The book of Hosea, it is found after the book of Daniel. All right. Are you there in the book of Hosea, chapter six, verse number one? Only one verse to start with, and we will carry on from there. And I hope and pray that the Lord will open our eyes and our minds on this passage of scripture and the many, many verses that will come afterward. Hosea, chapter six, from only one verse. Together, let us read this verse number one together now. Ready, read. Come, and let us return unto the Lord, for He hath torn, and He will heal us. He hath smitten, and He will bind us up. Let's pray. Our Father in heaven, bless, Lord, the reading of your word. At the same time, Lord, bless our hearts as we discover a lot of things from your words this morning. And Lord, I pray that our hearts are ready, the hearts of your people are ready, and the Holy Spirit of God will have a free course and to teach us your ways. Bless, Lord, once again, your people. Give us victory in our hearts today. Give us, Lord, safety and protection in this place. We commit you to the rest of the service. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Please be seated. Hosea, this is a prophet that calls the people to repentance. And how beautiful it is when the people listen to the prophet. And how beautiful it is that there are prophets that will call people to repentance. How beautiful it is that we have people that preach the gospel. Prophets that we can listen to that will call people to come to God. And this is Hosea right here calling people to come to God. I can relate myself in this when I went to our church in Mabolo in 1993. I began in that church in 1993 and I am so blessed even until today. I can still remember the place where we attended the church, the building that we had before for 16 years while I was there in the Philippines. And my pastor, Pastor Jimbo Cortez, taught us and, you know, he was the one who invested his life for me and for the rest of us to learn to know God and to understand the will of God in our lives. And again, how beautiful it is when there are preachers, when there are preachers that are willing to invest their lives for the people to know God. And that is exactly, you know, what Hosea did here. In Hosea chapter six, verse number one, he said, come and let us return unto the Lord. Oh, what a positive call. What a, you know, a compassionate call of a preacher, calling for people to turn from their wicked ways and turn unto God. It is a beautiful thing that, you know, there are voices that will echo in the cities, calling people to repentance. Come, and let us return unto the Lord, for He hath torn, and He will heal us. He hath smitten, and He will bind us up. You see what the Lord has done? The Bible says here, He hath torn, and He will heal us. In other words, I believe God has reason why He punished these people. The Lord, our God, has reasons when we are punished by Him. And these people are punished, but again, God did not leave them alone after the punishment. God is intending to deal with them and their problems and heal them. The Bible says, He hath torn and He will heal us. This is God's expression of love. Sometimes God will punish us because we are His children. If we have gone astray, for sure, the Lord, you might have experienced His hand of correction. Any of us that will go astray, the Lord for sure will deal with us. And that is, brothers and sisters, God's, you know, expression of love. He doesn't want us to go astray because He knows the end. He doesn't want us to be in the way of destruction. He wants to change our ways. He wants to influence us to do good. And that is what happened there, that He turned them, but God is promising that He will heal them. And in the second phrase it says, He has smitten and He will bind us up. Again, we may experience distress in our lives because we have done wrong. Sometimes we go through problems, it's not because God really just wanted to harm or hurt us. No, my friends, things happen to us because most of the time it's because of our own decision. It is because of our own doings. And we are in a distressed position. But God said, He has smitten and He will bind us up. The Lord is promising that He will bind us up. In other words, He will never leave us alone. He will never leave us to be desolate forever. And this is Josiah's call for the people. And I believe this nation, Israel at the time, was a troublesome nation. And the problem of the people there, the iniquities, the sin of the people are too much. And then the Lord deals with them. But Hosea went there to call the people to come to God. This is a nation a nation that was in moral and religious decay. It seems like they are worse than the unbelievers. They are worse than the people who do not know God. But these people are supposed to do good and right because they know their God. But these people abandon anything that is right in the sight of God. And therefore, they have problems. But here, Hosea came along, and Hosea offered him healing, and helped these people in their troubled situation. He wants these people to return to God, so that God's blessing will begin again to shower upon them, and that they may live a quiet and peaceable life, and they may live a life that is abundant of God's blessing. This is exactly what every pastor may need, that they may need. The pastor will only think good for the people. The heart of the pastor is only for the blessing of the people. Because it is our joy to see the people of God being blessed. It is our joy that everyone will experience great blessing from heaven. Now why these people are punished by the Lord? Why these people needed to return to God? I think that is a good question that we need to answer this morning out from our text Let's get back to our Bible and from the book of Hosea this time chapter 4 verse number 1 You see why these people needed to return to the Lord because they had departed in their worship They have left God off from their activities, day in and day out, seven days a week, 365 days a year, although they didn't follow that. We only have 360 or whatever it is. They didn't follow that. But in their calendar, no worship of God anymore. In other words, they have departed from their worship. Chapter four, verse number one, it says here, Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord had a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, no mercy, no knowledge of God in the land. The people have departed the things that God, you know, important to God. The people of God do not follow God anymore. That is why this prophet came along and he spoke the words from the mouth of the Lord, and he called the people, and he did not mince words. He speaks bluntly. He speaks about the problem. He speaks about what's wrong with this church, what's wrong with this family, what's wrong with this person, and what's wrong with this country. And he speaks that, of the problem of the people. And what's the controversy there? What's the problem of these people? What's the controversy with these people? The controversy is that there's no truth in the land. No truth. Everyone will just lie with one another. Every day, they lie in the morning, they lie at noontime, they lie when the sun goes down. Lying and lying, they do not speak truth. and they do not, again, they do not have mercy. No mercy in the land. There's no knowledge of God in the land. The Bible says in Romans chapter 10, verse number 17, when the Bible is not proclaimed in the ear, when the Bible is not preached in the ear, the result of that is no knowledge in the head. and then there's no understanding in the heart. Why? Because the Bible says, so then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. You see, in John chapter 8, verse number 32, John 8, 32, truth grows out of being right with God. When we are right with the Lord, then the truth will come out from our mouth. The Bible says, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you or make you free. There is no truth there, and there is no mercy there. These people are the people of God. The God that they worship and the God that they believe is a merciful God and yet these people have no mercy. How can that be? This is a people that is called merciless and they have a God that is merciful. How can that be? You see here in Psalm 103 verse number 17. Mercy flows from knowing our merciful God. That is why there is mercy because we know God's mercy. He said here in verse number 17, but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting. Upon them that fear him and his righteousness unto children's children. God's people have departed from the mercy of God. They have departed from the truth of God. And in Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse number 13, you have to understand that God's people here had forsaken God. They had forsaken their Creator. They had forsaken their Savior. They had forsaken their God and their Lord. They had no time for Him. They find no time to worship the Lord. These people, The lesser things are only had for their adoration. The things that are not important, and those are the things that number one on their list from the first day all the end of the week. When you look at their schedule every day, you can find that God is not part of the equation. God has no part of their business. God has no part of their activity. God has no part. They have forsaken God. I will tell you, it's not just them, but us also sometimes. Sometimes the Christians have forgotten their God. The days passed and they have not prayed to God, they have not spoken to God, they have not talked to God, not read their Bible, and they have no, you know, communion with God. These people have forsaken God, and the same thing is true with us. We have forsaken the Lord. Ecclesiastes here tells us about the material things are dictating of our life's activities. Oh, how, or when. shall we all wake up to the reality that the most important thing in this life and in this world is our relationship with God. That is the most important thing. The Bible says there, let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man. Because at the end of your life and mine, We are going to face God, for God shall bring every word into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. That is why here our church will always call people to return to God. We'll always call someone who are, people who are in their, you know, life that is going astray. People who are straying from the path of the Lord. And we call people to come to the Lord. Return unto God. Come unto God. Because God is waiting. God is calling. But God's people have forsaken the Lord. I cannot imagine that anyone who will forsake God. So many people, they will blame God on anything. People will blame God if something bad happens to them. I will tell you something might happen to them is because of their own deeds. And they will blame it unto the Lord. But God is so merciful. God is so good to us. Again, this is a nation that was in need of a great revival. A people that is in need of, you know, returning unto the Lord for the source of blessing. for the source of peace they have forsaken. Their worship in those times had become formalistic. How can we not fall also in the same way in our own life, in our own church? That all of us, as much as we don't like the life of Israel before, how they abhor God's service, and how they disrespected the Lord our God. But in our own life also, we can see the same, you know, mischief of disrespect to God. Our worship become formalistic also. Our worship is no longer life-changing experience. Our worship is just like, you know, someone who had given a pep talk or tool box talk. It's not life changing anymore. No one is, you know, understanding the word of God and what God calls them to do. Many of us, we lack faith right now. We lack faith in our worship. When we come to God, we do not see the hand of God. We cannot see God's presence. When I was young in my Christian life, some 27 years ago and onwards, when I sit, well, I always sit at the front or the second to the front, second row to the front. I always consider that God is, you know, in our church, there is a seat here for the pastor most of the time. But I would consider the Lord Jesus sitting right there in the beacon seat. So I would behave very, very, you know, in utmost behavior, knowing that my Lord is here. The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords is present in this service because he said, and he promised, and I believe it's not just a promise. When he said, where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. So I will always consider that the Lord Jesus is here whenever we have church service, the presence of the Lord Jesus is here. But the people, their worship lack faith. They do not have faith that Jesus is here. The Lord Jesus is with us. Is this the condition of your heart today? Is this the condition of our church today? Because I tell you, this is the condition of the people of God in the time of Isaiah. That is why he said these words, because he doesn't understand anymore. The people do not love God anymore. The people have forgotten God in their lives. They have departed in their worship. And also, not just that they had departed in their worship. In Hosea chapter four, verse number two, they also had departed from the Lord in their words. They cast, they swear, they speak bad words. You know, we are not supposed to speak bad words. We cannot use this mouth. I remember my brother, Pastor Harley, When he was a youth director in our youth department, he said to us that he praised the devil before with his mouth. But now that he is saved, he will praise the Lord with his mouth. And the mouth that he used to praise the devil and the world, he used my mouth no more. The mouth that he used to praise the world before, he used his mouth no more. I tell you, the people here in Hosea's time, in Hosea chapter 4 verse number 2, Hosea chapter 4 verse number 2, by swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out and blood touches blood. Wow! This is not supposed to be done by a Christian. This is not supposed to be done by the holy people of God. Why? Because our God is holy and His people are holy. And therefore, not supposed to be done. But this has happened to these people. Look at that. They swear. When you go out there in the world, in your workplace, in the school, in the streets, in the shops, you can hear swearing. You can hear that. Very often, you can hear that. And very common. But that is fine because they do not know God. But you, Christian, you know God. Do not ever speak those words. Do not speak those words. They are not for us. Those words are only for those people who are perishing. But we are saved by the grace of God. Therefore, do not swear, do not say bad words. Let them swear, let them do what they want to do with their mouth. But for us, Christian, let us not be like them. I'll tell you, our words are measured by God with our spiritual condition. Whatever comes from our mouth, it comes from your mouth because it comes from the heart. If your heart is full of corruption, so is also your mouth will utter those corruption. In Matthew chapter 12, verse number 33, Matthew chapter 12, verse number 33, either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by his fruit. All generation of vipers How can he, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things. And an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. We think that it's okay to speak out funny words. It's okay for us because it's just for, you know, passing. Sometimes we join along with our peers at work. When they cuss, when they swear, sometimes we tolerate that. And many of us also sometimes will say that. I'll tell you, my friend, Do not be fooled because the Lord Jesus counting them The Lord Jesus is counting them every idle word There's nothing there's no word that came out from your mouth that the Lord Jesus is not recording nothing That's why you know, sometimes our jokes sometimes we will go below the belt and And sometimes we make jokes for fun, but I will tell you sometimes our jokes will go beyond what is appropriate. Profanity is one of the marks of decadence. And again, corrupt words sometimes expose corrupt hearts. Always Remember that we are all children of God. And if therefore we are children of God, we are royals. And remember, royals, when they speak words, the words are laws. When kings speak words, their words are statute. In other words, the country will obey. And we cannot play with words with that. Although we are not royals here in this world, but we are children of the Most High God. So therefore, we are royals. The Bible says, you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people. that you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Wherein in times past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. In times past you did not have mercy, but now you have obtained that mercy. O dearly beloved, I beseech you as pilgrims abstain from the lusts that war against the soul. He said here in Colossians chapter 3 verse number 8. Colossians chapter 3 verse number 8. The Bible says, but now you also put off all this anger, wrath, malice, blaspheming, and notice the word again, filthy communication out of your mouth. In Ephesians also, Apostle Paul spoke these words. Ephesians 5, beginning from verse number 3. The Bible says, but for the occasion and all uncleanness and covetousness, let it not be one's name among you as becoming saints, neither filthiness nor foolish talking. And there's a word, nor jesting, sometimes joke. That is not appropriate anymore. We make jestings which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks. Supposed to be the things that we will do with our lives is to give thanks to God. Supposed to be the things that will come out of the words that will come out from our mouth are those words that will give thanks to God. Because brothers and sisters, we cannot use this mouth if we will use this for the world. And we cannot use this mouth to praise the Lord. We cannot. We are now God's property. Although God created us. But God owns us. He saved us. He redeemed us. God created us. But we got lost, but by virtue of what Jesus Christ has done on the cross of Calvary, He redeemed us. In other words, God owned us twice. He owned us by creation, and He owned us again by the redemption. That is how God loved us. 1 Corinthians 6, verse number 19. What know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? Therefore glorify God, first of all, in your body. Our hands are part of our body. Our feet are part of our body. Do not go anywhere that God is not allowing you to go. Do not go to bars. Do not go to discos. Do not go to drinking pubs. Do not go to gambling houses. Do not go to, you know, theaters that will show there things that will corrupt your mind. Your faith belongs to God. You are just a manager of your own life. You are just a manager of your own body. So because you are a manager, you can do whatever you want, but remember, you do not own it. It is God who owns it. And being a manager of our body, we desire that our boss, the owner, will be pleased by our, you know, utilizing of his property. So we utilize our body and we use our feet in the places where God wants us to go. We use our hands to touch those things that God wants us to work on. And there are things that God said, touch not unclean things. So we don't touch those unclean things. Gumbling cards, we don't touch those. He said, touch not that clean thing, and I will receive you, and I will be a father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, save the Lord Almighty. Our God is a holy God. Therefore, He wants us to be holy, because how can He use us if we are not holy? Because our God is holy. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Wow, what a high standard it is, Pastor. It is high standard. We cannot attain unto it, but by the mercies of God, we can. We can desire from the heart. We may not be able to attain it, but that deep within your heart, you will just do and live your life day by day, and from day in and day out, desiring to only honor God in your works, in your time, in your free time, In your private moment, in your place in the public, wherever you go, moment by moment, you will just desire to please God. You see? We do not own our body. It is owned by the Lord. Our eyes are owned by God. Our mouth is owned by the Lord. So take out those things in your cell phones. Those... Movies that will just corrupt your mind, take all those out. Use your cell phone properly and rightly. But again, avoid those things because remember you do not own your body. You want God when you see Him, you want God when you meet Him to say unto you, well done thou good and faithful servant. How can God say those words if you are not faithful with your body, with God? God owns. God owns our body. So therefore, let us be faithful in that. And again, these people, the people that made profanity their principle. And remember, they're supposed to be, you know, people, holy people of God. These are Israelites. These are people who believe in God. And yet, they made profanity their principle. They're lying. These people, they just lie so easily. But again, you and I today, I believe you agree with me that God wants us to be truthful. I believe you agree with me that God Love's truth. God wants us to live in truth. Lying should not be taken lightly. Lying should not be part of our life. Why? Because the father of lies is Satan. In John chapter 8 verse number 44. John chapter 8 verse 44, you are of your father the devil and the last of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, because he's a liar and the father of it. And again, Apostle Paul encouraged all of us to put away lying. Lying should have no part in our lives. In Ephesians chapter four, verse number 25, he said, wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Do not take lie lightly. And God wants us to, you know, to put the word of God, the words of God in our heart, in our mind, saturate our mind so that we can avoid those things that God hates. In Psalm 19, Psalm 19, verse number 14, this is a good verse to eliminate swearing and eliminate lying. How to stop the swearing in your life? Now, memorize this and put this in your heart, these verses. How do you stop swearing? Memorize this. How do you stop lying? Memorize this. He said, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable and in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Always ask the Lord that anything that will come out from your mouth be acceptable unto God. And let us not be like these people of God in the past. Because these people, they have departed in their worship. These people, they have departed in their words. And these people, lastly, they have departed from the from the Lord in their works. Their works. They cannot see how to please God with their hands anymore. The works of their hands are all wrong. Again, Hosea chapter four, verse number two, it says, by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery, they break out and blood touches blood Again, there are, you can see the marks of decay of this country, of this nation. They have this stealing, they have this killing, and adultery. All of these are seriously, seriously prohibited by the Lord. You can even look at this and find this in the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments even spoke this, you know, literally. In Exodus chapter 20, verse number 13, Exodus 20 verse 13, the Bible says, thou shalt not kill. Coming from the commandments, from the mouth of the Lord, he doesn't want us to do this. Thou shalt not kill. And in verse number 15, thou shalt not steal. And again, that is the controversy that God has against God's people. And in verse number 14, thou shalt not commit adultery. All this, all this are forbidden by God. God wrote this in the table of stones. God printed this because these are principal offense. And God wants his people to avoid these things. And these sins, again, is prevalent in our world today. And even Christians are also guilty of the same. God doesn't want killings to be done. And, you know, to be done by Christians. Because killings bring danger to our homes, ourselves, to our children, to our streets, to our community. Killing is not allowed. Because if it is allowed, and if you allow it, Who knows that the next victim will be your family or even your own. And stealing also is not allowed. Thou shalt not steal. And adultery is not allowed. Why? You can tell that adultery caused a lot of marriages ruined. A lot of problems in the community, in the society because of adultery. A lot of killings resulted from adultery. A lot of lives destroyed because of adultery. But here is Prophet Hosea. Prophet Hosea called the people and invited all the people to come and return unto the Lord. I will tell you, we have a prophet in the Bible that is encouraging the people Whatever things that have been done, wherever you may be in your sin, the things of the past may have been, you know, taking place. But again, today is the time for us to answer God's call to return. return unto the lord return unto the lord in spite of their sins return unto the lord return unto the lord and god has promised you forgiveness because god is a forgiving god that was the message of jose That was the message. The people are deep in their sin. The people are wallowing in the mud, in the mighty clay of sin. And again, but despite of all that, he called the people to return, get out from the dirt, to get out and be clean, return unto the Lord. Because God is a merciful and forgiving God. I will tell you, even until today, the Lord our God is still calling the wayward people to return. Do you consider yourself wayward? Do you consider yourself astray in God's Word, in God's presence? I'll tell you, it's for you today to come to the Lord and answer His call to return. The invitation is for you. God is calling everyone to return. Why? What good is it, pastor, if I come and return unto God? What can I get? I'll tell you, my friend, you can get pardon. You can have forgiveness. You can have peace in your heart. You can have joy in your life that money could not give. You will have that peace that money cannot buy. There is joy in the Lord. There is joy in God's forgiveness. You see? But pastor, it is normal now in our society. Adultery is normal. And even killing, it doesn't really... matter now and stealing, all these things are normal. I will tell you also today, are you willing to break away from the norm of sin in our society? Because here is the world calling for the new normal. Here is the world that is calling for all of us to go along with sin. But here is the word, the word of God, and here is God calling us to return. If you are God's people today, if God is your God today, I will tell you, You ought to obey God rather than the world. Because our God is a merciful God. And he has given us a lot of chances. And he has given us a lot of chance that we can return and we can be back unto the fold. And we can worship God in the proper worship that God is honored and God will be magnified. A worship that is acceptable to God. Do not just make worship of your own. There is a worship that is not acceptable to God, but there is also worship that is acceptable to God. But God will tell you the good and the right way. God will help you. Return unto the Lord. If you are deep in your sin today, return unto the Lord. If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Savior, and you are lost, I will tell you, you can come to the Lord. for salvation. Receive Him into your life, and He will save you. And He promised to give you eternal life. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and I give unto them eternal life. And they shall never perish. The Father who escaped in me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck Him out of my hand." Again, the Lord is calling. Whatever part of the service that You know that God is calling you, whether God is calling you to return unto Him for His righteousness, come unto the Lord. Whether God is calling you for salvation, come unto the Lord. Whether God is calling you for service. Maybe God is calling you. You know, you know God's calling your life. God is calling you to serve Him maybe in foreign mission or maybe in service of the Lord in the church and or in soul winning or in whatever things that God is calling you. And then you just, you know, brush it aside. You just put it aside. And now God is calling you again. Are you willing? to obey God's call. Let's bow our heads and pray. Our Father in heaven, we thank you, Lord, for this. Prophet Hosea, what a heart that he has, O God, for the people, despite of the people living in the mighty clay of sin. And yet, Lord, he has the heart for the people to call for repentance. And Lord, thank you that we have pastors, we have preachers. And Lord, thank you that I also had my pastor in the past that preached to me your word to call to repentance. And Lord, thank you that until today, there are still pulpits that will preach repentance unto the people. And Lord, what a blessing it is that I was part of it. I was part of that salvation. Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul and the souls of many. And Lord, I know that we have so many people here that have different circumstances in their lives. Some of these people may be deep in their sin. Some of these people, Lord, may be deep down in their, they have been away from you, they have been, they run away from you. And some of these people, Lord, are still entangled in the bandage of sin. But Lord, whatever circumstance they may in, I pray that you will unshackle them. You will untangle them, O God, so that they can be free in their worship. They will be free, Lord, and they will be able to worship you, their holy God. Now, Father, I pray for these people, Lord. If there's anyone here that is not saved, I pray, O God, that they will also respond to that call of repentance. And if there's anyone here also, Lord, that is called by you and they hide in their heart, in their neck, I pray, oh God, that today is a day for them to come and to respond that call of service. And Lord, whatever circumstance they may need, Lord, please, touch their heart. If you are here this morning while the piano is playing, I do not know what is your need, but God knows your need, and you know what you have desired from the Lord. If God has spoken to you, why don't you come and give it unto the Lord? This is a beautiful time of altar call, because this is the time that God is speaking to you. The Lord, our God, wants to deal with you. Are you straying from God for this many months and years? Have you been straying from Him? Now is your time to respond. God is calling you to return. Are you backsliding? Come and give your life to God again. Surrender unto the Lord. Is God calling you for service? Is God calling you to serve Him? I will tell you brothers and sisters, He is worthy of your best service. Give it unto the Lord. Do not deprive God of your service. Do not deprive Him. He deserves it. He deserves your best. Not the less of it. He deserves the best of our service. Because He is our Holy God. Loving, forgiving, and merciful God. You do not know that if you die today, you will go to heaven? Come to Him. Come. Ask Him to come to your life. Are you struggling with problems in your life? Why don't you give it to Him? He is waiting. You cannot do it by your own. You need God. And He is there willing to help you. All you need to do is come. All you need to do is submit to Him. Our God has all the resources that you need. And He's willing to give you what you need. Do you have loved ones that is not saved? Do you have people in your house that do not know God? The Lord. He knows how to save you. All you need to do is come. Let's continue to pray. Our Father in heaven, thank you, Lord, for the reminder of your word. Lord, we may have been astray from your words, and thank you, Lord, that you will always calling people to come, to return unto you. Now, Father, I pray for these people that have come forward. I pray, Lord, that you will give them their heart's desire. Whatever things, Lord, that desire in their heart, please, Lord, attend to them. And give them, Lord, whatever it is that they desire. And, Lord, bless them with all blessings. And, Lord, supply their needs. Strengthen them. Give them, Lord, the power to share the gospel. Give them, O God, the ability to serve you. And even for those people, Lord, who are still in their youth. And Lord, you know their needs. You know what they desire in their hearts. I also pray, Lord, that you will give them their heart's desire and bless them, O God. and help them, help their families, bless all their households. And thank you, Lord, for the blessing today. Thank you for all the beautiful things that you have given to us. Thank you, Lord, that we were able to worship you today. And Lord, I pray that our worship Our service is acceptable unto you. And that, oh God, your name is magnified. And that we, Lord, are able to please you. Because you are the most important God that we have. There's no other God like you. And Lord, I pray that your blessing will always be upon your people. And thank you, Lord, for your goodness. We commit to you everything in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Let's all stand and let us sing that final hymn. Alright, let's all stand.