My turn back in your Bibles with
me to John's Gospel chapter 7. We're left in absolutely no doubt
about why these things are written for us. John tells us at the
end of his Gospel, these things are written for us. 31 John 20,
these things are written that you might believe that Jesus
is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might
have life through His name. You might have life in His name,
you might have life by His name, you might have life with His
name, is how that preposition can be translated. I want us
to go back to these verses that I spoke about earlier in John
chapter 7. Let's just get the picture again. The Lord Jesus Christ has come
to Jerusalem. He's come to a very denominational
background of all of these people who would have all called themselves
followers of God. These days they would have all
called themselves Christians of various ilk. And he comes
to that land and it's a religious land and it's a land that is
expecting the Lord Jesus Christ to come. They're expecting the
Old Testament prophecies to be fulfilled. And he comes, he comes
to that group of people and he comes to them and he reveals
who God is. He reveals who all of the Old
Testament scriptures are speaking of. He reveals and declares himself
to be the one that is sent from God, which is what verse 16 says. Jesus answered these people who
were marveling at him and complaining about the fact that he didn't
have an education like theirs. He didn't have the robes and
the decrees and all the other things. He says, my doctrine,
my doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. In the next
verse, he speaks of the doctrine. If any man will do his will,
he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether
I speak of myself. And so here in these three short
verses, the Lord Jesus Christ, in the midst of all of that world
that I spoke of, and we've got to remember that when he came
to them, he didn't say, well, this denomination over here is
90% right, and these ones over here are 15% right, and these
ones over here are really, really close and they're 99% right.
And these others in the middle are sort of 50, because all of
the denominations of today were there. He came to that world
of professing, believing people, and he said, all of you, every
single last one of you is wrong. And he is right. The truth when
it comes to issues of doctrine, the truth when it comes to issues
of who God is, is always in the minority. Several hundred years
beforehand, Jeremiah had been in that same city, which was
about to face the same destruction that the Lord Jesus Christ had
promised that it was going to suffer just 40 years after these
events that we read of here. Jeremiah was there on his own,
brothers and sisters. He had a scribe who wrote for
him. There's not a record of any other believers in that city.
Who was right? There was all this religious
machinery of all different ilks. Jeremiah was right and everyone
else was wrong. So the truth doesn't need any
embellishments. The truth doesn't need any support
from him. If it's truth that comes from God, it's truth whether
one man speaks it or a billion stand opposed to it, it still
remains the truth. It's God's truth. And that's
what he's saying, my doctrine is not mine. So here we have
the source of truth. The source of truth is God. not
mine, it's my doctrine, it's the doctrine, it's the doctrine
sent from heaven, it's the teaching sent from heaven. And then we
have an assurance, an assurance given by God Almighty to us here
today. If any man will do his will,
he shall know of the doctrine. That's a promise from God. I
like to know the doctrine, whether it's from God or not. And so
it's not anymore a matter of ignorance about these things,
isn't it? If you Seek to do his will, you'll know the doctrine,
whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself. And then we
have in verse 18, the test of all teachers, the test of everyone
who stands and proclaims. that they speak on God's behalf.
The one issue, isn't it? There's just one issue. Who gets
the glory? Who gets the glory? So let's
have, as the Lord will allow, let's have some time together
looking at what is the doctrine. What is the doctrine? And I want
us to know at the very beginning that doctrine is singular. Doctrine is singular because
doctrine is describing God in the person of the Lord Jesus
Christ, Him coming, Him being crucified, Him doing what He
did as He came and Him going back to glory. And so doctrine
is always singular. Doctrine is always talking about
the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no doctrine that is
not describing something of the character of the Lord Jesus Christ.
So every time the scriptures speak of doctrines, plural, it
is always doctrines of devils in 1 Timothy chapter 4. It's
diverse and strange doctrines. Always, when it has a plural,
it is always false doctrine that's come from a satanic source of
this world. And we have to remember these
glorious verses show us a promise, don't they? That the blessings
of God in this world and into eternity are united to the promises
of God, and the promises of God are united to the character of
God, and it's all revealed in the Word of God. So this doctrine
is one, isn't it? If any man will do his will,
he shall know of the doctrine. Do you desire to do his will?
All born-again believers love the thought of doing the will
of God. We love the thought of His will being done in our lives. If we had our way, we would love
to serve Him, to honour Him, to live in His presence all the
time. We are constrained by this flesh. which is the impediment to the
new creation worshipping as it wished. You can read Paul's testimony
to all that in Romans chapter 7. So what is the doctrine of
Christ? I want us to go back to the passage
we looked at in 2 John a little while earlier. In 2 John Excuse me. In 2 John, it talks
about this doctrine of Christ. It talks about how serious it
is. I wonder how many people have actually ever lived out
the command of 2 John. if any come to you and bring
not this doctrine. It's the doctrine, verse 9, it's
the doctrine of Christ. Whosoever transgressed and abided
not in the doctrine of Christ has not God. He has no relationship
with God. He hasn't been taught by God.
He doesn't know God. He might know an awful lot about
him, but he doesn't know him. who that abideth in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. And if anyone comes not bringing
this doctrine, I say, what is the doctrine these false teachers
are bringing? Go back to verse seven with me and it's really
clear, isn't it? For many deceivers are entered into the world. Now
I wonder there's so much confusion going on out there. Many deceivers
are entered into the world who confess that Jesus Christ, confess
not, sorry, they're denying that Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. If you go back over a page in
your Bibles, 1 John chapter 4 says exactly the same thing and it
has a command to us. It says, Beloved, believe not
every spirit, but test the spirits. Try them, whether they are of
God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God, and every
spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh
is not of God. Well, John raises the bar of
seriousness by saying that it's not a matter of ignorance, if
you have heard, it's no longer a matter of ignorance, it's a
matter of sin. It's a matter of rebellion, it's a matter of
transgression against God. And of course, these are very
personal issues. There's no point looking away and saying, what's
this man's opinion on this, or what's this denomination's opinion
on this? This is between you and God. It's between me and
God. And so what is the doctrine of
Christ, to go back to John chapter 7? It has a lot to do, it has
everything to do, with confessing that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh. The word confess is much confused,
isn't it? People think that you go into
some little booth and you confess your sins to some priest. That's
not confession at all. You don't know what your sins
are, you don't know how bad they are, and as you're going in there
you're sinning, and as you're sitting there you're sinning,
and you've got no idea you're sinning. To confess God. That's what confession is.
It is just a public declaration of saying that God says that
everything that we do is sin. God says that what I'm doing
now is sin and what you are doing now is sin. Sin is ever with
us all the time. Sin in the scriptures is both
a noun and a verb. It's a description of what we
are, and therefore the sins that come out, come out as a verb,
they become the doing things. So the doctrine of Christ involves
a confession, and so there's a confession that's made publicly.
It's a private matter but there's a public expression to this private
matter and that we are confessing as we come into fellowship that
we are confessing that we stand with the people and stand with
the doctrine that is taught, the doctrine of Christ that is
taught. If any man won't confess me before
men, he will not confess him before his father. Luke chapter
12. So it's a serious matter. It's a public declaration, isn't
it? And that's exactly what people did on the day of Pentecost.
They were publicly declaring that they are one with the apostles. They are one with this savior
that saves them. They call on the name of the
Lord. They're calling on the character
of God. They're calling on this God who
is defined by Peter as he spoke on that day of Pentecost, that
God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.
It's defining the Lord Jesus Christ with clarity and it's
a public confession. They were baptised and they confessed. Confession has an awful lot to
do with worship of God. I love what Paul says, Paul describes
his life in Acts chapter 24 verse 14, he says, by the way that
they, and you can put any religious group you like in there, by the
way that they called heresy. So they call it a choosing. They
say, well, you've made your decision. You've made some particular decision
here. Personally, it's come from man.
No, that's not exactly what was happening at all. This I confess
unto thee, after the way which they call heresy, so worship
I, the God of my fathers. believing all things which are
written in the Law and the Prophets. It's believing the doctrine of
Christ and it's got to do with worship. Confession is made unto
salvation. Romans 10 verse 10. Confession is not salvation,
but confession is made unto salvation. And a failure to confess is to
reveal that you have more fear of man than you do of God. You
can read about the Jews doing that in John 12. So what do the
scriptures mean? What is the doctrine of Christ?
What does it mean to confess that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh? It cannot at all mean just a
historic record of the fact that there was a man born in Bethlehem,
lived in Nazareth, was crucified and rose from the dead. You can
read in the encyclopedia almost every historian's worth listening
to and the world has always acknowledged that there was this real man
called Jesus of Nazareth and he really did live a life. They
might deny what happened in his life but they don't deny the
reality of it. And of course we've got to remember
that in the context of both this letter that we're reading, the
Gospel of John and the letters that we've read from John to
those churches there, no one is going to deceive anyone in
those churches by saying that he didn't come in the flesh.
So it's not talking about him just coming as a historic figure. These are antichrists, aren't
they? The word anti in the Bible, the
preposition, Prefix anti in the scriptures has two meanings. One of them means to stand in
direct opposition to something. But almost always in the scriptures
the reference is to one that stands in the place of, a counterfeit. So those people, these false
teachers, the deceivers that have gone out into the world,
they weren't going into John's churches and the churches of
Paul and the other apostles that established and saying, well,
here we are, he didn't come in the flesh or anything else. They
looked so much like Paul and so much like John in their words
and in their lives that people allowed them into the pulpits
of those churches. They took up a position of teaching
authority. And they're like the Galatians
false teachers. They bring another Jesus, another
gospel. So that's what these ones are.
They're standing in the place of. It's a counterfeit, a counterfeit
Jesus, a counterfeit gospel, a counterfeit doctrine of Christ. And they're denying that he came
in the flesh. So what is it to say that the
Lord Jesus Christ has come in the flesh? Well firstly, and
it's very evident and obvious isn't it, that he was before
he came. Nate's come to us from America. He was before he came. And that's
exactly the same with the Lord Jesus Christ. He was before he
came. He was. And he is. He's the uncreated Son of God. He is God the Son. He is the
great I Am God. He is the one that came and visited
with the people of the Old Testament and spoke to them. He is the
one that met with Adam in the garden. He met with Abel. He's
the one that instructed Noah in building the ark. Every time
someone spoke The words of God and God met with people in all
of the Old Testament scriptures. It was the Lord Jesus Christ.
Isaiah saw the Lord Jesus Christ in the temple. Abraham sat and
discussed things with, even had a debate with him about Sodom
and Gomorrah. That's how intimately related
they were to him. He was both God and man and he
came as God. He is the great I Am who met
Moses at the burning bush. He says, I am. I always was. He's the great God, isn't he?
He always was, he always is, and he always will be. He came,
he came in the flesh. He came as God and he came and
dwelt among us. He donned flesh and didn't lose
his the miraculous things that he
did are just a reflection of who he is, who he is, and they're
a reflection of how he saved sinners. Jesus Christ is God. Jesus Christ is God. That's what he claimed that he
was. In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He said to
these same Jews in the next chapter on from where we are in John
8, he says, unless you believe that I am, I am God. I had an existence before I came
and I came as God. Unless you believe that I am,
you will die in your sins. You will die in your sins. So what is it to confess that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh? is to confess that He
is God Almighty over all and any denial of anything of those
things, and there's so much more to be said, but any denial of
the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ and His union with His Father
and the things that they did in eternity. There was a covenant
made in eternity. which rules and governs all things.
There's a covenant in his blood. He was the lamb slain from before
the foundation of the world. The covenant in his blood was
set and sealed. There was a people given to him
by his father before the foundation of the world. And the Lord Jesus
Christ owned those people as his own and took full responsibility
for them. He was the surety of that eternal
covenant. And he can only ever do all those
things because he was with the father in the beginning. And
he says to Philip, he said, if you've seen me, you've seen God.
You've had a truckload of evidence. How much more do you need? If
you've seen me, you've seen God. So what is it to confess that
Jesus Christ came in the flesh? He was before he came. And he
did the things that he said he did before he came. And he came
in the flesh. Great is the mystery of godliness,
isn't it? He was manifest in the flesh. And it was real flesh. He was
born of a woman. He was made under the law. The Word was made flesh, John
1.14, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory as the glory
of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. He really
was a man in every sense of the word except sin. Not only did he never sin, but
because of who he was, that holy thing, he could never sin. He could never sin. To say that
he could have sinned is to deny his very deity. Great is the
mystery of godliness. He was manifest in the flesh.
He was so fully a man that people couldn't understand that he was
God. And then he operated in ways where he was so godlike
that people couldn't understand that this was a man. It was a
body. Turn with me to Hebrews chapter 10 and we'll have a quick
look at this body that was prepared for him. In Hebrews 10, the father
is speaking, the son is speaking of the father's activities. I do love this passage of scripture. He says, speaking of the animal
sacrifice, it's absolutely impossible, isn't it? It's impossible, verse
four, that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, so he was before he
came, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but
a body hast thou prepared me. A body prepared by his father. A body thou hast prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices
to sin thou hast no pleasure. It means that God was never satisfied
with those sacrifices because they pictured the Lord Jesus
Christ. Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book. It
is written of me to do thy will, O God. He was before he came. He came and was real flesh, and
He came to do all that He promised to do. All the promises of God
in all of the Scriptures are yea and amen in Him. Any denial
of the fact that He did all that He came to do, and when He cried
out on Calvary's tree, it is finished, He did all that He
came to do. He paid the price in full. I
do love quoting Isaiah 42, he said, he shall not fail nor be
discouraged. This is the doctrine of Christ. He came in flesh as a real man,
born of a woman, born under the law, lived on this earth, bearing
all of the trials of this earth that all of his people bear.
But as a man, he came to do all that he said he would do. He says, I come to do your will.
What's the will of God? But why, what was his name? What
was Joseph told in Matthew 1, 22? You shall call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sins. Did he do it? Any denial of his absolute and
perfect redemption of all of his people is a denial of the
doctrine of Christ. It's a denial of the doctrine
of Christ according to what God says in his book. He came to do... If you're still
in Hebrews chapter 10 it says, By one offering he hath perfected,
verse 14, by one offering he hath perfected forever them that
are sanctified. Did he do it? Or did he just
make an attempt and you have to finish it? Do you have to
finish the work of sanctification? He started polishing you and
you now, with the help of all sorts of things around you, you
can polish yourself and make yourself acceptable to God. Did
he do it? Did he do his Father's will? We're in John chapter six. John chapter six, what is the
will of God? What is the will of God? He says,
I came down from heaven. He had an existence before he
came down. He came down as a man in human flesh, as the God-man.
He came down from heaven, not, verse 38 of John 6, not to do
mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. What is the
will of God, the Father? And this is the will, this is
the Father's will which has sent me, that all of which he hath
given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again
at the last day. He laid down his life for his
sheep, brothers and sisters. You read his high priestly prayer
in John chapter 17, and put a tick, yes and amen, beside every request
and every promise in there. He prayed for his people, he
prayed for us in that prayer. And then he turns around and
says, I'm not praying for the world, I'm praying for my people. extraordinary
isn't it? People say that he would die
for all the sins of all of humanity the next day and the night before
he's not prepared to pray for them. It's a heck of a lot easier
to pray for someone than to die for someone. He did all that
he came to do. He did his father's will. He did his father's will. will come to me. All the sheep
are saved. All of his people were saved
in him. He shall save his people from their sins. This is the
doctrine of Christ. This is the doctrine of the declaration
of what he did in the flesh. He saved his people from their
sins and he saved them from all of them completely. He saved them from the penalty
of their sins. Now there is no condemnation
for those that are in Christ Jesus. No condemnation. The new
creation is a revelation of the fact that he saved us from the
power of sin. We had no ability to believe
the truth of who he is until he gave us a new birth. A new
birth, a new creation, believes everything that God says about
God. And I love how in Romans 8.30 he promises that we're saved
from the presence of sin and he puts it in the past tense,
brothers and sisters. He glorifies his people. And
of course, the answer to how these things can be and how they
can be is true for us today as they were for Peter and the apostles
and those Jews who crucified the Lord Jesus on the day of
Pentecost. because of our union with Him. These precious truths
are as precious to us now as they were in those days. The
answer to all of it is, and how can this all be, is because of
our union with Him. He paid it all. Listen to, go back to Hebrews
chapter 10 and we'll read a few more of these remarkable verses.
It's just, these are just glorious descriptions of the finished
work of the Lord Jesus Christ. they're not my words these the
words from heaven just declaring what he did But this man, verse
12, after he had offered one sacrifice as for sins forever,
sat down at the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting
till his enemies made his footstool, for by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified, whereof the Holy Ghost is also
a witness to us. For after that he had said before,
this is the covenant I will make with them after those days, saith
the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts and in their
minds will I write them, and their sins and iniquities will
I remember no more." Why won't he remember them? Because they
are gone, brothers and sisters. God is not playing games with
words. All of the sins of all of God's
people were put on the Lord Jesus Christ and they were owned as
His and the full wrath of God fell upon Him until the sins
are gone. That's what justification is.
That's what propitiation is. He absorbed the wrath and the
sins are gone. The penalty for the sins is gone.
The shame of the sins are gone. The guilt of the sins is gone.
They are gone. And what's the result of that,
verse 18 of Hebrews 10? Now where remission of these
is, there is no more offering for sin. God's people don't offer
anything more for sin. We cannot offer anything more
for sin that God will accept. It is finished, is the glorious
cry of our God from the cross. He's paid the debt in full, brothers
and sisters, completely done, finished. and we abide in that
doctrine. That's the confession of every
believer, isn't it? This is the confession of whoever
wrote the epistle to Hebrews. It's the confession of all of
the Bible writers. It's the confession of all of
them, from the one who wrote Genesis through to the John who
wrote Revelation. All believers taught of God,
and to go back to 2 John, this is where they abide. To abide
is to rest and remain. This is where our comfort is. How shall we know? How do we
know? How do we know it's all true? How do we know that this is the
teaching of God? If any desire, do you desire
to know His will? Do you desire to do His will? Do you desire to practice His
will? The promise of the Lord Jesus
Christ is that if that is the desire that he has laid on your
heart, the promise is you won't be deceived. Listen to what he
says. You shall know. You shall know this doctrine,
whether it is God. And there is finally the test. Who gets the penalty? There's enough flesh in me to
know that I like a bit of glory, thank you very much, and you're
the same. And we like to be patted on the back. I love what someone
said to John Newton as he got down from the pulpit, the guy
who... wrote Amazing Grace, and someone came straight up to me
and said, that is the most wonderful sermon I have ever heard. And
it just warmed my heart and touched me so wonderfully. He said, don't
worry about telling me, brother. Satan told me that a little while
ago. That's nice finishing. Who gets the glory? All true
teaching, all true teaching of God's sent ambassadors is going
to be the same, that God gets all the glory. He gets all the
glory for who He is. He gets all the glory for what
he's done, and his children love him getting all the glory. They
love the character of God as revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ. And we preach not ourselves.
We're not preaching about what we've done and what we can do.
We're preaching not ourselves, but Jesus Christ the Lord. John
the Baptist said, he must increase, and I must decrease. We just
have a treasure in earthen vessels, and you spend enough time around
this earthen vessel, you'll realize how fragile it is. and how breakable
it is, and how wearing out it all is. We are God's sent servants. We're just mercy beggars, aren't
we, that have found bread and saying, this is where I can feed.
I've got a place to abide now. I've got a person to abide in. I can rest in him. I can rest
my eternal soul on the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ, who
he is and what he did. I can meet because I'm hidden in Him. My life is hidden with Christ
in God. I can meet Him with joy, with
being robed in the robe of His righteousness, washed in His
blood, chosen in Him, accepted in Him, loved in Him. And the
only people in all the world that will ever find any comfort
and ever find any abiding in this are those who are real sinners. And real sinners know that God
must get all the glory. He must get all the glory. There
is no unrighteousness in Him. The saying is true. He just speaks
the truth. I've just told you I pray what
God says. It's the truth of the doctrine
of Christ. Just turn with me very briefly
and we'll have a look at some verses in John chapter 6. And
who gets the glory? Who gets the glory? The modern
declaration of what is called a gospel says that God loves
everybody. But his love can't save you unless,
and you can fill in the blanks. Is there any glory in a love
like that? Is there any glory in a God who loves like that? That's not the love of God that's
described in this book. And then they turn around and
say, God sent his son to die for all humanity, but his blood
is only effectual when you, When you add your faith or you do
something to it, all of the modern confessions are saying it. Where's
the glory for God in the Lord Jesus Christ just creating an
opportunity for people to be saved? For shedding his precious
blood under the wrath of almighty God and that precious blood not
saving everyone that he paid for. There will not be in the
death of the Lord Jesus Christ ever to be seen a miscarriage
of the holiness and the justice of God. Everyone he died for
must be saved. The modern gospel says God wills
to save everyone, but his will is not achieved unless you make
it effective by your willing. The number of times I've been
told that God gave man free will, I've never found it in the Bible.
Ever, ever, ever. Is there any glory for God in
that? That man's will is more powerful
than God's will, and that God's will is achieved when man adds
his will to it. Let's go back to John chapter
6 in the close. I just want to look at a few of these tapers.
God declares in John chapter 6 the depravity of man. He says
in John 6 44, no man can, no man can come to me except the
Father which has sent me draw him. No man can come. God gets all the glory. God must
get all the glory because man doesn't have any ability and
man is dead and depraved in his trespasses and sins. God gets, and in verse 37 he
says, And all that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and
him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. You're coming
to God. In your coming to God, God gets
all the glory because you're dead and you cannot come, but
you're coming and his people come and they keep on coming.
He gets all the glory in their coming. He gets all the glory in saving
them. You listen to verse 39. And this
is the Father's will which has sent me, of all of which he hath
given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again
at the last day. The Lord Jesus Christ will have
these particular people with him because he shed his life's
blood for them. And they'll come. So we preach
a gospel for the glory of God, the doctrine of Christ, which
will ensure that all of his people will come to him. Verse 45, it
is written in the prophets, and they shall all be taught of God.
So if God comes and does his teaching and brings the doctrine
of Christ about the glory of God in the face of the Lord Jesus,
they'll be taught of God. Every man therefore that has
heard, and has learned of the Father does what? They come to
the Lord Jesus Christ. Are they coming now? Have they
been coming since the foundation of the world? They have been
coming. Will they keep on coming until the very last one has come? and he'll keep them and preserve
them. Verse 47, verily, verily, truly,
truly, amen, amen, I say unto you, he that believeth on me
hath everlasting life. No one can pluck them out of
the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ. He gets all the glory. God gets
all the glory. His people get all the satisfaction
of resting their eternal souls in Him and looking to Him. That's what believing is, isn't
it? That's what believing in, is relying, is resting. rest in your eternal souls on
the person and the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ that's
come in the flesh. Not unto us, not unto us, but
unto thy name, give glory for thy mercy and thy truth's sake. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father,
we thank you. We thank you that these glorious
words of promise and warning are spoken by our Lord Jesus
Christ. They are written by the aid and
the hand of the Holy Spirit. They are sworn to by our great
God and Saviour. and they are sealed with his
life's blood and proclaimed because of his resurrection glory. Oh,
our Father, we thank you again for salvation. We thank you that
it's all of him and not of us. We thank you that it's all of
free and sovereign grace. We thank you that we can rest
our eternal souls in He who cannot be discouraged and cannot fail. His purposes must come to pass. Oh, our Father, help us to look
away. and look to your dear and precious
son and make his blood precious to your people, Heavenly Father.
Bless the preaching of the doctrine of Christ throughout this world
to the salvation of your people, but most of all, Heavenly Father,
to the glory of your holy name.