Okay, while you have your Bibles there, it's going to be hard turning with all of the other activities you're involved in with the flies and things this morning, but here we are. I'll read to you all the other verses in the Scriptures that refer to Michael the archangel. You can make note of them, and I'm happy to give you my notes that I've written out, most of which I won't be able to get through today.

But nevertheless, in Daniel chapter 10, It speaks of Michael, but in Daniel chapter 10, verse 13, but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and 20 days, but lo, Michael, one of the chief princes came to help me and I remained there with the kings of Persia. In Daniel 10, 21, but I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth. That's God's promise to us. He will show his people what is noted in the scripture of truth. We'll note that it's true, we'll note that it's his word, we'll note that it speaks of his son. And there is none that holdeth with me, that stands with me strong in these things But Michael, your prince, in Daniel 12 verse 1, And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince, which standeth for the children of thy people. And there shall be a time of trouble, as was never since there was a nation, even to that time. And at that time thy people shall be delivered, and every one that shall be found written in the book.

And we have our verse in Jude 9, but in Revelation 12, verse 7, there's another mention of Michael. And there was war in heaven. And Michael and his angel fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought against his angels. So there are the scriptural references to this Michael.

Michael's name means, who is like God? That's a good question, isn't it? His name is a question. Who is like God? And what's the answer to that? The only one who's like God is God himself. No one is like God. I remember being shocked by a statement that Todd and I had made a number of years ago. He said, which is the closest to resembling God? An angel or an amoeba? And the answer will shock you as it did me. Neither, neither. God is separate. God is other. Who among the sons of mighty can be likened unto the Lord? What's the accusation that God makes against all humanity? You thought, Psalm 51, 21, you thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. All false teaching wants to reduce God down to something that man can get a hold of and man can understand and man can grasp. God is beyond it all.

Just think of what God is doing at the moment. Just think of what's happening in the throne room of heaven. Think about the promises of God, we read them in 1 John 4, that He dwells in His people, and with His people, and cares for His people. To whom, Isaiah says, to whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness shall you compare him to? You can't. There is one that is like God, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Michael the archangel, to go back to those verses that we read, I want us to just go through his titles so that we might understand who Michael the Archangel is. And I want us to see what Michael teaches us about the false teachers that God promises will flood this world. The great wine of Babylon's drunkenness just pours out over this religious world and they are made drunk on the wines of her adulteries. And Michael is set before us as an example of how the Lord deals with his people on behalf of his people. Michael the archangel, his titles, we read them just a while ago, he's one of the chief princes, he's the great prince, and he's the archangel. To be the archangel is to be above all of the angels. There's only one archangel.

Listen to what he does, his works. He came to help me. He holdeth with me in these things. He is strong and courageous and resolute with me in the things of God. He stands for the children of thy people.

Think about it in terms of the greatest deception and the greatest tragedy that can befall you and befall me is that I might be telling lies about God and I might be enticing people down a path that will end in your eternal destruction. I tremble before God fearful that I might lead people astray and that I might be led astray.

He stands for the people. He's a deliverer. He contends with the devil. This is our verse in Jude 9. And he rebukes the devil. And in Revelation, he fights against and triumphs over the dragon and his angels. And he has a people.

Listen to the names of his people. He says, thy people, Daniel 12, thy people, everyone written in the book. Their names are written in the book. It's the Lamb's book of life written from before the foundation of the world.

And he's revealed in particular times, Michael. There's a time of trouble in Daniel 12. The devil is cast down to the earth in Revelation chapter 12. And he's revealed, and the end shall come.

The Lord himself, the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ will rise first. So great is the voice of our Lord Jesus Christ that when he comes from heaven, all the graves will be emptied. All of them will be emptied. The sea will give up the dead that's in the sea. Everyone, every living human being will stand in the presence of God either on his right hand or his left hand in the day of judgment. That's how powerful our God is.

He shall be revealed, 2 Thessalonians 1.7, from heaven with his mighty angels.

So to go back in your Bibles to Jude, there is a context there that I want us to briefly look at, and we'll have more time, Lord willing, to look at this in the future. But there is a context in verse 8 of Jude. It speaks of these filthy dreamers, and they defile the flesh.

Likewise, these filthy dreamers, they were like the Sodomites, they were like the angel that fell, they were like the Israelites that fell, their carcasses fell in the wilderness. And there was a common characteristic between all of them. They all had the remarkable privilege of hearing and witnessing the wonderful works of God and they all died in unbelief their rebellion was against light revealed to them this is the condemnation this is the judgment says the lord jesus christ in john 3 19 that light is coming to the world And men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

They are set before us as an example to warn us. They're called filthy dreamers. They have these dreams, they have these dreams, and their dreams cause the people of God to be deceived.

Jeremiah 23 I don't have time to read all these verses to you but this speaks of these prophets that prophesy lie Jeremiah 23 verse 27 which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor as if others have forgotten my name for Baal the prophet that has a dream let him tell the dream He that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord? Is not my word like a fire, saith the Lord, like a hammer that breaketh the rocks into pieces? Wouldn't it be wonderful that happened in our hearts amongst us today, again, that his word was like a hammer that broke that rock, that rock of hard heart that sent us all by birth and causes us to be given a new heart of flesh.

He says, therefore, behold, I'm against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words, everyone from his neighbor. Behold, I'm against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their tongues and say, say that he sayeth, they speak in God's name, they claim that they are speaking in God's name. There's not a person standing behind a pulpit in this world that doesn't say, I'm speaking on behalf of God. There's not a church that doesn't say that we are the ones who are here to witness and to worship God. Not according to God, they aren't. They don't speak according to this word, God says, there is no light in them. They don't speak according to the word of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the word and the word which is in the word of God. God doesn't say they have a little bit of light and that little bit of light needs to be massaged into something that can be profitable to you. They have no light, Isaiah 8.22, they have no light.

He said, listen to what the Lord says, Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord. and to tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies and their lightness, their emptiness. Yet I sent them not, nor commanded them. Therefore they shall not profit these people at all."

The end result of all that deception is that they defile the flesh. They defile the flesh. Unclean practices follow. Wherever there is false teaching, there will be immorality of one sort or another. There will be. We may not see it. We might see them so, so squeaky clean that we are in awe of how righteous they are. And yet their righteousness is nothing other than filthy rags, and their righteousness is just a cover on the outside for a deceived heart.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. The power of sin is the law. What these filthy dreamers are doing is putting people, according to Jude and according to the rest of the New Testament and the other scriptures, they're putting people under an obligation of legal works. They're putting people under the law. Listen to what God says, 1 Corinthians 15 56. The sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law.

Norm wrote a few weeks ago, and I think it's just wonderful, it is remarkable to consider that religious men will believe that the law weakens sin rather than it being the strength of sin. We turn men and put men in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ and cause them to look to Him. 2 Corinthians 3.18 says as you look to Him, you become more like Him. I want to become more like Him. I want to be like Him in His Word. I want to be like Him in my life.

They despise dominion. The Lord has placed the rule of his church in the hands of his appointed. The extraordinary thing is that these people were doing these things in the face of the very apostles and in the churches that the very apostles were pastors of and had just left. That's why only by the Spirit of God will we see them, because in those churches which didn't have a polluted gospel, but had the gospel pure from the very mouth of God, these people came in. They were so like the apostles that you couldn't tell them apart in morality. They were mostly so like the apostles you couldn't tell them apart in their preaching. And yet they were the children of the devil. Satan masquerades as an angel of light. The white devil of self-righteous Legalistic religion is far, far more dangerous and taken far more people to hell than the black devil of licentiousness and wickedness and immorality in this world.

They despise dominion. They despise what the apostles are saying. They despise John. You read 2 John and 3 John. It's extraordinary that you could go to that very old apostle who walked with the Lord Jesus Christ and they'd walk with him for 70 years and say to him, well, you're lying. And you're not even welcome in our church. You read about it in the 3rd epistle of John. They despise the dominion. If someone opposes the apostolic teaching, they are lost. We read about it in 1 John 4. They are lost. They're not from God. You cannot say, for example, I disagree with Paul on whatever it might be, and then call yourself a believer. You can't. God's children agree with the apostles in everything they say. God's children kiss the sun.

They speak evil of dignities. They speak evil of the dignity of the Lord and the dignity of His people. And here we'll come back to our verse in Jude 9. I just wanted to lay that as a bit of a foundation. Yet the issue is how do we contend? The issue is how do we see these people? The issue is how do we stand and fight these people? How do we stand and contend with the brothers for the faith that was once delivered to the saints? How do we contend for the common salvation?

And Michael is helpful. Michael the Archangel has been very helpful to me this week. He's been a blessing to me. I've been very, very blessed by listening to these words and trying to study them. Michael is a contrast to the proud false teachers. It's yet, that's what that word yet mean. Yet Michael, when contending with the devil, that contending there is to separate and to make a distinction, is to make a difference. To oppose, it's the same word that's used in verse 22 of Jude, making a difference. It's not the same word that's used at the beginning of the epistle when Paul says we are to contend for the faith. That word contend means to struggle to the point of agony, that's how important this is.

When contending with the devil, contending with the devil, I don't know how to say this properly, but contending with the devil, is a work far beyond our pay grade, brothers and sisters. It's way, way beyond our ability. We are told to resist the devil and he will flee from us and we are told to not be unaware of his schemes and we have all of these letters of the New Testament which reveal to us how the devil operates through his preachers in this world. But I tremble with fear when I hear preachers speaking boldly of fighting Satan and demons. They're just liars and they're deceiving people and they're claiming this extraordinary power over people.

All this is very personal to me in terms of false teaching because when I was in India I had a group of people that I was particularly close to and effectively I felt like I was a pastor of a church. It probably had maybe 150 young people in it between the ages of 16 and 19. I used to meet with them all the time and do Bible studies with them. After I'd left, I just was fearful of leaving. I thought, Lord, don't take me away. Something's going to happen to these children. They're going to be deceived. And after I went away, a man came and he was there for a week in school. And he was one of these filthy dreamers. And he enticed a hundred or more children into doubting the Lord Jesus Christ. And he would have a group of these children sitting around and he'd say, there's an angel, I've just seen an angel. What do kids say when they have that? And he used to speak in tongues and he'd do all sorts of things and he'd talk about all the miracles he's performed. And he said, if you speak in tongues, I'll give you another tongue. He had the ability to people who thought they could speak in tongues to give them another one. And they did. And he did.

The thing that breaks my heart is I went back six or seven, eight months after we left, and it was just chaos. All of these kids that had heard the gospel over and over and over again in class and in studies and just in private conversations. They were all, what were they all doing? They were all looking at themselves. And some of them were better because they could speak in tongues and some of, and it was just complete and utter confusion. A wolf came in and it just scattered this flock. Scattered this flock. The thing that is so deeply troubling is that that was 20 years ago now and they are still scattered. scattered to the four winds of heaven.

It's personal. He contended with the devil. Thank God we have a mediator. Now let's go to what he's contending about in Jude chapter 1. He's talking about this contention with the devil. It's a contention about the body of Moses. Now there's absolutely no doubt that if the devil could have found the body of Moses and could have caused there to be a monument raised up, no doubt it would have become as idolatrous as anything else that starts out with the best intentions of men and is not ordained of God.

Hezekiah, Hundreds of years, nearly a thousand years after the brazen serpent was made, Hezekiah took that brazen serpent, which you looked at and lived in the desert. He took that brazen serpent and he crushed it into powder, ground it into powder and washed it away. Why? Because men are idolaters at heart. It was ground to powder to be never to be seen again. We worship God. We don't worship idols like that.

The body of Moses, you don't have time to turn, but I'll read to you some verses out of Deuteronomy 34. The body of Moses, as you know, Moses was 120 years old, and he was still when he died, and his eye wasn't dim, nor his natural force abated. He was a really fit and healthy 120-year-old Moses, remarkable man. He'd had 40 years in Egypt, 40 years being a shepherd in the wilderness, learning what it was to be a shepherd of God, and then the Lord called him when he was 80 years old to go back to Egypt and bring that. But he'd spent those four years in the wilderness. And Deuteronomy 34 describes the burial of Moses. So Moses, a servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab according to the word of the Lord. The Lord says, you're not coming into the promised land, Moses, you're not coming into the promised land. And he buried him there in the valley, in the land of Moab, over against Balbath Peel. No man, but no man knoweth his sepulcher until this day. God buried him and no one can find him. And there is a purpose in that. And the purpose of all of this is that we will see the spiritual picture behind it. This is the Archangel Michael disputing about the body of Moses. In the scriptures, the body of Moses speaks about the law. That was a disputation that the devil was having and the devil has with all of God's people. You might not have heard him physically, but you've heard the accusation come to you.

How dare you call yourself a Christian? How dare you call yourself a Christian when you have thoughts like you have, and you have actions like you have, and you don't do the things you ought to do, and to do the things you don't, you shouldn't do. How dare you call yourself a Christian? It's extraordinary, isn't it? The devil accuses, he's accuser of the brethren. And this is why Michael the Archangel is mentioned by the Holy Spirit to help us to see the certain men are and what their doctrine is and to know the faithfulness of the Lord in exposing them and dealing with them and protecting his sheep. He's the one that has to do it, Michael the Archangel, the Lord Jesus Christ.

So the body of Moses doesn't refer to Moses' physical body so much as the law of God given by Moses. And that's why Moses is used in the word of God. Think that I will accuse you to the Father as one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust. Then in Acts chapter 15, Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him being read in the synagogues every day. But even under this day when Moses is read, there's a veil upon the hearts of people.

Why was Moses buried outside the promised land? Why did Moses not cross the Jordan River into the land, which is a picture of crossing out of this wilderness world and all of its wanderings, a picture of going into heaven. That's what the picture is, isn't it? Who brought the people into the promised land? Moses didn't. Who did? Joshua brought the people into the promised land. What's Joshua's name? What was the name the Lord bore for all of those years amongst all of his people? When Mary called him, and Joseph called him, and his brothers called him, they all called him Joshua. That was his name. Joshua was his name. God's salvation is his name.

The whole Bible is a picture, isn't it? It points to us a picture of law and grace, salvation and damnation, the glory of man or the glory of God, the covenant of works or the covenant of grace. Moses is dead. according to the Scriptures. And all of the Lord's children are dead to the law. I love reading those verses out of Galatians chapter 2 and I'll just read them to you. He says, Paul says, for I through the law am dead to the law. All of God's children were in the Lord Jesus Christ and the law took its full punishment upon all of their sins in him and they died. They died in Him. The Law had all of its punishment satisfied. When it has death it can ask no more.

The picture and the meaning in the context of Judah is really clear. No one comes into heaven on the basis of any works, even works under the law of Moses. The law of Moses is a broad law. It's exceedingly broad, David said. It's a holy law, it's a spiritual law. It never saves, it never sanctifies, it never redeems, it never takes away sin. All it says is this is God's standard and you're down here. And you can't raise that standard too high and you can't raise the reality of what we are in having broken it in our flesh too deep. It exposes sin.

God says it must be perfect to be accepted and Christ did it. He kept the law. He honoured the law. He obeyed it and he magnified the law. He magnified the holiness of the law. He magnified the spirituality of the law. He magnified the fact that the law is established by love. He kept it in love. He kept it in the perfection of his heart. He kept it in union with all of his body. Everything that the Lord Jesus Christ did, he did as an us. He said to John the Baptist, it becometh us. And when he was speaking about us, he was talking about John the Baptist and all the people at his baptism, it becometh us to establish, to fulfil all righteousness. You can't have any more righteousness than the Lord Jesus Christ as your righteousness. And he durst not bring against him a railing accusation. And he said, the Lord rebuke thee.

I'd like you to turn back in your Bibles to the book of Zechariah, it's the second last book of the Old Testament, and I will try and be brief, but I want us to see that this picture of the high priest this picture of our great Michael is a picture there is pictured in Zechariah chapter 3 and we can read these verses but you can follow along and you'll get the picture out of Jude very very clearly and quickly and you'll see that this is one of the passages to which Jude is referring in Zechariah chapter 3 and he says and he showed me Joshua the high priest It's not the Lord Jesus Christ, this is Joshua. We'll read about in a minute. He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord. The angel of the Lord is the Lord Jesus Christ. And Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee. That's exact words in our text in Jude 9. O Satan, the Lord that has chosen Jerusalem. That's the word that God described and declares his people to be sanctified in God the Father in Jude 1. The Lord rebuke thee. Is not this a brand plucked from the fire? At the end of Jude in verse 23, that's exactly what we are doing by the preaching of the gospel, brands are being plucked from the fire. We can't do it, but God does it by his gospel.

Now Joshua was closed in filthy garments, Jude 23. We hate the garments even spotted by the flesh. All the garments of our flesh are filthy garments. All of our righteousnesses are filthy rags. If only God would take a hammer and break that into our hearts. Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel, and he answered, the angel answered, and spoke unto those that stood by him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee. Jude 24 that's exactly what he's been saying and I will clothe thee with a change of raiment we could read on if you have time to read on and read it in conjunction with Jude you'll see this is a glorious description

this Joshua is not the man who succeeded Moses as the great deliverer, the one who brought them across the river. This is Joshua, the high priest, and he's one of the ones that came out of the Babylonian captivity with all the children of Israel. And he was a primary instrument. He was used of God for the building of the temple in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. But before he could be used, As a fit instrument for the Master's use, for God's use, his sin had to be dealt with. God has to deal with our sin. Before we can worship God and before we can have peace with God, we have to know that in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, our sins have been dealt with completely. forever

joshua and his sons you can read about it in ezra chapter 10 verse 18 joshua and his sons had taken heathen wives from among the women of babylon so here stands here he stands this joshua before the lord he's where as everyone does he stands before the lord he's aware of his guilt and his sin

joshua is said to be standing before the angel of the lord in verse 3 now joshua's closed in filthy garments and stood before the lord and listen to it, and the angel of the Lord stood by. Who's the angel of the Lord? The angel of the Lord, the word angel just means messenger. Who is the messenger of the Lord? The Lord Jesus Christ is the messenger of the Lord. He's not one of the angelic hosts, he's called the angel of the Lord, because he's the angel of the covenant, he's the messenger of the covenant. It's God himself, because he's called Lord in chapter verse two, and the Lord said unto Satan, this angel of the Lord is nothing other than Lord himself.

This man, who is God, is the angel of the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he's our advocate.

Don't you love the fact that he goes in to bet for you? And we see Satan standing at Joshua's right hand to resist him. Here is Joshua standing before the Lord, he's fully aware that he's a sinful man, completely, he's broken God's holy law, and he's defiled all of his garments as God's high priest. And Satan stands there to resist him and to accuse him.

Have you ever been accused? Ever felt the weight and the guilt of our sin? How does Satan resist us when we stand before God? What does Satan have to do? Satan is the accuser of the brethren. And the one thing that Satan can do is he can bring up the law of Moses and he can say, the law demands perfection and you're filthy. Moses demands that for your sin, the wages of your sin is death. The law demands holiness and you haven't got any. Moses says it must be holy to be accepted, it must be perfect to be accepted. And how dare you, in all of your filth, in all of your rebellion against God, how do you dare hope that God will accept you? You call yourself a Christian, and look what you think, look what you do.

One thing about Satan's accusations is that he never has to lie to accuse you. Every time Satan brings an accusation, he can speak the truth about anything that you've ever done. But what he has to do, what he has to do is to lie about the reality of your union with the Lord Jesus Christ. lie about their reality of who the Lord Jesus Christ is and what he has done for you.

The Lord said unto Satan, in verse 2, the Lord said unto Satan, the Lord rebuked thee. Even the Lord that has chosen Jerusalem. This is one of my elect children. How dare you accuse him? Is this not a bran plucked out of the fire? This is just a glorious picture, isn't it? Of Michael the archangel standing before the devil and rebuking him. It's a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ making intercession. He stands there always. Christ is our advocate. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And if any man sins, and when, this is 1 John 1 verse 2, and when someone sins, if any man sins, when someone sins, we have an advocate, we've always had an advocate, he's always stood in our place and stood between us and Satan, stood between us and the law which condemns us. It's a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ. Don't you love the fact that in Zechariah chapter 3, Joshua did nothing. Joshua just stood there. He said nothing. He did nothing. He stood in silence before the angel of the Lord and the Lord pleaded his cause. And he said, the Lord rebuke you. The Lord that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. This is a brand. I've plucked him out of the fire. He's one of mine. He's mine.

He is speaking, our great Joshua. Our great Michael is speaking as an advocate in the court, declaring the basis of divine pardon. When our Lord Jesus Christ contended with Satan, silencing all the legal accusations against Joshua, he spoke as the Angel of the Covenant, as Michael the Archangel, as our mediator and our advocate. He pointed to the ground upon which Joshua and all of the Joshua's in this world must stand accepted before God Almighty.

We're accepted where? Not at anything I've ever done. We're accepted in the Beloved. That's where we're accepted. We're accepted in the Beloved. He has put away all of our sins.

I was going to read some verses out of Colossians chapter two. I found this such a comfort this week. When we face accusations, we just stand in the Lord Jesus Christ. And we stand, as Moses did with all of the people of Israel at the Red Sea, when there is no way forward and behind you is a multitude of enemies wanting to destroy you. And God says to those people at the Red Sea, you stand still and you will see the salvation of the Lord.

So the advice that we get from Jude, some of it, and we'll look at more of it in time to come, in contending with the devil, in contending with the accusations that come against us personally and come against us as a group of believers and come against our gospel, we're told to come out from among them.

The Lord Jesus Christ in his ministry, you recall, he went to Jerusalem because he had to go to Jerusalem. And when those Pharisees and those legalists confronted him in those days, he simply told them the truth and walked away. He told them the truth about who they were, about who God is, how God saves sinners, and he walked away.

Michael, this example of Michael is we don't have to debate. We're in the declaration business, not in the debating business. We're in the business of declaring who the Lord Jesus Christ is. If we debate and get into arguments and debates, we'll only be brought down to their fleshly ways and down to their fleshly level. God alone makes his people to stand with him. They will be exposed in time and in a way which will reveal to the saints the faithfulness and the power of our God in the lives of his people.

Michael the Archangel is the Lord Jesus Christ. We have Those who are needy, and I was extraordinarily needy this week, and the story of Michael and the story of the Lord Jesus Christ has been such an amazing blessing and such an amazing answer to prayer and such an amazing comfort.

I wanted us to remind us, as we began Michael, his titles, Michael the Archangel, he's the Chief of Princes, he's the Archangel, His people, he calls them thy people. He calls them my people. He calls them the people that are written in the book. He comes at troublesome times. You can read Revelation chapter 12 and you will see the times that we live in now. These are troublesome times. Satan's been cast down. He knows his time is short and he's enraged against the church.

But I love what he comes to do. This is our husband. This is our redeemer. Such a husband. He stands before all of his bride's enemies. He stands between them and us. And he says to them, you can come this far and you can go no further. He can create light for his people as he did at the Red Sea and plunge a superpower into darkness with all of its worldly power and worldly wisdom. He stands before his bride's enemies, our Michael, the archangel.

Listen to what he says, he comes to help. Who needs help? Someone that can't do it for themselves, someone that has to be made by God to be dependent upon him. He comes to help, he stands for me, he delivers me, he contends for me, he fights for me, and he says to me, stand still and sing see the salvation of the lord in psalm 23 verse 5

david this is one of simon's favorite verses i want to read it to him and i pray that as i read it he'll be rejoicing this listen to what our savior does for his people Psalm 23 verse 5. You thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. He prepares a table with all the wonderful works of God laid out on that table. His righteousness, His holiness, His love, His obedience, His works. You prepare a table a feast before me in the presence of mine enemies, thou anointest my head with oil, and my cup runneth over.

At the Red Sea, the people do. When they got across the earth, God's children, seeing them, are dealt with by our great Michael, the Archangel. Let's bless your words to and call the Father to rest in your power, your vision, the glories and beauties of your holiness. And heaven promised that there will be contention in this world. We will pray that we do it in your power and your strength, and in such a way that you get all of the glory for all of your fuss, and we get to rest and rejoice in the glories of our great King and Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Bless the hearts of our people wherever they gather throughout this world, and bless us, Heavenly Father, for Christ's sake, bless us. Amen.