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And now Lord, with our eyes wide open,

I want to thank you for 8 and a half years of mainly speaking about you, not only about you, but mainly. I have spoken to you, every time I've begun

these messages, I think without exception. I've spoken to you, I've sought your help

to speak these words by your power and for your glory. But mainly it's been about you. I've tried to model my speaking on the lines of the Apostle Paul who said,

for we are not like so many peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity as from

God in the sight of God we speak in Christ. So I have tried, Lord, to unfold the Book of

Romans from you and through you and all the while even often while preaching praying to you.

So I have spoken to you and I do admit though that it's almost always been about you and I think

Lord that's the way you meant it to be that's at least I see in your word I see in Romans

twice you said that the gospel is the gospel of Christ, the gospel of the son of God.

And therefore, I don't regret that these eight years

have been mainly about you rather than to you.

But Lord, it seems to me that the time has come not mainly to speak about you, but mainly to speak to you.

Lord, I have gotten so much help from the confessions of St. Augustine.

What a legacy he left us.

What a work you did in his life,

delivering him from lost and fornication, so much lechery, vanity, pride, what a great thing you did, O Lord, in Augustine's life.

And those 300 pages called The Confessions are remarkable, Lord, because every line of the Confessions is addressed to you. I've never read a book like that Lord, not even the Bible. And I got so much

help from it. It just occurred to me that I should do that. I should just pray this final sermon, sermon, all to you,

not mainly about you, but just to you.

So that's what I'd like to do, Lord. I would like to praise you. My heart is brimming

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