Directly addresses the concept of blessing God, or 'eulogizing' Him, for His past, present, and future actions. It draws from Ephesians 1:3, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, and 1 Peter 1:3, highlighting that the Greek word for 'blessed' in these contexts signifies praise and thanksgiving rather than mere happiness. The message explains that God the Father is to be praised for His eternal plan of salvation, God the Son for His redemptive work on the cross, and the Holy Spirit for sealing believers. It further emphasizes finding comfort in God's Word, fellow believers, and the blessed hope of Christ's return, culminating in the future inheritance reserved for believers.
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Shall we turn to the Word of God in three particular scriptures this morning? I'd like to begin reading in Ephesians chapter one and verse three. Where we already have had in our reading the mention of the beloved Apostle Paul's words, when he wrote in Ephesians chapter one, verse three, and please note the opening word, the lesson, meaning, letters eulogized, let us speak well of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
Our second scripture is in Second Corinthians chapter one, verse three. Coincidentally, they come in the first chapter and the third verse. We would like to read in chapter one of Second Corinthians Beginning at verse three, and read, if we may, down through verse four and five, where Paul again is written by the Spirit of God. Note again the opening of the verse in verse three, with the same words, Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercy, and the God of all comfort or encouragement, who comforteth or encourages us in all our tribulations, that we may be able to comfort or encourage them, which are in any trouble by the comfort or the encouragement wherewith we ourselves are comforted or encouraged of God."
The third scripture is in First Peter chapter one and verse three. Note coincidentally again, We have a very similar beginning as the beloved Apostle Peter writes, chapter one, verse three, reading, if I may, through verse five. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy, has begun on us again unto a lively or a living hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. true and inheritance, incorruptible and undefiled, and that saitheth not away, reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed at the last time.
May God bless the reading of these sections on his blessed and holy words. I hope, and I'm sure you may have noted carefully, the introductory word of every one of the Scriptures, beginning with the word blessed. Now there are two words in the Greek New Testament that have been translated into the English word blessed. They have a different meaning. One word means happy, and by way of example, You may remember the Beatitudes the Lord Jesus spoke in Matthew five.
Blessed are the poor in spirit. The word means happy. The same word can be found in other scriptures. For instance, in Revelation chapter fourteen and verse thirteen. Blessed are happy are the dead who die in the Lord. I may I commend to you, be sure you die in the Lord and you'll die happy. But the word before us in the scriptures that we have read is not the same meaning. It is the word we get our English word, eulogy from. Let us eulogy, in fact, translate it as the word eulogy in the English language. And you have in Ephesians chapter one, and in St.
Corinthians chapter one, and first Peter chapter one, beginning in verse three on both occasions. the word eulogy, a word of praise, a word of thanksgiving, an inscription of worship, and eulogy to the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Note particularly again, the words of eulogy are addressed in each case to the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. You will find as you read then Paul by the Spirit in Ephesians chapter one, eulogizes the Father for what he has done.
You will find in St. Corinthians chapter one and verse three and four, Paul again eulogizes the Father for what he is doing. And then when you come to first Peter chapter one, verse three and on, Peter eulogizes him for what he's going to do. Therefore you have a threefold eulogy to the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for what has been done in the past, what is being done in the present, and what will yet be done in the future. The past, the present, and the future is eulogized by the apostles before the God and Father of our Lord Jesus.
There is a verse you may have remembered it and read it many times in Psalm chapter thirty four, when you find the psalmist saying, I will bless, and it's the same word in the Hebrew text for the word eulogy, I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth. One recognizes from the words of the psalmist, there should never be a time No matter how gentle, no matter how blessed and good, the what, the believer in the Lord Jesus, should be willing, should and able, should eulogize and speak well to the praise of the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In other words, may I simply put it, I know it may be a test, and it is for my known heart, together with yours many times. Do you and I, who are believers, Speak well of our God and our Father for what he has done for us in the past. Are we willing and able to eulogize him for what he is doing in the presence? And I'm sure we will all agree. We are happily agreed we are willing to have eulogized him for what he's going to do for the future is the brightest we could ever have. So may I suggest to you Please, here is a threefold eulogy.
Words of praise, words of thanksgiving, words of acknowledgement for the believer's past, present, and future. May I give the suggestion? I'd rather take it from the word of God than go to one of these spiritual advisors you have around town advertising that they tell you the future. that the joy of realizing Paul, twice, for the past and for the present, and Peter one, for the future, view the sciences and speak well of our Lord Jesus Christ and his Blessed Father.
Begin with me in the epistle of Peter, please. And let's look, or rather in the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians. The first one that we read For in this section before us, in this first chapter of Ephesians, it is all. Paul eulogizes God for what he has done. Now, if you were a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, what is contained in this section before us, you can do the same. You and I who know the Lord Jesus as our Savior, we can certainly praise and eulogize the God and fathers of our Lord Jesus Christ for what he has done.
May I read the words again in verse three. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who anointed us then, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Now you know particularly, and please know especially, The blessings for which he is eulogized are not earthly blessings. They are spiritual blessings. They are not earthly blessings. They are heavenly blessings. And may I re-emphasize the distinction.
Your earthly blessings will end. As one dear man saw a funeral procession going down through the town, He asked a neighbor on the sidewalk, who died? And when he was told, he noted he was a rich man who had died. And he asked the question, how much did he leave? And he got the answer, he let it off. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that the Bible says we can carry nothing out. And so the emphasis is not upon earthly blessings. but upon blessings that are eternal, heavenly blessings.
Now, will you know something? The beloved apostle Eulogizes not only in this chat-ended verse as he speaks of the Father, he speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ. And may I also infer, by the word spiritual, it is a reference to the person of the Holy Spirit. You cannot have a spiritual blessing or anything spiritual in the realm of the gospel without the Holy Spirit's participation. And you and I can eulogize not only the Father, but the Son and the Holy Spirit for what he has done. Let me quote the words of an old hymn, or it's the last verse of a dear old hymn.
All hail to the Father, all hail to the Son, all hail to the Spirit, blessed three in one. I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one. Now let me very briefly present what we have before us in the opening of these words of chapter one in Ephesians. You can take them from verse four or verse three if you wish to begin. Go from verse four down through verse fourteen. And you have the work that the Father has done to save your soul and mind. Then you have the work that the Son has done to save your soul and mind.
Then you have the work that the Holy Spirit has done to save your soul and mind. Note this carefully and quickly. Let me read verse four through verse six. Then you have what the Father has done. And may I point out to you, when he gave this word, and it was before the foundation of the world, note some words. according if he has chosen as in Christ which before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love having predetermined predestinated everyone who believes on the Lord Jesus shows unto the adoption of the place of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will.
And let me read the first half of verse six. To the praise of the glory of his grace. Now may I very simply say that very emphatically, long before the ages of time began, in an eternal past as revealed in the word of God, God the Father who determined he would have a family of children. All of them would be the children who would be holy and without blame before him in love. Now there was a great determination, was it not?
Predetermining before time ever began that he would ever come. And may I say lovingly and frankly, I don't know how it is with your soul. But if you happen to be on stage, I want to tell you, God wants you to be a child. He desires it. And don't worry about the word predestination. Predestination is none of your business. You and I can't predestinate. It's God that predestinate. But let me give you the suggestion. If you want to be, if you, the thing that you should do, You should believe on the Lord Jesus Christ so you'll be predestinated to the right place.
But it is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. I can't pattern the mystery. It's a young human comprehension that in an eternal path, an eternal God before the ages began, one of the families and all of them to be holy and without blame before him in love. Now the amazing fact is this. He determined to take it out of the human race from the earth. God told God what? The world of humanity that he gave his only begotten son.
And may I repeat You'll never find in the Bible where God says he loves angels. If you do, please show it to me. I've never seen it yet. For the world of sinners. And one can recognize such a plan, such a purpose. Good is the beginning of verse six. What do you have at the end of verse five? Let me read it. According to the good pleasure of his will. He said, I want to do it. Don't tell me God doesn't want to do it. He said, I want to do it. It's my pleasure. The pleasure of my will in its sovereign grace.
And read the only words of verse six. And all to the praise of the glory of his grace. Meaning, no one of us deserve it. And then when you go to verse seven, at the end of verse six, and down through verse twelve, you have the great work of God the Son. whom he sends to the world, to effect the work of redemption. As you read in verse seven, in whom we have redemption, to his blood, to forgive us the sins according to the riches of his grace. Oh, my beloved, when you see here is God the Son coming to the earth, dying upon the cross of Calvary, paying the penalty for sin.
And all, in grace, leaning on this earth favor and you have as you go on the work of that son continuing until he comes to the glory of the great inheritance he will have together with the saints now look at verse thirteen and fourteen quickly verse thirteen and fourteen in whom also ye trusted after that ye heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after or upon believing ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, who is the earnest or the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of the person's possession unto the praise of his glory.
Let me just simply and very earnestly correlated in just these three ways. First, I read that God the Father desires to make me his child. I read that God the Son came to the earth to redeem me at the cross of Calvary. I read that the Holy Spirit upon their believing on that Savior sealed me. Father, the Father desired me. The Son redeemed me. The Spirit sealed me. Now, beloved, let me ask the question. Has he done that for you? Has it been done for you? Oh, when it is done, You and I can say, blessed be the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Who has blessed us, and please know, and thank, you know, it's going to be a happy day when I'll leave this world. I know you don't want me to go yet, but I don't mind going. It's a joy of knowing. I'm going to eternal blessing, heavenly blessing. I don't know. I think I'm dumb enough or simple enough to prefer heaven to hell, heaven to the earth. How about it? Can you tell me a better place to go than heaven? I can tell you a worse place to go, and that would be hell. And God granted you never go there. But oh, the thing that God the Father has provided for us a redemption.
Then surely I can say, I'll eulogize him. I'll praise him. I will speak one of him for the answer. Let me repeat again, verse three. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us. And please note, with all meaning in the Greek, every spiritual blessing. And if you want to count your blessings, you better count them up in heaven. For there they are in Christ. every spiritual blessing in Christ. And when you receive the Lord Jesus Christ, you get them all. And I dare you to be able to count them all either.
For the joy of knowing, they go on through time and eternity. And God, the Father, is eulogized. Go back to St. Corinthians three. St. Corinthians chapter three, where we read the second scripture. And you know, particularly the apostle again begins the word. With that blessed. Blessed be God. And note what he goes on to say. Even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. And note the tender expression. The Father of mercy. And the God of all comfort. Who comforts us in all our tribulation. That we may be able to comfort them.
Which are in any trouble. By the comfort wherewith ourselves. Our comfort is of God. Now why does the Apostle write these words? Why six words of eulogy for what God does now in the believer's present time? Will you go down to verse nine and ten? Let me read verse eight, nine and ten with you. I want you to notice something and God by the Spirit through this Apostle Paul gave balance the whole epistle. It's an epistle of trouble. Note in verse eight. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble, which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, in so much that we despaired even of life.
But we have the sentence of death in ourselves. They face the dangers of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver, and in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. And they are very bluntly and very plainly saying, all you need to do is read the Holy Epistle through. And you have the most, you have the most detailed account of the troubles that the beloved Apostle Paul ever resided in the second Epistle of St. Corinthians. The troubles he went through. And may I say my book, well, You probably agree with what Job said long ago.
Man that is born of a woman is full of troubles. Another few days. Trouble. You used to have a statement. Never trouble troubles. If trouble troubles you and you don't have to wait for it, it'll come around. And we all recognize that. It's part of life. And it particularly was at the part of the Apostle Paul's ministry and service. How much he paid. and how much it cost him, primarily in a physical and a material way, and the things that he suffered for the sake of the gospel. Faith being deaf on every hand. But before he mentions and recites all of his troubles, he eulogizes the Father. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And note the expression, not in the other scriptures, Father of mercy. Father of mercy. I know that you as well as I do, we need the mercies a bit farther. As the psalmist is well written, as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. And there I point out to you, by the Holy Spirit, the apostles used the word mercies in relation to God's people, believers. Yes, the sinner needs mercy.
Surely the sinner has to pray. God be merciful to me, a sinner. But, may I say very frankly, saints need mercy. Our sorrow, our bereavement, our trials, our sicknesses, our sorrows. And the beloved Apostle Paul is yet eulogizing. I will bless the Lord at all times. If grace shall continually be in my mouth, I think of a dear old Man that made the statement, the favorite verse in the Bible, that he found was those words that said, and he came to pass, and he came to pass, and he came to pass. He knew then his troubles hadn't come to stay. Oh, the joy of knowing we've got a father of mercy.
But please note, who comforteth us? Now that word means, literally, who encourages us. Wait a minute. Not his son. In all our tribulations. Oh my. Thank God I need that. In all our tribulations. Not in some of us. He's the God of all comfort. Who comforts us on? He's the God of all encouragement. Long ago in the life of David as you may read in that history of that blessed man. One gave his courage. He went into the woods and he encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
And may I say the greatest encourager is no one else but the Lord himself. And he called the God of all encouragement here, the God of all comfort, and he compasses us in all our tribulations. You know what? They're going to know that he does that. Well, let me give you three suggestions quickly. And these are just three ways. You may have many other ways, I'm sure. But there are three particular ways. You as a Christian, and I as a believer, when in trouble, can have the comfort of God. Go with me to Romans chapter fifteen, if you please. Romans chapter fifteen. Let me read verse four to you.
And in this fourth verse of Romans chapter fifteen, the beloved apostle writes, Words that make us realize where we can find some source of comfort. Chapter four, chapter fifteen in verse four. For whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning, that means the Old Testament, all the Old Scriptures, that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. The comfort, the encouragement of the scriptures. The word of God is the source of comfort.
Tell me to Psalm ninety-four very quickly. I think it's Psalm ninety-four. I hope I'm not wrong. Psalm ninety-four, if I'm not mistaken, it may be the nineteenth verse. That's right. Psalm ninety-four in verse nineteen. And may I add that this was one verse, that in one, if not the most deep, deepest of trials I ever went through, this verse was a comfort. In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comfort delight my soul. Meaning this.
when my thoughts in their multitude may be so many in burden because of my problem there are many words of scripture promises of God's word to delight the soul thy comfort says the psalmist says delight my soul find your comfort in the word of God the many promises Just as what the Lord Jesus has said. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, so that I may boldly say, The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man can do unto me.
So many promises. I am with you always, even under the end of the earth. My strength is sufficient for thee, and my grace is sufficient for thee, and my strength is made perfect in richness. said the Lord to the Apostle Paul in Second Corinthians chapter twelve, in the midst of his troubles. Praying, two times he prayed that the Lord would take away the trouble. But you know for Paul, God didn't take away that trouble for which he prayed. He said, Paul, I'll give you grace to bear it. I'll give you strength to bear it. And Paul, Paul became his throne.
And he said, I will willingly suffer if that's what he wants me to do. And so he was confident. And the comfort of the scriptures. My beloved, please let me say one thing I like about the book of the Psalms, and I'm sure many saints do, is you can find any Psalm in that book that will fit the need when you're down in the gut or within the heaven, whichever you want. They take you off and he'll help you when you're down. The language of the... Well, I think the old Scott people call them, and they still do, tens of experience.
The Book of Psalms. Don't you know in that whole Book of the Psalms, the whole hundred and fifty on them, you've got the way of the righteous and you've got the way of the ungodly. And the righteous have a rough time and the ungodly seems to get along a lot better in the earth. but they perish at the end. But the godly will be forever with the Lord. And though they suffer, they have divine comfort, the encouragement of the Scriptures. But go with me to Second Corinthians chapter seven, please. I want you to notice something in Second Corinthians seven in verse six, where the beloved apostle Paul writes these words. Let me go to verse five, begin in reading there.
When we were coming to Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side without refining. Within were fears. These were genuine. A warfare, a spiritual warfare, a fear in the heart and in the mind. Now read on. Nevertheless, God, that comforted those that are cast down, comforted by the coming of Pilate. Oh, the joy of singing. Paul, as he was thus cast down, was then Corinth when Titus came. You can read the Holy Persona. What happened was this? Titus had been in Corinth, and he came back from Corinth with a message of joy that the Christians had come and listened to the Apostle Paul's letter and obeyed it, and conditions were better.
The brother that had been dismissed from the family of faith had been restored. And when Titus came with the good news, Paul was comforted. You can not only have the comfort of the scriptures, you can have the comfort of the saints. Go with me to St. Timothy chapter one, please. I hope you have your Bible. You know, it's a strange thing. The preacher's best message comes out of the Bible. St. Timothy chapter one. Let me go with you to verse sixteen. Verse sixteen to the end. The Lord gave mercy unto the house of onus Diferus, for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my change.
But when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently and found me. The Lord granted to him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day, and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus. Thou knowest very well. Please remember. Here's the great apostle Paul. He needed comfort. He needed encouragement. Here comes a man by the name of Onus Tiferus. Covered it in, refreshed. May I say, the word Onus Tiferus means prophet bringer. Refreshing. And when Paul was in a state where it was, the heat of the trial was great, Onus Tiferus found him in Rome.
But may I tell you, he had a lot of looking around to find that apostle. When he was a prisoner in Rome, that great city, he had to hunt near and far. He had to find the location that he had stolen and gone to Lima. And he found me! And in many other ways, he was so profitable to me. You know very well, the Lord blessed him when the day of glory comes. You not only have the comfort of the scriptures, thank God for the comfort of strength, And my beloved Father St. Mary, I said, why not you try and be, and why not shall I find be a refreshing saint?
And when the heat is great, when the trial is difficult, when the trouble is heated up by the enemy, how precious to have a saint come with words that come. I think of what a testimony I've just recently heard. A dear man. a child who's gone facing an operation, a serious operation. And he was possibly fatal. He got many comments from his friends. But there was one dear brother that came and he said to him, John, I just want to pray for you. Let me kneel down and pray for you. And he sat, he knelt down and he prayed for this dear beloved brother that the Lord would be with him in the trial and the operation and bring him safely through if he will.
That prayer was that dear man gave him more comfort than all the words everybody spoke. The comfort of the saint. Praying for one another. Loving one another. Be kind one to another. Tend the hardest. Forgiving one another. Even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you. But then there's one more. way of comfort. And this is the best of all. You know it well. I'll just quote it. First Thessalonians chapter four. When Paul in verse fifteen, fifteen, says, Thessalonians then, for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the count of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds. to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be or always be with the Lord. We're for comfort. Encourage one another with these words. Jesus is coming again. Oh, that's the best comfort I know. Oh, may I give you this thought? Here's a little outline. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sins. That's my sins away. First Peter, chapter five, verse seven, says, Casting all your care upon him, the same Savior, set my cares away.
And what we have quoted, the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are the lights, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds. That will be myself away. You know I'd like to leave, I'd like to leave this folder. That way, I hope you all go with me. Hang on my cocktail if you want to. But I'm sure she'll say, you won't need to do that. Just have to be myself only. The comfort of the blessed hope. Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. Oh, the comfort of the scriptures.
The comfort of the things. The comfort of that blessed hope. I desire you to find anything better. while you go through this miserable world. And then I say, the longer I live in this world, the less I want to live longer in it. It's not getting any better. It's getting worse. If you don't believe it, well, I know you ought to believe it by now. And the word that God substantiates that as it will get worse till Jesus comes. So we can bless God for the present. I've got the comfort of the scriptures. I have the comfort of fellow believers. I thank God for me.
And I have the blessed comfort of the hope. Jesus is coming again. Well, the last one. First Peter chapter one, verse three. Let's go to that. Let's see what's in the future. Oh, thank God. I'm glad we don't end by the present. But as Peter well wrote, blessed. Be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, chapter one, verse three, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again, until, and this is the future, a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And note, note the future. It's an inheritance. That was repeated also in Ephesians chapter one.
Same. To enter into an inheritance. and note the character of that inheritance, incorruptible. It can never be tarnished or spoiled. I'm defiled. I can't even spoil heaven myself. And the tale is not away, and reserved in heaven for you. My beloved, the future is the bride. Did you ever note, I'm sure you must, in first Peter, the whole theme of Peter is this, going from suffering to glory. from suffering to glory. And in the context of this first chapter, it speaks of Christ suffering that he might enter into his glory.
Remember on the walk to Emmaus with the two disciples, the Lord Jesus opened the scriptures. They were sad. They were disillusioned. They were in despair. They were in discouragement. And he opened the scriptures and he showed them from the scriptures how that Christ must suffer these things that he may enter into his glory. My beloved, very frankly, there's no Christian on the earth that's going to get through this thing without some suffering. But going to glory, glory, incorruptible, reserved in heaven, saved us not away, and can never be destroyed. And then further in verse five, the inheritance is not only kept, but I'm being kept for it, who are kept by the power of God through faith under salvation.
ready to be revealed at the last time. My beloved, I'm sure you can recognize even Peter. If you go down through Peter's epistle, he warns the Christians of his day they're going to go through worse trouble than they've already had. Well, sometimes I wonder if I am. You and I may, may I say this, if our Lord Jesus doesn't come soon, we may be headed for more trouble for the Christians. Let me speak the words of a dear old servant of God. One of the finest Hebrew Christian Bible teachers I've ever known. Who was asked by one of his believers in his Bible class?
Do you think the church will go through the Great Tribulation? It's often a question asked today. And the dear saint made answer. No, he said, I don't believe that the church is going through the Great Tribulation. But he answered, I wouldn't be surprised if they get so bad we'll think we're going through it. Well, I can agree with that. We know not what a day we'll bring forth, but we're going through an inheritance from suffering to glory. And don't you and I can re, well we often sing the old hymn, when all my labors and trials are all, and I'm safe on that beautiful shore, just to be near the dear Lord I adore, will through the ages be what?
Glory for me. I can bless God and why should I not? Eulogize him, not only for what he has done, through the death of his son to redeem me and the spirit to seal me. but also rejoiced and praised him even in the present. I've got the comfort of his word. I've got the comfort of the fellow believers. I have the comfort of that blessed hope that is sure and certain. I will come again and receive you unto myself. The will I am, beg ye may be also. And then as Peter writes, he blesses God for that future inheritance, My beloved, don't try to tell me, or even try to tell yourself, the glory of that inheritance is past shabbling.
But though God writes, I have not seen, here has not heard, neither hath it ended the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that loving, but God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit. And in the word of God, my beloved, you cannot end the reading of the word of God without seeing it. There's nothing but glory for the believer in the end. Glory. So may I ask again, can you, can I, do you, do I, eulogy, God the Father for the past, God the Father for the present, and God the Father for the future?
Why? You know, if I wasn't saved, they get saved right now. And you're glad they don't have to. And you that aren't you glad you're saved. Just let's pray, shall we, before we have a closing hymn. Oh, Father, we thank you for thy precious word. We pray thy blessing upon it. May we, as we depart, please help us. Praise thee for the past. Praise thee even in the present. You're taking care of us, and you will. and praising for their future. Oh, it is so right. May our past, present, and future be praiseworthy before thine heart today.
And if anyone knows not the Lord Jesus, please, Lord, may their soul be concerned and the spirit conviction and their soul trust that save you today. We ask you for his glory.