We direct your attention today in the study of God's word to Isaiah 6. I want to read the chapter in its entirety as we consider the subject of a minister's call to service. Isaiah 6. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims, each one had six wings, with twain he covered his face, with twain he covered his feet, with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. And the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips. I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a lie of coal in his hand, which he had taken with his tongs from off the altar. He laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and whom will go for us? Then said I, Here am I, send me. And he said, Go and tell this people. Hear ye indeed, but understand not. See ye indeed, but perceive not. make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert and be healed.' Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate. And the Lord hath removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten as a teal tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them. when they cast their leaves, so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." This was a dramatic event in the life of the prophet. This is his, we might say, autobiography, as it is located here in the 6th chapter. It gives us his own personal description of his call. to serve this high and majestic God. I believe it could have just as easily been placed at the start of the book. There is nothing chronologically that requires it to be at the start or in the sixth chapter. Most modern biographies and autobiographies start out in a point like this of telling something about the individual. So that because it's located in the 6th chapter, I don't think that that is necessarily something that eliminates it from being able to have been said that this was what manifested itself to Isaiah and led to his call to the service of the majestic God. And it made such a dramatic impact upon him because it was in the year that the king, Uzziah, had died. Any great thing happen to you in your spiritual journey in which that you can place a time and a date unto it? I'm not talking about any one particular thing, but are there times in your own life in which God has dealt with you in which you can remember it being a specific time and a specific date in which that it would stand out like it did to Isaiah? That is, I got a glimpse of the majestic God in the year, chronologically, that King Uzziah died. In this chapter, we are given the motivating power which drove Isaiah to perform his life's work, for he was informed here what the purpose was that God had created him, and that was to be a prophet unto the nations. In the first chapters, we find God revealing to him that before he ever had an existence, he was known by God and called to be a prophet. And so Isaiah became aware in the year that King Uzziah died of really what God had placed him here on this earth for. I ask you, have you become aware yet this morning of the reason why God has placed you here on this earth? Are you here, like many of those in our culture, you don't know where you came from, why you're here and where you're going to. If that's true, my friend, you need a vision of the God that Isaiah saw that we're talking about this morning. The masses of humanity in our culture don't have the foggiest idea as to what they're here for. Most of them think it's just a flip on the television set or run down to Wal-Mart or to Burger King, and that's about the essence of the daily life of the typical American, just running, fiddling here and there, not realizing that there is an eternal world that is that which lies ahead. You need to see the majestic God that Isaiah saw. If you study the book of Isaiah, you'll find that this man preached for some 50 years. And he didn't build the largest Sunday school in Jerusalem. He had a very hard ministry. In fact, if you put his ministry up and compare it with the way that men compare today's ministries, he would have been unanimously viewed as being a failure for the lack of results which he saw in his own ministry. But God even revealed to him ahead of time, at his call, that the masses were not going to listen to him, but would instead, and here is a difficult thing for a God-called minister to deal with, is that at the end of his ministry of 50 years, the people to whom he preached to would, for the most part, be worse off than when he ever started. You let that sink in and you be given a call to a ministry in which you are informed ahead of time that after you preach, the people are going to be worse off than when you ever preached to them. And you get up enough motivation to continue to get up every day and go out to the field and preach. What was it that motivated this man to continue on and persevere? in the most difficult setting that he was placed in. We want to look at that this morning. What's involved in a minister's call? Every so often I get a letter or a telephone call from somebody who wants to use me as a sounding board, and that they have been called to preach. And my, my, they are ready to charge hell with a water gun. They are ready to go. They don't know Genesis from Revelation, but they are ready to preach, and they are ready to get right at it. They don't want to do any preparation, they just want to get to the task at hand. And you listen or you read the letter, and you compare it with Isaiah's call, and you see quickly, it's not the same God who is doing the calling. In most of the letters that I get or the telephone calls I get, there is little, if any, remorse over one's sin. Hardly any confession that this task is bigger than themselves, but they feel completely confident that they are up to the task and ready to go at it. That wasn't the effect it had upon Isaiah, as we are going to see here. Let me give you first in our outline a threefold necessity that is to be found in a call to the ministry of God. Number one, in every call to the ministry, to be a prophet, to proclaim the message of God to the people, to the masses, there must first of all be a vision of God. And by that I am not talking about something which has to be seen with the physical eye gate. I am saying the man must know God. He must know who God is. And in this chapter we see who God is in the vision that Isaiah was given. I'm personally inclined to believe that this vision took place as Isaiah was going up into the temple courtrooms there in Jerusalem. Some speculate that it may have occurred on his housetop. But the description is obviously of God dwelling in the midst of the temple. And that was no small building that was existing in Isaiah's time. Some 300 years before Solomon had built and dedicated that temple, it was still standing. And if you had been able to walk up to the massive pillars that were there and see that beautiful emblem dedicated to the glory of God, and see that God had put his name there, his very presence there, then Isaiah would have been able to have related to this as he is going into that courtroom. Suddenly he is given a vision of God in his temple. And the God that he saw was a majestic God, my people. He was a God who was high and lifted up, sitting on a throne. If you look in the book of Revelation and you begin to follow the events after the letters to the churches, John was caught up into the heavens. And you know the first thing he saw? A throne. God is majestic. He is the ruler. He is the sovereign. He is the one who is over all. His kingdom knows no end. He is the supreme court of the universe. And if anybody comes into his presence with an appeal, it must be in accordance with his laws and his ways. You don't negotiate with this God. He lays down the way things are, and it is the right of angels and men to say, Speak, Lord, your servant hears. Bow down before the majestic God that Isaiah saw. No man will be able to effectively promote the ministry of Christ over an extended period, like Isaiah did, without a majestic view of God. I've had individuals tell me, well, if I believed what you believe, I'd quit preaching. My friend, if I didn't believe what I believe, I'd have quit preaching 25 years ago. It's too difficult. It's too difficult. to stay in this thing day in and day out if you do not have a majestic view of God. Let God alone is glorious, and let all the earth keep silent. He is a high and lofted up being. Above all men there is none like him. He is sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his presence fills the earth. Where shall we go to escape his presence? There is none. Where shall we go to hide our thoughts from him? There is no way to do so. He knows the thoughts and intents of our heart. even before we formulate them in our thinking processes. The next thing that this individual saw that prepared him for the service of God is not only a vision of God, but a vision of himself. In fact, you will not see yourself as you are until you see God as he is. And the reason why we have so many self-righteous, self-confident, self-esteemed people today in our religious groups is because they have not seen God. They see themselves as basically good, basically having all the abilities to do whatever is necessary to be done. And they can come and sing the hymns as the Pharisee could if he were here today. God, I thank you I'm not as other men are. I fast, I tithe, I do all these things, and I'm not as this man a sinner. Individuals don't see themselves as Isaiah saw himself, because they've not had a vision of God. He's a holy God in verse 3. So holy that the angelic beings cover their face. These are beings who are sinless. And yet they feel themselves unclean in comparison with the one who is on the throne. Have you ever been brought into face-to-face with a being such as that? That's why men don't want to stay around a being like that today. You proclaim a God like this and men will exit the scene unless there is a work of divine grace that breaks the heart and causes humiliation and penance for sin. Repentance. I am unclean. So that God, when he is holy, holy, holy and high and lifted up and the whole earth is full of his glory, then Isaiah sees himself as he is. Where is me? For I am undone. Incidentally, in verses 3 and 4, you look there and you see the way that the text reads, one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, and the Lord is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. And the post of the door moved, that is, here of the temple, and the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. I have always viewed that until recent days, that the smoke was representative of the mysterious nature of God. It was that which flooded the temple, the mystery that is in God. And it was Edward who, in one of his comments on this, I believe has the correct understanding of it. That is, it is the praises of the angelic beings that are crying one to another, holy, holy, holy, that the praises of those being fills the temple. Just like in the analogy of inside the holy place there was the altar of incense in which when it was lit, then it offered up orders unto God, praising God, so that what it is here saying is that all of these angelic seraphim are so saying to each other, God is holy, he's holy, he's holy, that it just floods the whole temple with the praises of God Almighty. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a church service like that? To be able to have such a manifestation of praise unto God. that everybody is focusing on God and not on what happened yesterday, or what's going to happen this afternoon, or problems that we come with. You know, we're in an age in which all the masses go to church today, what is known as a seeker-sensitive. Everybody goes with problems and it's the design or the purpose of the Church, and particularly the preacher, to solve all the problems and pat them on the back and let everybody know everything is all right. You know that's not what you go to church for? You know the way to have your problems solved? It's to see a vision of the glorious Christ and come with praise on your lips. And I tell you, when you leave the Church, your problems will be relatively minor in nature. in comparison to the praise, it is as we are enabled to have life's difficulties put in perspective as we flood the temple with the praise of God Almighty. That's the way that we overcome the difficulties of life. When Isaiah saw himself, he saw himself first as unfit, unfit, defiled, a sinful person. Then said I, woe is me. I guarantee you this, if this constitutes a true call to preach, the fellow out in California in the Glass Cathedral has never been called a God to preach. I say it bluntly. He tells you that it is a sin to feel you are a sinner. He says we need a counter-reformation. I have his book at home. He sent me one. I guess he sent about every preacher in the United States one of those things about 10 or 12 years ago. You get one, Howard? You didn't get one. I've got an extra copy. I'll let you have it. He says man's problem is not that he's a sinner, it's just that he doesn't understand who he is and who God is and that he just needs reaffirmed that everything is all right. On the authority of God's Word, that man has never been called to fill the pulpit of a holy God. He's never seen God, and therefore he doesn't see himself. How can he possibly guide anybody to the knowledge of this God? Unfit. That's how a preacher feels. Unfit. Lord, why didn't you call the seraphim? How can you call a sinful person like me, Isaiah? I'm no better than the people you're calling me to speak unto. What will they think? They will pick me apart when I get up and I tell them that they need a Savior and that if they're sinners and need to come to Christ, they'll be able to say, you're a sinner? Who are you pointing your finger at? God called prophets to feel defiled and sinful and unfit for the task. Not only that, but in Isaiah's response, the effect that this vision of God had upon him is that he felt unable to perform the task. It was bigger than he could ever handle. My things change over the years. I used to know everything there was to know about this Bible. And now I'm about to conclude that I don't know anything about it. I'm serious, I'm not just saying that. The more I read it and the more I study it, the more I wonder, how in the world did God ever handle me, and how does he yet handle in using me as a vessel who is so inadequate for the task. Who is sufficient for these things, the Apostle Paul would say? Who dares intrude themselves into such an office to speak for God? Unfit, unable. Something else that was pressed on Isaiah's conscience a sense that he was unworthy of the task. Not only did he see himself as undone, a man of unclean lips, but he said, I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. How can I enable them to do anything? I don't have any ability. But he also felt a sense of unworthiness, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord When you see a vision of God, you'll see yourself as unworthy of any of his goodness, of any of his blessings. This thing is not only true for a call into the ministry to be a spokesman for God, it's also true in a call unto salvation. We must see ourselves as God sees us and side with God and his verdict of us. comes saying, Lord, while on others thou art calling, do not pass me by. Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. Father, have mercy on me, the sinning one, unfit, unable, unworthy. The third ingredient that is found in a call to the service of God in the ministry is a sense of pardon in verses 6 and 7. Not only must a preacher know who God is, and secondly, not only must he know who himself is, but he must have a sense of forgiveness that his sins have been forgiven. I recognize that God has used unconverted ministers. Unconverted ministers, Spurgeon said, may act as a guidepost, but they can never be a guide. You think on that. That is, they can serve as a sign by the side of the road, but they can never personally guide. An unsaved minister may preach the gospel, and individuals may profit from it. But that individual that is unsaved cannot be a guide himself that is guiding others, because he has lost himself. He should know that his sins are forgiven, and how it is that God forgives sins. Notice God didn't leave Isaiah in this dilemma in his sin. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged." I say to you, a God-called preacher must have an experimental relationship with Jesus Christ. He must be in living, vital union with Christ. He must know him as his own personal Lord and Savior before he can share Christ with others. Am I right on that? These three ingredients, I believe, will be found in what constitutes a call to the ministry. I remember in the former pastorage I was in, there was a little boy that was 8 or 9 years old that got called to preach on television. He was on television. Boy, it was on the evening news, and they showed him in the pulpit, and boy, could he preach. I mean, he had a gift that an auctioneer would have been jealous of. And all the people, this is a miracle. This is a work of God. I remember one of my people came to me, met me at the door after service was over that Sunday morning. He said, Isn't that wonderful? That little boy called to preach. And I said, Frank, that little boy wasn't called to preach. He said, Well, who are you to determine who's called to preach and who isn't called to preach? I said, There's some qualifications laid down in the book. I said, Did you listen to his testimony? He said, Yeah. I said, Did he ever talk about his own sin? He said, Well, no. I don't remember that, but surely he did. I said, No, there wasn't anything there. Did he ever talk about personally being converted to Christ? Did he ever talk about the time in which he realized that he was in the presence of a majestic, holy God and that he was as nothing in the sight of that God? Well, no, he didn't say that. Then I say again, Frank, with authority of the Bible, the little boy wasn't called to preach. I said, also, you compare the call to preach with the qualifications set forth in the New Testament. in the book of Timothy and Titus. I said, that little fellow can't meet half of them, if any of them. No new converts to be thrust into the ministry. Did you know that? Not a novice. And before anybody is put in the ministry, they must prove themselves as leaders in their own household. Is that in the Bible? In other words, if you don't know how to lead your house, how shall you take care of the house of God? Now, how is a nine-year-old kid going to prove that he has leadership gifts? He hasn't even got any kids yet, not even married. How would he be able to demonstrate leadership capabilities? And God says, these are the men that you put in the office. If any man desires the office of a bishop, he desires a good one, here are the qualifications. Now, did God just put them in there as suggestions, and then we can pick and choose? I don't think so. These are essentials. A vision of God, a vision of himself, and a vision of a sense of pardon. Next of all, this preparation. in the life of Isaiah, produced a voluntary devotion to God. Look in verse 8. Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I, send me. Do you see why I say it's voluntary? You see, Isaiah, because of what God had done in preparing Isaiah, Isaiah willingly volunteered. I know that different men go through different areas in which when God calls them into the ministry. I struggle, though, with this idea that I've talked with some of my brethren. who say, well, I thought that thing for five years or seven years and finally I didn't want to preach, but I just couldn't do anything else, so I just had to give in to preach. I have problems with a call like that. And almost invariably, the men who give that type of a testimony have problems themselves with their call, particularly in the inner chambers of their private closets. Isaiah volunteered. I think this is the same way our Lord dealt with it in the New Testament in getting people to go into the harvest. Remember, he said, the fields are white in the harvest, but the laborers are few. Then what did he say to do? Who can tell me? to the Lord of the harvest, that he will thrust forth laborers into the vineyard. What's going to happen to the people who are going to receive that prayer? They're going to be the ones who are going to volunteer to go into the harvest. It's not that they're going to pray for people across the sea over there when our Lord sends forth some laborers, that I'm not going to go. No. It's people that when they begin to see the lostness of the human race and the majestic holiness of God, and they begin to pray about that, they begin to get burdened about sharing this message with somebody else, and they volunteer themselves. Not going to volunteer their neighbor, it's themselves. That's who God is desirous of, is our very person. This is an internal, spontaneous desire to serve God. I'm often asked, how did you know that you were called? Did the bells ring? Did the lightning hit? No. But I had a desire to serve the glorious God of this Bible. And I volunteered. And God didn't shut the door. He kept it open. Through many highways, toils and troubles I've come through, but God has made it real unto me. Then the next thing in this devotion is a steadfast determination to overcome difficulty. Look in chapter 5 of Isaiah, verse 18, and you'll see what kind of a people Isaiah was called to speak unto. I tell you, these weren't the religious people that were all zealous for God. They had a form of religion, but they denied the power of it, they were strangers to it. Look at Isaiah 5 and verse 18. Here is the kind of people that Isaiah is going to speak to. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity and sin, as it were, with a cart rope. They love sin. They love superstition, vain things. Let's say, let him make speed and hasten his work that we may see it, and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come that we would know it. It's almost like the people who stood at the foot of the cross and say, if you're the Son of God, come down from there and we will believe. That's who Isaiah is going to speak to. woe to them that call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight." Isaiah was called to speak to a scoffing and an unbelieving people, and he had to be given a sense of steadfast determination to overcome the difficulties in dealing with that type of a personality. Again, this determination was such that he determined to enter a ministry, as I've alluded to previously, which would leave people worse off than when he found them. Look in verses 9 and 10 of Isaiah 6. And he said, "...go and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not, see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert and be healed." In other words, the outcome of these people, when Isaiah would leave them, would be worse off than when he found them. They hear and hear and hear, but do not heed the message of God. And they become hardened and hardened and hardened in the things of the gospel. What will this message do to you today? Will it bring you closer to God, or will it produce more apathy and indifference toward the things of God? A person asked me one time, How many decisions did you have Sunday? I said, Well, we had about a hundred people there, and we had a hundred decisions. He said, You mean you got every one of them forward? I said, No, I didn't say that. I said, everybody who sat under the sound of the message decided either for God or against him. You can't remain indifferent to this thing. It's going to thrill your soul, or you're going to say, oh, I want to get out of here. I'll come back next Sunday, but I'm really not going to put into practice what I heard. I'll do religious deeds, things like that, but I'm really not going to heed this thing." And become hardened and hardened and hardened. Just like that builds up in the arteries and eventually causes the big one. There will come a crisis time in which individuals who sit under the preaching of the majestic God will leave it sometime or another. It's just a matter on down the horizon. Then in verses 11 and 12, this steadfast determination to serve God resulted in a prolonged life of duty. Then I said, Lord, how long? until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate. And the Lord hath removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land." That went on, as I said, look it up in your own reference materials, about 50 years Isaiah preached. You know, John Gill in England preached in one church 50 or 52 years, I believe it was. The only man who has ever written a commentary on every verse in the Bible stayed in one location fifty years and preached. That took some steadfastness, didn't it? Oh, there are a lot of circumstances in which God changes his spokesman from ground to different locations. We recognize that. Paul moved about in the founding of the churches. But he could come to the end of his ministry and say with determination, I've fought a good fight, I've kept the faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the righteous judge shall give me. And not to me only, but to all those that love is appearing. He said, I didn't give it up, just kept on. Where was Paul when he came to the end? In some big church somewhere? He's in jail, folks. Listen, Brother David, you don't have to be in a pulpit and a pastorate to still be proclaiming the Word of God as a God-called minister. God's providence places men in different locations. He also removes men from there. Comes and goes. If they've been called of God, they'll still be interested in the glorious gospel of Christ and seeing it promoted. If God takes the stroke and it hits the side where this voice can't speak anymore and I have to turn in my resignation and God calls another man to this pulpit, if it allows me to write, I'm still going to do it. I haven't been taken out of the ministry. I may not always be a pastor, but I'm going to stay in this thing by God's grace. I'm going to stay in this thing. If it be thirty-three years now, or if it be forty, or if it be fifty years, which I'm By God's grace in Jesus Christ, I'm going to determine that in spite of the difficulties, I'm going to continue to labor for him. In closing, Isaiah was giving an encouraging understanding to his call. My, a majestic God, can you see it? A simple man having to live in the presence of the Holy God, how can you do that? only to know how God forgives sin in Christ Jesus. That's the only way you can do it. And then this God calls you to represent him. And then tells you that most of your ministry will not produce holy fruit, but will go for naught, and the people will be worse off at the end of your ministry than at the start of it. message of encouragement is there in that for the spokesman of God? There is one. Let me give you two of them in closing. The first one is, are you listening? God calls ministers not to succeed, but to faithfulness. Find in that text for me where God called Isaiah to make sure he converted the people in which he preached to. Where's that at in that text? You know what Isaiah's responsibility consisted of? It was to preach to the people and leave the results in God's hands. Isaiah couldn't change their hearts, but Isaiah's beginning and ending duty before God was to preach, proclaim the message of God. That produces steadfastness, Brother Howard. is to know that I don't have to go home and have the Monday morning hangover I used to have. But Howard, did you ever go through that? It's so good to see you here today. What's it been? We graduated in 66, was it? 63! 66, was it? First time I've seen this fellow in all those years. I want to tell you, there was a time in the early part of my ministry I had the Monday morning blues. You'd study and study and pray and pray and then go to the pulpit and preach, like all you preachers of the walls. You couldn't tell whether anybody was awake or anybody cared. You'd go home after church on Sunday night, ready to turn in your resignation on Monday morning. Then you'd go to the Monday morning quarterback club, I called them. That's where all the Baptist preachers met on Monday morning. I listened to them talk. I saved ten people Sunday. I've heard those very words. How many did you have saved Sunday? How many did you baptize? How many did you have there in Sunday school? What was your offering? How are you coming in your building program? And boy, if you didn't have something glowing to say, why, it felt like your orange juice was running down your tie. Those were supposed to have been meetings to encourage! I rarely ever left them. That's why I don't go to them anymore. You know what I do on Monday morning now? I play golf. That's really spiritual, isn't it? I tell you, it's more in my relationship with God than meeting with a bunch of self-righteous, self-confident preachers who think they've got this thing by the tail, and they're really advancing the kingdom of God. No, God calls his men to be faithful, not to be successful in the eyes of men. And lastly, here is the encouraging thing that kept Isaiah in this thing on and on and on. And that was, God rewards faithfulness with some degree of fruit. Did you get that in the text? Verse 13. In spite of the midst of apostasy throughout the land, there would be a tent. there would be a remnant according to the election of grace that would heed the message of Isaiah. So the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. There was a remnant Brother David, in Isaiah's time there was a remnant in Elijah's day, there was a remnant in Christ's day, there was a remnant in Paul's day. I want to tell you, in the midst of apostasy galore, there is still a people whom God will give ears to hear the message of the gospel. So we just keep on speaking the unsearchable riches of Christ. I hope that this will help you if you are asked the question sometime, what is it that is involved in a minister's call to the gospel? Let's pray. Father, we do thank you today for this time to be able to sit under the ministry of your Word, to be able to sing hymns of praise directed at your majestic character. O God, we long for that day in which our voices shall be in harmony with the angelic beings above, to be able to ascribe holy, holy, holy unto you, the Lord of Hosts. And that when we at Ascension's race will be able to sing the song of the Lamb, that which the angels cannot sing, that which they have never been made partakers of, but that we can sing, redeemed by the blood of Christ, worthy is the Lamb. We pray, O God, that until that time comes that we might be found faithful, promoting the gospel of Christ, whether that we are a called bishop, whether that we are called to service in general, that whatever we are called to do in wherever you place us, that we can say in our heart, Lord, I still love you. I still desire to see your name magnified in the eyes of men. Bless your word this day. If any are here who don't know you as Lord and Savior, may this be the day that you open their hearts and give them that majestic vision of who you are and who they are, and how you save sinners. And how that you send those whom you save out into the mission field. of sharing this message with others. In Christ's name we pray, amen.