The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit Lesson 14 question 3 cont.
Courtney Hemenway · Sep 19, 2021
Holy Spirit (2021-23), No. 31
Holly Hills Bible Church
https://hollyhillsbiblechurch.org/teaching/messages/49261924223778

Transcribed from the recording by SermonAudio, so expect the occasional misheard word.

All right, I just don't want to, you know, we ended up and there was some horror in the class last week, evidently, when I inadvertently said I was going back on to a question that I was not going back to. They were not going to go back. So there were a few people in the class that were a little nervous that I said I was going back to question two of lesson 14. where evidently it's question three. So all of those of you who panic because I may have been going back, rest assured, I'm not going to go back to the question two. So question three, we got halfway through what I want to discuss. So again, this is lesson 14 of the work, the person work of the Holy Spirit class.

Question three, is there any endeavor by man that will refresh him or wash him to make him clean? So we're talking about the refreshing and we got down to, you know, is there anything in the world that offers a refreshing? Basically, we went through money, travel, relationships, everything. The last question I had is, can you find any real rest or peace in or from the world?

The answer is no. But then I ended on a question. was where or what do we spend our time on? Do we spend a lot of time on the world or do we spend time on the Lord? And I look in the mirror, how much time do I spend with the Lord? And it's not that we have to be locked in a room meditating on the word all the time, but it's just having the Lord before you. And there was a hungry heart that I wanted to touch on that seemed it was on the 15th, 9-15. And I think it was kind of apropos to what we were talking about. It's the last paragraph of that one on 915.

A great deal of our time is spent in learning that there is nothing here to meet the requirements of our new affections. There is a wandering in the wilderness in a solitary way, and yet no city is found to dwell in. But our father allows this in order that his children may find that their desires can only be satisfied by and in him. We must learn that their desires can only be satisfied by and in Him. We must learn that we are not of this world.

Now, that was kind of spending our time. What do we spend our time on? What do we focus on? And if we focus on the world, there's not going to be rest, guaranteed. And so again, so that was on the rest. Now, the second part was what efforts of ours can make us clean?

Sorry, don't have the camera on. Zero, he's giving the zero. So, prior to Christ coming, Jews could do what? What did they do? Everything in the law. Sacrifices. Sacrifices. Did that make them clean? That's the key. It didn't clean them. It covered the sin. So the cleaning, it didn't clean them. So the question I have now is, does God want us clean? Yes. We have a yes. Yes. I had that in quotes. I wrote down the washing of the water as applied by the spirit is the only thing that will clean a person permanently. Okay. So how is that accomplished? Being justified. Being justified. Okay. I think it's looking to Christ, searching in the Word. The ability to know Christ is done by the Holy Spirit, but it is through His Word. If we don't look into His Word and search His Word and study His Word, it's kind of hard to do.

Yeah, I agree. I want to go back to, and I put the words, you know, does God want us clean and clean? Does he want us clean? Yeah, I agree. I think, I think we're clean from the moment we believe in Christ Jesus and that in our position, in our condition, we muck that up a lot and we need confession and washing. So, you have something like, because I put no. He doesn't want us clean. Clean is like the fleshing cleaned up.

He doesn't want us clean. What was God's solution to our dirtiness? To be crucified. Grace is the after. What he did was crucify us. That's how we got clean. We totally omitted the old man, which was the sinful flesh. So I, maybe it's a trick question, but it was, you know, he doesn't want us clean. He wants us in Christ. That's what he wanted.

Best thing, and a trick in the cleaning in the flesh, people try and clean up the flesh all the time. Try and get better. I'm going to get better. Now that I have the indwelling Holy Spirit, I can really be a powerful Christian now because I have the power to really, in this flesh, accomplish a lot.

And that's not what he wants. He doesn't want us clean in the flesh. He got rid of the flesh. The best thing could have happened to us is crucify us, positionally crucify us. So that's why it's kind of a little bit of a trick question. But the cleaning part, I think a lot of people want to clean, get clean. And that's wrong. You want to be indwelt by the spirit and grow in the spirit. And that was actually the other thing. It was, sorry, oops. That was in this morning's actually was today the 19th. Where was it. Oh, I think there's a second paragraph of today's one.

Spiritual growth is the Holy Spirit engraving the Lord Jesus on a man's heart, putting him into his thoughts, his words, and his ways, just as the law was engraved upon stones. It is not that there is no failure. A man who is seeking to make money does not always succeed, but everybody knows what his object is, just so the Lord Jesus Christ is the object of the believer's life.

I thought that was really good. I thought that, you know, it's the engraving of Christ in us, and it's that manifestation of Christ. And it's, again, what's spending your time on with the first half of the question. I thought that was really good for today's hungry heart.

So I said, you know, he doesn't want us clean. He crucified the old man. He wants us new and kind. He wants us placed into his son to have the same relationship with him as he wants for us. And I guess the other question was, do we really think we can come up with a better solution? You know, crucifying was the best solution. Would it have been better that we kept the flesh and we had the indwelling Holy Spirit to really make us better? That wouldn't happen. So again, I think that's a good question in a lot of ways. What we spend our time on, the world offers us a lot, but nothing comes, peace or rest comes from the world.

So spending our time focusing on the Lord, that's where the peace rests and our growth will come. And the cleansing part is in Christ. We are clean in Christ. We are holy and righteous in Christ. We can dwell, where are we positioned? Ephesians 2, 6, where are we positioned right now? In heaven. Could we be sinful and have a sinful position and be positioned in heaven? No. So again, where we are, we are clean in Christ. And we and we have all of what Christ is minus deity.

And that's that's where we get the cleansing. So right out puts it this way. In the previous chapter, our Lord uses water as a type of that word, the word used by the spirit for cleansing the soul. And this is, I think, what you're reading, Jim, that cleansing is not the putting away the filth of the flesh, the forming of the natural man. for the sow that was washed returned to a wallowing in the mire. But the cleansing is that of a new life, a new nature, a new thing entirely, and therefore perfect and complete.

No matter where a man turns for refreshment, he fails to find that which can truly quench thirst. pleasure, reputation, power, wealth, whatever the heart of man craves can never satisfy. As in the book of Ecclesiastes, those who have most diligently drawn water out of these wells have been constrained to confess vanity of vanities. Let us as Christians take note of this and refuse that which does not satisfy even the world. Who have we, Lord, but thee, a soul thirst to satisfy?

Exhaust the spring, the water's free, all other streams are dry. So again, the question about refreshing and cleansing, that's all in Christ and it's not in the world. So any other thoughts before we move on? All right. Question four, explain how Exodus 17, one through seven, the rock smitten is like Christ crucified. So I'll read it and then we'll discuss it. This is Exodus 17, one through seven. Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by stages from the wilderness of sin, interesting, according to the command of the Lord and camped at Rephidim.

And there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore, the people quarreled with Moses and said, give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord? But the people thirsted there for water. And they grumbled against Moses and said, why now have you brought us up from Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst? So Moses cried out to the Lord saying, what shall I do to this people?

A little more and they will stone me. Then the Lord said to Moses, pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go before. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb and you shall strike the rock and water will come out of it that the people may drink. And Moses did so on the side of the elders of Israel. He named the place Massa and Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel because they had tested the Lord saying, is the Lord among us or not?

So kind of an interesting one. Being a groundwater guy, I think this is a really, really good section of scripture. I wish I could strike the rock and water would come out. That would make my job a whole lot easier. So first, would we ever do something like the Israelites, complain about our circumstances?

Never. A lot of shake. Never do that. We would never complain. We wouldn't complain about our health, my sciatica, wealth. If I had just a little bit more, I could buy that Jeep that I want. Or the president. Who's that president? Oh, my goodness. Stress. Not answering our prayers like we'd like to do, like we'd like it. Yeah, murmuring, complaining. We would never do that. We would never complain like that. So again, it's one of those ones. Don't throw rocks in the glass house. You know, we're looking at the Israelites going, look at these whiners. Look at these complainers. You know, I look in the mirror and it's like, wow, you know, how many times have you whined about I didn't get my way in a prayer?

You know, so what if you were a you know, these are questions I said, what if you were a believer in Afghanistan right now? What would you be thinking? You're tested to the max at this point, you know, and they're worried about water and, you know, Moses, you pulled us out of here and, you know, now we've got, you know, no water out here. What about those people in Afghanistan right now that are believers?

I mean, would they, should they be complaining? No, their circumstances are where the Lord has them, which is something we sometimes don't understand. The trials that we have, or we didn't get the car we wanted, or we didn't get whatever. There are other people that are being challenged in a much greater way than us. And again, the same God, same love for each and every one of us. And so I keep thinking of the complaining that goes on. Here are people being martyred or killed in Afghanistan. And so in any of those circumstances or issues, what or who gives us refreshment in the desert of life?

Christ. Christ, so Christ through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the spirit of life in Christ. So how is this, I like this question, this one. So how is this struck rock like the crucified Christ? Living water? Others? I wrote down, as the rock was struck and thirst-quenching water came out, so Christ was struck by God and life-giving blood came out to cleanse us from all our sins. He also sent the Holy Spirit to guide and teach us. Awesome. Awesome answer. I think, you know, again, life-givings.

In my business, one of the reasons why I'm getting into my business in water is seriously, when I started is you can't live without water. You can go a long time without food, but in a very short period of time without water, you die. And so literally why I got into water was people always need water, always be a business in that and a need for that. But it's because water is life.

And we see that Christ is the living water. So when I say it was kind of how do we know or how do we get this that the, that Christ was the rock in this. And yes, all those are true. I had, because he told us in his word in first Corinthians 10, one through four. For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized in Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the spiritual same food, all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them, and that rock was Christ.

Right there, it says he was the rock. He is the rock. He is the one that provides living water, yeah. I also think that Rideout is trying to point out the fact that when Israel came out and went through the Red Sea, they were singing the praises of God, but they didn't get so far until they started to run out of water. He relates that to the Christian life in terms of, I'm very excited at the point in which I'm saved, and I'm singing hymns, and I'm doing all that I think is wonderful.

And then I begin to be aware of the fact that the freshness of the life that I had isn't there anymore. How come? How come? And I think this is one of those principles that I think every believer needs to understand that's going to go on in his life at some point, that the freshness of new birth is going to go away, and that there's going to be a, well, what happened? Did the Lord go somewhere, or the world has encroached upon my environment and just isn't the same? And so, like Jim was saying, then you start to find out that Christ is the rock in the desert. in the desert, that's where it is. And it takes you to the desert.

That's the thing. The other words I was thinking about, and this goes with, Jimmy, what you shared last week about struggling with suddenly seeing that you have a sinful nature. That's the progress. I think there's the euphoric, and I think we all go through this. It's the euphoric start when you, know the lord and there's a just a an energy and then it begins to you know the trials come in the wonder there's that and i really is believer you know there's all these things they go through you start taking you into the deserts and the refreshing comes that it if you know in a growing christians and i think the growing again still relates to the fact that you have to know about the identification the co-crucifixion you have to know that the girl You can grow somewhat, but you're limited, because you're always struggling with the old man. I think in a growing Christian, you start going into that desert. The Lord starts trials, things, not answering the prayers, like in the early, I think in the early believer, a lot of prayers get answered.

And you're like, yes! And then you go on, and then it's like, Lord, what about this? No, the answer's no. Maybe wait or delay. that you know the refreshment comes when you start realizing your dependency upon the Holy Spirit and the Lord. And that's when you start the refreshment.

But then you start, I think, and this is where, Jimmy, I was, you know, where last week it really hit me that, you know, you're struggling or saying you're struggling with the, seeing how ugly the flesh is or can be. That's a long ways in the progression of spiritual growth. Realizing that there is, as Paul did in seven, there is nothing that dwells in my flesh that is good. And once you start realizing that, that is where Romans 8 comes in and all the things that happen. So it's actually a good thing when you start realizing how sinful you are or the sinful flesh is.

And that's a positive thing. That's kind of coming out of the desert. You're at the end of the desert and figuring out, man, it's the Lord. It's the indwelling of the spirit. And the focus is on that intimacy with Christ and that union with Christ, that's when, and you know, these things, as we spend our time on that, that's when the manifestation of Christ begins to come out, so.

There's a lesson learned there, too, that the drinking from the rock is something you do every day. with the euphoria of salvation, you forget to drink. Because you're all wrapped up in the euphoria. And one of the desert lessons is, I have to drink every day. I have to spend time at the well every single day. Or you're thirsty. That's right.

I think the other thing is, and this has come out a lot, in that a lot of times when you get in the early And when you're getting all these blessings answered, you're looking at the blessing, not the giver. And the more blessings you get, you look at the blessings rather than the giver. And so I think he takes us through that and gradually weans us out of that. And that's into the desert, where he's weaning us of that, you know, I only get blessings.

I was thinking about our conversation last week and I was thinking during those trials a lot of times we place ourselves back in Adam and we feel the disgust of the old nature and I was trying to think about that this week and what I realized is that I'm really more of a spectator And I'm watching the Holy Spirit war against my flesh and the flesh war against my Holy Spirit. So I was this week sitting back and rooting for the Holy Spirit.

Take this guy on and kill those members in me. And I'm glad you're on my side because I know you're going to win. I mean, you know, you know what the ultimate end is, you win. You know, we step into eternity, we shirk these shells, you know, we're, you know, the flesh is gone, physically gone. And we have the new bodies is what Mike was teaching last week and in the main service. So that's, you know, that's a good part.

I mean, when you start realizing that, and that's, that's where You realize that there's nothing good in your flesh. There's no good effort. And the body, the flesh is still going to try to get you to do everything possible to make you stay in the law works and efforts by the flesh. And as you realize it, that the flesh is there's nothing good that dwells in it. You realize that that's not the path.

The path is walking in the spirit and relying upon the spirit and getting that union with Christ, spending our time. That's why in the first part of the question on three was was about who do we what do we spend our time on? You know, it's it's spending time with the Lord and focusing on him. Then then we don't focus on the flesh, too. That's the other thing is if we're focusing on our on Christ, we focus less on the flesh. So, yeah, something else I think right in there is I've got it. After you believe in everything else, you go through that euphoria and everything else. And I think it actually builds a false sense of you're empowered.

And that's where you spend the next two years or a hundred years trying to get through the self thing because you realize at first it is self, you know, that, you know, we can do this, you know, and God's helping me do this and everything else instead of, you know, God's doing it through you. And I think it takes you a long time there. And then all of a sudden you hit Romans one through eight. I don't know, I spent 20 years there and just thinking, you know, I can't get to eight, you know, I'm still stuck in somewhere between one to eight. And then finally, like Jimmy's going through, you finally see that and you realize the identification truths. And it makes sense, you know, why you can't do it yourself. It has to be done through you.

Absolutely. I couldn't say it any better. You know, I was at a brother insurance for years who had all this material. We never taught it. And, you know, coming here, you know, and again, the Lord works in amazing ways, you know, it was a very rough living and all this stuff and, you know, just very invested in the other, but moving here and, you know, at the time it hurt. But I couldn't be happier of the fact that learning the identification truths, that has given me more growth than anything else in 20 years of being in the brethren.

And it was a lot of self, a lot of what's the next program, what's the next whatever. And it isn't until you realize in the identification that co-crucifixion and it's gone. And you move into that Roman seven, Where it's like, man, there is nothing good in here. And that all my efforts are more in the flesh trying to do something, which from God's perspective, it's gone. And so no, a lot of people go through this. similar progress in a lot of people in that growth.

And whether it takes two years, 10 years, 20 years, you know, it's that desert experience that suddenly realized that you, it's not you. And there's nothing you can do to get out of the desert. except dependency upon him, and a realization that there's nothing good in here.

Well, and like in the first few books of Romans, there's that one verse in there that no one has done good, not one. I read that Romans 3. Yeah. And I read that early in life there, early in the Christian life, and I just thought, well, I can do this.

And then you just automatically go right to Peter. On the night he was crucified, you're just right there. Yeah, you think you can, but you can't. No, that was one of those most powerful things, even when we went to Israel, trying to find where. That's one of the most powerful verses, when Christ looks at Peter. I get choked up every time.

It wasn't in condemning. It was in love. And he said, do you believe me now? And I thought, man, he's being crucified. He's going to be crucified. He knows what's going on. And he looks out. He's being beaten and all that. And he looks out at Peter. And Peter sees that. And he's crushed. But that was just the thing, that it was in love. Now do you understand, Peter? And what happened, Peter, after that? Totally transformed. Totally transformed. So yeah, it's just an interesting process, going through the desert.

And that refreshing only comes from Christ. That's where the refreshment comes. So right, I had it this way at the end. Here is the rock smitten. and the water flow out. I need hardly point out the lovely type. The rock was Christ. First Corinthians 10, four, which I read. Christ smitten of God for our sins, sends forth the Holy Ghost for our refreshment. The rock smitten ensures safety and the abundant supply for all our needs in the wilderness through the Holy Spirit.

So I'll address that or expand upon that in question six. So let's question five. All these things, we jump ahead in a lot. We're microscopically going through the Holy Spirit and all this, but there are things, and one of the ones, and I don't know if JD's on or not, but there's a song that goes out, Same Power, and the same power that moved mountains, the same power that the Holy Spirit throughout all of scripture.

Do you realize that it dwells in you? That's kind of just a mind-boggling thought that all of that is indwelling in you. The whole power of the indwelling, as you say, did Christ be raised with more power than creating all of the universe? But that was the Holy Spirit. It dwells in you. just ponder that for today. So yeah. All right. Question five. You're going to jump in here real quick. No worries.

It has to do with the resurrection power, the same power that raised the Lord. from the grave is the same as the same work of the Holy Spirit that's being done in us. Yeah, that's the point. I mean, that is like, just ponder that for today as you watch the Bronco games. No. So, no, I mean, that's the thing when I hear that song.

It's like really, yeah, all the power that was for resurrection dwells in you. and you know that's the one working on your heart your mind convincing you you know all the things of the the person and work of the holy spirit all of that powers in you working to conform you to the image of christ well at yet we we by our decision to believe through faith in the finished work, we are placed on the cross. Actually, God puts us on there and co-crucifies us. Somebody else? Courtney, I was thinking about the scripture Mike was covering last Sunday. Yeah.

We're sown in weakness and raised in power, and I was contemplating what that meant in our new bodies, and I was just thinking, yeah, we could stand right in front of an atomic bomb and it wouldn't bother us. It's just mind-boggling to think how powerful we are in Christ. I mean, you can't even conceive it. Yeah, I mean, that's why I say that same power, that thing, we have the same power. We have more power than anything indwelling in us. And that's just kind of a mind-boggling thought that each one of us who are believers have that. And he's working on each and every one of us.

So like I said, it's just when you start pondering some of the things that are true about us in Christ, it's amazing. Um, question five in numbers 28 through 14. What was the lesson taught there about the water and obeying God? And I'll read that just to get through it. Um, numbers 28 through 14.

Take the rod and you and your brother Aaron, assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock and let the congregation and their beasts drink. So Moses took the rod from before the Lord just as he had commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock and he said to them, listen now you rebels. I love that. Shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock? Then Moses lifted up his hand, struck the rock twice with his rod, and water came forth abundantly. And the congregation and their beasts drank.

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, because you have not believed me to treat me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them. Those were the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel contended with the Lord, and he proved himself holy among them. From Kadesh, Moses then sent messages to the king of Edom. Thus your brother Israel has said, you know all the hardship that has befallen us. So, what are the lessons taught about water and obeying God from this passage?

Number one, as we discussed in question three, refreshment comes from Christ through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. You know, if we look at John 4, 10 through 14, Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well, this is another one. I love all the references to wells and water. The Lord makes it happy for me here. Jesus answered. The other thing that discourages me is wells that are still like 2,000 years old. I'm lucky for us, our wells last about 40 or 50 years. I love, I'm kind of shown up, my pride is damaged by what the Lord can do here.

Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. She said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then do you get the living water? You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you?

Who gave us this well and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle. Jesus answered and said to her, everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst. But the water I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. Now, so again, he's giving living water through the person of the Holy Spirit. Living water. What did we say? Life is in the water. Water is life. So he's giving us life. But what's the second part of it?

What did they do in the Numbers passage? What did they do, rebels? They didn't believe. They didn't believe. So what was the consequence of that? Back to the desert. You're not going where I promised you're going. You're out here. I promised you this, but you did not believe.

So it's believe and obey God. You see this in Numbers 20, 12. But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, because you have not believed me to treat me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring the assembly into the land which I have given them. So the lessons are believe and obey.

Yeah, Jim. Right out alludes to the fact that the lesson could be that once the rock has been struck, it doesn't need to be struck again. Yes. I don't know if that can be taken as true, but so also once Christ has been offered once for the sins of many, he doesn't need to be offered again. Yeah, I don't know if you can prove that from the word, but you know, it's a fairly decent concept. Yeah, and I was going to read that.

In the wilderness of Zim, the water fails, and God tells Moses to go out and speak to the rock. A hasty word, a failure to obey God, a marring of what he intended to teach us, and Moses shut out of the land. These are the results. But by his very failure, the lesson is simply emphasized. Once the rock was smitten, that is never needed again. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. No need for that to be repeated. Then must he often have suffered. And all that is necessary after is to speak to the rock.

It is through this ministry of the word that Christ is ministered in the refreshing power of the Holy Spirit. what he's talking about there is that those are quotes from Hebrews and that what Paul's trying to do in Hebrews is to keep the Jews from going back to the temple. Exactly. And to stay on the, uh, stay in faith and believing what Christ, who Christ is and what he had done. And they were being tempted to go back because of this pomp and circumstances, the ceremony, the visibleness of it.

The warning is just continue believing me and trusting me. Is that the same for us today? Yes, it is. If you don't believe then you're just going by experience. Well, where is it now? Oh, it's here. Facts. Oh, that's right there. It's right here. Facts and faith in the facts is like the train on the tracks. Yes.

Uh, how many breaks do you need the facts first to believe in? You need to understand that the word, the word is first and then the Holy spirit is what, what convinces us of those. And one last thought about that. I think for years as a believer who's growing, we really hope God is going to save the flesh.

Yeah. Oh yeah. And one day you wake up and say, no, he's not going to do that. Well, that's what Jimmy, you know, kind of you suddenly realize that really isn't a good thing. Yeah. So then I already am a new creature in Christ that all of this is already true of me. And if I just calmly trust him, he'll make it a reality to me. Yeah.

And that's like I said, going through the desert, the end of the desert is figuring out that the flesh is not good. That's when I think you get refreshment and you start growing. is because you realize there is just nothing good in here. No matter how much I think I'm a swell person, it's not good. Romans 7. We are late, and I just got the long leer from Bob Eccle in there, giving me the, well, you're still teaching. So we must close here. So Heavenly Father, we thank you. We thank you again for this time.

And again, just the study of the Holy Spirit and how important it is to the believer. And the refreshments and the cleansing is all through the Holy Spirit and our life in Christ. And just the realization of, the Holy Spirit and the power of the Holy Spirit. And that very power indwells in each and every believer. And again, that power is used to convince us of the truths of who we are in Christ.

And the ultimate is to conform us to Christ to ultimately glorify you, Father. And we just thank you that that is the process. Many times as we go through the desert, it's hard to see that. But as we emerge from the desert and see, get the life-giving water of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we see that the flesh is not, there's nothing good in it. It was the perfect thing for you to do, Father, is to co-crucify us with Christ. And we just thank you for that, that that was the best solution and that we now have a new life in Christ. and that it's clean, it's perfect in Christ.

And we just thank you for that. And we just give you thanks for, again, your word and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And we do pray for Mike as he gives us the message in the next meeting. And again, just that we will just spend our time just being in fellowship with your son. That's what gives us the refreshment in the life. So we do all these things in his name, we pray.