Our scripture reading is taken from the book of Acts and the chapter two. The book of Acts and the chapter two. We're going to break into the chapter at the first 14. It's a long chapter. A familiar chapter, of course, because it is the inspired record of the day of Pentecost. So it's Acts chapter 2, and we're going to commence at the first 14. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words. For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel, and it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my savants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. and I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before that great and notable day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Ye men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know him, being delivered by the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. For David speaketh concerning him. I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad. Moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope, Because I will not leave my soul in hell, neither will thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life. Thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that if the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne, he, seeing this before, speak of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus, have God raised up whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascended into the heavens, but he saith himself, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand until I make thy foes thy footstool. Therefore, Let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, repent, Be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. And ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promises unto you and to your children and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, save yourselves from this untoward generation. They that gladly received his word were baptized, and the same day there were added unto them about 3,000 souls. Amen. May the Lord add his divine blessing to this reading from his inspired and precious truth. Now let us bow together in prayer and seek for the gracious help of the Holy Spirit of God as we turn to the Word of God this morning. Let us all pray. Our gracious and our loving Father, we do come afresh to the divine mercy seat, rejoicing that there we do obtain mercy. We confess that we ever stand in need of mercy. daily pardon of our sin, the cleansing efficacy of Jesus' blood. We rejoice that there we also do obtain grace to help in every time of need. We would confess, as the book of God is opened before us, this is such a time of need. Holy men speak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. How much we need the ministry of him who is the divine author of this volume. Spirit of God, our teacher be, showing the things of Christ to me. Grant, O God, that every heart will experience afresh the quickening power of the living word of the living God. Minister to us, we beseech thee. Grant help to thy servant, a vessel only blessed master, and yet with all thy wondrous power flowing through me thou canst use me. Every day, every hour, use me this hour to thy glory, to the exalting of thy dear son, and to the good of precious souls. And we earnestly pray. For any among us who are yet unseeved and unconverted, that this may be the day of their salvation, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. The book of Acts and the second chapter. What we read this morning is indeed the record of the first sermon that was preached in the New Testament dispensation. It is a sermon, of course, that marks the beginning of apostolic church history. Therefore, I would say to you today, it is a sermon of unusual importance for us. It indeed is a semen that ought to hold our deep interest. Again, it is the first sermon preached after the coming of the Holy Spirit of God in His fullness. It is so important to underline that it is this that the chapter concentrates upon. You turn for a moment to the first 41, and what a text this is. It reminds us of the marvelous power of the gospel. 3,000 souls were saved as a consequence of the preaching of that one sermon. Notice how it is before us here. Verse 41, then they that gladly received his word were baptized, et cetera. They that gladly received his word, that is the word that was preached in the power of the Holy Ghost on that occasion. And it is to that that the wondrous success in this chapter is attributed. It is to the preaching of the Word of God in the power of the Holy Ghost. We're remembering Luther this year. And if you have read of the labors of the Jaman Reformer, you'll know he was a laborer. And yet Luther on one occasion made this statement, and I quote, I have done nothing. The Word has done and accomplished everything. So you see when you look at Acts chapter 2, Those things that are mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, there in the verse 2, the sound of a rushing mighty wind. In the verse 3, the cloven tongues of fire. In the verse 4, the speaking of other tongues. Those things are incidentals. The primary focus of the chapter is upon the preaching of the Word of God in the power of God. That's the primary focus. And of course, I shouldn't have to labor the point in a free Presbyterian pulpit, that is the God-ordained means for the saving of sinners, for the building of the church, for the establishing of His kingdom. Please God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe. You know, Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones, it must be, well, 70, 80 years ago, back in the 1950s perhaps, he made this statement. I would say without hesitation that the most urgent need in the Christian church is true preaching. And as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the church, it is obviously the greatest need in the world also. I wonder what that dear man of God would say today when preaching is so eclipsed in so many professed evangelical churches, where there is more emphasis today upon entertainment than upon the exposition of the Scriptures. I want to quote the words to you of an old Puritan. Indeed, this is the only quote I know from him. His name was the Reverend Henry Smith. He was known as the most popular Puritan preacher in Elizabethan London. Indeed, he had this nickname, the Silver Tongue Smith. But he made this great statement, as every sound is not music, So every sermon is not preaching." Very significant statement. What was that Puritan driving at? That there is a great deal of difference between a mere sermon and a message from God? It's wonderfully expressed, is it not, in the little book of Haggai where we read these words, the Lord's messenger in the Lord's message. And what a tragedy it is when the one occupying the pulpit stands up to deliver a mere sermon. And what a tragedy indeed that those who sit in the pews come to hear a mere sermon where there is no message from God. Well, I am convinced that I have a message from God for you today. I'm indeed convinced I have a message from God for the whole Free Presbyterian Church. It's a message that God deeply laid upon my heart. Some of you may have read the famous book by Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Taris? Great book to stir your heart. Great book to bring conviction to your soul. Well, Leonard Ravenhill made this statement, we have no lack of preachers of prophecy, but we are pitiably short of prophetic preachers. And again, what was he driving at? Very same as the old Puritan. men who will come to the pulpit, having an understanding of the times, like those men of Issachar of old, knowing what the Israel of God ought to do, and they will come to the pulpit and be able to say, I have a message from God for thee to borrow those Old Testament words. Now, let me pause for a moment and ask you the question, child of God, has that been your desire in coming to the house of God in Dremore this morning, that there might be a word from God for your heart, that honestly and sincerely you can say in the ways of the psalmist, I will hear what God the Lord will speak to me. And because that has been your sincere desire, in the week that's gone, you've prayed about it. You haven't come to God's house prayerless this morning. Rather, you can say, yes, preacher, I have sought the face of God for this service. I have prayed for you, the servant of God. And I have prayed that as I came, the Lord would have a word for me." How vital that is. How vital that is. You know, over the 50 years of being in the ministry, I have met those who are connoisseurs of preaching. Now, they love not only to hear the sermons that are being preached, but to analyze them. Of course, I have to say that I do suspect that oftentimes it is in order to find fault, perhaps, with the sermon. When I went to the theological hall of the Free Presbyterian Church in 1967, I discovered I was the youngest convert that ever went into the college. They wouldn't let me in today, I can assure you. I discovered to my horror that when we went to homiletics with Dr. S.B. Cook, he was going to give a student every week a text, and he had to come and preach it to the student body. I dreaded that. And that's an understatement. I'd only preached a few times when I went into the college. So unlike others around me at that time who'd been through the Faith Mission College and had done some preaching, well, not me. And of course, when we would go around the table, Mr. Cook at the head of the table, students around, then Mr. Cook would turn to every student who had heard his fellow student preach to have comments. And he used to say this, my brethren, I want constructive criticism, not destructive. I feel oftentimes I got the destructive criticism. I had to preach one day on Hebrews 11, without faith it is impossible to please God, and no matter how I studied and thought, I got nowhere with the text. But I had to get up and do the best I could. And the Reverend Gordon Cook was there, and his comment was this, well, if Brother Patrick had any faith when he began that sermon, he had none when he finished. So I always do feel I got some destructive criticism. But let me say to you, it is so important for a congregation to realize that any preacher can struggle in the pulpit. God keeps us humble and sometimes we fall flat on our face. And any preacher can have what we would call hard going in the pulpit. And when he would speak to his brethren that Sunday evening over the phone, he might say, I didn't get away with it today. But never forget this, no matter how the preacher may struggle in the pulpit, in his preaching there may be a word from God for your heart. Don't miss it. Don't miss it. But let me say to you immediately, I'm not against, you see, Christians having a critical ear. Because I believe that Christians have a duty to exercise spiritual discernment about the ministry under which they are sitting. And I go on without hesitation to say that some of God's people are in churches today where they ought not to be. There is no faithful preaching of the word of God. There is no faithful proclamation of the gospel of God. And they shouldn't be there. And that's the reason why I believe, you see, the book of Acts gives us 14 sermons, seven by Peter and seven by Paul. In order as we read the sermons, on the basis of what we read, we can exercise spiritual judgment concerning the ministry that we're sitting under. That's a duty. And what a sermon we have here because here's the first sermon. So really it ought to hold our interest in regard to this. And this morning I just want to now point out some simple but so vital things about this sermon preached by Peter on the day of Pentecost. And the simple first point is this, this was a scriptural sermon. It was a scriptural sermon. It is so important, especially in our day and generation, to underline what Peter did not do. And it's been done today, because I have seen it and heard it more times than I care to remember, it has been done today in some of the greatest churches numerically that are meeting across the world. Peter did not begin, you see, by talking about the wonderful experiences on the day of Pentecost. By going on to say, this is so wonderful, you know, and you can have these same experiences. But that's what's happening in so many charismatic churches and churches of contemporary worship around the world. You'll notice carefully that immediately in verse 16, Peter brings them to the scriptures. immediately. And as you read this sermon, it is full of references to the Word of God, to the prophets, to the Psalms, to Joel, to David. And this first 40 indicates and all the therefores that I read. I don't know if you know that I tried to read this chapter carefully. The therefores that are in it. We know that Peter was reasoning and arguing out of the scriptures of truth. And a good sermon man and woman will always be a scriptural one. There will be the expounding of the word of God. It will be impregnated with the inspired scriptures. Dear man of old said preachers who saturate their sermons with the word of God never wear out. How true that is. You go into any free Presbyterian minister's library today. Now I know the young men are into computers. I do not like reading off a computer screen. I'm old fashioned. Good old book. Feel it. Underline it. That's what I like. But over the years, as soon as you'd go into a free Presbyterian minister's study, what's on the shelf? Usually the complete Metropolitan Tabernacle. See, it's Spurgeon. All the sermons. How and why is that that they're being read by millions still across the world? Because he preached the word. Because they're impregnated with the scriptures of truth. And let me pause again now and ask another question. Are you in the light of that praying for our free Presbyterian colleges? And I'm saying it in the plural because I'm remembering the United States where the college has been under such an attack of hell. Are you praying for our colleges? That the Lord will be pleased to make them charitable schools of Christ? And that young men called of God being trained there will come out as able ministers of the New Testament. Young men who will preach the word, proclaim the gospel, blaze a trail for Christ. Are you remembering to pray for the colleges? You read about apostasy, it always begins in the colleges. The unbelief of our day and generation, right across our nation, it began in the colleges, and then because the men being trained to stand where I'm standing this morning imbibed unbelief, the unbelief got into the pew, and our nation's in the state of sin as a consequence. It's a vital duty, men and women, to remember to pray for our colleges. And isn't there a great need? I mentioned how busy retired ministers are in my first free Sundays in September now. This is my second message this morning, by the way. There'll be 14 faking pulpits come August again, even with the Reverend Colin Mercer coming home. And that does not include the faking pulpits on the mainland. There's a great need, and I say this to every congregation I visit, to do what the Savior said, pray the Lord of the harvest, to thrust out laborers into the harvest fields. But I must move on. But before I do, I want to emphasize, because this was a scriptural sermon, it is God-centered and God-exalting. Now, I'm not going to ask you to look at these. I'm just going to mention them to you. For example, in the first 17, we see the God of scriptural prophecy. In verses 22 and 23, we see the God of sovereign purpose. In verse 24 and verse 36, we see the God of supreme power. In the verses 30 and 33, we see the God of sure promise. I'm just saying that so quickly too that you may realize that where a sermon is scriptural, it will be God-centered, God-exalting. And yet we live in a day of subjective religion. And alas, we have lost people in our free Presbyterian church to churches that are more concerned to make you feel good, to tap your feet to beady music, than to seek to drink in the Word of God. I must move on. Secondly, it was evangelical. I was saved under the ministry of Dr. Paisley. I remember in those days, he used to talk about the great English evangelist, Roland Hill, and how he preached the three R's. Reign by the fall, redemption by Christ, regeneration by the Holy Spirit. And when you read the sermons and acts, those three great pivotal doctrines are to be found in those sermons. And they're actually here, of course, as well. But what I draw your attention to is how full of Christ Peter's sermon was. You only have to read it. The references to the Lord Jesus in it. Now that was the great theme of apostolic preaching. You remember in Acts chapter 8, Philip went down to the city of Samaria. What did he preach? Preach Christ. He got up in the chariot of the Ethiopian eunuch. What did he do? He preached Jesus unto him. That was the great theme. And in these days of such blatant blasphemous unbelief, it's important to underline that he faced his congregation with the great and glorious facts concerning Jesus Christ. They're all here. His birth, His life, His teaching, His miracles, His death on the cross, especially His resurrection, and then His ascension to the right hand of the majesty and high, they're all there. Because men and women, that's the basis of our Christian faith, are those great and glorious historical facts concerning Jesus Christ. Now in Australia we hardly ever did have an Easter season come in which some leader of some of the major denomination would deny the historical reality of the resurrection. And of course we've had that in the United Kingdom where a bishop once described it as a juggling trick with bones. I want to tell you he may be a bishop, he's not a Christian. Those who deny, for example, the phage in birth, they may hold the highest office in any church, they're not a Christian. Those who deny the vicarious atonement of Jesus Christ, they're not Christians. Our Christian faith is based on these great historical facts, and they're all set before this congregation by Peter. It really is, you see, just one testimony to Jesus Christ. And you must have noted, especially Peter sets out to establish and proclaim the resurrection. Understandably so, of course. And we know from this book that that was the great emphasis in apostolic preaching. It was on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Listen to these words from Acts 4, 33, and with great power gave the apostles witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Bless God, we proclaim. a living Savior. I've just returned from a trip. My son and his wife surprised us with a visit from Australia none of the family knew. He wanted to go down to the Ring of Kerry. Of course all over the south of Ireland there's shrines and statues to Mary, but I was recently in Vienna. in Austria, and I have never seen such idolatry in Ireland as I saw in Vienna and Strasbourg. Thank God we don't have any crucifixes on the walls. Our Savior is alive. lives in the power of an endless life, and the head that once was crowned with thorns is crowned with glory now. And I tell you this, if you're unsaved in the meeting, listen, that's why he's able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him. He ever lives to make intercession for them. Oh, if you trust the Savior today, you can walk and talk with him every day of your life. He's the greatest of all companions. He's the closest of all friends. Oh, come and trust the Savior today. Someone has well said the empty tomb has been the cradle of the church. But let me say something else about this sermon. It was not only scriptural, and of course it was not only evangelical, but it was faithful. The trumpet at Peter's mouth gave no uncertain sound. And remember this, this sermon was preached against the great men of his nation. He was preaching to those excitable Jews who just a few weeks earlier had cried out concerning Jesus of Nazareth, away with him, away with him. Give us Barabbas, crucify him. And did you notice how plainly Peter charges them on more than one occasion that they had crucified God's incarnate Son, their Messiah, the Savior of the world. And I can say, therefore, this was not only faithful, it was personal. It was personal. There's an old defying, I think this is a great quote, men and women. This is what he said, a great many sermons were like carefully written letters dropped into the post office without any address written on them. They were not intended for anyone in particular and they never reached anybody. You can never say that about Peter's sermon. If ever a sermon got home to the hearts of men, it was this sermon, and 3,000 souls were converted that day. Therefore, we can say, can't we, it was powerful? It was effectual. And yet a Spurgeon said, never was there a sermon more commonplace. But, you see, here was a sermon that was faithful to the word of God, Faithful to the souls of men and God the Holy Spirit was faithful to bless that word and bring it home with conviction to those 3,000 that were converted. Here is the key to acts. This is the truth that I learned at the feet of Dr. John Douglas in the college. And I remember to what extent Dr. Douglas gave emphasis to it. The key to the book of Acts is simply this, the church exercised its ministry energized by the power of the Holy Ghost. That's the secret. That's the key. Now as I'm coming towards the end of the message I'm going to give you a quote that's the most important one that I have made. It has been well said, and I quote, the church wants no other means of increase than those by which it was founded. I'll say it again. The church wants no other means of increase than those by which it was founded. And what was true of the apostolic church is true of this free Presbyterian church of ours. I want you young people to listen. Our church was born in a prayer meeting. It went on for nearly two days, as I remember, maybe over the two days. Dr. John Douglas, as Dr. Paisley's first convert, was in that prayer meeting on the Raven Hill Road in Belfast. Our church was born in prayer. Secondly, our church was born through the faithful preaching of the word of God. As I say, I'm getting forgetful. I meant to bring them to the pulpit and I forgot. I was going to bring some of the old revivalists. Revival Fire in Dungannon, 80 souls saved. Revival Fire in Portadown, again, maybe 60, 80 souls saved. Those were the headings. When we think of Dr. Paisley back in those days, we need to remember the plea and powerful preaching of the gospel. And I would love to be able to take you young people to those meetings where the atmosphere was electrifying. Where as you sat in those meetings, you could see and hear that the word of God was having an impact. There would be groans of an anguished soul. There would be the tears flowing. You know, as a young Christian, one of the first things that I had to do was to help people get to an inquiry room who were unable to get there, only that they were so broken and under such deep conviction of sin. And I say amen when we need to pray God to give us days like that again. That's how our church was founded. Prayer and preaching. But we're living in hard days, aren't we? Difficult days. When I was a young Christian and went to Ravenhill Free Presbyterian Church, we never asked this question, wonder will somebody be saved today? No, no, we never asked that question. The question we asked was how many will be saved today? People were getting saved in the prayer meetings. People were getting saved in believers services when revival was being preached on and they weren't even gospel services. But oh, what a trend we have today to get away from those apostolic methods. Acts 6 and 4, the apostle said, we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word of God. Now you see in Australia, I've seen it firsthand. I was rather shocked to find some of the churches that I'm finding now in Ulster. I've seen it in Australia. I got an invitation, as many around that area did, to go to the opening of a new church, a place called Joondalup in Perth in Western Australia, professed evangelical, professed Bible believing, but they were having no preaching at their opening services. They were showing two movies. I could go on telling you those things that have eclipsed preaching. And our free Presbyterian Church needs to stick to God's methods. Now that's proved to be a battle in some of our congregations and people have been lost. Sad to say, but we're living in critical days. And we need to stick to the old God-ordained means, prayer and preaching, prayer and preaching, and hold on to God. We need to see God move and work in our day and generation. But you know, in concluding, may I just say this to you? I have some water here. There is an answer here to that question. How and why does someone become a Christian? You just think for a moment, here are 3,000 souls added to the church, prior to that they were not, and yet 3,000 were saved. This provides the ultimate answer to the question Lloyd-Jones says there is nothing more definite than being a Christian. According to the New Testament, people who do not know what it is to be a Christian or cannot tell you why they are Christians by definition are not Christians at all. What a change was wrought in these converts. As I indicated earlier, just weeks before, crucify him! Away with him! They totally repudiated the claims of Christ, give us Barabbas. Now they are believing in the words of Peter that God have made that same Jesus both Lord and Christ. Why? We'll just glance at verse 37. We'll come back to it this evening in the gospel. You'll notice when they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts. What was done to them was done in their hearts. Richard Baxter said, heart work must be God's work. Only the great heart maker can be the heart breaker. This was the work of God. That's the point I'm making in closing now. This was the work especially of God the Holy Spirit bringing home to their soul that scriptural, evangelical, faithful preaching. And so concern and anxiety was born in them. What must we do? Martin Lloyd-Jones said again, salvation is not primarily something you do, but something that is done in you. Isn't that true? Surely any Christian in this gathering, if I was to go to you and ask the question of the Bible, who make of thee to differ from another? Would you not unhesitatingly and gladly and joyfully say, the Lord saved me. I've made the difference. I was lost, but Jesus found me. My feet were making haste to hell, but God in mercy opened my sin blinded eyes. The Lord saved me and by the grace of God, I am what I am today. There's nothing in me. It's all of Christ. It's all of the blood. It's what the Lord has done for my soul. Now, can I ask you in closing this morning, is that your testimony? Young person, is that your testimony? By the grace of God, I am what I am. You're rejoicing today that the Lord saved you. Some of your old companions are still on the broad road that leads to hell's destruction. Is that your testimony? I'm only a sinner preacher, bless God. I'm a sinner saved by grace. I'm a sinner that's been redeemed and washed in the precious blood of Jesus. The Lord turned me around, the Lord saved my soul. Is that your testimony? A few weeks ago, I was preaching in Lisbon. Went through the door of the porch. The first thing I was told was a man who was always there every Sunday morning sitting in his place, he had his place, had been found dead that morning in his bed. He never heard Thomas Martin preaching again or myself. Never sat again in a gospel meeting. Oh, tell me, if that had been true of you today and this congregation was again put into grief, would there be joy mingled with the grief that say, well, that man, he's with Christ, it's far better. That young person cut off on that road accident, bless God, she was saved. What a difference it makes. It makes all the difference. Are you saved today? Vital question. May God enable you to answer it. And if you're not a Christian, let me say to you, I am your servant in the gospel. It'd be my privilege and my joy to meet with you. You see, the night I was saved, I didn't know one verse of the Bible. I needed all the help I could get. Someone to open the Bible, read it, show me how to come to Christ, help me to pray, help me to seek the Lord. I'm just saying I'm your servant. Nothing would give me greater joy than to talk to you about these things today. Perhaps you'd be more comfortable speaking to someone that you know in this congregation, an elder, another Christian. Say, I don't want to leave this morning unsaved. I want to be saved. Come to the Savior. Make no delay. As here in his word, he has spoken today. We'll turn again to this subject tonight in the will of God. We're going to bow together in prayer. I've preached out my time, so I'm not having my closing hymn. We're just going to close our service, please, now in a word of prayer. Our gracious God and our loving Father, we do thank Thee that the entrance of Thy Word giveth light. We thank Thee again, O God, for what Thou hast wrought in our free Presbyterian church When we look back to those early meetings, when there was a few at the beginning, when we met in the wooden huts, in the leaking tents, and yet, oh God, how thou didst work among us in thy grace and power, and so many were saved. We look abroad in this province, we look abroad in the nation, and Father, surely we have to say to thee, we only have to look into our own hearts, Cry out like the psalmist, will thou not revive us again? Make there thy saving arm. Show thyself strong on the behalf of all them that fear thy name. And come to be our help. And so, our God, we just pray thy blessing upon the word preached. Stir us to pray. Encourage us to go on with God. Encourage us to believe that the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. And even in this day when we remember the Reformation, may we see such days again. Speak to any in the congregation, young or old, who are yet without a Savior and thereby without hope. May they be brought to the Savior's feet today in repentance and in faith. Remember us as we journey home. Grant us all journeying mercies. Remember again the family that has been bereaved. Draw near, and greatly comfort we beseech thee. In Jesus' name, amen.