think you'll find. I certainly found that Brother Gary's message laid a very good foundation for what the Lord has laid on my heart for this morning from Luke chapter 11. Luke chapter 11. And we're gonna read our text And to begin, we'll read the text with comment. That'll be the first part, the first portion of our message. And then we'll go back and just see a few more things that are relevant to what we've just read. In our text, it begins in verse 33. The whole text is 33 through 36. Our Lord says, No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick. He lights a candle, and he puts it up on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. This is actually not the first time that the Lord has used this phrasing. He's used these words before. The first time was in Matthew 5, verse 15, after the Beatitudes. He said this. Then he used it earlier in the Gospel of Luke 8, verse 16, following the parable of the sower. And its use has something to do with God's will being revealed in His bearing of fruit in you, His children. It's God's glory to reveal Himself to you. and to reveal that you're his through his fruit, through his spirit, which bears fruit of righteousness in his people. It's God manifesting his glory in fruit bearing. Fruit bearing. And I'm reminded, and our Lord's saying this here, I'm reminded of something else he said in John 12, 24, that except a corn of wheat, fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. And that is first and foremost speaking of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by his death to reconcile us. And by his grace, we are crucified with him. We were crucified with our Lord. And in the day of his visitation, the day of his grace, he visits us, and we die to self. And we are born again by his grace and power. And he bears forth fruit in us, bearing the fruit of faith, turning our hearts to the Lord. making us to hear his voice and to obey him, to believe him. And so this phrasing of the lighted candle speaks of God's work in you. Trust Him to do it. Believe Him who speaks the truth. Believe Him who promises to save you, to do all for you, all that you need to stand before God, accepted of Him. Trust Him to do it. How so? Walking by faith in Christ. He gives you this word to make you mindful, to put you in memory of him who speaks these words of promise to you. Be mindful, be prayerful of his promises to you in Christ. Hear his word. He gives his word. Come and hear his word. Receive his word and seek him to give you that single eye. And that's what I mean. When Brother Gary was speaking this morning, I was thinking of this passage, that single eye which is set upon the Lord Jesus Christ, that beholds Him alone. In this context here, our Lord is addressing the ministry and the purpose of His being there that the Father gave to Him. the purpose of the father to send his son into the world and what he should accomplish for his sinful, ruined, lost people, to reconcile us to holy God. And when he came, after that 30 years of obscurity, when he began that ministry, which the father called him to do, it was an open ministry. It wasn't hidden. It was made plain. It was transparent. We saw him. We knew who he was. His fame went out throughout all the land. And he's telling them, take heed. Take heed to what you hear and what you see. Take heed to it. Lay it to heart. Don't be neglectful of what you hear. This is God's word to you. This is God fulfilling his promise to you in sending his son, the promised seed, all the way back in the garden immediately after the fall of man. This is what God promised to do to reconcile, to restore all things which we lost by Christ, by his promised seed. And so our Lord's word and his work, it bears fruit in his people. His people hear what I just said. His people desire to take heed. We want to hear him. We want to desire him. We know what fools we are by nature. We know what sinners we are by nature. We know how we are like sheep who go astray. go astray. I saw I have chicks, and I have a fence around their setting. And I go out there the other day to check on them. And I get out there, and I hear this rustling in the leaves. And there's no leaves in the pen where the chickens are. So I know something's not right. Well, this chick had somehow gotten through the fence and was on the outside looking in and trying to figure out, how do I get back in there? he had gone astray. He was he was also I had to get him quick before the cats got him because they would love to find him first. So I got him inside and had to put up extra fencing, extra high fencing so they couldn't fly through it. But that's us. We go astray and we're lost before we know it. But by the grace of God, we are turned again to him. And so this fruit, we want to bear fruit. He makes us so we want to be partakers of his grace. By his grace, we want to. It's only by him turning our hearts, showing us what we are by nature, shining his beautiful, glorious, bright shining light that reproves us in the flesh, right, reproves us. But we desire him. I mean, you think of Martha. She was reproved by the Lord. And yet we never hear of her leaving the Lord. She remained faithful, right? The Lord reproved her, but he kept her. He gave her grace and the spirit to hear that word and to receive that word and to see, I'm missing the one thing needful, the one thing needful. So this is about bearing fruit in Christ. Our Lord must come. He's the promised seed. He's given to us of the Father. And so this is the God-man mediator. And his people see him. They see him and desire him. Nicodemus, a Pharisee, even saw Christ by the grace of God. He saw Christ and came to him by night, but the Lord was drawn him and he said the same came to Jesus by night and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God. For no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him." What miracles had our Lord done up to that time? Because this is early in His ministry. This is early in John chapter 3. very early in the public ministry of Christ. Well, to that point, he did that first miracle of turning the water into wine in Cana of Galilee at that marriage feast. He turned the water into wine, and we're told that he manifested forth his glory in chapter 211, and his disciples believed on him. They saw his works, and they believed on him. And then after that, he goes down to Jerusalem, where the spirit of God comes upon him. And he forms a cord and drives out the money changers, drives out the sheep and the oxen that were in the temple, and says, get out. Get out. My father's house is a house of prayer, not this religious business that goes on in the temple there. And they didn't understand. They asked for a sign. What sign shows thou that thou doest these things? And he told them, destroy this temple, and in three days, I'll raise it up. I'll raise it up. They didn't understand. But we're told that many believed in his name when they saw the miracles which he did. And yet, actually, it says he didn't commit himself to those people, because he knew what was in the heart of man. We need more than just a dead letter outward, religion. We need that circumcision of the heart. We need that salvation where only the spirit of God reaches and touches us and delivers us from the bondage of this nature. Because we're good maskers, right? We can put on a good face, put on a good show. We're fakers, we're liars, deceivers, connivers. But by the grace of God, he delivers us from that death. and were made thankful for. Just like I know Martha. I'm sure she was embarrassed. She was reproved. But aren't you thankful when the Lord reproves you and gives you that heart of grace to say, Lord, you know. You know. I can't lie. I can't fool you. You know. Thank you. Thank you. And he does it. He does it. Oftentimes, quietly, thankfully, for us. Thankfully, it's very quiet. And only we know, and he knows, but it's good. It's good. And then there's John the Baptist and our Lord's baptism. And so Nicodemus says, we know, seeing these things that we see, we know thou art a teacher come from God, for no man can do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him. Take he therefore, what he's saying, take he, this is the Christ, the promised seed, God, manifest in the flesh, speaking to us, revealing himself to us, us, us sinners here in Missouri, us, that he should be so kind and gracious to us. What a gracious God. So our Lord did these wonderful and mighty miracles because He is the light of the world. He is the light of the world. He's that same light which God brought forth the uncreated light to shine upon this dark world when He said, let there be light. And there was light. And this dark world, Just imagine when that light comes on and you're in a dark room and suddenly there's a bright shining light and your eyes are all dim. That world was stoked and moved and the heat of that, you can just imagine how things began to just move. be affected by the light, the light of God. And so that's what his word does. That's what he does when he draws near to us. We need the visitation of our Lord to visit us, because we can be just as dark just as cold, just as lifeless as this world when God shone his light upon it. And we need his grace to bust through this hardness and dullness of mind and heart that we would hear him and receive him and be blessed and rejoiced by his grace and power. And so these works are done in the open, and they lay bare what we are. He exposes us. He lays us our hearts open. There's not one of us here this morning that heard Brother Gary's message that doesn't know, Lord, save me. Help me. Help me to hear. Lord, bless me. Visit me this morning. And so we always need his grace. We always are relying upon him. Because the natural man, when they're reproved, they despise him for it. They hate him for it. But that's how the Lord distinguishes them that are his. Because though we be reproved by his word, yet we're always thankful that he's not fooled by us and that he's drawn us near to him. And so the light of Christ and by his words and miracles shines that light and reveals the darkness and what we need of him. I know I've shared this with you before, but when we lived in PA, there were some workmen working on one of those boxes, those cable boxes across the street from our house, and they had done something, and a charge went under the street, through that line, and struck our house first, and it sent up a little fire up the side of the house, right around the gas meter and stuff, I guess the meter coming in. and a woman was going by with her dog and she comes banging on the door and she says there's a fire there's a fire get out everyone get out and she called 9-1-1 and the fire department comes and some police come and they set up these bright lights on the house And it was light when this all began, but now it was dark. And the garage had to be open because they had to get into the other side of the wall to make sure there was no fire hiding out in the wall, unseen, waiting for them to leave and then break out and destroy the house. So anyway, these lights are shining. My garage door goes up there, and I don't know if you've ever seen my garage today, but it looked a lot like it looked back then. It's my overflow. It's where I store things is in my garage. I don't leave my garage door open because It's a catch-all. It's got all kinds of things in there. And it's just all exposed. And all the neighborhood has come out to see this action. There's these teenage boys, five or six of them, gathered together, laughing, hoping to see an explosion and a fireball go up in the sky. I mean, they were just looking for it, hoping for it. And there's me standing. with these bright lights and the garage all open, in my shame. Just everything that was hidden in the darkness behind that door is now lifted and exposed. And that's what the word of the Lord does. It exposes the darkness that's hiding out in the crevices of this heart. And it reveals by his light. It's good. My garage is still just as bad, so I didn't learn nothing. I just hope I don't have to do that again, but it's a good visual though. But understand that our Lord's coming revealed Himself to be sent of the Father. He is the Christ. He is the Lord. He's the last Adam to whom the Father gave into His hand our very life, our very sustenance, our very joy, our blessings, our all. It's in His hand, His hand, and He's come. He's come to fulfill that word of promise unto us, and He did it. He did it. When our Lord was speaking to the Jews in John 10, verse 36 through 38, He said, Say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world, thou blasphemest, because I said I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. If I'm not doing His works, don't believe me. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works that ye may know, and believe that the Father is in me, and I in him." This is what we're seeing here. Christ is the candle lit of the Father. He is the light of the world whom the Father has given unto us. Hear him. Believe him. He is the Messiah. He is the Savior. He is Lord of all. He's our God and Savior. Believe Him. Now, after describing Himself the candle lit, that Christ shines, He turns this light toward us, toward us. And He says, in verse 34, Luke 11, 34, the light of the body is the eye. And just think of a window in your home. What does that window do? When you open it up and you take the blinds off and lift up any shades blocking it, it lets in light into your house, right? It brings in the light. And that's what he's saying. Your eye is a window. Your eye is the light of the body. That's where the light enters in. And so here stands very God, robed in the flesh, God manifest in the flesh, this is Jesus, the Christ, the Lord, the Son of God, the Savior, standing right here before us. He's a candle lit and his testimony shines brightly, shines a light brightly upon us and our need of him and our eyes are taking this in. Even our ears, they're taking us in, we're seeing Christ. Therefore, he says, when thine eye is single, single. See, do you remember what Brother Gary was saying this morning? When your eye is single, when it's focused on him, when it's simple, unclouded, uncomplicated, not burdened by all kinds of other things, not confused when it's whole and good, set on Christ. That's what he's saying there. When thine eye is single, the simplicity of Christ, thy whole body is full of light. When your eye is single, set on Christ, your whole body is full of light. Christ is leading his heroes here to spiritual things, to a spiritual understanding, but he uses this very familiar analogy. If you have a room with a window, or even if you have a lamp in that room, a light, what happens when the light is on in that room, in a dark room? You don't see anything. When that light is turned on, you see everything that's in that room. You can see where it is on the floor. You can see what's sticking out. You can see where your shoes are. You can see where you have your backpack. You can see where this piece of furniture is. And what do you do? You can move around it. Oh, almost stumbled over that. If you can't see it, you stumble. You fall. People have hit their heads, knocked themselves out, been hurt very badly. People have died. in their fall, right? And it's a relevant illustration for us. When you see, when you have light, you can move around those things that would cause you to stumble and fall and get hurt or die. It saves you from it. It protects you from it without stumbling. And he goes on, but when thine eye is evil, when it's evil, thy body also is full of darkness. And that word evil, well, just, I mean, think about that. You would think if it's single or double. No, it's single or evil. Evil. That word evil is used 77 times in the New Testament. And it's translated a little differently. It has a couple ways in which it's translated in the New Testament. And when we take it as a whole, it gives us a good understanding of what he's saying there and why he used the word evil. When an eye is evil, your body's full of darkness. Now, one way in which that word is translated is the evil one. It speaks of the evil one, the wicked one. For example, 1 John 5, verse 18, we know that whatsoever is born of God sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. It's translated wicked one there, doesn't touch him. The man Job could be touched, but the new man of Christ in him could not be touched. He couldn't be moved from that. And that's what John is saying there, by the way, is this old man of flesh sins, only knows sin, but the new man in you cannot cannot not believe. All the new man can do is believe and trust Christ. The new man, that creation of Christ in his people, does not and cannot sin, cannot be turned from Christ. The new man believes. This old man of flesh is weak and faithless and foolish, but the new man of grace in us cannot not believe Christ. And so, This evil one, though, gives us a sense of that word. When an eye is evil, when it's evil, right? And then the other sense there is how it's used with it being evil, where it's translated evil. And that's, I think, the most that it's used or translated. And what that speaks of is one that is full of labors. full of toil, full of distractions. Constantly these things, these troubles are coming in and just distracting us from Christ and preventing us from seeing Christ. All our attention is taken off of Him and we get taken up with the things of the world. And then we stop coming and hearing Christ. And just our thoughts, whatever word was sprinkled here on the heart, it just proved to be a hard surface, a pathway trodden, and the birds of the air just came and picked up that word and carried away. So it's forgotten as soon as we walk out the door. It's just forgotten. And so that word evil means one who's full of labors and toils and harassing difficulties, things that distract. Things that distract from Christ. They're distracting from the one thing needful. And when you think of Martha, you see that. Martha, Martha, thou art cumbered about with many things. That's what he's saying. He's saying your eye, Martha, is evil. It's evil. You're missing the one thing needful. The light is here. And Mary sat at my feet. Her eye is single, single. And she's chosen that good part, and it will not be taken away from her. And so that's why it's amazing that we can be rebuked. We can be reproved by the word, just as Martha was. And by the grace of God, it's good. It's good. And that's what our Lord is saying here. Take heed, take heed, because the light of the world is here, Christ, in Christ. And so when you take those two, the evil one and evil, our distractions, we see that description of us by nature in Ephesians 2. That one who's under the dominion of the prince of the power of the air going the course of this world, which is nothing but distractions. and in league and in shoulder to shoulder with the children of disobedience and the children of wrath, with our eyes all under that control of the evil one doing evil and wicked works. That's what he's saying, that by the grace of God, we need his grace to save us from that and keep our eyes single upon Christ. And that's what our Lord does, he warns us in verse 35, take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. And he's warning the Jews here, in the context here, he's warning the Jews to attend, to give heed to what the Christ is saying and doing. He's saying, take heed, I'm a candle burning. God the Father has lit this candle, take heed that it bring forth fruit, that it bear fruit in you, that this light that you're hearing and seeing is not darkness." And so what he means, because he's saying, how can your light be darkness? He's saying the light you have These were Jews. They had a notional understanding of these things. They had the oracles. They had the oracles given to them. They had the prophets. They had the writings of Moses in the law. They had the temple and the sacrifices and all those pictures and types that were there given to them. That was the light they had. And he said, take heed that the light you have, that notional understanding you have, be not darkness. But go on, because the fulfillment is here. That's what he's saying. The promised seed is here. And you guys, you were taught to expect the Messiah. He's here before you, and you're about to completely miss him. He's going to go right on by you, and you're going to be left in your sins. and die in your sins. And so he's talking about that external revelation that they had, that was the light that they had, they were about to, it was gonna be nothing but darkness for them, they were gonna miss it. Verse 36, if thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. And so this speaks to the new creature. This is speaking to that new creation of our Lord, the gospel light of the burning candle that enters the soul, that gives light to the new man, born of the spirit of God, born of his grace, which is in every one of his chosen redeemed children. If you have not the Spirit of God in you, you're none of His, Paul said. But if you're His, He gives you His Spirit with which to hear these things, to know that this is Christ, to know I need Him. Lord, cleanse me, wash me, as Peter said, wash my whole body. And he said, you that are clean need not save you wash your feet. And so he washes our feet here with his word, in the gathering of his sheep, in the communion of the saints, feeding upon the bread of heaven. Rejoicing in him, feeding upon the bread of heaven. And so it's just like now, we're coming into spring. What happens? The more we stay upon Christ is like that time of spring where the sun is rising higher and higher. There's greater and greater light coming upon the land, staying upon the land longer. There's heat, more and more heat warming that soil and that seed which is dead in that soil begins to move and come forth and it goes up and it bears fruit. It eventually bears fruit. And what happens, you tend to those things, to those plants. You give time to those plants. You're mindful of where they're put. You're mindful of how much they've received water. And you take care of those things that they bring forth that fruit. You know, I've tried to grow some things in the wintertime. I've tried. I've tried to get cold hardy things and I have not been successful yet. There's a few things that'll sprout up, you know, like you could get garlic going and lettuce and some cilantro, but Other than that, it's usually going to get destroyed in that cold, dark thing, because there's no light and there's no heat. And Christ is that light and that heat that we need. He's saying, take heed. Come and partake of these things. This is the rising beam of the Son of God. This is the day star rising in your hearts, warming us. partake of those things, partake of them freely. It costs you nothing to come and partake of Christ. It's given to us freely by His grace and mercy. And that's what he's saying. So we're influenced. The single eye is influenced wholly by Christ. believes his word, believes his word and his work, believes the witness and testimony of Christ illuminating that which he's created, that new man in us. And that one has a right understanding whose eye is simple and single upon Christ. And so it's as a room illuminated, full of light. You can see what's in your way. You can move away from that, step aside, go around it, move it out of the way, and not stumble and fall. It really is that simple. It's all by His grace. I don't mean to make it sound like it isn't. It's all by His grace. But that's why He's given it to you, to bless you, to keep you, to encourage you, to grow you, to make you stronger and stronger, to bring forth fruit, some hundred, some sixty, some thirtyfold. It's all by His grace. And so, what our Lord is showing us here is that this is basically a commentary of everything He's been teaching us. If we just take it from Martha and Mary, because that was the first half of it there, and he's basically saying the same thing that he taught us there with Martha and Mary. But in between came all these lessons, all these little lessons, seemingly disparate things that didn't seem related, but they are all related. And so these words here are like a capstone class. When I went to college, typically college is four years. And the first year, they give you the 101 classes. The second year, you get the 201 classes. The third year, you get the 301s. They're getting a little harder and harder. In the fourth year, there's a few 401s. But the 405, I think the numbering is the same. That class, that 400 level class, is the capstone. And the capstone class was what brought everything you learned together. That's what it's supposed to do, to bring everything together. So I was in business and management, and so it took your economics and your finance, along with your human resources stuff, along with your strategies and tactics and things like that in business, and it brought it all together in a final project. That was your capstone. And that's what Christ is doing. He's bringing us to the capstone, saying, this is it. This is everything I've taught you is for this understanding, for you to get this. And so just real quick, lesson one was what? At the beginning of the chapter, he taught us to pray. He taught us to pray. And specifically, the example that he gave after he taught his disciples to pray was he gave that example of the importunate sinner, the importunate knocker, meaning the shameless knocker. At midnight, he comes to the door, banging on the door, shamelessly at midnight, dogs in the neighborhood are barking, a cat, meow. Garbage cans get knocked over, lights go on inside the houses, someone opens the window and says, what's going on down there? And you're there still knocking, knocking, knocking, not giving up. A shameless knocker. Have you no shame? Be quiet. Trying to sleep. Shameless knocker. It's because we've been awakened as sinners. We've been awakened by God. A friend, he says, has come to your house. That friend being the law of God that says, Sit here before me now, your righteousness. What reason do you have hope to stand before God accepted of him? I need some righteousness. I need to be satisfied with a perfect righteousness. Well, before that friend came, I thought my cupboards were full. I thought I had all I needed. I went to church. I prayed my prayers, I read my Bible, I gave, I fellowshiped with the people, I did nice things, I went to the hospital and visited the sick, and I did this and I did that, and I thought that was my righteousness. But as soon as he came at midnight, and I went to the cupboard thinking, oh, I was fine, and I opened him up, Whoa, it's empty. I don't have anything to set before you. And so you fly to the house of your friend, the Lord Jesus Christ, and you bang away. Save me, Lord, save me. I don't have what I need to stand before you in perfect righteousness. It's a friend because he comes now before the day of judgment. He visits us now to make us to see and to know, I'm a dead man. I'm a sinner. I have no righteousness of my own. Save me, Lord. And we knock and knock and knock until he opens the door and gives you all you need to satisfy the justice of God. The holy law of God. He's satisfied in Christ. He gives us that, brethren. He described it as three loaves. Three loaves. The first loaf, a bread, a loaf of bread, a fish, or an egg. That first loaf being the bread of heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ. We need him who is the bread of heaven. the one who gives us life and sustenance. The fish, I believe, a picture of the washing of our sins by his blood, the cleansing of our souls, the cleansing of our hearts and minds. And an egg, which is a symbol of what? Life. A new birth. He gives us that egg. He gives us the spirit who gives us a new birth in Christ. That's 101. That's your 101 class. When he shakes you, brings you down to nothing, when he shakes the earth, all the things made of man and the earth fall. But that which is made of him stands and does not fall, because it's his heavenly work. It won't fall apart. And then he taught the people in the next thing that it's Christ alone who saves his people. It's all of him. It's all of his work. And he delivers his people from the strong man's house. We see more and more it's our Lord who did it. He's our Savior. He's our man of war. He's our captain. He's the Lord. He's the one who went into that house and bound him, shut him up, and delivered us the spoils out of the strongman's house and then divided the spoils, meaning he gave his ascension gifts unto us. Preachers and teachers to preach this word, to feed you this word, and his many gifts that he severally distributes to his people, such as faith and hope and love in him. And he brings us together all for his purpose. And we see more and more. how that we were brought out of bondage and continued to be delivered and kept by His strong arm. It's all of Christ, all of Christ who does this. And I liken that to Class 201. You're growing and seeing more and more. It's Him. He's my mighty, gracious, almighty God and Savior. And then He taught us that our true blessing which is a new ear that hears, and an eye that sees, and a heart that's turned and believes Christ, that it's this new creation which he's done in us. He's done it, right? We know it technically, I mean, from a textbook sense, right, that we must be born again, but he makes us to know that he's done this work in us, that we are new creatures, that by experience, it's his work and not mine. If it was relying on me, I'd be way off in left field or right field or somewhere else, but I wouldn't be where I'm supposed to be. But by His grace and power overruling my foolish heart, He keeps me. This new creation is His work so that we hear His word and keep it, meaning we believe Him. We continue to walk in faith, ever looking to Him. And when He turns us, what are you doing? look to me, and he sets our eye singly upon him again and again." That's his grace and his power, brethren. That's what he does. He spoke of Sheba, and he spoke of Jonah the prophet. signaling that that sign that Jonah had done was of him. He shows us more and more that this whole book is Christ. It's not teaching me to be a religious hypocrite, it's teaching me Christ. It's showing me Christ over and over again, that he's the perfect one because we've tried, we've spun our wheels in the mud and the dirt and got nowhere. All we did was get better at hiding our sins and masking ourselves and trying to be good, even though we couldn't. And we finally, by His grace, He tears that false work down to see that Christ is all. He's the righteousness. He's my hope, not because I've improved myself and fixed myself. Rather, he's made me to see and to love and to desire Christ more and more because all I've seen in myself is I'm just more of a sinner and even deeper in sin than I knew when I began in the first place. So he brings us to see that salvation really is of the Lord and that Christ is all. That's being settled in him and being brought to peace with God and resting in him. and breathing out and sighing hymn saying, thank you, Lord. Thank you for showing me Christ. That's your 301 class. You're being settled in hymn, your 301. And they're all related because they're all built upon the foundation, which is Christ Jesus. And he's taking all these things as precious stones and making us a living stone that he fits in his house upon his foundation with our brethren, the other living stones. And he builds the house shining more brightly upon us, meaning that our eye gets more and more singled on him, on him. And we see all these distractions are just distractions. And we see him more brightly, more clearly. And that brings us to the capstone of our learning, the capstone class, which is where he brings it together, as he's doing here, saying, put your eye on me. Keep your eye on me. Don't miss me. I'm your salvation. He's the Lord. He's the Savior. And he brings us in and sits us right next to Mary at his feet and shows us that he's the one thing needed. And we're made to sit right there next to her and hear the words of Christ. To know, as the Apostles John and the Apostles Paul so often said, and we know. And we know. We know these things because we're hearing his word and he's blessing us with his word and showing us these things more and more that Jesus Christ is the light of God given unto me for my salvation. To take me out of the dung hole and set me on the foundation of Christ, the rock of God that he's given for my salvation and the salvation of my brethren. to bring us out of this death and to set us in that inheritance of Christ, to deliver us from the inheritance of man, which is death and darkness, and to set us in the inheritance with the saints and light in his kingdom. And it's a blessed, blessed thing. So again, verse 36, if thy whole body therefore be full of light, Having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. So we're taught that capstone, Christ is all. Christ is the one thing needful. Keep your eyes stayed upon him. Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blessed. Finding as he promised, perfect peace and rest. And so brethren, I pray, That's the class you're hearing, the capstone class, where the Lord puts it together in us by His grace, for His glory, honor, and praise. Amen.