As we've been studying John's
Gospel, we have been contemplating it often in terms of it being
foundations, where John the Apostle is laying foundations of who
the Lord Jesus Christ is and how he saves sinners like us. One of the most remarkable things
in this world is that you would think that looking around and
looking into something of the goings on of our hearts that
the conviction of sin would be about the easiest thing you could
possibly establish. That we live in a world that
is depraved amongst a people in a world that is so depraved,
all you have to do is read the newspapers to see something of
the wickedness. I think last century a million
people a year died in war and probably another million people
died in all sorts of other wickedness formed by those people who were
craving power and riches in this world for themselves and countless
countless countless other millions died of disease and yet The most
difficult thing to establish is the fact that we are sinners.
And as the hymn writer said, a sinner is a sacred thing. God
the Spirit is the one who makes sinners to know that they are
sinners. And here in Genesis chapter 3 we have the beginning
of what it is to be a sinner and the foundation of it. And one of the things that I
I wanted us to look at, I wanted to see the context of these words
that I'm going to bring to you, but I want us to concentrate
on a couple of verses. I quote to you often that in
Genesis 3.21 we have one of the most glorious pictures of the
gospel in all of the scriptures. We have a promise of the gospel
in Genesis 3.15, and I'll put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel. There is going to be an enmity
between the Lord Jesus Christ and Satan, and the Lord Jesus
will win, as he must always, because he is God. But before
Adam and Eve were sent out of the garden, there are two particular
things that reveal something of sin, but also quite remarkably
the grace of God in the midst of sin. And so just have the
picture in your mind of what happened here is that they sinned
against God and we sinned against God with them. And if we don't
think that we sinned in our representative head, in our seminal head, Adam,
then we have no idea of what the rest of the scriptures are
saying to us. Romans 5.12 makes it abundantly
clear that when Adam sinned, we sinned with him. Wherefore,
as by one man entered into the world, and death by sin, so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. This was our sin, brothers and
sisters, and we repeat it day by day by day. And for those
who want to complain about you being convicted of sin in a substitute,
then the glory of the Gospel is that you are freed from sin
in a substitute and you can't have one without the other. But
the situation, of course, is that they sinned, and their response
immediately was in having doubted the word of God, in having doubted
the character of God and His goodness, and being caused to
doubt the judgment of God, and then taking the poison of Satan,
which said, you shall be as gods. That's how every single child
of Adam that's come into this world has that coursing through
their veins. You shall be as gods. And it's
revealed instantly when someone wants to command you to do something.
You rise up almost instantly against it. Again and again and
again. It might catch us unaware at
times, but we are just living Genesis 3 again and again and
again. And they hid, so their response
is the response of all of Adam's children, isn't it? Their response
is to immediately start working to cover their shame. So what
do they do? They hide themselves in the garden
and they're making fig leaves. Have you got time in the break?
There are two fig trees down here in the back of this lawn.
You go and feel what a fig leaf is like. There is no, hardly
any leaf on the planet that is more prickly than a fig leaf,
and there is hardly any leaf on the planet that is more just
wispy. You let a fig leaf dry out and
it just, you can blow it away, it just becomes nothing and all
you have is the little veins. What a great picture of man's
works. That's exactly what man is doing,
isn't he? He's stitching fig leaves together
all his days. He's stitching fig leaves together.
So in Genesis 3.15, we have the promise of the gospel. In Genesis
3.21, we have the most remarkable picture of the gospel. Just read
it with me. And unto Adam also and his wife did the Lord God
make coats of skin and clothed them. So get the picture of the
gospel. They were hiding from God and
in darkness, and God calls them to himself and brings them out
of darkness into light. And then the Lord Jesus Christ
is the one who's doing this in the garden and he knew full well
what this meant for him some thousands of years later. The
Lord God made coats of skin and clothed them. So how did he do
it? And I have absolutely no doubt
that he slew a lamb in that garden. And for the first time Adam and
Eve saw death. for the first time Adam and Eve
saw blood shed in the garden and the Lord Jesus Christ did
it. So he brings them to himself out of the darkness into the
light. He strips them naked. He kills a lamb. And He closed them, and now their
shame is covered by the work of God. And that's exactly what
salvation is, isn't it? God drawing us to Himself, stripping
us of our fig leaves, and clothing us. God has to provide and God
has to clothe. And then I want us to spend the
rest of our time for a little while just looking at verse 24.
Adam and Eve about to be cast out of the garden. They're cast
out of the garden having this emblem of the salvation of the
Lord Jesus Christ robing them. that before they're cast out
of the garden he drove the man out of the garden says verse
24 verse 23 the Lord therefore the Lord God sent him forth from
the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken
so he drove the man out and placed at the east of the Garden of
Eden, cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way
to keep the way of the Tree of Life." So for Adam and all his
posterity, for Adam and all of his posterity, God has guarded
the way to the tree of life. It's remarkable to think that
the tree of life was next to the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil in the garden. And yet God in his providence
and in his sovereignty and in his love and his grace, this
is a picture of love and grace, brothers and sisters. In his
love and his grace, he caused them not to turn to the tree
of life because if they'd taken to the tree of life, they would
have lived in their sin and their depravity forever. They needed
to be banished and they needed to be brought back in for another
salvation. Salvation is here pictured in
such a remarkable way. To have eternal life, you have
to get to the Tree of Life. And there's no question the Tree
of Life represents the Lord Jesus Christ, but you have to get to
the Tree of Life. And you might recall that extraordinary
picture in Revelation 22, and in that city there's a Tree of
Life at either side of the river. You have no problem having access
to the Tree of Life. The Lord Jesus Christ is in the
midst of his people forever and we have really an open access. But the Lord guards the way. He says He keeps the way in our
passage there. He keeps the way of the Tree
of Life. It means that He guards the way
of the Tree of Life. He hedges it about. He preserves
the way of the Tree of Life. He keeps safe the way of the
Tree of Life. Of course the way is the Lord
Jesus Christ. And that's exactly what all this pictures. It is. The Lord God speaking, it's the
Lord Jesus Christ who speaks. Almost everywhere in the scriptures,
when you hear God speaking, when you have God meeting with people,
it is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the voice of God. John's
gospel and the other gospels give us the remarkable and unique
account of the Lord God, Father speaking from heaven. But for
the rest of the scriptures, it's the Lord Jesus Christ who is
speaking. And here we have a picture of
the pre-existence of the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, before
Abraham was, I am. This is who we're dealing with
that's guarding this way. It's also a picture of the fact
that our Lord Jesus Christ is God. I love saying that. Jesus
Christ is God. If you've seen me, Philip, you've
seen the Father. If you see Him by the eyes of
faith, you have seen the Father. He's Jehovah Elohim. He is God. And we worship a Trinitarian
God, a God in three persons. That's what the baptism of the
Lord Jesus Christ pictures, and that's what our baptisms are
in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
There's also a picture of the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ
has always been our mediator. He is the Lamb slain from before
the foundation of the world. So the reason we are here today
is because before Adam fell, He was saved. Before Adam fell,
before all of us fell, before we broke the law of God, there
was someone who had kept the law of God perfectly. Before
we disobeyed God and turned from loving Him to hating Him, there
was someone that already had loved Him perfectly and completely.
He stands before Him. He is the surety, our Lord Jesus
Christ. But as a great king, the Lord
Jesus Christ brings these people to his bar of justice. That's
what he'd done with Adam and Eve. As the great prophet, he
promised redemption and he pictures it and promises. What remarkable
promises we have in Genesis. And as a great priest, he pictures
the sacrifice and he makes the sacrifice and he clothes his
people. He clothes his parents. He covers
their shame. And what did they do? What did
they do? They are recipients, brothers
and sisters. They are just receiving something
that he did. It was a blood sacrifice that
covered them. So here we have, to think back
on our verses that we're looking at in John chapter three, we
have Nicodemus brought out of the darkness into the light before
the Lord Jesus Christ. And Nicodemus is told that unless
he's born again, unless he has new life, you cannot see. This
is about seeing and entering the kingdom of God. How can a
sinner enter into the very presence of God? How can a sinner get
to the Tree of Life, those leaves, which are the leaves, which are
the healing of the nations? You see, in this picture here,
the reality of this is that you must pass. To get to the Tree
of Life, you must pass the cherubim. To get to the Tree of Life you
must pass the Flaming Sword. And to get to the Tree of Life
you must pass that Flaming Sword that turns every way. It turns every way. And don't forget this is about
keeping the way to the Tree of Life. The cherubim are pictured
in so many ways throughout the scriptures. It was the cherubim
that stood in Balaam's way in Numbers 22. And the remarkable
thing is that the donkey saw the cherubim and Balaam did it.
If you want to read more about that you can read Isaiah chapter
1. He says the animals, the beasts of the field, are more thankful
to God than the human beings that are blessed in the most
remarkable ways with his providence and provision. but you'll only
see him when God reveals him to you they are of course pictured
on that vial that shut off the holy of holies from everyone
except the high priest except on one particular day and with
blood. He had to go in there with blood
for himself and then he had to go in there with blood for the
people he had to go through that veil and if anyone else went
through that veil they died in the very presence of God. They
are pictured, they are pictured of course and represented as
those two angels Those two cherubim that were made over the Ark when
Solomon made his temple, that Holy of Holies, that great room
where the Ark of the Covenant was and the angels looked out
on that Ark, those great big angels, their wings touched the
wall and in the middle they touched each other. They cover all of
that Holy, the space of that Holy of Holies. Our great God
is said in many, many other passages of scripture to actually dwell
between the cherubim. In Psalm 80 he says, Give ear,
O shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph as a flock, like
a flock, thou that dwelleth between the cherubims, shine forth. And what are the cherubims looking
down on in the Holy of Holies? They're looking down on the mercy
seat. They're looking down on that
place where God's law is satisfied by the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ. So there is, to go past these cherubim is to go to the
Tree of Life is to go into the very Holy of Holies of God. We must go past the cherubim.
There is a way guarded into the very presence of God, and it's
shut out. It's shut out so that there is
just one way. There is just one way. There
is, and all of it pictures, all of it pictures our Lord Jesus
Christ. And it pictures his atonement.
It's the one place that holy of holies where those cherubim
are, where God meets with man. And he meets with man with blood. And that great curtain that led
that way in was blue at the top, which speaks of Christ's heavenly
eternal being. And it's scarlet at the bottom,
which speaks of his humanity. And it's purple in the middle,
which speaks of his shed blood. It is that curtain that like
everything else in that temple, every single thing in that temple
and about that temple and the tabernacle pictured the Lord
Jesus Christ and him crucified. That's what all this book's about.
That's what this picture's about. You have to get past the cherubim.
You might recall that in the days of Hezekiah there was a
mighty army outside of Jerusalem And Hezekiah and they came and
they mocked God and they mocked Hezekiah and said, we've marched
through all of this land, it's all ours, we've just crossed
these cities after city after city. And here you are holed
up in Jerusalem and you think you're gonna stand against us?
And Hezekiah does something that I just encourage you to do again
and again and again, brothers and sisters. He took that accusation
against him and he went into the temple of God and he just
laid it out before God. That's what we do again and again
and again. We just say this is my life. This is my circumstance
I have a no hope of sorting this out. We are doomed unless you
work and you might recall what happened one angel one angel
from God smote 185,000 of those people out there And Israel Zion was set free, not because
of what they did. That's the glory of the gospel,
isn't it? It's all about what God does,
and we just lay our life out before him and say, this is what
I am. I'm nothing but sin. I can't see any way forward in
this situation unless you act, unless you do. The angels encamp
around the children of God. God says the angels are present
here with us. What are we fearful of, brothers
and sisters? What are we fearful of? So much
of our fear is just unbelief, isn't it? It's unmasked unbelief. Oh dear, oh dear, we need a covering.
Okay, we have to get past, to get to the Tree of Life, to get
to the Lord Jesus Christ, you've got to get past this cherubim.
And the next thing you have to get past is this flaming sword.
And of course, the flaming sword that turns every way around is
a picture, of course, of the inflexible justice of God. God must be just. That fire is the blazing holiness
of our God. He must be just. He is just and
he must be just in everything that he does. He must punish
sin. He must punish sin to the satisfaction
of His name and His holiness and His glory. So He must punish
sin or the glory of His name would mean nothing to Him. And
that can never be. He must punish sin for His word
would mean nothing. And His word means everything
to Him. He must punish sin because his law is spiritual and holy
and right and just, and every transgression must receive its
just punishment. It's all about the character
of God, this flaming sword, isn't it? When his wrath fell on the
ancient world, this flaming sword has fallen so many times it fell
on Sodom and Gomorrah. the fire of the wrath of God.
Hell came out of heaven onto Sodom and Gomorrah. And that's why four times in
the Old Testament that I know of, and there might be the others
like the meeting of the Lord Jesus Christ with Manara and
his wife. But the fire of God's wrath ignited the altar, the
sacrifice on the altar. You might recall when Moses had
finished the tabernacle and had finally done the sacrifice and
they brought the sacrifice and they laid it on the altar. Where
did the fire come from? It was a fire that came from
heaven. It's speaking of the fire that
entered into the true sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
Solomon, when that fire came and it consumed that sacrifice
in 1 Chronicles, you might recall too that David, when he had numbered
the people and caused a plague to come upon the people, and
he bought Arianna's threshing floor. Arianna wanted to give
it to him and he says, I'll not sacrifice to God something that
doesn't cost me something. It's going to cost you something,
brothers and sisters in Christ. And if it's not costing you something,
it doesn't cost something, it's not worth anything, but it will
cost. And David made a sacrifice there. And the plague was stopped. The
plague was stopped at the very place where the temple was to
be built. The plague was stopped. And it's a picture, of course,
isn't it? The plague being stopped on the Lord Jesus Christ. You
might also recall the flame of God's justice fell on Elijah's
sacrifice when he was there on Mount Carmel. But the verse that
speaks so clearly of what this fire is and what this flaming
sword is, is in Zechariah chapter 13. You see this? You must get past
this. You must get past this to get to the tree of life. Listen
to what God says. He says in Zechariah 13 verse
7, Awake, O sword, against my shepherd. That flaming sword,
you awake. It had seemed to have been silent
for so, so many years. You awake, O sword, against my
shepherd, against the man that is my fellow, the man that is
my equal, the man that is my companion, saith the Lord of
hosts, smite the shepherd, smite the shepherd. And the sheep shall
be scattered, and I will turn my hand upon the little ones. It's not a hand, a broth on the
little ones, because the shepherd's been spoken, it's a hand of grace
to gather them. And it shall come to pass. Don't you love that phrase? It
shall come to pass. It's throughout the scriptures.
Every time you read it, you say, yes, this is coming to pass.
This has come to pass. This will come to pass. This
must come to pass. And it shall come to pass that in the land,
in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut
off and die, but a third shall be left therein. And I will bring
the third part. I'll bring this remnant through
the fire, through the fire. And I will refine them as silver
is refined, and I will try them as gold is tried. And they shall
call on my name, and I will hear. I'll hear them, and I will say,
it is my people. And they shall say, the Lord
is my God. The fire of God's wrath fell
on the Lord Jesus Christ because the Lord Jesus Christ was made
sin for us. And in his body he bore the sins
of all of his people and the justice of God demanded that
his son be put to death. But as we just read in Zechariah,
the putting to death, the Waco sword and the slaying of the
shepherd has a positive result, doesn't it? It wasn't for nothing
that the Lord Jesus Christ suffered and died on Calvary's tree, when
God slew his son, when God became the executioner of the one that
he loved so dearly, when that sword was sheathed in the very
heart of the Lord Jesus Christ. There was a fountain opened,
says Jack Zachariah in 13 verse 1, a fountain opened to the house
of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and uncleanness. You see, we can talk about sin
all day long, and we can talk about the sins of this world
all day long, but the one place where you see sin, the one place
where you will see your sin in anything like what you ought
to see it, by the grace of God, is at the cross of the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's the one place where you
see sin exposed and sin brought to light. And that's why the
flaming sword is required. You must get past the flaming
sword to get to the tree of life. And the flaming sword turns every
way. Every sin, every single sin,
every transgression and every iniquity must be paid for completely
and fully. See, sin is falling short of
the glory of God. I want you to think of the very
best thing that you have ever done in all of your life. The
very one time where you think that God and I were close and
I've done something that is remarkable. And people have done remarkable
things. There is enough sin in the very
best thing that you've ever done, the very best thought you've
ever thought, and the very best tears you've ever cried. Tear,
cried in repentance. There is enough sin, because
it all falls short of the glory of God. We have no idea. We have no idea
until the Lord causes us to see the Lord Jesus Christ. We have
no idea what sin is. Paul thought he was a righteous
man. Nicodemus thought he was a righteous man. And then he
met the Lord Jesus Christ on the Damascus Road, and immediately
all of his righteousness was gone, and he went to the one
place that anyone who's ever met the Lord Jesus Christ did,
and he went to the dust. And he confessed, he says, Lord,
who are you? He confessed that he didn't have
a clue who God was. And all he'd ever done was sin.
And such is the necessary meeting of all those who are going to
be saved. See, the Lord Jesus Christ came
into this world to save sinners. Now what's a sinner? Sin is what you are. Sin is mixed
with everything you do. A sinner is someone who sins,
and according to Romans 7, who does nothing but sin. You've broken God's law in thought
and word and deed, and you break it continually. Iniquity is what
you do to try and make up for your sin, and there's sin in
your iniquities. It's one of the glories of what
happened in the Temple, wasn't it? that the priest went in with
a sacrifice for the iniquity of our holy things. There's iniquity
mixed with them. Sin is falling short of the glory
of God. Adam was created upright and
God's laws were written on his heart. But at the fall, love
for God turned into self-love. Fear and reverence for God turned
into evil. courage and hope turned into
distrust, and he immediately did what all of us have done
and all of Adam's children have ever done. He went about establishing
his own righteousness, which is exactly what the Pharisees
do, and it's exactly what we all are. We're Pharisees by nature,
brothers and sisters. We're recovering Pharisees, we
believers. Man, instead of loving God, hates
Him. As the Lord says, I know that
you have not the love of God in you. So reverence, reverence
becomes an evil courage against God. Why do the nations conspire
against Him and the kings of the earth set themselves against
Him? They're just doing what Adam's
children all do. We're all kings, aren't we? That's
what Satan said. You'll be as gods. You'll be
as gods ruling. And when the true holiness and
the truth and the love of God appeared on this earth, what
was the reaction of man to him? What was the reaction of religious
man to him? What was the reaction of moral,
upright man when they met with holiness? What was the reaction
of the people in the town that he spent probably the best part
of 25 years in as a man? Never once sinning against anyone
in Nazareth. Not one bad thought. Not one
ill thought of any of them. Perfect honesty, perfect holiness
before them. And he comes and he tells them
about the character of God and what's the response of the people
of Nazareth. We won't have that man to rule
over us. We won't own him as one of ours.
Let's take him out to the hill. The hill was about, there was
a cliff about a thousand feet high up there. Their intention
wasn't to hurt him. Their intention, these people
that had known him for all those years and seen his family and
seen the way he's cared for his mother and his brothers and sisters,
he'd lived amongst them. You see, we don't know what sin
is until we meet him. We don't know how big a sinner
we are until we meet him. You just recall what happened
to Adam and Eve when they were brought to account. It wasn't
my fault. It was the serpent's fault. Adam
says, it wasn't my fault. In fact, it was your fault. If
you hadn't given me Eve, I wouldn't have done this. Have you ever
done that? You do it again and again. You
just squeeze any of Adam's children and out will come self-justification
and condemnation of God in the very same breath almost. We're
sinners, brothers and sisters. We're sinners. We're sinners. We have to get past the cherubim.
We have to get past the flaming sword and it turns every way,
every way. The tiny sins that you don't
know about, the sins in ignorance. There was a sacrifice for the
sins done in ignorance. How many sins are we doing in
ignorance? Again and again and again. But this, I want us to see, this
is a picture of grace, isn't it? These are a couple that have
been clothed in the very righteousness of God. This is a picture of a saved
couple. This is a picture of the Church
of God in this world, isn't it? The grace of God is revealed
in a promise to us. The picture of salvation is shown
to us again and again in a lamb slain. The picture again and
again is shown to us in the fact that when the Lord Jesus Christ
comes, he puts the robe of righteousness on his people. He puts the robe
of righteousness on his people. He clothes us with the righteousness,
the very righteousness of God. We are made the righteousness
of God in him. It's a glorious, glorious picture
of our salvation. But put ye on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts
thereof. We put him on, but we put him
on because he's put him on us. We're in him. We're in him. It's all a work of grace that
God does, and God alone. And man is a recipient, and man
is the glorious recipient of salvation when he has sinned
so, so, so grievously. God keeps, and he keeps even
this day, he keeps the way to the tree of life. He keeps sinners
from self-destruction and self-righteousness. And what he does is he blocks of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
the Lord Jesus Christ is the one that had that sword that
turns every way, turn every way on him, and it slew him, that
sword. He's the tree of life. He's the tree of life to them
that lay hold of him, says Proverbs 3, 18. Lay hold of him, to rely
on him, to rest in him, Happy, happy says our God, is everyone
that retaineth him. He suffered, he suffered and
died, but he suffered in the room and stared at his people. I love what Hebrews 10 says of
him, doesn't it? In verse 10, by the witch will
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. He entered in through all of
that. He exposes what sin is. But this man, after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins, sat down, for sins forever, sat down in
the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be
made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified, them that are made holy in his
sight. Whereof the Holy Ghost is also a witness to us, for
after that he had said before, this is the covenant that 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
doesn't he remember them? Why doesn't he remember them?
Because they don't exist, brothers and sisters. That's what it is,
to be justified. They're gone. The Lord Jesus
Christ bore them in his own body and they're gone. They are punished
and God can't punish them again and be just and holy and righteous
and true. Their sins and iniquities will
I remember no more. Now where remission of these
is, there is no more offering for sin. Don't offer anything,
brothers and sisters. God's offering is a perfect offering.
God accepts the offering of the Lord Jesus Christ. The offering
of the Lord Jesus Christ wasn't an offering to the world. The
offering of the Lord Jesus Christ was an offering to his Father.
Hebrews 9 says it as plainly as anything. But there's one
more glorious picture. You know that there is a division
in humanity. Always there's a division in
humanity. Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, Ishmael and Isaac,
the thief, the two thieves that died with the Lord Jesus Christ.
There's always a division. And Tom read to us about Abel. What did Abel bring? He'd been
well taught by Adam and Eve. But he had seen the clothes,
probably. They would have lasted for a
long time, those remarkable clothes that were fashioned in the garden
and robed them. Dear oh dear, how often would
they just hold those clothes to themselves and wrap themselves
up in it and think, I'm safe. I'm safe. Someone has died in
my place. The Substitute has died and I've
gone free. I should have died and been sent
to hell and the Substitute has stood in my place. So Abel, what
did Abel bring? Abel brought a lamb from his
flock. He brought a lamb that represented
the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what he brought. What
did Cain bring? Cain brought the work of his hands. brothers
and sisters don't ever bring the work of your hands to God
he must punish them he must punish them for the iniquities in them
but I love what God says in verse 4 Abel brought of the
firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof I love this the
Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering. So he doesn't say
that he just had respect to Abel, he had respect to Abel and his
offering. If you're hidden in the Lord
Jesus Christ, God has respect for you and your offering. We
are hidden, we are hidden in Christ, in God. May he in grace
make us sinners. and having made us sinners, may
he cause us to cling to him. Flee, flee, flee to the refuge. Let's pray. Heavenly Father,
please bless your words to the hearts of your people and cause
your son to be exalted for his glory and his majesty and the
love wherewith he loved us, Heavenly Father. May we go into this world,
not trusting any righteousness of our own, but simply leaning
and resting on the perfect righteousness that's accepted, that brings
us access to He who is the Tree of Life. We pray in Jesus' name
and for His glory. Amen. Thank you. Let's have a
break.