If you have your Bibles this morning, we'll be opening to Psalm 116. Psalm 116, it is good to be in the house of the Lord. The psalmist said, I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. And every time we go into the house of the Lord, there should be songs of thanksgiving and songs of praise. And there also should be a time given to the Word of God. And perhaps you've come to the church today and you weren't able to bring a Bible with you. Well, if you don't have a Bible, if you don't possess a Bible, There are a few Bibles that are here, and if you want to take that with you as a gift of our appreciation, you can take that. Just make sure you tell me when you leave that you took that Bible so that we can replace it for the next person who comes in who may have need of it. All of us need the Word of God. Jesus said that man should not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. You say, well, where do I find God's word? Well, right here in God's word, the Holy Bible, a collection of 66 books written over a 1600 year period by 40 different authors. And inside of this book, you find the wonderful words of life. Songs have been written about it. Sing them over again to me, wonderful words of life. Let me more of their beauty see, wonderful words of life. And so if you don't have a Bible, let that be our gift to you from Metropolitan Baptist Church. He's taken care of our needs, has he not? And the word of God definitely meets the needs of people. Today we'll be in Psalm 116. We believe it to be a psalm that was written by David, and we're going to read the psalm, we'll pray, and then we'll get into some times of reflection on what the psalmist said and how it might apply to our lives. Let's begin our reading in verse number one. I love the Lord. because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death come past me, and the pains of hell get hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord, O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord and righteous. Yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preserveth the simple. I was brought low, and he helped me. Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken. I was greatly afflicted. I said in my haste, all men are liars. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. O Lord, truly I am thy servant. I am thy servant and the son of thine handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bonds. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. In the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem, praise ye the Lord. Let's bow for a word of prayer. Father in heaven, we pray, Lord, that you'd bless the preaching of your word this morning. I know that before us sit many people who are going through difficulties and trials and troubles, much like the psalmist. And Lord, I pray that we would learn from them, from what he wrote about in this psalm, this psalm of praise, that it would be a blessing to us today. We pray and we ask these things in the name of Jesus. Amen. We could start in verse number one, where David begins to exclaim his love for the Lord, but I think it would be more fitting to speak about what really caused him to write this psalm, which I believe he wrote about in verse number three. David wrote about his problems in verse number three. He talks in verses one and two about loving the Lord because what the Lord had done for him, but in verse number three, he's writing from experience about the problems that he was presently having. He said that the sorrows of death compassed him, and that the pains of hell got hold upon him, and he said, I found trouble and sorrow. In the book of Job, the Bible says somewhere around Job chapter 14, it says, man that is born a woman is full of sorrows and full of trouble. His days are full of trouble. I quoted that wrong, but it talks about our days in this life being filled with trouble. We're born into trouble. Children can be trouble. How many of your children were nicknamed trouble? Once they started walking, they were getting into trouble. Mothers had cabinets emptied, and refrigerators with eggs thrown on the floor, and stealing, and hitting, and biting, and screaming, and trouble. We found trouble and sorrow. How many have found trouble at school? Your child got in trouble at school. Remember one time a principal said, you know what, Boo Jack? You are the common denominator. And he wasn't talking about math. He was saying, wherever there's trouble, you are found. You know, there were times in my life when I was falsely accused of being in trouble. One time I walked into school, it was somewhere around my 10th grade year when I got a license. At that time in my life, I was in a lot of trouble. And as I was most of the time, I walked into school late. And so I came in and all my friends were kind of red in the face and they were being quiet. And I was saying, what's going on? What happened? And they just shook their head no at me, like, don't even ask. It's terrible. What's happened is terrible. And so the teacher came in. He said, OK, men, we're going outside to play softball today. He said, all those involved on the assault on Mr. So-and-so, please stay after class. And so I heard about this assault that happened on one of my classmates. And I was interested, and so after everybody else left, I stayed with my friends to hear about what had happened. And I lined up on the chalkboard, and that very teacher who was scolding the boys had written me a demerit for showing up late, so he knew that I wasn't there. And he was scolding the men for doing something. Basically, we had a young man in our school that showed up, and he was wearing a Chicago Bulls outfit. And we lived in Detroit, and we were mostly Pistons fans. And it was the year that the Bulls had swept the Pistons out of the playoffs. It wasn't a good move. And he was assaulted. And it was horrible what had taken place. And the students who did it, and he was in the middle of scolding all the students. And he said, wait a minute, Boo Jack, what are you doing here? And I said, sir, if I would have been here, I would have been involved. So I will take the punishment with my friends. Say, what are you talking about? I'm talking about finding trouble. Some parents know, you know, that was mild trouble in my life. Those were days where I had a lot of fun and laughter, but there's other times in life when you find yourself in a courtroom, or where you find yourself in a funeral home, or a hospital room, where you really find yourself into some trouble. And life has a way of bringing you around on trouble. The psalmist found trouble in verse number three. He said, I found trouble and sorrow. As a man, I can say that in some ways the Bible says in Isaiah 53 of Jesus Christ that he was a man who was acquainted, the Bible says that he was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. In my life, I've had Sorrows, and I've had grief. And I know this, that Christ can identify with me. And I can identify with Christ. There's no part of trouble and sorrow that you're going through today that Christ hasn't known first. You know that when he was on the earth, he looked at Jerusalem and he said, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, how often would I have gathered thee like little chickens and put you under my wings, but you would not. Is there any greater pain than being rejected by somebody in your family? Christ was rejected. He was rejected by the Jews. The Bible says in John chapter 1 that he came unto his own, and his own received him not. And so the psalmist knew a little bit about this trouble and the sorrow. Describing the psalmist from this passage in verse number 6, it says, I was brought low in the middle of the verse. Has anything ever brought you low? Anything ever knocked you down? Has anything ever put you to a place where you were willing to get on your knees? You know, David was a great warrior. I mean a great warrior. This guy had so much faith that he went down into the valley of Elah with five smooth stones and in front of a 10-foot giant said, I'm gonna feed your carcass to the birds today, buddy. Don't you ever curse my God again. And sunk a rock into his head and then cut that fella's head off. And yet the Bible says in this passage, I was brought low. Many things can bring us low. Friends can bring you low. Sin can bring you low. How many of you know that finances can bring you low? Pride can bring you low. All of us deal with pride. God sometimes bringing you low means he's gonna have to cut you down. He's gonna have to allow things to come in your life that aren't savory and aren't all pleasant. How many of you know that you don't always get what you want? I didn't have this planned for my life. How could this be a part of God's plan?" And yet, being brought low was something that brought David to the place where he said, I love the Lord. I hope you've been brought low. I hope you have seen your sin for what it really is. You know, our sins separate us from the Lord. That's the reason Christ came. When Jesus' birth was announced to the Virgin and to Joseph, it said that his name would be called Jesus and that he would save his people from their sins. The Bible says that the Son of Man was come to seek and to save that which was lost. And all of us were born into a lost condition in this life. When you were born, you were born as a sinner by birth. And soon enough, when you became able to make a choice, you're a sinner by choice. And later, it becomes a sinner by practice. But Jesus came to save you from your sins, from the penalty of your sins, and that He did. Sin will bring you low. Young people, older people, everyone in between, sin will complicate your life. Sin will complicate your marriage. If you're married, it'll complicate a relationship between a boyfriend and a girlfriend. It'll complicate your life and your relationship with your employers. Sin does not bless you. Sin hurts you. It's pleasurable for a season, but in the end, it brings forth death. And before you leave this life, you need to know the satisfaction of being brought low and having your sins forgiven. And there's only one person that can do that, and his name is Jesus Christ. It's not through acts of religion. You can come to me today and say, Pastor, would you baptize me? And as a true Baptist, I would tell you not unless you've been saved. You gotta be saved before you get baptized. Acts chapter eight declares that, but the answer to your sins is not the waters of baptism. The answer to your sins is found in a person, and his name is the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you're a sinner here today and you've never been saved, I'm here to tell you of a man who loved you so much that he came to this earth and allowed his blood to be shed so that your sins could be forgiven. But praise the Lord, when the Lord brings somebody low, he doesn't leave them there in the dirt. In John chapter 8, there was a woman who was caught in the very act of adultery, thrown into the dirt in front of Jesus. And Jesus, when he got done dealing with that crowd that threw her down, he asked that woman where accusers were, and Jesus didn't stand before her as an accuser. Jesus stood before her as her savior. Jesus didn't stand before her as somebody that condemned her for her sin. He said, I don't condemn you. He said, go and sin no more. And I'm sure he lifted that woman out of the dirt. Have you ever been in the dirt because of your sin? I have. But I have known the joy of being received back into the fold of the Lord. Thank the Lord for his willingness to forgive. David describes himself as his soul being brought low. Verse number seven says this. Return unto thy rest, O my soul. For the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee." So I would say of verse number seven, David's soul was not at rest. How about you? Is your soul at rest today? Is there something troubling you? Is there something that has your soul at a place of unrest? Well, you don't understand, Pastor, my job, or my friends, and my problems, and all these things were present in David's life. And what's he doing in verse number seven? He's describing a soul at unrest. Many times in David's life, he would talk to himself. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted in me? If your soul isn't at rest, why? And have you ever talked to yourself like David? He's telling his soul to go back to its rest. My friends, you can rest in the Lord Jesus Christ no matter what's going on in your life. You could find trouble and sorrow. You could be low, but you could still be at rest. His words were not words of faith. You see this in verse 11. He said that he said in his haste that all men were liars. Sometimes when you're going through trouble, you think everyone and everything is against you. But might I say to you, friend, everyone and everything is not against you. There are people in your life who love you. And so we find this description in those verses, but one of the things that David normally does is he responds in a place of faith. He's going through common problems in life. But can I encourage you today, friend? I wonder how many of you had problems this week and you turned to a substance for relief. I wonder how many of you had problems this week and you turned to a radio station for relief. I wonder how many of you had a problem or a difficulty this week and you turned to a friend or a neighbor or your cell phone for relief. That's not the answer, friend, not the answer of faith. You know, if you've got a problem, one of the first people you should talk to is the Lord. Several times in this passage, the Bible talks about calling on the name of the Lord. In verse number four, he said, then called I upon the name of the Lord. In verse number 13, I will take this cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. There's a calling, there's a turning to the Lord. When you have problems, my friend, no matter who you are, young or old, you have the choice to try to deal with it on your own. You have a choice to go to the Lord to help you handle it. Your first step to allowing the Lord to handle it is to call on the name of the Lord. Some of you need to come to the altar today so that you can have that special place of kneeling down before the Lord and call upon his name. I may not know the end of all of your problems, your heartaches, or your broken hearts, or your difficulties, but I know the one who knows all of it. The Lord sees your heart. He sees your sorrows, and you should call upon the name of the Lord as David did. He called on God in verse four for deliverance. He said, O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. When you're in trouble, you pray for deliverance and praise the Lord. There's times when God comes through and he delivers you. It might not be in your timing. And by the way, if God determines that he's not going to deliver you today, you shouldn't lose hope that he won't deliver you tomorrow or through some other circumstance. You know, when you don't understand, you need to trust the Lord. Is there ever more difficult time to trust the Lord when you're out of control and you don't understand? You know, the very fact that we're not in control should lead us to trust the Lord. Guess who is in control? The Lord's in control. The Lord's in control of creation. The Lord's in control of the very breath we breathe. So he prayed to the Lord to deliver him, and he also encouraged himself to return to his rest in verse number seven. Now here are some of the things that David decided to do during this time of trouble and sorrow. Let these be an encouragement to you if you're going through trouble and sorrow. I would say to you that along with the psalmist, you need to have some I wills in your life. You need to make some decisions in your life. You say, you know, there's a lot of people who are going through trouble today and their trouble may be common to life. It may just be a trouble or a difficulty that you're in because it's natural to humankind. For instance, if there's a famine in the land or the economy is bad, it's going to be natural for you to have some financial troubles. That would be natural to all men, saved or lost. But there are some people who have problems that are out of their control, and then there's other people who have problems that result directly of their choices. I want to say this today, choices can be changed. And if you're in trouble because of your choices, don't expect anything different to come if you don't change. If you expect a different result, if you continue to do the wrong thing, it won't happen. Your choices need to be different. David made some choices. Number one choice that we'll talk about, in verse number 13, he says, I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. Now, the issue of salvation, and I'll say this, everybody needs to taste of that cup of salvation, but not everybody will. I can say to you today, you say, Brother Bujak, do you consider yourself to be saved? Has salvation come to you?" And I'd say to you, absolutely. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I'm saved by the grace of God. How? How do you know that you're saved? Because when I called upon the name of the Lord and confessed my sins and asked the Lord to forgive me of my sins and put my faith and trust in Him, something happened inside this heart of mine. And He gave me assurance that I had passed from death to life. So when you say, have you drank from the cup of salvation? I would say, absolutely. It was Christ's cup. It was Christ's water. I have drank freely of the water of life, and he has given me salvation. You say, well, how would I know if I had this cup of salvation? Sometimes people would ask a question. If you were to die right now, would you know for sure that you're going to heaven when you die? To some in this room, they would say, I'm not sure. I don't know. I'm not sure that I'm going to heaven when I die. There'd be others who would say, I hope. I hope I'd go to heaven when I die. If you're one of those people who say, I hope, you've never drank from the cup. Because if you drink from that cup, you'll know it. Nobody's in here saved and doesn't know. When God saves you, you know. That cup of salvation gives assurance to our heart that we are the children of God. The Bible says that if you get saved, the Spirit itself bears witness with your spirit, that not that you may be the child of God, but that you are a child of God. So if you're a hope-so person, and there's other people who would say, well, I hope I've done enough good to go to heaven, that shows you you're lost right there, because you don't go to heaven based on your good works. You go to heaven based on the works of the Savior. When you believe on Him, you get His works, His righteousness imputed to you. You don't go to heaven by being good. You say, how do I go to heaven? By believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. There's none that do it good. No, not one. All of us are sinners. Whether you talk in Kentucky talk or Texas talk, all y'all, all y'all are sinners. All of yins. There's not a one of yins good. Jesus Christ is good, and he loved your never-dying soul, and he died on the cross for your sins. There's other people who would say, yeah, I'm going to heaven. And I'd say, well, why are you going to heaven? He'd say, well, I come to church today, didn't I? When the plate was passed, I put in this many dollars, didn't I? I've got a suit on today, I wore a tie. Somebody, hey, I brought my cane to church, or my wheelchair to church. I even came to church when I'm in a wheelchair. That's why I'm going to heaven. Can I say to you, you haven't drank of the cup of salvation, because you're trusting in your works just like others. The only reason that you know for sure that you're going to heaven is if you've received Jesus Christ, who is the payment for sins, as your Lord and Savior and received Him by faith into your life. David said he would call upon the Lord. Verse number 13, he said, I'll take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. The Bible says in the book of Romans in the 10th chapter, it says, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's talking about someone who's coming to Christ for salvation and they call upon the Lord. There's never been one repentant sinner who came to the Lord and called to him for salvation, who the Lord told no. The Lord doesn't turn away repentant sinners. He receives them. As we sing that song, Christ receiveth sinful men. Not only this, but in verses 14 and 18, he says something very, this is one of the I wills of David. Are you in the middle of trouble? In the middle of sorrow? Are you going through difficulty? How about this one? I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. Verse number 18, I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. Let me ask you a question, where are God's people congregated? I'll tell you this, this is the Lord's house, this is the Lord's church, this is where you'll find the Lord's people. Today in two different cities in the United States, there'll be huge gatherings of people who are going to watch a football game. You're not going to find His people by and large in those gatherings. You're going to find His people today gathered in the house of the Lord. This is where God's people gather. And if you're going to pay a vow to the Lord in the presence of the people, you know why you would do that? You would do that for what we call accountability. Some people love to believe in the invisible church because the invisible church doesn't have any attendance, any tithing and offering records, it doesn't have any kind of accountability, but a local church provides accountability. And when you say, you know what, this is what I'm gonna do for the Lord, I'm gonna pay something, I'm gonna do something for the Lord, and I'm gonna do it in the presence of the people, what you're doing is making a commitment to serve God in the midst of your trouble. Have you ever done that? Lord, I'm gonna take the pain and the difficulty that I'm going through now, and I'm going to pay a vow, and I'm gonna pay it now in the presence of all the people. You know, when trouble happens in your life, it's not the time to absent yourself from the house of God or even the service of the Lord. It's time to become more committed to the things of God. There should be a focus to the people of God. You say, Pastor, but I have problems. All of us have problems. All of us have problems. But all of us should be serving the Lord. As Joshua said in his day, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. He said, I'm gonna pay my vows unto God. What vows have you made to God? What service are you rendering to God? You know, coming to church isn't enough, friend. There needs to be some manner of service that you're giving to the Lord, and it should be regular in your life. In the book of Titus, in the second chapter, The Bible says this and I'll turn to Titus chapter number two and I'll just read this verse to you The Bible tells a pastor to do this for the people that he's pastoring Titus chapter 3 and verse number 8 says this This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works and There should be a maintenance of good works, things you're doing for others, things you're doing for the Lord. Just yesterday, we called for a painting day, and it was a blessing to hear this morning that one of the widows in our church was over there using some real strange roller and got some painting done over at the mission house. You know what? God sees our works, and he blesses that. We ought to be doing things for the Lord. If our bodies allow us to, sometimes people are on the shelf and they can't serve the Lord the way they once did. But if you've got the ability to serve the Lord, serve Him. Pay that vow to the Lord. Work for the Lord. Give your time to the Lord. By the way, in that is gladness. Do you want to have God give you joy? Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. David also said in this passage of scripture in Psalm 116, these are the I wills of the psalmist who is in trouble. Verse number 17, I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. For those of you who are in trouble, can I remind you today, God still loves people who are thankful. In the midst of your trouble, you need to maybe look for things in your life that you can be thankful for. All of us, God never promised a bowl of cherries in life. He never promised a problem-free life. But all of us have the choice to be thankful. You know, a thankless soul is an empty soul. And maybe this last week, you've gone through some trouble, gone through some trials, gone through some difficulties. Have you given the position of thankfulness to the Lord? I will offer to the Lord. Will you offer thanksgiving to the Lord? Will you be thankful to Him and bless His name for the good things that you have? You know, there are some people today who are dealing with prodigal children. Many of us in this room have dealt with the prodigals, and by the way, some of us have been prodigal. God had the ability to bring us home. That causes me to think, hey, God has the ability to bring other prodigals home. How many of you, if we were to ask people to stand together today, how many of you have been a prodigal in your life? There would be people, if they were honest, who would stand up all over this room. But God loves prodigals, and God has a way to bring them home. If you have a prodigal, can I encourage you to have the faith of the prodigal's dad, and keep getting on that porch and praying for him, and looking for him to come back down that road one more time. It may not happen today, but when it does, it'll be a glorious moment. Let God arrange that homecoming, but don't lose faith in the Lord. And don't stop giving God thanks and praise as you're in the midst of your troubles and your trials. David says this, and he talks about the attributes of God in Psalm 116 as well. The Bible says that the Lord is gracious, that the Lord's righteous, that the Lord's merciful, that he preserves the simple and he helps the lowly. But this passage begins with the most important thing that should be in all of our lives. Those first few words of Psalm chapter 116. Can you say it? Can you? If you were all by yourself, can you say, I love the Lord? I could say to you today, because of what God's done for me, for saving my never dying soul, for many of the blessings he put in my life undeserved, I love the Lord. I love the Lord." You say, pastor, don't you have problems? Aren't you going through heartbreaks and difficulty? Of course we are. But in the midst of trouble, I love the Lord. Won't you come and profess your love to the Lord? Won't you take your cup of problems today? If you come in here heavily burdened and troubled, won't you come down to the altar and pour them before the Lord and let God meet the need of your soul? Don't forget to give thanks to the Lord. Don't forget to tell the Lord, I want to do something for you because I love you, Lord. I'm going to pay a vow to you. I'm going to do something in your name. Let God have his way in your life in the midst of your troubles. And may you be able to say today as you leave this place, I love the Lord. Let's stand together. God may be speaking to your heart today and you may need to use the altar for what it's here for. Say, what is an altar? It's a place of prayer. It's a place where people come and pour their troubles and their trials out to the Lord. There are people in here today, you might not know this, but they have a broken heart. There could be people here today, and you've never called on the Lord's name for salvation, and He's calling you to get saved. Won't you be saved before it's eternally too late? As Brother Tim sings the first verse, we'll all sing in verse one, but if God spoke to your heart, won't you come to the altar? Let God have His way in your life. Let's sing. Won't you come today? If you're lost, won't you be saved? Say, Pastor, I've got some problems like David. Well, come on, call on the name of the Lord. Let him have his way in your heart. These others have come, won't you? Some of you got sin in your life and you need to get it right. Once you get right with God, sin won't bless your life, it'll hurt you. Sin won't help your faith, it'll hinder it. Praise to thee, holy, gracious Lord, now I'm coming home. I'm coming home, thank you, Jesus, Lord, I'm He won't force you to come to him, but he does call you to come to him. He'll open wide his arms of love and he'll bring you, he'll help you. Won't you come? as we sing. I'm tired of sin, thanks to Thee, O Lord. Now I'm coming home. I'll trust Thy word, give me Thy word. God be with you. As the piano plays, we'll sing another verse in just a moment. There could be somebody here today who'd say, Pastor, I've never heard preaching like this before. How can I learn more about this? Well, as a pastor of this community, we offer ourselves for Bible studies to people. We'd love to meet you personally and show you from the scripture how to be saved. Anybody can be saved. Whosoever can be saved. I'd be delighted to give you the good news that Christ will save even you. And all it takes is, hey, I'd love to meet with you. You know, if you're a coffee drinker, you'll really enjoy my office. But I also have nice water. And for you young people who like energy drinks, I even have some of those in there for you. So I'd love to meet with you and talk with you. And there could be others that are, you just need pastoral counsel. He said, pastor, what to do? And I'll tell you this, there's a lot of times where I don't know what to do either. But I know the one who knows what to do and I can pray. I can show you what the Bible says. And if you need counsel, you know we're here for you as well. Could be somebody here like David and you're still on that front end. You're in the middle of sorrow and trouble. But you're not to that point of paying a vow to the Lord or being thankful to the Lord or even calling upon his name. Get beyond those troubles and call on the Lord. Let's sing one more verse. No one else comes, we'll close. Soul is sick, my heart is sore. Now I'm coming home. My strength renewed, my hope restored. Lord, I'm coming home, coming home, coming home. Open wide thine arms above, Lord, I'm coming. We know these are still working at the altar and we're thankful when God speaks to hearts here in this church In fact, it should be a rarity when God doesn't speak to hearts when we open up his word and preach his word Praise the lord that god is working in hearts And there's probably people here today who didn't respond to the message of the truth and but you feel something in your heart that he's drawing you Say, how do I know if the Lord's drawing me? Well, there's going to be a little bit of a burning in your heart, and you're going to be communicated with by the Lord that this preacher's not just, it's not just his voice that's calling me, there's a voice from on high that's saying what I'm saying is the truth. What makes my words words of truth, that they come from the scripture. This is God's word. His word is truth and his word will lead you into truth. And so I pray that God will do a great work in your heart and in your life. If you're visiting with us again, thank you for coming. You've really blessed us by being here in our services today. And if you filled out that visitor card, that coffee cup is yours to keep. But if you would please give me that visitor card and on your way out So we have a record of your visit and if you'd like to set up meetings with me We'll be more than happy to do that. Thank you for being here tonight. We have choir practice at 445 and then we have our evening service tonight at 6 p.m Please be back and in your place for that. We're looking forward to having another service here today Thank you for being here and God bless you brother Tim Abrams Would you come to the pulpit and dismiss the service and prayer? I? Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for allowing us to meet in your house today. Lord, we thank you for Brother Jack and the message he brings from your word. Lord, all of our hearts were touched today. Lord, I pray that you would bless each one. Give us a good afternoon and bring us back tonight in Jesus' name. Amen.