Colossians chapter 4, and we're going to pick it up with verse number 5. He says, walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. I didn't write them all down in my margin here, but y'all ought to study sometime that phrase, them that are without. Paul talks about that some. But walk in wisdom, of course we're told how to walk just briefly. Ephesians 4.17 says, This I say therefore and testify in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind. That verse covers so much. One of the best things to do is not walk in the vanity of your mind. The way we think, vain thoughts, all these things, people thinking of themselves first and others last instead of others first and themselves last. One of the best things about having joy is, is putting others first. Y'all, it's so simple. We stumble over some of these truths, but let each esteem other better than themselves is a great truth, and he's just saying. If we're gonna make manifest and speak this way, making manifest the things that the Apostle Paul has had revealed to him, well, we ought not walk as other people that are without, and you gotta spend your time redeeming that time, because look, you've only got so much time anyway. So if you spend your time Putting the things that do not have with God and godly things in your mind, evil communication, corrupt good manners, you're not gonna be able to speak the mystery of Christ because you're not gonna be able to make it manifest because you're not gonna know anything about it. And then your speech is not gonna be right and we're not gonna walk in wisdom. And the thing is, the walking in the wisdom, y'all know this, there's the wisdom of the world, there's the wisdom of the word. But y'all we ought to be able as Christians who are under sound doctrine and y'all reading the Bibles and studying and praying You ought to be able to walk in such a way that other people that are without Can see the Lord working in and through you and you can manifest that godly wisdom now he's about to Since he's saying these things, he's about to start talking about people who've been serving with him. These people who've been serving with him have been redeeming their time, that is spending their time wisely, so that they can walk with wisdom toward them without, so that they can make manifest and speak as they ought to speak. So that's why, since we're going to walk this right way and speak this way, he says now, verse 6, let your speech be always, are always with grace, seasoned with salt. And some people go, how am I supposed to speak? Then you may know how you ought to answer. Every man. Okay, well, whenever you give an answer for these things, there's a way you're supposed to answer it. And this deal, I don't know if y'all are familiar with a lot of these cliches and stuff like this, but among some movements today, it's almost like it's a good thing to be rude. They say, well, I'm rude in speech, and we've got a bad attitude, we're proud of it. That's not a good way to look. that we're never supposed to be proud of having a bad attitude. We're never supposed to be, I'm just the way I am. Well, the Lord Jesus Christ, if he's on the inside of you, you got a choice now to let the old man die, the new man take over. Because we're told that's just the way you are. Some people told me well you just got that red haired temper and that's just the way you are. Well you're just going to have to fight it then. It's hard but that don't mean you don't fight the good fight. It never says it's going to be easy to put these things down but he's made a way of escape. so that we can answer the right way, and the way we're supposed to answer is in wisdom, and that's godly wisdom, that's been revealed through the Apostle Paul. We're supposed to study these things out, and as we answer these things, it's supposed to be with grace, seasoned with salt. Now, seasoned, it implies a preparation. I'll give you one cross-reference. I think it's Luke 14. You don't have to turn if you don't want to. I just want to make sure I've got it right. I think it was Luke 14, 34. It says, salt is good, but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? So you can lose your savor if you don't speak in a right way. One of the things is it takes preparation to use salt. There's all kind of other applications to it I know, but y'all it's gonna take some preparation to walk in wisdom. Wisdom has to be gained, it's not just thrown into your mind. So if we're gonna walk in wisdom, it's gonna take Meditation on the scriptures, that is thinking about what you've read. After you've read it, it takes time to read, it takes time to pray. All these things take time so that you can have salt in your speech, so to speak, but it's also with grace. Whenever you're preaching a message of grace, you're gonna say, well, you know, by grace are you saved? And if you don't, you're gonna fry like bacon. You know, I've heard people present that thing almost like, look, y'all, there's a right and a wrong way to go about it. Even whenever you preach on hell, you tell somebody about hell, it ought to be with love in your heart, not wanting anybody to go. You know, some people got a way of putting things across, and I know all of us can fall guilty of that because sometimes your passion will override things, and you put things across in such a way where you meant for it to be in the right way, but really it wasn't. And the more I read this verse, It should be prepared out and you should think about things before you say them and say it in a way that's pleasing to the Lord because we're working for Him and it needs to be presented in such a way that, look, you've got the best message that's ever been presented. When he says, it says here, season with salt, you're speaking always with grace. Well, whenever you say, by grace are you saved through faith, that's the greatest message there is. So whenever you say the thing about grace, it should be prepared and say, okay, I know That there's two or three scriptures and whether I have to write them down and memorize them Whatever that I have together when I preach this message of grace is something that I've prepared and I know I'm presenting the thing correctly Because y'all that the gospel now we're talking about it earlier Sometimes people they'll preach the gospel and there you don't even you never hear what the gospel is, right? Everybody in this room, if you're going to present the gospel message, you ought to know what the gospel is. And it ought to be the fact that we know Christ died for sinners. Well, first of all, somebody's got to recognize that they're a sinner. If he died for sinners, and you don't present the fact, okay, well, are you a sinner? Okay, we're not presenting the Gospel right. Okay, then he died, he was buried according to the Scripture because all of it is according to the Scriptures. And then Paul has additional revelation that's even beyond what they had in their Old Testament Scriptures. So it's according to, it's right in line with it. But then he's able to know, because of what the Lord revealed to him, what the death, burial, and resurrection does, the fact that you are added to the body of Christ without any covenants, without any promises, and without Israel. That was unknown and unsearchable in the Old Testament Scriptures. And you're able to present that message of grace So simply that a little child can understand the fact that if you come to him a sinner, he can provide the Savior by trusting the gospel of the grace of God, and that and that alone. Nothing added to it. And y'all, when you present that thing, you're working with other people, and now we ought to know how to answer every man. He gets to verse seven, he's working with these people, he says, all my state shall, it's either Tychicus or Tycheus, I'm not sure, but either way it'll be all right, I guess, declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, watch what all this guy is, this is forever recorded in the Word of God, a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord." Man, isn't that wonderful to have that for a testimony, forever written? You know, you tell me, well done, good and faithful servant. Here's a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, forever written. What does it say about him? For one, this man is concerned about Paul's state. Now my standing in Christ is forever fixed. But your state varies. All right, what's the state of everybody here? Well, I don't know, but I know this. I'm concerned and I hope and pray that each of you are growing closer to the Lord each and every day and rooting ground in the scripture. And I can say, now I know, okay, they're saved, but Lord, I'm praying that their state will be in such a way where they're serving you with their heart, Lord. And y'all, there is a good thing to be concerned about your fellow servants in Christ. This man was concerned about Paul, and we ought to be concerned about each other. There's a difference between concerned and nosy, though. But concern, a good healthy concern. So don't think you're sinning if you're concerned about the state of someone else, and I hope they're serving, I hope they're doing well, I hope they're reading the Bible, because that is a healthy thing to do with other fellow servants. Also, he says, in a faithful minister, I want to remind you of what a faithful minister does. In 1 Corinthians chapter 4, The Bible says in verse 1, let a man so account of us as the ministers of Christ. So this man was a faithful minister. So the Apostle Paul is talking about the minister of Christ. It says, and stewards of the mysteries of God. So if he's a faithful minister, He's supposed to be a steward of the mysteries of God. Well, you don't hardly ever hear any preaching today as a whole. I'm not painting the whole world with the same brush. But as a whole, how many sermons have you heard across your lifetime on the mysteries of Christ? You don't hardly hear that. Why? Because a lot of people are just preaching just to be preaching to get a lesson up just so they can fill some time and get their check and go home. But this man was a faithful minister. That means one thing, he was steward of the mystery of God, so he was preaching these mysteries that God has revealed. Not only that, but it says, moreover, it is required in stewards This man was, he's a faithful servant in a ministry. Steward, did a man be found faithful? That means he was faithful in that ministry that he's supposed to be doing. You know what? If we're gonna be faithful, we're gonna have to make sure that we study these things out so that we can answer right and answer with wisdom. And we oughta know what these things are. And so, for instance, the gospel that the Apostle Paul had revealed unto him was a mystery hid in God. the fact that no one else knew that we're gonna be added to the body of Christ without Israel's covenants and promises, the fact that you're sealed with the Holy Spirit of God, the fact that not only all these other things, we got spiritual blessings in heavenly places, but also the fact that one of these days, he said, behold, I show unto you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of the eye at the last trump. That was a mystery revealed unto Paul Christ one of these days is going to come up and rapture or catch up the body of Christ and we're going to ever be with the Lord. You know you got some of these people say, well you know the Lord's going to divide these off from these other ones and the ones who was really serving them. The Lord's going to make you them stay back. The Bible said you're ever going to be with the Lord. That's just forever and ever. That means once you're with the Lord, you're ever gonna be with the Lord. Isn't that a blessing? Okay, now not only that, but here's another thing. He says in verse eight, whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose that he might know your estate and comfort your hearts. He wants to know how you're doing and comfort your hearts by it. Well, how do you get comfort? Romans 15 that says that through the scriptures we may have comfort. I think it's verse 4. So what do you do? You take the word of God and the God of all comfort is able to comfort your hearts where with the comfort we're comforted of God. I got comfort of God, I can give you comfort. I got peace of God, I can give you peace. The old saying is you can't give what you don't have. Well okay, well if you've gotten peace from God, you can go to the scriptures and say okay, I got comfort and peace from God this way and it matches the scriptures. I got the joy of the Lord this way and it matches the scriptures. So I'm telling you, that's what this world needs is the peace and joy of God. That's all that coffee I'm gonna drink. But y'all, you're seeing that all these simple things belong to our ministry and our help with each other, and part of that's been able to comfort each other's hearts. Now, I'm gonna tell you, I got friends that send me stuff. I talk to some of y'all, we pray together, we fellowship together, and then I've got some people that send me verses. So you've got fellow servants, Paul had fellow servants with him, I've got fellow servants in this room, I've got a really good friend all the way in Sag Harbor, New York, and he sends me scriptures. I got a friend in Alabama, he sends me scriptures. Some of y'all send me scriptures. I'm just saying, we're serving, we've got a whole family, the family God we're serving with, and y'all, we're there to comfort each other and help each other, and build each other up, not tear each other down, because the apostle Paul said, you bite and devour each other. In Galatians, he said, be aware, or somewhere along those lines, you be not consumed to one another. One thing about having such a good church family is a lot of people don't realize it's not something money can buy. Once you get it, you've got it, you've got a family, and that's something God gives you. And you have to build that thing up. This modern generation, and I'm including myself in there, because we're just 40, I'm in the 40-year-old age gap, and y'all, they think that you can just go out by money and just have something. Hey, you just go in there, and there it is. Look, friends are made, they're not met. You have to make friends. You have to build things up and that's like a body of believers. It takes time, we grow together. And so that's what's happened here, and y'all, it's something that our generation doesn't understand. He says, comfort your hearts with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother. If he's faithful, he's doing the same thing the other one did, we just read about, but not only that, you go and read Philemon, and Onesimus at one point was a runaway slave. And Paul wrote a letter back to his owner and said, hey, receive him as you'd receive me. He said if he owes you anything, put that on my account. You know what Philemon is? That's a picture of what Jesus Christ does for you before, right before the thing's over and he goes to Hebrews and swaps and goes to a completely different group of people. You know how we're gonna be received? Just like Paul said, receive him on my account, we're received on the account of the Lord Jesus Christ. And anything that we owe because we couldn't pay it to God, guess what? He said, put that on my account, it's on the Lord Jesus Christ's account. And Onesimus now, he's able to relate to people, because he says, hey, he's a beloved brother, who is one of you? Yeah, he was a slave. You know, there's a lot of people who's a slave to all kinds of things and now they're one of us. Well, in the body of Christ, you know what? Then you become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? You know, people say, well, we're slaves. I've seen like the modern virgins, they'll call you a slave. No, a slave's different than a servant. A servant has a choice. You have a choice in the matter. You get to serve God and He's not going to make you. You get your free will choice and He calls you a servant. And so you're supposed to serve because you want to, because you love Him. Here's Onesimus. He says, okay, you tell me to go back, I'm gonna go back. And he got a letter on his account. And you know what that letter, that's scripture. You know what I have to appeal to? Nothing I can do. All I can appeal to, how can I appeal to God the Father? I can say, it says in your scripture, that you have placed my sins on your son, the Lord Jesus Christ. I have nothing else to appeal to. I have no works. I'm just appealing to the scripture, and the scripture says I'm saved by the gospel, the grace of God, and all that. I'm saved, but I'm sealed, Ephesians 1.13. The moment I trusted, I'm sealed. I have that to go by. Onesimus had a letter. I've got letters to go by, too. That's a blessing and then you want to be faithful because of what the Lord's done for you It says they shall make known unto you all things which are done here So they're telling hey, this is what Paul has going on and and not only that but they're faithful to be able to do that Verse 10 era starches you can read about him in in the book of Acts And he went through a lot of things with with the apostle Paul, but he says my fellow prisoner saluted you And that's something going through prison and things with him I mean choosing to suffer affliction with each other. Some people are gonna go, look, some of these guys went through them in some things, and some guys went through them in even harder things. You're gonna have some people that God allows you to be good friends with, and y'all go through some of the hardest times together that are there. But that's part of that fellowship, and I thank the Lord that we have that thing. Y'all, I'll tell you something, having brothers and sisters in Christ is a great blessing. Because a good practical application of the Old Testament, it says one will chase a thousand, two will chase 10,000. There's a whole lot more you'll do with two of you than just one of you. And I'm learning that as I go along. He said, he saluted you. And Marcus, remember, look at some of these people. This ought to encourage you. Marcus in Acts chapter number 13, he did not want to go with Paul to the work. Now why would Marcus have trouble with that? Remember, Marcus is John Mark. He's the one who wrote the Gospel of Mark. He knew all about that kingdom program. He knew all about what was going on. And some of these believers who were of the circumcision went from that kingdom program to the mystery program. And you've got to remember, at first he probably had a little bit of issue with Paul's authority. Because he's having to learn all this stuff and Apostle Paul's saying, yeah, God's not doing that anymore. He's doing this other thing. And here's something else God revealed to him. Can you imagine Mark saying, hold on just a minute. I've got all this knowledge on this thing, and he's saying, no, that's not what Christ from earth said. And the apostle Paul was saying, yeah, Christ from heaven said this. Can you imagine what John Mark had to go through? But then whenever you get to 2 Timothy chapter four, something's changed, and Paul says, bring Marcus with me. He's profitable to the ministry. He had gotten over that thing, evidently, and he had gotten to the place, hey, he was profitable, and he's in this list of people here. You know what that shows you? Some people can change in the meantime. Some people are not going to, but some people, they'll look at the scripture and say, okay, this is what the Lord says in his word, this is what he's doing, I'm gonna trust his word over what I've always thought about it. And not only that, but John Mark had to change his mind about a lot of stuff because he literally saw the Lord Jesus Christ walking around, walking on water, and he saw all these things. And then the Apostle Paul says, yeah, but the Lord's got all that on hold, and now we're in a mystery dispensation. He'll finish all that out later on, but now you're with me. And Mark just said, okay, well I'm gonna go along with it, I'm gonna work. And you know what? That's how we're going to have to do. If we're going to serve along with the Lord, there are going to be things in our life that we're going to have to change. That is repentance is a change of mind. You know, the Bible said in Genesis, it repented the Lord. He didn't repent of his sins. He changed his mind about something. The repentance that you have in the Word of God that's going to help you is changing your mind about a thought process, whether it's on a sin or even just a thought that, hey, I thought this. You check your thoughts with the Word of God. It's okay. I'm going to change my thoughts. from my thoughts to God's thoughts, because his thoughts and his ways are higher than mine. Okay, now it says, sister's son to Barnabas, so they're kin. It looks to me, from the scripture, like Mark is his nephew, but some people read that a little different, but as far as from what I can tell, that's what that is. Touching whom you receive commandments, if he come unto you, receive him. So he's being faithful to bring these commandments to them and thank the Lord he's faithful in those things. It says, and Jesus, which is called justice, who were of the circumcision. Now, some of those believers who were of the circumcision, who are of that kingdom program are now serving with Paul. And you know what Apostle Paul said? He got to see some of these things come to pass. He said in Romans, I think it's Romans 10, his heart's desire was for Israel and that his fellow kinsmen, that they may be saved. And some of these people were Hebrew and they got saved. Now look, it didn't just happen overnight. Y'all, there's some people in our life we'd love to see them get saved. We'd love to see them come to the knowledge of the truth. And it may take a while for it to happen, but sometimes it happens. Here, this man, it says his name was Jesus. He was called Justice. Now, I don't know. I didn't read anybody else's thoughts on this, but the only thing I can think is There's no other name given among heaven. Men must be saved and Jesus is the name of above all names. I bet it was hard for some of them people that knew the Lord Jesus Christ, especially Apostle Paul, getting a message revealed from Jesus Christ to call justice Jesus. I bet they called him justice because it would have been bad hard to call him Jesus. Because Jesus, you gotta understand, that's a man's name. So Jesus, he's 100% God and 100% man. He's not half God and half man. He's 100% God, 100% man. He died as a man because God can't die, so he took on a man's name. And then it would be hard for them to serve along through there. Can you imagine how hard it would be for the Apostle Paul to call that man Jesus? He called him Justice. That's what it looks like to me. But if anybody else knows anything else on it, I'd like to hear. It says, these only are my fellow workers under the kingdom of God which have been a comfort unto me. Now he says the kingdom of God there, why? Because we are in his heavenly kingdom. Now the kingdom of God is not the same thing as the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven has to do with his earthly reign over the earth, but the kingdom of God encompasses all of it. Because one of these days, he told his apostles to pray in Matthew 6, pray thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, because one of these days, the heavenly program will work along with the earthly program like it was supposed to in the beginning. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Then he had to put a firmament in between the two in a great deep up there to divide that thing because what happened? A rebellion happened in heaven and then a rebellion happened on earth. Rebellion with Satan. Rebellion with Adam and Eve. And so God has to reconcile the heavens through the body of Christ and the earth through the nation of Israel. So that's why you have two programs. God is going to have both of those programs work in accordance like they're supposed to and like they were always supposed to And so we're in his heavenly kingdoms. He calls it the kingdom of God and that's what you're in It says who have been a comfort unto me. So we're comforting The others were comforting their hearts. Now these men have been a comfort unto Him. Why? Because, hey, here's these believers who were under circumcision like me, and I changed, they changed, other people can change. Now that's one of the greatest things about salvation. We don't have to see signs and wonders. The greatest miracle is watching a changed life, watching the gospel, the grace of God work in that heart in grace of God, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously in this present evil world. That's amazing to see that thing. So he says, Epiphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ. Look at all these servants. Salute if you. Always laboring fervently for you in prayers that you may... What's he praying? Watch what his prayer request is. That ye may stand perfect. Now how's a man perfect? It says, all scriptures give my inspiration to God and it's profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. He says that you may be perfect. What's that? Complete in all the will of God. What's that? That means that you're letting the scripture teach you doctrine, give you reproof, give you correction, correcting you on the thing, because the reproof will correct you, and then you have structure and righteousness, and then you'll know the will of God. The will of God is not something we just, I just hope I'm in the will of God and all this stuff. If you follow the revealed will of God and the Word of God, The right road leads you to the right place. If you're following the will of God and the Word of God, it will lead you like you're supposed to in your daily life. It's that simple. He says, For I bear him record that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hiapolis. Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you. Man, there's two things right there. Luke, when you read 2 Timothy, Luke, it said only Luke is with me. But then it said over there in 2 Timothy 4, Demas hath forsaken me. You know what you're going to find out as you follow and you serve with other people? Some people are going to go, some people are going to stay. Some people are going to be like Demas. And some people are gonna be like Luke and they're always gonna be with you. You can't let it, you can't let it frustrate you. Y'all, I mean, look, preachers are as bad as anybody. Y'all, they'll get so frustrated, and I mean, not all of them are like this, but man, some just get so frustrated. So-and-so wasn't there on Sunday, and so-and-so, we didn't have a so-and-so on Wednesday night. Are you preaching? because people are coming. Are you preaching because you love the Lord Jesus Christ and you want to see the word get out and whoever accept it will accept it. Whoever doesn't want it, it's up to them. But you're preaching and you're teaching and whatever you're doing, all these servants are serving because they love the Lord and they love other people. But you're not doing it for results. If Paul was doing it for results, he would have been out a long time ago because he was in stripes and imprisonments and tumults and labors and watching and fasting and all that. Night and the day and the deep. He said his shepherd suffered shipwreck. And look, he was stoned. Y'all, you can't do it for results. You know what you're doing? Because you love the Lord. And that's why you're not doing it, because some stay with you and some leave. That's just, if it was like getting Apostle Paul, I'm not even a drop in the little bucket compared to that man. And Luke, it's so easy just to get so frustrated and say, well so-and-so's out and they're gonna quit. Well, Demas at this point, Demas greets you. At this point in his ministry, Demas was right along with Luke. So y'all, there's gonna be some people, and they're just right along with you, and all of a sudden, they're just gonna drop out. You know what you do? You just keep fighting a good fight of faith. And all right, he says, salute the brethren, which are in Laodicea and Memphis, and the church, which is in his house. Again, we talked about that in the lesson earlier, but that's the only place I could find Memphis, but hey, he got a church in his house. That's where things start. Y'all, there's no sin in having a building. It's got to start somewhere. Start out small, maybe it ends up greater. But y'all, there's people all over the world who can't have a building like we do legally, so they meet in their house. But there's nothing wrong with having, it's a blessing to be able to have this building, we all meet together, and we got pews to sit on, we got air conditioning. I mean, it's a blessing. But this man is only mentioned this one time that I could find, and hey, it may not be much mention of you here, but you know what, the Lord's keeping a score. It says, and when this epistle is read among you, that's why we read the scriptures, because they're supposed to be read. It says, cause it to be read also in the church, of Laodiceans and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea. So he's commanding, hey, this thing needs to be read. There. And say to Archippus, take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord that thou fulfill it. Now look, if he says take heed, that man better take heed because there's a temptation not to fulfill the ministry. If God has given you a ministry of reconciliation, That's what we have, the ministry of reconciliation. The fact that we can tell other people how to be reconciled to God is through the gospel of the grace of God. And Paul has got something he calls my gospel that was revealed. It's a temptation for Archippus with all the stuff that's going on where he was just to fall right in there and be like everybody else. Y'all, you know what? I'm just gonna level with you. It'd be simple for me if I wanted to. You can go in there and say, you know what, I'm just gonna start doing devotionals. Take me about 15 minutes to come up with a little message. You don't have to turn a whole bunch of scriptures. And Jesus went a little further, you know. Okay, well Sunday I'm gonna preach on going a little further. Well go a little further in your church membership. Go a little further in your title. Go a little further in your... And then you get out of the church bed and you ain't heard nothing. That's what most things are going on today. Somebody just putting a little devotional out there and finding something they think in the scripture instead of being faithful to fulfill the ministry. That is go by what the word of God says. And he says, I just want you to read this epistle. If you don't do nothing else, but read the epistle, they'll get more than just fables. It ought to be more. Church, that's why we call it Sunday school. That's why it's called teaching and preaching. It's educational. For years, I wasn't given that part of the thing because so much of it, they just think you're supposed to just come in here and be spat upon for just a little bit, sit on the front row, get spit on a little bit, and then get out of here, and I got a good whip, and I'm ready to go for the week. You're supposed to learn doctrine. And then you apply the doctrine to your daily life because look, I have no idea where each person that's gonna be sitting here today is in their state. That's why if you preach the scripture, the word is alive and it'll get in the heart and do the work it's supposed to do. You trust God with the message. Now we'll conclude with this. The salutation, by the hand of me, Paul, remember my bonds, grace be with you, amen. You can preach the whole message on that. But Paul stamped his name on every one of his epistles. You'll notice, that Paul, he wrote the salutation on his letters, but the Apostle Paul, every single one of the body of Christ epistles starts with Paul at the front. Romans all the way through Philemon, it'll say Paul and then he'll start writing. Now isn't that amazing? Because you got mailed directly addressed to you today, and the Apostle Paul is saying, hey, grace be with you. Y'all know a good way to conclude something? Grace be with you. How are you saved? By grace. How do you walk? By grace. What's gonna be with you? The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be all the way with you. Amen. We'll close out right there if we could. Brother Nick, if you would, close us out.