Thank you very much.
Amen.
Thank you very much.
Verse 1.
Thank you.
Amen.
I'm not sure.
Thank you.
John's gospel.
Do you want to be made whole.
I don't know what?
I'm not going to translate.
I want to do it.
I'm not going to do it.
He was looking for it.
He's not going to do it.
He's going to do it.
He's not going to do it.
And that's this one.
He's not going to do it.
He's going to do it.
He's not going to do it.
He's going to do it.
And on until Calvary.
He's not going to do it.
But it's going to do it.
He's going to do it.
And I'm here to do it.
And you're very attentive.
He's going to do it.
And you're going to do it.
At that time anyway, I don't know what they do nowadays,
but there was what they called an automatic pilot on the boat.
It wasn't a person.
It was just a wee wheel
that once you left all the narrows and the shallows into the ocean,
and it locked onto that.
It wasn't perfect, of course,
but there was motors that worked on both sides.
It would bring it back,
and the other side, bring it back.
And it's very like the Christian faith.
At the heart of the earth,
it is not cast out
once you are locked into that system.
And who wouldn't want to be locked into that system?
Wouldn't you like it?
If Christ came to you today and said,
do you want to be made whole?
And you say,
well, I remember an old person saying that in a church
when we were on holidays,
and he talked about this thing,
he talked about that thing,
and the whole chick saw comes together
and fits into your lives.
and I pray today that this would be the case.
I spoke to him again and again,
he says,
to story,
because he had restored to them,
to him,
the years that the locust had eaten.
He would have been a happy man,
surely.
38 years
under the curse of sin
and redeemed
in the precious blood
of Jesus Christ.
God's unmerited favor
towards man.
And if you take anything at all
away from here today,
Mother Ruth,
Samila,
remember now
your creator
in the days of your youth.
lest the evil days come.
And you say to yourself,
I have no delight.
And there's many today out there
who say that.
Everything.
I have no delight.
I have no aim in life.
Because their course in life
wasn't corrected.
And they went askew
from these things.
And they fell into company.
And you see the result of it
on your television
every night,
day of life.
And that's how John Newton
put it in one of his hymns.
Fading is the swaddling's treasure.
All its boasting pomp
and show.
Solid joys
and lasting treasures.
None
but silence,
children.
No.
May that be
your portion
and our old portion
today.
That this was seat
that fell
into good
soil.
and God bless you
wherever you're going.
Pray to you
as I take you home
safely
to your own places
and find
a place
to worship
where the gospel
is breached
by the end.
You might be there
for all I know.
I don't know.
That's not my business.
But we'll leave it
at that just now.
That was a request
he made.
He was asked,
do you want to be made whole?
He said,
I don't have anybody
and Jesus said,
I'm not on about that.
What I'm on about
is
you want to be made whole.
and that's when
your whole body
comes together.
You become
a whole person,
my friend.
Spiritually
and physically
the two are kept together
in the way of God.
The highway to heaven
is along
that way.
May God bless us.
Lord, we pray
that you would
bless us now
and keep us
mindful of
who we are
and whom we serve.
You will never
be separated
from your own
because you
have bought them
with your own blood
on the cross of Calvary.
Amen.
Now we conclude
by singing
from
Salam of Home.
There we are.
Salam 37
3-5
Psalm 37, verse 3.
But your trust in God.
Kut agauches anegya.
Hey,
I
Now we stand now for the benediction.
And now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit
rest upon us and abide with us,
now and forevermore.
Amen.