What a great hymn. Isn't it lovely
to sing the gospel? It's lovely to sing the gospel.
It's lovely to read the gospel. It's lovely to sing the gospel. Let's just turn back in our Bibles
to John chapter 3. See if we can organize things with the
wind. John chapter 3 and we have this sermon of John the Baptist and as we looked at last week
it provides us with an extraordinary description of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the wonders of his glory, the wonders of who he is. And
we looked at it last week and there are two significant things
I see in all of this. The question is, you know, what
authority? And again and again and again John expresses the
absolute authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, his authority to
come and baptise, his authority to speak from heaven, his authority
as the witness that's come from heaven. So let's read these verses
again. Let's start at verse 25. Then there arose a question between
some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. As
we saw last week, and I trust we'll see again, that's the question
that the religious world is asking all the time. What is purification
and how do I get pure? What do I have to do to make
myself pure? And they came to John, and said
unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan,
to whom thou bearest witness, behold, the same baptiseth us,
and all men come to him. And John answered and said, A
man can receive nothing. Oh dear, oh dear, if we can get
hold of what the truth of this is. If God would write these
words on our hearts. A man can receive nothing. except it be given him from heaven. You yourselves bear witness that
I said, I am not the Christ, but I am sent before him. He that hath the bride is the
bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom which standeth
and heareth him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice.
This my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase. and I must
decrease. He that cometh from above is
above all, and he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh
of the earth. He that cometh from heaven is
above all, and what he hath seen and heard that he testifieth,
and no man receiveth his testimony. He that hath received his testimony
hath set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God hath
sent speaks the words of God, for God giveth not the Spirit
by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, hath
given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son,
hath everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son
as described here, he that believeth on the Son as described in the
operations that John describes of him, he that believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not the
Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. Jeremiah asked the question,
and the Scriptures asked the question, how shall it be for
you in crossing the Jordan into the Promised Land? What will
it be like for you on that day? My friend Sarah and her family
are having to grapple with that and we all have to grapple with
it. And what amazing grace and mercy from our God that we get
to consider that now and we get to consider that here. and we
get to ponder these things. I want us to have a look, as
we read Psalm 24 earlier, who shall ascend in the temple of
the Lord? Who shall go to that holy hill? Who shall go into Mount Zion,
the heavenly Mount Zion? And it's those that have a clean
hand. The question is, what is purification? Psalm 24 spoke
of your clean hands, which means your doings have to be outwardly
perfectly clean before God, every single last one of them. And
a pure heart, you need to be clean on the inside, you need
to be clean on the outside and clean on the inside to get into
heaven. And we are like the lepers, aren't
we? The lepers in the book of God. They were required,
the lepers. And we spoke last week about
that leper who came to the Lord Jesus and he said, if you will,
you can make me clean. And the leper is the one, isn't
he? The leprosy is a picture of sin. And the leper in whom the plague
is, his clothes shall be rent and his head bare. He shall put
a covering on his upper lip and shall cry, unclean, unclean. All the days wherein the plague
shall be in him, he shall be defiled. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone without
the camp, shall his habitation be. We are, as Isaiah says, an
unclean thing, an unclean thing, and if the Lord has worked in
our hearts for us to cry out to him we will cry out unclean
unclean unclean john the baptist was commissioned
by our lord and it's good for us to ponder his commission again
and again he says he describes himself as a voice of one crying
in the wilderness and this is the last cry of john the baptist
And what shall he cry? What shall he cry? In Isaiah
chapter 40 verse 3, the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a
highway for our God. And every valley shall be exalted,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked
shall be made straight, and the rough places plain, and the glory
of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. For the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it. John the Baptist's testimony
is that this is the one who speaks from God. The Lord Jesus Christ
is the one who speaks from God. And the voice said, Cry, and
he said, What shall I cry? What's the cry of all of God's
servants? What's the cry of John the Baptist? All flesh is grass. In this previous conversation
with Nicodemus the Lord Jesus made that remarkable statement
which is so deeply profound and so extraordinarily true in all
of its depths and wonders. Flesh gives birth to flesh. Flesh
gives birth to flesh. and spirit gives birth to spirit.
All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the
flower of the field. The grass withereth, and the
flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it.
Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, and the
flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord shall stand for ever. And I love what the next words
are! Oh Zion! Oh Zion! the heavenly Jerusalem, the Church
of God, that bringeth forth good tidings. In the midst of all
of that, they're bringing forth good tidings. John the Baptist
is bringing forth good tidings. We're preaching good tidings.
We're preaching a gospel. A gospel is good news. It's good
news about what has been done. It's not good advice about what
you have to do to make it happen. It's good news about him. It's
good news about the bridegroom. It's good news about the shepherd.
It's good news about he who is the head. It's good news. It's good news about... a sovereign
saviour who loved his people from eternity. O Zion that bringeth
good tidings, get thee up on the high mountains. O Jerusalem
that bringeth good tidings, lift up the voice with strength, lift
it up and be not afraid. And say unto the cities of Judah,
that's what we say to all this world, don't we? And say to the
people of God, behold your God, behold your God. You are going
to behold your God very, very, very soon, all of us. The grass
fades, doesn't it? The grass fades. Oh, to behold Him now, to behold
Him now in love. It's really extraordinary, isn't
it, that throughout the Scriptures the saints of God always, always
look forward to the day when they meet the Lord. I love what
John says. He says, He said in verse 16 of John chapter
4, excuse me, I don't know whether
I ate him or he just tickled me. He says, we have known and
believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth
in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Once again, the scriptures
are just full of this extraordinary union between the Lord Jesus
Christ and his people. And herein is our love made perfect,
that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, we may have
confidence in the day of judgment, Because why do we have confidence? Why do we have boldness in the
day of judgment? Because as he is, so are we in
this world. They're the words of God. They're
the words of God, aren't they? As he is, there is no fear in
love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect
in love. We love him. We love him. We really love him, because he
first loved us. And because of that we love him
and we love the brethren that are in him. We have boldness
on that day. So in the midst of this cry that
all flesh is grass, we have confidence and we have boldness. And the
boldness obviously has got nothing to do with the power and the
strength and the wisdom and the works of the grass. It just withers
away. Everything's got to do with who? Our Lord Jesus Christ. Abraham was asked of God, he
was commanded by God in Genesis chapter 17, Abraham you walk
before me and be ye perfect. Did Abraham walk before God and
be perfect? How did Abraham walk before God
and be perfect? Abraham walked before God in
faith. He walked before God in faith
and he received the promises. Walk before me and be ye perfect. Purification is what John the
Baptist was talking about. As the Proverbs says, there is
a generation, Proverbs 30 verse 12, there is a generation There's
always been a generation. Cain was part of this generation
and there are multitudes in this generation today. There is a
generation that are pure in their own eyes. What a terrible purity
that is, isn't it? God says there's a generation
that's pure in their own eyes yet is not washed from their
filthiness. I don't want to be part of that
generation and I have been part of that generation. I know that
the Lord alone can make me clean. How can a sinner like me be made
clean? It's a question that's asked
throughout the Scriptures. Job was asked that question,
isn't it? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean thing?
Not one. Job also says, What is man that
he should be clean, which is born of a woman, that he should
be righteous? And Job, as we know, was tested
in the most extraordinary ways by God, wasn't he? In the most
extraordinary ways tested. Satan was given access to everything
that he had and even his health. But remarkably, in the presence
of those three miserable comforters, Job is finally brought to a place
where Job wants to proclaim his own righteousness. And then the
Gospel comes and Elihu comes and speaks the Gospel to Job
and reminds Job of who God is and how good and gracious our
God is. And Job's response in Job 40
verse 4, after the Gospel's been preached to him, Not very many
chapters earlier he's been proclaiming his own righteousness in the
midst of all of this. And then when he meets the Lord,
he says, Behold, I am vile. Behold, I am vile. Clean on the outside, clean on
the inside. How is a man purified? We know
what the Jews thought of purification. They thought purification was
obedience to the law. They thought purification was
separation from the wicked people of this world. They thought purification
was not only obeying the law of God. They thought purification
was going beyond the law of God so that they actually put a hedge
around the law and had all their traditions that hedged the law.
So what they thought was that before you actually got to break
the law of God you would actually have to break through a hedge
that they put around it. And all of those rules and traditions
were just made them a generation that was
pure in their own eyes and that they were unclean. And it's remarkable,
isn't it, that those religious people who thought themselves
righteous, who thought themselves clean in their own eyes, were
the generation that when the Lord of Glory performed the very
things that only Messiah could perform before them, when they
heard these remarkable words of John the Baptist, their response
The response is the response of all sinners and especially
all religious sinners. We won't have this man to rule
over us. Away with him. The earth is not fit to have
him here. But there is a generation, the
children of God, they're clean on the outside and clean on the
inside. I love that passage of scripture
in Hebrews 9 which speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ as this
high priest. It's remarkable to think, isn't
it? I was hoping, and I may do it sometime soon, bring a message
out of Exodus and Leviticus chapter
10 and some of these verses in Hebrews about what it was. How
did you get into the presence of God in the Old Covenant? The only possible way you got
into the presence of God was as a high priest. You had to
be a high priest and you went into that tabernacle and you
went in there with blood for your own sins and you went in
there with blood for all the people and one person and one
person alone. throughout all of that economy
was there able to come into the very presence of God and the
people were on the outside. Everything in the Old Testament
said, don't you dare come to God. Don't you dare think you
can come into the presence of God with presumption and with
your own good works because you don't have any at all. You come
into the presence of God in the blood. You come into the presence
of God in the high priest. And that high priest took his
people in. The high priest is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He went into that tabernacle dressed in that extraordinary
Those extraordinary robes and that extraordinary ephod and
on his shoulders he had the names of all the children of God and
on his breastplate it's his heart. The government's on his shoulders.
It's the Lord Jesus Christ, the only way you get into the presence
of God. The only way you got into the
presence of God in the Old Testament economy was you were carried
in there by the high priest. It's exactly the same way you
get into the presence of God. We are carried into the presence
of God by our high priest. Our names are written on his
heart, they're engraved on his hands, he carries us on his shoulders.
Listen to what he says, Hebrews 9.11, but Christ being come a
high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
this temple that you can see, neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood, he went into the temple. when
he entered into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. We think of eternal things as
something that has a beginning here and has no ending. Eternal
has no beginning nor ending. He has eternal redemption. It's
in His hands. He has it in His hands. You are
carried in by this High Priest, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and
goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling up the unclean, sanctified
to the purifying of the flesh, which is all it did, it made
them ceremonially pure. How much more, how much more
shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without spot? This world and this religious
world will say he offered himself without spot to all the world.
He offers himself to everyone. Listen to what the scriptures
say about it. Listen to what God says. He offered
himself without spot to God. The offering of the body and
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ was an offering to God. This
high priest goes into the Holy of Holies in heaven with an offering
to his father. God has made him who knew no
sin to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him, not that we might work the righteousness of God
or work our way to it. He offered himself without spot
to God. Purge your conscience from dead
works. Dead works. As God made you to see, that
all of your works of righteousness, all of your works that you might
esteem, all of your works that others might esteem, have you
seen them as dead? Have they been put to death with
Christ? Has that body of flesh been crucified
with the Lord Jesus Christ from dead works to serve the living
God? A clean conscience. A clean conscience. I don't know about you, but I
love the thought of having a clean conscience. The older I get,
the more I'm aware that I am more frail and more feeble and
more sinful. and have less and less and less
of anything in myself to give me any confidence whatsoever.
There was a time when I probably did, and there was a time when
other people probably thought that way, but as the Lord works in
the hearts of His people like all of us will, all of His people
will say as John the Baptist, He must increase and I must decrease. He must increase. Pure. How does the Bible teach us about
purification. What is it to be pure? The great
battle that the early church first had, the first attacks
of Satan on the early church, were not as we would think. attacks
in terms of outward evil. The first attack on the church
and the only time the church ever gathered together was at
the Jerusalem Council and it was to settle this issue, isn't
it? Is your purification, is the law, your obedience to the
law going to aid in your purification before God? And that was the
issue, that was what was plaguing the church and what was causing
divisions in the church. And it's still there today. They were a sect of the Pharisees,
it says in Acts 15.5, which believed, saying it was needful to circumcise
them and to command them to keep the law of Moses. Peter had already been taught
of God, hadn't he? When he was to go and see those
Gentiles and that sheep came down from heaven with the four
corners representing all the elect of God that come down from
heaven and go back to heaven, Peter was told, don't you dare
call anything unclean that God has called clean. If God calls
it clean, it's clean. And listen to what he says about
these people. They hear the word of the gospel
and believe these Gentiles. And God, which knoweth their
hearts, and he knows our hearts now, he bears them with them,
giving them the Holy Spirit, giving them the Holy Ghost, even
as he did unto us, putting no difference between us and them,
no difference between a Gentile and a Jew, purifying their hearts
by faith. Purifying their hearts by faith. And here's the great gospel declaration
of the New Testament Church, isn't it? We believe that through
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. If you're going to be a Jew and
saved, you're going to be saved as a Gentile, exactly the same
way a Gentile is saved. How can a man be clean with God? The Lord Jesus Christ declared
his apostles after Judas had gone to betray him. He said,
You are clean, and you are clean through a word that I have spoken
to you. You're clean. You're clean. How is a sinner made clean? Thoroughly clean? The first way a sinner is made
clean is by the will of God, isn't it? By the will of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Everything begins with our sovereign God.
He's the first cause of everything, including our cleansing, including
what is involved and all the circumstances of it. In Luke
chapter 5 that leper came to him and he said, Lord, if you
will, if you will, you can make me clean. If you will, you can
make me clean. God wills. the purification of
his people, the cleansing of his people. Our God's in the
heavens. He does whatever he pleases. He only has to think
it and it's done. Isaiah 14.24 says, Everything
he wills is done. What's happening in this world
today? What's going to happen in this world until he comes
back again? Exactly, his will always is done. That's what it
is for him to be God. To deny his absolute sovereignty
over all things is just a wicked heart of unbelief. How are we cleansed? We are cleansed
by the will of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are cleansed of course
by his blood. We're cleansed by his blood,
we're washed in that fountain. Zechariah, one of the last books
of the Old Testament says, in that day, in the day of the Lord
Jesus Christ shall be a fountain opened to the house of David
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. Don't you love how the book of
Hebrews begins with such a glorious description of our Lord Jesus
Christ? who being the brightness of his
glory. We can read those words. We have
no idea what those words mean, do we? But the brightness of
his glory, the Lord Jesus Christ is the brightness of his glory.
They glimpsed it on the Mount of Transfiguration. The saints
of God are gazing upon it in heaven's glory now. The brightness
of his glory and the express image of his person upholding
all things by the word of his power. Why are we here now? He's upholding all things. Why
is the sun still shining? He's upholding all things by
the word of his power. Such is the power of the word
of God. And when he had, listen to this,
when he had by himself purged our sins, washed them clean,
purified our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the majesty
on high. His blood, the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ, cleanses us from all sin. Such is the power, such
is the wonder of what happened on Calvary's tree when that blood
was shed. Such is the completeness of it.
John speaks of light in 1 John 7, but if we walk in the light,
is he in the light? That's in the light of who he
is, in the light of what he's done. We have fellowship with
one another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses
us from all sin. We're cleansed, brothers and
sisters in Christ. We're cleansed by the will of
God. We're cleansed by the blood. But his blood has to be applied
to us, hasn't it? His blood is applied to the hearts
of his people in regeneration. When the Gospel comes, when the
Lord Jesus Christ comes, when the Holy Spirit comes with power
to take the things of the Lord Jesus and reveals them to us,
He says of those Corinthians, you are washed and sanctified
and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit
of our God. It's applied to us. I do love
that picture in Genesis chapter 3 where he found Adam and Eve,
didn't he? God found them. They were hiding.
They were hiding. God found them. God found them
and he brought them to himself and he stripped off their fig
leaves of their own works and their own righteousness and he
stood them before him naked and then he slew a lamb and he clothed
them with the very righteousness of God. That is the clothing,
that fine linen that Aaron and his sons wore. the church in
glory. She's arrayed. It was granted
that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white,
for the fine linen is the righteousness. In fact, it's in the plural.
The fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints. That's how they
are arrayed. They are robed in the robe of
Christ's righteousness. It's applied to us. So we are
made clean by the will of God. We are made clean by the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are made clean by that blood
being applied to us. It has to be sprinkled on our
hearts. It's precious blood. It's precious blood. All that
God willed to be done was done, and all those cleansed are cleansed
as God says, and they're cleansed completely and perfectly. As
he said to the Shulamite, there's no spot in you, there's no spot
in her. This cleansing is not just a
covering of something that's filthy. It's a cleansing on the
outside and it's a cleansing on the inside. So clean, so clean
that the Lord Jesus Christ says of His Bride, He says, You are
complete in Him, Colossians 2.10. You are complete in Him. And it's His work, this Great
Shepherd, this great bridegroom. He says, You who were alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked works has he now reconciled in
the body of his flesh through death. This is what happened
when he died on Calvary's tree, to present you holy and unblameable
and unreprovable in his sight. We had a wedding some few weeks
ago and there came Hume's father-in-law with his bride on his arm. And she was presented, wasn't
she, to all of them. The Lord Jesus Christ will take
his bride and he will present her to all this world and present
her to his Father. And I love what it says, it's
in his sight. God sees perfectly and God sees
clearly. Clean, clean by the will of God,
clean by His blood, clean by its application to us, clean
by Him presenting us to His Father. Clean heart. You might recall
David's cry, wasn't it, in Psalm 51, God, create in me a clean
heart. Create in me a clean heart. Restore unto me the joy of your
salvation. I've lost myself by my sins. A clean heart. What's a clean
heart? What is it to be pure in heart
according to the scriptures? What is it to have this heart
that's clean before God in his sight? Ezekiel 36.25 says, Then
I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean.
These are God's promises to his people, and you shall be clean
from all your filthiness, not just little bits of it, all your
filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. Who does the cleansing? The only
cleansing that matters in God's sight is the cleansing that God
does himself. A new heart. new heart also will I give you
and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the
stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh
and I will put my spirit within you and listen to what he says
what an amazing promise to all the children of God and cause
you to walk in my statutes and you shall keep my judgments and
do them He'll save you from all your uncleanness. It's the Spirit of God, the new
creation. I love what Ephesians Paul described
it. It's a new creation created in
righteousness and true holiness. It's the new creation. It's Christ
in you, the hope of glory. Why does Christ take up residence
in his people according to the word of God? Why does the holy
God take up residence in his people? Because in his sight
they're holy. Holiness can only live with holiness.
Perfection can only live with perfection. It's a new man. And what does the new heart do?
What does the new heart do? The new heart confesses sin. There is a cleansing in that
confession, isn't there? A confession that God brings
into the hearts of his people. You know 1 John 1 verse 9. if we confess our sins, and to
confess our sins is to say what God says about our sins. You
have no notion of all your sins, you've got no ability to confess
all your sins, but we can say what God says about us. All that
I ever have done is sin. Sin is both a noun and sin is
both a verb. If we confess our sins He is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. We confess in baptism, we confess
in the Lord's Supper, we confess in our joining together under
the Gospel that declares the cleansing from God. Pure heart confesses sin. Listen to what happens in Ezekiel
36. after this new heart in you, then you shall remember your
own evil ways and your doings that were not good and shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and
your abomination. When the clean heart comes, the
clean heart sees the old heart. The new nature that comes from
God is the only one that sees the old nature for what it really
is. As we read earlier, the new heart, the pure heart confesses
sins. It turns away from dead works,
all the religious works are dead works. When we've done all that
we've done and all that we ought to have done, according to Luke
chapter 7, we're unprofitable servants, we're unprofitable. A pure heart is made pure by
faith, not by works, not by doctrines, not by experiences, but by faith,
by trusting Him alone. A new heart, a pure heart. There's perfecting holiness in
the fear of the Lord. There is in a new heart a reverence
for God and a reverence for his word. The fear of God is clean,
is clean. Abraham walked before God and
was perfect. David died with those words that
are just remarkable and need to be committed to memory, that
you might die. And if my friend in Canada is
to die, you pray that this is how you die, this is how David
died, the sweet psalmist of Israel. The God of Israel said, The Rock
of Israel spake unto me, He that ruleth over men must be just,
ruling in the fear of God. This is speaking of the Lord,
and he shall be as a light of the morning, and when the sun
rises, even the morning without clouds, as a tender grass springing
out of the earth by clear shining after the rain. That's who he
is and that's what he does. And then David confesses in 2
Samuel 23.5, Although my house be not so with God, David may
well have been looking at nation Israel and all the problems. He may have well been looking
at his own house which was full of murders and adultery and all
sorts of wickedness. But most likely he was looking
at the house of his own flesh. He says, even though my house
be not so with God yet, Yet he, it's one of the great buts or
the yet subscripture, yet he hath made with me an everlasting
covenant, ordered in all things and sure. And then he says, for
this is all my salvation and all my desire, although he make
it not to grow. Is that all your salvation? Is that
all your desire? He has made with me an everlasting
covenant. I didn't make a covenant with
him. He made a covenant with me. He made it before the foundation
of the world. He signed and sealed it with
his precious blood, the blood of the everlasting covenant.
And it's ordered in sure in every detail. Every detail of all of
our lives, every detail of everything that happens in this world is
under the direction of that great shepherd, is under the direction
of that great bridegroom who must have his bride and he must
have them with him. And what do you do in response?
I do love what Psalm 116 says in verse 12. What shall I render
unto the Lord for all of his benefits toward me? What shall
I render? What do you think you ought to
render to God? According to the scriptures, this is what the
psalmist rendered. I will take the cup of salvation
and call upon the name of the Lord. I'll take the cup of salvation
and I'll call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows under the
Lord now in the presence of all these people. And then in verse
15, and I'm thinking of my friend in Canada and you, my friends
here, precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his
saints. Precious in the sight of the
Lord is the death of his saints. Let's pray. Heavenly Father,
we pray that you would create in us a clean heart. that you
would cause us to look upon your Son. And that fountain opened
us, opened for cleansing. O our Father, we do pray, that
you would cause your son to be high and lifted up in our midst
and we thank you heavenly father that at these times and at all
times we can bring our prayers and our pleas and our cries unto
you and bring our brokenheartedness to you and we do pray heavenly
father especially for sarah and Steve and those little ones in
Canada. But Heavenly Father, there are
many, many of your children going through similar things throughout
this world and we just thank you and praise you for the great
shepherd of the sheep who must, who must gather his sheep into
his fold. and keep them safe both in this
world and forevermore bless your word to our hearts heavenly father
honor your son with what response he works in the hearts of these
people here for your glory our father amen