I want now you to turn to the
first epistle of John, and I want you
to follow me, and I'll be helpful, and
if I can, and I want us to
let the word of God teach us something
this morning.
We're going to take up the business of
the fact that God is utterly without any
darkness within him, and we're going to study
here the Spirit's description of three different kinds
of people, and then the Spirit's remedy.
I want us to read verses 6 and
8 and 10, and then go back and
read verses 7 and 9 a little later.
Here is God's description of three kinds of
people, and the professions they make and the
confessions they make about the way they're living.
The first one is described in verse 6
of chapter 1, the first epistle of John.
If we say that we have fellowship with
him and walk in darkness, we lie
and do not the truth.
Verse 8 is another man.
If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us.
Verse 10 is another fellow.
If we say that we have not sinned,
we make him a liar and his word
is not in us.
Now, the Bible is not written, I repeat,
to confuse us, but it is written to
humble us.
And you can't be lazy spiritually and get
to heaven.
I know that's true.
A fellow told me down in South Carolina
last year, he got offended at me.
He said, Preacher, I can't read.
And you say if I don't get earnest
about this seeking the truth, then I'm going
to miss out.
He said, I can't read.
I said, you better get somebody that can
to read to you.
You better get somebody that can to read
to you.
Because this book wasn't written to put up
on the parlor table and be admired.
This book has got to be studied.
And you need all the help you can
get.
I come along and say one thing, somebody
else says something else, and you're going to
have to answer to God for what you
could know about his will for you and
what you do know.
You need to study this book.
Some years ago, I was up in the
state of Maryland and stayed there two weeks
in a meeting.
And about twelve years later, I got a
heartbroken, pitiful letter from a woman.
We had a hard meeting, and about twelve
years later, I got this letter from this
woman.
And she said, I want to tell you
something of what's happened since the meeting.
She said, in the meeting, the Lord used
you to take the word and show me
a sin in my life.
And said, I booked you, I opposed you,
I talked against you, all during the meeting.
And she said, here's the price I've paid.
My husband was accidentally killed, my oldest son
died on the operating table, I've lost my
home.
And she said, take all that to bring
me to quit holding on to that sin
and cussing the priest.
And she said, when I meet the Lord
at the judgment, I know I'm going to
have to meet him.
And I'm the one who breathed the Spirit,
and resisted the Spirit, and resisted the truth,
and held on to sin.
I was this time in a meeting, and
we'd come face to face with this plea
that I want to lay on every heart
of every member of this Church.
I wonder if we realize how much it
costs us and others to indulge in any
known sin.
Any known sin.
I want us to look at that for
a little while this morning.
Here are three men.
The first one is sound in doctrine, but
he isn't right in his living.
I was over at one of your homes
this week, and they showed me your, I
don't know, what you sort of believe, written
up by one of your leaders.
And that's fine.
That's fine.
Now, a fellow can be right in what
he says he believes, but if he doesn't
translate that into right living and right conduct,
let's see what he does.
Let's look at verse 6.
If we say that we have fellowship with
him, that's God.
But at the same time, we say we
have fellowship with him, that we are on
good terms with him, that his smile is
upon us, that he listens to us when
we pray, that he guides us daily, that
we're conscious of his presence.
At the same time we say that, we
walk in darkness.
What do we do?
We lie.
Here's a fellow that's trying to deceive the
other fellow.
He's seeking to deceive his neighbor, his fellow
church member.
But he knows that God is holy.
He wouldn't doubt verse 5.
This, then, is the message which we've heard
of him, and declare unto you that God
is light, and in him is no darkness
at all.
There's no bitter darkness, there's no bitter wrong,
there's no bitter, can't find a thing wrong
with God.
He dwells in utter light without even a
shadow of darkness.
He's perfectly holy.
He's perfectly upright.
Now, this fellow says, I've got fellowship with
him.
But at the same time, he says, I'm
walking with him, I have fellowship with this
one in whom there is no darkness at
all.
At the same time, he's walking.
He ain't believing.
That ain't his doctrine, but it's his practice
faith.
And he's walking in darkness.
In other words, he is engaging in that
which he knows is not right, which he
knows is not holy.
Now, that fellow, the word says, is a
liar.
When he says that he has any fellowship
whatsoever with God, while at the same time,
he's walking in any kind of darkness, and
it has to be no darkness, you see,
for him to be responsible.
What does he do?
He lies, and he does nothing else.
Let's see what the next phrase is.
And he does not the truth.
First, he's trying to deceive others, and he
lies when he says he has fellowship with
a holy God.
While he's walking, practicing something that isn't, won't
stand up under light, you see.
And when he does that, he lies, and
he does not do the truth.
He doesn't put it into practice.
In other words, he's sound in doctrine, but
he's not sound in his living.
He's trying to diverse what he says he
believes from what he practices, you see.
And God says he's a liar.
He's trying to deceive other people, and he's
not doing the truth.
He's not doing the truth.
Now, he's in bad shape.
He knows right, but he don't do it.
See?
He's in bad shape.
He knows right, he knows wrong, but he
don't practice it.
And God says he doesn't know the truth.
He doesn't, doesn't say he doesn't know it,
says he doesn't do it.
He knows it, but he don't do it.
He's unsafe.
You can't divorce right belief from right practice.
A woman said to me not long ago
in the choir room, said, I know I
ought to do so-and-so, but I
don't do it.
I said, you and I may.
She said, I don't want to do so
-and-so, but I do.
I said, you're telling me a story people
don't do.
Just keep on doing what they don't want
to do.
It's one thing to be sound in doctrine.
It's another thing to be sound not only
in what you believe, but in how you
Now watch it now.
This fellow is trying to deceive somebody else.
And don't make the scripture say what it
don't say.
It says he does not do the truth.
It doesn't put it into practice.
Now let's look at verse 8.
We've got a different class of liar.
We've got three liars here, now.
I don't call them liars.
God says they're liars.
Here in verse 8, we've got a different
class of liar.
Here's a fellow, says that if we say
that we have no sin, we're not trying
to deceive anybody else.
But we're deceiving ourselves.
You see, they're the fellows.
He's trying to deceive the other fellows.
He's saying one thing and doing another.
See?
And he's deceiving the other fellow.
And he's not putting into practice what he
knows to be right.
But here's this second liar.
And he's not trying to deceive anybody else.
But he is deceiving himself.
He says that he has no sin.
He says that he has got to the
place that he doesn't have to battle with
his old sinful nature.
Now he's a devout person.
Sometimes you hear him saying that he never
sinned.
And he grabs the teaching that the old
nature's done away with, and he says, I'm
a boy, I can't sin.
Now who's he deceiving?
He's not trying to deceive you.
He's deceiving himself.
And he's headed for Now let's see what
the fellow that does that is guilty of.
First he's guilty of deceiving himself.
And then he's guilty of another thing.
Now notice the difference between verse 8 and
6.
The fellow that claims to have fellowship with
God at the same time walks in darkness,
he does not the truth.
He doesn't put what he believes and what
he knows into practice.
But this fellow in the 8th verse, it
doesn't say he does not do the truth.
He says the truth is not in him.
He doesn't know the truth.
You see?
And in the First Epistle of John, the
word truth means gospel truth.
The first fellow knows to do right, but
don't do it.
He's not putting into practice what he'll be
held accountable for.
Because if you don't live up to what
you know, you're in a bad shape, if
you do not walk in the light that
you have.
Why, you definitely walk in darkness, don't you?
But here's a fellow that says, Glory!
I don't have any sin.
That's all done away with.
I'm past that.
Now he's probably in his shape, in that
first fellow.
Brother, he's not only got the hood, but
he's undone by it.
He, he, why, you couldn't drag him to
do anything that he knows to be wrong.
Brother, he'd be just like an old Puritan.
They'd call him a fool.
They'd say, He doesn't go and craze no
religion.
Why, he just leans over backward.
He'd rather lean over backward running from evil
than to be broad-minded and wallow in
a mud hole.
But he deceives himself in that he does
right, but he don't know right.
He's wrong in his doctrine, but he's not
wrong in his conduct.
The first fellow's solid, boy.
He's an old Baptist, brother.
He'd stand on the street corner and spit
tobacco and use an argyr doctrine until the
cows come home.
He's right.
We're right.
We're better.
This other fellow, he's wrong in his doctrine.
He doesn't understand that when we're redeemed, we're
only partially redeemed to start with.
This old body's still like it was.
He doesn't understand that we yet wait for
the time when our bodies shall be redeemed
and we shall be freed from the very
presence of sin.
He's wrong in his doctrine.
He doesn't understand the truth about sin and
about the gospel.
Brother, he'd rather be wrong in what I
believe than right in what I practice, than
to believe the truth and live like the
devil.
Now, he's not trying to deceive anybody else,
but he is deceiving himself.
Brother, he's living, he's trying his dead level
best to live right.
But he deceives himself when he thinks that
there will ever come a time in this
life when he won't trip if he doesn't
watch.
That there will ever come a time when
sin is not crouching at the door, and
it'll devour you.
If you open the door, just crack.
You let one little sin come into your
life, and pretty soon the door will come
open.
It's little foxes that devour the biggest.
You see?
You give consent in your life to one
thing that's at least questionable.
And you open the door, cracking pretty soon,
and that devil's furthest one will come in.
That's right.
You've got two men now.
One is sound in his doctrine.
He dead sure isn't in his practice.
The other is sound in his life.
Brother, he's striving to live for the Lord.
But he's headed for a fall, because he
didn't realize the danger he's in.
Now, let's read verse 10.
Here's the third liar.
They're all different.
Here's a fellow, and if we say that
we have not sinned, we make him a
liar.
Now, the first fellow deceiving other folks, the
fellow in verse 8 deceiving himself, and the
fellow in verse 10 trying to deceive God.
Each eye pulling a little over God's eye.
First fellow's trying to deceive you.
He wants you to believe that he's right.
You watch his life, and you see, but
you, he says, I'm all right.
He's trying to pull a little over your
eyes.
Second fellow's trying to deceive himself, and he's
succeeding.
But the third fellow's trying to make a
liar out of God.
We'll see how he does it.
This is a fellow that says, I never
have sinned.
I'm all right.
I don't need to be saved.
I've never been ruined by sin.
I don't need God to save me.
I don't need the blood of Christ to
redeem me.
I don't need the Spirit of God to
regenerate me.
I never have sinned.
Never have.
As far as I know, I never did
anything in my life that was wrong.
Lots of people talk like that.
You'll say now, I've never done anything I'm
ashamed of.
I have lots of people look at me
like I'm crazy.
I repeat text, oh, they're saying, they just
frankly want to say that's not true.
I've never done anything wrong.
I never have.
I'm all right.
Now who is it they're trying to deceive?
They're making a liar out of God, and
they do something else, the last phrase.
They've proved that the spiritual ignoramus, they've proved
that his word is not in them.
Not a bit of it.
It's all just passed off of them like
water off a duck's back.
His word has not taken any root whatsoever
in them.
They don't believe a word of it.
It's just as a blank wall to them.
And there's no hope for this fellow if
he stays in that shape.
Nobody will ever seek the Savior until he's
convinced and convicted that he has sinned, and
that his sins separate him from God, and
that he cannot undo his sins, and that
he's in such a roaring condition that unless
the Lord does for him what he cannot
do himself, he'll never make it.
Now, you have three classes of liars.
I'd rather be the middle one.
This middle fellow is saying it.
He's fixing to go by heaven if you
don't watch out.
And he's wrong in his head.
He's teaching.
He doesn't realize the deceitfulness of sin.
But bless God, he is trying to live
right.
And there's hope for him.
Well, you get him straightened out a little
bit on the truth, and he'll regulate his
living by the truth, you see.
There's some hope for the first fellow.
He's a church member.
He's sound in doctrine.
He's wrong in practice.
And if you can show him that belief
must be translated into conduct, and that the
only evidence that a man's a child of
God is that his conduct grows more and
more pleasing under the Lord.
I see lots of people like that.
They say, oh, my, I've been deceived.
I've been taught to believe some things, and
I believed them up here, but they never
got in here.
For if they get in there, it's with
the heart that man believe is under righteousness.
If a man believes the truth in his
heart, that's the whole man, not just in
his head and his intellect.
why it'll affect the way he lives.
So there's hope for him.
There's hope for him.
But there's no hope for this last fellow,
who never has sin.
Here God wants a liar.
By saying, I've never sinned, he seeks to
make God a liar.
And he proves that the word of God
has never taken root at all in his
soul.
His word is not in us.
Now I want us to notice quickly verses
seven and nine.
And here's what I want you to get
this morning, and it'll lead us back to
my opening remarks.
All week we've been plowing as deeply as
we know how.
And this week we're hoping to see God
bless.
Last night a man came to me with
a light of heaven in his countenance.
He'd been greatly disturbed and distressed during the
meeting.
And he stayed here the other night a
while, and then he came to see me
the next day.
And last night he came, and there was
a different look and a different expression.
Then he said the thing settled.
I don't know where it is now.
I take his word for it.
Listen.
Am I speaking to anybody this morning that
the Spirit of God gives the truth and
has put his finger on something in your
life that's wrong?
God helped you this morning.
You get rid of that.
Don't you block the power of God.
Don't you grieve the Spirit of God.
Don't you do it.
I want to show you the gracious provision
God's made for his people.
Let's look at verse 7, then verse 9,
and I want you to get this now.
If we walk in the light as
he is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another.
That's not exactly what the Lord is saying
here.
What he's actually saying is, this another is
not a fellow Christian, but this another is
the Lord.
And the way to have fellowship with him,
and the only way to have fellowship with
him, you get this now, is to walk
in the light as he's in the light.
Now watch it.
And the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son,
cleanses us.
Now watch it.
Cleanses us.
Who are the us?
People who are walking in the light as
he's in the light.
They have fellowship with the Lord, and yet
they need the power of the blood to
cleanse them.
Now how can that be, Brother Barney?
Now get me carefully.
Here is the gracious provision of the Lord
God Almighty where you can have fellowship with
God every day.
How?
By walking perfectly?
No, none of us have made that yet.
But by walking in all of the light
that you've got.
Will that be perfect?
No.
It'll be imperfect.
But a man can do what he doesn't
know to do.
And God Almighty, listen to me, God Almighty
doesn't hold you responsible for what you can't
know unless you willfully do it.
See the point?
But even the fellow who's walking in the
light, living up to all that he knows
that God requires of him, doing that which
he knows God wants him to do, and
refusing to do that which he knows God
does not want him to do, even he
needs the cleansing.
And he has to be cleansed every day
so he can have fellowship with the Lord.
And that cleansing takes care, listen to me
boys and girls, that cleansing takes care, watch
it now!
Not for the fellow that's doing the cleansing,
oh no.
But this cleansing takes care of the sins
that people are not conscious of.
But they are the sins of the people
who are doing what they know to be
right.
You see?
In other words, if Ralph Barnett wants to
have any fellowship with God at all, he
can't have it with a brother.
If you're walking in anything you know to
be wrong.
If you're doing anything that God would claim
that teaches the sinful, that's right.
And the blood of Jesus don't cleanse you
daily.
It don't do it.
But this cleansing, daily of the precious blood
of Christ, washes the fellow clean, because you've
got to be perfectly clean to have any
fellowship with God.
And it takes care of that which you
do not do, of which you're not conscious.
That which you do do that's wrong, but
you don't know it.
Because you can't have any fellowship with God
unless you're perfectly clean.
You see that?
But now wait just a minute.
Wait just a minute.
Let's look at verse 9.
Now here's poor Ralph Barnett.
I've been trying to serve the Lord quite
a while.
Wait a minute now.
Today, today, things that 15 years ago
seemed to me to be all right, they
seem to me today to be all wrong.
All wrong.
How can you explain that, Brother Martin?
Well here it is in verse 9.
If the blood of Jesus Christ kept cleansing
me every day, that I consciously and positively
and willfully sought with all of my heart
to please him, and to do nothing that
would displease him, and all that while I
didn't do a perfect job of it.
In spite of the motive of my heart,
in spite of the strivings of my soul
and body, I couldn't stand up and say
that I did what only my Lord could
say.
He said I do all the ways of
things which please him.
I never did even say that.
But Brother Barnett, didn't you have any, couldn't
you have any fellowship with the Lord?
If you're living up to all the light
you had, you could.
For the blood of Jesus Christ took care
of that which was displeasing that you were
not conscious of.
But wait a minute now, Brother Asa.
Wait a minute.
You're walking along here indulging in something that's
sinful, and you don't know it.
You're walking along here and you're not doing
something that's right.
And not to do right is sin.
And one day, by the Spirit, some preacher,
some Christian, maybe he doesn't use any human
history, maybe you're reading the Bible some day,
and the Spirit of God takes a truth
and puts it, that's
sin.
But you say, God, I didn't know it!
I know, but you do now.
You do now.
Now that's where verse 9 comes in.
There's not a great deal of use for
people to come to me.
Many people do.
And I would be helpful if I could.
And I would even go backwards of being
old Puritan in my ignorance.
But Brother, you better listen to me.
You better buy you a Bible, honey, or
cut out claiming to be a Christian.
Because you can't have any fellowship with God
unless there's a daily cleansing.
As you're walking in all the light you've
got, and as sure as you do that,
the further you'll walk, God Almighty will say,
well, old Ross, grown enough now, he's awful
dumb, but I believe he's got sense enough
now.
I'm going to go down there and say,
look here, boy, that thing's wrong.
And when he does that, you'll do one
of two things.
You'll Only God knows how much trouble it
is because God Almighty has to chasten one
of his children who, when he comes to
see truth, won't walk in it.
When he comes to see a thing to
descend with God.
Now, that word, confess, means to agree with.
It doesn't mean, it doesn't say if we
confess our sins.
That's our accent.
If we confess our sins, he's faithful and
just to forgive us of our sins.
Sins is something we do, isn't it?
It doesn't say now, if we just say,
Lord, forgive us of our sins.
No, it doesn't say that.
But it says if we confess them.
The Lord said this is sinful.
How do you confess it?
Say, Lord, you're right.
You're right.
It's sinful.
Watch out.
You can say, Lord, forgive us of our
sins till you're blue in the face and
it's blasphemy.
And he wasn't talking about here.
He doesn't say if you want your sins
forgiven, to pray and ask him to do
that.
You're not get your sins forgiven by praying.
You get your sins forgiven by confessing they're
sinful and turning from them.
That's the Christian life.
See it?
And Brother Barnard can't show you those things.
But if you know the Lord, and if
you walk with him in all the light
you've got, he'll keep on showing you.
And when he shows you, then the way
to get forgiveness is to confess and say,
Lord, this is right.
I think bald-headed Sanny, there's some things
in your life, Brother Sanny, the Lord has
not pleased you.
I don't believe
it's wrong.
God says this is wrong.
Sanny said this is right.
God said this is wrong.
Sanny said, no, you're wrong.
I'm right, you're wrong.
That's where God starts going one way, and
you start going another, and you have absolutely
no fellowship with God.
Absolutely not.
Not a bit.
It's when you say, you're right, Lord.
You're right.
I chase a jackrabbit every once in a
while.
I want people to understand that if there
isn't any questionable thing, that I would willfully
refrain from shooting that once in a while.
And I know that a man who's not
saved, he'll just say, well, that fellow's a
radical fool.
And I know that a person who's saved,
it may be for a while, he'll refuse
to look at something.
But if he's saved, if he's saved, he
can't go on that way there long.
Because when the light is turned on, and
the saved man will not walk in it.
There's a darkness out there.
He don't even know whether there's a God
or not.
He doesn't have any assurance of peace, of
power, of victory.
God doesn't pay any attention to him when
he prays.
If he's God's child, he can't stand it.
And that's the reason I'm always shooting at
things.
Because that's the way God wants me to
show people how to fix stuff.
You keep on defending something that's wrong in
your life, and you prove that you're not
a child of God.
For old Ralph Barnhart, as he walks in
the light, is he's doing it.
Not perfectly, but sincerely.
The blood of Jesus Christ keeps on cleansing.
And I can be conscious of the fellowship
of God.
Fellowship of God.
And then when the Lord says, Ralph, that's
sin.
That's sin.
Then I'm in trouble.
Unless I say, that's right, Lord.
And I turn from it.
How is it with you?
Are you one of these liars?
You're trying to deceive the fellow.
You're trying to deceive yourself.
You're trying to pull the wool over God's
eye.
You young people, you don't bring your Bible.
What is it, a habit you've got into?
I wish I could correct you of that.
How is the Lord going to show you
anything, except through his book?
How is it?
Now, honest to God, Ralph Barnhart can't do
it.
You just say, ah, he's an old, he's
an old fogie.
Nobody but him can do it.
And he uses his word.
Well, you say, I'll just leave my Bible
at home.
I'll do like that with the rest of
the Christians.
Never look at it.
Never look at the Bible.
Before the preacher comes, they go brush it
off.
I'm getting by fine.
Yeah, you're getting by fine.
You don't even know whether there's a God
or not.
You absolutely haven't the slightest idea of whether
there is a God.
Talking about fellowship with him, you don't know
what on God's earth the preacher's talking about.
You cannot have any fellowship with him, if
there's the slightest bit of knowing and wrongness.
The Bible calls it darkness in your life.
You see it?
And
the
way he's prescribed.
But that way is outlined in the book.
Some of you young folks have a chemistry
book.
You take it to class with you.
You'll be through with the chemistry book in
a year or so.
But the issues of this book are eternal.
In the book of chemistry, they'll teach you
how to take different formulas and mix them
up and make something out of But in
this book of the way of eternal life,
I've seen hundreds of people quit sinful habits,
because the preacher said they ought to.
They always go back to them.
The only fellow of the people that this
thing does any good is the fellow that's
down to business.
And every once in a while, the Lord
puts his finger on this and he says,
this is wrong.
This is wrong.
See?
In other words, brother, you're headed for eternity.
And the only person I know doing things
for you is the Lord.
And he does it to take in the
truths and show them to you.
And then when he shows it to you,
he doesn't do it so you can argue
about it, but he does it so you
can walk with him.
So you can say this is wrong.
Thank you, Lord, for showing him to me.
You have fellowship with him as long as
you didn't know it was wrong.
But the instant that changes, your fellowship is
gone unless you turn from it.
The scriptures say, he that covereth his sin
shall not prosper.
But he that confesseth, that's agreeing with God,
see?
And forsaketh his sin.
Thank God.
That's the fellow that shall find mercy.
Now, this little church, not many of you,
but a side of the road, listen to
me.
Listen to me.
We're in a death struggle now.
Our churches are in a struggle now of
people who claim to believe right, but whose
hearts are not open to the daily ministry
of the Spirit of God.
He alone can show you truth.
He alone can turn the light on.
And if you want any fellowship with God,
looks like you'd want it.
God won't hear you when you pray unless
you have it.
God won't give you church souls unless you
have it.
God won't even save your children unless you
have it.
If there's anything, sister, this side of heaven,
that's worth seeking for, it's the company and
the smile and the fellowship of Almighty God.
And if we walk in the light, he'll
show us some more, you see.
And then the next day, you're a little
stronger and he'll give you a little heavier
load to carry.
And the next mountain will be a little
higher.
And the next valley will be a little
wider.
When I meet you people at the judgment,
I hope not a person who's heard me
this morning will say, God, I will not
walk with you.
You say this is wrong.
I'm not going to take what you say
about it.
And you'll be a stumbling block.
And you don't want to be that, do
you?
Souls are in the balance, your soul and
the souls of others.
Let us stand.
Now, my friends, this is a very practical
message this morning.
Have I helped anybody?
Have I?
This will help you if you look at
it, if you walk in it.
You won't talk to anybody.
You need it.
It won't do to just say, well, the
preachers this, that and the other.
No, no, no.
What I've talked about this morning, that's what
we've got to come to.
And not to do it, just keep on
or brand yourself as one of these folks,
God says a liar.
I will make you this proposition.
I'm speaking to people here this morning.
You say, I don't know whether you're living
up to the light you've got or not.
That's pretty terrible.
Just have to leave that between you and
the Lord.
Nobody else can take care of it, can
they?
I don't know what the Lord's able to
show you.
I don't know whether you want him to
show you.
That's between you and the Lord.
And I'm not God.
But I have to answer to God for
whether as faithful as I know how.
In the spirit of love, I want to
love people.
And I want my heart to weep as
I rebuke people.
Shall I?
But my God, don't let anything under God's
shining sun, I don't care how little a
fox it is, rob you of fellowship with
God.
It ain't worth it, brother.
It ain't worth it.
Our Father, we've done our dead-level best
to help these people, and now the Word's
been sown.
Many of them have loved ones that they
can't reach for Christ.
My God.
Lord, don't let the devil just snatch away
the truth that we've tried to plant in
the pile of the Holy Spirit in hearts.
Tonight as we shell out the woods for
souls, longer and weak.
Lord God.
I've tried to get this group here now
clear that they'll be on God's side, walking
with the Lord.
And so we thank you for this time
together in Jesus' dear name.
Amen.