The sermon focuses on the life of William Tyndale, a man who had a deep love for the ancient words of God and played a significant role in the English Reformation. Tyndale's mission was to translate the Bible into English, making it accessible to the common people. He faced numerous challenges and persecution for his work, but he remained steadfast in his dedication to making God known. Possessing Tyndale's translated Bible was a punishable offense, but it spread like wildfire across England. Tyndale's prayer for the King of England to have his eyes opened reflects his desire for the word of God to be widely known.

We're going to turn our Bibles to Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11 and we'll be reading verses 32 to 38. We're going to do something a little bit different here this afternoon and take a look at a man's life outside of the Bible. In light of the Reformation that took place 506 years ago this Tuesday, the beginning of it that is, thought it would be appropriate to really dive into a man's life, a man who loved the ancient words, perhaps like no other man that I've studied, this side of Calvary. His name is William Tindal and so we'll spend some time as you as you know we've been looking a lot at various different biblical characters but this one will kind of be the first one outside of that realm But he's a man nevertheless that kept his heart with all diligence.

And he was a man whose life is really worth looking into, a man who loved God's Word, supremely and loved God, loved Jesus Christ with all of his heart. And so the importance of this man's life, it's almost impossible really to calculate how God used him. Only heaven really will ever know the issues of life that flowed from his heart as a result of the work that God gave him to do. And like Pilgrim's Progress, we'll also meet some other men along the way that we can learn from some good and some bad. But this is the life of William Tyndall.

His last name rhymes with spindle, so if you can remember that, it's easy to kind of put it all together, but if you've got an English Bible in your hands and if you've read the Bible, which most of us have, it's largely due to this man's work and his labors. There's a man who wrote a biography of this man and he says that not only was Tyndale the heart of the Reformation in England but he was the Reformation in England. And so I'm going to read these verses and then we'll pray. In verse 32 of Hebrews 11 it says, and what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword.

Out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, Turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword.

They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth." Well, Holy Father, this is your word. Lord, it's a testimony of your working in the lives of your people down through the ages. And Lord, today as we look into this man's life, we pray that we would not so much see this man as we would see your working through him, the glory that is due to your name, to use feeble vessels such as we are, oh Lord, to bring about great glory and honor to your name. Father, we pray that you would give us an understanding of your working and even a love for what you've done in history.

Lord, that we would feel a sense of attachment to the ones that you've sent before us and a great appreciation for their labors. Every time we read the word Lord that we would consider the cost for it to come down to us Lord. It wasn't by happenstance or by ease but Lord men have hazarded their lives and we are the recipients and we thank you that we are. Oh Lord root and ground us in your truth and help us to live lives that are worthy of the gospel. We thank you in Jesus name.

Amen. Amen. Well we're gonna be looking at William Tindall's life as I mentioned and and we're gonna be looking at it in different categories. The first thing I want to do is just lay, give you a lay of the land. Then we'll talk about his early life and then the spark that really got a hold of his heart where his mission actually took shape and form.

And then we'll talk about his mission and how he was able to accomplish it with the help of God. But I want you to come with me and take a trip back to medieval Europe, specifically England. And if you put yourself kind of in that context, Columbus had just discovered the new world two years earlier. The Roman Catholic Church is at its height, and of course at its height it's full of corruption all the way through. They're really lording over every single area of human life from the cradle to the grave and in their view they even think that they rule over the grave or beyond the grave.

If our brother today talked to us about the 95 theses and a lot of those happened to deal with the corruption of indulgences where you had wicked indulgent salesmen roaming the land of mainland Europe and England selling salvation with words like Johann Tetzel who would cry out as soon as the coin in the coffer rings the soul from Purgatory Springs and people would be in fear to see their relatives and loved ones set free from the torment of this fake doctrine of Purgatory. This had been going on for centuries here in Europe and if that wasn't enough the debauched lifestyles of those that claimed to represent Christ were an open secret. And men would go to virtually any lengths to keep their wives and their daughters away from these men that claimed to represent Christ, the clergy. They considered themselves too pure for marriage, but they kept concubines and visited brothels. It was a dark time.

And even worse than that, the path to salvation was presented as through man's devisings. Indulgences, as I just mentioned, relics. Men would make pilgrimages to different parts of the world. You know, today you can even go and see some of these relics. You can go to a place in Italy called Turin.

You might have heard of the Shroud of Turin, which is like a they claim it's Jesus Christ's face imprinted on linen. And you can go and pay some money and go and pray before this thing and something might happen to you. But back in those days they were a dime a dozen everywhere. You could go and see doubting Thomas's finger. You could pay money for that.

Hair, teeth, blood, and clothes of the saints. You know, you could go and visit and some miracle might happen. You had things that were called first-class relics and those were things that were directly associated with Jesus himself. You know the cross or pieces of the cross, nails, things like that. One of the things got so out of hand that they even had one called the Holy Foreskin which was something that was removed during Jesus' circumcision.

Of course, 18 different churches claimed to actually have this delicate piece And it was only discovered in the year 800 by this king, King Charles. But this is the corruption that was going through the world at this particular time. It was absolutely horrendous. And it was a continent that was largely ruled by fear and manipulation. One man put it like this.

He says, salvation was perceived more as an escape from the flames of hell than divine citizenship with a god of love, avoiding the torments of the damned rather than the embrace of a warm human Christ, a loving Savior. And the writer of Samuel, kind of you can almost see a parallel to that in the second chapter, third chapter, he says that the word of the Lord was rare in those days, and there was no widespread revelation. Kind of a similar time. But not only were the priests largely debauched, a lot of them, most of them were shrouded in ignorance. There was a man by the name of Bishop John Hooper, and he was a contemporary of Tyndall.

They went to Oxford together, and he became the bishop of a particular area. And he conducted a survey of 311 of his clergy members. And just to give you a sense of the level of ignorance, nine of the priests did not even know there were ten commandments. 33 had no idea where they were in the Bible and Matthew was the one that they kind of guessed the most frequently. It's got to be in Matthew.

Ten could not recite the Lord's Prayer and thirty didn't even know it was Jesus who had said it in the first place. So this is the lay of the land in these days. And into this world you've got this man William Tyndale. He's born and God is at work. He's going to bring out a revival out of this dark time.

And so 1494 marks the estimated time where most scholars think he was born. And He was born somewhere in the countryside of Gloucestershire. If you think of our brother Puyon Mershahi, he's about 23 miles away from where William Tyndall was born. And so nothing's known of his parents. We only know that he had two brothers.

And from quiet beginnings, God is going to use this man to literally rock the world like few others have really ever done. And he was quite a remarkable young man. If you think of his age, at the age of 12 or 13, it's estimated he went to Oxford University and he studied until he was about 22. He masters Greek, fluent in Greek. Later on, he will master Hebrew and five other languages where he can speak them fluently.

And before leaving Oxford, he's ordained as a priest and goes off to Cambridge for continued studies and it's while he's at Cambridge that the Lord seems to really grab hold of his heart and how is this so? Well, Martin Luther's tracts and some of his books were being translated and then circulated among the instructors and the students creating this great excitement and so into this environment Tyndale comes and he embraces the core truths of the Protestant Reformation. What an amazing beginning well something happens to him and it's about 1521 So 1517 marks when Martin Luther nailed those 95 theses to the Castle Church Wittenberg door. So four years later, he's about 28 years old. And Tyndale, he felt the need to step away from kind of academic life, this atmosphere that he was in, to give more careful thought to the teachings of the Reformation.

And he also wanted to study and really digest the Greek New Testament that was printed just a few years earlier. And he becomes a tutor of this wealthy family, this family of Sir John and Lady Ann Walsh. And it becomes this little sanctuary for him. He's back in the countryside away from the hubbub of big city life. And he's being totally transformed every morning and evening as he begins to read the Word of God in quietness.

And as we as we think about him in his life related to to your own life and your love for the word of God and your desire to know him more and to make him known. Well, here he was as he was in their home and dinnertime around the Walsh's table. It became a highlight of every day as it should be a highlight for us really in our day as we gather as families and talk about things that are important. Full of conversation, ideas, sometimes it got animated and heated that they got on hot topics and because the Walshes were somewhat wealthy family the clergy would come by and visit them on a regular basis. And of course you have this inevitable collision that takes place.

You've got a man that's literally, he's lit on fire by the Word of God on the one side with men intent on suppressing the Word of God on the other side. What do you think's gonna happen? Sparks. And so word began to get around that there's a seditious man living over at the Walsh's. This is kind of the timing and what was going on.

Well, the pressure begins to mount and during one of these dinners, a Catholic scholar who couldn't answer Tyndale's use of the Word of God and his insistence on the authority of God's Word above all else, He just gets flustered and he says, we were better to be without God's law than the Pope's. With one of the greatest comebacks of all time, This single blast of defiance, Tyndale responds, he says, I defy the Pope and all his laws and if God spare my life ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plow to know more of the scriptures than thou dost. And this was literally the straw that broke the camel's back. But you can see this was no limp-wristed scholar. Here is a man who knew what he was about and he wanted to make God known.

And this really became the driving force of his whole life, his whole mission was to make God known. And because of his great skill in the Greek, he decided he had to translate God's Word into the common tongue of the Englishman. Think about it for a second, that for 1,000 years, the only translation was really the Latin Vulgate. That's what people were using, And it was understood by so, so few, and it was accessed by even fewer people. And now for the first time in English history, you've got this man who will give room for God to actually be God and to speak.

Until now, it was off limits to allow God to speak in any other language than Latin. Think about that. And who spoke Latin? Only a very small percentage of the people. And so really what you have is the powers that be.

They're focused on keeping God mute. That's really their whole design. After all, how would they be able to sustain certain doctrines biblically if people began to see that they're not even based on the Bible at all? So they needed to retain their authority. And my mind goes to the scene of the soldiers that were sent to guard the tomb after the Lord Jesus was crucified and they sent him there to guard the tomb.

Well, how did that fare for the soldiers? You see, you have a better chance of keeping God's word suppressed. You have a better chance of keeping the tomb guarded as these soldiers did. And you saw what happened. Christ burst forth from that grave and in the same way you can't keep God's word down.

And it's going to burst forth and flood the banks and go into all the parts of the world. And his whole focus was to make God sound like the people, the common people sounded. And so what's beating in his heart after long centuries is that the Englishman would be able to know God himself. And if you think about it, it was such a time where so many of the words that we read, we take for granted. For example, in a few weeks, we're going to be celebrating what?

Thanksgiving. But that word did not exist until William Tyndale created that word. It wasn't in existence. Words like Godspeed, Passover, intercession, the mercy seat, busybody, taskmaster. These didn't exist.

And when you go to phrases like the beautiful phrases that we we read over when you're doing your morning devotion or when a man gets up and preaches, behold the Lamb of God. He put that together. I am the light of the world. Rise, take up thy bed and walk. So faith cometh by hearing.

No room for them at the inn. Let this cup pass for me." Or phrases like, like salt of the earth. You see, he took these and he wanted the true meaning to be conveyed to the average man. And so this mission of conveying the word of God, it would become the means of his death or the cause of his death at the end. He became a man who was exiled.

He was hunted. They put a bounty on his head. He was living under continual threat. And the Roman Catholic Church, they labeled this man as an arch heretic, not just a heretic, but an arch heretic, a renegade. He was a destroyer of the faith.

But this man, he would live in humble defiance to the enemies of God. He really became an enemy to the tyranny of the Roman Catholic Church that insisted on keeping the masses in darkness. And so the time came for him to leave the Walshes. He left with their blessing and in 1523 he embarks on a mission to London and goes to the big city. He traveled there with a singular purpose which was to obtain permission or authorization for a translation of the Bible into the English language.

And he goes there and he meets or he has an appointment set with the bishop, a man by the name of Cuthbert Tunstall. And this man's a real politician, he's a bishop, But like many of those days, the politicians and the bishops, they interwove together. But this man Tunstall, it seemed like a natural fit to go to because he had been a friend of Erasmus. And Erasmus, he was a big supporter of his translation of the New Testament into Greek. So you would think he would be happy to see the word of God in the commoners' language.

But he determined, this man, he determined to block. He was insistent at the same time as he looked over the channel and saw hell was breaking loose in Germany, he was going to do everything he could to block a Reformation happening here in England. He was so fearful and so he forced Tyndale to wait for an audience, something like a year, It's unknown exactly, but in God's providence, God is at work. And Tyndale ends up taking up lodging with a man by the name of Humphrey Monmouth. And this man was a well-connected cloth merchant that lived in London.

Well finally he gets in to see Tunstall and in that slimy political way he denies Tyndale's ask and says no I don't permit allow you to do this And as soon as he's done that, Tindal leaves. And Kunstl, he goes and he meets with all seven, there's only seven printers in all of London, and he goes to them and he forbids them, each one of them, to not allow anything translated from the Bible into English. So there's a work going on, but as I said, God is also at work and it turns out Monmouth is a member of this secret society called the Christian Brethren. He's a wealthy man and this association is an association of wealthy cloth merchants and their whole reason for being this secret society is to finance, smuggle, and sell forbidden Christian books and materials inside of England. And so this wealthy guild ends up financing Tyndale and his work while he waited.

And so you can imagine what is Tyndale going to do now? The temperature is being dialed up, persecution is happening, young men who were discovered spreading these materials around from this Christian brethren group were being martyred, were being killed, burned at the stake. Just a few years earlier, seven Lawlards, followers of John Wycliffe, they were burned in coventry for teaching little children the Lord's Prayer. Seven men killed for that infraction. And now you've got Luther's tracks.

They're flooding into Europe and into England. It's an unstoppable force. The Reformation really is on. And so we go over now to what he has to do. What is he going to decide at this point?

Well, exile becomes the only possible option for him. For everything, there is a season, we read in Ecclesiastes. And sometimes it's time to flee. And Tyndall decides it's time for him to flee. But where?

Where is he going to go in this kind of climate? Well, he ends up deciding that he's going to go to a place called Cologne in Germany, the city. In the next 12 years of his life he's going to spend them away. He's going to be a fugitive. He's moving from city to city.

He spends time in several different countries, always on the run, being chased, always. Imagine living in a certain situation where you don't know that knock at the door who that's gonna be or when you're walking around is that person following you. This is the kind of pressure that this man was living under and he would never return to England again. Life was hard. See he was on mission but it came at a cost to him.

And sometimes we're tempted to think of these men as otherworldly. Well, that's William Tyndale. That's Martin Luther, of course. But listen to him describe his own life. Listen to what he says.

My pains, my poverty, my exile out of my own natural country, and bitter absence from my friends, my hunger, my thirst, my cold, the great danger wherewith I am everywhere encompassed, and finally innumerable other hardships and sharp fighting which I endure. And why was he suffering? All he had to do was stop doing what he was doing to put down the pen to live a quiet life, go back to England. He had many opportunities, they appealed to him many times. He could have just gone quiet, but he had this burning passion and mission in his heart, so he continues laboring.

And two years later, he produces The English New Testament. And they print off 3,000 copies. No longer is the scripture going to be remote and distant, totally inaccessible to the average Englishman, but they smuggle the Bibles over, guess how? Remember Humphrey Monmouth? In bales of cloth and cotton.

This group that he got associated with in London becomes a chief means of smuggling the Word of God across the channel back in to England. And those things they just spread like wildfire and go everywhere. They're almost taken up before they reach the shore. And so of course you can imagine that the Roman Catholic Church in England is infuriated that this is actually happening. And of course, they ban the book.

If you get caught with a copy of Tyndale's Bible, that's it for you, literally. That's it, you're done. And not only that do they ban the book and offer this death sentence for anyone who possesses it, but they actually send men over to mainland Europe to go and hunt for him, but they can't trace him anywhere. So Tyndale embarks on another project. He's done the New Testament.

Well now he begins the Old Testament, And as I mentioned earlier, he teaches himself Hebrew. He's a genius. And he ends up translating the Pentateuch and Joshua to Second Chronicles, and then he does Jonah. But pressure continues to mount. Remember, he's always on the run.

And so he's forced to flee to another city. He gets on a boat. And as he's sailing along the coast of Holland, a massive storm overtakes the boat and destroys everything. He loses all of the work, the five books of Moses, all the way from Joshua to 2 Chronicles and Jonah. What are you gonna do?

This is probably the thing that jarred me the most. What would I do? My first question is why did God allow this? Why would God hinder and put a delay on the word of God getting to England. God, he's a God of sovereignty.

I don't have an answer for that. God is God. That's the only thing I can think of. But what happens? He goes back to work.

And after months and months and months, the five books of Moses were translated into English, printed in Antwerp, a city in Belgium, and smuggled over to England and distributed. This man, he wasn't going to stop. What's burning? I want you to think of what's burning in his heart. The next time you open your Bible and we glance over the pages, think about the Word of God and how men regarded it.

That's really my ambition. It's not so much to talk about Tyndale, but that you, that I, would have a higher view of God's Word in the light of how other men have regarded it. You see, not just the Reformation, but the English Reformation was now underway. And while Tyndale, he's trying to stay alive over in mainland Europe, there's also a team of men. He's not alone.

There's men smuggling, there's men distributing. All these things are happening over in England. Men who have counted the cost. And not only counted the cost, like sometimes how we say it, but men who were actually going to pay the price for their work. His closest friend, a man by the name of John Frith, he was arrested by a man named Thomas Moore.

If you ever read about the English Reformation, you're going to find Thomas More. He's the great enemy. If any man is an enemy of the Reformation, it's Thomas More. He caught him and burned him alive in 1531 at the age of 28 years old, his closest friend. One of his smugglers, a man by the name of Richard Bayfield, he was betrayed and then arrested and burned in Smithfield.

And then a man by the name of John Tewkesbury, he was a man who was converted under one of Tindal's books on justification by faith alone. Well, he was arrested three weeks later and he was taken and he had his brows squeezed until the blood came out of his eyes in Thomas Moore's garden. Then he was sent to the rack. I don't know if you boys, girls know what the rack is, but that's where you get stretched out in all your bones. Your whole body gets totally dislocated.

He was laid on there and when he was stretched until he was lame, then he was burned alive. And Thomas More rejoiced, This is what he said, I rejoice that my victim is now in hell where Tyndale is like to find him when they come together. Four months later a man by the name of James Bainham was sent to the flames for standing up during mass in St. Augustine's Church in England and lifting a copy of Tyndale's New Testament, pleading with the people to die rather than neglect God's word. Think about this.

The list goes on, including women, like a woman by the name of Elizabeth Barton. These lives are worth looking into. Hopefully you would get inspired to even consider looking into what God has been doing in history. The Reformation before and after, God is at work. He's doing mighty things.

But the hunt is on, and several Englishmen, as I mentioned, have been dispatched to go and capture him, either by Henry VIII on the one side or Thomas More. And so a frustrated Thomas More, They can't track this man. He writes to Erasmus. And he's so frustrated. He says, Tyndale seems to be everywhere and nowhere.

What he meant is that his word is being spread and disseminated across all of England. And yet, he's a ghost. No one can find him. This is the frustration of the enemies of God. They were hunting all over Europe, and he's going from place to place to place.

And he ends up in a place in Antwerp, as I mentioned earlier, which is a city in Belgium. And I want to just take a minute, just bear with me, but I want to take an important detour. I mentioned the name Erasmus just a minute ago, and I want you to take warning. Tyndall and Erasmus, both scholars. Tyndall and Erasmus, fluent in Greek, Hebrew.

They actually end up dying the same year, 1536. Obviously Erasmus, he's an older man, 28 years older than William Tyndall. Tyndall, as we'll talk about in a moment, he was strangled then burned to death. Erasmus dies in good standing in the apostate Roman Catholic Church. You see Erasmus, he had originally provided the spark for the Great Reformation.

He intentionally lit Europe on fire by translating the Bible into Greek, or the New Testament into Greek. In fact, the monks accused him, saying, you laid the egg, and Martin Luther hatched it. And his response was, I had expected a different kind of bird, not Martin Luther. And he was a man who possessed real boldness. He was concerned about the terrible abuses of the Roman Catholic Church, he smelled of reform.

Someone said he made a sweet sound. But listen to what he said here. He says, Christ wishes, this is Erasmus, Christ wishes his mysteries to be published as widely as possible. I would wish even all women to read the gospel and the epistles of St. Paul and I wish that they were translated into all the languages of the Christian people that they might be read and known not merely by the Scotch and the Irish but even by the Turks and the Saracens.

And Tindall, of course, would agree. But there was something missing, something our brother mentioned and hit on today. He seemed to see Christianity as a philosophy, a way of life. You know? But because he had been so inculcated with humanism, one core doctrine was missing.

He never understood and grasped the depravity, the total depravity of man. And when you don't understand who man is, what happens to the cross and the necessity of the cross? It diminishes over time. See, one man said he had no blood earnest about the dreadful human condition and the glory of salvation in Christ. And what made him and Tyndale totally different is that Tyndale understood Romans chapter 3 that all men were hellbound.

They were in bondage to sin. They were dead, blind, naked, hopeless, unless God first act. Christ must be preached. He must be known, else there's no remedy. See, do you see the difference between these two men?

And this is what Tyndale observed when he looked at Erasmus. He says, if apt and well aimed words could have reformed the church, Erasmus would have reformed it. Eloquence and well written prose, even apologetics. None saw the need more clearly than he, but his deeds were not correspondent with his words. He sat still and let things take their course.

Praise God for men who will not sit still and let things take their course. He remained on friendly terms with popes, cardinals, bishops, kings, the very men who could have purged the church but refused to do so. When Luther comes to the front, Erasmus half sympathizes, but he senses the danger. Sense like a nose, he smells danger. And so the question I have for you, for me, are you really in deadly earnest about the things of God and the Word of God.

Well back to our story. One man is successful in tracking down Tyndale. This man, he comes from a wealthy family. He had gambled all that his father had laid up for many years and lost it in London. He's got no moral character.

He's in these dire straits now. And he takes up the pledge, I'm going to hunt this man down and get the bounty. And he spends months, he goes over to Antwerp, and he spends months winning the confidence of Tyndale. And even Tyndale, one of his close associates, warns Tyndale, says something's wrong, something's not right with this man. But Tyndale, he ends up having a trust for this man.

And on that fateful day, he leads Tyndale into an ambush and he's arrested. Soldiers come from the front and from the back, and he's trapped in a narrow street. And he's taken to a place called Vilvard Castle, which is just north of Brussels, and he's held in a prison cell in the tower where he languishes for 18 months. But even here he's always singing one note as one of his observers, a man who was a contemporary and new Tyndale, described him as a man always singing one note. He converts his keeper, the keeper's daughter, and others of his household, but he's suffering.

He says, as he writes a letter, he says, my overcoat is worn out, my shirts also are worn out, and I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening. It is indeed worrisome, sitting alone, all alone in the dark. Well, he stays fast bound in prison that winter and up to October the next year. And on that day, October the 6th, 1536, he's led out of his cell in the tower. He's condemned as a heretic.

He's tied to a stake and they put a rope around his neck and strangle him and then he's set on fire. And after that he's blown apart by gunpowder. But before that rope was fastened over around his neck, before the executioner was able to pull it. He cried out his last prayer, Lord open the King of England's eyes. That was his prayer.

Almost like the Lord Jesus on the cross. He wasn't bitter, but he wanted England to know the word of God. 42 years old, never married, not even buried, just thrown out, the dogs will take care of him. Think about this man's life. You know, though I couldn't help but thinking he had no children, but has any man ever left a larger inheritance?

Not only did he change the course of England, but all of Western civilization really. And not just Western civilization, but consider this, that no other country in history has filled the earth with the knowledge of Jesus Christ as England has. And it was because of the work of a man who translated God's Word into English. I want to read the verse that I started with, just one of them. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy.

They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. And perhaps nothing is more fitting than leaving you really with the words of the man himself when it was great please to the people of England. He says, therefore, let us, pardon, let us therefore look diligently whereunto we are called, that we deceive not ourselves. We are called not to dispute as the Pope's disciples do, but to die with Christ that we may live with him and to suffer with him that we may reign with him. Let's pray.

Oh Lord we we thank you for your mighty works in the children of men. Lord, when we think of the acts that you have accomplished, sometimes Lord at the darkest time, to save men and to awaken masses. Lord, you have done it, you have been so good. Where would we be without your word, Lord? My prayer is that, Lord, We would be people that would be refreshed and renewed with a sense of your word.

Oh Lord, the next time we pick up our Bibles, that Lord we would have such a deep appreciation, not because of what William Tyndale did, but Lord, you sent your son. The very word, and he came and he lived, he died, rose again. He's sitting at your right hand and is coming again. Lord make us such a people that regard you, that love you, that order our lives in the light of who you are. Lord, we desperately need you.

We ask you to continue the work of the reformation here in our lives. Oh Lord, help us to be those that it would be said of us, they are always singing one note. Make it so, Lord, we pray in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. God bless you, we're dismissed.

Thank you.