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This morning we continue our series in the book of Hebrews, and we have just read Hebrews chapter 10 verses 26 to 31. Now as you read those words, I'm sure you know this is a very solemn, serious message and I know this is New Year's eve but I pray that even with a somber solemn message, it would be a tremendous blessing to your heart.

Now, does anyone here know why Holland Village is called Holland Village? I've always thought that Holland Village is Holland Village because there are a lot of Dutch people who used to stay there, like a Dutch colony. I thought so, because it's somewhat like Little India or Chinatown. But recently, I was with my kids at Holland Park, its just a small little place. They were scooting and cycling and we passed by this signboard — you can see my son so excited, his neck so long, and a we saw this signboard and forgive me for my terrible photography skills. But it says, did you know that, contrary to its name, Holland Village actually has very little to do with the Dutch. In fact, the area was named after Hugh Holland, an architect involved in the design of this early Tanglin district. So Holland Village is called Holland Village not because there are a lot of Dutch people there, but because the architect is called Hugh Holland and I thought to myself, I have had the wrong assumption my whole life. I really thought that many Dutch people stay there.

I think assumptions are dangerous, sometimes, especially when it is in the spiritual realm. And we all have certain assumptions about God. For example, we think that God is someone who is very loving and very kind, so much so that He can't and He won't send anyone to hell. That's a very common assumption by the world today. The world's idea of God is maybe more like Santa Claus a benevolent kind and the toddling indulgent father. But when you square it up with the Bible, you realize that our assumptions can be dangerously off the mark. Because the Bible tells us that God is not just a God of love that's true, He is a God of amazing love. At the very same time, the Bible also tells us God is a God of wrath. You see, when Moses asked God, can you tell me what Your Name is, can You show me who You really are. God said to Moses, the Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. So, God describes Himself in these words and we say yeah, this is the kind of God we want, this is a kind of God we worship, but hang on, this is the nice part, but there is also a part that we sort of are not so comfortable with, when He goes on to say but Who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation.

This is where we recoil a bit, ahh, God is a God of wrath and judgement, that maybe not be something that you are prepared for because your assumption is that God cannot be like this. But over and over again, the Scriptures present to us the reality of who God is.  Again in Romans 9, we love this phrase, vessels of mercy that out of this world, God has chosen some to be people in whom and through whom He will manifest His grace, His mercy, His love. So there are people like Jacob and people in Israel that God has saved and said this is to be a demonstration of My kindness, mercy. Now we can all accept this, but at the very same verse, the Scriptures also tell us that God also shows his wrath on vessels that are prepared for destruction. So, God shows His mercy and God is also desiring to show His wrath. That's who God is, that's His attribute, that's who He reveals Himself to be. We may not be so keen for that, but hey this is not a God you invent, this is a God who made you and now He reveals Himself to you as such. He is a God of love and God of wrath. In fact, the wrath of God is revealed every day. The Greek construction here is the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven. In other words, it is a daily regular manifestation of the character of God, even in catastrophes, disasters, that's the wrath of God, we see. So again we love verses like John 3:36, whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Great kindness, great mercy, great love. But look at this, whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. So, what I'm trying to show you is that the Scriptures are very clear in revealing who the Author of the Scripture is like. He our God is a God of love, but also a God of wrath.

However, we don't like to think about it so much. In fact, if you think about it. There are very few songs we sing about the wrath of God. Can you think of one, one? if I ask you, can you think of songs about the love of God, probably all hands shoot up, wah can remember the song, the song is called the love of God and there is indeed a song like that and many other hymns than songs but when it comes to the wrath of God, anyone here can think of one. Well, there is a song and we, we have actually sung this many times, it's not the whole song on the wrath of God, but there is a stanza in particular, a phrase in this song “In Christ Alone". It goes "on that cross as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied. For every sin on Him was laid and here in the death of Christ, I live.” So, the wrath of God was satisfied. This song is written by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend and this song is a popular song today. So, in the United States, the Presbyterian Church heard this song and they wanted to include this song into their hymnal selection, but before they did that, they brought to Keith and Stuart and asked them if they could change the lyrics of the song. In particular they wanted to change "till on that cross as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied" to "till on that cross as Jesus died, the love of God was magnified". Copyright, haha and yes, it's a copyright issue and that's why they wrote to the authors to say, "please could you consider changing the lyrics?”. And Mary Louis Bringle the chairperson of such a committee, she said that the view that the cross is primarily about God's need to assuage God's anger and that is to sooth, to placate God's anger, would have a negative effect on the hymnal's ability to form the faith of coming generations. In other words, according to the committee, they feel that to teach and to sing about God's wrath would be detrimental to the growth and the teaching of faith amongst the younger people, so can we change it? Stuart Townend, Keith Getty, they wrote back and said no, we won't allow the change of lyrics and so this song is not in their selection today. In response, they said, we wanted to explore the scope of the gospel message in one song. As people in the pew sing "in Christ alone", we pray they understand the many attributes of God, His sovereign power, His grace, His love, His justice and wrath, all are intertwined and we shouldn't turn away from exploring His wrath, because through understanding God's righteous anger towards sin, we understand His desire for justice and peace. When you have no regard for justice and peace, you have no wrath in the aspect, so he says we need this. In fact, while we may think it to be severe, we desperately need God's wrath —  this holy, and just response to evil. It's not a crazy anger or outburst. It's a holy and just response to evil and it's only when you've such wrath that we can hope in the restoration of a broken world in which we live.

So, It's interesting don't you think that church today could be divided with regards to the view of God. Probably the most famous sermon preached, post-apostolic age would be the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God — Jonathan Edwards, some 300 years ago. This title is well known and this title is really taken from the text that we are going to read today, or we are going to study today, Hebrews 10:31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God. Jonathan Edwards preached this during the time of the great awakening, this is in the United States, some 300 years ago. And this sermon is really about God's righteous wrath against sin. He preached it to a small town church, many of whom are churchgoers that are even baptized, they sit there but they have never really known Jesus. They were just faithful church attendees, but they never really know Christ. So in Connecticut, where he was preaching, and by the way he preached, I wouldn't really even say he preached as much as he read. He took the manuscript of his, he read it out, no antics, no pulpit tricks, just read it and as the words came forth, as he describes sinners like a spider dangling by a thread over the lake of fire, the conviction of the Holy Spirit was upon the hearts of the people then, it was said that there was great crying, weeping, and thereafter great joy, as people saw the wrath of God and are led to the love of God and got beautifully saved by the grace of God. Someone said Jonathan Edwards gave them a sniff of the sulphurs of hell that they may now inhale deeply the fragrance of grace. So, God honored the preaching and teaching of who He is and what he will do in His wrath and brought many to salvation and this morning we're going to look at this text, it's a severe message. There's no doubt about it, as you read those verses. But the hope is not to give you a sense of condemnation as it is to show you your desperation that you may turn to the grace of God. Again, in the words that I've just quoted  — "a sniff of the sulfurs of hell, that you may inhale deeply today for yourself, the fragrance of God's grace".

The wrath of God is not an assumption, it's a revelation. And in this text, the wrath of God is going to be poured out upon apostates ah, you say,  what is apostates? Only know apostles, I don't know what is apostates.  Well, apostates are people who fall away. These are people who are in the church, they may even grow up in the church, they have heard a lot about the Christian teachings and they superficially profess faith, but they are apostates in the sense, one fine day, they decided that Jesus is not worth following. They turned their backs on Jesus Christ, they fall away from the faith and they deny the Lord who died for them. That’s an apostate, he falls away. And this Scripture tells us about the wrath of God against apostates. Just in case you think this is not about you, listen on because the author says, for if we go on sinning deliberately, he's including himself, he's saying this is not a problem for those outside the church, not for the Muslims, not for Buddhists, this is not for the atheists, it's we, we who are gathered in the church. This is an address to you and to me. He says, myself included. And he says, if we go on sinning deliberately, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. Now, you must understand that this sinning deliberately actually in a sense, we all sin deliberately. But this sinning deliberately is not about the what I will say the normal sins like lying or cheating or adultery, even. Because, even in those sins we know that there is forgiveness. If we confess our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins, but this deliberate sinning is a deliberate denial of Jesus. I know that because if you read on further, in verse 29 he elaborates on this sin. It is to trample underfoot the son of God, it is to profane the blood of the covenant, it is to outrage the Spirit of Grace, it is to say I've learned all that I learnt about Christianity, about the gospel of Jesus Christ, but I come to the evaluation and the determination, Jesus is not the real deal. He's not worth it, He is not the Savior He claims to be, He is not the Son of the Living God, so I'm going to trample on Him, I'm going to profane and say that the blood that was shed was useless blood, I'm going to say that the Spirit of Grace is no Spirit of Grace. So this is a persistent denial of the work, the Person of Jesus Christ and in verse 39, this person shrinks back, he does not keep on following, believing the Saviour. So the author says this is a problem for the church, in a sense, believers and unbelievers, we gather together here we may all say we are, but if you really at the end of time at the end of life and journey, if you turn your back and said I do not believe in Jesus anymore, you are guilty of this apostasy. And notice, this person has knowledge of the truth. The Greek word here is not just simple knowing superficially, it's actually a deep knowledge. It's the word, epignosis, which means a full understanding. So again, this guy who leaves Christ who denies Christ is not someone who has just been in church for one or two weeks, he knows the gospel fully. He might have been here for a long time listening to hundreds of sermons, been to many Bible studies, for all I know he may even be baptized, be part of the holy communion, serve God. Be an elder's son, deacon's child or grew up in a good Christian home, he might have all these things and he could still fall away. It could describe you or your child today.

You say, why would they leave the faith? Is it that when they were younger they believed in Jesus and then subsequently they lost their salvation? They sort of just, the faith just went down to zero and then they lost it. Is it like this? Then no, clearly, that's not the teaching of the entire Scriptures and that's certainly not what the author has in mind at all. Remember, in Hebrews 6, I know that was a real tough sermon, but I want you to see that the author is not saying, two things at any one time, he is very consistent. He is very concerned about people who are in church, but who ultimately defect. And he is saying that these people who defect are actually people who were never saved in the first place. Hebrews 6, just a very quick glance, remember this say, this phrase where it says it is impossible in the case of those who have been enlightened, tasted of the heavenly gift, shared in the Holy Spirit, tasted the goodness of the Word of God, the powers of the age to come, now, it is impossible for people who have all these things to now fall away and then we restore them again to repentance. It is impossible for such apostates to be restored again to repentance. Why? Seeing they are crucifying once again, the Son of God to their own harm and holding Him up to contempt. Now we looked at it and we established that Hebrews 6 describes how someone in the church can have spiritual experiences, but they remain unsaved. Keyword - "remain unsaved", not "got unsaved". They remain unsaved and will ultimately deny the Lord. It's not about a Christian losing his salvation. It's about a man, a professor of the faith, showing up that he was never a possessor from the beginning. These experiences are like falling rain. These are raindrops of mercy from heaven, but these raindrops of mercy is going to fall on two kinds of ground. One kind is what we call that cultivated heart, the good soil and when it is on the good soil, there will be fruit and there will be, but these same blessings of rain can fall upon bad soil, the uncultivated heart and even though it looks good in the beginning, — hey, there is some life, there's some spring of life, but ultimately it is not the real deal, it is thorns, and it is reserved for cursing. That's what Hebrew 6 teaches us. So, it's not that the cultivated heart suddenly becomes the uncultivated heart. It's not that someone who is saved to suddenly loses his salvation, but with time, it reveals what kind of heart you are. So Hebrews 6 is how someone can have all these spiritual experiences, remain unsaved and ultimately deny the Lord.

Remember this statement, if your faith fizzles before you finish, it's because it was faulty from the first. Quite a tongue twister with all the F's but it's a good statement. They went out from us, because they were not of us, otherwise, they would have continued with us. The work of grace in the heart of a man, when there is a real faith, it perseveres, it does not fade away. That's the real work of grace. So if your faith doesn't last the distance, if it fizzles before the finish, you know that it was faulty from the first. It's not the real deal. So, why did Judas defect from Jesus? Oh, Judas, he was actually a believer, but he lost his salvation. No, he was the son of perdition, he never knew the Lord. He looked like the real deal, he experienced all the blessings but eventually what came out were thorns reserved for cursing. So, not every unbeliever is an apostate, but every apostate is an unbeliever. I hope you get this point. Not every unbeliever is an apostate, because there are lots of unbelievers out there who have never been to church, never heard the Bible, they are not those who have knowledge of the Word, and then fall away. They are unbelievers, but they are not apostates. But every apostate is an unbeliever.  They defect not because they were a believer that is now weak but they never knew the Lord. So for if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. No other way you can be saved.

I tell you, folks, if you're churchgoer, you have been in church for long time you've heard many messages. You have heard all the teachings about Jesus and the gospel and then 10 years down the road, you say, I don't want Jesus. That's a very scary statement. There is no sacrifice for sins, or in the words of Hebrews 6, it is impossible to renew them unto repentance, seeing they crucified the Son of God afresh and put him to open contempt. He is not worth my faith, no more sacrifice. What do you have then? Then, there is that fearful expectation of judgment. You don't want Christ and this is the scary reality —  there will be judgement and it is a judgment where there is a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. God is not Santa Claus. He is not a tame cat. He is the holy God of Israel, and He will consume the adversaries. They are not believers, they were adversaries and anyone who is set aside the law of Moses, dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. You know how severe the law of Moses was? If you committed adultery, stoned to death. No second chance. And if the law of Moses was to be held in such a regard, how much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant and outraged the Spirit of Grace. For we know Him who said, vengeance is mine, I'm not Santa Claus, I will repay and again, the Lord will judge His people, quote from Deuteronomy 32. And so Jonathan Edwards would say it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God, or sinners in the hands of an angry God. Not everyone, I say again, not every one of you gathered in this room could say we are all saved. I wish that would be the case, but that's not the assumption the author of Hebrews has.

You know last —  yesterday, our youth, they went out to Punggol, they had a simple blessing exercise in that they brought oranges and they went to the community, to the HDB flats and knocked on doors and greeted them blessed new year, in the name of the Lord and in the name of the church. They just wanted to be a blessing, praise God for their hearts. So they got thousand-over oranges that looked like this, and they they went to each home, knock on the doors and I thought this was brought to the church building, I saw it, and and I see them doing. I thought hey, very nice oranges what are you doing, why they they said as they look through they realized there are spoilt oranges there I mean, you can I didn't take it out of the plastic it's so yucky I don't even want to touch it. It's white you know is like fungus growing all over, some are damp, some are moist and it's just terrible, they are only worthy to be thrown into the basket. But when they came it came all in boxes and there's this quick assumption on my part, all these oranges should be fine, but they are not. Just being in a box doesn't make it fine, just being in church this morning, doesn't make you fine. No, in fact, if you think you're fine, simply because you come to church, you should listen to what Jesus had to say, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven on that day many, this is one shocking word which I have always mentioned to you, many, this is not a few, many will say to me, Lord, Lord. Many would have assumed, didn't we prophesy in Your Name, didn't we cast out demons, didn't we do many mighty miraculous works in Your Name, I mean we did amazing things. Then Jesus said this, I never knew you — not that I once knew you and you lost it, but I never knew you.

You can have all these external trappings of a Christian, you wear a Christian necklace, you have a Christian name, you come from a Christian home, you have a Christian baptism certificate, you may even pray Christian things, but Jesus says, I never knew you. So if you have someone who assumes you are fine, with all these external things, let these words be a warning to your soul. Therefore, the author says, please pay attention. It is so scary when people come to church, as a matter of habit and routine and ritual and when you get here all you want is okay, I'm going to fulfill my one and a half hours of religious devotion to my God and when the pastor is preaching, he is so boring, aiyah, I just don't want to listen to him and I'm going to whip out my hand phone and I'm going to play with my stuff. After all, I'm familiar with what he is going to preach, he is always going to preach Hebrews, he is always going to preach about the gospel, about Jesus, I know all that. Now, I'm not worth your attention, that's for sure. But I believe the Word of God is, and the author is saying, don't just come to church to go through the motions, pay close attention to what we have heard, pay close attention to the teaching of Scripture, to the gospel. Why? Because, if you don't if you just hear physically but you are not hearing and not receiving into your heart, you may drift away. There’s the current, that is going to sweep you away from God, and unless you are applying yourself diligently to hearing and responding to God's Word, you're going to drift. In fact, the rest of the book of Hebrews says are going to drift, you are going to doubt, you're going to dull and ultimately you'll despise. But it begins with not paying attention. You're not going to come to church, and say I despise the Bible, no, you're going to come to church, but you may with drift, you may not pay attention and that sets you on a downward spiral. And you know what happens, you may despise till the time or to the point where you say Jesus is not my Saviour. Fearful expectation of judgment, because there remains no sacrifice for sins.

So throughout the book of Hebrews, I mean we have done 10 chapters and if you reviewed he is always with this pastoral heart, urging the people begging them as it were, imploring them please don't just come and go through the motions, pay attention. And he says hold tight, it's easy to give up with all the persecution, with all the mistreatment you are experiencing, it's easy to say, let's go back to Judaism. But he is saying don't you ever do that. Hold tight. He goes on to say, be careful of the evil unbelieving heart. That may be a real thing for you. You say, how do I get to that evil unbelieving heart, well when you are hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Like I said, no one sets out to say, I don't believe in Jesus, if you have been in the church, but if you don't pay attention to the Word of God, you are slack with your personal walk with Jesus, you live in sin and more sin and more sin. Sin brings to you, a hardening of your heart, desensitizes you to the grace of God, to the Word of God and soon enough, your heart, turns and becomes unbelieving. You say pastor, at which point does my cumulative sin make me so hardened that I won't believe? I don't know when, but you can be sure this is a process that is going on. It's like someone with a heart problem. You don't ask, when I get a heart attack? You see that the cholesterol is depositing, depositing, depositing, depositing you better do something to reverse it because you never know when it strikes, isn't it?

Andrew Murray, he says the only sure way of be kept from willful sin of apostasy, is to keep far from all sin because we don't know the point at which our sin may become the sin of apostasy. You don't know. Don’t let this hardening of heart even start, that's what he's saying. So the safest attitude for Christians is to flee from all possibilities of sin by the power of the Holy Spirit. You say, how do you flee? Well you pray, you avoid sin, you, you, you mortify sin as it were, with, with prayer and discipline to the Lord. If you also do this with, in community. You exhort one another, daily. That's why we are in small groups. As we often say, not for fellowship, not just to eat and drink, but it's a really high stake in place in community group. Eternal soul, that's what's at stake.

So the author brings all this advice across the Scriptures again, he reminds in chapter 3:14 "hold fast", chapter 6 "by faith and patience, press on, so that you may ultimately, truly inherit the promise". Remember the DHL sermon, you draw near to God, you hold fast the confession he repeats that. And then, you stir up one another in love. He says you do all these things, don't be complacent, pay attention, folks. Gospeliters pay attention to the Word of God, to the gospel. Hold tight your confidence, even if you are going through extreme difficulty, don't you ever give up on your faith. And be in community, that's what God tells you. It’s for your soul and it's not just for you soul, it's for your brethen's soul. You see the importance of that this is the wrath of God against apostates.

My friends I know this is not a popular sermon. I really doubt this would even be a top 10 sermons anywhere this, probably the bottom 10 that people refer to, because so harsh or so hard, I may say. But I pray that what his hard may be the most helpful sermon for you if you have been a false professor. I pray this message would save you on the day of judgment from having to say, Lord, Lord, didn't we do these things and to hear from Jesus, I never knew you. One of the things that this sermon has is you may think oh this is talking about Ah John, this is talking about Ah Tong, this is talking about someone else but not me. But the author is not complacent, he includes himself, ‘we’. He's not going to slacken off in paying attention to the Word of God, he is not going to slacken of in terms of gathering together, he, he knows he needs this things. And I urge you Gospeliters, work on these things keep your hearts soft, tender receptive to the grace of God.

I've seen that, right here in Gospel Light. I've been in this church, 20 years, I've seen young people, maybe some of my age, some younger, who have grown up, and have left the church. You ask them what they believe today, not Jesus Christ. What happened? Somewhere along the way they have thought to themselves, I'm in a Christian home, I'm in the Sunday school, and my when my teacher says who wants to believe, I've raised my hand before, they gave me a sweet for that even. And I think I'm fine. So when I come, I just switch off, I just switch off to the Word of God. I just switch off to the need to obey God in a gathering of one another. I think the Bible is so irrelevant to my life. There's so many other nice pursuits in this world and I've no time for church. One day, and you leave the fellowship and soon your heart is fully hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. You know what you have shown, you've shown you've never believed in the first place. You have shown a very sad reality that Hebrews 10 is warning us against.

I tell you one more scary thing. We think that hell is reserved for the greatest of sinners, or the hottest parts of hell are reserved for the greatest of sinners. Now I believe there are different degrees of torment in hell. And we think of the murderers, the rapists to be those who will be at the hottest part. So if we think of Saddam Hussein we say, yah, yah, yah, he's in there, he should be the first one to be there. We think of Hitler, yah, yah, yah, he should be there, he should be there. I tell you, please don't be surprised, they are not the chief occupiers there. I think those who will be at the hottest parts might be those who have been in the church, longest time, because Jesus gives us this principle. He says to his disciples when you preach and when you do these mighty works before them, and these people will not receive you, nor listen to your words, then shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. And truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. Sodom and Gomorrah, horrible city, horrible town they have sodomy, they have rape, they have murder, it's a messed up place and a messed up people, but it is more tolerable for them than for those who have heard and had the privilege to hear, opportunity to hear, but will not receive.

Jesus, in case you don't get it, repeats that again, in Matthew 11, the same words. I have been to these cities, I performed great works, a great light has come upon this cities, but because they refused to believe, it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for these wicked cities that have seen and heard my works and words. I pray none of this will happen to you. I pray that the wrath of God today will shock you to a realization, you can't trifle with the Holy God of Israel. You will heed the serious threat herein and may you flee to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

You say, how can God both love and have wrath. The only way is when you look at the cross, where the love of God and the wrath of God is met fully and perfectly in Jesus Christ, God's Son. My friends, don't despise the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's the only hope for your soul. May you have a sniff of the sulfurs of hell and may you from today onwards inhale deeply the fragrance of grace.

Let's bow for a word of prayer. Appreciate you guys on this Sunday morning, New Year's Eve sitting through a message like this. But sitting through is one thing, paying attention and heeding the words is another. Don't point to the person to your left or to your right, but ask yourself today, do you still believe, would you still hold on to Jesus and would you apply yourself today, to guard your heart, to exhort one another daily, to keep your heart soft and sensitive to the Word of God. My friends, if you today do not know Jesus and you know you have not known Jesus, you have just been coming to church and you've been a young man, young lady, you have grown up in church, you are flippant about the things of God. You know deep in your heart, He's not yet your Savior, would you today, make the choice to repent and believe and make that sure, because you are like that spider dangling by a thin thread over the lake of fire. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God. But the love of God, for you, is demonstrated on the cross in Jesus, His Son. And Jesus says to you, come unto Me. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, and whoever does not believe, the wrath of God abides in him. Don’t just be a church goer, it actually brings you greater damnation. Scary, because you have been given much and you are accountable for that much. But let all these blessings, let this rain from on high nourish a cultivated heart and may it bring forth fruit and blessings. Make your choice before God today, would you?

Father we thank You this morning for Your Word, sobering, but needful, and I pray today, we would rejoice because we have that certainty not just because we come to church but because we can say, Jesus is mine. So I pray for all my friends, guests, that they will continue to pursue You and if it be Your will, grant them a new birth from on high today. I pray for my brethren who may be discouraged in life, going through the hardships of life, Lord, grant them grace to keep holding on. I pray that Gospeliters would see the clear and present danger of the deceitfulness of sin and may we apply ourselves in community groups that will truly not just meet for the sake of meeting, but we will exhort one another daily. That at the end of our life here, we could say, I finished the course, I fought a good fight, I've kept the faith. Enable your church today, we thank You. We pray all this now in Jesus Name, Amen.

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