Friends, we're turning this morning in our Bibles to the book of Hebrews. We're going to read from Hebrews chapter 4 today. The book of Hebrews chapter 4, reading the Word of God together at the very first verse of this chapter of God's Word. Hebrews chapter 4, verse number 1. The book of Hebrews in the New Testament. We're reading today from chapter 4, and we'll read all of the chapter together. Hebrews chapter 4, verse number 1. Word of God says, let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest. Any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them. But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath. If they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day, and this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore, it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief. Again he limiteth a certain day, saying unto David, Today, after so long a time, as it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Seeing, therefore, that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Amen. And we know that God himself will add his own blessing to this public reading of his own inspired and infallible word. Now I would invite you to turn with me again please to the book of Hebrews. We're turning to chapter 4. And I just want to leave one verse with you and kind of use it as a bit of a springboard to get on to the subject that I want to speak on this morning. It's Hebrews chapter 4, verse number 12, where we believe it's the Apostle Paul who wrote the epistle to the Hebrews. And the Word of God says, for the Word of God, and that's speaking of the Bible, speaking of the Scriptures, for the Word of God is quick, and that word quick means living. The Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. The Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. Over the last couple of Sundays, the last couple of Lord's Days, we've been thinking about the world's best seller, thinking about the Bible, the Word of God. We've been thinking about its revelation, how God has revealed Himself in Scripture. And last Lord's Day, we thought about its inspiration, how the Lord inspired men to pen his words, write them down in scripture. And over the next week or so, we'll be looking at evidence of inspiration or its authentication, how we know and why we believe the Bible is the Word of God. I believe it's so important in these days that we get back to the Scriptures, get back to the Bible, get back to the old paths. You ask people now, why do you believe the Bible? How do we know the Bible is the Word of God? And if we're absolutely honest, sometimes we're stuck for an answer. That ought not to be the case. We ought to be able to give a reason for the answer of the hope that lieth in us, and we ought to be able to defend the Bible and tell men and women why we believe the Bible is God's Word to a fallen world. So we're looking today at the world's bestseller again, and we're thinking about its authentication, why we believe the Bible is God's inspired Word. But with these thoughts before us, let's just still our hearts, calling upon the name of the Lord. We realize that these things are spiritually discerned, and so we need the ministry of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God to come and to speak to your hearts. Let's pray. Loving Father, Everlasting God, we thank Thee today for the privilege of calling upon Thee. We come now, O God, to Thee for help. I ask, O God, for the anointing of the Holy Ghost. I pray, Father, that Thou wilt anoint this earthen vessel with the power of heaven. I pray that thou wilt grant that my name might perish and be forgotten. But may the name of thy Son be engraved and written upon our very hearts. We pray today, O Lord, that thou wilt come in all thy power. I ask, O God, that thou wilt speak to every heart. And I pray, Father God, that thou wilt reveal the things of God to us. Lord, we pray that thou wilt bring us back to the Bible Lord, bring us back to being men and women of one book. We pray, Father God, that you'll give us that confidence in the Word of God. We pray today that thou wilt speak mightily to every heart. Lord, answer prayer, because we ask it in the Savior's precious and worthy name. Amen. Amen. You know, it always amazes me today that whenever some celebrity professes to be a Christian, the world or the church always seems to think that this is some great thing. For example, if Cliff Richard stands up and says that he's a Christian, largely speaking, the church will run along with it and say, this is wonderful. Here's a celebrity that has embraced Christianity, and it kind of authenticates and proves that, well, Christianity isn't so foolish after all. After all, here's a well-educated man, here's a celebrity, here's a very rich man that's embraced Christianity. It wasn't all that long ago, whenever the triple jumper, Jonathan Edwards, was professing to be a Christian, and the Christian church thought, well, this is a great thing. Here's something that gives a little bit more weight to what we believe. Here's a man that's done well in life. Here's a man that's in the public eye, professing to be a Christian. And well, this will really be a wonderful testimony and this will authenticate Christianity. So it was whenever the singer and songwriter Van Morrison said that he was a Christian, many Christians thought that it was a great thing and a wonderful thing. Here's a man that's done well in life and now he says he's a Christian. This will really bolster the cause and this will really push the thing along and this will justify what we have been saying for years that Jesus Christ is a reality. And it's so sad that the church today seems to clutch at straws, clutch at all these things to try and authenticate Christianity. But I believe, dear friends, with all my heart this morning, that the only thing that makes Christianity authentic is the Bible, the Word of God. We don't need anything else. We don't need anything more than the Bible. We don't need anything more than the Word of God. I'm glad today, as born-again believers, we don't need the latest celebrity to come along, whether it's Britney Spears or Cliff Richard or somebody else, to say, I'm a Christian, and then we can just tell the world, see, here's a man, here's a woman who's a Christian. That just proves that we were right all along. Listen, it proves nothing. The only thing that authenticates Christianity is this old book, the Bible. But it's all very well to say that the Bible's authentic. It's all very well for us to say that the Bible is God's revelation to a fallen world. It's all very well to come and say that the Word of God tells us that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. But the world immediately asks the question, well, how do you know? that the Bible's inspired. How do you know that the Bible's the Word of God? How can you be sure that a bunch of men just didn't get together and write down what they thought and wrote down their own beliefs and gave us this book? How can you be sure? How can you know that the Bible is the Word of God? Well, let me say something just by way of introduction. If it wasn't for our sinful nature, If it wasn't for our blinded minds, if it wasn't for our darkened hearts, we would accept the Bible outright. The Bible doesn't have to try and justify itself in the same way that God in heaven doesn't have to try and prove His own existence. It's because of the sinful, fallen heart of men and women that people today are seeking for evidence that the Bible is God's inspired Word. If we could only see and take the Bible at face value, it would prove itself. After all, does the sun have to prove that it shines? You say, no it doesn't, sure it's there, it gives light and it gives heat. Well, so it is with the Bible. The Bible is God's words and it shines in the darkened world. It gives light and it gives heat and I believe the Bible is self-authenticating. But the Lord Jesus Christ said, in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 18, verse number 16. And he was quoting from the Old Testament, from the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 19 and verse 15. So the Lord said, Matthew's Gospel, chapter 18, verse number 16. concerning the law of the land, he says, but if they will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And over the next few weeks, I'm going to call certain witnesses to the public stand. And I'm going to ask these witnesses to testify for themselves. And I trust as the weeks go by and all these witnesses come and give their own testimonies and their own witnesses and speak for themselves, and as all these witnesses come together, that you will come to the conclusion, and rightly so, that the Bible is God's own inspired and infallible word. And the first witness that I'm going to call upon this morning is the witness of the Bible itself. I'm going to call the Word of God this morning to come to the stand and to witness before judge, before jury, and before the congregation this morning that the Bible claims to be the Word of God. The word Bible, by the way, is a Greek word. There it comes from two Greek words, he Biblios, which quite simply means the book. And so whenever you read in front of your Bible the words Holy Bible, the word holy means sanctified. And so whenever you read the words Holy Book or Holy Bible, we could just be reading the sanctified book or the book that is set apart. The Lord Jesus Christ often talked about Scripture. or Holy Scripture, and the word Scripture comes again from a Greek root, the word graphe, from which we get the word graphics and so on and so forth, and it just denotes the written word. So very well, we're calling upon the Bible. We're bringing the Bible to the stand and we're asking today for the Bible to speak for itself. And I want to say something first of all about the Bible's own testimony. How do we believe the Bible is the Word of God? Why do we believe the Bible is the Word of God? Well, first of all, because of the Bible's own testimony. The Bible, quite simply, unapologetically claims to be the very Word of God. Second, Timothy 3 verse 16, all Scripture is given by inspiration of God. So the Bible immediately is claiming to be the Word of God. Oftentimes we have the phrase in Scripture, God said, or thus saith the Lord, or God speak. We have phrases like that in Scripture, for example, 500 times in the first five books of the Bible, the books of Moses. We have those phrases 300 times in the historical books. We have those phrases 1,200 times in the prophetical books. And 4,000 times throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, we have phrases like, God said, God speak, thus saith the Lord, the Lord speak unto Moses, the Lord speak unto Samuel, and so on and so forth. Even in the very first words of Scripture, Genesis chapter 1 verse 3 says, And God said, Let there be light. And several times in the very first chapter of the Bible, we read and hear about God speaking and God saying. And so the Bible claims to be the Word of God. And I put it to you this morning that there are very few books on the face of the earth that claims so categorically and so unapologetically to be the Word of God. The Bible says it's God's Word. And just as we make that statement that the Bible itself claims to be the Word of God, I want to ask you a question this morning, that question being this. The Bible claims to be the Word of God. Why wouldn't it be? Why wouldn't it be? After all, do we not believe today in the philosophy of innocent until proven guilty? If a man comes along to a court and stands and testifies for himself and gives his own testimony, well, the law of the land says innocent until proven guilty. We'll have to take this individual at his word until we can find proof to the contrary that this man is telling lies and so it is with the Word of God. If the Word of God claims to be God's Word, well then the only way we can prove that it isn't God's Word is to bring evidence to the contrary. But the world, it's strange and sad to say that while they'll say concerning people that are brought before the court of the land innocent until proven guilty, Whenever it comes to the Word of God and it comes to the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, well, it's guilty until proven to be innocent. But any defendant has the right to speak for himself. So what we're going to do today is quite simply just let the Bible speak for itself. From between 4,000 And 2,000 years, speaking of the Old Testament Scriptures and the New Testament Scriptures, never once has any person been able to come to the public stand and witness and testify against this book. In reality, there's nothing in the world that can really be proven except mathematics and so on and so forth. So whenever a man makes a statement, You just have to correlate the evidence and bring the evidence together and allow the weight of the evidence to come to an accurate conclusion. Let me just illustrate by way of example. How do we know this morning that Abraham Lincoln was an American? How do we know that? Can anybody stand up and categorically prove that Abraham Lincoln was an American? What you do is you bring all the evidence together. You look at the historical records, you bring them together. You look at the man's life, you look at the man's testimony, you look at the position that the man fulfilled in society. He was the President of the United States and the law of the land says that a President of the United States has to be an American. And so you bring all the evidence together and you come to the conclusion that, rightly so, Abraham Lincoln was an American. And so it is with the Bible. You bring all the evidence together and they have to ultimately come to the conclusion that this book is the Word of God. But man's problem is this. Man doesn't want to accept the Bible as God's Word. despite all the evidence that is brought together. And so it is true that there is none so blind as those who do not want to see. So the Bible makes a testimony unapologetically that it is the Word of God. So we see today the Bible's own testimony. But I want to mention something as well about the Bible's unity. Sixty-six books. Two sections, the Old Testament and the New Testament, separated by a period of 400 years. A book that is penned by some 40 different men, written at different periods, different times, and in different places. Thousands of different subjects, thousands of different topics, many different doctrines, and yet it all comes together as a unity. You think, for example, about the different styles of writing. You've got historical books. You've got poetical books. You've got prophetical books. You've got different letters. You've got a conversational style of writing. You've got a dogmatic style of writing. You've got a very picturesque and typological style of writing, if that's a word. Typology comes together in Scripture. And so you've got all these different styles of books and styles of writings, and yet from Genesis to Revelation, there's one theme, and that's Jesus Christ. The Word of God was written in many different places. It was written in Israel, it was written from Judah, it was written from Babylon, it was written from Rome, it was written from Asia Minor, from the Isle of Patmos, from all these different places. And it was written of course at different times over a period of some 1600 years. And from Moses penned the first five books of the Bible. Until the apostle Paul wrote his epistles, those two men were separated by a period of 1,500 years. Isn't it amazing that most books that we have in our bookshelves today only take several months or perhaps two or three years to write? But here we have a book in our hands this morning that was written over a period of something like 1,600 years by different authors. You can think of Moses. You can think of David. You can think of Isaiah, Jeremiah, the prophets. You can think of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, the Apostle Paul, Peter, John, and so on and so forth. And yet all these different men, some 40 authors, come from different places at different times and they've brought this book together. And yet whenever you think of what the Bible teaches about man, what the Bible teaches about eternity, what the Bible teaches about sin, what the Bible teaches about God, what the Bible teaches about Jesus Christ, what the Bible teaches about the last things, what the Bible teaches about creation, what the Bible teaches about science, what the Bible says about history, all these different witnesses come together and they agree. on all these different subjects and on all these different doctrines. And you know as well as I do how difficult it is to get even just five men to agree on one thing. If I was to select two people from the gallery and somebody from this aisle, somebody from this aisle, and somebody from this aisle, and I was to shut you together into a room, and I was to say to you, well, I want you to write me a book of some 1,000 pages, and I want you to write about religion, I want you to write about politics, and I want you to write about morality. I tell you within a very short space of time there would be a row as big as a fight. Because you try and get five individuals, five people that are different to agree on even one thing. It never happens. And yet here you've got 40 different authors coming together, writing about many, many different subjects and all these witnesses and all these testimonies come together in agreement. So you see the Bible's own testimony. It claims to be God's Word. You see, the Bible's unity. Different times, different places, different authors, and yet one theme. I also see in Scripture the Bible's consistency. Consistency is a great characteristic of the truth. That's why if several men are lifted for a crime that has been committed, and they are brought into an inquiry room, and different police officers and detectives come in and interview those men individually. That they can, in a very short space of time, discern whether they're telling the truth or not. It just comes to mind about a friend that I had that was at university. And one day at university, there were four young men in the same class that didn't turn up to do one of their exams. And the lecturer, well, he came and says, well, what happened? Why didn't you turn up? And they says, well, we were coming to the lecture and we got a flat tire. And so what the man did was, he didn't ask any more questions. And he took those four men and says, well, you can sit your examination today. And they put one in this corner of the room, one in this corner of the room, one in the far corner, and one in this corner. And whenever they lifted their exam paper and they turned to the first question, the first question was this, which tire was flat? And of course none of them had talked about that. And so it was very unlikely that they were all going to say it was the same tar. And so in the mouths of two or three witnesses shall a matter be established. And yet whenever you think about the consistency of the Bible, it's so consistent. Because of the testimonies of the people that have spoken in it. And so often times, whenever a person is lifted today for a crime, as we have heard on the radio and the televisions recently, they'll sit in the interview and they'll say absolutely nothing. Because consistency is a characteristic of the truth. And whenever you think about the consistency of the Bible, you can think about the consistency of its theme. What does the Bible speak about? What is the primary subject and theme in Scripture? Well, John chapter 5, verses 39, the Lord Jesus Christ says, search the Scriptures. For in them ye think that ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me. And he was speaking, of course, about the Old Testament. John 5, verse 46, he says to the people of his day, For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? And then in the Gospel of Luke, chapter number 24, verses 25 through 27, the Lord said to the people of his day again, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses, They're getting at the book of Genesis. They're getting at Moses. Going through the law then going through all the prophets he expounded on to them and all the scriptures all things concerning himself and so the subject and the theme of scripture from Genesis chapter 1 to Revelation chapter 22 The subject of scripture is the person and the work of Jesus Christ and as you read the Word of God There's no contradiction concerning the theme of scripture. It's Jesus Christ I also see as well the consistency between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And again, we just reiterate the fact that they were separated by some 400 years. And yet the New Testament directly quotes the Old Testament no less than 180 times. And it's the same God that's in the Old Testament that is the same God that is spoken of in the New. The higher critics will come along today and they will say, well, it's a different God in the Old Testament because the God of the Old Testament is a God of wrath, a God of judgment, a God of anger, a God of justice, but well, the God of the New Testament they'll say is entirely different. As if the Old Testament never speaks about the love of God. It speaks so many times about the love of God. God says in the Old Testament, I have loved you with an everlasting love. God says in the Old Testament, I will love them freely. God says that from everlasting to everlasting in the Old Testament, He loved His people and He brought them and He drew them unto Himself. It speaks about the goodness of God. And then we come to the New Testament and the Lord Jesus Christ spoke more about the wrath of God, about the anger of God, about the justice of God, about God's judgment day, about hell, more than any other prophet in the Old Testament spoke. Jesus Christ spoke about God's wrath. He revealed God's love. And you'll see if you study it honestly and concisely that the God of the Old Testament is the God of the New, and the Old Testament and the New Testament fit together hand in glove. It's like Stephen Alford said, the old is by the new revealed. And the new is in the old concealed, I think as well, about the consistency of the symbolism of the Bible. You take the law of the Old Testament, you take the moral law, you take the civil law, you take the ceremonial law, and you study it out, what do you see? You see Christ. And the book of Galatians in the New Testament says that the law is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. You think about the law. Think about the Levitical system. Think about the tabernacle. Speaks of Christ. Think of the high priest garments. Speaks about Christ. Think of the sacrifices that were offered. Speaks about Christ. Think of the feasts that were held. Speaks about Christ. Think about the lamb in Scripture. From the blood of the lamb was slain at Eden's gates. From the lamb was offered on Mount Moriah by Abraham, from the lamb was typified throughout the Old Testament sacrifices, and the lamb was prophesied in the book of Isaiah, until the lamb was personified. In John 1 verse 29 we see the consistency, and the lamb spoken of typified the Lord Jesus Christ. Lamb without blemish and the lamb without spot. Consider the book of Daniel in the Old Testament, come to the New Testament and look at the book of Revelation and they fit together again, hand in glove. Read the book of Numbers, the book of Leviticus, then come to the book of Hebrews and they fit together again. Just imagine it, 40 different men, each asked to go away and say, for example, make a part for a wristwatch over a period of 1600 years. And then all the little pieces are brought together at the end of 1600 years by 40 men or so on and so forth and they've each made a part for a wristwatch. Many of them never spoke to each other, many of them didn't know each other, many of them had never met each other, some of them hadn't even heard of each other. And then each person's asked to make two or three parts for a wristwatch, bring those parts together, do you honestly think the watch is going to keep good time? None of the pieces would fit together. And yet here we've a book, 66 books in all, and yet you bring it together and it's entirely consistent in everything that it says, everything that it teaches, everything that it commands, and its central theme. I also consider evidence for inspiration in the relevancy of the Bible. It's the oldest book that you could buy on the shelf in any bookstore, and yet it's more up to date than tomorrow's newspaper. You read Matthew 24. You read 1 Thessalonians. You read 2 Peter. You read Genesis 49. You read the book of Daniel. You read the book of Revelation. Read 2 Timothy chapter 3. And I believe in the next 20, 30, 40 years as you watch your news headlines and you see what is going on in the world, as the news unfolds before us, you will see things that have been prophesied hundreds, thousands of years ago in the Bible coming to pass before your very eyes. One French infidel by the name of Voltaire said that shortly after he died, the only place you would find a Bible would be in a museum. But yet after Voltaire died and his house was empty, people came in and they erected a printing press in his house and they began to print the very scriptures in the house that Voltaire had lived and died in. You see, the Bible will be read until the climax of the ages. The Lord Jesus Christ said, Thy word is truth. You think about a book. that reached its completion 2,000 years ago by a collection of unlearned and ignorant Jewish men. And yet today the Bible is being read in Korean. The Bible is being read as far away as Cork. It's being read in Cuba. It's being read in Columbia. It's being read in Canada. It's being read in China. It's being read all across the world. And it's the world's best seller. It's the world's most widely circulated book, written in over 1,000 languages. Do you honestly think that in 2,000 years from now, if the Lord tarries, they'll still be reading the works of Richard Dawkins and Charles Darwin in 2,000 years? I don't think so. It's read by paupers and it's read by presidents. It's read by kids and it's read by kings. It's read by scientists and it's read by schoolboys. It's read by the black man and it's read by the white man. It's read by male, it's read by female. It's read by old and it's read by young. Why? Because it's so very relevant. There's something in the Bible for everyone. Poetry, romance, adventure, prophecy, counsel for the family, counsel for the individual. The Bible gives guidance. It gives answers to life's hardest questions. It gives counsel. It gives warning. It gives wisdom. It gives comfort. And yet it was written by unlearned and ignorant men. And yet it satisfies the minds of the greatest geniuses that have ever walked the face of the earth. I see in the Scripture, whenever I look at the Bible, and the Bible comes to witness for itself, I see its testimony. It claims to be the Word of God. I see its unity. I see its consistency. I see its relevancy, but I also see in closing its inexhaustibility. Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about the Bible, and yet its depths have never fully been plumbed. It's an unfathomable mine. of eternal wisdom. It's an eternal book, written by the hand of an eternal God. And it's a book of eternal worth. You will never wear it out. You'll never wear out its promises. The Bible has freed nations. The Bible has abolished slavery. The Bible has united families. The Bible has saved lives. The Bible has saved souls. The Bible has satisfied minds. Every missionary movement of any worth is established on the principles of Scripture. Every movement of social reform, whether it's the abolition of slavery, the looking after of orphans, has been established upon the principles of God's Word. It's inexhaustible. You can never wear out its promises. Think, for example, of Romans 8, 28. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God and to them who are called according to His purpose. And you think about the thousands and thousands and thousands of people who have fallen down in their faces before God and said, Lord, You have promised to satisfy my soul and drought. Lord, You have promised to lead me. You have promised to guide for me. You have promised that my God shall supply all my need according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus. Lord, You have promised to direct my path. Lord, You have promised to save. You have promised to revive. You have promised to satisfy the longing soul. And all these promises are still good today. Some of them given and recorded 4,000 years before and yet we can claim them today because the Bible is God's inexhaustible book. It's either back to God's authority or it's back to man's anarchy. As I've said in the weeks gone past, it's either back to the Bible or back to the jungle. The Bible is a book of life and it's a book for life. One young person I heard one time give an acrostic, B-I-B-L-E, best instruction before leaving earth. Let me ask you in closing, what are you doing with this precious book? You know, I believe today that all our problems, and all our fears, and all our anxieties, and all our worries, and all our coldness, and all our lack of success, and our lack of victory, and our deadness, and our lethargy all stem from one thing. We just don't read this book. I believe it's as simple as that. There was one old Puritan said, preaching in a church, he says, many people here today could write the word damnation on the dust that lies in the top of your Bible. Dear friend, let me ask you today, what are you doing with this old book? The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. The Bible is the Christian's food. And if you're weak in the Christian life, we'll then get some good food into you. If you're starving in the Christian life, we'll then get some good meat into you. If you're hungry for God, we'll then feed in God's Word. If you're looking for answers in prayer, then get into the Bible and claim its promises. We need to get back to this old book, God's inspired Word. Let's turn, in closing please, to the hymn, Number 186, please. Hymn number 186. It's a hymn maybe that we're not familiar with, but it should be a familiar tune. How wonderful a book divine by inspiration given, bright as a lamp its doctrines shine, and to guide our souls to heaven. Let's stand together as we sing number 186 and let's praise the Lord for this wonderful book that we have in our hands that's been given to us from the hand of a loving God. Number 186, we'll stand together as we sing.