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Can I please have everyone find their seats and grab their songbooks and we're going to turn to page number 55. Please find your seats and grab your songbooks and turn to page number 55. We're going to start the service off singing When the Roll is Called Up Yonder. Page 55. Find your seats and grab your songbooks and let's go ahead and sing it out on the first. When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more and the morning breaks eternal bright and fair when the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore when the roll is called up yonder I'll be there when the roll is called up yonder when the roll is called up yonder when the roll is called up yonder when the roll is called up yonder I'll be there Good singing but we can sing it a little bit better on the second. On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise and the glory of his resurrection share when his drosens once shall gather to their home beyond the skies and the roll is called up yonder I'll be there when the roll is called up yonder when the roll is called up yonder when the roll is called up yonder when the roll is called up yonder I'll be there let us labor the master from the dawn till setting sun let us talk of all his wondrous love and care and when all of life is over and our work on earth is done and the roll is called up yonder I'll be there when the roll is called up yonder when the roll is called up yonder when the roll is called up yonder when the roll is called up yonder I'll be there Great singing. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, thank you so much for this church, Lord. Thank you for these people coming out here to serve you. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to sing for your glory, Lord. I pray that you bless the service and I pray that you bless the preaching to come. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Please turn to your song books, page number 146. We're going to sing A Shelter in the Time of Storm. That's page 146. A Shelter in the Time of Storm. And let's go ahead and sing that out on the first. The Lord our rock and in we hide A shelter in the time of storm Take your whatever it'll be tied A shelter in the time of storm Oh, Jesus is the rock in a weary land A weary land, a weary land Oh, Jesus is the rock in a weary land A shelter in the time of storm Page 146 on the second A shade by day, defense by night A shelter in the time of storm No fears alarm, no foes of fright A shelter in the time of storm Oh, Jesus is the rock in a weary land A weary land, a weary land Oh, Jesus is the rock in a weary land A shelter in the time of storm The raging storms may round us Beat the shelter in the time of storm We'll never leave our safe retreat A shelter in the time of storm Oh, Jesus is the rock in a weary land A weary land, a weary land Oh, Jesus is the rock in a weary land A shelter in the time of storm Let's go ahead and sing it out on the last Oh, rock divine, oh, refuge dear A shelter in the time of storm Be thou our helper ever near A shelter in the time of storm Oh, Jesus is the rock in a weary land A weary land, a weary land Oh, Jesus is the rock in a weary land A shelter in the time of storm Great singing! Amen, alright, well let's go ahead and take our bulletins We'll look at some announcements real quickly tonight If you don't have a bulletin, raise your hand And one of our ushers can bring one to you If you need a bulletin, just put your hand up and we will get one for you Psalm 15, verse 1, the mighty God, even the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof And that's a good verse there, we like that If you open up your bulletin, you'll see our service times Sunday morning service 10 30 A.M. and of course we do invite you to be with us on Sunday morning on the Lord's day For church Sunday evening service 6 P.M. and then of course our Wednesday evening Bible study At 7 P.M. If you look at our soul winning times, our main soul winning times on Saturday mornings At 10 A.M. and then we have additional soul winning times this week on Thursday At 6 and also on Friday at 2 and Sunday At 2, so we'd love for you to join us for any of those times if you're able to If you are a first time guest, if it's your first time here at ready Baptist church, we're glad you're with us We have a gift we'd like to give you as you walk out of the church building tonight if you go out our main foyer Or if you go out our secondary foyer, you'll see a little table set up and on that table you'll see These little gift bags, please grab one on your way out as a gift from us to you for being Our guest tonight, there are several resources in this bag that we'd like you to have The one I'd like to highlight is this documentary that our church made, it's called Being Baptist It's very well made, very interesting, we think you'll like it, we want to give this here as a gift so please make sure You don't leave here tonight without grabbing one of those gift bags and if you are a guest we'd ask that you Please take a moment and fill out the communication card which is inserted in your bulletin If you need a pen just raise your hand, one of our ushers can bring you by a pen as well And we would love to have a record of your attendance, we'd actually like to send you a little gift But we need your information to do that, so please take a moment to fill the card out When we're done with the announcements we're going to sing a song, when we're done singing we'll receive the offering And as the offering plate goes by you can drop this card in the offering plate If you look at the announcements there we of course are a family integrated church Children and infants are always welcome in the service, we do not separate children from their parents for any reason We also have some daddy rooms available for your convenience, all the rooms have comfortable seating They've got monitors set up so you can watch the service and listen to it, so if you have a child that's being distracting During the service so if you need some privacy we would encourage you to use those rooms as needed If you need to be baptized please let us know, you can let us know on your communication card That you'd like information about baptism and we'll follow up with you and talk to you about that If you look at the announcements and upcoming events of course we had our Striving Together news members class on Sunday That went well, this Saturday June 17th is the San Jose Soul Winning Marathon And we want you to just be aware of that, all the information is there for you If you have any questions you can see Brother RJ and he's the one that's heading up the marathon And he can help you with any info you need, but that is this Saturday June 17th And then of course on Sunday June 18th is Father's Day So we'd love for you to join us of course on Father's Day And we're going to have a t-shirt, the BBC t-shirt for all the men and boys in attendance on Sunday Is what we'll be giving away and then we'll have special music of course in honor of Father's Day Discipleship class begins on Sunday June 25th, if you've not ever gone through a discipleship class Or through our discipleship class we'd love for you to be a part of it It is an 8 week class covering biblical truths so it's an 8 week commitment But you can sign up on your communication card And then we've got the church picnic on Tuesday July 4th at 3pm The information is there and of course we're going to have volleyball for the ladies Softball for the guys, water balloon fight for the kids And then of course we'll end the night with fireworks So it's going to be a good time, make sure that you If you would like to help, if there's any guys out there that want to help with grilling Either bringing a grill and grilling or not bringing a grill but grilling Any of those options are available for you alright So just let us know on your communication card And if you can bring a side dish or dessert to share, we've got clipboards in the main foyer Please go by there and make sure you sign up The BBC choir, they've got practice at 5pm There's other things there for you to look at, please don't forget to turn your cell phones off If you look at the back of the bulletin, birthdays and anniversaries For the month of June for this week, we have Onyx Othniel Johnson's birthday on June 11th, brother Ryan and Miss Sandra Gibbs Had an anniversary on June 12th and Etiana Perez had a birthday on June 13th, Alina Roldan Has a birthday on June 17th, and brother Mike and Mr. Andy Pasquale Have an anniversary on June 17th, praise report Money Matters, all those things are there for you To look at, I am glad to have my sister Miss Michelle back on the piano, and she was our original pianist So this feels like old times for me, so I'm happy about that But let's go ahead and take our songbooks and go to page number 372 And we're going to sing Let the Lower Lights Be Burning 372 Brightly beams our Father's mercy from His lighthouse evermore Sing it out on the first Brightly beams our Father's mercy From His lighthouse evermore But to us He gives the keeping Of the lights along the shore Let the lower lights be burning Send a gleam across the way Some poor faith in struggling seamen You may rescue, you may say 372, sing it out on the second Dark the night of sin has settled Loudly angry bellows roar Eager eyes are watching, longing For the lights along the shore Let the lower lights be burning Send a gleam across the way Some poor faith in struggling seamen You may rescue, you may say Good, sing it out on the last Trim your feet, who left my brother? Sail or tempest toss Trying now to make the harbor In the darkness may be lost Let the lower lights be burning Send a gleam across the way Some poor faith in struggling seamen You may rescue, you may say Good, sing it out on the last Trim your feet, who left my brother? Sail or tempest toss Trying now to make the harbor In the darkness may be burning Send a gleam across the way Some poor faith in struggling seamen You may rescue, you may say Good, sing it out on the last Trim your feet, who left my brother? Sail or tempest toss Trying now to make the harbor In the darkness may be burning Thanks for watching! Thank you for watching! Thank you for watching! Amen, all right, well let's go ahead and take our prayer sheets tonight and we'll look at some announcements real quickly If you do not have a prayer sheet just raise your hand and one of our ushers can get one for you, if you need a prayer list just put your hand up and we will get one for you and of course the way you add a request to the prayer sheet is through your communication card in the back of the card there's a place for you to write down requests, make sure you mark whether it's private or public, if it's private only I will see it, if it's public we'll put it on the prayer sheet, if you don't mark it we'll do our best to figure it out but we usually don't put those on there, we do add them in the order that they are received and we remove them after a couple of weeks So let's go ahead and take these requests to the Lord, I'll pray out loud and I'd love for you to pray along with me in your mind and your heart and let's pray together Heavenly Father, Lord we come to you tonight asking for these requests from our church family, we begin with these requests regarding salvation and we pray for brother Ron praying for his mom and his family's salvation and also Jeffrey Love praying for the salvation of his friend Ann and also Lord we are praying for Ms. Christine Ortiz for her children and grandchildren's salvation and for Ms. Docma praying for her daughter and her family's salvation Lord we ask for all these individuals, we pray that you would help them to come to the place where they would be able and willing to hear the gospel and that a soul winner would be able to communicate the gospel clearly to them, Lord we also pray for these that have health requests, brother Ron praying for his health and specifically his eyesight to fully recover after his stroke and Robert Kennan praying for his father's healing and recovery from a stroke that he recently suffered, Ms. Edith we're praying for her procedure to go well on June 19th and brother Vladi praying for his friend Scott's health and recovery after his operation to remove cancer, the Coffney family praying for brother Anthony's upcoming surgery on June 21st and Ms. Andrea McQueen praying for her friend Destiny and for the remaining five weeks that she has in radiation that it would be successful, brother Joe Maples praying for Joe Jr. for his health and complete healing Ms. Christine Ortiz praying for her health and brother Salvador praying for his health and Ms. Tagma praying for her pain and brother Edgar, Ms. Lena praying for little Uretzi that she would continue to be healthy as well and of course we are continuing to pray for Ms. Angel Cabuntala our missionary's wife in the Philippines who's undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, asking for her healing and recovery as well and Lord we ask for all of these individuals, we lift them up before you asking that you would bless them and help them, that you would strengthen them, that you would heal them if it's your will Lord, that you'd give wisdom to the doctors and the nurses dealing with them and Lord that your will be done in their lives, we also pray for these that are having requests for their families, brother Montel praying that Isabel would be able to live with them permanently and brother Darryl praying for his parents transition to a new home and brother Salvador praying for his family as well, Lord we pray for all these individuals, we pray that you would help them and be with them and that you would guide them we also pray for these that are asking for their personal walk, Chris Scott praying for spiritual growth and continual grace and also Ms. Christine Ortiz praying for her faith and brother Salvador praying for his faith and his walk with you, Lord we pray you strengthen these individuals and that you would help them and we also thank you for a couple of praise reports from brother Salvador, June 8th he was celebrating 16 years of remission and cancer and June 16th celebrating 11 years here at Verity Baptist Church and we're thankful for his faithfulness, Lord we pray that you'd continue to keep him healthy and strong and faithful and Lord we pray for these that have requests regarding physical needs, brother Darryl praying for his housing needs and Elwin Seltzer praying for his sons Isaac and David for their application process for school Ms. Christine Ortiz praying for her finances and for her own place and brother Salvador for his finances and work as well, Lord we pray that you would bless these individuals that you'd open doors for them and that you would help them with the requests that they have and we ask for these that have unspoken requests, Ms. Nicole Perez having an unspoken request, Ms. Andrea McQueen having an unspoken request, brother Salvador having an unspoken request and Ms. Docma having an unspoken request Lord we pray that you would be with all these individuals we pray that you'd answer their prayers, we pray that you would make it clear to them once the prayers have been answered and that your will would be done regarding these things and then of course we want to pray for our ministry here at Verity Baptist Church and we begin with this request from brother RJ for the San Jose soul winning marathon that it would go well this weekend that everyone would be safe and that it would be a fruitful trip that there be many salvations and Lord we ask that you would just bless the soul winning that goes on there and the soul winners that are going there, we also pray for our prison ministry and the families being affected by that that you continue to help and minister to those individuals, we pray for the upcoming Red Hot Preaching Conference as we get closer and as we plan it that it would be a great event like it always is and that it would be a blessing to people and individuals, help us Lord to prepare our hearts to receive the preaching from your word and then we pray for our church plants in the Philippines, Manila, Pampanga, Bicol and we pray for of course our church here in Sacramento that you would continue to strengthen our church, keep us safe and strong and growing and growing spiritually and Lord we pray that you would minister to our hearts, help us as we take another portion of scripture tonight and study it together in Jesus name we pray, amen. Please open up to Galatians 4 Galatians chapter number 4, if you need a Bible you can put your hand up and bring your Bible. Galatians chapter number 4 if you need a Bible keep your hand up and show your mind Galatians 4, we read the entire chapter as our custom Galatians 4 being in verse number 1 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child differeth nothing from his servant, though he be Lord of all but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father even so we, when we were in children we were in bondage under the elements of the world when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons and because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts saying Abba, Father, wherefore thou art no more a servant but a son, and of a son than an heir of God through Christ howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods, but now after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God how it turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage, ye observe days and months and times and years I am afraid of you, lest I bestow upon you labor in vain brethren, I beseech you, be as I am for I am as ye are, ye have not injured me at all ye know how through the infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first in my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not nor rejected, but received me as an angel of God even as Christ Jesus where is then the blessedness he spake of, for I bear you record that if it had been possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? They zealously affect you, but not well, yea they would exclude you that ye might affect them, but it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing and not only when I am present with you, my little children of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice for I stand in doubt of you, tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman, but he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh but he of the free woman was by promise, which things are an allegory for these are the two covenants, the one from the mount Sinai which generateth to bondage, which is Agar, for this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children, but Jerusalem which is from above is free, which is the mother of us all, for it is written rejoice thou bearing that bearest not, break forth and cry, thou that travailest not for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband now we brethren as Isaac was are the children of promise, but as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit even so it is now, nevertheless what saith the scripture cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman, so then brethren we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free, let's pray Heavenly Father thank you for this evening, God I thank you for your word and for our church and for the book of Galatians I ask that you please give us all a tender heart to the message, I ask that you be with our pastor tonight to strengthen him we love you, in Jesus' name we pray, Amen Amen, alright we're there in Galatians chapter number 4 and of course on Wednesday nights we are making our way through the book of Galatians we're going verse by verse, chapter by chapter through a study in the book of Galatians and of course every Wednesday night as we go verse by verse through the books of the Bible, they're all Bible studies but this is really a Bible study in the sense that the apostle Paul is kind of dealing with some heavy things here, some deep things and it's very much theological teaching and tonight we find ourselves here in chapter number 4 and we're going to go through the first 7 verses of this chapter tonight, we're going to cover these 7 verses thoroughly but just to kind of remind you, one of the themes of the book of Galatians and I've been talking to you about the different themes of the book of Galatians, there's 4 different themes but last week and this week we've kind of been stuck on one theme or I should say the apostle Paul has been on one theme but he's been on the theme of the Judaizers and if you remember there are those that have came from Jerusalem to Galatia and they are trying to teach that in order to be a Christian you must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ but you must also submit yourself under the Mosaic law and bring yourself under the covenant of the law and they're saying that you must keep the Mosaic law in order to be a Christian. This is what the apostle Paul is fighting against and this is what much of the book of Galatians is about. If you remember last week we went through the last part there of chapter 3 and we went through the different covenants that the apostle Paul was explaining to the Galatians about the different covenants and how they worked together. This week the apostle Paul continues that so of course we're in a new chapter chapter 4 but the context continues and when Paul wrote the book of Galatians he wrote it as a letter so the chapter divisions and the verse divisions were added later on so it's not like the apostle Paul got to the end of what we call chapter 3 and said alright well that's chapter 3 and then Galatians chapter 4 verse 1 now I say that and this is him just speaking to them and which is why the context continues and what I want you to understand is that what we're going to see in the next seven verses here is that he's continuing to attack these Judaizers and he's continuing with this idea of the covenant and what Paul is doing in the next seven verses is he's explaining to them why it is that the new covenant is better than the old covenant and if you remember we've been talking about last week we talked about the Abrahamic covenant and the Mosaic covenant and how they interact and what that means to us but now Paul is bringing in this idea of the new covenant the new testament. The reason it's called the new testament is because we've entered into a new covenant and Paul is contrasting and comparing these two covenants and he's explaining to the Galatian believers that the new is better than the old. The new covenant is better than the old covenant. That's what we're going to see in these seven verses and like I said it will be very much a Bible study. I do encourage you to take notes on the back of your course this week. There's a place for you to take notes and if you're going to take notes let me just go ahead and give you, I've been doing this lately, let me give you the three points kind of up front so you can have them. We're going to look at seven verses tonight, Galatians chapter 4 verses 1 through 7 and you can divide these verses into these three sections because the first thing we see is an illustration and that's going to be in verses 1 through 2 and then the apostle Paul. So the apostle Paul gives us an illustration in verses 1 through 2 and then the apostle Paul gives us the interpretation in verses 3 to 5 so he gives us an illustration in verses 1 through 2 then he gives us the interpretation of the illustration in verses 3 to 5 and then the apostle Paul ends with an application in verses 5 to 7. You could say verses 1 through 2 are an illustration verses 3 through the first part of verse 5 is the interpretation and then the second part of verse 5 to verse 7 is the application. So we'll begin here with this illustration and it is an illustration that Paul gives regarding an heir. Notice what he says there in verse 1. He says, Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all. So apostle Paul begins with this illustration. He's using an example and the example is that of an heir. The idea that there is someone, a son, who has a father that maybe is a king or some sort of a ruler, some sort of a rich individual and this young child is going to be the one who inherits that kingdom or inherits all of that wealth. This young child is the heir and what Paul is teaching us in this illustration, he is talking about this heir when he is a child. So the idea is that there's some king with a kingdom with wealth and he has a son and that son is an heir. That son is going to grow up one day to take the place of his father. He's going to take the king of the kingdom. He's going to take the riches. He'll become the king. But Paul is talking about when that heir is a child. And what he is teaching here in verse 1 is that the heir, when he is a child, is lord of all because he will inherit the kingdom. That's what he said. Look at verse 1 again. Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant though he be lord of all. So he's saying look, the heir when he's a child, he's lord of all because of the fact that he's going to grow up to take the kingdom, he will be lord of all. However, while he's a child, the heir while he's a child is not much different than a servant. And what he's saying is that he's not much different in his treatment than a servant would be treated. Look at it again verse 1. Now I say that the heir, right, the one who is lord of all at the end of the verse, that the heir, as long as he is a child, so while he is a child, before he is a man, before he is an adult, as long as he is a child, he says differth nothing from a servant. And what he's saying is this, that if you were to walk into a kingdom and you were to walk into a palace and there was a king, a man, an adult on the throne and that king had a son and you were to go out into the courtyard and watch the son, he said the son of the king would not look and would not be treated much differently than the sons of the servants, than the son who is a servant. He said though he is lord of all, as long as he is a child, he differth nothing from a servant. Why? Because while he's a child, he's probably going to go to school and be educated like all the other children go to school and get educated. He's probably going to have time of play and he's probably going to play with the other servant children and he's going to play and have fun just like all the other children do. He's probably going to have chores and things that he's responsible for just like any other child. So Paul is giving us this illustration. He says, now I say that the heir as long as he is a child, differth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all. And let me just go ahead and say this because this is not what the Apostle Paul is preaching about. What I'm about to say is not bringing this up to make this application, but while we're here let me make the application that children, even those who are heirs of big kingdoms, should be made to work. There should be no difference. You say I'm a rich, wealthy person and my children are going to inherit a lot of wealth. Well you know what Paul says is that even though they are an heir, as long as they are children, they should differ nothing from a servant. And you know what? Children, even if they're born into wealthy families, wealthy family or not, young children and young people should be taught to work. Lamentations 3.27, you don't have to turn there I'll just read this for you. It says it is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. And you know what? Children should be made to work, children should be taught to work, children should be taught. Now obviously children should be educated and obviously children should play and we understand that. But there also needs to be a time in children's life and especially young people's lives and teenagers where they're being taught to work. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Now let me just say this. Young people should be made to work within the household. They should be made to help carry the load and the weight of the household. Because you know what? Children bring a load onto the household. Our children in our home every day every day and honestly probably multiple times a day are made to clean and pick up and to help get the house situated. You say, well why do you do that? Well part of it is because we want to teach them character and we want to teach them a work ethic and we want to teach them to not when children are young, when they're little, they do things like they make messes, they just throw things on the floor and we've got some younger ones who we're helping get that habit out of them. But you know that's how children are. And in our house we have a joke. Whenever a child does something like that, they get some gift or get some package and they open it up and they just throw everything on the ground and grab whatever they want and move on. And we say hey hey hey you're not homeless. And we'll joke with them like that's what the homeless people do. And if you don't like me saying that, go look at where the homeless people are. And I don't understand when you have nothing, why you have so much junk. And it's just like, it's ridiculous and obviously it's getting out of control and this is I'm on a different tangent now. You can blame Gavin Newsom for this one. But over there by the 99 cent store a couple of weeks ago, they had like a whole living room set. Like they felt like someone threw away a table and chairs and then they brought it out of the dumpster and they had it set up like on the grass and it was just a filthy mess. And I was thinking to myself, look you need to teach your children to clean up and to work so they don't end up like that. But anyway I'm not sure how we got there. But the point is that children should be taught to clean. Oh yeah this is what I'm saying. You say why do you get your children to clean the house? Well part of it is to teach them character integrity but the other part is this because they made the mess. You know like it's not my wife and I who are just throwing everything out. You know just flinging stuff all over the house. So as they're going through their day, as they're playing, as they're having a good time, every once in a while they should be made to clean. And if you say well I'm very wealthy and I can afford this and I can afford that and they're going to be very wealthy people one day, hey praise the Lord for that. But you know what? Now I say that the heir as long as he's a child, differs nothing from a servant. Though he be Lord of all. So children should be taught to work. They should be taught to work around the house. And let me just say this because in our type of churches where we're very conservative and we have maybe some large families and we homeschool and things like that. Let me just say this and this is something that I often try to teach the families and it's this that young people should be made to work within the household but they should not be made to run the household. And this is a balance that I think a lot of homeschooling large families need to make sure that they understand. Your children need to work within your household. They do not need to run your household. If you have a lot of kids, God bless you, I'm four large families. Your children need to help with the younger siblings but they don't need to raise the younger siblings. So we need to be careful that we are allowing children to have time to play and for education and those things but they also need to work. So here Paul is bringing up, and again this is not why Paul is saying this, I'm just saying this because we're here. But Paul is just giving us this illustration and it is this, that the heir when he is a child is Lord of all. He is Lord of all because he will inherit the kingdom but the heir while he is a child is not much different from a servant or should not be very different from a servant in his treatment. He differth nothing from a servant though he be Lord of all. Notice verse number two, Galatians chapter four verse two. But, and we're talking about the heir, but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. And what Paul is giving us in this illustration is that though the heir is Lord of all and though he differth not nothing from a servant, he is under authority though he is Lord of all. And again this is just an illustration that Paul is giving. But what he is saying is this, if you've got the child, the son of a king and that son is going to eventually grow up to be a king great, he is going to inherit the kingdom. But while he is a child he is not much different than a servant in the sense that he has chores to do, he has things to do, he goes to school verse two but is under tutors and governors. The word governor there is referring to someone who is in charge of their education and taking care of them. A tutor is someone in charge of their education. They are under tutors and governors. So here is what I want you to understand. The heir when he is a child is under the authority of tutors and governors though he is Lord of all, while he is a child he is still under somebody's authority but that same child will grow up one day and then he will be the authority of even the people that he was under authority. Does that make sense? Now here is why Paul is saying this and you need to understand we are not talking about heirs and children here, we are talking about covenants. And if you remember if you go back to Galatians chapter 3, this idea in verse 2 but it is under tutors and governors brings us back to the idea of the covenants. Because in Galatians 3 and verse 24 Paul said this, Wherefore the law, referring to the Mosaic covenant the covenant made with Moses, was our school master. The phrase there school master? Tutor, governors school masters. He is all talking about the same thing. Someone who is a teacher or an authority over a child is the illustration being used here wherefore the law, the covenant of the law, the Mosaic law that was our school master. That was our tutor. That was our governor. That was the person who was a child. Our authority is what Paul is saying when we were a child to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith. So we have this illustration go back to Galatians chapter 4. What is the illustration? The illustration is that of an heir. What does he teach us? He teaches us that the heir when he is a child is Lord of all because he will inherit the kingdom. But though he is Lord of all, while he is a child he is not much different. He's not much different than a servant in his treatment and while he is a child, though he be Lord of all he is under the authority of tutors and governors and a school master. That's the illustration in verses 1 and 2. Now I want you to notice the interpretation in verses 3 to 5. Paul gives us the illustration then he says here's what I'm trying to explain. Here's the example that I'm giving you. He says in verse 3 even so we. Here's the interpretation. So he's saying look that was just an example. That was just symbolic. That was just an illustration and here's the interpretation. You say who's the interpretation? What is the interpretation? Paul says it's us. He said even so we. What he's saying is this we are like this heir. And when he's saying we the people of God. And I want you to understand that he is what he is doing he is uniting something that maybe sometimes we don't unite in our own minds and it is this that there has always been a people of God. In the New Testament they're called New Testament Christians. In the Old Testament they might have been called Old Testament believers or Old Testament saints but there have always been people that have been people who have called upon the name of the Lord, who have been and who are considered the people of God. And Paul says but we, he says even so we, the people of God he said when we were children. He's talking collectively about the people throughout the ages who have been known as the people of God believers and those who call upon the name of the Lord. Old Testament New Testament. He says even so we when we were children were in bondage. Now the phrase bondage there is a reference to the law. I don't have the time to develop that for you right now. We'll see that later in the book of Galatians but you can study that on your own. He's saying look we were, he says even so we when we were children were in bondage. So he's saying in the same way that an heir when he is a child looks a lot like a servant and is under the authority of a school master and a governor and a tutor. He says even so we when we were children were in bondage or were under the bondage or the authority of the law. You say what is he saying? What is he teaching? He's saying this. The Old Testament system because the covenant of God's people covers two different, excuse me, the people of God throughout the ages are covered under two different systems. In the New Testament we are under the New Covenant. In the Old Testament they were under the Old Covenant or the Old Testament or the Mosaic Covenant. We learned last week that the Abrahamic Covenant runs all the way through. Through the Old Testament through the Mosaic Covenant and through the New Covenant because the Abrahamic Covenant is all about Christ. But the people that were God's people in the Old Testament were under the Old Testament system and the people that are God's people in the New Testament are under the New Testament or the New Covenant system. Both people call upon the name of the Lord. We look back on the Lord Jesus Christ and call upon Him by faith. They looked forward in faith believing that the Messiah would come. They did not know the name of Christ but believing that the Lord would come and they called upon Him for salvation. Both were saved through faith. Both were saved by calling upon the name of the Lord. Both were saved through the Lord Jesus Christ but under two systems. And here's what Paul is teaching. These people the ones who were under the Old Testament system, they were under an infantile, immature adolescent system. He says when they were under the Old Testament system they were children in bondage. They were like an heir who would eventually become Lord of all but while he was a child he differed not from a servant. They're like a child that looked like, though they had authority they looked like they were under authority because they were immature and therefore under governors and tutors and under school masters. What he is saying there in verse 3 is that the Old Testament system was an infantile, immature, adolescent system. That's what he means when he says even so we, when we were children were in bondage. But then I want you to notice the last part of verse 3. He says we were in bondage under the elements of the world. Now that word elements there, it's going to come up later in this chapter. We're not going to get to it tonight. I'm going to show it to you but we're not going to actually go through it tonight. I'm going to go through it next week. But here he says that, he says we were like that heir when we were children because we were in bondage under the elements of the world. The word element or element is defined as a component or a constituent of a whole or a part of a whole. The word element is a component or a part of a whole. And here's what Paul is saying. When we were children under bondage, we were under the elements or he says the idea is that we were under something partly. We were under a component of something that made a whole. We were under a part of something that belonged to something more complete. Look at verse 9 just real quickly. Galatians chapter 4 verse 9. He says but now we're not going to get to verse 9 tonight. We'll do it next week but I just want you to see the word. But now after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, he said how turn ye again unto the weak and beggarly. The word beggarly means poor. It means under resourced. It's where we get like we would say someone who's a beggar. He says you're turning again to the weak and beggarly elements. The weak and beggarly parts that make up the whole. Now why am I making a big deal about this and I want you to understand this. What Paul is teaching us in this interpretation is that the Old Testament system was an infantile, immature, adolescent system. It was God's people as children. And because of that, the Old Testament system was only a part, was only an element, was only a component of a bigger system. Because today what the Zionists like to teach is that the Old Testament, that was plan A. That was God's perfect will. But then the Jews messed it up. So then God had to turn it like plan B. So the Gentiles are like the red-headed step-children. And God didn't really want us, but I mean the Jews killed his son. So he's just like fine, I'll just go over to these people. So they act like, it was all about the Jews, it's always been about the Jews, but because the Jews messed up, God has them on time-out and now he's just kind of dealing with the Gentiles. But what Paul was saying is this, no. He says the opposite. He says, in fact, the Old Testament system, he said that was just the system of God's people as an infantile system. He says it was not complete yet. It was not done yet. It was just one component, one part, one element of a much bigger system, something that had not yet fully been developed. He said it had not yet come into maturity. He says the Old Testament system is like looking at a man who's just a child. There's still more that needs to be done. There's still more growth. And he says that happened, that growth and completion happened with the New Testament. But he says the Old Testament system was only a part, it was an element, it was a component of a bigger system. Now let me just quickly answer this question because somebody's going to ask it and let me go ahead and answer it. The reason that he says under the elements of the world, and in verse 9 he says, how turn ye to the weak and beggarly elements, is because Paul is actually talking about two different things but he's uniting them and he's saying they're so similar. And what he's saying is this, and we're going to get to this next week, but he's telling the Galatians that they got saved out of idolatry. We're going to see that next week. And he's telling them, you going back to the Old Testament, to the Mosaic law, you allowing the Judaizers to take you back to the Old Testament and the New Covenant, he said it's like you going back to worshipping false idols and idolatry. You say, well why would Paul make that connection? Why would he put those things together? And here's the reason why. Because of the fact that both of those are portions of something that's not complete. The Old Testament was not complete until Christ came. Until the New Testament and the New Covenant. So how can he equate that to heathen people and idolatry? And the reason for that is this, because God has revealed himself. The element of the world is incomplete like the Old Testament because God has revealed himself through natural ways and through supernatural ways. God has revealed himself through creation and God has revealed himself through conscience. God has revealed himself to mankind through the creation of the universe. The heavens declare the glory of God the Bible says. And he has also revealed himself through the conscience that is in the heart of every man. Every man and woman and child has put in them a conscience that comes from God that tells them, hey this is right and this is wrong and don't do that and don't go there. And that's how God reveals himself. But here's what you need to understand. That's incomplete. That's not enough. That will get you to believe that there is a deity. That will get you to believe that there is a God. But it's not going to get you to the true God necessarily. Why? And look, that's the reason why throughout history every people in this world have always believed in some sort of a deity. Atheism, you say, well there's people that don't believe in God. No one naturally comes, you have to go to school and be taught that. You have to go to school and be convinced out of because the natural tendency is to believe that there is a God. Why? Because God has revealed himself through creation and through conscience. But that's just part of the equation. That only gets you halfway there. The other part is that God revealed himself specifically and supernaturally through his son and through the word of God. It is the word of God that teaches us salvation. It is the word of God that teaches us about the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the word of God that completes the deal. And what Paul is saying, because he's a very smart man, he's using these illustrations and saying us as God's people rejecting the New Testament and going back to the Old Testament to something that was only part of what the full thing is like you going back to your idols. It's like you going back to worshiping God based solely off creation and conscience. It's a good start, he says, but it's not the point and it's not the end. So he says the Old Testament system was an infantile, immature, adolescent system. The Old Testament system was only a part, was only a component, was only an element of a bigger system. Go to Colossians chapter 2 just real quickly if you want. You're there in Galatians, you're going to go past Ephesians, past Philippians, into Colossians. Colossians chapter 2. Let me just give you some verses to prove this to you. The Old Testament system was incomplete is what Paul is trying to say. It was only part it was only a part of a whole. And this is what the Bible teaches throughout. Colossians chapter 2 and look at verse 16. Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drinks or in respect of an holy day or of a new moon or of Sabbath days. We're going to come back to Colossians chapter 2 next time. We're in the book of Galatians and we're going to talk about this verse a little more in depth. But here he's talking about the ceremonial aspects of the Old Testament law. These are the things, the ordinances that have been done away that no longer apply in the New Testament. And Paul says to the Colossians, let no man therefore judge you. Don't let anybody tell you, hey you need to be doing these things and judge you because you're not doing them in meat or in drinks or in respect of a holy day or of a new moon or of the Sabbath days. Notice what he says in verse 17, which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ. Now I want you to understand that verse. He says the meat and the drinks and the holy days and the new moon and the Sabbath. And we're going to come back to this next week so next week when we're at it you'll have to just be interested even though I'm giving you the answers right now, okay? He says these things, these ceremonial things were only a shadow they were just part of something that was still to come. They were not the thing, they were a shadow of the thing. You say, well what was the thing? Well think about a shadow. I don't know if I have a shadow here behind me but a shadow is cast, is there a shadow behind me? I can't tell, I'm like Peter Pan here. There's a shadow behind me that I'm fighting with, right? And a shadow is cast by a body. Well you say, well what was the shadow of the meats and drinks and holy days and new moons and Sabbath days? Notice verse 17, which were a shadow of things to come but the body, the body casting the shadow is Christ, is of Christ. These were a shadow of things that symbolized, it was just part, it wasn't complete, it wasn't whole, they were just symbolic of what the real thing which was to come, which was Christ. Go to Hebrews chapter 8, let me give you other examples. Hebrews chapter 8, are there in Colossians? After Colossians you have 1 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy Titus, Philemon, Hebrews. Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy Titus, Philemon, Hebrews. Hebrews chapter number 8, Hebrews 8 Look at verse 5, Hebrews chapter 8 verse 5. Do me a favor when you get to Hebrews put a ribbon or a bookmark or something there because we're going to leave it and we're going to come back to it and I'd like you to be able to get to it quickly. Hebrews chapter 8 verse 5 notice what the Bible says, who serve unto the example and shadow, it's talking about the Old Testament covenant, who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle for see saith he that thou make all things according to the pattern show to thee in the mouth. I want you to notice that when Moses was told to build a tabernacle and build a table of showbread and the Ark of the Covenant and the candlesticks and all those things that they built in the tabernacle, he said those were actually just patterned after something that he was shown in heaven. He said those were just an example and a shadow of heavenly things. Go to Hebrews chapter 10 look at verse 1, Hebrews chapter 10 just flip over a couple of chapters Hebrews chapter 10 verse 1, for the law what is that? The Mosaic Covenant for the law having a shadow of good things to come. Notice what it says and not the very image of the things. The Old Testament was just a shadow was just a figure of what was to come but they were not the actual image of the thing. He says and not the very image of the thing, he says can never with those sacrifices. You say well why was the Old Testament partial? Here's why. Because the Old Testament can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers there unto perfect. The word perfect means complete or whole. Here's what he says, the Old Testament on its own could never have fulfilled and completed anything. He said those sacrifices which they offered year by year, he said they offered them every year continually but they never could make the comers there unto perfect. And then he says in verse 2, he says because if they could, he says for then would they not have ceased to be offered. He said if they could have made the comers there to perfect then we would still be in the Old Testament, what he's saying. Because that the worshippers once perch should have no more conscience of sin. So here's the idea and what Paul is teaching us and I realize that maybe this is not the most interesting thing to some of you but this is very important doctrinally. Go back to Galatians chapter 4, keep your place in Hebrews. The idea is this that the Old Testament system was a infantile, immature, adolescent system. It was God's people as children and because it was God's people as children it was like an heir who will eventually be the Lord of all but while he's a child he looks a lot like a servant and he looks even more like a servant when you consider the fact that he's under the authority of tutors and governors and a schoolmaster. He said that's what we were like, Paul says, God's people under the Old Testament covenant. He says the Old Testament system was only a part or an element or a component of a bigger thing. Go back to Galatians chapter 4, keep your place in Hebrews if you would. Look at verse 2 again. But is under tutors and governors notice this, until, you see the word until there? Until the time appointed of the Father. See, not only was the Old Testament system an infantile, immature, adolescent system, not only was the Old Testament system an incomplete system only a part or an element or a component of a bigger system but also the Old Testament system had an expiration date. It was only for a temporary time. It was only for a certain amount of time and then it was already planned to be done away with. Look at it again verse 2. But it's under tutors and governors. How long are you under tutors and governors? How long are you under the law? Until the time appointed of the Father. And keep in mind, this is where people get confused. The law is referring to the Mosaic Covenant. It's not referring to, thou shall not kill. Because people like to say, well yeah, Jesus came so now we can do whatever we want. The Bible does not say that. It never says you can commit adultery and kill and steal and whatever. The law is a reference to the Mosaic law, the covenant that God made with the children of Israel at Mount Sinai. Yes, that includes the laws of the land of the nation of Israel. We understand that. But that's not, it's the ritualistic ceremonial priesthood that's what we're referring to when he's talking about bringing yourself back to that bondage and believing that you have to keep the sacrifices and all those things in order to be saved. He says, but it's under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father. What was that time? Look at verse 4. Galatians 4.4. But when the fullness, I love this verse. I just love the way the King James Bible reads. But when the fullness of the time was come, that's why I like singing that song at the right time, at the best time, he came. But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman. What does that mean? That God became flesh, made of a woman. Notice, made under the law. What does that mean? Jesus came under the Old Testament Covenant. When Jesus came, they circumcised him 8 days later, they were doing all sorts of sacrifices and all sorts of things. He's going to the temple, he's going to Jerusalem for Passover. Why? Because he was under, he was made of a woman, made under the law. He was under the Old Testament Covenant and he fulfilled it perfectly. But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. God sent him to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. See, the Old Testament system was only for a certain amount of time. It had an expiration date. Go to Hebrews chapter 9, let's look at it from Hebrews real quickly. Hebrews chapter 9, look at verse 8. Hebrews 9, 8. The Holy Ghost this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. Remember, the holiest of all is a reference to where God dwells. Because in the Tabernacle you had the holy place and then the holy of holies or the holiest of all or the most holy place. That second chamber where the Ark of the Covenant rested which represented the presence of God. The Holy Ghost is signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. It was not yet made clear. It was not yet seen. It was not yet seen forever. No, just for a while. While as the first Tabernacle was yet standing. I want you to notice all the words there that have to do with time. He says that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. It was not clearly seen or understood for a while. For what while? While as the first Tabernacle was yet standing, verse 9, which was a figure, which was symbolic, which was a shadow for the time then present. Just for that time in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices. These are the offerings, notice, that could not make him that did the service perfect. That's how consistent the Bible is. They could not get the job done. The sacrifices of bulls could not get the job done. The sacrifices of lambs could not get the job done. Those were all just a shadow and a figure and an image. That lamb being slain was just picturing the fact that in the fullness of time, God would send forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law, and that son would be called the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. Those were just pictures of things to come. Notice verse 9, which was a figure for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect. Verse 10, which stood only in, doesn't this sound like Colossians 2, meats and drinks and divers washings and cardinal ordinances imposed on them, notice this word, until. It had an expiration date. Until the time of reformation. And no, that is not referring to Martin Luther. You say, well, what's the time of reformation? Notice the Bible just own its own commentary. Verse 11, but Christ being come. Isn't it interesting that the Bible calls the time that Christ being come, they call it the time of reformation? Why does it call it that? Well, why do we call Martin Luther and John Calvin and all the stuff they did reformation? Because they were trying to reform the Catholic Church. They were trying to correct faults within the Catholic Church. Well, what did Jesus do? He came and he corrected the Old Testament. Because remember, there was a fault with the Old Testament, not with the Testament, but the fault was with the people. And he came and reformed it and created a new thing called the New Covenant. Notice again verse 11, or last part of verse 10, until the time of reformation, but Christ being come and high priest of good things to come by greater and more perfect tabernacle. A greater and more complete tabernacle, not made with hands. That is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Once for all. He died for all. We don't need to keep sacrificing a lamb. We don't need to keep taking communion. We don't need to do anything. You believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and then you're saved once for all! So the interpretation, go back to Galatians if you would, Galatians chapter 4. The illustration was the heir. When he is a child, he is Lord of all, though while he is a child, he doesn't differ from the servants, because he's under the authority of tutors and governors and a schoolmaster. The interpretation is that God's people under the Old Testament were under this infantile child, this immature adolescent system. The Old Testament system was only partial. It was just a shadow of what was to come of a bigger, better system. And the Old Testament system was for a certain amount of time. It had an expiration date until the time of reformation, but Christ being come and high priest at that time of reformation. So let me quickly give you number three, an application. And it's not my application, although I like to give applications in sermons, but this is actually Paul's application. And his application from his interpretation derived from the illustration is this, that we are the children and the heirs. And the application is this, I'll just try to give it to you succinctly. And it's this, that it's better to be the heir as an adult than to be the heir as a child. He's saying, look, an heir when he's a child is Lord of all. But they don't feel like Lord of all. They're not treated like Lord of all. They don't act like Lord of all. In fact, they kind of look like they're a servant, and they look like they're under this bondage of a tutor and a schoolmaster. He said, but that same heir grows up, and when he is Lord of all, he says it's better to be the heir being Lord of all. And what he's trying to tell the Galatians is this, we are under the New Testament covenant, and he's trying to explain to them the New Testament is better than the Old Testament. The New Covenant is better than the Old Covenant, and he's bringing out this idea. Why are you trying to go back to the Old Covenant? He says, we are the adult heirs in this illustration, and it is better. See, you say, well, why is it better? Paul would say, because the New Testament covenant is more intimate than the Old Testament covenant. Say, what do you mean? Well, look at Galatians 4 and verse 5. Remember verse 5, in verse 4 we saw, but when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth a son, made up a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law. Why do you do that? Here's why. That we might receive the adoption of sons. Notice what he says, and because ye are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. That word Abba is an intimate, it's an intimate way of saying Father. That word Abba is brought up there because it's a way, and it's not exactly like this, and I understand, I'm going to say this, somebody's going to email me and say, you know, whatever, but the illustration is not exact, but just to kind of give you an idea, it's like saying Daddy versus saying Father. Now a son might go, you know, he's in trouble, and Dad calls and says, yes, Father, you know. But when you say Dad or Daddy, it's intimate. And what Paul is saying is that God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law. He says to redeem them that were under the law, under the school masters, that we might receive the adoption of sons, and because you are sons, God has sent forth his spirit in his son. By the way, one of the benefits of the New Covenant versus the Old Covenant is that we get the Holy Spirit to dwell us. Into your hearts, crying Abba Father, wherefore God, wherefore thou art no more, notice what he says, wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son. And if a son, he says, then an heir of God through Christ. And I don't really have time to develop this, I've got all these notes, but I'm already out of time, but let me just kind of help you understand this. God is referred to as God the Father throughout the whole Bible. But in the Old Testament, that term of God the Father is kind of separated. If you study references to God being referred to as the Father in the Old Testament, you'll notice that it's often in reference to like he's the father of the nation of Israel, or he's the father of the people of God in general. And I'm not minimizing that, that is all true. But in the New Testament, the relationship between individuals becomes more intimate with God the Father. In the New Testament, Jesus says, and Jesus teaches us, that you and I can come to God the Father and say, our Father which art in heaven. Paul says that we can cry out to God, Abba Father. And even here in Galatians chapter 1, if you go back to chapter 1 just real quickly, Paul, it's like he knew he was going to get to this point, and he highlights it early in the chapter, Galatians 1-1, Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by men, but by Jesus Christ, notice, and God the Father. He emphasizes the idea that God is our Father. Look at verse 3, grace be unto you and peace from God the Father. Look at verse 4, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father. The New Testament is more intimate than the Old Testament. You don't have to turn here, but in Romans 8.15 the Bible says, for ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father. The point that Paul is making is this, that the New Testament is better than the Old Testament, and Hebrews says that as well, and he says there's lots of reasons for it, but the reason that Paul is bringing up is this, the New Testament is more intimate. You say, how can that be? Here's why. In the Old Testament, under the Old Covenant, God was dealing with a nation. In the New Testament, under the New Covenant, God is dealing with individuals. In the Old Covenant, they had a king. In the New Covenant, we are kings. In the Old Covenant, they had a priesthood. Under the New Covenant, we are the priesthood. In the Old Covenant, they had a temple that they could go to and bring sacrifices to and talk to the priest and bring sacrifices unto God. In the Old Covenant, they had a temple. In the New Covenant, we are the temple. You understand the difference? So in the Old Covenant, they would go to a high priest who would go between God and them and would mediate between God and them, but in the New Covenant, we can go directly to our high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, and go directly into the throne of grace and cry not to the Father of the nation of Israel, but to our heavenly, intimate Father. Cry Abba, Father. And what Paul is trying to tell these Galatians, and what I would say to the Zionists today is this, that the New Testament is better than the Old Testament. That they're all God's people. But this is like an heir who's a child who looks a lot like a servant, and this is like a full-grown heir who doesn't need a priest, who doesn't need a king, who doesn't need a temple, because I am a king, and I am a priest, and I am a temple. And what he's telling them is this, why are you trying to go back to the Old Covenant when the New Covenant is so much better? Notice that again, Galatians chapter 4, and look at verse 7, we'll finish up. Galatians chapter 4 and verse 7 is where I get the title for the sermon, because it really is the point that Paul is trying to make, and it is this, Wherefore, thou art, he's talking to the Galatian believers, no more a servant, but a son. And if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. It's by our heads tonight, a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you for your word. I know these seven verses, there's just so much in them. But Lord, I pray you'd help us to understand it, and I pray you'd help us to learn it, and that it would challenge us, that it would encourage us, and then we would realize the great benefit that we have to be under the New Covenant. Not taken away from the people under the old, that's when they were born, and that's when they lived, and God for those that called upon in the name of the Lord and were saved. But we don't need to go back. We don't need to be Zionists. We don't need to be Judaizers. We don't need to be part of the Hebrew roots movement. We don't need to be people that are trying to go back to the old covenant, when the New Covenant is so much better. We love you. In the matchless name of Christ, we pray. Amen. We're going to have Brother Moses come up and lead us in a final song. I just want to remind you that if you would like to sign up to bring desserts or a side dish for the 4th of July picnic, we've got some clipboards in the main foyer. Please make sure you go by there and sign up for that. If there's anything we can do for you, please let us know. We'll have Moses come up at this time. Please enter your song books, page number 100. Page number 100. We're going to finish off by singing Day by Day. Page 100 and let's sing it out on the first. Day by day and with each passing moment strength I find to meet my trials here. Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment I've no cause for worry or for fear. He whose heart is gone beyond all measure gives unto each day what he deems best. Lovingly it's part of pain and pleasure mingling toil with peace and rest. Every day the part of himself is near me with a special mercy for each hour. All my cares he plain would bear and share me. He whose name is counsellor and power the protection of his child in treasure is a charge that on himself he laid as thy days, thy strength shall be in measure till the pledge to me he made. Let's sing it out on the last. Help me then in every tribulation so to trust thy promise is the Lord that I lose my peace with consolation offered me within thy holy word. Help me Lord when toil and trouble meeting there to take as from a father's hand. One by one the days the moment's fleeting till I reach the promised land. Great singing. Can I please have brother Josh for Scollum? Close the door to prayer. Amen. Amen. Amen.