First one on tonight. Noah, good to see you. Hello Ally, hello Jessica. Trust the volume's all okay. Nice to see people joining in. Hello Anne, Shirley as well. Nice to see Sharon in. Nice to see Alistair in. Nice to see Janice in. All loud and clear. Trust everyone's keeping well. I'm sure others will be joining with us. And Shirley has no sound. Seems to be okay with everyone else. Nice to see Moira in. Nice to see Linda in tonight. Trust you're all keeping well these days. Nice to see Colin in. We'll be starting at eight o'clock. Trust you'll get your Bibles, and we'll be coming around God's precious word, bringing a message. I see Ronald Sharnan. Sound seems to be good everywhere else. I see Faith in. Thanks for joining us tonight. God bless Stephen, good to see you in. Good to see Danny and Margaret in. Good to see probably our oldest watcher in, Nan, good to see Nan in. And Brian, appreciate it. Nice to see Sian in. Nice to see Naomi in, all the way from Canada. And Rebecca, thanks for joining us. Nice to see Roy in. Nice to see Sarah and Jean listening in. Nice to have you folks. Nice to see Pamela in. CKRM. Well it is lovely to have you join us this evening wherever you are in the world, whether you're watching in here from the province, the local area, a member of the congregation or just a friend. We trust that the Lord will bless as we meet around God's precious word. We trust that you're all keeping well and safe and in good heart and good spirits these days. And we're praying for you and we trust that the Lord will show us mercy. and in coming days that we'll be able to join again for public worship not only in the Lord's Day but also at our midweek prayer meeting. But we welcome you here to the Manse. I suppose there is one benefit of a broadcast coming from the Manse and that is that the study has been tidied up and that needed to be done and so I trust that it's all looking in good and proper order. All of our ministers are showing off their books. I do have books to this side of me, plenty of books, but I've just thought that maybe this background is just a little bit better. But I trust that you're all keeping well, and we're praying that God will minister to us through his precious word. Let's just unite in a word of prayer, and then we're going to read the scriptures together. Please, let's seek the Lord together. Our loving Father, we come into thy presence, and through the name of thy well-beloved Son, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. We thank thee for the mediator, the day's man, the one who meets us and brings us nigh to God, even our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. We thank thee for his life, a perfect, sinless life, his death on the tree, We thank thee for the atonement that he made, the sacrifice that he offered to God by the Eternal Spirit. We thank thee for the pulling away of our sins, divine justice being meted out against the worthy sacrifice, the great substitute, the lamb for sinner slain. We thank thee that justice cannot twice demand, first at my surety's bleeding hand, and then again at mine. And thereby, O God, we bless thee that all wrath has been turned away from us because of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We thank thee that we're in his hand tonight and we're in the Father's hand. And we rejoice, O God, that our times are in thy hand. Lord, as we come to meet around thy precious word for our Bible study this week, May our hearts be blessed and our hearts challenged. Fill, O God, this little room in the manse with thy spirit and every dwelling place where men and women and young people have joined with us via Facebook Live. We pray, O God, that thy blessing will be upon their homes and upon their families. We realise that many are our fears, our worries, our perplexities at this time. Lord, we cast our care upon Thee, knowing that Thou dost care for us. We pray, Father, for those within our church family who need special prayer. We lift them up before Thee in faith, and we pray that Thou wilt perfect that which concerneth them. And Lord, grant, dear Father, the will of God to be done. Grant, O God, help and grace to be supplied to those who are in great need. May Thy blessings be upon thy people and so encourage our hearts and meet with us around the word for we offer prayer in and through the saviour's precious name. Amen and amen. If you have a copy of the word of God close to hand let me encourage you to turn to the book of Psalms and it is the Psalm 102. The Psalm 102. We want to begin a reading of the verse 12 of the chapter. So it's Psalm 102 and the verse 12. Let's hear God's word. But thou, O Lord, shall endure forever, and thy remembrance unto all generations. Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favour her, yea, the set time is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof. So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth, by glory. When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. This shall be written for the generation to come, and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the earth, to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to list those that are appointed to death, to declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem. When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms to serve the Lord, he wakeneth my strength in the way, he shorteneth my days, I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. Thy years are throughout all generations. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Ye, all of them, shall wax old like a garment, as vesture. Shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed, but thou art the seer. Thy years shall have no end. The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be established before thee. Amen and may God bless the reading of his precious word. Again let's just briefly unite in prayer as we think of this psalm together or a thought out of the psalm. Let's just seek the Lord together in a word of prayer. Father in heaven we now come to the preaching of thy word And although the setting be different, yet Lord, the purpose is the same, to edify thy people, to encourage and to challenge our hearts in these days. We pray, Father, that even though we be at home tonight, listening in, we pray that we might reverently listen to thy word, take away all distractions, and may our hearts and minds be focused on the word of God this evening. And so we look to thee, come now and fill me with thy spirit and grant Lord a word of challenge, a word of comfort to be spoken to every heart who's watching in tonight. For I offer prayer in and through the Saviour's blessed and precious name. Amen and amen. On Saturday, the 28th of March 2020, the BBC News phone app carried the following headline, The Month Changed Everything. The Month Everything Changed. The Month Everything Changed. And folks, for the time being, everything has changed. There are changes with regard to how we interact with each other. Social distancing measures means that a mother's hug, a father's handshake, a grandchild's embrace cannot be enjoyed by us at present. Telephone and WhatsApp video calls are now the main way that family and friends are communicating with each other. There are changes with regard to how we socialise. Cafes, restaurants, sporting venues, parks, gyms, leisure centres have all been closed to the general public so that the Saturday visit now to the coffee shop, the Wiggly Scroll in the Forest Park, the Friday night meal out with a loved one, That seal on the playground roundabout, the squatting and the powerlifting in the gym is now something of a distant memory for many of us. There is changes with regard to how we shop. Long queues now form outside grocery stores as people patiently and almost silently wait their turn to purchase the most basic of necessities for their families. The way that we work has changed. Some people are now working from home. Others are continuing to go to their places of employment, while there are even maybe some watching in tonight, and you're now unemployed, and you're beginning to claim Job Seekers' Alliance. How we educate has changed. Children are now learning in a remote setting at home, with lessons being supplied by teaching staff on a weekly basis via school portals, accessed by the internet. How we worship has changed. Churches are now closed, with most services now going out either live or by way of a recording on platforms such as social or sermon audio, Facebook and YouTube. Even the way that we are treating the sick has changed. On the 28th of February this year, London's Excel Centre hosted The Baby Show, the UK's largest parenting event. A month later, That venue has been transformed into a giant field hospital that will consist of 4,000 beds. As the online article stated, in the space of a month, the United Kingdom has transformed beyond recognition and most of us haven't had time to stop and take stock. As I contemplated the great changes that have taken place over such a short period of time, changes that perplex us, changes that trouble us, changes that even may disturb us. I started to think about some things that haven't changed, some things that haven't changed over the last month and they will not change over the days, the weeks, the months, the years, the decades, the centuries that lie ahead in the will of God. And it is those things that I want to remind you of in our Bible study this evening in a message that I've entitled, The Things That Haven't Changed. The Things That Haven't Changed. Yes, it seems to be that everything has changed, but there are certain things that haven't changed. And I want to remind you of them just this evening. The first thing that hasn't changed in recent weeks is God. God hasn't changed. Now we see that truth highlighted to us here in this particular psalm, Psalm 102. Now I want you to notice the title of the psalm. Because it says here, a prayer of the afflicted when he was overwhelmed and poured out his complaint before the Lord. Now the man is not mentioned by name, but the circumstances for the penning of the psalm is mentioned. This is a man who was afflicted. This is a man who felt overwhelmed with life circumstances. A man who poured out his complaint before the Lord. His situation seems to very much mirror our situation. And so the truths that are unfolded in this psalm are truths that will act as anchors for this man in his day of affliction, in his time of complaint, in the time when he seems at his heart, has reached the stage of being overwhelmed and one of the truths that anchors this man in the storm in which he is presently making his way through, one of the anchors for the soul is that God does not change. Now the psalmist brings this to our attention by way of contrast because in this psalm the psalmist takes the animated or the inanimate world and he contrasts it to God. Look at the verse 25 and the verse 26 again. The psalmist says, Of all thou hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Ye of them shall wax old like a garment, as a vesture, shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. In these verses we see the changeability of the very foundations of the earth and the very heavens. Now these are things that we would think ourselves to be enduring, things that could not change, things that are and have been the same ever since they were created by God's creative power. But according to the writer of this psalm, the foundation of the earth and the heavens are earmarked for change. And they will soon perish. They will soon fade. They will soon be changed. But in contrast to those changeable things, the psalmist goes on to write about one who never changes. Because speaking about his God, the inspired pen man, then goes into the verse 27, having spoken about these things perishing and waxing old like a garment and these things being changed, the psalmist says, but but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. Yes, the world may change, yes, the heavens may change, but the maker of them, the upholder of them, the creator of them, these days of great change within society and within our world, our God, is the unchangeable God. Theologians speak of His immutability. We think of mutations. When something mutates, a change takes place. And so when we speak of immutability, then we're speaking about the inability to change. the impossibility of change. And so when we speak of the immutability of God, we're simply saying here that God is not subject to change through time or through circumstances. He is invariable in His nature, in His character. God is absolutely without change. He is eternally the same. Really, this fact concerning our God sets him apart from every other being, because every other being is subject to change. However, God is perpetually the same. He is the subject to no change in his being, in his attributes, or in his determinations. The truth of God's unchangeableness is brought to our attention time again in the scriptures. I think of those great words there in Malachi chapter 3 in the verse 6. For I am the Lord, I change not. Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Hebrews chapter 1 verse 12 really takes this and these words in Psalm 102 and takes them and places them in to that particular portion, the inspired pen man, he writes there, and as the vesture shall thou fold them up and they shall be changed, but thou art to see him and thy ears shall not fail. Hebrews chapter 13, verse 8, Jesus Christ, to see him yesterday and today and forever. James chapter 1 17 every good and perfect gift cometh down from above perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights in whom there is no variableness neither shadow of turning no change no change with God Mr Spurgeon wrote it as well for us that amidst all the alternations and changes of life that there is one whom change cannot effect one whose heart can never alter, one on whose bry mutability can make no furrows. God hasn't changed in the last weeks. I want to remind every believer, every Christian, every saint of God watching this broadcast tonight, that there has been no change in God's existence in recent times. No change in God's existence in recent times. The God of the Christian is eternal in His existence. He is without beginning and He is without ending. He is everlasting and therefore there will never come a time when God will ever cease to be. Now the following list is not exhaustive, but let me give you just a few references to God's eternity that we find in God's word. Deuteronomy 33 verse 27, the eternal God is thy refuge. And underneath are the everlasting arms. Psalm 90 verse 2, before the mountains were brought forth or ever that was formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Here we have in Psalm 102 verse 27 the words, but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. 1 Timothy 1 verse 17, now on to the keen eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, the honour and glory forever and ever. Amen. And so tonight, our God. So tonight, you're God. He continues to live. He continues to live in the power of an endless life. He is the eternal. He is the everlasting God. And whenever COVID-19 entered the world, God did not cease to exist. God still reigns. God still lives. God still exists. Catharina von Bora. The name may not immediately mean anything to you, but if I was to tell you that she was the wife of Martin Luther, the Protestant reformer, then you would know who I'm speaking about. Luther affectionately called her Kitty. History records that Martin Luther once spent three days in deep depression over something that had gone wrong. Kayleigh's encouragement and counsel to try and bring Luther out of such despair and despondency was to no avail. And so on the third day, she came downstairs dressed in black mourning clothes. Who's dead? asked Luther. God, was Kayleigh's reply. Luther was enraged and he rebuked her saying, what do you mean God is dead? God cannot die. Well, Katie replied, the way you have been acting, I was sure he had. Luther got the message. His depression was lifted. He realized that God wasn't dead. I remember singing a chorus in our children's meeting in Macrafelt many years ago. Now, God's not dead, no, he is alive. God's not dead, no, he is alive. God's not dead, no, he is alive. I feel him in my heart. I know he's in my life. He watches over me. Brethren and sisters, Let us not live then in these days as if God is dead. Our God is in the heavens. All things are under His blessed control. He's fully aware of our needs and He's ever living in the person of His own dear Son to make intercession for us before the Father's face. And so there has been no change to God's existence in recent days. There has been no change to God's love in recent days. God is unchanged in his love. We are told in the book of Jeremiah chapter 31 in the verse 3 that we are loved with an everlasting love. John 13 verse 1 we're told that having loved his own which were in the world He loved them on to the end. And so if you need reminding child of God, God's love, God loves you. God loves you now just as much as he ever loved you. You know human love is in an ever constant flux. It waxes and it wanes, it rises, it falls. It's like a It's like an emotional roller coaster, human love, but not so with the love of God. No, His love is on that fixed plateau, as it were. It is a love that knows no fluctuation, either with regard to increase or decrease. It is a love that knows no change. Amidst all the changes that we feel, within and without, We can rest on the truth that God's love for us never alters, and it never varies. Now how he shows us that love may, he may have to chasten us, but that does not mean that he does not love us. Because as a father loveth his son, so he chasteneth his son. And so it may, with regard to how that love is expressed, it may change, but his love doesn't change. Loved with everlasting love. Laid by grace, that love to know. Spirit breathing from above, that was taught me it is so. Oh, this full and perfect peace. O let's transport all divine in a love which cannot cease. I am his and he is mine. What blessed assurance we have. Horatious Bonner, he wrote the words, my love is of times low, my joy still ebbs and flows. but peace with him remains the same. No change, Jehovah knows. And so there's been no change to God's love in recent days. There's been no change to God's power in recent days. Why does God not halt the coronavirus? I'm sure that's the question on some people's minds these days. Well let me say that everything God does is for a purpose and it may be that God's purposes have not yet been fulfilled. They have not come to that right position as yet. The halting of the spread of COVID-19 is not because God has been divested of any of his power Because brethren and sisters, he still remains the almighty God. He still is the omnipotent God. He still is the all-powerful God that he has always been. And he can halt the spread of this pandemic at any moment because God remains the all-powerful one. A.W. Pinch said, the best antidote for anxiety is frequent meditation upon God's goodness, God's power and God's sufficiency. Nothing is too big and nothing is too little to spread before and cast upon the Lord. Jeremy Taylor wrote, it is impossible for that man to despair. who remembers that his helper is omnipotent. Let me repeat that. It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his helper is omnipotent. Child of God, your God is still a God of infinite power. And thank God he is able to keep and to protect and to shield and to defend His people and their families in these trying and difficult and fearful days. And so don't think that God has lost any of His power, for He hasn't. He's still the same. God hasn't changed. You could go on down this line of thinking tonight, I could remind you that in recent days there has been no change to God's wisdom. He's still the all-wise God. No change to God's goodness. God is still good. The Lord is good. A stronghold in the day of trouble. There's no change to God's grace. He's still a God of grace. There's no change to God's mercy. There's no change to God's faithfulness. He remains the faithful God. There's no change to his friendship, because he's a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. No change in any of these things. Many changes have taken place around us, but no change Jehovah knows. We often sing that hymn, Great is Thy Faithfulness, and just thinking about a line from that hymn, As thou hast been, Thou forever wilt be. That reminds us of God's unchangeableness, his immutability. And so in days when everything has changed, I want to remind you that in the first place, God hasn't changed. Can I say in the second place, a second thing that hasn't changed in recent weeks is man. Man hasn't changed. What I'm thinking about here really is the depravity, the wickedness, the sinfulness, yes and the selfishness of sinful man. Now for the vast majority of people in our nation, the spread of COVID-19 has brought about no change in their lives, spiritually speaking. Men and women, They're still living for sin. They're still living for self, with little or no thought of God or of eternity. While there are those that are showing great selflessness in these days, and we're thinking about those who are working in the medical profession and those who are delivering things for us within our nation, there are others and they are showing great selfishness. I want to give you two examples where really the true state of man's heart has been revealed personally to me in recent days. So that I am perfectly right to say that for the vast majority there has been no change with regard to men. About two or three weeks ago, an elderly person and a young person were standing in a grocery store aisle in Ballymena. The younger person who had eyed a product in the hand of the older person that they wanted themselves was heard saying to that older person, give that to me. You're not going to need it because you're going to die soon. Whenever I heard that, righteous anger rose up inside me. When I heard that true event, I thought to myself, have we come to the point in our society that older people are now deemed to be dispensable? Have we reached a point where it's now simply the survival of the fittest? Has the law of the jungle taken over our society? If a young person can say that to an older person that they probably do not even know. Such a statement simply revealed the utter depravity, sinfulness and selfishness of a human heart. The second incident happened last Friday when I was out doing a little bit of shopping. I was standing in a queue to get into a grocery store whenever a woman, I would say in her mid-60s, tripped and fell to the ground. Now behind me in that queue there were four or five people who all saw the lady trip. Everyone saw that lady fall to the ground. Not one, not one person moved to help that woman up. Without hesitation, I went to her, I got her up under the arm and I helped her onto her feet and I gathered up her items that she had dropped because of her fall. As I stood in the queue waiting to get into that shop after that incident, I thought to myself, is this what our society has come to? Is self-preservation the only thing that matters to people? Have we reached the point that we are willing to leave an old woman lying on the ground in case we contract COVID-19? Is that where we've got to? Because it was simply revealed to me that the human heart is deceitful and desperately wicked and continues to be so even despite COVID-19. You see, men and women continue to live on in their sin. They continue to love their sin. They continue to practice their sin, even in the face of this pandemic. I behove that many will turn to Jesus Christ. I fear that such is the wickedness and the depravity of the human heart, that many will just simply continue on in their sin. and live for their sin. You know, we see examples of that in scripture, in the face of judgment, in the face of plague, in the face of pestilence. And yet men and women, so utterly sinful, they fail to yield to God's voice in the storm and God's voice in the whirlwind. I mentioned Pharaoh on Sunday evening at our gospel service. God sent nine plagues into the land of Egypt and yet Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not yield to God's speaking voice. Such simply revealed the utter depravity of his heart. But turn with me in the book of Revelation to the book of the Revelation and the chapter number 16. Revelation chapter 16. I'm always amazed at the words that we read within the chapter here. Why don't you look at the verse 17. We come here to the seventh angel that is going to be sent into the world at the end of time to inflict judgment upon the nations. Let's read from the verse 17. And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air, and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices and thunders and lightnings, was a great earthquake such as what was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon came in remembrance before God to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hill out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talon. Now just pause there. Think of the devastation that's being spoken of here when this seventh angel comes and inflicts God's judgment upon the earth. There's an earthquake. Nations are falling. Cities are crumbling. Every island is fleeing away. Mountains not being able to be found. Great hill falling out of heaven. Thunder and lightning. God is manifesting his power and his wrath and his anger you would think in light of such things you would think that there would be a whole seal turning from sin on to God by the people in the earth but notice their reaction to such things in the verse 21 and men blaspheme God Because of the plague of the heel, for the plague thereof was exceeding great. Look back at the verse number 8. You'll find this happening again with regard to the fourth and the fifth angel. And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun, and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat. And what did they do? Did they repent? Did they seek God? Did they confess their sin? No, it says, And blasphemed the name of God, which had power over these plagues. And they repented not to give Him glory. Verse 10, And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast. And the kingdoms was full of darkness, and they gnawed their tongues for pain. And what did they do? Did they repent? Did they seek God? Did they turn to God? No, it says, and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. The exact same response in the face of God's judgment. Men blasphemed the name of God. Even judgment was not able to bring sinners to repentance because the human heart is still absolutely and totally fallen and depraved. The human heart is at enmity with God. And even in the face of God's judgment, even in light of God's wrath, There are those who will continue to sin, continue to live in rebellion, continue to live in opposition and in hostility against God because the heart is deceitful and the sinfulness of man is deeply ingrained within the human heart. What are we to learn from this then, child of God? We are to learn that the miracle of regeneration is what is required to bring our loved ones, our friends, our neighbors to saving faith in Jesus Christ. We cannot place our confidence in viruses, or plagues, or pestilences, or judgments to see to the conversion of sinners. Our confidence must be in God the Holy Ghost. God the Holy Ghost who illuminates the mind, who regenerates the heart and gives to the sinner the twin gifts of faith and repentance. Man's fallen nature hasn't changed. because of the presence of COVID-19 in our world. We need to recognise that and we need to pray that God will change man's nature by giving to them a new nature, a nature that longs for holiness, a nature that longs for righteousness and a nature that rejects all of sin's appeals because man hasn't changed. In the last number of weeks, men and women And teenagers, and boys and girls are still sinners. And they need the work of regeneration. The third and final thing, and my time is gone. The third and final thing that hasn't changed in recent weeks is the word of God. Hallelujah for that. We read in Numbers 23, 19, God is not a man that he should lie. Neither the Son of Man, that he should repent, hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Matthew Henry, the Bible commentator, he said, Men change their minds, and therefore break their words. They lie, because they repent, but God does neither. He never changes his mind, and therefore never recalls his promise. What God has promised, He will bring to pass. Fully. Completely. Entirely. perfectly what he has promised he will perform and what he has pledged to do thank God he will do. I think of those words of Joshua coming near to the end of his life he says there in Joshua 23 verse 14 that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you all are come to pass on to you and not one thing hath field. Psalm 89 verse 34, my covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips. Listen to these words that fell from the lips of the Lord Jesus Christ recorded for us there in Matthew 23 verse 35, heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away. And that means brethren and sisters The promises of God have not changed, because everything around us has changed. God's promises have not been altered, they have not changed, even in recent times. And so, God is still our refuge and strength. And he's still our very present help in trouble. That there is still sufficient grace for us. and that God's strength is made perfect in our weakness. That God has not left us, neither has he forsaken us, because he's promised never to leave us, nor forsake us. A. W. Pink said, while everything is crumbling around us, the monuments of the centuries being reduced to rubble, the thrones of kings being overturned, the plans and policy of men cast into the melting pot, the divine oracles are unaffected, unimpaired, unchanged. For the Word of God, like its author, liveth and abideth forever. Thank God not one promise of God has been invalidated or has been annulled in recent times because God's Word hasn't changed. And therefore I encourage you, get into the word, allow God to speak to you, and minister to your soul through his word. He is faithful, that promised. There are many things that I could say tonight that haven't changed. Brethren and sisters, your union with Jesus Christ hasn't changed. You're still in union with Jesus Christ. bound to Him, united to Him, a union that can never be severed, a union that can never be broken. My source of peace and joy hasn't changed because He is my joy. He is my peace. Yes, my eternal destiny hasn't changed. No, thank God, heaven is still my eternal home. These things haven't changed. It is true. that many things have changed in recent times, but some things have remained the same. God is still the same. Man is still the same. The word of God and the promises of God are still the same. And so amid all the fluctuations and the vexations of 2020, let us remember that God changes not. Remind yourself of that blessed fact when you rise every day and then let's bring to men who haven't changed, let's bring to them God's unchangeable word because that'll do the job and that'll bring them to a knowledge of God and we trust to a knowledge of sins forgiven. Everything has changed but for the believer some things haven't changed. May God be pleased to bless this word and may it be a source of great comfort and help to you even as we make our way through these trying and troublesome days. May the Lord bless His word to your hearts for Christ's sake. Amen. As we did last week, we're going to close the meeting in a word of prayer. And then we're encouraging you to spend a little time, two or three minutes, five, 10, 15 minutes together around the throne of grace. It is our normal Bible meeting or Bible midweek meeting, Bible study and prayer meeting. And so we're encouraging those connected with the congregation and friends that are joining us, please, please come to the throne of grace. We'll meet there. We'll meet at the mercy seat where Jesus answers prayer. Can I just remind you of a few prayer points? Can I encourage you to remember the continued ministry via Facebook Live and Sermon Audio? Pray that God will help us in the preparation of God's Word day by day. Remember to watch into the services, God willing, Lord's Day, 12 noon and at 6pm. 12 noon and 6pm, watch into the services in the will of God. Can I encourage the children of the congregation? They're probably in bed, most of them, but To the parents, you can avail yourself of FPC Kids Bible Corner broadcast. They're coming via Facebook on Friday nights at 7pm and Sundays at 10am. Then can I say to our own folk, can you remember in prayer those within the church fellowship who are unwell, and there are a number, there are two especially, that really do need our prayers at this time. And that is our brother Mr. Joey Kirk. Remember brother Joey in your prayers and also the family circle, Margaret and the family. Just keep them in your prayers at this time. And also remember brother Mr. Danny Scullion. Remember brother Danny and the family circle as well. These men need our prayers. We're thankful that they know the Saviour and we're praying that the Lord's will and his purposes will be done even in these days. And then some of you may have heard, some of you may not have heard, our sister Miss Hazel Cook's mother passed away on Sunday evening. That funeral was today. And so pray for our sister Hazel, pray that God's comfort and grace will be given to her and may she know much help even in these days. Can I say that we miss you all, your pastor misses you, I miss fellowshipping with you, the family here we are keeping well and we're praying for you all and we're praying that the Lord will keep us safe and keep us well in these days and if there is someone who needs spiritual help or counsel Someone just to speak to, well then please pick up the phone. The telephone number here at the Manse is 02825 821 765. That's 02825 821 765. You can also contact us by Facebook Messenger and also by email. That is portlanonefpc, all one word, at hotmail.co.uk. And I trust that you'll avail yourself even of these means. May the Lord bless you and comfort you and help you even through his word tonight for Christ's sake. Amen.