Shunammite had shown to him. Now he showed it to her. Get out of town while you can. How many of you would like to know when a disaster was coming so you'd know when to leave town? Zach, I think most of us would, you know, most of us wouldn't believe the person that said the disaster was coming. It reminds me of a man that was on board of the Titanic, and he's got on board the Titanic, he got a squeamish feeling, he gave the ticket to the captain and left the ship because of a squeamish feeling. And you know, He lived to tell it. And all I can say is, wouldn't it be good if every time there was an upcoming disaster, if we got tipped off, oh, you can do this. I mean, it's an intervention of God, but I want to remind us by God's grace, God's grace keeps us safe when we obey His will, even when it costs us dearly. Ask Job. It cost him dearly, but God kept him safe and gave him back twofold everything that he had. can be very hard to obey God's will. But first of all, God's grace keeps us safe when we obey His will, even when it costs us dearly and it's hard to obey. Number two, God's grace stops us as His children when we willingly walk away from His path. You may not believe that's grace, but that's God's grace. Here we have this picture, the King Haskehazai standing before him and he says, tell me everything that Elisha has done. And he tells him one of the best stories of all, the Shunammite woman, that whole story. That's going on, what a story to tell. It's almost as if Jeremiah, after he has just told us the story of the four lepers who were used by God, lepers that God spoke to. You remember Jesus touched lepers, they weren't untouchable to him. He used these four lepers that Samaria might have food. He used lepers. It's almost as if he has a flashback and says, yeah, Gehazi the leper, let me tell you another story about him. Don't let me leave you with a sour taste in your mouth about him. I want you to know what a man of God he really was before that covetous moment. Wow. He served God effectively, God used him mightily before that strong judgment that came to him for lusting what was not his. He lusted, he coveted clothing and silver. Now I want us to wrap our minds and our hearts around the grace of God that will not forever allow us to willfully walk away from God's will. I want to tell you, it doesn't always happen like it did to Gehazi, that you get leprosy. It doesn't always happen as it did to Ananias and Sapphira, that you just lie once. And that's it. They lied to the Holy Spirit. They died on the spot within three hours each of telling the same lie they agreed to tell to Peter and the apostles. Most of us fail to think of Ananias and Sapphira as believers. We say, oh, they're just imposters. I don't believe it for a minute. I believe they were among the believers. But they coveted, just like you and I have coveted. They lied, just like you and I have lied. And they paid dearly, and fear fell upon the church. You know, they just wished all they wanted to do is they wanted to look like they had given as much love and sacrifice to God as Barnabas had. But they held back a goodly portion and said they gave all of it away. There comes a time when God stops us in our tracks and we don't get another chance to wander away. Gehazi was no imposter, but there was no more chances for him. He had been used greatly by God. What stunning miracles, what a testifier he was. Remember, it was Gehazi that opened Elisha's eyes about helping the Shunammite woman in the first place. It was Gehazi here that's testifying of the great miracles that God did through Elisha. I want you to know when we come to the table of the Lord today, we often read the words. I want to read the words to you again for the Lord's Supper in 1 Corinthians 11, 27-32. Whoever therefore eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, that means you have not confessed your sins, you've not repented. will be guilty concerning the body and the blood of our Lord. Let a person examine himself in and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself." And then he says this, that's why many of you, he doesn't say that's why a couple of you, that's why many of you are weak and ill some have died you've had a you've had a shortcut to glory for when we are judged by the Lord we are disciplined so we won't be condemned along with the world that's the grace of God that says to us okay you're my child I've given you chances I've given you chances I've given you chances now you're going to become weak now you're going to become sick And now you're going to go home early if you stay in your sin. If we disobey His will and His word and His promptings, He promises us He'll make us weak, He'll make us sick, and He'll bring us to an early grave. We'll sleep in death if we do not repent, confess our sins, and get right with Him and others before we take His supper. As I've been meditating on this this week, I began to think of one of the greatest men that ever lived. I began to think of Moses, the meekest man, the meekest of all men. He put up with 40 years. of people wanting to stone him, his own people, wanting to kill him, screaming at him, yelling at him, why didn't you leave us back in Egypt? Take us back. And you remember what happened? God told him to just speak to the rock. But he got so angry at them, he did what? He hit it twice. And God honored him publicly. And he brought the water out of the rock But privately, he said, you don't get to lead the children of Israel into the promised land. Just one little mess up. And I'm sure if we talked to him today, you think he would say, nah, it's no big deal. You know, it was better to go home early. Heaven's so much better than down here on earth. That's not what Moses would say. That would be a lie. When God said no to going into the promised land, he begged God. He was stunned. How could God let him lead the people for 40 years? But God has a standard and he'll find a way to stop us when we are his qualified servants and we lay aside our desire for holiness and we walk in our own ways and we do our own will without repentance and confession of sin. Moses told the people, In Deuteronomy 3, 23 to 27, the story, he testified to all Israel of his sin and why God exonerated him when he smoked the rock, but he told him to speak to it. And here are his words, he says, and I pleaded with the Lord at that time saying, O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness in your mighty hand. For what God is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours? Please, please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country in Lebanon. But the Lord was angry with me because of you, and he wouldn't listen to me. And the Lord said to me, Enough from you! Do not speak to me of this matter again. Go up to the top of Pisgah. Lift your eyes westward and northward, southward and eastward, and just look around with your eyes. You will not go over this Jordan. We have a God who still has a call to holiness in our lives. Every last one of us is here today because of the grace of God. Don't ever think you're here because of your good works. You're here because of the grace of Almighty God. I am as well. So, do you expect to see Gehazi in glory? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Do you remember how distraught How distraught Elisha was. This was his protege. This was to be his Elisha. But he saw him in the spirit. He saw what he did, though he couldn't see him visually. He saw what he was doing. He saw that he would go to Naaman and get him stopped, because Naaman had come back after dipping seven times, and he had said, I want to give you some gifts. I've got plenty of silver and gold. And Gehazi thought, oh, just a little bit. So he came up with a lie. He made it up as he ran. And he said, the master is two men from the hill country of Ephraim that have come and they need a little bit of clothing, a couple of clothing, maybe some silver, a talent. Well, I'll give you two talents. Oh, it was so tragic. He ran after gold and silver. And we read that he went in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, where have you been, Gehazi? And he said, your servant went nowhere. Another lie. But Elisha said to him, didn't my heart go out to you? Didn't my heart go out to you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants? Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and your descendants forever. So Gehazi went out from his presence a leper like snow. Will we see Gehazi in glory? I sure am going to be looking for him, I tell you. I believe he'll have a lot to tell us about the grace of God. God stopped him in his tracks. Here's a man that never again was covetous. Here's a man that never again wanted to lie. How many times he had to tell God, I'm sorry. Here was a man that had to learn an exceedingly difficult lesson the hard way. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not lie. Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. He got to learn as a leper. You shall not covet. He got what was not his from Naaman. I have warned myself this week and I warn you now, God's grace will stop us as his children when we willingly walk away from his path and we refuse to confess and repent. When you know you've sinned immediately, confess to God and to others and be healed. James 5.16 says, confess your sins one to another and pray one for another that you may be healed. The effectual prayer of a righteous man availeth much. I wanna tell you, don't wait for God to have to stop you from your sinning. Don't ask God. to discipline you strongly, so you will not be condemned along with the world. So I've told you, first of all, about His grace. It keeps us safe when we obey His will, even when it costs us dearly and it's hard to obey. I've told you God's grace stops us as His children when we willingly walk away from His path. Lastly, before we come to the table of the Lord, God's grace. restores to us what has been lost as a result of our willing obedience. And I might add, when we repent and confess as a result of our willing disobedience. Notice verse six, when the king asked the woman, are you that woman Gahazel told me about, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her saying, restore all that was hers together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now. What timing, what timing this is. The timing of the Lord, this mighty testifying of Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, about the miracles done in the days of Elisha. The Shunammite woman, she had obeyed the command. She had gone immediately to Philistia. She had taken her husband, lost her husband, but she had also lost her land and family. Seven years later, she comes back. She finds her land now apparently is owned by the crown, owned by the king, and she comes to appeal. If her husband would have been alive, it wouldn't have been a woman going to appeal before the king, it would have been the man. But she's going. There's no man around here. Glory to God. God is the one who can speak to four lepers and use them for His miracle. And here God used Gehazi prior to becoming a leper. one of the best kings in scripture, Uzziah, in pride, sinned against the Lord and became a leper. I'll look for Uzziah in glory. The Bible says he followed the Lord closely all his life. This woman arrives. Gehazi's telling her story, right in the middle of saying, you can't believe, you can't believe, Even though her husband was old, and she was old and barren, she had a son, and then the son died, and then the son was raised to life. Look, there she is! There she is! She's right here, that's her! And he says, are you the Shunammite woman? Yes, I am. Is that true? Yes, I've been standing here listening, that's exactly what God did. Wow. I don't know if you realize, for Jeremiah, Jeremiah is a man with a theme of restoration. Read Jeremiah and you'll find restoration over and over. In Jeremiah 30, 17, he says, I'll restore health to you. and your wounds I'll heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast, saying it's Zion for whom no one cares. Thus says the Lord, behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob. I say to you now, come to Jesus for restoration. Come to Jesus, he's the restoring God. You say, well, you don't know how bad? I don't care how bad you are. He is waiting to restore you, whether you've been obedient and lost or been disobedient and lost. David says in Psalm 23, three, he restores my soul. David who sinned and he committed adultery, he committed murder, he deceived the people. And he prays to God in Psalm 51, 12. He says, restore to me the joy of your salvation. Hallelujah for our restoring Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah. But I have one last verse for you as I close, and elders, you can come up here and join me before I give this verse. Just come on down, those of you that are serving communion this morning. Come on down. This is the last verse, and I want every one of you to hear it. This is one of the best restoration verses in all of scripture. It's Galatians 6.1, and it's the command of God to every last one of us when we see someone else in sin. The Bible says, beloved, that's men and women, boys and girls who know Jesus. If anyone is overtaken in a fault, You who are mature, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness or gentleness. Remembering yourself, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted. God is saying, as the God of restoration, you join me in the restoration business. Join me in the restoration business. Because when someone sins, you be one of the first to go and do everything possible to bring them to confession and repentance, so they'll be restored. May God seal to us this message today. We would not be taking The bread is gluten-free. It's all gluten-free bread. We wouldn't be taking this cup if God hadn't restored each one of us. He's restored us. As restored believers that are here today, let's partake. Let's partake.