Moses and Samuel - Glenn Conjurske

Moses and Samuel

A Sermon Preached on April 3, 1988, recorded, transcribed, & revised.

[Note: the preacher was often in tears while preaching this sermon, and as the transcriber has noted the preacher’s weeping in brackets, I have left those notations intact in revising the sermon for the press. —-editor.]

Jeremiah, chapter 15, and the first verse, says, “Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.”

Our holy Father, we do pray that this morning we might feel something of the reality of your holiness. Oh we pray, God, that you will open to us the solemn meaning of this word of holy Scripture. Anoint my poor lips and tongue that I may speak your message as it ought to be spoken. Anoint my heart, Father. Give me liberty. Give me unction. May I speak your message out of a burning heart, and may your people receive it into burning hearts. Fill us all with your Holy Spirit, Father, as we look into your holy Scriptures. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

In the fifteenth chapter of Jeremiah, verse 1, God makes a solemn declaration concerning his people whom he had chosen to bear his name—-to receive his oracles—-to whom he had sent all of his prophets—-in the midst of whom he dwelled—-his own people whom he had chosen to be his peculiar treasure out of all the nations of the earth. He says, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind [or, my soul, as the Hebrew has it] could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.” Now, if you turn back a little bit in this book of Jeremiah, in the end of the thirteenth chapter, the twenty-seventh verse, he says to Jerusalem, “I have seen thine adulteries and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! Wilt thou not be made clean? When shall it once be?” God tells Jeremiah in the eleventh verse of the fourteenth chapter, “Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.” Obviously things are in a pretty bad state when God is telling Jeremiah, “Don’t even pray for them.” Verse 12 of the fourteenth chapter: “When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.” Well, Jeremiah didn’t obey God in this matter. God told him, “Don’t pray for this people.” Jeremiah, as Moses had done before him, prayed anyway. Verse 19 of the fourteenth chapter. He says,

“Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O Lord our God? Therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.” Thus Jeremiah prays, and God answers him and says, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my soul could not be toward this people. Don’t pray for them.”

But why Moses and Samuel? They lived centuries apart, but God here joins them together. And if you will look at the ninety-ninth psalm, you will see that God joins them together there also, in the sixth verse. He says, “Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the Lord, and he answered them.” Now, we’re going to look at Moses and Samuel a little bit this morning and see some instances in which this was true. But it’s a strange thing. God here singles out Moses and Samuel—-Moses and Aaron and Samuel—-and says they were his priests. They called upon his name. He answered them. But something has changed. The state of the people is different now. Once upon a time, Moses cried to God to spare the people when he was determined to consume them, and he listened to Moses. He answered him. Once upon a time, Samuel called upon God to deliver this people, and he listened to Samuel, and he delivered them. But when you come to the book of Jeremiah something has changed, and God says, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me for this people, my mind could not be toward them. Cast them away out of my sight.” Something has changed. The thing that has changed is the state of the people. Their state may have been exceeding bad before, but now it’s desperate.

Now, we are going to look at this a little bit—-look at who Moses and who Samuel were—-and I want you to understand, God didn’t say, There is no possible way that my mind could be toward this people. What he did say is, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, my mind could not be. Now, why do you suppose he singled out Moses and Samuel? Well, because of all of the men of God—-all of the prophets of God—-all of the intercessors for the people that had ever lived in the Old Testament, Moses and Samuel were two of the greatest, maybe the greatest. I’m not sure of that—-perhaps Abraham was greater—-but certainly Moses and Samuel were two of the greatest. And God says, If they stood before me, I wouldn’t listen to them. In another place he says, “If Noah and Daniel and Job were in this city, they would deliver but their own souls by their righteousness. They would deliver neither son nor daughter, but only their own souls.” You know, when God delivered Lot out of Sodom, he let Lot take with him his daughters—-would have let him take sons and sons-in-law, whoever would have gone with him. When God saved Noah from the flood, he let Noah take his whole family into the ark. But there comes a time when things have changed, and the wickedness is so great that God says, “If Noah and Daniel and Job were in this city, they would save only their own souls by their righteousness. I wouldn’t even spare a son or a daughter.” [Preacher weeps.] Now I believe that things have come about to that place in the society that we live in. I don’t believe that there’s ever been a society on earth so wicked as western civilization is today, and what I’m saying in this is: it may take more than a Moses and a Samuel to do the work of God today.

There was a time when Moses and Samuel could stand before God, and plead for the people, and God heard them. God repented of what he said he was going to do to the people, and he didn’t do it. He spared them in answer to the prayer of Moses or the prayer of Samuel. But he says, “Times have changed now.” He says, “Even if Moses and Samuel both were standing before me together, pleading for this people as they did in the days of old, I would not spare this people. Time was when Moses could stand before me alone, and I listened to him. I spared the people. Time was when Samuel could stand before me alone, and I listened, and I answered.” But he says, “If they both stood before me now, I would not listen. Cast this people out of my sight.” [More weeping.]

Now I want you to understand first of all who Moses and Samuel were. You can start with Numbers, chapter 12. Of all of the prophets, or priests, or intercessors, of the Old Testament, Moses was perhaps the greatest. Moses was the kind of a man who was in God’s inside circle. He was a member of the privy council. He was on the inside track. When Moses spoke, God listened. Moses could go to God and speak for all the people, and God would listen to Moses. Moses was God’s friend, and God explicitly establishes that fact very clearly here in the twelfth chapter of the book of Numbers. I’m going to read from verse 1: “And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married, for he had married an Ethiopian woman. And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? Hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it. Now the man Moses was very meek, above all of the men which were upon the face of the earth. And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses and unto Aaron and unto Miriam.” By the way, let me just insert here, I believe because of Moses’ meekness, he wasn’t going to vindicate himself when they spoke against him. He would have just borne it and taken it on the chin. But God says, I’m going to speak for him. Middle of verse 4, “Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation, and they three came out, and the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forth, and he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house: with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches, and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold. Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed.”

Now God says, If I have a hundred prophets, I’ll speak to those prophets in a vision. I’ll speak to those prophets in a trance, in a dream in the night. I’ll speak in dark speeches and enigmas and similitudes. Not Moses. Moses is my friend. I’m going to speak to Moses face to face. Moses is going to see my form, and not just a vision in the night. He’s going to see my form and hear my words mouth to mouth. Now when you come over to the book of Jeremiah, the fifteenth chapter, you understand what a state of things the people are in when God says, “If Moses stands before me, I won’t listen.” This Moses, of whom God says—-he’s not like other prophets. I won’t speak to him in visions and dreams. I’ll speak to him mouth to mouth.

Now you can also turn back to the book of Exodus, the thirty-second chapter, where God says a similar thing about Moses. In verse 9, “The Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and behold it is a stiff-necked people. Now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them, and I will make of thee a great nation. And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against this people which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever. And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.”

Exodus chapter 33 also, and this is in verse 11: “The Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend.” This is that Moses, and as we just read in the thirty-second chapter of Exodus, verses 9-14, Moses prayed for the people, and God spared them. Now you have to understand what the situation was when Moses prayed. Israel had been blessed as no other nation had ever been blessed in history, and no other people has ever been blessed since. They saw the visible manifestation of God’s power and goodness day after day in the wilderness. They saw it in Egypt when God executed all of his judgements—-brought all of his plagues upon the people of Egypt, and spared the Israelites, and delivered them out of bondage, and brought them out through the Red Sea, divided the waters one way and the other way so that they could walk through on dry ground, and the hosts of Pharaoh came and attempted to do the same thing, and were drowned in the Red Sea, and Israel saw them dead on the sea shore the next morning. And God rained manna from heaven upon them day after day, so that they could eat. God gave them water from the rock, so that they could drink. And God called Moses up into the burning mount and spoke. The voice of God they heard, saying, “I am the Lord thy God that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Thou shalt have no other gods before my face. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Thou shalt not bow down unto them nor worship them.” And when all of this had passed, and Moses went up into the mount for forty days to receive the pattern of the tabernacle, and to receive the tables of stone written with the finger of God, the people made a golden calf, and worshipped it. Understand, if ever there was a sin on earth that was inexcusable, it was that one. No other people on earth ever heard the voice of God speaking as thunder from heaven, saying, “I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt have no other gods before my face. Thou shalt make unto thee no graven image”—-but they heard it—-and just a few days later made a golden calf and bowed down to it and worshipped it. And so God comes down to Moses in the tenth verse of Exodus chapter 32, and he says the same thing that he said to Jeremiah: he says, “Don’t pray for these people.” He says, “Let me alone. Let my wrath wax hot against them. There’s absolutely no excuse.” He says, “Moses, don’t pray for these people—-just let me alone—-let me do this—-I’ll consume them in a moment. I’ll make of you a great nation.” Moses didn’t listen to God. It’s a strange thing. God gave Moses plain instructions here. He said, “Leave me alone: let me consume them.” Moses did not listen to God, but God listened to Moses. Moses didn’t pay any attention to God’s word, when he said “Let me alone,” but God paid attention to Moses’ word, and he spared the people. It tells you in the fourteenth verse, “The Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.”

Now as I said, if ever sin was inexcusable, evidently that one was, when they made that golden calf after hearing the voice of God from heaven commanding them to make unto them no graven image. They had disregarded and disobeyed the commandment of the Lord almost as soon as they heard it. But at that point Moses could still plead for the people, and God listened to Moses, and God spared the people. But things had changed by the time you come to the fifteenth chapter of the book of Jeremiah, and God says, “It won’t do any good now if Moses pleads. [Weeping.] If Moses were standing before me pleading for this people, I wouldn’t listen. Once upon a time I did. Once upon a time I said, Moses, don’t pray for the people: just leave me alone—-let me consume them. Moses disregarded my word, and he prayed for the people, and I spared them. But it won’t do any good now. If Moses were standing here pleading for this people, I wouldn’t listen to him. My mind couldn’t be toward them if Moses were pleading for them. Cast them away out of my sight.”

And not only if Moses were pleading alone, but he says, If Samuel were there, too. Now let’s look at Samuel. I Samuel, chapter 3, verse 19, says, “And Samuel grew and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.” Now very plainly what that’s saying is this: when Samuel opened his mouth and spoke, whatever Samuel said, God ratified it in heaven. Whatever Samuel said on earth, God performed it in heaven. God didn’t let any of Samuel’s words fall to the ground. Whatever Samuel spoke, God did. Obviously, Samuel was a member of the privy council, too. He was on the inside track with God. In plain English, when Samuel spoke, God listened. Every word that he said. God did not allow any of Samuel’s words to fall to the ground. So the Scripture says.

Now go over to the seventh chapter of I Samuel. Israel is in bondage to the Philistines. In verse 8, “The children of Israel said to Samuel, cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines. And Samuel took a sucking lamb and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord, and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him. And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel, but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them, and they were smitten before Israel. And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them until they came under Bethcar.” Now here’s a plain case. You have a man who can pray and get an answer. He’s a friend of God. When he speaks, God listens. When he speaks, God will not let his words fall to the ground. God ratifies it. God performs it, whatever Samuel says. Israel is in bondage to the Philistines for their sin. Samuel cries to the Lord for Israel. The army of the Philistines gathers together, and God thunders upon them from heaven, and smites them. But you come to the fifteenth chapter of Jeremiah, and things have changed. [Tears.] God says to Jeremiah, “Don’t pray for this people.” Jeremiah prays anyway. God answers Jeremiah, and he says, “Jeremiah, if Moses and Samuel were standing here before me pleading for this people, my mind could not be towards them. Don’t bother to pray. Cast them out of my sight.”

Now in Ezekiel 22:30 God says, “I sought for a man.” I sought for a man that could stand in the gap before me for the land—-that could make up the hedge—-that could plead for the land, that I might not pour out my judgements upon them. I didn’t find a man. Therefore I’ve poured out mine indignation upon them. Now I believe that God is always looking for a man. I believe that God never delights to pour out judgement. The problem is, sometimes God doesn’t find a man. Some cases are too desperate for the man that he can find. The case was desperate in the fifteenth chapter of Jeremiah. Jeremiah’s prayers were of no avail. God says, “Not only that, Jeremiah—-not only am I not going to listen to you, but if I had Moses and Samuel standing here before me, I wouldn’t listen to them. Moses, who was my friend, to whom I spoke mouth to mouth and face to face, not like other prophets that I spoke to in dreams and visions. Moses, for whom I spared the people just because he asked me to. Moses—-when I said, `Don’t pray for the people,’ and Moses said, `I’ll pray anyway,’ and God said, `Okay, then I’ll spare them.’ [Weeping.] And Samuel, none of whose words I would suffer to fall to the ground—-if these two were standing here pleading for these people, I would not listen to them.” [Tears.]

God doesn’t say the case is impossible. What he is saying is: it will take a greater man than Moses or a greater man than Samuel to move me at this point. The case is desperate.

Now let’s bring this to where we are. We want to see revival. I believe God would like to bestow it, but God, as always, is looking for a man—-for somebody that can stand in the gap before him and intercede—-maybe for somebody that can preach with the power that’s needed to persuade the souls of men to turn. But the case isn’t like it used to be, and this is the thing that I want you to understand. The society in which we live today is so absolutely and utterly wicked, it is beyond anything that has ever been in the past, and we have certain things today that bind men in chains—-chains of sin which they have made for themselves, may be, but still they’re bound by them. I’ve often thought of what the great curses of modern society are. I think I’d put the radio first on the list, and next to that the television set. The television set may be in one way a greater curse than the radio, but the television doesn’t go everywhere the radio goes. People never get away from the radio. And the theaters, and now more recently the VCR’s, and pornography, and all of those forms of sinful pleasure which the people of our society are absolutely addicted to—-none of those things existed a hundred years ago, and neither did snowmobiles, nor speedboats, nor computer games, nor a hundred other kinds of pleasure and material possessions which are available to everybody today. We’ve got a battle to fight that D. L. Moody never dreamed about. We’ve got a battle to fight that was wholly foreign to the wildest imaginations of John Wesley or George Whitefield. They didn’t have the things to contend with that we have to contend with. And it may just be that God is saying, “You want revival? You want to see this people turn to God? Maybe so, maybe I’ll do it. But I’m going to need a greater man than John Wesley or George Whitefield. I’m going to need a greater man than Spurgeon or Moody.” I’m not imagining this, now. I’m taking this by analogy from what we’ve seen in the Old Testament. There was a time when Moses could stand before God, and disregard God’s words, and say, “I know, God, you told me to leave you alone. You told me not to pray, but I’m going to pray anyway,” and God regarded him, and God listened, and God spared the people. And there was a day when Samuel could stand before God and plead for the people, and God regarded his prayer and answered him. But there came a time, after they had sinned with a high hand against all the light of heaven for generations—-despised God’s prophets, and stoned and persecuted them, and despised his word and his altar and his temple, and sinned with a high hand against all the light that God had shed so abundantly upon them—-then God said, “It wouldn’t do any good for Moses to plead now. It wouldn’t do any good for Samuel to plead now. And it wouldn’t do any good for both of them to stand here together before me and plead. If they did, my mind could not be toward this people. Don’t pray for them. Cast them out of my sight.”

Now I’ll tell you one thing: I am absolutely convinced that we can do nothing to bring revival without the outpouring of the Holy Spirit of God. We talk to men, talk to women, preach to them, preach the most solemn, awakening truths to them, put our finger upon their guilt, and it doesn’t make any impression on them. Why not? [Weeping.] Because the Spirit of God isn’t poured out. Now when the Spirit of God is poured out and begins to convict men of sin, just a little word from you or me would convict them. Or maybe not even a word. In the great awakenings and revivals of the past, when the Spirit of God was poured out, and brought conviction to men—-not in a town or a state, but over whole continents—-a mother would come into a prayer meeting in New York City, and pass up a little slip of paper that said, “Pray for my son. He’s a rebel against God, and he’s out at sea in a sailing vessel”—-and whoever was in charge of the meeting would read the request for prayer, and people would pray for that son, and that very day he would be smitten down on the deck of that ship with conviction of sin. [Tears.] No human means, no visible means—-the Spirit of God poured out. If we don’t have that, we can’t do anything, and it just may be that God is in heaven saying, “You aren’t going to get it, either, unless you prove to be a greater man than Whitefield and Wesley were—-unless your church is purer than their churches were, unless you people are more zealous and more devoted, more holy, than those people were—-I’m not going to give you the power of my Spirit. You can plead for these wicked people in this society all you please, and I’m not going to listen to you, unless you are a greater man than I’ve seen yet.”

Now you may say, That sounds pretty discouraging. But let me tell you this: When I look back at the movements that God has blessed in the past, when I look at the men that he has used in the past, I’m not completely discouraged. I see some zeal and some devotedness that I think it might be pretty hard for us to equal, but I see a lot of weaknesses, too. When I look back for example, at the early Methodist church, the early Methodist societies, which God certainly used to bring revival all over the English-speaking world, and then some, I say, we can—-we can equal what they had. I’m not saying we do, but I’m saying we can. They weren’t perfect. They had a lot of weaknesses, doctrinal weaknesses, weaknesses in practice, things that they allowed in their midst which we don’t need to allow in our midst. I say I believe we can be beyond what they were for the Lord’s sake. I don’t think we are. I don’t think we’re up to what they were in many things. But I think this: If we are going to be what they were, and if we’re going to surpass what they were (and it may be that we will have to surpass what they were before God will listen to us and give us his power)

—-if we are going to be and do beyond what they were and did, we’re going to have to get serious about it. We’re going to have to get totally committed to the cause of Christ, and as I’ve told you many times before, the things that stand in the way are just lukewarmness and self-indulgence. We’re going to have to quit saying, “Oh, do I have to give up this?” and say instead, “If this is what it takes, I’ll gladly give up this and ten times more!” And we’re going to have to quit finding ways to adhere to the letter of scripture and still do our own thing. We’re going to have to say instead, “I’m going to take the letter of this scripture, and I’m going to take the spirit of it, and I’m going to do everything I can think of doing to conform to it. I’m not going to say, `What can I hold on to for my sake?’ but, `What can I give up for the Lord’s sake and the sake of perishing souls?”’ I’m not talking about being a fool or an ascetic, and giving up things for the sake of giving them up. I am talking about conforming to the Scriptures, and one of the first principles, you know, of scriptural discipleship is, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself.” That means quit doing what I want to do because I want to do it.

Deny myself. Take up my cross—-that means die to myself, not just once for all in principle, but take up your cross daily and follow Christ. All the little things, of which I may think, Well, they’re just little things, and they don’t make any difference—-it just may happen that once upon a time God may have said, “Well, if I can find a man that’ll be faithful to me in the weightier matters of the law—-in love and mercy and righteousness—-a man who is devoted to my cause, a man who is zealous, I’ll listen to him, I’ll pour out my Spirit upon him: but the case is too desperate now—-I want somebody that’s faithful in every jot and tittle. I’ve got to have a bigger man than Moses and Samuel if I’m going to spare this people. I’ve got to have a greater man than both of them put together. Got to have somebody greater than Moody and Wesley and Finney and Spurgeon.”

You say, Well, I can’t be. I might just as well give up. Now listen, it is not a question of giftedness. God is not looking for you to have Moody’s or Wesley’s spiritual gifts. He’s looking for somebody that can stand in the gap before him for the land to intercede. You don’t need a spiritual gift to intercede. You’ve got to be a spiritual person. You’ve got to have the inside track with God. If I may speak this way—-you’ve got to be God’s pet. You’ve got to be the man of whom God says, “When this man speaks, I’ll listen. When this man speaks, I’ll put my hands under. I won’t let his words fall to the ground. I’ll perform them; I’ll confirm them; I’ll ratify them.” Why, God? “Well, because this man bends over backwards to be faithful to me in eveything.” You know that’s what God said about Moses. I want you to turn back to the twelfth chapter of the book of Numbers (which we read already), and I’ll begin with verse 6: “Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches, and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold.” What was Moses’ qualification? Not that he was a great man—-not that he was eloquent in speech—-not that he had great gifts and could do miracles. Moses had gifts and greatness that few men will ever have, but his first qualification was, “He is faithful in all my house.” Anybody can be faithful. You don’t have to be great and gifted to be faithful. You have to deny yourself. You have to deny your own interests, as you know Moses did. When he could have been reigning in the palace with the king, and enjoying all the pleasures of sin, and holding in his hands all the treasures of Egypt, he turned his back on it all, and chose in its place to suffer affliction with the people of God, and to bear the reproach of Christ. God is looking for somebody that’s faithful.

We need to be serious about being faithful in everything, because a strange thing about faithfulness is this: God says, “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much. And he that is unfaithful in that which is least is unfaithful also in much.” We tend to divide things between essentials and non-essentials. We tend to say, Well, this is an important matter, this is one of the weightier matters of the law, so I’ll do this, but this little thing over here is some outward little thing. It doesn’t make any difference. You don’t know that it doesn’t make any difference. It may be that it might not have made any difference a hundred years ago, but you’ve got a harder battle to fight than they ever had a hundred years ago, and maybe it will be the thing that will make the difference today.

God is looking for a man, and I believe God is looking for a church. And I want to be that man, and I want this congregation to be that church.

I believe we can be by the grace of God.

Let’s pray. Father, we thank you for your holy Scriptures, and oh God, we pray that you will burn this message into our souls and make it a part of us. Don’t let us escape from it. Don’t let us rationalize it away. And oh God, give us grace to take up our cross and die daily, to deny ourselves, and to serve you faithfully in all things at all times. Amen.

Glenn Conjurske