Let us turn once again to God's
Word in that portion of Scripture that we were considering in the
morning hour in Matthew chapter 8. The Gospel according to St. Matthew
chapter 8. And we read verses 1 to 4. When he was come down from the
mountain Previously in chapters 5, 6,
and 7 we read of that mountain, the Sermon on the Mount that
the Lord delivered on that occasion when he was come down from the
mountain. Great multitudes followed him. And behold, there came a
leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand,
and touched him, saying, I will, be thou clean. And immediately
his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus saith unto him, See
thou tell no man, go thy way, show thyself to the priest, and
offer the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony unto them. This morning we were considering
the leper, diseased. He sought to say something with
regards to the symptoms of that terrible disease. Well now I want us to think of
the leper cleansed, having considered the disease, to see this same
leper in his cleansed state. It is a great miracle that the
Lord Jesus Christ performs after his preaching in the mount not
only do we have this record here of him healing the leper but
he goes on in the following verses to speak of other miracles the
centurion's servant, the mother-in-law of Peter also being healed and
remember the significance of the miracles and that word that
is constantly used in John's Gospel, translated miracles,
yes, in our authorized version, but more literally it is the
Greek word for a sign. And what are those miracles? They are signs. They are signs
of the truth that this One who is able to perform so many miracles
is the Promised One, the Messiah. And later here in chapter 11
when we read of John the Baptist in the prison and how John sends
some of his disciples, he's full of doubt. John had heard in the prison
the works of Christ, we're told. And he sends two of his disciples.
And they say, aren't thou he that should come or do we look
for another? Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and show John
again those things which ye do hear and see. The blind receive
their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and
the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel
preached to them. And blessed is he whosoever shall
not be offended in me. Here is that that authenticates
Jesus of Nazareth. This is the mark that He is,
the promised one, the Messiah. And it is the miracles. But all
those miracles reach up to that conclusion, how the poor have
the Gospel preached unto them. There is a primacy given then
to the preaching, but not that we're to overlook in any sense
the importance of the miracles. the sign of the Messiah, but
also the miracles are a sign, we know, of the majesty of the
Lord Jesus Christ, an indication that He is divine. That first
of all the miracles is spoken of in the second chapter of John's
Gospel. This beginning of miracles did
Jesus in Cana of Galilee, it says, and manifested forth His
glorious and His disciples believed on Him. They saw something of
the glory that belongs unto Him as God with whom nothing is impossible. All these miracles, how important
they are and then as we said this morning with regards to
this particular miracle that's recorded at the beginning of
this 8th chapter in Matthew and I spoke this morning of the
mystery of the disease that the Lord is healing leprosy it's
no ordinary disease even the Lord when he heals the man directs
him then to go to the priest see they tell no man but go thy
way show thyself to the priest not to the physician go to the
priest, offer the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony unto
them. How that disease of leprosy is
evidently a type it's spoken of in some detail as we see there
in those chapters that we've been reading from today in Leviticus
13 and 14. How it is the priest who makes
the diagnosis It's the priest who performs those various rites
under the law whereby the leper is cleansed of his sin. Leprosy
is a type. And it's not just a type of sin
in general, which is what many would say. It's a type of sin.
It's not just a type of sin. More particularly, it is a type
of sin when it's been opened up by the Spirit of God in the
soul of a sinner. the sensible sinner, the sinner
who is conscious of his sins, who feels the awful disease of
leprosy. And now we see that even David,
or that man, the man after God's own heart, when he speaks of
his sins in the Psalm, think of the language that we referred
to this morning there in the 38th Psalm. What does David say? my iniquities are gone over my
head as a heavy burden, they're too heavy for me my wounds stink
and are corrupt because of my foolishness. Oh how David feels
that he is filled as he says there at verse 7 filled with
a loathsome disease there is no soundness in my flesh he's
describing the condition of leprosy but in a spiritual sense he's
diving the man who must confess his sin unto God, or against
thee, the only of thy sin, he says, and done this evil in thy
sight, how he feels it." Well, I want us now to turn to the
leper as we see him cleansed, and here in particular verses
3 and 4 we see something more of the commands and the compassion
of the Lord Jesus Christ. how Jesus put forth his hand
and touched him, saying, I will be thou clean. And immediately
his leprosy was cleansed. What compassion! And then the
Lord's command, Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man, but
go thy way, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that
Moses commanded for a testimony unto them. First of all, to say
something with regards to how the Lord refers here to the commandments
of Moses. At the end of verse 4, the man
is told, offer the gift that Moses, that Moses commanded for
a testimony unto them. Now this is clearly a reference
to those words that we read earlier at the beginning of Leviticus
14. as the Lord spoke unto Moses,
saying, This shall be the Lord of the leper in the day of his
cleansing. He shall be brought unto the
priest, and the priest shall go forth out of the camp, and
the priest shall look, and behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed
in the leper, then shall the priest command to take for him
that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean and seed of wood
and scarlet and hyssop. This is that that the Lord is
alluding to as he gives this particular command. What do we
see here then? The commandment of Moses. We
see how the Lord Jesus Christ is one who honors the Lord of
God. He was made of a woman and he
was made under the law. and just previously he had been
preaching there in the Sermon on the Mount and remember what
the Lord says back in chapter 5 verse 17 think not that I am
come to destroy the law or the prophets I am not come he says
to destroy but to fulfill for verily I say unto you till heaven
and earth pass one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass
from the law till all be fulfilled that whosoever therefore shall
break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall
be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But whosoever shall
do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom
of heaven. Now the Lord Jesus Christ has
not yet accomplished His great work of redemption, He has not
yet died. The ceremonial laws still pertain during the course
of his earthly ministry. The temple is still standing.
And he tells his manuscript, he is to have respect unto those
things that are commanded of Moses in the Old Testament. Or remember the language that
we find there in Deuteronomy chapter 24 and verse 8, take
heed in the plague of leprosy. that thou observe diligently,
and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall
teach you, as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do." How
the Lord Jesus, you see, He has respect for the Word of God. He has not come to destroy the
Word of God. He has come to fulfill the Word
of God. But that fulfillment is what He is now engaged in.
and those Old Testament laws, as I said, they still pertain.
Christ honors the law, but also here we see quite clearly that
the Lord Jesus Christ is one who stands above the law of God. He stands above the law. Here
in verse 3, the response of the Lord Jesus to the request that
the man makes Lord, if thou wilt, he said,
thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand
and touched him, saying, I will. Be thou clean. And immediately
his leprosy was cleansed. Now what does the law say? Oh,
the law says, touch not. Touch not the unclean thing.
Why this is a leper? This disease is contagious. This
man is unclean. Or this man you see, he is one
who is cut off. He's a man excluded from Israel,
outside the camp. Remember those words again, we
read them in the morning? In chapter 13, verse 45, the leper in whom the
plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and
he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry
unclean, unclean. All the days wherein the plague
shall be in him, he shall be defiled, he is unclean, he shall
dwell alone. Without the camp shall his habitation
burn. No one is to go near Him, He
is to warn people of Him. If ever He finds Himself in the
presence of others He must declare His uncleanness to them. That
is the law. That is the law of God. That
is what we just read there in that 13th chapter of the book
of Leviticus. But now the Lord Jesus stands
above that law. Oh, when the man comes He asks
the Lord, if thou wilt, he says, if thou
wilt, thou canst make me clean. And what does the Lord say? I
will. All His willingness, you see.
His willingness to come to the leper, His willingness to come
to the sinner. This is the man who is the friend
of sinners. This is the man who eats and drinks with sinners.
How the Jewish authorities derided him for that. Ridiculed him.
The friend of sinners. And yet it's what the Lord Jesus
Christ glories in. He says to this poor leper, I
will. Be thou clean. And immediately
his leprosy was cleansed. And then the Lord said he is
to honor and respect the law, show thyself to the priest and
offer the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony unto them. Or the priest is going to be
constrained here. He must pronounce this man to
be clean. And why is he clean? Because
of his dealings with the Lord Jesus Christ. or the Lord Jesus
Christ is that one who has come and he satisfies all the demands
of the Holy Lord of God. That's a wonderful thing, is
it not? He is made of a woman, he is made under the Lord, and
what does he do? He honours the Lord, he magnifies the Lord. And this priest, he must pronounce
this man a clean man because of the Lord Jesus Christ who
has satisfied that Lord of God. For He was made under the law
that He might redeem them that were under the law, that they
might receive the adoption of sons. What does Paul say there
in Romans 10.4? Christ is the end of the law.
Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believeth. He is above that law. He has
honored and magnified that law. Paul asks the question in Galatians
chapter 3, Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because
of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise
was made. Here is the seed, the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is the seed of the woman,
that very one promised back in Genesis chapter 3. But not only
is He that seed of the woman, He is the seed of Abraham. The promise is to Abraham's seed.
Abraham's seed is what? Oh yes, we see it in type. It's
Isaac of course, the promised son. But Isaac, a type of the
Lord Jesus. And He has come, you see. and
the law has been fulfilled. It's had its accomplishment in
the Lord Jesus Christ. How the law is that that simply
serves the gospel. Paul makes it so plain there
in Galatians chapter 3 how that the gospel must have the priority. As he says in verses 16 and 17 The Gospel is 430 years before
the Law, in the promise that God gave
to Abraham concerning his seed, and his seed is Christ. Read
Galatians chapter 3, what a chapter it is. Here then we see how Moses
speaks of the commandment of Moses. He honors that commandment,
He honors that law, but He is that One who is above it, He
comes, He fulfills it, He accomplishes it. He is the end of the law,
for righteousness to everyone that believes. But then, besides
this reference to the command of Moses, we have here the commandment
also of the Lord Jesus Christ. The beginning of verse 4 Christ
says, See thou tell no man, but go thy way, show thyself to the
priest. See thou tell no man. Why does the Lord give such a
commandment as that? But I think Calvin's comment
is quite a helpful one. He says that miracles were in
danger of completely swamping Christ's teaching. That's how
the Reformer interprets that particular commandment. Miracles
were in danger of completely swamping the Lord's ministry. The event is not only recorded
here in Matthew, as I said this morning, we find it in the other
synoptic Gospels. It's also in Mark chapter 1 and
in Luke chapter 5. And when we compare the different
accounts we have a much fuller picture of just what did occur. Now in Mark's account at the
end of Mark chapter 1 We have this commandment again
from the Lord, verse 44, See thou say nothing to any man,
but go thy way, show thyself to the priest, and offer for
thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded for thy testimony
unto them. But, says Mark, but he went out and
began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. in
so much that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city but
was without in desert places and they came to him from every
quarter." Now, the miracle, you see, there's the danger of the
miracles swamping the ministry, the preaching of the Lord Jesus
Christ. The main purpose of the miracles,
as we saw, to emphasize is to authenticate the Lord's teaching.
The preaching is that that must have the prime position. And the miracles are always secondary
to that. Now we see it in the second chapter,
the opening part of the second chapter of that epistle to the
Hebrews. Paul speaks there of that great
salvation, verse 3, how shall we escape if we neglect? So great
salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord,
and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him, God also
bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with diverse
miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will. Oh, the ministry of Christ, the
ministry of His Apostles, it's all authenticated, it's all owned
by God. And how does God own and acknowledge
that ministry? Bearing them witness, it says,
with signs and wonders, diverse miracles, and gifts of the Holy
Ghost according to His will. There were no New Testament Scriptures,
of course, at that time when the Lord Jesus, His ministry,
we don't have the records that we have now in the Fourfold Gospel
of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. We don't have the writings of
Luke, the Acts of the Apostles, or the Epistles of the New Testament. How was their preaching authenticated? By the miracles. No more do we
stand in need of miracles to authenticate the ministry. The
authority now is altogether in the Word of God, the complete
Canon of Scripture, to the Law and to the Testament. If they
speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light
in them. Beware of those who will speak today of miracles. We don't need the miracles, we
have the Word of God. That doesn't mean that we cannot
pray to God. Nothing is impossible with God.
God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or see.
We're not denying that God is all-powerful still. But there
are not to be those miracles as they were at this time. And here you see the great Problem
is that the people are so overwhelmed with the miracles, so taken up
with the miracles. So the Lord says, See thou tell
no man. Or the Lord is so conscious of
the purpose of his coming, he has come as that one who is the
great prophet. The words again of Nicodemus,
we know that thou art a teacher, a rabbi come from God. No man
can do those miracles that thou doest except God be with him. This is a teacher who has come
from God. The Lord Jesus, that prophet
by the fulfillment of the prophetic office. When we see him there in the
Mount of Transfiguration We read of how there were with him two
others, Moses and Elijah. Moses representing the Lord of
God, Elijah representing the prophets, and they speak of that
deceased that the Lord Jesus Christ was going to accomplish
his death at Jerusalem. All is fulfilled in the Lord
Jesus Christ. All that ministry of the Old
Testament, the Lord and the prophets, He is that one who is the great
teacher. And as I have said, look at the context here in the
previous chapters. Chapters 5, 6 and 7, what do
we have? We have Christ preaching, seeing
the multitudes. He went up into a mountain and
when he was set, his disciples came onto him and he opened his
mouth. and taught them. And the record,
that remarkable sermon that runs through those three chapters.
And then when we come to the end of chapter 7, when Jesus had ended these sayings,
the people were astonished at His doctrine, for He taught them
as one having authority and not as described when He was come
down from the mountain. comes down from the mountain,
he performs the miracle, but the miracle is quite secondary.
Or the important thing, the vital thing is the ministry, the preaching
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we have to recognize that.
It was recognized, of course, at the time of the Protestant
Reformation. We've been thinking these last days of the 500th
anniversary of what many consider to be the commencement of the
Reformation with Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the door of
the Castle Church at Wittenberg. And when that Reformation, just
some 10-20 years later, comes to our shores, comes here to
England, do we not see it as a great and a mighty movement
of the Spirit of God, particularly in terms of the Word of God.
Even Henry VIII, who was never anything more than a papist,
yet he issues an order that the Great Bible is to be placed in
every parish church throughout England. The Word of God was
rediscovered at the time of the Reformation. that there were
those raised up to preach the Word of God. It was a great movement
of the Spirit in terms of the Word of God here in England and
it was Latimer. I love that quotation from Latimer
where he says, this is the only office of God that's ordained
to save us by. Let us maintain this. He's speaking
of ministry, the preaching of the Word of God. God's Word read
Now, besides the Great Bible, they put the homilies also into
the parish churches throughout England because the ignorant
priest of the Roman church knew nothing of the Word of God. And
the reformers saw to it that these homilies, sermons really,
were to be read together with the Word of God in the parish
church. Nothing wrong, you see, in that sense with read sermons. or we want to preach the Word,
but where there is no minister to preach, why not someone read
a good sermon in the hearing of the people? Faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Or we read of those that
perished in the wilderness, those 40 years of the wanderings of
the children of Israel, why did they perish? because faith was
not mixed with the things that they heard of Moses. When they
heard the Word of God there was no fight. Or that fight might
come with all of our hearing. The Lord Jesus, we see Him as
that one, then He's a prophet. He is the Prince of all preachers.
Think it's so wrong when others are referred to as the Prince
of preachers? Who is the Prince of preachers?
The Lord Jesus and none other. that title surely belongs to
him. And we not only have this record, these three chapters
in Matthew, but think of those, those valedictory discourses.
In many ways we might say the Lord's final sermon in John,
John chapters 14 and 15 and 16. And there in chapter 15 where
we read the words, Now are ye clean. through the words which
I speak unto you." Or that the Lord would come and speak His
word unto us. It's a cleansing word. How it
cleanses the leper. How the Lord here touches the
leper and his claim. But His word, you know, it's
a cleansing word. If we do but hear His voice,
when Paul writes to those Ephesians, you have not so learned Christ,
he says. if so be you have heard him and been taught by him as
the truth is in Jesus they never heard the Lord Jesus in the flesh
they heard Paul and doubtless they heard others who were ministering
there in the church at Ephesus but you see what the preaching
is it's the voice of the Lord Jesus that comes you have not
so learned Christ if you have been taught by him as the truth
is in Jesus. They heard Christ. And that word
of the Lord Jesus, it's a cleansing word. Now are ye clean, He says,
through the words which I have spoken unto you. Or do we come to hear that word
of the Lord Jesus? When He but utters the words,
I will, He says, be thou clean. So all the Lord has to say, and
all the filth of our sins gone. There is the power, the authority
of that Word of God. We spoke of the power of that
Word only last Lord's Day evening, those opening words of Ezekiel
chapter 2. The power of the Word. Not the
words of a man, it's hearing the Word of God. It's the effectual
Word, you see. Or there's a general call in
the Gospel when they're is the ministry, the preaching of the
Word. But we want more than that. We want the effectual call. We
want to know that it's not the words of a man. It's more than
that. It's the Word of the Lord Jesus that comes to us. He is
the commandment of Christ and He will not have His ministry,
His Word swamped by the miracles. And so He says to the man, See thou tell no man. that go
thy way, show thyself to the priest and offer the gift that
Moses commanded for a testimony unto them. The man was disobedient
and yet it's all in the purpose of God. It's all in the purpose
of God. That's quite evident, is it not? From what we read there at the
end of that first chapter in Mark. He goes out and he publishes
it abroad. and Jesus could no more openly
enter into the city but was without in desert places but they're
coming to him, they're still coming to him from every quarter
they're coming to him or the the commandment of the Lord Jesus
Christ then reminding us of the primacy of preaching and then
thirdly tonight to look more carefully at the request that
the leper makes. Because in that request we see
his faith. It's a language of faith. Verse 2. Behold, there came a
leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean. if thou wilt." How he bows down
before the sovereignty of the Lord Jesus Christ and acknowledges
that sovereignty. But then that wonderful response
of the Lord Jesus, we've already touched on it in verse 3. The
man says, if thou wilt, and the Lord says, I will. Be thou clean. Now the Lord Jesus is himself
the fulfillment of those things that are written in Leviticus
chapter 14 that that he is telling the man
to do to go to the priest and to offer the gift that Moses
had commanded It's those things that we read earlier, there in
that 14th chapter. The Leviticus, verse 4, Then
shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed
two birds, alive and clean, and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop. And the priest shall command
that one of the birds be killed in an urban vessel over running
water. As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar
wood and the scarlet and the hyssop and shall dip them and
the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over
the running water and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to
be cleansed from the leprosy seven times and shall pronounce
him clean and shall let the living bird loose into the open field
and as I said this morning having the type we have such variety
there are many details to the type because there is such a
richness and fullness in the work of the Lord Jesus there
are two birds the one is to be slain but the blood is not to
be spilt in vain it must not fall to the ground it is to be
caught in this earthen vessel where it will be mixed with the
living water, the running water, that's fresh water And then the blood is to be sprinkled
upon the man that is to be cleansed from his leprosy seven times.
Seven of course, the number of perfection, it's a perfect cleaning. It's all fulfilled in the Lord
Jesus, it's all type. And then that living bird, which
has also been dipped, in the blood of that that was sacrificed,
is to be taken and released in the open field, to fly away. It speaks of Christ's resurrection
from the dead. We see Christ crucified, we see
Christ raised again from the dead, and then there is more
that is to be attended to, the sacrifices, as we read in the
following verses. The trespass offering and the
sin offering, and the burnt offering, such a fullness in the work of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And it all reminds us of that
perfect work that Christ accomplished. How all those ceremonial, all
those Levitical laws are no more. Because now we have the substance,
there we have The type Christ, the anti-type, there we have
the shadow. In the New Testament we have
the substance of these things, everything fulfilled in the Lord
Jesus Christ. But this man, what of this man?
And I said in the second verse we see something of his faith,
the reality of his faith, how he submits to the sovereignty.
of the Lord Jesus, if thou wilt, he says. Thou canst make me clean. He has every confidence, every
trust in the Lord Jesus as that one who is able. Able to cleanse
him, he is able to save. He is able to save to the uttermost
all that come unto God by him. Oh, this man surely, he'll be
like that bird that was released in the open field. You know,
the liberty of the Gospel, deliverance from all his sins, as well as
cleansing from all his leprosy. This is what Christ has done.
He's accompanied salvation to sinners. He hasn't just made
salvation possible. He's made salvation sure and
certain for all those that the Father gave Him. His particular
redemption, as we said this morning, when that blood is caught in
the earthen vessel, not spilt in vain. Spelled that he might
be a ply. But the faith of this man, as
he acknowledges Christ's sovereignty, so he worships him. Behold, there
came a leper and worshipped him. Oh, are we not reminded of that
woman of Canaan that we read of in a later chapter, chapter
15. The woman of Canaan. Now, she
comes and initially she's rejected, she's reproved. She's a Canaanite-ish
woman. The Canaanites were a wicked
nation. They were those descended from Noah's grandson Canaan. Cursed be Canaan. It says cursed
be Canaan. Oh, that the children of Israel,
as they entered into the Promised Land, they were to destroy the
Canaanites. They didn't actually destroy them. But our God had
pronounced His curse upon that people. And yet, oh, this Canaanitish
woman, she comes and she begs of the Lord that He would heal
her daughter, grievously vexed with the devil. And the Lord
doesn't answer her. The Lord appears to ignore her,
but she will not be denied. Why the Lord has to acknowledge
great is thy faith, he says. Thou is her faith expressed.
It's similar to the faith of this man. There in chapter 15
and verse 25 it says, She worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. Oh,
what worship that is, friends! Is that how we desire to worship
the Lord Jesus Christ? When we say, Lord, help me. Lord, save me. Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean. That's worship. That's real worship. People, in general, have no proper
understanding of what worship is. They think it's ceremony.
You speak to the man in the street, or not the man in the street,
the man who is probably attending his parish church, or his mass
house, or wherever. It's all the ceremony. That's
worship. That is not worship at all. That is real worship,
which is abomination in the sight of God. There is a blessed simplicity
in the Lord Jesus. That's the great thing. We've
referred several times to that 14th chapter in Leviticus, where
we have the cleansing of the leper, all the ceremonies that
had to be attended to under the Old Testament. All that's gone,
done. The New Testament speaks of that simplicity that is in
the Lord Jesus Christ, and the simplicity of worship in the
New Testament. We worship the Lord Jesus when
we come with these simple requests. Lord, help me. Lord save me. Lord if thou wilt thou canst
make me clean. Oh God help us that we might
worship in such a fashion as that and the Lord receives that
worship. Remember what the Lord says to the devil in the temptations. You remember after his baptism,
he's led of the spirit into the wilderness and he's tempted of
Satan. We have it here in Matthew chapter
4. You can read it there. And what does the Lord say? Chapter
4 verse 10 to Satan. Get thee hence, Satan, for it
is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only
shalt thou serve. That's what the Lord says. Thou
shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve. God only is to be worshipped
and the Lord Jesus, He never rebukes anyone who comes and
worships Him. Never rebukes them. Why? Because
He is God. He is God's manifest in the flesh. Oh, we'll sing As we come to
the end of the service just now, those words in the hymn 306. As I close with this, the language
there in the last verse of the hymn. Leprous souls, press through
the crowd in thy foul condition. Struggle hard and call aloud
on the great position. waits till thy disease he cleansed,
begging, trusting, pleading, when and where and by what means,
to his wisdom leaving. Oh, the Lord help us in to worship
Christ in that manner. Amen.