Okay, I'd like us to turn back
to John chapter 5. Let's just read some of these
verses that we've been studying over this last few weeks now
in John chapter 5 and the picture comes to us and the story comes
because the Lord Jesus went back to Jerusalem as the law had demanded. He had gone to the temple and
beside on the outside of the walls of the temple was this
pool of cider and the Lord Jesus Christ went to this one particular
man out of that multitude of the lame and the withered. and
the infirmed and he found the worst of the worst and the lowest
of the low and he healed him by a word and his healing of
him on the sabbath brought the ire of the jews upon him and
they sought to persecute him And they sought to slay him,
verse 16 of John chapter 5, because he'd done these things on the
Sabbath day. These people cared more about their religion. They
cared more about their external worship than they did about this
man. And they certainly cared more
about all of that than they did about the glory of God. Verse
18, therefore the Jews sought the Moor to kill him, but Jesus
answered them, My Father worketh hitherto and I work. Therefore
the Jews sought the Moor to kill him, not only Had he broken the
Sabbath, but also said that God was his Father, making himself
equal with God? Then Jesus answered and said
unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing
of himself. But what he seeth the Father
do, for what things however he doeth, these also doeth the Son
likewise. For the Father loveth the Son.
and showeth him all things that he himself doeth. And he will
show him greater works than these that you may marvel. For as the
father raises up the dead and quickens, gives life to them,
even so the son gives life, quickeneth whom he will. For the Father
judges no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. And
these are the verses I want us to look at this morning, Lord
willing. The Father judges no man, but he's committed all judgment
unto the Son. And the reason for that, verse
23, that all men should honor the Son even as they honor the
Father. He that honoreth not the Son
honoreth not the Father which has sent him. Truly, truly, verily,
verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth
on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into
condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily,
I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall
hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall
live. For as the Father has life in
himself, so has he given to the Son to have life in himself,
and hath given him authority to execute judgment, because
he is the Son of Man. Marvel not at this, for the hour
is coming in which all that are his voice, and shall come forth,
they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, they
that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation, I
can of mine own self do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment
is just, because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the
Father which has sent me. And then the Lord goes on to
give his warnings and to give his witnesses. So our topic today
is the honor of Christ, Christ's honor. You read that verse 23,
the reason that all judgment is committed into the hands of
the Lord Jesus Christ is that all men should honor the son,
even as they honor the father. He that honoureth not the Son,
honoureth not the Father which has sent him. Malachi. The book of Malachi has so many remarkable
parallels to this. In John's Gospel, Malachi, if
you turn there just briefly, Malachi is the last book of the
Old Testament Scriptures. And Malachi, he's called by the Jews the last
of them. So Malachi was written after the Jews had been sent
into exile, they had returned and Ezra had organized the construction
of the temple. Nehemiah had organized the construction
of the walls around the temple and the prophets like. Haggai
and Zechariah and Malachi were there to encourage the people
in their worship of God. And of course, what they found,
as they had found throughout Jewish history, that their worship
of God was polluted. Their worship of God was the
worship that was more about the honouring of men and especially
the men in positions of leadership, and not about the honoring of
God. But in Malachi chapter one, verse six, the Lord uses two
common figures, common examples in life, isn't it? He says, a
son honors his father, and a servant honors his master. And then he
asks the question, If then I be a father, where is my honour? Where's the honour? What a question. If I be a father, where is my
honour? Where is his honour? is the Lord Jesus Christ honoured? He says, if I be a master, where
is my fear? Where is the reverential awe
of me as God, as your judge? Where is mine honour? It's a good question, isn't it?
It's a good question that the Lord asks these people who were
the priests in Israel. It's a good question that the
Lord asks us today. Where is my honour? Where am
I honoured? I want, I desperately want for
us to be people that honour God. He promises in 1 Samuel, doesn't
he? He says, who honour me, I will
honour. I want personally to honour God
with my life. I personally and particularly
want this to be a place where the Lord Jesus Christ is honoured,
honoured for who he is, honoured as his word has revealed him
to his people. Listen to what he says at the
end of verse 6. He says, If I be a master, where
is my fear? Where is the reverential awe of God? Where is God revered
for being God? Where is God revered for being
the judge? Where is God revered for being
creator of everyone and everything? Where is God revered for being
absolutely sovereign? Where is God revered? So he says,
oh priests, listen to what he says of them. The honor of God has got to do
with his name, and his name is just not who he is. His name
is his character. It's the very essence of his
being. There used to be an old-fashioned term, isn't it? A person's name.
And a person's name was dishonored. They were very, very much grieved
by it. But his name is his character.
You owe your priests that despise my name, and yet they don't have
a clue. And he says, and they say, we're
in, Malachi is a remarkable book.
I'd like us to read it again soon and I'd like us to contemplate
all of the parallels. I think out of the 55 verses
in Malachi, 49 or 47 of them are directly the words of God.
And the Lord speaks directly. He's speaking directly to these
priests at a temple. And if you think that that was
just something that was written 2,400 years ago and is not particularly
relevant to exactly what is happening here and throughout this world
today, then we have missed what the scriptures are saying. Listen
to what God says. He says, to whom coming, in 1
Peter 2 verse 4, to whom coming as unto a living stone, disallowed
indeed of men, he was rejected of men, he was that chief cornerstone
and he was rejected of men, but he's chosen of God and he's precious. This is his worthiness, isn't
it? This is his honor. And then he
says, you also, You who claim the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
you also, as lively stones, as living stones, are built up a
spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices. If God is honoured here, this
is exactly what happens, isn't it? God has gathered us together.
God has called his peace, created a spiritual house, isn't it?
Not a physical house, a spiritual house. He's created a holy priesthood
to offer up spiritual sacrifices. Listen to what God says of the
spiritual sacrifices. This is where his honour is,
isn't it? acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. All the spiritual sacrifices
are acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. We looked last week at
the pomegranate. Tash and I were doing some homework
on the pomegranate and she took one home last week and I found
another one today, yesterday in the shop. Because the pomegranate
was the decoration, was part of the gown, the remarkable robe
that the high priest took into the Holy of Holies on the Day
of Atonement, and he took it in with the blood. Blood for
himself, he took it in with blood for others, and he took into
the Holy of Holies on his heart, he took the names of all of the
children of Israel, and he took on his shoulders. The government's
on his shoulders, but on top of his shoulders was the names
of all the children of Israel. He takes all of his people into
the Holy of Holies. And the pomegranate, and there
was a pomegranate and a bell all the way around that road.
And as he walked in there and he performed that remarkable
service, the bells and the pomegranates would ring. The pomegranates
would ring the bell. What a great picture of gospel
preaching, isn't it? We come together, we ring a bell,
don't we? We ring, it's such joyful sound.
Those that are of the Lord's here are joyful sound. The one
thing that was missing, Tash, from last week is, do you see
the top of my pomegranate? I had to go searching down at
the fruit market to find one. What's at the top? There's a
crown, and you can come and have a look at it later on. But inside
the crown are all the little stamens, and attached to every
little stamen is a little cord through which the seed goes down,
doesn't it? The pollen goes down into the
seed inside. It's a picture of the Lord Jesus
Christ in his church, isn't it? That there is a special connection
between, from the crown, to the very seeds and they're kept. What does Colossians say? Our
lives are hidden with Christ in God. In John chapter 10, he
says, no one can pluck you out of my hand. And that's what the
pomegranate's a picture of, isn't it? There's blood on the outside
and inside every seed, every seed has blood. And I won't embarrass
Tash to ask her what she discovered this week, but that's just another
beautiful picture of what the pomegranate is. The picture of
the union between the Lord Jesus Christ and his people, it's a
picture of the security of that union. It's a picture of the
blood. Every seed inside is blood. Every seed inside is covered
with blood. There's blood on the outside
and there's blood on the inside. Just like on Noah's ark, there
was pitch on the outside and there was pitch on the inside.
It's the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what that
word means in Genesis chapter six. We are covered and protected
by the glory of our God and we are safe and secure in him, which
is what John 5 is talking about, isn't it? It's talking about
how the Lord Jesus Christ is united to his people and he comes.
He comes in John 5 as he did in Malachi's time. He comes in
a time of darkness. He comes in a time where there's
so much confusion and spiritual idolatry all over the place that
there is and need to go searching for the children of God, need
to go searching for a place where God is honoured. And one of the
great differences between Malachi and John's Gospel is in Malachi,
again and again and again, the prophet says, the Lord says,
this saith the Lord, the Lord says. When it comes to the Lord
Jesus Christ, he utters those glorious words. as I say unto you. We are here
because our God has spoken. We are here because we seek his
honour and his glory, and we want to hear from him. We're
going to sing again, thanks Ben. What are we going to, which one
are we singing? 31. 31. Tell out my soul the greatness
of the Lord. Tell out my soul the greatness
of the Lord. Unnumbered blessings give my
spirit my heart my soul the greatness of his
name his mercy from age to age to stay tell out my soul my soul the glories of his Heavenly Father, thank you that
you truly are an amazing God. And in spite of our failings
and our weaknesses, We thank you for church, Heavenly
Father, a place where we can come and be encouraged. And it's
a place where you make a promise, Heavenly Father, and walk amongst
us to draw near us and to apply your word to our hearts. And
we just thank you that in the midst of a busy life and busy
weeks, we can just take a rest, Heavenly Father, and be re-energized
by the wonders of your gospel. our brothers and sisters, and
we pray for the preaching of the gospel throughout the world.
Pray for those who can't come and hear it personally and ask
that in the midst of the difficulties of their lives, you might draw
near them, Heavenly Father. And what an amazing thing it
is when you show up, when you make yourself known in our lives,
especially in the deepest, darkest parts of our lives. And we pray
that for Rob and Kay and their family. that you would just reveal
yourself in the most amazing ways and bring great comfort,
comfort only you can bring, into their lives. And we just pray,
Heavenly Father, that you would just bless our time together,
that all of us might encourage one another and continually direct
each other to the wonders of your I'd like you to turn back with me
to the book of Malachi. It's the last book of the Old
Testament, so it's a pretty easy one to find amongst all those
little books. And the reason I wanted us to
look at Malachi over this next several weeks is that the parallels
are just remarkable. The Lord Jesus Christ as God
speaks through Malachi and as the Word made flesh, he speaks
to the priests in Jerusalem and he speaks In the same way, he
speaks to the same people that have replicated the same issues
throughout their lives. These people, despite all of
the evidence laid before them, still have no idea that God even when he says he is, even
when they're looking for the Christ, even when he stands before
them, as we saw in those verses in John chapter five, and he
says, I'm God. I'm equal with God. I own life. I'm the one that by word can
raise the dead in this life to a life of God. I'm the one who
is so omniscient, omnipotent. omnipotent in power that there'll
come a day when I'll speak and every grave on this earth will
be emptied. The earth will give up its dead
at the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he showed them, didn't
he, by the three raisings of the dead that he did in the gospel
accounts. And just by word, a dead man
who's been dead for four days comes out of the tomb. It's just
a picture, isn't it? When the Lord Jesus Christ died,
the graves were opened and men of old walked the streets of
Jerusalem. And still, after the resurrection and all of the evidence,
there was still a complete and utter deadness amongst the religious
people. And as we look at them and as
we look at Some verses here in Malachi, I pray that we would
be praying that the Lord would cause us to hear his voice. Before
we read Malachi, I'd like us to consider God's judgment. That's one of the questions in
Malachi, where's the God of judgment? Where is the God of judgment?
Where is my honor, he says at the beginning, where is the God
of judgment? The remarkable thing is that we think that God is
judging people when we see horrible things happening. We think that
He's judging people when there is complete and utter depravity
in so many places in society. There is an awful judgment of
God going on when His Word is proclaimed, His Son is honoured,
and people are not given ears to hear. Turn with me to Acts
chapter 13, verse 27. This is Paul's, this is the Holy
Spirit's assessment of what happened in Jerusalem. It happened from the days of
Solomon, from the building of their temple, it happened all
the way through to the days of Malachi. It happened until the
days when the Lord Jesus Christ sent the army of Titus and they
absolutely destroyed Jerusalem. But listen to what he says to
them in verse 27. He says, let's go back to verse
26, men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, he's
speaking to those who claim to be Jews, and whosoever among
you that feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation
sent. This is the word that's sent
by God. This is God's word that we're
speaking. This is not the word of men,
this is God's. voice and God's word that said, and then he describes
what happened in Jerusalem. And this is throughout the history
of Jerusalem. For they that dwell in Jerusalem
and their rulers, listen to the allegation made against them.
They knew him not. They didn't know who God was.
They didn't know who they were. They didn't know what God's word
said. They knew him not, they knew
him not. And yet he was in their midst
and he stood before them and he declared himself to be God.
And the father declared himself to be God, declared him to be
God. John the Baptist declared him.
He did these works, he did these miracles, he fulfilled every
prophecy in the Old Testament. He was a walking, living, breathing,
talking. fulfillment of every Old Testament
prophecy. All the promises the I and I
made in Him, all the pictures are in Him. They knew Him not. They knew Him not. There wasn't
any lack of evidence. And then listen to what it says.
They didn't know Him, nor yet the voices That doesn't mean that they didn't
read them. You listen to what he goes on to say, which are
read every Sabbath day. Every day they met, and they
opened to scriptures, and they read the scriptures, and they
didn't hear a voice. And yet, listen to what he goes
on to say, God is still absolutely sovereign, sitting on his throne.
It doesn't matter what man does. They have fulfilled them in condemning
him. They put him to judgment. I want for us as we come to the
scriptures and as you personally come to the scriptures to pray
that Lord the Lord would cause you to hear the voice, to hear
the voice, to hear the voice of the shepherd. That word voice
is a remarkable word. So they knew the words and they
had them and they knew them off by heart. And they were looking
for the Messiah. But the voices, that word voices
means to bring forth into light. It's not just the words on a
page, is it? It's to bring them forth into
light. It's for them to become evident
or resplendent. It means to shine. That these
words from God shine a light on the Lord Jesus Christ. And
in his light, we see light and we see him. for these bits of ink on bits
of paper to become a living word. That's what the Lord Jesus said
in John 6, isn't it? My words are spirit and they
are life. It's to make manifest, it's to
appear, it's to shine. And there will be no honour of God
unless his word shines a light on the Lord Jesus Christ. And
he says in 2 Corinthians 4, that verse that we read so often,
he shines in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God. It's a creative act, the first
words of God in the Bible, I'll let there be light. And he's
not talking about the sun and the moon and stars, they weren't
created for another four days. He's talking about this light
of the gospel, this light of his word, this light that shines
a light on who he is. to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. So when we come
to the scriptures, when we come and read, I pray that we would
be praying that that judgment that fell upon these priests
in Israel, to hear the word of God, to see him lifted up high And may God protect us from that. Let's read, let's turn in our
Bibles to Malachi. I'm gonna read a couple of chapters
and then we'll come back to John's gospel and look about the honor.
But I want us to listen carefully to the Lord questioning these
people. And all through the book of Malachi, you can mark them
as you have time, if you like, and you'll see that he asks a
question and he tells them what they're thinking in their hearts
and he gives an answer. That's exactly what he does all
the time. He's not asking to get knowledge at all. He knows
everything and he knows everyone. Okay, let's read these last words
of the Old Testament prophets. The Burden of the Word of the
Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you, saith the Lord.
Yet you say, wherein have you loved us? Hath thou loved us?
Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith the Lord? Yet I loved Jacob,
and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste
for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished. This is what Esau is saying.
We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desperate
places. Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
They shall build, but I will throw down, and they shall call
them the border of wickedness, and the people against whom the
Lord hath indignation forever. You can see why the Jews in the
days of the Lord Jesus Christ saw that any association with
those that they called the Gentiles, all of the rest of the people
of this world, any association with them was something that
they had to avoid in all sorts of remarkable ways. Verse 5, And your eyes shall
see, and you shall say, The Lord will be magnified from the border
of Israel. Verse six, a son honoreth his
father, and a servant his master. If then I be a father, where
is mine honor? And if I be a master, where is
my fear, saith the Lord of hosts? Unto you, O priests, that despise
my name, and you say, wherein have we despised thy name? You have offered polluted bread
upon mine altar, and you say, wherein have we polluted thee?
In that you say, the table of the Lord is contemptible. And if you offer the blind for
sacrifice, is it not evil? And if you offer the lame and
the sick, is it not evil? Offer it now unto thy governor.
Will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person, saith the
Lord of hosts? And now I pray you. Beseech,
that means to seek the face of. Beseech God that he will be gracious
unto us. This has been by your means. Will he regard your person, saith
the Lord of hosts? Who is there among you that would
shut the door for naught? You wouldn't even go and close
the temple doors without being paid for it. Neither do you kindle
a fire on my altar for nought. Your service is for pay. I have
no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I
accept an offering in your hand. Because, or for, from the rising
of the sun even to the going down of that same, my name shall
be great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense shall
be offered unto my name, and a pure offering. For my name
shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts. But
you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the Lord
is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. You said also, Behold, what a
weariness it is! saith the Lord of hosts, and
you brought that which was torn, and lame, and sick. Thus you
brought an offering. Should I accept this of your
hand, saith the Lord? But cursed be the deceiver which
hath in his flock a male, and voweth and sacrifices unto the
Lord a corrupt thing. For I am a great king, saith
the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear,
if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name, saith
the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I
will curse I have cursed them already, because
you do not lay at the heart. Behold, I will corrupt your seed
and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn
feasts, and one shall take you away with it. And you shall know
that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant with
Levi My covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
My covenant was with him of life and peace. This is the covenant
of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the eternal covenant
in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. My covenant was with
him of life and peace and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith
he feared me and was afraid before my name. The law of truth was
in his mouth and iniquity not found in his lips. He walked
with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. For the priest's lips should
keep knowledge, and they that seek the Lord his mouth, for
he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. But you have departed
out of the way. You have caused many to stumble
at the law. You have corrupted the covenant
of Levi, saith the Lord of Hosts. Therefore have I also made you
contemptible and base before all people, according as you
have not kept my ways, but have been partial in my law. Have
we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously
every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of
our fathers? Judah hath dealt treacherously,
and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah hath profaned the holiness
of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter
of a strange God. The Lord will cut off the man
that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles
of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of
hosts. And this have you done again, covering the altar of
the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out insomuch
that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receive it with
tears. good will at your hand. Yet you
say, wherefore? Because the Lord hath been a
witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom
thou hast dealt treacherously. Yet is she thy companion and
the wife of thy covenant, and did not he make one? Yet he hath
the residue of the Spirit, and wherefore one? That he might
seek a godly seed, Therefore take heed to your spirit. Let
none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the
Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hates putting away. He
hates divorce. Thankfully he hates divorce.
For one cover of violence with his garments, saith the Lord
of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit that you deal
not treacherously. You have wearied the Lord with
your words. You say, wherein have we wearied him? When you
say, everyone that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord,
and he delighteth in them. Or where is the God of judgment? The God of judgment is here in
John chapter five, revealing himself in that temple before
the descendants of these same priests. And listen to what,
they ask, where's the God of judgment? And the next words
are remarkable, aren't they? Behold, I will send my messenger.
I will send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before
me. This is John the Baptist. And the Lord, whom you seek. See, they were seeking the Lord
and doing all this depravity and sickly stuff. shall suddenly
come to his temple. That's what he did in John chapter
2. That's what he's done again in John chapter 5. He's suddenly
come to his temple. Even the messenger of the covenant,
whom you delight in, behold, he shall come, saith the Lord
of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner's fire,
and like full of soap. And he shall sit as a refiner
and purifier of silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi,
and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the
Lord an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah
in Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord. as in the days of old,
as in the former years. And I will come near to you to
judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, and
against the adulterers, against the false-swearers, against those
that oppress the highling in his ways, the widow and the fatherless,
and that turn aside the stranger from his right. And fear me not,
saith the Lord of hosts, for I am the Lord. I love this verse. I am the Lord, I change not. The Lord who spoke these words
in Malachi's day is exactly the same Lord who is having them
read before us today. I change not, I change not. Therefore you sons of Jacob are
not consumed. Even from the days of your fathers
you have gone away from mine ordinances and not kept them.
Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.
But you said, Wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you
say, Where have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings you are
cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even this whole
nation. Bring ye all the tithes into
the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house, and prove
me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open
you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, and
there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke
the devourer. for thy, your sakes. And he shall
not destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shall your vine
cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord
of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed, for you shall
be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts. Your words
have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet you say, what have
we spoken so much against thee? You have said, It is vain to
serve God. What profit is there that we
have kept His ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully
before the Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy,
and they that work wickedness are set up, yea, they that tempt
God are even delivered. Then, This is a glorious conclusion
to this remarkable book that finishes the Old Testament. Then
they that feared the Lord spoke often one to another, and the
Lord hearkened and heard it. And a book of remembrance was
written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought
upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith
the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my jewels, and
I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the
wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him
not. For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and
all the proud, yea, all that do wickedly shall be stubble.
And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord
of hosts, and it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name, Shall the Son of Righteousness
arise with healing in his wings, and you shall go forth and grow
up as calves of the stall, and you shall tread down the wicked,
for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the
day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of Hosts. Remember the
law of my servant, of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto
him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming
of the great and dreadful day. And he shall turn the heart of
the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to
the fathers. lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
He shall turn the heart of the fathers with the children. They'll
have one voice. They'll be joined as one in the
worship of God. May the Lord add his blessing
to our hearts through his word. Let's have a break and come back
and look at John chapter five.