in our Bibles here this morning. We're gonna be in the book of Genesis chapter 49, and we're gonna begin there in verse 28, Genesis chapter 49. I'm gonna begin there in verse 28. When you find your place, you can stand with me if you would, and we'll read the word of God together this morning. As I was preparing another message, the Lord had laid on my heart this message, something that I wasn't preparing for in the meantime, but as I said, looking for something else. The Lord just laid on my heart some things, and I kept digging and kept praying and kept going, and it just seemed like the further I went, the more the Lord just kind of seemed to open up to me. I wanted to share that with you here today. I pray a big blessing to you this morning. Let's begin there in Genesis chapter 49, and let's begin there in verse 28. The Bible says, all these are the 12 tribes of Israel. And this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them, everyone, according to his blessing he blessed them. And he charged them and said to them, I am to be gathered unto my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephraim the Hittite. in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for possession of a burying place. And there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, and there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah. The purchase of this field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth, And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into his bed and yielded up the ghost and was gathered unto his people. Let's pray this morning. Father, we come to you today, we do thank you, Lord, for your goodness. Lord, I pray that you'd help us today as we open up your word. Lord, as we have now already read it, Lord, I pray that it would rest and find the lodging place in everybody's hearts. Lord, you said that it would not return void, and so I ask God that you'd help us as we go through your word, and God, as I preached this morning, that you would just give me strength. God, I pray that you would help my mind to be clear and to be able to deliver the word that you have placed on my heart. God, I pray that you'd bless our time together. And if anybody here that's under the sound of this preaching is not saved, they'd get saved, and they'd see the reality of their life, and they'd also see the reality and the fragileness of it, and also eternity. God, we love you, and we thank you for it all, and this we pray in Jesus' name, amen. Amen, you may be seated. As we look in our text here this morning, I couldn't read all the whole chapter, but what we really see in Genesis chapter 49 is we see that Jacob is very old, and he is passing off the scene, and what he is doing is he's talking to his kids. And he's given all of his kids, in essence, a farewell address and speaking to them about some certain things. And so as we get into Genesis chapter 28 and get down to verse 33, we see there are some things that he mentioned that I want us to examine here this morning that I think could be a blessing to you. I entitled this message, What Does the Cemetery Say? What does the cemetery say? And as I said this morning, I was looking through something else and trying to, putting together a message for another time, and when I was searching through that, the Lord just started guiding me through these things, and so I began to notice as I was thinking about tombs and thinking about death and cemeteries, the path that I came across, I began to think to myself, I thought, you know what, I wonder, where the first cemetery at is in the Bible. Where is the first cemetery? Where is the first tomb? What does the Bible say about it? And so I was led to Genesis chapter 23, and we ain't got time to go there this morning, but you can jot that down right here in your text there in your Bible if you like to write in it or you like to take notes. Genesis chapter 23 is one of those places where we see, I believe, one of the very first places we're gonna see where God's people, where Abraham, where he bought some land and there was a cave on that land and for a burying place. And so of course over time it became a cemetery. The reason why he bought that place is because his wife had passed away. And so he bought this place, he bought it in the land of Canaan. from the Hittites that was there. And so he bought this place there in Genesis chapter 23, and there is where he buried his wife. And then of course, over time, we see, we get here to Genesis 49, and we see that throughout time, we see that there are some other people that have been buried there as well. Notice we covered that here in this verse, look at verse 31. The Bible says, and there buried Abraham. The Bible says his wife is there. They buried Isaac there. They buried Rebekah there, his wife. And he says, and there I buried Leah. And his desire was that whenever he died was to be buried in the same place. And so here we see in this cave, in this tomb in essence, we see all three of the major patriarchs here in the scriptures. We see we got Abraham and his wife, we got Isaac and his wife, and we got Jacob and his wife is there. And so all three of them buried there in the same place. How many of you have ever seen like some family cemeteries? Maybe you've been out. Sometimes you go certain places. A lot of times you go maybe up in the mountains or way out in the country sometimes, and they'll have like their own family cemeteries that are around, and you know, and they got their names there, the family. And I was thinking about this, I thought, you know what, I've been to quite a few cemeteries in my life, and I was thinking about these up here in Lynchburg. I tell you what, there's some really old ones here just in town. You got Old City Cemetery here in Lynchburg, along with some others. You know, I've been to Arlington, and man, what a blessing it was to go up there. I've been to Gettysburg, and I've seen the bare ground there of the people that are there in Gettysburg, and just many others that I've seen in my life. And I'm sure you have this one as well. What I was thinking about was this, and every time, you know, sometimes we have funerals, or when I go places, I'll look at a tombstone, and I'll think to myself, I wonder who this person was. You ever thought about that? Who was this person really? And what kind of life did they live? You know, what did they do? What accomplishments did they have? I mean, because we know that every single tombstone, every single burying place, there is a story. All these people, they lived life. All these people, they had stories. They had battles and struggles, and they had victories and triumphs, just like all of us, you know? And so I began to wonder, you know, sometimes I wonder when I go to these places, what was this person like, and what was this person like, and what was this person about? Well, as I began to study this cemetery, this very first one that I came across here in the Scriptures, I thought, what story do these people tell? Now I'm not gonna probably be able to get into the women here this morning, I'll get into them here tonight, but I wanted you to see the story that the very first cemetery that I see in the scripture, what is the story that we can see in this very first cemetery? So what does the cemetery say? to us today. Well, I think one thing, of course, we can see, the Bible says, let's take a look at it in our text. The Bible says there in verse 29, He charged them and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people, bury me with my fathers in the cave. And so as I was thinking about this, I thought, you know what, what we see here is, we see here a picture of death. We see here that he understands that this is the place where he was about to go. He understands that he is about to die. And he understands that there's a lot of people that up to this point have already passed on off the scene. His mother and his father and his, grandmother and grandfather and so forth and so on, that there has been a lot of people that have passed off the scene. And so when we see this cave here this morning, what does this cave speak to us about? What does this, in essence, this tomb speak to us about? Because at this point, in Genesis 49, there's a good number of people that are already laid to rest in there. And as I began to think about it, I thought, you know what, what we see very first in this text is we see this cave. It is a good representation, of course, of death. It's a good representation of death. And death is because what? We see and understand about the scriptures. The reason why we have death is because what does the Bible tell us? Well, the wages of sin is death, is it not? The Bible says the wages of sin is death. And so because the wages of sin is death, the Bible tells us in the book of Romans that because we're all sinners and because we've all gone astray because there's not one of us that assault the face of God, who are righteous enough to get to heaven on our own accord, because we've all gone astray. The Bible tells us and shows us in the book of Romans that the wages of sin is death, and because we're all sinners, we all understand that death passes upon all men because all have sinned. And so when we look at this cave, what do we see? Well, we see the one thing is that we're sinners and we understand, listen, unless the Lord Jesus comes back and the rapture takes place, we understand that we too are gonna go the way of all the earth, that we too are gonna be buried one of these days, that one of these days there is gonna be a tomb that we're in, there is gonna be a great place where we're gonna be at. And so what it shows us is, it shows us sin, it shows us the fragileness of life, the fragileness of life. But the very first thing is we see is sin. The very first thing we see is death. And the reason why we have death is because of sin. And in the Gospels, part of the Gospel message is one of the things that we have to realize first and foremost is what? Listen, if I want to get saved and I want to go to heaven, what is one of the very first things I have to realize about my life? It's that I'm lost. It said, I'm a sinner. It said, I need to get saved. It said, listen, yes, one of these days, I mean, that cave shows us the fragileness of life. It shows us that, listen, it's not going to be, even if you live to be a hundred, that's nothing compared to eternity. And so what this cave shows us is that it shows us that we as people, that we die, that we expire, that we are not a people that is going to, on this earth, in these physical bodies, we're not going to last forever in these physical bodies. But man, praise God that we have a God in heaven, that sent His only begotten Son, that understood that, listen, We were lost and on our way to the devil's hell, and he prepared a way and made a way for us to get to heaven, and that is through his Son. But upon all of us here today, there is death. that is coming to us. And so this cave right here, what it represents, it's a good picture of where we're all gonna go. And the picture is that, listen, we're gonna go there because we're all sinners. Listen, from the pulpit to the pew this morning, we're all sinners. We all need to get right with God. If you're not saved, you need to get saved. And listen, you need to make sure that your eternity is set, that your eternity is set, that you've trusted Jesus as your Lord and personal Savior. And so we see this cave right there from the very beginning. It shows us the fragileness of life. It shows us that, listen, that we're sinners. And that's the reason why the Bible says that death will come upon all of us because we're all sinners. So that's the very first thing. And that is the gospel message. Listen, if I want to get saved, the first thing I've got to realize is that I'm lost and that I'm a sinful man and I need to come to Christ to do something about it. Amen. So there's the cave. We can see the beautiful gospel message right here in these men and these people that are buried. So we see the cave first and foremost. But what else do we see? So in this cave, who is there? Let's start with the men. We see Abraham. Now Abraham in this cave, what does Abraham represent? Even in the book of Hebrews chapter 11, we look at the whole of faith. And we can see Abraham that is there who the Bible says that he had faith in God and that he trusted God. And so what we see here from the very beginning is that in this cave is that men are lost and they're sinners and the cave and death and the tomb is where they are going to go, but I think the Bible shows us that through Abraham, what do we see? Well, Abraham's, I think, a good picture of us. A good picture of us. Well, the Bible shows us that, listen, what did he do? He put his faith in God. He trusted God. The Bible tells us in Abraham that he was called out of the Ur of the Chaldees. You know what that is? That's the world. And so what was God doing? He was calling him out of the world. And is that not what God's trying to do for us today? And has been doing for a very long time now. Come out from among them and be a separate, saith the Lord. Be you holy as I am holy. Be a peculiar people. And so God has been trying to do everything he can to get the gospel message out. by every means necessary to understand that, listen, we're sinners, and we're lost, and we're gonna die. And if we die without Jesus, we're gonna go to a devil's hell. But the Bible shows us that, listen, one of the things that we can do is put our faith and trust in God. And God's saying, I'm trying to call you out of the ear of the Cowdeys. I'm trying to call you out of this world. Now, I don't know who may be sitting here this morning. Listen, God may have been knocking on the door of your heart. I mean, I don't know what's going on in your life. I don't know what your life is all about. I don't know what you do. But I can definitely say this, is that God, I think, is definitely pressing upon people's hearts and lives today to come out from the world and come to know Him. and come to know him. And that's what Abram, even in the hall of faith, was recognized for. The Bible says that he came out, God called him out of the Ur of the Chaldees, and what was there? Man, it was paganism, and it was sin, and there was all kinds of idolatry that was out there in the Ur of the Chaldees, and God was calling him out of that. just like he's trying to call us out of the world today, just like he's trying to call us out of a life of sin, just like he's trying to call us out of the paganism and the idols of this world, to put all that stuff away and understand that, listen, we are gonna die, and because we know we're gonna die, we need to make sure that our eternity is set, because we are, sinners this morning. We need to understand that we've put our faith and trust in God. To listen to the still small voice because Abraham there in the tomb is a picture of the man that's listening to the voice of God that God is trying to call him out of the earth, the Chaldees. And listen, every single one of us here this morning, If you saved, there was a moment and there was a time when God began to knock on the door of your heart and speak to you about coming out of that life, coming out of the world and coming to know his son. How many of you remember the day you got saved? Man, praise God. You may not remember the exact month or you may not remember if it was on a Monday or a Friday. You may not remember the exact day, but you remember the day in essence when you gave your life to Christ and he changed your life. You remember that. And so for every single one of us here today, there was a moment when God came to us and he says, listen, you are facing death because you're a sinner. But what I want you to do is put your faith and trust in me and come out of that place and follow me. And that's what Abraham represents. A man that would put his faith in God and trust him and come out of the world. come out of the earth of the Chaldees and trust God. And you're sitting here this morning and as I said, I don't know what God spoke to your heart about. I don't know what God's doing exactly in your life. But I do know this, I know a God of God in heaven, because he's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, has a desire for you to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit, as he's speaking to your heart here this morning, to come out of the paganism, to come out of the world, to come out of this sin, and to follow God, because this is not what Abraham did. He came out of all that mess, and he followed God, and God blessed him because of that. And so we see Abraham represents a man that is listening to the voice of God. There he is, seeing death. There he is, seeing the fragileness of life. So the cave represents death, it represents sin. Represents why we die, because we're all sinners. We also see Abraham, who represents a man of faith, who was in the Ur of the Chaldees, but God was calling him out of that life to trust in him, and praise the Lord for that. So we move on from Abraham, and then what do we have? Oh, well, let's see. We move on from Abraham and the next thing we see as we walk through the cemetery with me this morning, as we walk through the cemetery. How many of you have ever walked through some cemeteries and you read the names and you would look and see how long they lived? And sometimes, listen, if you was to go up here to Lynchburg and you was to see some of the old cemeteries up there, sometimes they got little plaques that would tell you a little bit of stories about their life. And they had a life just like we do. I remember I was probably, yeah, probably from this point, maybe 20 minutes from here, I was driving down the road one day, and there was this church, old church. And I was driving by, and there was an old cemetery sitting off to the side, and I thought, man, is anybody even preaching that place anymore? Because they cut the grass, but man, I mean, the place was really looking really bad, and I thought, I don't know, this place is, they're probably just taking care of the building or something, you know, and just maybe the grounds. So I pulled up, and there wasn't, you know, anything on the front talking about that it was a certain type of church or anything, but you could obviously tell. And the cemetery was there, and I got out of the car, and I walked over, and a bunch of old tombstones. And I was just walking by, and I was looking at all the names, and I was looking at all the dates. And as I was walking through, I noticed there was one that I had never even, I've never seen anything like this. Interesting. And as I got there, it said, I can't remember the person, it was a guy, I can't remember his name, and this was old, this was like back in the 1800s, but they had chiseled in it, it said, so and so lived, you know, this point, whatever, and it said that only half of him was buried there. The other half is buried in South Carolina. And I thought to myself, wow, I've never seen that before. I've never come across a tombstone that ever said that only half the person was there. I don't know what happened to the guy, but I was just like, wow, that's interesting. I've never seen anything like that. But what I'm trying to get us to see this morning is that every tombstone, every cemetery has a story to tell. And this morning, as we look at this cave, and as we look at cemeteries in general, what it reminds us of is that we're sinners. What it reminds us of is that one day we're going to die. What it reminds us of is that, listen, we need to make sure that we get ourselves right before God, because an eternity is a long time to be wrong. And we need to make sure that we got things worked out with the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you haven't trusted Him as your personal Savior, There is no better time than right now and no greater day than today and today the Bible says if you'll hear his voice Heart and not your hearts. The Bible says today is a day of salvation And so we see this cave this this tomb that represents where we're going So right there from the get-go we see the gospel In order for me to get saved. I have to see that I'm dying in order for me to have life I have to see that I'm dying and In order for me to understand where I need to get to, I got to see where I'm at right now. And that's what this cave shows us. Listen, this is where we are. But Abraham, man, he was being pulled out of this life. He was being pulled out of the Ur of the Chaldees. Now we get to the next person. Along this gospel journey, if you want to call it the Romans Road in Genesis 49, along this gospel journey, we see not only the cave that represents death and sin, not only see Abraham, which represents a man that is now listening to the voice of God and is putting his faith and trust in God to leave the life that he was in. He is a moment of decision. So we get to the next person, which is who? Isaac. Isaac. And what is Isaac a picture of in the scripture? Jesus. Remember when Isaac, when Abraham took his son up on the hill, and they was gonna sacrifice him up there. Notice before they got there in that story, the Bible says that they laid the bundle of sticks on Isaac's back. Great picture of the cross. They get on up there top of that hill they get on up there and we see that They see that Abraham was gonna Abraham was going to sacrifice his son But then as he read as he reached up is as he reached up his arm to sacrifice his son God intervenes And the Bible says that God provides himself a lamb We see the Isaac is a picture of Christ and so We look through this story and what do we see? We see a man that realizes that he's in death and sin. And then we see a man that realizes, listen, what I need is I need to put my faith, faith and trust in what? Faith and trust in who? but in Jesus, and that's where Isaac comes on the scene. He was a man that represents the Lord Jesus Christ, and listen, Jesus is not just any man, but Jesus is the God man. Jesus is the son of God himself, and so we see that God says, listen, I will provide myself And so we see, we see that in this gospel message, in this tomb, that the Bible is showing us this, that you're lost and you're dying. And God is calling you out of the earth. He's calling you out of the world. And so what am I gonna do? I'm gonna put my faith and trust in Jesus. Isaac, tremendous picture of Christ. Listen, don't put your faith and trust in your preacher. Don't put your faith and trust in any church. Don't put your faith and trust. Listen, you trust God. Believe God. Listen, I can't get you to heaven. Amen? I cannot get you to heaven, but I sure can point you to the one that contains your life. I cannot wash away your sin. I cannot do these things, but I can point you to the one who was calling you out of the earth, the Chaldees, because he wants you to know that in that place where you are is death, and in that place where you are is sin, and God's calling him out, and he says, listen, I will put my faith in you, God, and so he comes out. When you read Hebrews chapter 11, You see, one of the things that you'll see is that as Abraham traveled in his journeys, the Bible says he was looking for a city. He was looking for a city whose builder and maker is God. He was looking forward to heaven. Abraham put his faith and trust in the Savior that was to come. Listen, everybody before the cross, you know who they put their faith and trust in? The Son of God that was to come. We're all after the cross. You know what we're doing? We're just looking back at the same, we're looking back at what they were looking to. We're putting our faith and trust in what Jesus has already done. They were putting their faith and trust in what the Son of God was gonna do. We're all looking at the same person. Abraham put his faith and trust in God. We see here Isaac, tremendous picture of the Lord Jesus. So then we go to the next one. We see Jacob, the third patriarch. Now what does Jacob represent? Now we think about Jacob's life and we think about the beginning of his life. Remember, we see Jacob, he is there. The Bible says he's deceiving his family. deceiving his brother. His name means deceiver or trickster. And he lived up to his name because that's what he was. Yes, that's what he was. He was living up to his name. He was a deceiver and he was a trickster. But you know, the thing about Jacob is, is that Jacob had this moment that after he started following God, and he gave up the idols that he had and his family gave up the idols that they had. And when they started following the Lord and we see that he wrestled with God, lots of people wrestling with God today about a lot of things. And so he wrestles with God, he goes here, he goes here, he goes there, he fails at this, don't do quite so good at that. But then we see as there comes a moment in his life when he finally gets serious about his relationship and his fellowship with God. And so what does Jacob represent? So when Jacob, of course, gives his life over to the Lord, God changes his name from Jacob, that means deceiver and trickster, to Israel, which means prince with the Lord. So what does Jacob represent in this gospel journey that we're on this morning? Because we look back and we see the cave that shows death, that shows sin. And then we see Abraham that's in the cave who represents faith and coming out of the world and trusting God. And so he comes out of the world, and when he comes out of the world, he trusts God who is next in line. Of course, we see Jesus. Trust Jesus because of what Jesus has done. The completed work there on the cross whereby God gave his only begotten son that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And the Bible says that Jesus, he gave himself for the world. And so we see that he, we see the cave, it represents sin and death. We see Abraham, which represents faith. And we see that he puts his faith in who? Isaac, his son. And then we get to Jacob, and once the faith is now placed in our Savior, now that we've trusted Jesus, what has now happened? We're now changed. We're now changed. We become a different person. Jacob was living a different life before he really started walking with God. Before he was a trickster and a deceiver, now he's a prince with God. So in this cave, what we see is the gospel message. And God is saying, you're dying. You're a sinner. You're lost. What you need to do is put faith in my son and be changed. Good stuff! The gospel right there! but your faith in my son and be changed. Be changed. So here this morning, I don't know your life, don't know what's going on, but I do know this. I do know that we have a God in heaven that loves you and cares about you. He cares about your eternity. And that's why the Lord says that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. I'm thankful here today that my God in heaven didn't just pick and choose. That you can go, and you can go, and you can go, but you can't, and you can't, and you can't, and you can't, but you can, but you can't. I'm thankful that my God says whosoever. Whosoever. And so it doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter what you've done. It doesn't matter what what what sin down in the depths that you've got yourself into. Listen, you may be saved here this morning. You know, you're saved. You're on your way to heaven. But you've gotten away from God. And you say, well, God won't meet with God still won't meet. Do I still have value? Yes, you do. God desires to use every single one of you here this morning. Every single person. So as we look at the cemetery and we say, what does the cemetery say? The cemetery, at least the very first one I believe we see in the Bible, shows us that we're sinners and we're dying. We need to put our faith in Jesus so our life will be different and changed. So what are you waiting on this morning? The cemetery today is saying, get saved. Get saved. I think about, we close with this, I think about the rich young ruler and others in the scriptures. I think about all these men that had the opportunity to know Christ as their savior, lots of people. Did you know that there are so many people in hell today that would love to be sitting where you're sitting this morning? They would give everything they got if they had anything to give to sit in your pew. They would give anything to go back to hear the gospel message once again and have an opportunity to get saved. And what I want us to say and understand this morning is that God loves you. And God desires for us to be changed. God desires for us to see where we're going and where we're heading. But if we'll put our faith and trust in his son, Lord Jesus Christ, our life can be changed. Our life can be different. And I'm thankful that we have a God in heaven that'll help us all along the way. Listen, when I got saved, God didn't just say, well, you're in this thing by yourself. No, I need him every hour. I need him every second. I've heard people say, oh, preacher, you Christians, y'all just need God for a crutch to get through life. No, you're wrong. I'm on total life support. I can't live without him. I'm even worse off than you thought I was. I'm worse off than you thought I was. Listen, don't think I just need him as a crutch. No, I need him for every breath. I need him for every heartbeat. Nah, you don't get it. I can't get through one second without him. Nah. Trust God today. See your eternity. Get it right. Get it fixed. Because you may not get another chance. Let's pray. Father, we come to you here this morning, we do thank you, Lord, for your goodness. Lord, I pray that and use the message today to speak to our hearts. Help us, God, to see that we need to get saved. Amanda's gonna sing here in just a few moments. As she gets ready to sing, I need you to do business with God. If the Holy Spirit of God is knocking on the door of your heart today about salvation, and God's knocking on the door of your heart about anything, Please make sure you listen to the voice of the Lord today. Let God change your life. If you hear that, you've never accepted Christ as your personal savior. You say, preacher, I sure would like to. I never have, but I sure would like to. Listen, I'm not gonna embarrass you, not gonna come get you, not gonna drag you up here. But preacher, would you pray for me? I've never accepted Christ as my Savior, but I sure would like to. Anybody out there like that out there this morning? I want to get saved. I want to get saved. If we could stand to our feet. We're going to open up the altar here this morning. If you want to come, I encourage you to come. It's a matter of salvation. You make sure you come to this preacher and say, Preacher, I want to get saved. I want to know more about Christ. I want my eternity to be changed. And I can show you the one in the Bible that can change your life. That can forgive you of every sin. Every single one. You say, well, preacher, you don't know what I've done. You don't know what I've said. You don't know what I've thought. You don't know where I've been. Listen, I don't have to. God does. And if I have a God in heaven that's willing to say that if you confess your sin, that he is willing to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness, A God here today that is saying, come now and let us reason together. He didn't say come tomorrow. the lonely finds it has the power to free the bound as chains they fall upon the ground so pour it out to cleanse my soul and let his liquid Glory flow, because He lives to make me whole I owe my life, I owe my all So I come to tell you He's alive To tell you that He drives every tear that falls So I come to tell you that He saves To shout and to proclaim that He's coming back for you What can wash away my sin? Nothing, nothing, what can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood, nothing but the blood, what can wash away my sin? Nothing, nothing, What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood, nothing but the blood There is a blood that tried to hide This precious blood that gave me life But in three days He breathed again And rose to stand in my defense So I come to tell you He's alive To tell you that He dries every tear that falls So I come to tell you that He sings To shout and to proclaim that He's coming back for you So I come to tell you He's alive To tell you that He dries every tear that falls So I come to tell you that He saves To shout and to proclaim that He's coming back for you ♪ There is a blood Amen, amen, praise the Lord. Good singing, good song, thank you so much. Thank you all for being here today. I pray the message was a blessing to you and you was able to share with me. in this word as we had seen the gospel message right here in this tomb how how what a blessing that is I was so excited in my heart when when the Lord led me to that yesterday I was actually I was actually kneeling down on the floor looking at my wife and just talking to her about it which is so you ever get excited about stuff you see in the Bible that God just opens up to you man I'm on a maybe y'all seen it before but I didn't but I was excited when God showed it to me, amen. All right, well, let's be dismissed in prayer today. Remember, see you tonight, 445, and that'll be for our choir time, and then we have prayer time, 545, and 445, 545, then I'll see you again at six o'clock. All right, let's be dismissed in prayer. Brother Mackey, would you dismiss us, please?