If Ye Do These Things

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Short Summary
The discourse centers on Second Peter 1, emphasizing the importance of diligently cultivating a series of virtues—faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love—to ensure spiritual growth and an abundant entrance into God’s kingdom. It highlights that these qualities build a noble character that resists worldly corruption, encourages steadfastness amid trials, and leads to fruitful knowledge of Jesus Christ, warning against spiritual blindness and the neglect of one’s calling. The speaker also stresses the value of grace, peace, and genuine knowledge rooted in scripture rather than external sources, urging believers to earnestly progress in their faith as a preparation for the challenges and blessings ahead.

Long Summary
Detailed Summary of the Discourse on 2 Peter 1:10-11 and Related Verses

Primary Scriptural Focus:
The discourse centers on 2 Peter 1:10-11, which urges believers to “give diligence to make your calling and election sure,” promising that if they do these things, “you shall never fall” and “an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

Context of 2 Peter:
– This letter was the apostle Peter’s final epistle, written with full awareness of his impending martyrdom.
– Peter’s legacy message to brethren focuses on steadfastness and spiritual growth to confirm their calling and election.
– The discourse emphasizes the urgency of living faithfully amid stressful and tribulation-filled times.

Opening Greeting and Theological Foundation (2 Peter 1:1-4):
– Peter introduces himself as a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ to those who share a “like precious faith” through righteousness.
– He prays for multiplied grace and peace through the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ.
– The phrase “all things that pertain unto life and godliness” (some manuscripts read “God and life and godliness”) refers to the divine provisions enabling a godly life.
– The Greek word for knowledge used here (gnosis/epignosis) implies full, active, experiential knowledge, not mere intellectual information.

The List of Christian Virtues (2 Peter 1:5-7):
– The apostle lists qualities to be diligently added to faith, in progressive order:
1. Faith – the foundation.
2. Virtue (Arete) – moral excellence, valor of character, nobility.
3. Knowledge – full discernment and understanding.
4. Temperance (Enkrateia) – self-control, mastery over desires, especially sensual appetites.
5. Patience (Hupomone) – steadfast endurance, loyalty to faith even through suffering and trials.
6. Godliness (Eusebia) – piety, reverence, and devotion to God; linked with contentment and wholesome doctrine (cf. 1 Timothy 6:3-6).
7. Brotherly Kindness (Philadelphia) – duty love within the Christian community, sincere liking and affection for brethren.
8. Charity (Agape) – the highest form of love, unconditional and enduring (cf. 1 Corinthians 13).

Significance of the Virtues:
– These qualities build upon one another, forming a spiritual “superstructure” or character that is pleasing to God and resistant to falling.
– The discourse stresses that faith alone is insufficient; it must be actively developed into a noble, godly character.
– The metaphor of building a house on solid rock (Christ and apostolic foundation) contrasts with building on wood, hay, or stubble—things that trials will consume.

Promises and Warnings:
– The “exceeding great and precious promises” enable believers to become “partakers of the divine nature,” escaping worldly corruption through lust.
– Those who lack these virtues are described as blind, forgetful of their cleansing from sin, and short-sighted regarding their spiritual progress.
– The exhortation to “give diligence” (Greek: spoude) implies earnestness and zeal in cultivating these virtues.

Examples and Illustrations:
– The life of Abraham is cited as the prototypical example of faith rewarded by grace and promise.
– The story of King David shows that even a man of noble character can fail without temperance/self-control, illustrating the necessity of each virtue.
– Revelation 14:9-12 is referenced to define patience as endurance through severe trials, such as resisting worship of the beast, illustrating the real cost of faithful patience.

Theological and Textual Notes:
– The discourse examines manuscript variants (Sinaitic Codex) indicating the phrase “pertain unto God and life and godliness” was originally longer but was omitted by copyists.
– Translations and interpretations vary, but the core message remains consistent: God’s divine power provides everything needed for a godly life.
– The Greek terms for the virtues are explored with their classical meanings to enrich understanding.

Practical Application:
– Believers are urged to self-examine their spiritual progress, especially during significant seasons such as the Memorial.
– Spiritual growth is a deliberate, purposeful process designed by the “Master Builder” (God) with wisdom and care.
– The call is to avoid self-centeredness and spiritual blindness, instead cultivating fruitfulness in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Encouragement in Troubling Times:
– The discourse acknowledges the present era’s stress and tribulation, likening it to birth pangs that intensify before joy comes.
– Believers are encouraged not to be anxious but to trust God’s promises and maintain peace through grace.
– The hope of an “abundant entrance” into God’s everlasting kingdom is a powerful motivator to diligence and faithfulness.

Closing Thoughts and Prayer:
– The speaker expresses gratitude for the opportunity to share these truths at the convention and prays for God’s blessing on all brethren worldwide.
– The prayer asks for faithfulness, comfort for the grieving and sick, and readiness to enter God’s kingdom.
– The discourse ends with a reminder that believers have been called from darkness into marvelous light, with a solemn commitment to continue building on that foundation.

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Key Bible Verses Quoted or Referenced:

2 Peter 1:5-11 (main text):
*“Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity… For if ye do these things, ye shall never fall… For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”*

Matthew 24:21
*“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”*

Revelation 14:9-12
*“If any man worship the beast… the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God… Here is the patience of the saints, here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”*

1 Timothy 6:3-6
*“If any man teach otherwise… and consent not to wholesome words… he is proud, knowing nothing… supposing that gain is godliness. Godliness with contentment is great gain.”*

1 Corinthians 13 (alluded to regarding charity/agape love)

Isaiah 53:11
*“He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied…”*

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Summary of Key Themes:

– Spiritual growth is progressive and must be actively pursued.
– True faith manifests in moral excellence, self-control, endurance, godliness, and love.
– The promises of God’s kingdom motivate diligent character building.
– Believers must avoid spiritual blindness and self-centeredness by regularly examining their progress.
– The Christian life involves enduring trials with patience and steadfastness.
– God’s grace and peace multiply through true knowledge of Him and Jesus Christ.
– The ultimate goal is an abundant entrance into the eternal kingdom through Jesus Christ.

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This discourse is a comprehensive call to Christians to diligently cultivate godly character based on the apostle Peter’s final exhortation, grounded in Scripture, theology, and practical examples, with a strong emphasis on perseverance and the hope of salvation.

Transcript

Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things you shall never fall, and let’s turn together to that in our Bibles because I think it’s really, it’s important to stay on non electronic media, and of course, if this is the theme discourse, what’s the first thing that occurs to you when you see this scripture? It’s like, oh boy, I’ve got to go back into the text and pick out everything that’s being talked about that you need that is called these things.

So this is going to be a discourse about these things, and what a promise. If you do this, you shall never fall.

Second Peter was the apostle’s final letter. He knew he was going to be crucified, and you know, it always asks the question, none of us know how long our time with the Lord will be. Peter did and what is the final legacy you want to leave with the brethren? What do you want them to think about?

Well, that’s being answered here in Second Peter, and so as we go through this, I’m going to actually start with his introduction. Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and of our Savior Jesus Christ, grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power has given unto us all. All things that pertain unto life and godliness. Now he’s going to start in on a list and some of us like lists, some of us don’t like lists.

But the apostle Peter says, okay, all things that pertain unto life and godliness. We’re going to look at that a little more. We definitely, we’re just reading through, we’re going to go through this in detail. Through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature. What a promise.

Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust, and besides this, okay, so in addition giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance, patience.

And to patience. Godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charity, and just to jump ahead, of course, when you are looking at some of the more modern translations, you may see for brotherly kindness, that’s the one word for love.

Philadelphia city nearby. That is the city of brotherly love. At one Time, and the other one charity, which is from this Greek word, agapeo, or the agape love, and we’re going to.

And that’s really the focus where he ends up. For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, ye shall never fail.

And then, Convention committee, we’ve got to add on verse 11, okay? For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

All right, so let’s start getting in and doing a little analysis on these verses. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of our Lord Jesus, and of Jesus our Lord, and of course, what does the apostle ask us? First thing, do we feel grace and peace being multiplied in our Life?

And reprint 2137 brings out the thought, as we grow in grace, we will grow in peace. Now what? This has always been important to the brethren, but in stressful times, and we are living in stressful times, we need to. We need to keep this injunction more than ever and make it part of our daily Christian living and our daily Christian example to the world, and this word for knowledge isn’t just, have you looked at what’s on the Internet and picked out something that you think is good, you know, in your studies and compare it?

You know, there’s some that go off in the direction of picking up stuff on the Internet, and it’s a little frustrating sometime if you’re a study leader and you, you know, these ideas are coming from out in, as we say in English, or at least in the United States and left field. But this is not just knowledge. This is because that’s the word. It’s the same word as our word.

Gnosis is Greek. Now know is English, same Indo, European root. But this is the knowledge that we participate in. Acknowledgement, the full knowledge. Sometimes it’s translated full discernment.

So this isn’t just knowing things. It’s knowing things and actually working with them. There’s a distinction. You can make a whole study on gnosis versus epignosis, what this intensifier EPI means, and we don’t want to turn this into a discussion on Greek texts, but we will Right here in this third verse.

Because Brother Russell, Brother Russell says in reprint 2136, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and Godliness. Brother Russell said, take a look at the Sinatic Codex because it has a different reading. So I popped it up on the screen for you there, and here’s the thing to notice. You can see where that.

You can see where that little oval is. Those of you in the back, I’m not sure if you can see it. Those in the front row should be able to.

What happened is the copyist put down the text and then. Whereas today we might draw a line through something, they were a little more polite during that period of time. They put dots over it to just say, don’t read this part of the text. Text.

But clearly it was in there. So let’s restore what was in the original text and just. That’ll be telling us that this has given us all things that pertain unto God and life and godliness, and of course, that word godliness, it’s like. Well, it pertains to God.

It pertains to godliness. It. Godliness is better translated as piety. Eusebia. We’ll get into that as well.

But you can safely put that back in. Now. I usually use as my reference for the Greek text Nestle Alon 28, that’s available online from Munich, Germany. Deutsches Bibel Gesellschaft puts it out there, but they’re still holding to the more traditional reading in the text. But I think Brother Russell is giving us some good instruction.

So pertain unto God in life, and we’re going to talk just a little bit further. By the way, the examination of this was looked at in Beauties that are Truth in November 2010, and a lot to say on the subject because this is a very important colloquial phrase. Mistranslated in John 1:1. The Wilson dialogue wasn’t advanced, but he sticks with St.

Jerome in the Latin Vulgate on mistranslating it, and I think you might find that of a benefit to check out. So here’s the correct reading. According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto God and life and piety.

Moffitt and Marshall translate the word piety there through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory. Well, that would be real nice to stop there. We’ve been called to glory virtue, and this word virtue, otatasis, is one that actually is talking about character. So it’s not just that you’re called to glory.

It’s not just that you believe that’s the start, that is not the end, and it’s not that you just get glory. There’s also character involved and that’s not always clear to some in the Christian community.

I’m going to pick up a reference along this line that I thought was helpful. It’s in an early reprint. The man who assays the building of a house for himself and his goods has not only to select his material, and what’s the material we’re selecting? Is it wood, hay, and stubble?

Is it stuff we’re pulling off the Internet? Is it stuff we’re listening to on from some of those talking heads on the on the news channels? Well, that’s okay if it’s that. That’ll get burned up. Okay.

You know, you won’t be taking that into the kingdom. That’ll go. Our materials are of the rock. Christ Jesus, the apostles. We’re building on solid rock with the best materials.

So anyway, getting back to the reprint article has not only to select his material, but to rear it after a definite plan. Your life is not haphazard. It might seem confused and haphazard, but the Lord is tailoring each one of our individual lives. It’s not always easy and on correct architectural principles. Else if his house does not tumble about his ears, it may perhaps be a laughingstock to all gazers.

How much more important is building up the house of God? And though the master builder may lay the foundation ever so well, there is still greater care and much wisdom needed in the superstructure. In the Scriptures, there are frequent references to the style of building necessary as to the quality, and of course we know the First Corinthians citation the gold, silver, and costly stones contrasting favorably with wood, hay, and stubble, which the fire of trial is sure to destroy as to kind. Peter gives it without a figure in his Second Epistle, chapter one.

In other words, this is a direct reference to what we’re talking about this afternoon, brethren, where faith, faith grows into virtue, virtue into, well, permit me to say, full knowledge, knowledge into temperance, followed by patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love. This is the edifying or upbuilding, which results in noble, good and holy character, and so then the apostle reminds us, whereby unto us are given exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that’s in the world through lust, and in one of the newspaper sermons, a comment on this text that was helpful is if our fellow men are willing to endure hardship for the trivial rewards that are theirs. What should we be willing to endure who have believed?

And besides this, giving all diligence, and here I like this word, the Greek word there, spode on Weymouth says, this is an earnestness, diligence, earnestness in what you do, in all your activities, with all earnestness. Add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and just look at this word virtue.

This is goodness. This is moral excellence. This is valor of character. Weymouth in his translation says, a noble character.

And we think of. I thought, you know, we’re starting on the basis of faith and looking at the father of faith, Abraham. We’re told that without faith it’s impossible to please God, and we, we aren’t going to review Abraham’s life because all of us know the account so well, but the great faith that he showed that God reward him not only with the heavenly promise of the seed being like the stars of heaven, but also the earthly promise that his seed would be as the sand of the seashores, and Paul says, wherefore it is of faith that it might be by grace.

Faith is a good start, but we truly need the unmerited favor of God. We need the grace in our lives. The promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the law, our Jewish brethren, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

And as the Lord closed out his ministry, you know, we asked the question at the beginning, and forgive me for saying we that is wrong, wrong, wrong. If I’m saying we, it’s collective together here. Some brethren think you should use we that I’m standing with the Quakers who said, no, no, no, no, no, that’s arrogant. It’s, you know, it’s I or you or I or thou.

I don’t use thou, but it’s. I don’t mean to say we, even though that gets used. Our Lord during the last week of his ministry, knew how short his time was, and we can see from what was recorded in the Gospels what he wanted to share as his ministry was closing out, and I know all of us are looking at our Lord’s words during this pre memorial season and focusing on how we can take those lessons into our hearts so that we can have more oneness with each other, more oneness with the Lord, more earnestness and zeal in what we do in our consecration.

So during our Lord’s last week, he warned that for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time. That’s a lot of tribulation. No, nor ever shall be, and except those days should be shortened, there should be no flesh saved. But for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

Matthew 24:21 we’re told as we are, I believe, in these troublous times, and we’ve been in these troublous times. But they are like the spasms they had come upon a mother and childbirth. They get more intense until the newborn baby comes and the joy and I just had the joy of being a grandfather for the first time. Three month old grandson.

So we’re told in reprint 5874. Be not overly anxious. An anxiety that would rob the soul of rest and peace and would indicate a lack of faith. You know, we have to have faith that can trust him, come what may, and then build upon it with our souls at rest in God at peace as he gives peace. Earnest to follow God’s command.

That’s something that requires faith and building a noble character. We are ready for the next step of knowledge.

Isaiah 53 speaks about the suffering servant and said, he shall see the travail of his soul. So it doesn’t mean you go through life without travail. If our Lord had travail, we are going to have travail. But he will be satisfied by his knowledge. Shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities.

And to knowledge, temperance.

To temperance, patience, and to patience. Godliness. But let’s dig in on that word, temperance.

Okay, I got to get the accent right here.

This is really a word that it means self control, the virtue of one who masters his desires and passions, especially his sensual appetites, and you know, we just talked about nobility of character. So how does this relate back to the nobility of character that we’re supposed to have? And I think perhaps an example from the Bible will make it clear, at least in my mind. I’m picking out Nathan reproving David.

David, without question, had nobility of character. He had a character God loved and had high commendation for. He hadn’t developed. He hadn’t developed self control. Temperance over sensual desires.

And of course that created grief that plagued David for the rest of his days. So maybe by looking at that example, we can see what Peter means to talk first about Arete, you know, the nobility of character and then the self control, the encratia, the temperance or self control, two different things.

And to temperance, patience. Now, this isn’t the kind of Patience, you know, when you’re waiting for a friend who is 45 minutes late, and I’m going to give an example out of Scripture that I think helps in terms of illustrating this. This word hupomne is a characteristic of a man who is unswerved from deliberate purpose is loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest trials and sufferings. That’s from the Thayer lexicon.

So to illustrate this, I want to go back, jump back into not terribly distant church history, but to the third woe in Revelation, and the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels. Okay, we can talk about that another time, and in the presence of the Lamb and the smoke of their torment, or this questioning, this investigation ascends up forever and ever.

And they shall have no rest. Remember, we’re supposed to have rest. They shall have no rest, day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints.

There’s the definition. This is the same word. The here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. So that is the context in which you have to look at patience in the Scriptures, brethren, that’s Revelation 14, 9, 12.

That is, is patience.

It’s not easy.

And to patience, godliness.

Parsing out this word. There’s two Greek words there. You always means good. Sebia is linked to our name Sebastian in Latin, Augustus. It’s something that’s venerable.

But linking the two together. Godliness has been used by the King James translators. Piety, I think, is used by more of the modern translators like Moffitt and Marshall. But to understand Eusebia, let’s take a look at 1 Timothy 6:3:6. If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words.

Now here’s wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine that is according to Eusebia, according to godliness. Here are the characteristics that come. He is proud, he knows nothing. That’s not good.

Neither of those is good. Doting about questions and stripes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of Truth, and the one that just really strikes me at the end, supposing that gain is godliness. Apparently the Apostle Paul was not an enthusiast for the prosperity gospel. I just.

I just thought I would point, point that little detail out there. Okay? This is. This is. If you go through that laundry list, that is what not being godly or pious results in.

Okay? And if you started to really look at that, that’s somebody that lives in his head a lot, doesn’t really have empathy, doesn’t have a connection with others, except through debate and strife and nonsense like that, which Paul had enough to deal with in his lifetime, and I love this painting by Rembrandt that just because I have to tell you, I feel like this sometimes. You know, I’ve got a. See, nobody’s here from the Chicago class, so I get elected as the vice chairman, but I’ve never been elected chairman because they know I would just be doing this during the business meeting.

Okay, But I can truly sympathize from sitch. Withdraw yourself. But Eusebia with contentment. Godliness with contentment is great gain. First Timothy six, three, six.

What then? Well, to our godliness, we have to add Philadelphia. Brotherly kindness.

This is sometimes called the duty love.

This is not only where you love somebody because it’s easy to love people, but you actually like them. This is that kind of love, and to the brotherly kindness, love agape, or the charity, that’s the end. As Paul says in First Corinthians 13, that’s the thing that endures. But do we just jump from faith and our joy of embracing our Lord as our Savior and jump right into love?

We can’t. I mean, that’s really not the proper kind of love, and here in Second Peter, the whole series of steps we need to build on for that foundation is laid out for us.

For if these things be in you, is it just that you’re going to be saved? Well, the Scriptures do say, if the righteous shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinners appear? But that’s not how Peter ends this up. If these things be in you and abound, they shall make you that you shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord wants to see that fruitage.

We know that if the fruitage is going to be improved by some pruning experiences, the Lord is going to give those pruning experiences so that even more fruit can be born. But it’s got to be built on this whole series of Steps.

And what about those who think they’ve got it but need to understand about building the steps, building those foundation stones? He that lacks these things is blind and can’t see afar off, and it’s forgotten that he was purged from his old sins, and when it’s the idea of not seeing, seeing afar off, and you know, when I look at the interpretation of scripture and prophecy, I often believe that we are better at math than poetry.

You know, brethren come up with all sorts of dates. Some of them are more interesting than others, some of them forget it, but they come up with different dates and like to look at that. But it’s dealing with the poetic image, the language of the prophets, the language that comes across in the New Testament that we need to work on, and what does it mean if you can’t see afar off? Well, pretty much means that you’re self focused, you’re blind, you’re self focused.

I think the expression used to be, you know, looking at their belly button.

We’re supposed to, especially at this season, look at our spiritual progress. Now this isn’t being done with the, you know, intent that we’re going to be like those in the Middle Ages who took out the whip and you know, flayed themselves to try to purge themselves of the sin and the sinful desires. That’s not what the scriptures ever taught. But we are supposed to take a look at the spiritual purgings and progress that we’ve made along the way, especially in these pre memorial seasons. I think wherefore the rather brethren, in other words, don’t be blind, don’t be short sighted, don’t forget about looking at your spiritual progress.

Wherefore the rather brethren, be eager to make your calling and election sure. For if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. There’s not a lot of scriptures that say if you do these things, you shall never fall. I don’t think any of us want to fall. We are called by the Lord because he sees as weird or wrong or whatever that we are.

He sees that we have a purpose in being part of that mediator, that great Mediator.

We should be eager and holding on to that promise that we shall never fall.

For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you just squeaking through the door. That’s not what Peter’s saying here. He says abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Well dear ones, I trust that the words we’ve shared together have been in harmony with what we’ve learned in the present. Truth, what we rejoice in together, and I thank the Convention Committee for giving me the privilege of being able to share that with you, and may the Lord add His blessings and bless you, and I just want to say I try to think of the brethren throughout the world on the evening of the memorial.

And the way in which we have been called from darkness into this marvelous light. This appreciation of all those precious promises. Looking for an abundant entrance. God bless you.

Thank you, Brother Richard. We’re going to close with 65A. It SA.

Our dear loving Heavenly Father. Thank you. Thank you, dear Lord, for our Lord and Savior Jesus. Thank you for his sacrifice. Thank you for calling us and giving us our dear brethren.

How we need each other, Dear Lord. Help us to be faithful in our walk. Help those that are grieving at this time. Help those that are in beds of sickness, some close to the end of their walk. On this side, we pray for our brethren throughout the world.

We pray thy kingdom come, Thy will be done. May we be faithful, dear Lord. May we have an abundant entrance. We pray this all, asking it in the name and merit of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

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