when I was a youngster, way back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It sounds so ancient. I'd make sure I was up on Saturday mornings by 7 a.m. to watch the reruns of the show, The Lone Ranger. After that, it was chores. But I remember watching The Lone Ranger, watching the hero doing heroic things. It was formative for me. Every week there would be some person who was in trouble or someone who was being harassed by a despicable villain and with a hearty, hi-yo silver. The Lone Ranger would ride in, he'd shoot the bad guy and save the day and it was all in black and white. He'd then leave his admirers wondering, who was that masked man? The Lone Ranger's show depicted many values that our present culture could use. Masculine virtue. He was a lover of truth. He served others. He took a stand against evil. Those are all commendable values to be sure. But the whole mystique of the Lone Ranger was that he never stayed in one place very long. And the mass kept him from ever really being known by those he helped. He chose to go it alone, with the exception of Tonto, of course. He kept to himself. He was his own man. He was proudly and independently making his way in this world and doing a lot of good along the way. That truly does make for a great American hero. But it's lacking as a model for Christians. To be sure, Christians are to take personal responsibility over their lives, materially and spiritually. And men are called to lead and protect and provide for their families. But the notion that a believer can isolate himself or herself from a church and sort of spiritually go it alone, that's not a biblical option. You've probably heard the term. Lone Ranger Christian. That whole idea is indefensible when you set it alongside the many biblical pictures that we have of the New Testament church. Over and over, the various metaphors that the scripture uses to describe the church make it clear that God saves us individually to belong corporately and covenantally to the church. For example, in John 10.16, the Lord Jesus speaks of sheep who belong to one flock with one shepherd. In 1 Peter 2.5, we're told that God's people are like living stones being built up together as a spiritual house. Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12 both teach that God's people are many different parts but all make up a single body. And I want you to listen to the words that the Apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians. This is Ephesians 2. Verses 19 through 22, the apostle writes, so then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but your fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the chief cornerstone, and whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In Him, you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. You see, in Christ, dear ones, we are citizens of one kingdom. We are members of one spiritual family and we are being joined together as one temple. And all the many ways that the church is presented to us in the New Testament all emphasize the doctrine of the communion of saints. In short, what this means is we need each other in the church and we belong to each other in the church. When God saves a person, that person becomes part of his covenant and people were never left as random individuals going it alone. The Bible has no category, you see, for a lone ranger Christian. This morning as we continue on in our study of Hebrews, we're going to learn about the blessings and responsibilities we have as members of Christ's church. So let's call on the Lord to teach us this morning through His powerful word. Pray with me once more. Our great God in heaven, we're thankful for your word. We're thankful that it's powerful to draw and establish and create the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're thankful, oh God, that the Holy Spirit gives us attentive, discerning ears to hear your word, to discern the truth of it. And we pray that we would do that this morning. Give us attentive ears, help us to discern truth, and transform us as a church to reflect the biblical parameters more and more. We ask this in Jesus' name, even the head of the church, amen. Let me ask you to open up your copy of scripture to Hebrews 10. We're gonna read verses 19 through 26 again. Again, you'll recall we read these verses last week. Didn't get through them, so we're back there again. Hebrews 10, beginning in verse 19, this is the true word of a living God. Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he consecrated for us through the veil, that is his flesh, and having a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near. with a true heart and full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. and let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching. Well, there ends the reading of God's holy and inspired word. May he bless it to our hearts this morning. Well, dearest congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Last week we identified this passage as a transitional section in the book of Hebrews where the author sort of shifts focus from theology to application. After six chapters of intense doctrine about Christ's high priestly ministry, the author now shows us what that doctrine looks like when it's lived out in the life of a church. verses 19 through 21, and you'll recall are really just a very quick summary of those previous chapters. And then in verses 22 through 25, we're given three exhortations, each one beginning with the words, let us. And we're looking at those exhortations under three headings. First, the church is made up of people who love worship. Second, the church is made up of people who love truth. And third, the church is made up of people who love one another. Now last week, we zeroed in on that first heading, the church is made up of people. who love worship. And we learn that because of Christ's work as our great high priest, we can draw near to God with boldness, with a true heart and full assurance of faith, with our conscience cleansed by His blood and empowered by the very Holy Spirit that draws the church together. This morning we're going to look at those other two exhortations that flow out of our relationship to Christ. So first up, the church is made up of people love love the truth. Let me ask you to listen again to verse 23. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering for he who promised is faithful. So first notice, our author is again concerned with Christian hope. And this isn't the first time he's elaborated on Christian hope. You may remember back in chapter 6 and verses 19 and 20, we were taught that our Lord's life and death and resurrection and ascension provides us a hope that is so real, that's so substantial and so certain that it's actually an anchor for our soul. You see, Jesus is our mighty fortress, He is our strong tower, He is our solid rock, He is our sure foundation. And all that He's accomplished for us is indeed our anchor, is an anchor for our soul. That is our hope. And what we're being taught there in verse 23 is to lean into that hope. we've got to maintain a tight-fisted grip on the confession of our hope and to do so without wavering. Now, in the original, the word here for confession is homologia. Interesting enough, the word literally means same word. So the idea here is a confession that the body of Christ agrees upon. We say the same word. For example, Before the Lord's Supper, we often use the Apostles' Creed. That is a confession, a homologous, right? Same word. We're all saying as a body, we believe and ascribe to these truths. But it moves beyond that. It also has the idea of a real public acknowledgment and an allegiance for sound doctrine. And what the author of Hebrews is saying is this. Dear church, you've got to hold firmly to your convictions about the gospel. And don't waver in those convictions, don't be moved in regard to your gospel convictions, don't allow yourself to be bent one way or the other or to blow this way or that way where the gospel's concerned. That's the force of the language here, keep a firm grip on the truths of God's Word, particularly gospel truths. The Apostle Paul says it from a slightly different perspective when he wrote to his beloved son in the faith, Pastor Timothy. In 1 Timothy 3 verses 14 and 15 he wrote, these things I write to you. Though I hope to come to you shortly, but if I'm delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. I'm sorry, the pillar and ground of the truth. What an imagery. The church is the pillar and ground the truth. It's what sustains us, it's what upholds us, it's what protects us. God has entrusted the church with the truth, and the church is responsible to make that truth known, and the church is responsible for defending it, and the church will be held accountable for how faithful she was in this sacred task. And to be sure, pastors and teachers and those who teach Christian doctrine publicly, they will certainly be held to a higher level of accountability. But this charge really is for all of us. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering. And I couldn't help but think what 21st century Christianity looks like. It's the pinnacle of wavering. And it's precisely the opposite of what we're called to, to be faithful. I think it's important to recognize this kind of exhortation flies in the face of much of what the church landscape is in America. It's a great tragedy that much of the American churches had jettisoned real commitment to doctrine and truth. I like how Rick Phillips puts this, evangelical Christianity in today's Western culture is noteworthy for its cavalier treatment of truth. We readily trade our doctrines in order to get along with others. Isn't that right? No, it's wrong, actually. I mean, do we understand how topsy-turvy things have gotten in the past several decades? And I'm talking about in conservative evangelical churches and in reformed churches. Churches brag about how much of their doctrinal statement is unimportant and not worth fighting over. It's a badge of honor when church continue to blab out that mantra, doctrine doesn't matter, our doctrine divides. And of course they're right. Doctrine divides, it always has. It divides truth from error. The very thing we're called to do as believers. It divides true biblical Christianity from every other counterfeit and false religion that's out there. And you see, those who say that doctrine is optional or flexible, do you understand what they're really saying? We have a low view of truth. It's in part an impact, an influence of that postmodern impulse that says truth is really relative. It's not objective. It's not a standard to be believed by all people. Truth is what you experience it to be. But again, that's a foreign idea to biblical Christianity. Listen how the Apostle Paul describes those who are cavalier about God's truth. This is from 2 Thessalonians 2 verses 9 through 11. according to the working of Satan with all powers signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this reason God will send them a strong delusion that they should believe the lie and that they might be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. So don't miss this, Paul places a lack of love for the truth to those who are reprobates under the influence of the man of lawlessness. I mean in Jesus' high priestly prayer in John 17, 17, he prayed to his Father in heaven, sanctify them by your truth, your word is truth. My friends, when someone says don't pay too much attention to doctrine because it can divide or cause controversies, they're contradicting Jesus, they're contradicting the apostles, they're contradicting the general testimony of Scripture. I'll never forget what R.C. Sproul said when he was asked about the whole notion that doctrine can divide. He said, disunity is a tragedy. But truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace. That's right. That's right. And I've seen this manifest in conservative and reform circles in a number of ways over the last several years. One goes back to the sort of emergence of the social justice movement and the racial reconciliation movement of the 2010s. I remember having conversations with brothers about racism, legitimate, good conversations, acknowledging that racism is a sin. And as we had these discussions, there were a whole group of believers who would say to me, but you know, you need to read Kendi's book, or you need to read Robin DiAngelo's book, or you need, I'm like, no! We've got all the truth we need about the human condition and race in the Bible, we don't need additional truth, that's not truth! And so they created an entire extra canon that people had to read and study if they were going to make sense of the world. That's because they didn't believe God's truth and God's word were sufficient. Another way I've seen it unfold in our circles is with the language of complexity and nuance. So if you're talking about something like, Homosexuality, something that the Bible is black and white clear on, it is an abomination. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, Pastor Byrd. These are complex issues, right? No, no, they're truth issues. You either believe the truth or you don't, but they're not complex. You just don't like it. Sproul was right. Disunity is a tragedy, but truth is too important to kill it in the streets. for the sake of peace. I mean, remember our context. This letter was written to Jewish-born Christians who were facing persecution from Romans, and at the same time were being harassed by their Jewish friends and family to return to Judaism. And the pastor who wrote this letter to these Hebrew Christians is telling them, for the sake of their spiritual health and preservation, they need to hold fast to their confession, to keep a firm grip on their doctrine, and to be unwavering in that. Why? Because wavering on the truth of the gospel, compromising on what we believe about Christ and his finished work, those are things are spiritually deadly. You see, these Hebrew Christians were being tempted to go back to Judaism, to go back to the types and shadows, to abandon Christ. And what the author's been saying, if you do that, you are abandoning your only hope for salvation. And that's why the writer's saying, hold fast without wavering. You can't go back. Your eternal destiny depends on it. And notice what gives us the ability to hold fast. It's here at the end of verse 23. For he who promises faithful. You see, our confidence is not in our strength to hold on to truth. It's not ultimately in our ability to hold on to God. Our confidence is in his faithfulness who promised to be faithful to us. He will complete the work that he's begun in us. He will keep us to the end. He'll never let his own go. So we hold fast, not in our own strength, but in the strength of his faithfulness. And that ought to give us great comfort and boldness to stand firm on the truths of the gospel, no matter the kind of opposition we face, no matter the cost. And listen, dear ones, this isn't something that's theoretical. This is not something you can just nod your heads at and say, yeah, that kind of sounds good, Pastor Bert. This is actually a call to action. This is a call to be a kind of church that loves the truth and will hold fast and doesn't feel the need to say, well, you know, the world doesn't like that this week, so I'm gonna compromise. No, no, no, we can't budge in those moments. We have to have steely spines. We need to say we're not a compromising body because we understand eternal destinies hang into balance. We've gotta be a people who believe what we believe and know why we believe it. We ought to be a people who can give an answer for the hope that lies within us. We've got to be a people who treasure sound doctrine. Not because we want to be contrary to others, but because we want to be faithful to Jesus. Well, that brings us to our next heading. The church is made up of people who love one another. Church is made up of people who love one another. Listen again to verses 24 and 25. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. as in the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much more as you see the day approaching. So this is a divine call to God's people to joyfully live together in fellowship, to encourage and help one another grow in godliness. Now you might be thinking, having heard last week's sermon that talked all about worship, you might be thinking, okay, you said last week, Pastor Bird, worship is all about God. So, when is it about my needs? It's not. But it doesn't mean that there isn't another responsibility. You see, when we assemble together as God's people, first it's to worship Him, and second, It's to encourage our brothers and sisters. By the way, when I say it's not about you and not about you getting something, I was talking to brothers about this last week. When we worship, we are blessed. The Lord fills our hearts with immeasurable joy and delight that we've had and encountered with our great God with whom we have fellowship. But that is a peripheral blessing that God gives because he's good. Our calling is first and foremost to gather with a Godward focus and then to realize we're to be a blessing to the household of faith. Verse 24 says, let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works. There's some wonderful language here. First the word consider, it means we're to give careful thought and contemplation and planning in regard to the family of God and just how you and I can encourage them and spur them on into a life of greater godliness. This is one of those texts, as I was studying it this past week, that I found particularly convicting. I do try to be an encouragement, but I don't really give it much thought. I don't put time into planning ways I can be a blessing. And yet I really think that's what this text is calling us to do, to be intentional about being an encouragement to one another. We're called to look around at our brothers and sisters and consider ways we can stir them up in love and good works. By the way, this kind of knocks the lone ranger Christian right out of his saddle, doesn't it? This is our calling, this is what we do. And behind this, behind this exhortation is the requirement that you and I get to know each other better than we do to build closer relationships with one another that transcend age. To invest time and energy in one another's lives so that we know each other's spiritual strengths and spiritual weaknesses. Do you know anyone in our church or anyone in your close circle of friends who's struggling with doubts? Are you intentional in your desire to minister to that person? Do you know someone who's having a tough time with a particular or besetting sin? One that seems to be clinging to them and you know they're trying to fight, they're trying to seek the grace of God, they're trying to obtain the power of the Holy Spirit, but they keep being encumbered and tripping over the same sin patterns. Do you know those people? Are you coming alongside them to bless them? Do you know anyone who's had a family situation that's heartbreaking? How are you planning to encourage them? How are you gonna stir them up into love and good works and godliness? And I love that language, stir them up. That means that our lives, our words, our actions, our disposition ought to provoke our brothers and sisters in the best possible way and incite them to godliness and holiness and becoming more like Christ. And this is the question we have to ask ourselves, when we're together, after the service or in opportunities for fellowship, are our conversations and our time of fellowship used in such a way where we're provoking one another toward faithful living? And I'm not saying that every conversation has to be some sort of heavy duty spiritual theological discussion. Certainly it's appropriate to talk, we wanna hear about your family. We wanna know how heavy Grace Louise was. We want to know those personal things, they're important. We wanna know what you did this week, but if we never move beyond that, to the place where we're interacting to be a spiritual blessing to people, we're not functioning as a healthy body, or at least not as healthy as we could be. And you see, we are a family. We are the family of God in this place. You know, there's a remarkable scene in Jesus' ministry where he's teaching. He's probably in Peter's mother-in-law's house. And the place is just packed. There are people sitting all over. And Jesus is standing there teaching. And Mary and his brothers come, and they want to get a note to him. They were concerned. They really thought Jesus had gone insane. They really thought he had lost his mind, Luke tells us. And so they want to get a message to Jesus. And so apparently they wrote something and it was passed along. And he said, who is this message from? And the messenger said, it's from Mary and your brothers, from your family. And Jesus said, who is my family? And he shouted out his hands toward those sitting there with him, those who do the will of my Father. That's my family. Jesus was saying that our spiritual family is a priority, no less important than our natural family. Those are different spheres, to be sure. But we miss that. We are a family concerned with one another. All that to say, we have to be very intentional to show the kind of love for one another that we're being admonished to in this passage, a heart longing to see each of us grow in holiness. And of course to do this we have to be with God's people, we have to gather with them regularly. That's what verse 25 tells us, not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another and so much more as you see the day approaching. Apparently some of these Hebrew Christians were so afraid of the persecution of the Romans and perhaps frustrated by the grief they were getting from their Jewish neighbors that they were simply missing church. And that is profoundly dangerous. You see, when there's a withdrawal from the regular gathering with the people of God, it will inevitably lead to spiritual lethargy, spiritual disease, spiritual immaturity, or spiritual drifting. And evidently there was a group of Hebrew Christians who were making it a habit of not showing up. They were getting stuck in a rut, sitting in their homes, trying to probably justify reasons why they couldn't get to the worship service, or maybe why they couldn't get to the prayer meeting. And the pastor who wrote this letter is concerned for this flock of Jewish-born Christians. He knows that bad habits are hard to break, and we know that too, don't we? It is really easy to get into the habit of not going to church. That's why we all need to hear this. Don't forsake the assembling of ourselves together. Instead, make God's people a priority. Make it a priority and a spiritual discipline that you will be with the people of God to encourage them. And what does that encouragement look like? Well one of the great examples in the Bible is found in 1 Samuel 23. David was hiding out in the desert of Ziph. I have no idea why but I love saying that, the desert of Ziph. Saul was hunting him down. trying to kill him and seemingly right on David's heels. And you can tell that at this point David is hurting, he's worn out physically, he's worn out emotionally, he's drained. And Jonathan, his precious friend and that great man of God snuck away from his father Saul to seek out his friend David. And it records this for us in 1 Samuel 23, 16. Then Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David in the woods and strengthened his hand Isn't that amazing? That statement, he strengthened his hand in God. David was lonely, he was fearful, and his friend Jonathan came to him, I'm sure he prayed with him, and he's encouraging him to trust God, that God would be faithful to him. You see, dear people of God, that's the question we should ask one another. Are we strengthening each other's hands? In God, are you making the effort, taking the time to come alongside your brothers and sisters when they're weary, when they're discouraged, when they're facing trials and temptations? This is what the body of Christ is supposed to look like, a community of believers who are actively, intentionally, lovingly spurring one another onto greater love and more faithful obedience. And notice the urgency in verse 25, so much more as you see the day approaching. Of course, this is the day, capital D, the day of the Lord, the return of Christ, the final judgment, that day is coming. And as we see that day drawing near, we ought to be even more diligent, even more urgent, even more firm in our commitment to gather together and encourage one another. Why? Because as time marches forward, I'm convinced there will be greater spiritual intensity. The battles will raise, the battles will increase, and we need each other. We need the encouragement, we need the accountability, we need to be reminded of the hope that's ours in Christ. We need to strengthen one another's hand in God. So when was the last time you intentionally reached out to a brother or sister to be of some spiritual benefit to them? When was the last time you invited someone for coffee to your home for a meal, for fellowship? When was the last time you sent a note or made a phone call just to let somebody know, I'm praying for you? These are the kind of things the verse 24 is talking about. Considering one another, stirring up love and good works. It requires intentionality, it requires effort. Sometimes it requires sacrifice. Jonathan risked his father's wrath to go and encourage David. He made the effort, he took the time, he put himself in a potentially dangerous situation. Why? Because he loved his brother. Because he knew David needed encouragement. Because he understood what it meant to strengthen someone's hand in the Lord. Well, we're a people who gather to worship. Point one, because we've been given free access to God through Jesus Christ, our great high priest. We're a people who hold fast to the truth because our hope is anchored in Christ and his finished work and the truth claims that make that clear to us. And we embrace and hang firmly upon those truths knowing that he who has promised us is faithful. And we're called to be a people who love one another, who consider one another, who stir one another up to love and good works, who assemble together to strengthen each other's hands in God. This is what the church looks like when she begins to understand who Jesus is and what he's done for us. This is what it looks like to live in light of the gospel. Not a people who are vague about doctrine or content to say, as long as we love Jesus, the details don't matter. No, we're a people who hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering. And we're a people who truly love our brothers and sisters in Christ because we know We're the family of God. Perhaps you've thought about this many times as you've gathered over the years to worship. But if you look around at one another sitting beside you, not just those in your family, but each one here, these are the people we're going to spend eternity with. And we're going to love it. And we're going to love them in ways we can't even fathom. And this text would say, let's start loving them that way now. Amen. Let's pray. Father, we thank you and bless you for your kindness to us. We're thankful for the gift of the church. We're thankful that it is the place where we gather to offer worship to you, to ascribe glory and majesty to your name. We're thankful that you've given us true truth to embrace, to be a sure foundation to build our lives upon. And we're thankful that you've given us a family of God to lean into. and be blessed by and to encourage. Help us, oh God, to see all these great benefits as the fruit of the gospel, of the fruit of the accomplishments of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we pray all these things in his powerful name, amen. Well, brothers and sisters, as you know, when we come to the Lord's table, invite those to participate in this holy sacrament who are trusting exclusively in Jesus Christ and His finished work to fully accomplish our salvation. If that's you, again, you're a baptized communing member in good standing of an evangelical church, please do come and feast. If you're not a believer, Or if you're living in unrepentant sin, simply let the elements pass by. Now as you know, when we come to the Lord's table, we confess with the historic church what we believe using the Apostles' Creed. And what are we doing here? We're all saying the same word, publicly acknowledging the doctrines that we believe and hope to. And you can find the Apostles' Creed on page 851 in the back of your hymnal. So dear Christian, what do you believe? I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From there he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. Now let me ask you to give your attention to the reading from 1 Corinthians 10, verses 16 and 17. And I have a meditation that comes from Calvin's Institutes that seemed to fit well with this morning's sermon. But first hear God's word from 1 Corinthians 10, verses 16 and 17. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we though many are one bread and one body, for we all partake of that one bread. And that meditation is printed for you in your bulletin. You can listen or follow along, but it's there for your convenience. Calvin writes, we do not adore the symbols, the bread and the cup, We adore the one to whom they point. We adore Jesus. The cup is communion with his shed blood for our sins. The bread is communion with his body given for our salvation. As we remember and proclaim his death, this meal of communion urges us to holiness of life and also to charity, peace, and unity. In the supper, the Lord communicates his body so that he may become altogether one with us and we with him. Moreover, since he has only one body of which he makes us all to be partakers, we must necessarily, by this participation, all become one body. This unity is represented by the bread which is exhibited in the sacrament. As it is composed of many grains, so mingled together, that one cannot be distinguished from another, so ought our minds to be so affectionately united, as not to allow of any dissension or division. This is Paul's point. It must be engraved upon our minds. If our brethren is hurt, despised, or injured, Christ's body is hurt, despised, and injured. We can't have dissension with our brethren without at the same time dissenting from Christ's body. Likewise, we cannot love Christ without loving our brethren. The same care we take of our own body, we ought to take of our brethren who are members of our body. Augustine, not inappropriately, often terms this sacrament the bond of love. What stronger stimulus could be employed to excite mutual love than when Christ, presenting himself to us, not only invites us by his example to give us and devote ourselves mutually to each other, but inasmuch as he makes himself common to all, also makes us all to be one in him. Let's pray. Father, we are thankful for this covenant meal. We're thankful that we gather in fellowship around this table. We're thankful that at the head of the table ultimately is the Lord Jesus Christ, who offers to nourish and provide for his family. And we pray as we come and we take these elements that the family of God would be nourished, that our union with Jesus Christ would be strengthened, and our bond of love and communion with one another likewise would be strengthened. So bless our participation, grant us that empty hand of faith to take the bread and cup to the glory of the Lord Jesus, amen. Well, receive the Lord's benediction. Peace to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus in sincerity and all of God's people said, amen.