If you've brought a copy of God's Word this evening, let me encourage you to take it and turn with me to the book of Psalms, Psalm 34, for our Bible reading this evening, Psalm 34. We'll read some of the verses we have before us here in the chapter, beginning at the opening verse of Psalm number 34. The Psalmist David said, by inspiration I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear thereof and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked on to him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him. and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. O taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the Lord, ye his saints, for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. Come, ye children, hearken unto me. And I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace and peace. Amen, and we'll end at the 14th verse, our Bible reading. Let's keep the Word before us open. Let's take the Lord together, please, in a word of prayer. Again, Christian pray. Pray that God will help in the preaching of the Word this evening. Our Father, our God in heaven, we thank Thee that none but Christ can satisfy. We have found that out from experience. We have tried the world, and we have found that none but Him, none but Christ, will satisfy the longing and the deep craving within the soul. None but Christ will bring the joy and the happiness and the peace that we search for in our unsaved days. None but Him, who is the Prince of Peace, the source of every joy, and therefore we pray that as He is spoken of, Thou wilt give, dear God, the sinner the eyes to see that which they have, until this moment of time, been blinded to, that Christ is who they need and His salvation is what they need. And so answer prayer. Bless those in this part of the building, those who meet with us via the video link in the hall. We pray that thy hand will be upon all such in the gospel, and we pray that thou would speak here and there, and thou would make this a good night for thy blood-bought church. Add to thy church such as should be seen, for we pray these are petitions and through our Savior's precious name. Amen and amen. Believe it or not, I always found an interest in cooking. When my mother would have went to the woman's fellowship meeting on the Monday evening, I would always ask her, was I able to bake something? She always consented with the precondition that I tidied up afterwards. I suppose she didn't want to come back with a sink full And so out came the recipe books and old recipe cards. I'm sure some of you ladies maybe have still got them, and the ingredients that would have been required to make maybe a biscuit or maybe a Swiss roll if I was feeling adventurous, or some other sweet treat. I suppose my love of cooking continued right into grammar school. Instead of studying P.E., I enrolled in H.E. Only a difference of a letter, but I went for H.E. instead of P.E. The thought of standing out on a windswept rugby pitch, getting pounded into the mud by men and young guys twice my weight, and my legs cut off with maybe rain and hill and snow really had no appeal to me. I thought I would be better sitting in a lovely warm classroom, eating the food that I had made in home economics. Cooking is the passion of multitudes and thousands of people, enjoyed by many as a form of escapism, a form of relaxation, and some go as far as pursuing their passion in a lucrative career that involves cooking. I'm told that a trainee chef can earn somewhere between £13,000 and £18,000 a year. A shoe chef can earn between £22,000 and £26,000 and a head chef can earn something between £20,000 and £30,000 per year. I did a little bit of research on a recruitment site and I found that You can be a head chef of a Michelin star, a rosette standard, that type of chef. There's a job at London presently that has a salary of between 75,000 and 95,000 pounds. Not only that, but they get benefits with that, 12 weeks holidays. Eight of the bank holidays they get, they also get discounted rates of food and overnight spas and overnight stays, as well as other job-related benefits. When I read that, I nearly felt like enrolling into catering college myself. The food industry is a multi-billion pound industry. In 2017, the British public spent 85 billion pounds in cafes and restaurants. UK restaurant revenues for that same year stood at an astounding rate of 38 billion pounds. And each of those cafes and each of those restaurants, they have to employ chefs to prepare food. Food from the simple bacon sandwich, to a saffron-infused rosetto topped with truffle or a creme brulee. I don't even know what those things are, but I think they are quite delicacies. But they are from a bacon sandwich to a creme brulee. Continue our studies, the series of gospel messages that have been preaching for quite some time. You're maybe exhausted with respect to this little series. It'll soon come to an end. I thought the words of Psalm 34 in the verse number eight are words that are well suited for those chefs that are among us, and there is at least one, and those who simply just delight to partake of the labors off their hands. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. We take those words. I want to preach a message on that I've entitled a gospel message for a chef. Firstly, I want us to see from the words of our text a God who is worth trusting, a God who is worth Trusting. The Psalmist David makes a definitive statement about his God here in the words of our text found in Psalm 34 and the verse 8. He declares that the Lord is good. The Lord is good, sinner. If you get nothing else from this meeting, get this truth settled into your heart and mind. The Lord is good. The Lord is good. You'll recall from our studies on the being of God that God is essentially good. He is intrinsically good. Thereby all that he does, from the salvation of the saint to the damnation of the sinner, it all is governed by the goodness of God. Some of you may question that. There's no problem in you assenting to the truth that God is good when it comes to the salvation of the saint. You have no problem with accepting that truth. However, you do have a problem with the statement that God is good in the damnation of the sinner. So let me explain how God's goodness is seen in the sinner's damnation. Every sinner needs to remember that God's goodness does not cancel out his justice. Read in Romans chapter 11 verse 22, therefore the goodness and the severity of God, the scriptures marries the goodness and justice of God together. They exist in perfect harmony. They are not diametrically opposed ideas or truths or characteristics with respect to God, but rather they meet together in one harmonious being, that being being God. Divine goodness abhors that which is evil. And so the punishment of evil is intrinsic to what it means for God to be good. If God is good, then he must destroy that which is evil. He must punish that which is not good. If God is good, and good he is, We must understand that His goodness is worked out in His justice. You think about an earthly judge. You think about that earthly judge who deals with criminals in a way that he puts them behind bars, never for them to be able to commit their criminal offenses again. We would say about that judge that he is a good judge. We would say that what he does is a good deed. In sparing society from more havoc and more chaos by such a criminal, in his goodness, the judge puts that man beyond the ability of committing such crimes again. Well, if that'd be an earthly judge, what about the perfect judge of all the earth when he condemns the wicked? We cannot question His goodness when God does such a thing, but rather His goodness is fully on display. When in His justice, He damns the sinner because of their sin. Let me use a made-up illustration. Maybe it'll help you to get this into your heart and mind. Just suppose you had a daughter. Just suppose that daughter was abducted and then physically abused. and then murdered by a man. The trail of evidence leads to a murderer. That trail of evidence left at the crime scene leads to then his arrest and his subsequent appearance before a crown judge. On the basis of the evidence presented, that judge will condemn that man to life imprisonment with no option of release appended to the sentence. When you think of that judge, his judgment of your daughter's murderer, you'll think two things about that particular judge. You'll think, first of all, that he is a just judge. He has given a just sentence. The man's a murderer. He must spend life behind bars. But you'll also think that that judge is a good judge. because he has acted on your behalf. The removal of your daughter's murderer from society, never to harm a child again, is an act of goodness on the part of that judge. And so, in the gospel, and so in the grand scheme of God's purposes, when God takes the sinner, That person who has defamed him, that person who has despised him, that person who has denied him, that individual who has declined his offer of salvation throughout their lifetime and he condemns that person to hell, such will be seen as a righteous act on the part of a good God. And so in every act of God, God's goodness is seen. Because the Lord is good. But God's personal, his intrinsic, his inherent goodness, it finds its expression in his dealings with fallen men. And this is what the psalmist David is here explaining within this particular psalm. When he states that the Lord is good, he's speaking from personal experience. I have come to experience the goodness of God. As a sinner, I have come to experience this goodness. You only have to look at what the psalmist says here about God. and how God has dealt with him in his past to understand that God is good and therefore he is worth the trusting. David could well say that the Lord is good because as verse four tells us of the chapter, when I sought the Lord, he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. That's why I've said the Lord is good. Because when I as a sinner sought the Lord, he heard me. and he delivered me from all my fears. God was good in hearing that cry. God was good to the same as when David first cried to God for mercy in salvation. And God heard that cry. He did not turn the cry away. He didn't shut his ear to it. He didn't postpone the hearing of it or the granting of that which he requested in the prayer, but rather he comes speedily with haste hearing the cry of the psalmist, delivering him from all of his fears, hearing the prayer and delivering him from that which caused him concern and that which caused him many, many a fear. What did he fear? Well, he feared sin and this eventual harvest. The sowing of sin brings a harvest of sin. He feared death. He feared the judgment. I'm sure he feared hell. He probably feared men and many other fears. And yet we read that God delivered him from all of his fears. Would it not be true, sinner, tonight that you're in this house and you're full of fear? You've got many fears tonight. You would fear what the family would say. what the friends would say, what the schoolmates would say, or what the work colleague would say, or what the person over the garden fence, your next door neighbor would say, if you stepped out for Christ tonight in the gospel. Maybe tonight you fear. the harvest of sin that is awaiting you. You have sown to sin, you haven't reaped the harvest yet, but reap the harvest you shall. Because whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. You fear death, when you're going to die, where you're going to die. how you're going to die. You fear meeting God in the judgment, for you have no refuge, you have no advocate, you have no savior, you have no hope of eternal life or a place in the glory. You fear hell, that separation from God eternally. You fear the fire of hell. You fear the torment of hell. You fear its duration. For it goes on forever and forever. Many are your fears tonight. Well, let God deal with your fears. Let God in the Gospel, and by His salvation, deal with your fears. Let Him deal with your sin, because really it's sin that is the cause of all of those fears. Surrender up your sin to God. Seek cleansing of your sin in the precious blood, and thank God He'll deal with the fear of man, because He'll become your shield, and your defender, and He'll become your friend. He'll become your friend because he's the friend of publicans and of sinners. Jesus, the sinner's friend. We hide ourselves in thee, the hymn writer said. He'll deal with your fear of sin by forgiving you of your sins and your transgressions. He'll deal with the fear of death by pointing you to an empty tomb, reminding and testifying that Christ has conquered death for all who trust in Him. He'll deal with the fear of the judgment, reminding you that all judgment of sin and for sin has fallen upon the Son of God at the cross of Calvary. He'll deliver you from the fear of hell by assuring you that you've been adopted into the family of God, you've been made a citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem, and you'll never be in hell. He'll deal with all your fears. Sinner fear not, come to Christ. David said, the Lord is good because he delivered me from all my fears. But David could well say the Lord is good because as verse six tells us, he would say, when I was a poor man, when I cried unto the Lord, he heard me and he saved me out of all my troubles. The book of Job reminds us that man is born onto trouble. Job 5, verse 6 and 7, no affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground, yet man is born onto trouble. as the sparks fly upward, as naturally as sparks rising from a piece of wood in a piece of fire, just as natural as that happens, so trouble springs out and up within our lives. He repeats it again, Job 14 verse 1, man is born, man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. This trouble, as Job reminds us in Job 5, doesn't come from outside of men. He says it doesn't come forth from the dust or spring out of the ground. Where does this trouble arise from if it doesn't come from without? It comes from within. Because man and woman are born, men and women are born with a heart full of sin. A heart that's polluted by sin. Now there are things that we can be assured of in life. And this is one of those things. Sin and trouble always go hand in hand. Sin and trouble always go together. Where there is sin, there will be trouble. You can be sure of that. And reluctant as you may be to admit that truth, You'd have to say that sin has brought trouble into your life. Sin has brought trouble into your home. Sin has brought trouble into your family. And well you know it to be the case. Here you are tonight and your life is full of trouble. Maybe you're here tonight, the marriage is on the rocks. Maybe tonight the spending addiction is bringing you into financial ruin. Tonight, the body bears the marks of sin. And not only individually, as you sit here tonight, is there trouble, but in the family there's plenty of trouble. The daughters become pregnant outside of marriage. Some son hooked to drugs. Some sibling, brother or sister, ensnared by alcohol. Sin and trouble go together. They go together. And yet we find the psalmist testifying here, God saves people from their troubles. Is it then any wonder that he said, the Lord is good? The Lord is good. And I tell you, sinner, you'll find him to be good, as he saves you out of your troubles, especially out of sin's trouble. Why not then cry to him tonight for mercy? He'll hear your cry, He'll save you. And if those troubles linger after you come to Christ, if deliverance is delayed from them, they most likely will, yet He'll give you all the grace and all the strength to bear you up until the troubles are past. The Lord's good because as a poor man I cried. The Lord saved me out of my troubles, all of them. But he could say the Lord is good because, as according to verse number nine, I find there is no want to them that fear him. There's no want to them that fear him. David was able to say that all of his needs, not his greeds, but all of his needs, were abundantly supplied by this good God. I want for nothing, is what he says. I want for nothing in time, I want for nothing in eternity, because there is no want, there is no poverty to them that fear God. When God sees a man or woman, a boy or girl, He doesn't bring them into want. Instead, he spiritually enriches the person. Those that become a Christian, those that are saved by God's grace, they become the recipients of the riches that are in Christ Jesus. God is rich in mercy, becomes a God who is rich in grace. Rich in grace to pardon us, rich in power to support us, rich in goodness to relieve us, rich in glory. To Crinus, does it name not time, sinner, that you would leave your spiritual impoverished state behind and come to the one who can make you an inheritor of the kingdom of God? You'll want no good thing. when you turn to Christ for salvation. I could go on, taking all their statements out of this psalm, to back home the affirmation of the psalmist David when he says, the Lord is good. Every verse we could glean, every verse we could dissect, and we would find something there within the psalm that we would find, yes, This is why David says this. This is why he says the Lord is good, because of this reason and that reason. But let me point you to one other reason why I believe that David said the Lord is good. It's hinted at in the final verse of the chapter, the verse number 22. Place your eye there. The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants. The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants. The redemption of the soul is the greatest evidence that the Lord is good. The Lord is good. The cross points us to the fact that God is good. Redemption from sin, deliverance from its palanty, its power, From its pollution, these things, thank God, we see as we are redeemed, we see God's goodness in it all. God in goodness has redeemed the soul of his servant. God is good. A. W. Pink said, the goodness of God appears most illustriously. when he sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. In the work of redemption, the sinner's deliverance from sin, God's goodness shines forth in its greatest glory. And so, sinner, stand at the cross stand beneath the shadow of the center cross. Behold the goodness of God. Behold God's goodness in ascending of His Son into the world. Behold His goodness as Christ is crucified for sinners. Behold His goodness as blood flows from hands and feet and side. Behold His goodness as He endures the darkness. and the blackness and the separation from the Father. Behold God's goodness in redemption. A way of deliverance has been provided by a good God, a way of salvation, a way of escape. Look, look, look with the eye of faith. Look to the crimson body of Christ. and understand how good God is in sending His only begotten Son to be the Savior of the world. I tell you, if you can leave the cross, if you can leave Calvary tonight, if you can leave Golgotha's hillside, having gazed upon the broken, the bruised, the battered, the bloodied body of Christ, and still say in your heart that God is not good, then I fear that you will never be saved from your sin." Because Calvary testifies that my God is good. God is good. The cross of Christ and the redemption that flows from his work there testifies to God's goodness. And this is why I said he is a God who is worth trusting. So I asked you, have you trusted in him? Have you committed the keeping of your soul unto him? Have you said to him, King of my life, I crown thee now. Thine shall the glory be. May the goodness of God lead thee to repentance. Not only do we see in our text, and our opening point is our longest, but not only do we see in our text that God is worth trusting, I see in the second place, an experience that's worth having. An experience that is worth having. The psalmist encourages the readership with the words, O taste and see. that the Lord is good, having derived from his own personal dealings with God that God was good. Now we find the psalmist David recommending his God to others and encouraging them for themselves to taste and to see that the Lord is good. Now logic and reason would dictate that the psalmist is not advocating cannibalism here. He's not saying literally that we are to taste Christ. He's not advocating cannibalism here. He's not saying that we literally taste God by eating him as we would taste food as we eat food. The language is figured if here, it's not to be taken literally. I started to think about this, this tasting. and seeing that the Lord is good. And as I started to think and meditate about tasting and thinking about, well, how can I try and best explain what the psalmist is trying to get at here, the Lord brought to my attention three key aspects that are involved in tasting anything. Now, you'll know that a chef is encouraged to taste, to taste whether its seasoning is proper or not. I always, whenever, Well, I'll say it anyway, mum's not here tonight, but I always find that she always puts on the salt before she even tastes the food. And you should never do that, you should taste the food. If it's a competent chef, that chef should just have the right seasoning in the particular plate of food that you're eating. And so I started to think about tasting, and I started to think about three different aspects that are involved in tasting anything. In the first place, if you want to taste anything, there must be apprehension. They say that you eat with your eyes. In other words, if you see something there that's tasty and good, well then that will be an incentive for you then to particularly go on and eat the particular thing. Whereas if you look and you see all that there is is a bowl or a plate full of cabbage, well then maybe you just won't be so keen. So sometimes we simply eat with our eyes. But a person must apprehend. they must perceive, they must come to understand that the food before them is sufficient to satisfy the hunger. And before any sinner becomes a Christian, they must first apprehend, they must first come to their understanding, they must come to understand that Jesus Christ, who is described as the bread of life, is the only one, the only one who can satisfy the deep longing, the deep craving, the deep hunger of the soul. You see, without apprehending that, the sinner will try everything and everyone else. Until they come to that appreciation and understanding, that perception that Christ alone will meet me at the point of my need, they'll try this holiday, They'll try that relationship. They'll try this substance. They'll try that career. They'll try to change life and where they live and who they live with and what they do in their free time and all in order to try and find the place of satisfaction. But the sinner who finds Christ has apprehended something They have apprehended that Christ alone will satisfy me. With that in mind then, for those who are not here saved, I would encourage you to look away to Jesus Christ. He alone will satisfy the hunger of the soul. The Son of God said as much. And he's not a liar. He is God and God is not a man that he should lie. And what did he say? He said in John 6 verse 35, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger. And he that believeth in me shall never thirst. He's not speaking physically. He's speaking spiritually. The hunger of the soul, the thirst of the soul will be satisfied as you come to trust in me, as you believe in me, as you're saved from your sin. And so, first of all, there is apprehension. But not only is there apprehension, but also there is appropriation. I mentioned that when I preached on the bread of life, Christ being the bread of life. Looking at food does not satisfy a person's hunger, rather that person must take hold of the particular food product and they must make it theirs personally. That's appropriation, making it personally yours. And then the gospel of the sinner must appropriate Christ. They need to get beyond looking at Christ, and admiring Christ, and what Christ could do for them, and instead they need to take the next step, and by faith they need to lay hold of Christ. Lay hold of Christ. They need to appropriate Christ. They need to receive Christ. I'm just using different terms, speaking of the same thing. This is what the sinner needs to do, or to lay hold of Christ in the gospel. Have you done it yet, sinner? Here you are. Life of sin behind you, but have you appropriated Christ? Is Christ yours? Can you say that tonight I am His and He is mine? You may be asking, how can I make Christ my personal Savior? You make Him yours when you humble yourself before Him, confess your sin, and receive Him and His salvation. And so there is an apprehension. There is an appropriation, but in the final place, There is assimilation. Assimilation. Yes, we may look and apprehend that particular food product is tasty. We may appropriate it. We may put our hand on it, lay hold of it. But you need to eat it. You need to eat it if your hunger is to be relieved. There needs to be the assimilation of the food within the body in order that the body will benefit from it, and so in the gospel. The sinner must personally partake of that which has been given to them in the gospel. They must personally partake of that which they have been enabled to lay hold upon in the gospel. Christ must enter the life. person needs to become a partaker. Those are the words used in Scripture, a partaker of the divine nature. I doubt that there's anyone in this meeting who is ignorant of the gospel. You've heard it. You're all aware that Christ is the Savior of sinners. You're fully aware that His sacrifice for sin at the cross is the only remedy for sin, and that repentance and faith must be exercised if you are to be saved from your life of sin and ultimately from hell. But being intellectually aware of such things is not enough. You need to come and personally partake of salvation. And so I would encourage you to move from the mere theoretical knowledge of the gospel, and instead have a personal experimental knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ. If you are to enjoy the benefits of any food product, as I've said, no one else can taste it for you. You must personally taste the food. if it is to profit you. And therefore, to the children here, your parents' partaking of Christ in the gospel is not sufficient for you. You must partake of Him who is the bread of life yourself. Your sister, your brother's salvation experience is not accredited to you in any way. You need to have your own salvation experience. Your minister, our Christian friends, place at the gospel's banqueting table does not secure your place at the banqueting table. No, rather you need to secure your place there by becoming savingly united to Jesus Christ, who is the provider of the gospel banquet. You need to taste and see that the Lord is good. All you need for time, all you need for eternity has been secured by His death on Calvary's cross. All you must do is to come and partake of that which has been provided. Will you do that? A God who's worth trusting, an experience that's worth the having, a blessedness that is worth the knowing. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. It literally reads, how happy is the man that trusteth in him. For all the happinesses of the man that trusteth in him. Is that not what young people And older people are aimlessly searching for, in this world, a lasting happiness. God informs us. God informs us how such happiness is to be obtained, by trusting in the Lord. It's not complicated. You don't need to be a genius. You don't need to have degrees. You don't have to have a title in front of your name. You could be the most illiterate individual in this province tonight, and yet understand that if I am to be happy, if I am to know spiritual blessedness in my life, then I'm going to have to trust in him. That's the way to happiness. What does that trusting involve? Well, the word trust that we have here in the verse, that trusteth in him, It translates to mean to flee for protection, to confide in, to make one's refuge. It's a word that reminds us that there's danger. And sinner, there is danger. There is danger by staying in your sin. And from that danger, we must flee. Was that not the words of the Baptist? To flee. from the wrath to come. There is wrath, and we need to flee. There is danger, there is peril. And if we are to flee, and if we are to be saved from such danger, then there is a place of refuge, a place of refuge to be found in Jesus Christ. No other refuge will see us safely through the judgment but the refuge provided in Him. To know that a person is in Christ is to know that we're protected from sin's danger. Would that not bring any person into the happiest state? To know that there's no wrath, no wrath that will sweep this soul of mine into a Christless hell. The wrath that will cause me to tremble at the day of judgment, for I've found a place of hiding. I've found a place of refuge. I'm hiding in the wounds of Calvary. That's where I hide tonight. I hide in the cross. I hide in the blood. I hide myself in him. I've found a place of refuge. And all I do tonight is to point you to that place, a place of safety. A place of safety. Will you run there? Will you hide yourself there? Tonight, would you not love to know the blessedness of trusting in Christ? Well then, Why not stop trying and start trusting? If you desire forgiveness and pardon and peace and joy here in this world, you desire eternal glory and happiness in the world to come, then trusting in Jesus Christ. Repenting of your sin is the only way that such can be obtained. Trust in him. Only trust him. Only trust him. Only trust him now. He will save you. Hallelujah. He will save you now. And so my final appeal to you in this gospel meeting is the words of our text this evening. Sinners, O taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man, the woman, the boy, the girl that trusteth in him. May you come to Christ and may you be saved from your sin. Let's bow our heads in prayer. Let's pray. Can I say that if God is speaking to your heart, if you're not saved, I suppose your reaction just, whenever I said, let's bow our heads in prayer, your reaction is probably something like this. I'm glad he's finished. I've felt the challenge of this word. This is me. Well, if that has been your experience tonight, God is speaking to you. And I would encourage you to respond to his call. So you're going to have to make your need known, because I am no mind reader. I can't see into your heart. Is there a need there? Well, if there is, then make that need known. We'll be delighted to take the Word and speak with you. Oh, that tonight you would taste and see that the Lord is good. Loving Father, we thank Thee that Thou art a good God. We thank Thee for the plan of salvation that points to the fact that God is good. We pray, O God, that thou wilt take the word, applying it effectually to the soul or souls of men, women, boys, and girls, and that tonight they would not stand, as it were, at a distance from the banqueting table of the gospel, but tonight they would by faith draw alongside and partake of those blessings, those benefits that God has provided in the gospel. They would appropriate that they would lay hold and then partake. O answer prayer, satisfy the longing of the soul. Bring conviction of sin upon the sinner, we pray. Do thine own work, for it is thy work. Salvation is off the Lord. We just lay all things before Thee and pray that tonight that there might be those who would become partakers of the gospel feast. Answer prayer and be glorified in this matter, we pray, for we offer our petitions and prayers in and through our Savior's precious and holy name. Amen and amen. Thank you.