The Masterpiece 103

Being Thankful

December 31st, 2006

Brian Kocourek

 

This morning I would like to continue with the same paragraph we read last week as there is more in that paragraph that is worth looking into. So let’s again turn in our Booklets the Masterpiece and we shall read from paragraph 200 of Brother Branham’s sermon called The Masterpiece.

 

THE MASTERPIECE 64-0705 200 “Oh, Church of the living God, bow your hearts and yourselves before God. These things are true. I know that it sounds like that as such a great a thing as that would be, would be so spread out over the nations; it never was. He doesn't change His way. Just be thankful, Church, be thankful that you are where you are today if you're in Christ. Because, you see, now, and remember, all that Life will be gathered right into the Grain for the resurrection, but the stalk must be burned, the rest of it. The husk and all must be destroyed, and it will be. Don't trust in your, them denominations. You stay in the Word, the Life, God and His Masterpiece. Then what is it in the millennium? Christ and His Bride, back in the garden of the millennium. Amen.

 

Now this morning, we will look at several thoughts here that brother Branham is bringing to our attention.

 

I would like to take three points from the remaining thoughts in this paragraph. Notice he says, “I know that it sounds like that as such a great a thing as that would be so spread out over the nations; it never was. He doesn't change His way. (So we shall call this point number one for this message today). Now, you would think that with such a great thing as what God did in this hour, the very fact that God Himself, the Creator of the heaven and earth and the entire Universe has come down to visit mankind, and you would think that the whole world would have wanted to partake of this great event, and worship the God of Truth in Spirit and Truth. But the fact is that they were not and are not interested. And the Bible fact is that mankind has never been interested in God’s Presence. Throughout the history of man, when God Himself has come down to visit mankind, the people in every generation He has chosen to visit us, man has always missed Him because they could not accept the way in which God chose to come, or the way in which God chose to represent Himself.  

 

The apostle Paul told us this in 1 Corinthians 2:6  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: (now, these perfect one that Paul is speaking of here are not perfect as though in their flesh they have reached perfection, but the Greek word speaks of morally and mentally mature. Morally mature in that they have their bodies under subjection to their Minds, and mentally mature in that they have submitted their thinking or thought process to God’s Perfect Revealed Word. Then Paul continues saying, ) yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: (so Paul is distinguishing here the difference between the wisdom from above and the wisdom of man. Because after all, God told us in His Word that His Thoughts are not our thoughts.

Isaiah 55:7  Let the wicked forsake his way, (That means his way of life or his course of action) and the un-righteous man his thoughts (now, unrighteous is un-right-wiseness, and a man that is un-rightly wise ought to forsake his un-rightly wise thoughts because after all they are un-right, or not right anyway. So he says, let the wicked forsake his wicked way of life, and let the man who does not think correctly forsake his wrong way of thinking,) and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

 

You know, Christianity so called has this very problem, and men in general have this problem. Proverbs 16: 25 tells us, There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, (There is a course of life that seems right unto men) but the end thereof are the ways of death. And yet men will not willingly take the course of death. That is what is so strange about men. They choose death over life because they think they are actually choosing life. But because of their pride they will turn down Truth when it presents itself.  And pride cometh before a fall, always. Man has tried to save Himself for countless generations and always ends up missing the mark. You would think that they would finally get it and be smart enough to decide to let go and let God, but they won’t, because they can’t.

 

8  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Now, that mean that our ways are pretty low when it comes down to a comparison between God’s ways and your own thinking.  

 

10  For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11  So shall my Word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

 

Now, in getting back to 1 Corinthians 2:7  The Apostle Paul says,  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8  Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for The Spirit (God’s Holy Spirit) searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God knoweth. 12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but The Spirit which is of God (or out from God); that we might know(Look God gives us of His spirit for one purpose and that is that we might know) the things that are freely given to us of God. 13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.  16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

 

Notice the Apostle Paul is saying here just exactly what Brother Branham is telling us in paragraph 200 of  The Masterpiece, where he said,  I know that it sounds like that as such a great a thing as that would be, would be so spread out over the nations; it never was. He doesn't change His way.”

 

So we see that men miss what God does because they are natural and have not the Spirit of God in them. Then when they miss the Presence of God, the Appearing before the Coming, when they not only miss it, but reject it when it is made known to them, it is because they have not the Spirit of God in them, and if they have not the Spirit of God in them, then they are not born again. It matters not how much works they do in his name, of Jesus told us that “many shall come in my name and say, ‘Have we not done many mighty works’ and in thy name cast out devils?’ and I will say unto them, “depart from me, ye that work iniquity, I never knew you.”  That’s Matthew  7

 

Now, brother Branham taught us that there are two ways in which man misses God when He comes. The first way is what he said in his sermon God in simplicity 63-0317M P:72 “Many Miss Him by the way that He reveals Himself, for He is so great, yet hides Himself in simplicity to make Hisself known to the least. See? Don't try to get the great, because he goes over the top of it; but listen to the simplicity of God, and then you find God right here in the simple way. High-polished worldly wisdom, educated, always misses Him. Now, I'm not here... And I know there's school teachers, two or three that I know of setting in here; and I'm not here to contradict school and education and try to support illiteracy; I'm not here for that. But what it is, the people have so placed so much upon that, until they're... Even in the seminaries and so forth they're missing the very thing that God has put before them.

 

So we see that they miss God because of the simple way in which he reveals Himself.  They could not imagine that the God of Heaven would bring forth a son in a stable, over a manure pile. God so hides Himself from the wise and prudent and reveals Himself unto babes such as will learn. We see this in both the Gospel of Matthew and Luke.

 

Luke 10: 21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

 

Matthew 11: 25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

 

And from God in simplicity 63-0317M P:65 Brother Branham tells us the other way in which men fail to recognize when God is on the scene.  It is strange to think how that God does such a thing as that. God will hide Himself in something so simple that'll cause the wise to miss it a million miles and then turn right back around in that, some simple thing in the simplicity of His way of working and reveal Hisself right out again. I thought it made a text that we might study this before we go into the great teachings of the Seven Seals. Many miss Him by the way He reveals Himself. Now, man has their own ideas of what God ought to be and what God is going to do; and as I have made the old statement many times that man still remains man. Man is always giving God praise for what He did do, and always looking forward to what He will do, and ignoring what He's doing. See, see?

 

So we see that man misses Him because he comes in a way that they are not looking for him to come. And that is because they are too proud in their own minds to think that God could come in a way that is not a way they have chosen for Him to come. So, in other words, man rejects God because He does not come the way they think He ought to come. Well, that is because they do not know God’s ways. He said His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. So if man would just humble himself and realize that he doesn’t have it all figured out, then perhaps he would be open to receive God in whatever way that God chooses to reveal Himself. 

 

Therefore that leads us to point number two, which is what brother Branham said, so “Just be thankful, Church. Be thankful that you are where you are today if you're in Christ. Because, you see now, and remember, all that Life will be gathered right into the Grain for the resurrection,

 

The Apostle Paul said the same thing in 2 Thessalonians 2: 13But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:”

 

Hebrews 13: 15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

 

1 Thessalonians 5: 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

 

1 Thessalonians 1: 2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

 

Colossians 3: 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

 

Colossians 1: 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

 

Colossians 1: 3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

 

Ephesians 5: 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

 

Ephesians 1: 16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

 

Romans 16: 4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

 

Revelation 11: 17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

 

1 Timothy 2: 1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

 

Ephesians 5: 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

 

1 Corinthians 14: 16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupied the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

 

Luke   17: 16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.

 

Revelation   4: 9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

 

1 Corinthians 10:25  Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: (now, can anyone tell me what this word shambles means? It was translated from the Greek word Makellum and means the butchers stall or meat market. So Paul is telling us that offenses may come because of what you eat. But he said, do not be an in your face type of person. Be considerate to the conscience of those who are viewing your behavior. And he is saying, don’t ask questions concerning what you are eating. Because if you eat meat that was set before idols, and you do not know it, then it is nothing to worry about, but if others point it out to you concerning the meat you are eating, and say it is wrong for you to eat it, or they believe it is wrong for you to eat it, then don’t eat it to avoid conflict. In other words, don’t get in a spat over what you eat or do not eat. I know of churches who have split over the use of sugar and honey. Some said you sugar is ok, and others said you should not eat sugar, and over health issues the church was split. That is wrong when that happens. When that happens it is because the people are not prayed up and they have lost some of that anointing oil of God in their life to keep them sweet and tender in their hearts.

 

The Apostle Paul goes on to say) 26  For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. 27  If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. 28  But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof: 29  Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience? 30  For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?  31  Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Now, here is the key to what the Apostle Paul has been teaching us… 32  Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: In other words, if you are focused on God then you won’t be focused on others, and what they eat or do not eat.

 

When we begin to judge others for what they eat, we are loosing our focus on Christ. Some people like fish and others don’t. Some like food raw and others wouldn’t think of eating food raw. But what we eat has nothing to do with our position in Christ or our state or status in Christ.

 

Right now there is brewing a controversy concerning whether we should eat meats anymore because of what man has done to the feed. And you know brother Branham addressed that 42 years ago in a sermon called He cares do you care? Which He preached July 21st, 1963. Beginning at paragraph  61 he said,  Now, what has science brought to us? Now, you may be shocked just for a moment. Science has brought to us sickness, death, and diseases. Now, you've only been taught one side of the picture. But there's two sides to it. You say, "Science has invented this, that, and the other." Well, we're going to grant you that privilege. But let's look at the other side. Science has brought us sickness. Science has brought us diseases, death. Look. Scientific hybreeding has brought death to the generation, of foods and things. It's got the people so soft and so, until the men and women are made up out of a bunch of muck, and there's no structure in it. It's become a bunch of soft jellyfish. They can't live without an air conditioner; they perish. They can't play a baseball game. If one of them gets tapped somewhere, it kills him in the boxing rings and what more. And it's so soft till men and women, well, it's perverting them.

 

  62   And they're injecting this hybrid into cattle which has come back into mankind now, according to science themselves, and is making perversions out of them. Because when a cow is hybrid, or any food is hybrid, that food makes blood cell, and blood cell is your life. See what it's done? And then, into meat, they inject these here injections into the meat, and now it's proved that these injections take effect upon the human race. Scientific...They spray the fields with this DDT, I seen the other day, and now we got eight hundred sick people in this community from eating eggs. Do you remember years ago when I first, when we had the little bitty structure here, and I was prophesying, and said, "It shall come to pass in the last days, don't live in a valley and don't eat eggs." I've got it on my book. I thought there was something about that, and I went and looked at it. "Don't eat eggs." That was way back in 1933. Eggs has got something in them now, and I see where science says that a man over fifty years old should never eat an egg, because it's the hardest thing on a heart that can be eaten. Diseases...


  63   Milk, it used to be our most balanced diet was milk. The doctors will tell you, "Stay away from it." It's making sinus and everything else. It's the same human being that used to drink it and live for years and never know sinus, but the interbreeding and so forth has broke down the structure of the human being till it's nothing but a bunch of muck, a ball of sickness. What done it? Science. Look. It's caused the genes between the man and the woman to weaken, the physical weakness of the human being through the genes, and the increase of spastic children is around thirty percent. Mongoloid is on the great climb. And these weakness of interbreeding of the foods that we are eating for life, is weakening the body, which causes cancer, mental troubles, and all kinds of diseases is setting in upon the human body because its weakness. Scientific, destroying themselves, getting away from God's plan... He said, "Let every seed bring forth of its kind." See where we're at? I could go on and on; our time's getting away. But notice, what's that's doing it? Science has brought death, sickness, and destruction.


  64   And I seen the other day, I was talking to my good friend, Doctor Vayle setting here, that where there's a article that people getting killed by penicillin. It really isn't the penicillin; it's the filth that they let get into it when they're manufacturing the penicillin. It's a money-making, greed scheme. Doctors giving it sometime who don't even know the formula of an aspirin, and their father sends them away to get a specialist in something another, and don't know even how to cure a tummy-ache for a kid. But what have we got? Greed, some pull, or a little something. They don't have hardly anymore of the old fashion country doctor that used to get down and talk to you and console you and do everything. They leave God right out of the picture, because they went after their own way. In order to get God out of the picture, they explained Him plumb away. There we are.

  65   That's what we've done by interbreeding. You see, the body... What makes a healthy plant, a germ can hardly get to it. It's these hotbed plants, these hybrid plants you have to keep sprayed all the time. And many of you has read my message on "Hybrid Religion," keep it sprayed and babied and so forth. Notice, but the real genuine plant don't have to be sprayed; he's the original.


  66   What makes disease come to the human body? Is the body... As I'm told by a precious doctor friend of mine, that I wouldn't want to call his name right now, but he's a very fine brother, reading to me recently out of a medical journal, a book in his office where he keeps all these fine books and the latest stuff on medicine. It is weakness. You notice anybody that's real... You say your body's run down, you take a cold right quick. What is it? It's the weakness of your body that produces a mucus out of your glands. And in that the cold germ beds itself and you got a cold. But if that body was strong, it would throw away that cold germ; it couldn't touch it. So, you see, when God constructed a man in the first place, he was immune from any disease. See? But unbelief and science... Science and education was the first thing that took a man away from God, and it's still taking him.

  67   Just look what cigarettes and drinking, and these stripteases and so forth, has done to the decline of this generation.

 

Now, we could take anyone of these issues that brother Branham is saying here and if we are not careful we could do great damage to the church with anyone of them, because he also spoke of vaccinations, and he was 100% right with what he said. I know because I have negotiated vaccine contracts for the past 10 years. I have studied the subject very thoroughly, and I have talked to some of the leading scientists in the world on this subject.  Personally, I do not like live virus vaccines, but I do believe the deadened ones, the a-cellular vaccines, are very efficacious. That means they work. The problem is not the vaccine, but as brother Branham said, the impurities which our government allows in the vaccine. Did you know that the FDA allows up to 5% impurities in all vaccines.

That is what causes autism and violent reactions. It is not the vaccine itself, but the impurities that our government allows in the vaccine that does the damage. They allow impurities such as thymeracil, which is mercury. It is used to preserve multi-dose vials, so when the vial is opened, it will stay fresh longer. But did you also know that there is more thymericil in a can of tuna than in the entire first year regimen of vaccines your  child will take? So you see, it is not just the vaccine manufacturers, it is the FDA itself that allows these things. Why? As brother Branham said, there is money to be made. So for the love of money people die from these pollutants.

 

You see, the thymericil allows doctors to keep the vaccine longer in the refrigerator, and they save money that way. Did you know that almost every vaccine has a government surcharge for those victims who have become poisoned or even die as a result of the vaccine. The surcharge is 0.75cents per antigen. 

 

But the process they use to make the vaccine has a lot to do with the amount of impurities that are found in the vaccines.  And it is all to make a dollar or save a dollar.

 

Now, just because I do not believe in vaccinating my own children does not mean that I have a right to stop others from vaccinating theirs. The Japanese do not believe in vaccinating children until at least 2 years of age when it has developed a good immune system. But American medicine disagrees. And so does European medicine.

 

Medicine changes every few generations any how, so hopefully American medicine will swing into the electronic therapies that are being discovered more and more. But I am not here to preach on what kind of medicine is best. What I am trying to say is that we can take any one of these statements that brother Branham said, and if we are not careful, we will find that there is no safe food today.

 

We look at the beef industry and we see they feed the livestock ground up cow parts, and we now have mad cow disease that is threatening to become the next pandemic.

 

So you say, then I will eat chicken. Well, the poultry industry is doing the same thing. They are feeding chickens ground up feathers and chicken bones and chicken beaks, until they have made the cattle and poultry into cannibals. And that is changing the dynamics of their meat. The meat is becoming laced with animal pryons which have RNA strands that are deadly, and can not be killed even by high temperatures.

 

Then what about fish? There is enough mercury contamination in the sea that in order to find healthy fish you might have to raise them yourself. Well, then must I become a vegetarian? Listen, we know the corn is hybrid and most tomatoes, fruits and vegetables are also hybrid as well. And brother Branham said that is destroying mankind as well. You say, well, then I will go to seed savers and buy my own seed, and grow my own food. I will go organic? Let me tell you something, Organic is a money making scheme, There is not true organic left, and since there is not minerals left in the soil, there is nothing in organic food that is any better than the other foods. And what about acid rain, and the pollutants in the air. All the chemicals in the air. That falls in the rain and goes into your crops as well.

Did you know the government has been testing for mass inoculations with these “chem.- trails?” And did you know that those “chem.-trails” have been tested positive for Hepatitis B which is a venereal disease?   How did it get there? Ask You government. They’ve been testing mass inoculation systems in our atmosphere without your permission.

 

So then what can we do?  Pray the Lord of the harvest to come quickly and take you from this pest house. That is what we can do. You can’t eat eggs. You can’t eat meat, you can’t eat poultry, pork, beef, lamb or wild game. Even the deer in Colorado have been tested positive for the mad cow disease. You can’t eat vegetables because every few weeks we are finding people being infected with one disease after another from the fields.

 

So what is a person to do? No beef, no meat, no fish, no poultry, no pork, no vegetables. Corn and wheat is all hybrid in this country, and eggs are full of pollutants, and even your water is not as pure as you may think. As brother Branham said, the world is falling apart, so what can you do? Starve?  I don’t think that is the answer. But what I do believe is that we need to be careful what we place in our mouths, and pray as we have never prayed before.   

 

You see the whole world is coming to the point that the only thing left to do is to burn it all over and start all over again. And that is precisely what God is about to do. Please don’t get caught up into any debate whether or not you should eat this, that or the other. Focus on getting your soul ready for the going home.

 

Harvest time 64-1212 P:127 How many got "The Future Home Of The Bride And Groom," on the tape? See, I brought it out in there. The Lord gave it to me. I give it on to you as He gives it to me. Look, the first thing, the world was condemned under Adam's fall from the Word. The preaching of Noah brought justification, and God baptized the earth with water; then along came the Son and dropped His Blood upon it to sanctify it, to claim it for His own; then in the final windup, the renovation will be fire that will burn every germ, every thing; it'll go for thousands of miles high in the air. And then what? "I saw a new heaven and a new earth; first heaven and earth was passed away. And I saw the holy City, the New Jerusalem descending from God, out of heaven, adorned as a Bride for her  husband (See?) coming down upon the earth. Then God and man...

 

Spiritual adoption 56-0923 P:5 I'm so glad there's a way out. I'm so glad that we don't have to stay here forever too, aren't you? What would we do if I had to live in this pest house forever? I'm so glad that there's a open door. And that's all that the earth is, is just a pest house. Just as soon as you think we're running all right, then here comes something else along, and get here, here comes something else. But I'm so glad that there's a way out. So happy that the Lord Jesus has come and made a way for us, a way of escape.

 

Christ is identified the same 64-0415 P:4 We all believe in the coming of the Lord, that His coming is soon at hand. We believe it's at hand now. We don't know just what time it'll be that He will arrive. And in view of this, we want to put forth every effort that we know how to further the Kingdom and get that last person saved into the Kingdom. And when the last one's saved... There will not be one extra. It'll just be so many. And when that last one's brought in, the Body of Christ is completed; the rapture will come. And so, we are longing for that day to get out of this place where we're at here now, for it's certainly a pest-house. We know that, full of sickness, disease, and disappointments, and troubles, and... My, who would want to stay here when there's such a better place to get to?

 

Shepherd of the sheepfold 56-0403 P:8 We're here in this old feeble body, pest house. But just think, after this earthly tabernacle is dissolved, we're stepping into one right over there just beyond the veil. We won't be there long. That's right. We wasn't made for that one. We wasn't made to be Angels. God's got Angels, but we were created men and women. So that's the way we must be. And when we're up there in that celestial body, we're not in our right estate. You see? And then when Israel was away from their homeland in Egypt, they had a memorial before them that someday they were going back to the homeland. You know what it was? The bones of Joseph. And when they passed by, no matter how tired and weary they was, they'd look in and see the bones of that prophet; they knew that someday someone was coming, and those bones would be packed out; and they were on their road to the promised land, back home.

 

And that bring us to point number three, but the stalk must be burned, the rest of it. The husk and all must be destroyed, and it will be. Don't trust in your, them denominations.  You stay in the Word, the Life, God and His Masterpiece. Then what is it in the millennium? Christ and His Bride, back in the garden of the millennium. Amen.

 

Let’s bow our heads in prayer.

 

Dear Father we see that the whole world is full of pollution until the seed is running out. Not only the God seed is running out but all seeds are running out, and man has so entered into Satan’s Eden until he has all but destroyed himself with his environment and ability to feed himself. And man has done so by his so called genius. There is a way that seemeth right unto ma, but the ay thereof is the way of death. So father we know that the only way we can think your thoughts is for you to reveal them to us, so help us Father and we shall be helped. Bless us and we shall be blessed. Save us and we shall be saved. For we ask it in Jesus Christ’s Name.