Turn with me to Psalm 89. Psalm 89, we'll read the first 15 verses. Psalm 89. And I commence reading from verse one. I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord forever. With my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. For I said, steadfast love will be built up forever in the heavens. You will establish your faithfulness. You have said, I have made a covenant with my chosen one. I have sown to my servant David. You, I will establish your offspring forever and build your throne for all generations. Selah. Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord? a God greatly to be feared in the countenance of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him. O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you. You rue the raging of the sea. When its waves rise, you steal them. You crush Rehab like a carcass. You scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours. The world and all that is in it, you have founded them. The North and the South, you have created them. Terbo and Hemon jealously praise your name. You have a mighty arm, strong is your hand, high your right hand. Your righteousness and justice are the foundations of your throne. Steadfast love and faithfulness go before you. Verse 15. Blessed are the people who know the feast to shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face. Amen. Let's once again join our hearts together as we pray. Let's pray. our Father and our God in heaven. We give you thanks, O Lord, for the songs we've just sung, reminding us of your love for us, reminding us of the cost of our salvation, reminding us of the need to abide in the shadow of the Almighty, or in the wings of the Almighty God. Our Father, what of God is ours? a God who watches over us, a God who loves us and gave his only begotten son for the forgiveness of our sins, that in him, in Christ, we might be called the righteousness of God. And this God whispers to us in the midst of our daily activities, reminding us that we are His and the need for us to be sought and loved. And now Father, we come to the ministry of your word. We come to this psalm that speaks of your faithfulness and calls that we too may join the psalmist to speak of your faithfulness to all generations. Therefore, we ask for God that you be with us and help us as we go through this psalm. You prepare hearts to come together and break bread and drink of the cup as we relieve and reflect on the benefits of the death of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Hear us, O God, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Excuse me. This afternoon we will be focusing on verse 15 of Psalm 89. And this afternoon I get to preach to you my anniversary sermon on the 13th of February I clocked 14 years as one of the pastors here at Kawata Baptist Church. And as I was reflecting, looking at the last one year and thinking through, My mind was brought forth to Psalm 89 and the 15th verse. Blessed are the people who know the feast of shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face. Other visions will say, blessed are the people who know the joyful sound. Last year around this same time, we looked together at Colossians chapter four, verse 7 through to verse 18. And in that portion of Scripture, we basically looked at the fact that Christians are a team. and they are on a team that is devoted to save Christ. And this was really what I felt when I looked at the year that God had gone by, saving in the eldership, saving in the ministries and in the home group. It just struck me so hard that this is really what the Bible says. When we think of the one another passages, how that Christians are not lone rangers. They are a team. And as a team, each one uses their gifts to worship God, to honor God, and to serve God. And therefore the challenge to all of us at the time was the need to look at this team of devoted servants of God and see how you can be part of this team and save this God for his glory while he gives you breath. Now this afternoon we come to Psalm 89 as I've already said. And this psalm is really to remind us of the need to continue as God's people to sound forth the praises of the gospel of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is those who have come to know this joyful sound who are the instruments that God use to spread the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to others. The world does not see the need to even engage in missions and planting of churches. Why even bother to continue thinking of starting churches, thinking of missions? They do not know this joyful sound. It is those who know, who've experienced, who know what it is to have sins forgiven, that will see the need of the world that is dying in sin, and they will give themselves to prayer. to evangelism, to mission. They will use everything within their means to see that the work of spreading the gospel of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, is ongoing. Or to use, to think of it another way, is that Those, a person who has seen the benefits of someone donating blood and then them receiving that blood just when they needed it, they have come to understand and appreciate why we have a blood bank at UTH. You know, sometimes, I think it's in August, the wild blood donation something month as a point. And when there's this appeal and these adverts appealing to people to go to the blood bank to donate blood, it's just one of those things. Until you have a friend, or you are the one in need of someone donating blood, and when you receive that help, you become an ambassador of ensuring that many more can see the need to donate blood. Now this is true even of a greater value of infinite value. We who have come to know the Lord Jesus Christ are the ones who must be in the front of championing the spread of the gospel. because we know what it is to have our sins forgiven. So Psalm 89 is a psalm that is attributed to Ethan. Ethan the Hezraite. Now, Ethan was one of the five sons of Zerah. And this is highlighted to us when you read 1 Chronicles 2, 6. He is also mentioned in 1 Kings 4, 31. And in 1 Kings 4, 31, where Solomon's wisdom was being praised, The verse of 1 Kings 4.31 says that Solomon was even wiser than Ethan. Now that really shows us that the people regarded Ethan and his brothers as very wise, as exceedingly wise. And only Solomon is considered to have been wiser than Ethan. Because Solomon, remember, he asked God for wisdom and the Lord granted it to him. And so this psalm is attributed to him as the author of the psalm. And so this psalm also, when taken as a whole, you see that Psalm 89 contrasts the mighty and faithfulness of God. It contrasts the faithfulness of God, his power, and in particular as it manifests in the covenant made with David. And to the psalmist, he looks now at the present experience of the national ruin and defeat. And so he's trying to contrast, when he thinks of God's mighty power, God's faithfulness, and when he thinks of the national ruin, the defeat of the people of Israel, he tries to contrast the two. And so you see from verse 1 through to verse 37 of Psalm 89, it celebrates God's incomparable glorious state and His ability to provide victory to the nation of Israel and keeping promises made to David. The Psalmist is celebrating that. He's saying, God is able to give us victory. God is able to keep his promise, the promises he made to his servant David. And then verse 38, all the way to verse 52, you see that the celebration turns into anguish and despair. The Psalmist laments at this stunning defeat, and he pleads for God to remember the faithfulness and the promises that characterize God's relationship with Israel in the past. He's crying to God that God may remember his faithfulness, that he may remember his promises, the promises that characterized his relationship with the nation of Israel in the years that have gone by. So he's contrasting the past and the present. the victories of God among the people of Israel, and the ruin, the national ruin that they are going through. And when you read verse one through to verse four, you actually see the Psalmist, as I said, is praising God's steadfast love and faithfulness, and his basis of those praises is basis of the fact that God is able to visit them again is the promises God made to his servant David. And then our verse finds itself in the section where God, where the Psalmist proclaims the blessed states of those who walk with God. and as a result receive God's victory and protection. And so whatever Ethan and the original audience would have heard in those words, for us as Christians, The eternal establishment of the covenant God made with David is accomplished or has been accomplished in the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. When Christ came into this world, God fulfilled his promise to David. In fact, we're looking forward to the ultimate fulfillment when the Lord Jesus Christ returns as a king. In fact, you will recall that in Luke chapter one, verse 32 and verse 33, the angel announced to Mary, expressing his very idea of God's promise to David. In Luke 1, 32 and 33 it says, the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there will be no end. And so you see that this promise of God to David finds its fulfillment in the ultimate grandson of David. the Lord Jesus Christ, the descendant of David, the Lord Jesus Christ. And therefore, when we as Christians read this psalm, when we come to worship and read this psalm, what we are doing is that we are proclaiming the faithfulness and the steadfast love of God as expressed ultimately in our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, this is why I said at the beginning that we are the ones who must be zealous about seeing that our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, his name is spread far and wide because we know where joy is coming. So we will briefly and quickly open up that vest, and then we'll come together to break bread. The first question we are really asking, what is the meaning of the joyful sound? What is the meaning of the joyful sound? Well, the ESV says, the fistle shout. Blessed are the people who know the fistle shout. Now the Hebrew word teruha, it can be used to convey such things as trumpets blowing and war cries. Blowing of the trumpets or the war cries. But when that same word is used in the psalmist, it usually signifies a shout of acclamation or a shout of joy towards God. And the purpose of these blasts, like those of the messengers at the coronation of the king, was to proclaim the presence of the God who is the king of the nation of Israel. And so when they would gather in their celebration, and then there'll be those blasts of trumpets, it will be the proclamation of the presence of the King of Israel, who is the God of the universe. And so this, in their celebration, this was to express the gladness of the worshipers as they gather. And the noise, or the blast of the trumpet, was what was referred to in the nation of Israel as the joyful sound. Now, the psalmist there says, blessed is the people that know the joyful sound. And so to an Israelite, This would point to many events in their history or in their nation. When they would hear the sound, it would remind them that this is the day of their atonement. On that day, the high priest will strip himself of the garments of beauty and glory, the garments that he will put on when he was in service or doing service in the temple. He will put off his regular cloth, his regular garments, and then put on the holy robes. the robe that were allowed for the high priest to wear when he was about to minister and go into the Holy of Holies. And as a priest would do that, on one hand you carry the blood of the covenant, and on the other, you carry the burden vessel of incense. And with the offerings, he would enter the holy of holies. He would enter within the veil, where he would sprinkle the blood before the messy seat on which were the cherubim, or between the cherubim were the divine glory sat permanently there. And as he did that, atonement was made. And when the high priest would reappear before the people, the trumpets gave forth the joyful sound. There was this sound that would come and the people would come forward with their sacrifices of praise. They know that God had embraced them anew. Reconciliation as it were had happened. Peace through reconciliation was established once more. And there will be this joyful shout or noise. It was truly a day of joy. Because they'll see that the priest went into the Holy of Holies and the sacrifices were accepted as he returned. And this was good news to them. But a greater occasion than this was the year of Jubilee. And the year of Jubilee which was observed in the nation every 50 years. It began with a dare of atonement. And on that glad and long day, the trumpets sounded throughout the land to proclaim that all prisoners were to be released, that all the debt was to be canceled, that all the inherited land which was lost through death or the poverty of individuals were to be restored. and that there are to be rest from tire. It's easy to imagine the joy that would touch the heart of the prisoner in his prison cell. When you'd hear that distinct trumpet and you know it's the day of jubilee, He would be released from prison. You could imagine the joy that would flood his soul. Or the poor man, oppressed with poverty and toil. or the heart of the widow who would have lost her inheritance because of poverty and she lost her inheritance. She could not keep the land or she sold her land. You could imagine the joy that would flood her soul to know that her land, her inheritance would be restored. You could imagine the joy of knowing that your debts would be canceled as this sound was heard in the land, as the Neristan was restored to the people of this land. So it was a day of rejoicing, each rejoicing but collectively as a nation, coming together and rejoicing as I followed what God had instructed them to do. And this is what the psalmist said, blessed are the people who know the feast or shout. The people knew what that meant. Atonement was there. It's the year of jubilee. Let everyone who lost his inheritance of property in the course of the years, let it be restored to the rightful owners. Let all the debts be cancelled. Let the prisoners be released and even the slaves be released, let them be free. And you could imagine the joy that surrounded the nation as they all came together, not only celebrating jubilee, but also thanking God for the day of atonement. Also the nation of Israel, they knew that all these and all other such events were simply a shadow pointing to that greater events, greater blessings which they anticipated to be fulfilled or to be the fulfillment of the promises that one from the tribe of David will come And this time he will not just offer an animal as a sacrifice. He will offer himself. And that his death will be acceptable before God the Father. And that will be a moment of great joy. Because they knew that all the prophecies and all the promises, the types and prophecies were all related to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were all pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ. They all centered on the Lord Jesus Christ. And each time that passes, We were looking forward to that moment. The promises, first promise, we find it in Genesis where we're told the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent. It was to come in the fullness of time. to bruise the head of the separate. We also see the last verse speaks of him being the son of righteousness, the bright and the morning star, who was to arise with healing in his wings. And he is the savior of the world. So the people of Israel knew what that meant, and they kept these celebrations on the day set aside, and they would rejoice. But they knew that all these are simply pointing to the fullness of time, when the Son of God will come and die for our sins. Now brethren, Christ came. and he died and rose from the dead. We are not just looking forward to him coming. We are looking backwards by faith, having come and accomplished everything that pointed to his coming. And therefore we have a reference point, he came. He died, and we are the beneficiaries of that act. And as it was, we worked between that time and his second coming. We have the duty, like it was the duty of the nation of the Nizarites, to maintain the joyful sound. We have the duty to proclaim the coming of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He came, He's accomplished our salvation, and now He's coming as a King. And on that day, there will be this blast of the trumpet, and He'll return with the brilliance that the world has never seen. The Son of God will return, the bright and the morning star. And blessed It's the people who know the fist or shout. We have that opportunity. That's what it means when you talk about this fist or shout or this joyful shout. Secondly, note with me that not the blessedness of knowing the joyful sound. the blessing of knowing the joyful sound. And you see what the Bible says, that blessed are the people who know the fist or shout. Who know the fist or shout. And the blessedness, as you notice, consists not in the hearing of the joyful sound, but in knowing it. It's not just hearing. The blessedness is in knowing the fistful shout. Though some missus telling us that the blessedness is in the knowing and the experiencing of God. Blessed are those who know what it means to shout for the joy of the goodness of the Lord. To go back to the nation of Israel, imagine a stranger passing through the land in the nation of Israel. And then the trumpets blast their sound. proclaiming the arrival of jubilee, or proclaiming the day of atonement, proclaiming the joy that their sins have been atoned for, as they see the priest coming out from the holy of holies. Now the sounds of the trumpets conveyed nothing to a stranger who did not know what it meant. For him it's just trumpets being blown or war cries, but to an Israelite. He knew the sound. He knew what that meant. The nation will come to a standstill as those, the trumpets proclaim the arrival of jubilee. A stranger had no idea what that meant. And now this is what the Psalmist is saying. Blessed are the people who know the fist or shout. It's not the people who hear the fistful shout. It's the people who know. And the word know there is knowing via experience, via observation, via personal experience. It's not just an additional to the head knowledge, no. It's knowing because you've come to experience and live in it. So you're living in the knowledge of what this means when you hear those sounds. The joy which touched the Israelites, the hearts of the Israelites. At that hour when the trumpets will last, the ignorant or the stranger will not understand the privileges and the blessings that were expressed by that sound. For the people of Israel, The blast of the trumpets communicated something to them. It would communicate to them how that God spoke to them once upon a time from the dark and terrifying heights of Mount Sinai. God awakened them out of their sleep of death. And God had been their Lord and their guide, even though they were caught in the wilderness. And now God gave them the laws of the land, how to live when they enter the promised land. They'll be reminded from how God dealt with their forefathers and how that God was now dwelling with them in their midst. They were meant to realize how that the promise that God made with them, they failed to keep their side. And when they'll hear the voice of God, as he thundered on the Mount of Mount Sinai. It was a realization and a reminder of a broken covenant and that they were all under God's wrath. It was a reminder for them. It was a reminder that they were all in the hands of God's justice and God's hold on them. They could not do anything to relax it or to appease his wrath. They were reminded that they could not fully satisfy God on their own. The thunders of God's law made them fear and tremble. They knew that they could do nothing in and of themselves. Those sounds would also remind them that the purpose of God bringing them into such a state of consent was to make them recognize that they needed a savior to deliver them from destruction. And while they were still living in the terrors of the Lord, another voice was heard, a voice assuring them of His acceptance, of the merits of having their sins forgiven, that as they would bring an animal and offer it as a sacrifice, They understood something of their sins being forgiven, even as that sacrifice would point to the coming Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. And in that moment, their mourning would be turned into dancing, as they enjoyed this love of God. Their hearts were filled with great joy. They had come to know, they had experienced the feast of shout. They had come to experience what it means to be reconciled to God. And therein lie their blessedness. They were a happy people because God, who they had offended, had put in means and ways to atone for their sins in the types and the offerings that were being given, pointing them to the coming Messiah. And here the psalmist reminds us that blessed are the people who know the fiscal shout. Blessed are the people who know that their sins have been forgiven. It's not just about hearing, it's about knowing. Has there been such a moment in your life? Has there been such an hour in your life when you experience God in a real way, in a forgiving way. When once upon a time, as you came to church and the hymns meant nothing to you, they were just noise. In fact, they were terrors to you. And then the one moment, There was that moment in your life where you can point to that at this moment there was a turning point. I did not just hear of God's love. I did not just hear of God's forgiveness. I came to know and experience the forgiveness of God. And therein was the beginning of a long life relationship with my God. Has there been such an experience that marked the beginning of your eternal happiness, knowing that your sins have been forgiven? Do you know what it means to be forgiven of your sins? To know the fist or shout is to express the joy that comes from experiencing God, experiencing his steadfast love, experiencing his faithfulness. And having experienced his steadfast love and his faithfulness, There's this joy that bubbles within you, that boils within you, and you can't keep it within yourself. And this joy bursts forth in this feast of shouts. Say to yourself, this God has come in my life. And this fist or shout shows or finds itself in this collectively or collective gathering of God's people. As you serve God in the course of the week, living a certain life, Like the people of Israel, you look forward to that one day in a week when you gather with God's people and together you collectively sound this blast of joy from your hearts as you gather to worship God. There's no joy in the world that can be compared with the joy that comes with sins forgiven in Christ Jesus. And you look forward to that day to gather with God's people and proclaim this joyful supper. And the blessedness is in knowing the Feast of Shabbat, which symbolizes the fact that you know of your sins forgiven. And with the rest of your brothers and sisters, you continue to proclaim the coming of the Redeemer into this world. Because to you, the coming of the Redeemer in this world is the occasion of greatest joy. There's nothing in the history of the world, and there'll never be anything in the history of the world that can be compared with the coming of the Redeemer in this world to die for our sins. Even in that moment when he was born, The angels announced, as recorded in Luke, that there was this host of angelic beings, and they beseeched in this song, glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, and goodwill towards men, or the people of this earth. The world that lived in darkness, the world that lived in sin and ruin, became the scene of the greatest manifestation of God's love, and the angels sang with joy. And friends, there would never be an occasion like this in the history of the world. the Son of God coming into this world to redeem us from our sins and knowing the salvation that comes in Christ Jesus fills us with this joy that we can't help but proclaim it to the world. That was Christ. Right next to her. Blessedness is in knowing the Feast of Life. It's not in being part of the nation of Israel. It was in knowing the Feast of Life. through this blessedness is not about being a part of the congregation outward. It's about you knowing and experiencing the forgiveness of sin in Christ Jesus. And the third thing we see is the evidence that we know the joyful self. The evidence in our lives that we know the joyful sound. The last part of verse 15. Blessed are the people who know the feast of Shabbat, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face. Another version will say, who walk in the countenance of your face. The evidence is that you shall walk in the light of your face, O Lord. It's enjoying the favour and the fellowship of God. The person who has experienced this shout for joy at the goodness of the Lord walks in the light of the presence of God. It's bringing all of your life and everything about you in this full realization that this God who saved me from my sin He's a God who demands that I live my life in service to Him. I live my life in a way that honors Him. I live my life in a way that shows the rest of the world that I'm different from them, not because of me being religious, But because I've come to know this God, and because I've come to know this God, I will live my life in a way that pleases this God. It's bringing my life under the authority of this God. It's living my life in full consciousness of the living God. Therefore, I will seek to save him. I will seek to honor and I'll exalt his name from generation to generation. Those who know God are assured that the presence of God is with them. The only thing that breaks the continuity of this blessedness is our own sin. A Christian, he can be weighed down by many things. many trials, many anguishes, and yet even in those moments, they still feel that God is with them. They still feel that God loves them. But a Christian cannot commit sin, even a tiny sin, as it were. Live in that sin. and feel at the same time that God is with them. Sin wrecks this continuity of blessedness, the reality of habitual sin in our life. And this is what causes many believers to fail to commune with God in prayer. The presence of habitual sin. There are so many things you can do as a Christian with sin in your heart. You can stand here and preach, you can read the Bible study, but you cannot faithfully commune with God in prayer with sin in your heart. God will press a finger on that sin, and when you try to commune with him, he will continue to remind you of your sin. And if you don't deal with your sin, you fail to commune with God, and therefore just give up the whole thing altogether. You cannot worship God with joy, sincerity, with that habitual sin in you. And that's why we are told here, the people who know the feast of shout are those who walk in the light of your first order. It's living your life with this constant assurance, this constant reality, constant knowledge that God is ever with me. And if they sin in me, the Lord will not hear my cry. And therefore, I must come before him, deal with my sins, and then worship him all upon his name. And I will once again enjoy this continuity of blessedness The heart of man is like a sensitive photographic plate which registers the changes of light that passes through it. The heart is able to tell when there is sin in our hearts. It will tell and it will show that it is impossible for God's light to fall upon our souls with sin present. We lose the assurance of friendship and the sense of sweetness, that sweet fellowship with God. We no longer walk in the countenance of the face of God until we deal with our sin. It is not the busy highways of life or the dark valleys of our walk with God, which causes us to fail to enjoy the fellowship of God. It is sin. It is sin. Sin causes us to be less sensitive to the living of the Holy Spirit. Sin causes us to fail to worship God with a clear conscience. Sin causes us to fail to enjoy the fellowship of God's people. Sin always makes us to be in a defensive mode, always wanting to defend ourselves just in case someone is aware of my sin. Sin robs God's people of the holiness and the purity that God requires of us towards our fellow brothers and sisters. Sin robs us of the energy and the zeal to serve this God. It robs us of the beauty of living a Christian life in full assurance of sins forgiven. This really has been my concept, that perhaps a lack of zeal in the things of God in some of us may be due to a lack of knowing this joyful self. Because those who've come to know the joyful sound, those who've heard those sweet words from God, Son, your sins have been forgiven. There will be zealots for God's way. They'll use every opportunity to save God. They want others to come and experience this joyful sound. They don't want to keep it to themselves. At school, at work, in the neighborhood, they'll use every opportunity. They'll spend time wrestling with God, that as His Word is being proclaimed, whether through this pulpit or through our mission station, that God will honour the preaching of His Word, and that many will be brought to their knees before Jesus Christ. who use our talents, our resources, everything about us to ensure that this joyful sound continue to ring forth throughout the world. We know, we've experienced, and we want so many to come to know this joy. I'm afraid that perhaps many are just religious, not truly experience this joyful sound. That's why at every excuse, you want to be out of church, out of any means of grace. At every ounce of busyness, they would latch at that opportunity, because the reality, the experience of sins forgiven is not present in their lives. Anyone who's experienced the sins forgiven, we want many others to experience the forgiveness of sin. They will pray for gospel endeavors. When they have opportunity, they will be there where the gospel is being preached. They recognize that God has endowed them with gifts. They will use them. If it's resources, they'll give. If it's time to pray, they will pray. They know, they've experienced, they are living in that assurance. And when they see the world dying in sin, getting worse and worse in the sin that has held them captive, they know that the only way out of their sins is if God, by the power of the Holy Spirit, captures their hearts and brings them to himself. Only then can there be a true change in their lives. They've heard, they know, and they are proclaiming the joyful sound. We sought to be the evidence in our lives. It's not so much whether you're a member of this church, it's whether you're walking in the light of the face of God. Are you enjoying the reality, the knowledge, They assure us that you are a child of God even today. When you think of yourself, you look forward to his second coming. But you know that before he returns, I have work to do. to sound, joyful sound, so that the world may come to know, so that those who once upon a time when they thought of Christianity like a stranger in Israel, it was just a noise, noise, until they came to know what those trumpet blasts stood This is our prayer, that those who look at God's people and when we gather on the Lord's day and when they hear the singing and the music from our building going forth outside, that they too, when they come to know Christ and sin's forgiven, they'll come to realize what this means. It's the people singing to their God. They are God who's been faithful as they celebrate his steadfast love and they continue to speak of the goodness of the Lord. And we'll be coming to break bread and drink of the cup, a reminder that the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ and his priestly prayer before his father, an infallible guarantee that one day we'll see him face to face. Their reminder that he's coming again and he's interceding for us And we must live in that assurance, rejoicing with exceedingly joy because we know whom we believe and we are persuaded that he is able to keep that which we have committed unto him against us. In the Gospel of Luke, as it comes to the end, when the disciples saw the risen Christ, and the Lord Jesus Christ took them to Bethany, and as they saw him ascending to the heavens, the Bible tells us that they returned to Jerusalem with exceeding joy. They had seen the risen Savior. They had experienced the risen Savior. They had come to know the risen Savior. And they went back serving God in the temple with great joy. And that must be true. That as we wait for the coming of our Savior, the second coming of our Savior, we continue to serve him. with exceeding joy, sounding forth the trumpet of the gospel, Jesus, Jesus. And as we eat of the bread and drink of the cup, may we be reminded, I'll say, I'll say, the Lord Jesus Christ.