We'll be back in Genesis 3 this
evening as we were last week, but this week instead of the
fall, we're looking at our representatives. It was Adam's responsibility
and his duty to obey God, the one that created him. And it's
also the responsibility of every one of us to honor our Lord,
obey Him, trust Him fully, praise Him, And that first man, Adam,
he had no sin. He was morally innocent, didn't
know what sin was. And he was brought into a world
that did not know sin. It ain't like it is now. There
was a man that didn't know sin, morally innocent in a world that
didn't know sin, and God gave him one command. And He gave
him the consequence for disobeying the Word of the Lord. Look here
in Genesis 2 verse 16. And the Lord God commanded the
man, which is his right to do. He made him. He can do with his
own as he sees fit. The Lord God commanded the man,
saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat.
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not
eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die." A commandment was given to Adam. Man's not independent. Man's not sovereign. Do you know
that? There's a huge case and epidemic
in our nation right now. I'm sovereign all the way to
the jailhouse. See how it works out for you. That's our sinful mind thinking
we're independent. I get to make these decisions
and I can rule God. We're sovereign and nobody can
touch me and tell me what to do. We were created by somebody.
It's our moral obligation to serve that moral law, obey God,
serve Him, worship Him. Man's subject to the holy high
command of God Almighty. And we're responsible to serve
Him, obey Him, and glorify Him. And we are either the servants
of sin or we're the servants of God. The Holy Spirit said through
the Apostle Paul there in Romans 6, Whether of sin unto death,
you can obey sin, you can obey your independence and your thoughts
and your ways and your ideas about God all the way to the
graveyard. Or of obedience unto righteousness,
you can honor the Lord, obey Him, and worship Him. We see Satan enter the garden
and put a question on God's Word, and that's how he beguiled Eve.
Look here in chapter 3, verse 1. Now the serpent was more subtle
than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he
said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden? How did he start out? That's
what we looked at last week. We told him what the Lord said.
The Lord said, you can eat of any tree of the garden, colon, butt. And
that command, oh, we're agreeing on truth. We're laying a good
foundation so we can have a good conversation is what Satan's
doing. That's the devil doing that. And the woman said unto
the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden, God hath said, ye shall not eat it, neither shall ye
touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the
woman, ye shall not surely die. We're to try the spirits. We
check every word that someone says by comparing it with God's
Word. The Holy Spirit told us through
Isaiah, to the law and to the testimony. Here's what the Lord
says. Here's what my experience is.
Check both of them. If they speak not according to
this Word, it's because there's no light in them. Someone says,
well, God has no hands but your hands. Well, God's trying to
do things. Well, all these things are true.
We love tulip, but you have to be circumcised. All these things
are true. You've got to keep a holy day.
Try them. Is that what the Word of the
Lord says? Satan spoke of this forbidden tree as if God had
lied. Look here at verse 5, For God
doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall
be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that
it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make
one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave
also to her husband with her, and he did eat. God never said
there was something wrong with that tree, did he? He never said
there was something wrong with that fruit. That fruit was just
fine. The wrong is not in things. You hear that? The wrong is not
in things of this world. Guns don't kill people. People
kill people, don't they? Extra unemployment checks don't
make people lazy. They already were lazy. The problem's
in us. Problem's in us. The problem
with this fruit is when the woman saw, she took. She saw all these
things in fruit, she took it. The reason it was wrong to eat
of that tree was simply because God said not to do it. That's
not complicated, is it? That's not something hard. I'm
going to have to write that down 45 times so I can memorize it.
Don't eat of that tree. You'll die when you eat it. Now
notice when Eve ate, nothing happened. But immediately when
Adam ate, something remarkable took place. Look here in verse
6, end of verse 6. She took the fruit thereof and
did eat, and gave also to her husband with her, and he did
eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that
they were naked. When Adam ate it, he broke God's
law. And both of them died spiritually,
and physically they began dying at that very moment. Not only
did they die, but all of mankind died in Adam. Turn over to Romans
5. I owe you a place there in Romans
5. We'll be back to it a couple of times. Paul is going to explain this
for us very clearly and very plainly. Romans 5 verse 12 says, Wherefore,
as by one man, Adam, Sin entered into the world and death by sin.
So death passed upon all men because for that all have sinned. Adam was the head and he was
the representative of all of mankind. He was the head of Eve
and all that would be born of him, his whole seed. He was the
legal representative of all of us. And every child born of Adam
was in Adam's loins in that garden whenever he sinned against God,
when he disobeyed Him. With that, what Adam did, his people did
in him. All those that would be born
are after him. And since all will be born of Adam, every person
will be born of Adam's seed, and all of us have Adam's nature.
That's what we're born with. And legally, we were guilty because
of Adam's sin. And spiritually, this first nature
that we come into this world with, it's corrupt by Adam's
seed being passed through us in this natural birth. Man gets mad and says, that ain't
fair. Where I grew up, there's a real good documentary, y'all
gotta watch it sometime, called Hatfields and McCoys. It's a
real common story where I'm from. I was born about half a mile
from where all that took place. That was a hundred and fifty-five
years ago or something. Do you know too, well I'm sure
to this day, when I was a kid going to school, Hatfields and
McCoys didn't get along. That's generations since your
grandpa stole some trees off of the other man's land. You didn't do that. You didn't
chop them trees down. It don't matter. It's a Hatfield
or that's a McCoy. We're Adams. People are so worried about race
in this country. What they ought to be worried about there's one
race. Adam's race, and we've offended God. Nothing else matters. It ain't gonna matter only that.
It's things people are so worried about. On their deathbed, if
somebody's, I mean, they know it. They got an hour, and they're
meeting the holy God, and I come to them, and I say, boy, don't
worry about that political trouble. Oh, so-and-so got voted out.
We got a video on him. They don't tell me that. I don't
care about that. Yeah, you shouldn't have cared
the whole time, huh? Don't matter, does it? Adam is the only man
who ever sinned to become a sinner. Think about that. He's the only
one that ever sinned and then became a sinner by sinning. We
sin because we are sinners. That's why we sin. Every child
of Adam is conceived in sin. We're formed in the womb. We're
shaped in iniquity and we come out of the womb with nothing
but sin, nothing but guilt of Adam's transgression. That's
what David was telling us there in Psalm 51 and Psalm 58. I was
conceived in sin, I was shaped in iniquity, and I come out of
the womb speaking lies. Nobody had to teach us that.
Here's the fruit of that sin. The nature that we have brings
forth fruit. Look here back in Genesis chapter
3. Leave your marker there in Romans 5. Genesis 3. What's that fruit? What comes
out of the instinct of Adam's seed? In verse 7, Genesis 3 verse 7,
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked. Guilt, shame came in. And they sewed fig leaves together
and made themselves aprons. No one taught them that. No one
instructed Adam and Eve to do that, did they? What was that
nature? What was that sin nature? The first thing they did, they
became self-righteous religionists immediately. This is why every
sinner is religious by nature. I don't have to talk anybody
into clean living, into going to church. We go to services.
or we sing loud, or we play the drums real good. I give to the
homeless. I don't have to talk anybody
into being religious. Adam's sin nature does that. I try to
talk people out of that and bow unto a holy God. Knock that stuff
off. Quit it. Leave it. Turn from
it. Look to Him. Come to Him. Beg for mercy. Growing up there was a man The
Lord saved his wife. And she went home to tell her
husband about it. And he owned a tavern. And he said, I ain't
going to that church. That man will make me sell my
tavern. So she kept going. It was a year or so later. She
said, come to church with me. He said, I ain't going there.
I have to sell my tavern. So finally she talked her husband
into going to church. And she heard a man preach the gospel.
The man was nothing. Christ is all. Bow to Him. Worship Him. Obey Him. Praise
Him. know him, love him, come to him. And that man talked to that pastor
after, and he said, I appreciate that message, but I ain't selling
the tavern. And that preacher said, don't. You ain't got to
sell your tavern. It's how you make a living. Do
what you want. I don't care. What? Every other preacher always
taught me to sell my tavern. I don't care what you do. Bow
to God. That's what you need to do. You
know what happened about three years later? Not a word was said. Man sold his tavern. He quit
selling whiskey for a living. Who did that? Did a man do that?
God did it, didn't he? He worked in the heart of his
child. Every sinner tries to cover their own sin by their
own working. Works in religion crept into
Adam and Eve because their nature had become entity against God. Hate came in. Look here in verse
8. There were enemies. They heard the voice of the Lord
God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. He'd done
that often before, hadn't he? And Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the
garden. Normally, they had communion with the Lord God. He'd come
down and spoke to them. And now they hid from Him. If there was all them people
up on the hill getting ready to come over, what would you
do? Hide. Why? That's the enemy. The enemy's coming. We can't fight them. Hide. Adam
hid, didn't he? This is an example of what Paul
meant when he said, the carnal mind is enmity against God, for
it's not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Run
and hide. Run and hide. And also, they
blame someone else and they blame God. Look here at verse 12. Genesis
3, 12. And the man said, the woman whom
thou hast gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I
did eat. It's your fault. You gave her to me. God shows
us in the fall and what took place in this garden, the one
reason that sin exists in the whole human race. Why does sin
exist in this world? Why is there so much corruption?
Why is every thought of man evil and wicked and all that? It's
not our environment that makes us sinners. We became sinners
in Adam. It's not our circumstances. that make us sinners, we died
in Adam. The one reason sin exists in
every person the world over is because, as Paul said so plainly,
in Adam all died. That was our representative. Many will get really mad at that.
That offends a lot of people. And you know what? The good news
that goes with that, that offends a lot of people too. If it makes
them mad, that's good. Maybe you're paying attention
to what my dad said. Let's look back at Romans 5. Now we've come
to the good news. Adam was a type of Christ. He was a picture in this of Christ. Paul is speaking of Adam here
in verse 14, Romans 5, 14. Nevertheless, death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the
similitude of Adam's transgression." They didn't disobey God directly. They didn't go eat the fruit
of the tree because they couldn't get to that tree. It wasn't the
same thing that Adam had done. But they still died, didn't they?
People still got buried in the ground. says, "...who had not
sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is
the figure of him that was to come." Paul says this is a picture
of Christ. How could that be a picture of
Christ? How could Adam be a figure of Christ, the one that was to
come? Just as Adam was the head of everyone he represented, the
Lord Jesus Christ is the head and he's the representative of
everyone that's put in him, all his people. When we read all
in relationship to Adam, It means all who Adam represented. And
when we read all in relationship to Christ, it means all who Christ
represented. We had nothing to do with becoming
condemned sinners. We weren't there that day when
Adam sinned. Adam did it all. and we fail in Him. We fall on
our own, but we fail in Him. It says in verse 12, Romans 5,
12. Wherefore, as by one man sin
entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon
all men, for all have sinned. Now drop down verse 18. Therefore,
as by the offense of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation. By the offense of one, Adam,
judgment came upon everyone who Adam represented. All his seed,
all his offspring. But thanks be to God, this figure,
in the same manner, Christ, we have nothing to do with being
made righteous in God. We didn't have anything to do
with falling. We went there with Adam. But that's a blessing. We don't
have our hand in being made righteous. Christ does it all. Christ does
it all. End of verse 18. Even so, in
the same manner, by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon
all men unto justification of life. By the righteousness of
one, by Christ's obedience, by Adam's disobedience would fail.
By Christ's obedience, that free gift of justification, that free
gift of life, came upon all that he represented. Every one of
them. Same way. This is the figure.
This is the top. We know all that Adam represented.
He was our seminal head. They were born of him and his
lineage. And so, who are those that Christ
is the federal head of? If Adam represents everybody,
all born of man, who had an earthly father, who does Christ represent?
Who are those that He made righteous? Turn over to John chapter 10.
Just in case somebody may hear this, and I say, well, Christ
represented the whole human race. Tribe of spirits. That's a common
message. He died for everybody. He's trying
to say, get God's Word and read it. Here's what Christ had to
say. John 10, verse 11. He says, I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. Verse 15. As the Father knoweth me, even
so I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep."
He died for the sheep. He's the Good Shepherd. Now he's
speaking to those Pharisees, those self-righteous Pharisees,
down in verse 26, John 10, 26. But you believe not, because
you're not of my sheep, as I saith unto you. He didn't say, you're
not of my sheep because you don't believe. He said, you don't believe
because you're not of my sheep. That's not everybody, is it?
Christ laid down His life for the sheep. By His obedience,
He justified them. All those are in Him. He made
them righteous. He gave them a holy nature. And sin can no
longer be charged to them because God's justified them. All that
are in Him, all that He represented, sin can't lay a hand on you.
No accuser. A dog can't wag its tongue. It
don't matter. Apostle Paul told us, he said,
who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It's God
that justifies. Who's going to blame one of God's
sheep? One that was in him. It's done. The work's finished.
Who is he that condemneth? What you're doing is wrong. Christ
died. Yea, rather, that is risen again,
who is even at the right hand of the Father, who also maketh
intercession for us. That's a promise, isn't it? With
that promise to his people that he represented in time, Christ
will give them spiritual life. He's going to teach them this
good news. Give them faith to believe on Him and not want to
be lost because God's justice demands they be saved. They're
represented to pay the price. His justice demands they be saved.
Christ was declaring this down in verse 27. John 10, 27. My
sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and
I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father which
gave them me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck
them out of my Father's hand. Who are those that Christ represented?
Adam represented all mankind. Whose ones of Christ are in him,
his sheep that he represented? It's those that he loves, that
he knows. Those that he comes to, those that he calls, those
that hear his voice, because he speaks to them, and those
that follow him, and those that will never perish. When I look at me, when I look
at my thoughts, my actions, my beliefs, anything about me, anything
in this world, boy, I'm just a fearful person. I get so shook
up, my mind just waves going like crazy. Oh, I don't know
what's going to happen. Oh, I don't know about this.
Oh, scared to death, don't I? Do you think Christ will lose
anyone he died for? Of course not. That's absurd. Of course he wouldn't. I'm looking
to Him. I'm looking to His promises.
If you're scared to death here, don't worry about this world.
Look to Him. That's what His sheep do. Those
are the ones He came to save. He sought out. The Lord told
Ezekiel, He says, A shepherd seeketh out his flock in the
day that he is among his sheep that are scattered, so will I
seek out my sheep. and will deliver them out of
all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark
day." It's so cloudy. It's so dark. I can't find the
Lord. I can't find comfort. He'll come
to you. He'll get a hold of you, and
He'll deliver you. Yank you clean out of this world, won't He?
What a promise. That's a blessing, isn't it?
Turn back to Romans 5. Here in Romans 5 verse 19, notice
these words, it says, were made and be made. Were made and be
made. Romans 5 verse 19. For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many
be made righteous. Adam's disobedience, it didn't
just make us susceptible to sin, if we acted on it. Well, the
guns loaded, It's up to you. You better walk a straight and
narrow or the round's going to go off." That didn't happen,
did it? By Adam's fall, all who He represented were actually
made sinners. We fell in Adam. And just the
same, by Christ's obedience, He didn't make those that He
represented savable if they were to do something, if they'd be
willing to forego something, if they'd choose Him, if they'd
think they'd do. He didn't make us savable. His
work did not enable us to be righteous before God by our own
works. We were made righteous. We were
made sanctified entirely in Christ and by what Christ did. In Him
and by Him. Fully. That's what the Hebrew
writer said. For by one offering He hath perfected forever them
that are sanctified. Those that are set apart. Those
that are given to Him. Makes you want to know something
about sheep, don't it? That's not an offensive term, is it?
The only future part of Christ's finished work. Because in Adam,
it says we were made. Many were made sinners. And it
says in Christ, shall many be made righteous. What's the future
work of that? He's going to call out his sheep
that are not of this fold. They're not of this generation.
Those that come throughout time. And He surely will. And it's
going to happen. You can take it to the bank.
He won't lose one. Why is this earth still spinning?
God has a sheep out there that He hasn't caught yet. World's coming to an end. Not
if that last sheep hasn't been caught. It can't. We can set
off all the nuclear bombs we want. There will be one person
left and one person to preach to them. We can't thwart His plan. If we have nothing to do with
being made righteous, then why did God give that law at Mount
Sinai? A lot of people grew with me
up to now. Now this is a hotly debated topic.
Well, we still have the law, don't we? Why did God give the
law? He wouldn't have gave it. That's
like Satan, isn't it? Didn't the Lord give you a law? Trying
to find you on common ground. Look in verse 20. Moreover, the
law entered that the offense, singular, might abound. God gave the law that we might
see that evil crime that we committed rightfully, justly, in Adam by
his one transgression and that we might see how terrible our
offense really is. Adam was without sin in a sinless
world, and he had one thing to do. Don't eat of that tree. And
here's a plethora of other trees. Go eat all you want. He couldn't
do it. And now I have God's law. I have
His moral law, the Levitical law, Ten Commandments, Law of
Moses. And I'm starting off with a soul
nature, a sin nature. That offense becomes more abounding
to us, doesn't it? how little we are, how terrible
we truly are. The law is not given so that
we can be made righteous by our obedience. It was given to declare
us guilty and to give us the knowledge of sin. That's it.
People say, well, it'll help you see God more. That ain't
what God said He gave it for. Paul wrote to us there in Romans
3, he said, now we know that what things soever the law saith,
it saith to them that are under law, why? That every mouth may
be stopped. shut up before God, and all the
world may become guilty before God. Therefore, by the deeds
of law, there shall no flesh be justified in His sight, for
by the law is the knowledge of sin." Singular again. Not the
knowledge of sins. Sin. What we are. The feminine
noun. Me. Grace is greater than sin. We
see how much sin we are. And the Lord uses that very thing
to show us His abundant mercies and His abundant grace. The more
I decrease, the more He increases. The lower I get, the more exalted
He is. It's the truth. As great as our sin is, grace
is greater. Look here in verse 20, "...moreover
the law entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound." Sin overflowed. It abounded. It contaminated us in every way
possible. But the grace of God in Christ,
it did much more abound. Well, if I'm completely ruined,
how could grace much more abound? This is important. I want to
know. Am I just set back to zero? Grace
abounded in justification. Grace abounded in regeneration,
and grace abounded in sanctification. He saved us, He gave us life,
and made us holy where we can never sin again. What's the result of that? Look
at verse 21. That as sin hath reigned unto
death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal
life by Jesus Christ our Lord. How long is that going to last?
Forever. How long is forever? I can't
count that high. It don't end. It's forever. A lot of similarities between Adam
and Christ. There's a picture of Christ,
but there's some differences between Adam and Christ too.
I see some differences between them too. They're found here
in these parentheses. It begins there in verse 15, Romans 5,
15. It says, but not as the offense,
so also is the free gift. It's different. For if through
the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God and
the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded
unto many. In Adam, we lost all things.
We lost everything. And in Christ, we've gained so
much more than we've lost. Christ brought us everlasting
righteousness. We're not morally innocent like
Adam was. As a guy preached a sermon one time, he said, how to recover
what we lost in Adam? You ain't gonna. And what if
you did? You're back in the same state,
ain't you? His grace abounded more than that. He didn't make
us morally innocent. He made his people holy. He set
them apart, sanctified them. Righteousness is the fruit of
a holy nature. were made His righteousness,
His fruit, His workmanship, made holy. And also Christ pardons
not one sin, but all sins. He took care of that what happened
in Adam, but I've sinned a whole bunch. I've sinned a whole bunch
this evening while you've been looking at me. What about those?
Look here in verse 16. And not as it was by one that
sinned, so is the gift. For the judgment was by one to
condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses under justification. We fail once an atom, we fail
in ourselves, but this free gift, it's to all of our offenses.
All of them. The cross justifies us in such
a way that the believer is righteous and can never perish. I shall
lose none of them. That's in this earth and that's
forever. That's eternal. Remember whenever Eve transgressed,
nothing happened. She ate the fruit. She wasn't
naked. She didn't start dying. A wrinkle
didn't pop up. Grey hair didn't come out, did it? Nothing happened.
Why? Adam was her representative. Only what Adam did counted towards
Eve. He was her head. Here's the good
news. It's the same way when a believer
sins. Nothing changes with us before God. I've done some horrible
things. Nothing changes before God. Why?
Because Christ is our representative. And only what Christ did counts
towards us, towards His sheep, before the Lord. And that's not
as if, that's for real. That's true. As true as Eve didn't
know she was naked when she ate, it's as true as that is for Christ
our representative. John told us that in 1 John 2.
He said, My little children, these things are wrought unto
you, that you sin not. And when any man sin, we have
an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. The
Lord our righteousness is our advocate. Our representative. Our head. Then it says there
in verse 17, for if by one man's offense death reigned by one,
much more they which received abundance of grace and the gift
of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Ask a question. Has Adam's death
reigned over you? We know it certainly has, but
have you been made to see that? I mean, bit and bridle. Turning
your head and I'm doing what I don't want to do. It rains
over me. It rules me. Has that happened
to you? If it has, let that be a witness
to you. The Lord revealed that to you.
God says those who Christ gives abundance of grace and the gift
of Christ's righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. We have to see those sins. We
have to see that fall to see Him risen. and we'll reign by
Him, reign in life. He redeemed us, He regenerates
us, and He robed us. I think we've got time. Let's
turn back to Genesis chapter 3 real quick. In closing, we remember that
everyone received Adam's sin nature. We died in him, so we
must be born of the Spirit of God. and all who Christ represents,
they shall be regenerated. They'll be given faith and they'll
be robed in Christ's righteousness and His grace. God shows us in
this first call of grace in the garden there in verse 9. Genesis
3.9. And it says, And the Lord God
called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? Adam wasn't
seeking God, was he? He was hiding from Him. God is
always the one who comes to seek and to save His lost child. That's
His. He ain't going to lose it. He'll
leave the 99 and go after the 1. He'll seek them and He'll
save them. And then God strips away our
fig leaves and He brings us to put all of our rest, all of it,
in Christ. And through faith, He clothes
us in the righteousness of Christ. And we see this in the top there
in verse 21. Genesis 3.21. And unto Adam also and to his
wife did the Lord God make coats of skin and clothed them. The Lord provided himself a lamb. He required righteousness and
whatever he requires, he provides. Adam sinned. God made a covering. Adam ran. God sought and found
him. Adam hid, God gave him faith. Adam was naked, and God clothed
him in the garments of an innocent victim slain in his place, in
a substitute. So it is with us. So it is with
every child of God, every one of his sheep that he comes to,
he speaks to, he loves, they hear his voice, they follow him,
he keeps them forever. It's the same, isn't it? We did
the sinning and God did the saving. That's the gist of it. That's
pretty good. Father, thank you for this evening.
Lord, thank you for this word. Let us read it. Open our eyes
to see what we truly are. Allow us to see how we've offended
you, how we've sinned against you and you only. Lord, make
us beg for mercy. Allow us to see where mercy can
be found. Christ our Head, Christ our Substitute,
our Redeemer, our King, our God. What a salvation we have. Lord,
thank You. Forgive us for what we are. Keep
us as You promised You will. Lord, allow us to rest in Your
promises that You will lose none. Thank You. Lord, be with our
brethren everywhere. As they rejoice and as they struggle,
as they're sleeping, as they're awake, keep them as well. Lord, Your will be done. It's
in Christ's name that we ask it. Amen.