Well, I'd like to ask you to turn with me in your Bible tonight to Psalm 23. Psalm 23, and I would like to conclude this psalm with these last two verses. Tremendous, this psalm. Of course, it's a very familiar psalm, but there's just an immense amount here We'll try to just... Is this still on? I switched over just now. Is it on? There we go. All right. Very good. All right. And so I want to conclude this psalm tonight. I'm going to read the whole psalm because I want to set the table, if you will. I don't mean that as a pun. That just kind of came to me. You'll see what I mean by that in a moment. But I want to remind us of the context here leading up to this, because there's a couple of things I want to point out by way of introduction. So it says, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Let's look to the Lord in prayer for a moment. Heavenly Father, we thank you tonight for this precious passage in your word, and we thank you, Father, for what it teaches us of the Lord Jesus Christ and the blessing and assurance for our soul that is found for us in the Lord Jesus Christ. We ask, dear God, tonight that you would help us to understand your word and, Lord, you would apply it according to your Holy Spirit and his work to our lives and use it for your glory in our lives to help us to to magnify the Lord Jesus Christ and to exalt Him and to be a testimony of Him with our lives and with our speech. We thank You and praise You for it. We thank You, Lord, for all that You have given to us, provided for us in our Savior. For it's in His name we pray. Amen. There are several ways you can look at this last section, the last two verses. I've been taught that blessed quietness, when I think about the whole thing, that's what comes to my mind in relationship to this. Also, this blessed assurance is found in this passage. There's blessed provision. There's so many things. But what I want you to notice, to begin with tonight, is a transition that takes place in this psalm. And this should speak to us as far as our relationship with God is concerned and our walk as a child of God. I trust every one of you tonight knows the Lord, knows what this is talking about. But I want you to notice verse four. Up until verse four, everything is the sheep talking about the shepherd. And he constantly uses, I shall not want, it's the Lord, he's always spoken of as he, he maketh me to lie down, he restoreth my soul. It's all spoken of, speaking of Christ as in third person, if you will. But when you get to verse four, that changes. And now he says, In the middle of this verse, he says, I will fear no evil for thou art with me. Now he's not talking about the Lord, he's talking to the Lord. He's not talking about his shepherd, he's talking to his shepherd. And that stays that way through the rest of this psalm. Look at it again. Thy rod and thy staff, as they comfort me. He's talking to him. Thou preparest a table in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. It's talking to the Lord. Now, the relationship has changed. First it starts out as a testimony of who the Lord is and what he means to him and now he is literally talking to him. It follows and it starts really right in the midst of walking through this valley of the shadow of death. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou, not he, is with me, for thou art with me. His relationship through the darkest hour of his life brings him into the closest relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul made the comment in relationship to his walk with the Lord in the book of Philippians. He spoke of that I may know him and the fellowship of his sufferings. Paul had known him for years. He's the great Apostle Paul. He had been taught by the Lord Jesus Christ for three years in the desert. And then came back and continued to preach. He preached just before that and continued afterwards. Came back to Damascus again. He had suffered much for the Lord Jesus Christ, and he's talking about that, that he endured all these things that he might know him. In other words, that he might know him better, and that he might know him more personally and more intimately. That was the greatest desire of the Apostle Paul, was to know Jesus Christ better than he'd ever known him before. To be closer to him and closer fellowship with him, even in the fellowship of his sufferings. If it takes sufferings, and it does, to bring us into that kind of a closer relationship. And the psalmist here relates to that very thing. I couldn't help but think about how many times David went through such deep waters in his life, and how many enemies he had as a king, and even before he became a king, Saul chasing him and hounding his every step. And so close to death, so many times that he came to the conclusion, he said, immediately after God delivered him, he said, there's but a step between me and death. the top of victory and deliverance to it just dawning on him that I'm just an inch from death. I'm just one step and I'm dead. And that wasn't true, but it's the way it made him feel. But all of that, every time, brought him into a closer relationship, into closer fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ, his shepherd. And so when you look at these verses tonight, it continues with that. This is the closest of fellowship that it's talking about here. He says, and he speaks of his good gifts and mercy. and his assurance of perpetuity that is always with him. In other words, right on into eternity. I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. I'm going to walk through this life through the valley of the shadow of death and literally the valley of the shadow of death. And for the child of God, death is but a shadow. It's not the same. It's not the darkness of a lost person, but it's a shadow of death. It's what we taste, we talk about, and I mentioned last week about some will not pass through death, will be caught up, and many times we say, I'd be nice to be one of those people that gets caught up, but you know, there is a closeness that we only experience, and sometimes the greatest blessings for the child of God is in the hours when they're passing from this life to go and be with the Lord Jesus Christ. I've been with some people just before and when they've passed on into eternity that knew the Lord and loved Him, and they're still looking forward to getting through this to be with the Lord. And it seems like their closeness just gets better with their Savior. There is a presence that Every child of God has, and that is the presence of our enemies. Verse 5 says, Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. God has prepared a table for all of His people. We can read the Word of God, we can listen to the Word of God preached, and God has spread a table for us. But this is a special table. It's a table that's in the presence of mine enemies. God's people always have had enemies. You understand that? We've always had enemies. There are people in our nation tonight, more than I've ever seen in my life, more people than I've ever imagined that openly hate God's people. If you don't know we have some enemies, You just need to get your head out of the sand and pay attention to what's going on. I mean, you're becoming more and more blatant and open about it than ever before. But that's all right, because God has promised, and the more you walk with the Lord, you realize He prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies. If we have no enemies, for Christ's sake, we're not like our shepherds. The Lord Jesus Christ said that. I'm just telling you what he said. If they've hated me, they'll hate you. In other words, the reason they've hated me, if you're like me, they're going to hate you too. The sheep are not above the servants, not above his master. So it's going to be the same for us. It's been this way ever since Cain and Abel. Cain hated his brother. The first murderer was a man who hated his brother. and should be the closest of people, closest of relationships, but he hated his brother. And John tells us why. Because his brother's deeds were righteous and his were evil. Why? Because he sought to bring an offering of his design rather than bring the offering that God demanded. And as a result, when God rejected his offering, he hated him. Well, that's the same people that hated the Lord Jesus Christ. And you can trace that all the way through the Word of God. But that's the same people that hated the Lord Jesus Christ. I mean, they're of the same seed. They were a people who trusted in their own righteousness, that they were then themselves, that they were righteous. And they hated Christ. He said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes unto the Father but by me. And without Me, you are still in your sins, you shall die in your sins, except you believe in Me, you'll die in your sins." And they hated Him for that. He said He was the I Am. I am my Father, our One. And they took up stones to cast it, and they hated Him. The world is the enemy of God and the enemy of Christ. Yet look at the peace of the saints of God. Look at the experience. of the saints of God. Thou preparest. This is a continual thing. The psalmist is speaking from experience. This is what God has done for him. And that's why I mentioned David. You think about the Psalms. Read through the Psalms and see how many times David's talking about his enemies and how his enemies hated him and even desired to kill him. Read the psalm of the walk of the child of God and you'll see it doesn't take very long and you get through a few of those stanzas of that psalm and he begins to talk about people that hated him. He begins to talk about affliction. That's the way it is with the child of God. If you walk with God and you're any kind of reflection of the Lord Jesus Christ at all, we live in a world that hates Christ and they'll hate you for the same reason. It doesn't mean we go around having a persecution complex and trying to make people hate us. No, it's in spite of the fact that we have compassion on them and try to warn them of the truth, but if we tell people the truth, they're not going to like it. But the Word of God says, and this psalm speaks from experience. Look at how many psalms. God prepared a table for him. God revealed more of his truth to David. throughout all of those experiences of facing his enemies, God showed him more about himself through every single one of those things. He does that. There is complete satisfaction for the child of God in the table that God has spread. Hebrews 13 and verses 5 and 6, let your conversation, I gave you this verse last week and I want to remind you again, let your conversation, that is, your manner of life, the character of your life, and the character of your life starts in your heart. So your conversation, your lifestyle, your manner of life, it starts in your heart how you think. Let your conversation be without covetousness. Covetousness is a heart problem. And be content with such things as ye have, for he has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Are we satisfied that in the trials of life and the afflictions of life, and if we face persecution, whatever kind it is, whether it's just verbal persecution or whatever it is, it's still putting pressure on us as a child of God, that we can be rejoicing, satisfied and rejoicing with the table that God has prepared for us. Jesus said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. In other words, it doesn't just mean, well, he's there, believe it or not, he's there. It means he's there and he will commune with you. I don't even, I don't dare beginning to talk about the times that I faced opposition for the truth of God. Somebody didn't like what the word of God teaches. And regardless, it's still true. And so you face that. And in the midst of that, God begins to teach you things. I've had people challenge what the Word of God teaches. And in the midst of them, sometimes they bring up the dumbest arguments. They'll bring up a verse that doesn't have anything to do with what they're talking about. And you look at that verse, and God just opens it up. I think about the Lord Jesus Christ telling His apostles But in essence, don't worry about what you're going to say when you come before kings and before judges. Don't worry about what you're going to say. The Holy Ghost will give you what to speak in that day. He's not talking about preaching to God's people like now. Don't prepare a message. No, he's saying when that time comes, I'll give you a mouth to speak. All the things that God revealed to them about himself and opened up their understanding, and they were able to preach the Scriptures. God prepared a table for them in the midst of their enemies. Beloved, don't be worried about, what am I gonna say if somebody says something? If they need to hear something, listen, just prepare yourself, read the Word of God, study the Word of God, and when the opportunity comes up, God will give you something to say. And if He doesn't, so be it. Maybe He didn't want to say anything to them anyhow. You know, there's times when Jesus just walked away too. But it says here, going on to say that we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man shall do unto me. Whether it's physical or verbal. It doesn't matter what you do and it doesn't matter what you say. I will not fear what man shall do unto me. The Lord is with me. He'll prepare a table for me. He'll take care of me." There's a providential supply that God gives all of His people. He prepares the table that way. He provides all of our earthly needs, and sometimes in abundant supply, but not always. But sometimes it is. Paul said he had learned to be content in any condition, in want and in abundance. for God's provision, I've learned in whatsoever state I am, whether in abundance or whether in nakedness or hunger," he said, whatever it is I've learned in whatever state it is, to be content. To be content. If it's what God has provided, I'll be content with what God has provided. It's God's table. He has prepared it. And He prepares us. for the table that he's prepared. Listen, I'd rather be on this side of it than to be like the individuals in a couple of the parables that the Lord Jesus Christ spoke of when he said, I've prepared a table. My feast is ready. The animals are slain. And let those know that have been called. And the ones that have been called weren't interested. They had other things to do. They had worldly concerns. And they weren't concerned, didn't care about the things of God. They were too interested in worldly concerns. Happens all the time, doesn't it? Happens all the time. Other things interfere between us and God. Well, in that case, he was given an illustration of lost people. But the table spread. He said, well, go get people that are in the streets. And when you get all the ones in the streets, then go get the ones in the bushes. But I want my house filled. It's prepared. The word prepared means furnished. In Psalm 78 and verse 19, Israel challenged God. Yea, they speak against God. It says, they said, can God furnish? Same Hebrew word. Can God furnish? Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? Well, He sure did. He gave them water. Then later he gave them manna from heaven. He gave them bread. And then when they complained about that, he gave them quail. He gave them meat. He prepared, not just supplied, he prepared it for them. That means to set it in order. He arranged it. I believe he gave water and bread and meat in that order for a reason. He didn't have to do it that way. He could have done it a different way. But he did it that way. Every one of those things points to the Lord Jesus Christ. Water is the most essential thing to sustain our life. That's the first thing God gave the Israelites. And Jesus said in John 4, verse 10, He answered unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. That's the first testimony of Christ concerning those things in the book of John. The second one is John chapter 6. Two chapters later, in the same order, the flesh and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ is what he's talking about when he said in verse 35 of chapter 6, he said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. Now he's talking about the work of Christ that continues to support life for every child of God. The Word of God says He gave them flesh to eat. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Bread of Heaven. Christ supplies His eternal wisdom for His people, His counsel and His understanding. In Proverbs 9, verse 2, it says, speaking of, it personifies the wisdom of God. She hath killed her beasts. She hath mingled her wine. She hath also furnished her table. Take advantage of God's table. God's put together a feast in this book. Do we open our Bible on a daily basis, consistently go to the Word of God and feed on the Word of God? I'll tell you something, if you feed on the Word of God in private, when you're faced with enemies of the Word of God, He'll spread your table in the midst of your enemies too. God provides. And he sets things in order just right. All of these things must be received and embraced by faith, applied to our life by faith. But not only does he say that, but he says, Thou anointest my head with oil. Anointest my head with oil. First thing I think about that, and I don't believe it's actually what it's talking about, but that truth could be applied to as well. But first thing I think about, well, The priests were anointed to their office, and David was anointed as king to his office, and so that was a normal thing to do. But that's not the only thing the Word of God talks about, and this is talking about at a table. This is talking about a banquet. In that context, I find an example of that and what that's talking about in the New Testament. The Jews do this in honor of their guests. It was a common thing. Now, we don't do this today, but they had a common custom to honor their guests. When they came in, they washed their feet. They might have one of the servants do that, but that was something that was done. They walked the dusty roads when they came in to eat a meal. They came into your house. The hospitable thing to do is they would wash their feet. And when they washed their feet, then they would continue, and they would anoint their head with oil. If they respected them and they were an honored guest, they'd anoint their head with oil. And so in Luke chapter 6 and verse 46, the woman came and wept as she worshiped the Lord Jesus Christ in Simon's house, that Pharisee. And she wept and tears, her tears fell on his feet. She washed his feet and she took an ointment, the oil that she had, and she anointed his feet and Simon Jesus read his thoughts. He was despising her. And Jesus said to him, My head with oil thou didst not anoint, but this woman hath anointed my feet with oil. That's what it's talking about. Here's a feast. Jesus Christ should have been the honored guest. But here the word of God tells us he sets us down at his table and he makes us an honored guest. He honors his people. with His grace and His favor. He honors His people with the truth of the Word of God. 1 John 2 and 7, the Apostle John speaks of this same thing in this epistle when he says, But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you. Every child of God has been anointed, their head has been anointed with the oil of God's In other words, the Spirit of God has been given to us to teach us the things of God. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things. Listen to this. The anointing teaches you. It's the effulgence of God's Spirit. working in us in a teaching ministry of the Spirit of God, and is truth and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." As he teaches us, we continue to abide in him according to the truth of the Word of God. He teaches, he supplies our need for truth and to give discernment of false doctrine. That's what John's talking about. That's the anointing of the Spirit of God that he gives to the children of God. Listen, when a child of God is confronted with blatant heresy, there are some things a little more deceptive than others. And he's talking about in the context when a child of God is confronted with things that are contradictory to the truth of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God gives us discernment to recognize, to wake up and say, you know what, that's not true. We ought to especially, at least, at least be able to discern when someone is denying the truth of the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. When their doctrine is inconsistent to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the sufficiency of his person, the sufficiency of his work, the Spirit of God ought to be teaching us some things. There ought to be red flags that go up in our head about that. But then he also says in this song, not only does he anoint my head with oil, But He says, My cup runneth over. Wow, I think about that. All these things He does for us. He gives us a feast. There's the food to eat. There's the drink to have. The anointing of our head. And then He says, My cup runneth over. The Lord Jesus Christ referred to that in relationship to Himself as well. He said, He that believeth on Me As the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Are you so filled up with the Lord Jesus Christ that it just can't be contained anymore? It just flows out. It becomes part of your life and it becomes part of your conversation. What you hear of the Lord Jesus Christ The joy that floods your soul, does it flow out in your conversation? That's what the psalmist is talking about. That's how much and how abundantly God provides for His people. It's what it means to enjoy the blessings of God. It means what it means to really follow our Good Shepherd. This is what He'll do for you. I want you to notice last of all tonight, all the past provisions. and the blessings are a foretaste of the glory that's to follow. Verse 6 says this, surely, surely, that is an absolute affirmation. There is absolutely no doubt about this. And he has absolutely no doubt because of a religious experience in the past. No, he has absolute assurance of this because that experience, that initial experience of grace, has resulted in a continual experience of the grace of God in his life. A continual walk with God. And because of that, he has great assurance in his soul. That doesn't mean he's depending upon that. That's not his security. Our security is the blood of Christ, but the assurance in our soul is heightened and increased by our walk and our fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. He says in this verse, surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I want you to notice carefully, He says it will follow me all the days of my life. The free grace of God and the mercy of God that's in the Lord Jesus Christ shall follow me all the days of my life. Every blessing we receive, we receive by faith. We don't earn the blessings of God. As the first fruits of the spirit of grace in our lives, the very first experience of the grace of God and repentance and faith, we didn't earn that grace. and the peace, and the knowledge, the righteousness of Christ that comes by that, and justification, and the peace that comes from that. We didn't earn that, we received it by faith. Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 3 says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Then I go down to verse 13 and he says this, In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and who also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. Now catch this, this Holy Spirit of promise is the earnest of our inheritance. It's the earnest of our inheritance. What does that mean? Until the redemption of the purchased possession under the praise of His glory. The purchased possession, the redemption of the purchased possession, that is our final glorification. That's when our soul and spirit is reunited to this body and it is glorified. And then we are fully redeemed body, soul, and spirit. That's what it's talking about. But until then, we have an earnest. We have a down payment. The Bible speaks of it in this same text as being a stamp. In other words, there is evidence that we are the children of God, and it is the Spirit of God that dwells in us, communes with our spirit that we are the children of God, but the Spirit of God that teaches us the Word of God, and the Spirit of God that works in our life and transforms our lives. That transformation of our life in the communion we have with God through the Spirit of God and through the Word of God is God's stamp upon us that we truly are the children of God. Therefore, the walk that we have with God today, walking in the grace of God and in the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ, sure is into eternity. I was talking a little bit ago when we started talking about verse four, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, and those who actually don't go through that valley of the shadow of death when it's really death they're entering into, which is just a shadow for them. But as they get closer and closer to that, so many times their peace and assurance and anticipation and looking forward to seeing the Lord Jesus Christ is simply heightened by that experience. So the shadow that's all around them doesn't change their fellowship with God. That's the testimony of someone who's walking in fellowship with God. He says, they shall follow Me. They'll follow Me. That is, these things come to pass to God's people, not because they seek them, not because they earn them. but because they do what the Lord Jesus Christ said in the book of Matthew. He said, seek you first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. There are people, listen, there are people that just by faith seek the righteousness of God, desire to have his righteousness in their life. We seek to know more of what that is and have more of it applied to our life. We're not earning anything. We're not trying to earn anything. We're not trying to work for anything. It's just a desire that God puts in the heart. A desire to see God's kingdom evidenced more in our life and to be used of God to further his kingdom. And the result of doing that is that God blesses us not because of our service. He blesses us in our service. And all these things follow us. all the days of our life. They are the sure mercies of David. He says, he calls them surely goodness and mercy all the days of my life. And then he says, I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. They are the sure mercies of David. What does that mean? The sure mercies of David? Think with me for just a moment as we conclude this psalm tonight. In Psalm 53, in verse 3, it says, I will make an everlasting covenant. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. He starts out this great chapter in Isaiah, calling this, he says, come unto me, all ye that thirst, all ye that hunger and are thirsty. And I will give you water. And I'm paraphrasing some of this because I don't have it in front of me. But he says, I will feed you. And he says, it will cost you nothing. It'll give you nothing. There'll be no cost involved. How in the world do you buy? How do you buy these things without money? Because you receive the blood of Christ. They're purchased with the blood of Christ. You receive them by faith. It doesn't cost us anything, but it costs him everything. In other words, this name of the Sure Mercies of David is talking about the everlasting covenant of God. It's a name for that covenant of God that God made with David, that His Son would reign upon His throne. Christ is called the Son of David. He is the fulfillment of the Sure Mercies of David. Peter declared Definitively in Acts chapter 2 that the covenant is this covenant is fulfilled in Christ David is dead and his sepulcher is with us under this day So these things he says it's talking about Christ and that God hath raised him from the dead David is still in his sepulcher, but God has raised him from the dead and Ratified that covenant through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ vindicated the work of Christ on the cross of Calvary by his resurrection And Peter says, in that Christ hath raised him from the dead and made him Lord and Christ. David was promised that. And although he and his son sinned, God promised that God would raise up his son out of his loins to sit upon his throne. David and all of his sons, his sons were sinners. They all sinned. The testimony all through the book of Kings and verses and chronicles Every one of those, even the best king. At some point, God points out their sin. God points out the failure in their life. None of them was sinless until the Lord Jesus Christ came. God raised up that son to sit upon his throne, and the fact that he was sinless and God received his work that he accomplished on the cross of Calvary is the fact that he raised him from the dead. God has vindicated, then, that he will be the judge of the quick and the dead. David received mercy and that his sons did not cut him. His son's sins and his sins did not cut him off from the covenant that God made with him into his house. God in mercy keeps that covenant. He has kept that covenant and he will continue to keep all that he promised to David's seed in that covenant. God's mercies are sure. in the Lord Jesus Christ. They're secured by this covenant and they're sealed in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. When He died on the cross of Calvary and shed His blood, He ratified that covenant. When God raised Him from the dead, God gave assurance to the fact that He had accepted His work on the cross of Calvary. None of these benefits are earned because we serve Christ. This psalm I said in the beginning is a psalm about how we serve God. It's based on our supply. It's through our shepherd. He's the one who guides us. He's the one who leads us. He gives us living water. He gives us good pastures to feed in. He's with us even though we go through the valley of the shadow of death. There's no evil that can harm us. And he also gives us a fearlessness because of faith. In all these things, God is the one who provides us and it all draws us. It can't do anything against us but merely draw us into closer fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. We don't earn any of these things, but they are the gift of God by grace through the Lord Jesus Christ. These are people who come as they are when we serve Christ. and are intended to provide care for us as we serve Him. Not because we serve Him, but as we serve Him. We owe everything to our Great Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's stand and have a word. Gracious God and Heavenly Father, are grateful to you tonight for the precious testimony and the word of God of our great shepherd. And we ask your God tonight that your Holy Spirit would take this truth of your word as it's been presented. And Lord, make it clear, apply it to every heart and life. Encourage us, Lord, and pray every soul would be encouraged to walk with you, to dedicate our time to serving you. and Lord, to spend time with you and walk in fellowship with you, to individually, personally grow in our walk and in our fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, I pray that you'd help us in all these things. For it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. That's our song tonight. Our invitation hymn tonight will be number 380. 380, Jesus saves. We have heard the joyful sound. Jesus saves, Jesus saves. Spread the tidings all around. Jesus saves, Jesus saves. Bear the news to every land. Climb the steeps and cross the waves. Onward, tears, our Lord's command.