Disallowed of men says Peter
disallowed of men the Lord Jesus Christ disallowed of men But to them that believe he is
precious Is he precious to you? Is he precious? To be precious
means that he has to be of such inestimable value that nothing
else can take that place. That was the question that was
asked of the Shulamite in the Song of Solomon, wasn't it? What
is your beloved? What is he? What is he to you? What is he to you? I've been
much exercised this week thinking about a verse that I quoted last
week out of 1 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 9 where it says that
they turned in reference to the turning to the Lord but in 1
Thessalonians it says they turned unto the Lord they turned unto
the Lord from idols and I spoke a little bit about it but I've
been much thinking about it this week, and an idol, of course,
is something that masquerades as the real thing. One of the
things that's really fascinating is that in Jewish understanding,
the problem with the Lord Jesus Christ was that he wasn't big
enough. He wasn't successful enough.
They were wondering when this Messiah, like David, was coming. Where are the great victories?
Here we are, servants of Rome, and you're claiming to be Messiah,
and we're still servants of Rome. So the Jews, just turn with me
to Matthew chapter 12, and you'll see a passage that we're going
to look at in terms of magnifying and seeing something of the wonder
and the glory and the bigness of our God. If you follow the sort of context
of it, he's been criticised by the Pharisees for the disciples
plucking corn, which was allowed. They walked along the byways
and found some wheat and plucked it and ate. And the Pharisees
saw it and they said it's not lawful. And then the Lord Jesus
rebukes these Pharisees. And then he shows them his power
and he shows them salvation. All of the miracles of the Lord
Jesus are pictures of salvation. They're pictures of salvation.
There was a man in that synagogue with a withered hand. It's interesting
in verse nine, and he says, he went to their synagogue. They
had accused him and he went to their synagogue, verse nine. And there was a man there which
had his hand withered and they asked him, saying, is it lawful?
is to heal on the Sabbath. And he spoke to them, he said,
what man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep,
and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, if he lay not
hold of it and lift it out? How much How much then is a man
better than a sheep, wherefore it is lawful to do well on the
Sabbath days? Then he said to the man, the
one thing that the man couldn't do was stretch out his hand.
People say that God wouldn't ask you to do something impossible.
There's nothing God asks of you which is possible for you. Nothing. Nothing. He says to believe. It's impossible for you to believe
without God giving you the grace to believe. He says to come.
And it's impossible for you to come unless He gives the power
to come. Every command of God is impossible unless with the
command He gives the power, which was the purpose of the parable,
the purpose of the healing. He says, stretch forth thine
hand. The one thing that was impossible
for the man, he said, stretch it forth. And he stretched it
forth and it was restored whole like as the others. And then
the Pharisees went out and held a council against him how they
might destroy it. and the Lord Jesus withdrew.
And I think sometimes these Bibles that have red letters in them,
I'm sure they make some very serious errors because I suspect
that the Lord Jesus was quoting from the prophet Isaiah in verse
17, that it might be fulfilled which is spoken by Isaiah, the
prophet, behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved, In
whom my soul is well pleased, I will put my spirit upon him,
and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not strive
nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the street.
He doesn't have to go around proclaiming loudly who he is.
He doesn't need people to advertise him. Our God reigns sovereignly
and he rules over all things. He will have his people and he
will have his way. He doesn't need to go out debating
with men, he doesn't need to go out persuading men. He will
have his people by the preaching of the gospel in the fellowship
of his people. He shall not strive nor cry,
neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. And then
he speaks of his kindness and his softness, and I love these
words, isn't it? A bruised reed shall he not break, and a smoking
flax shall he not quench. All of God's children are bruised. All of God's children, whatever
spark of faith in them, it always appears to be just as if it could
be snuffed out in a heartbeat. But where he bruises, he heals. Where he sends light and sends
fire, he will keep it. He will not quench till he send
forth judgment unto victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles
trust. And then they brought him that
blind, that one that was possessed with the devil, blind and dumb,
and he healed him. The blind and the dumb both spake
and saw. When the blind and the dumb see
and have eyes to see and ears to hear, they see him. And all
the people were amazed and said, is this not the son of David?
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, this fellow does
not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub, the prince of devils. See, the
Lord Jesus, in so many ways, was small in their sight. He
was smaller and less powerful and less influential than they
thought he ought to be. The Messiah, they said, will
do more signs than this and more miracles than this. The point
that I'm trying to make is that the Jews had no question at all
about the power and the absolute sovereignty and the wonder of
the mightiness of God. They knew for a certain that
he would save all of Israel without any problem whatsoever. They
just couldn't see it in the Lord Jesus Christ. They couldn't see
that his kingdom was a spiritual kingdom. They saw They had no
question from the scriptures about the fact that God was absolutely
sovereign, that God had an elect people in this world, and that
it was them, and God was going to save them all. My point about
the idols is that now we have a different idolatry in this
world. that we need to be rescued from,
we need to have continually overturned. And it is the Gentile idolatry,
the Gentile heresy, the notion that somehow Messiah might try
and fail is a Gentile heresy. Because what they have done,
if you've ever read any of the stories of the Greek gods and
the Roman gods and the gods of Mesopotamia, you'll find that
there's always this battle going on between the gods and they
have to find a suitable wife to procreate, to produce this
particular god who will do this particular thing. There's always
a battle, there's always some tussle going on amongst them
until one sort of emerges as great. This little Jesus of today's
religion is so much like the Gentile gods. We ought to be horrified and
we ought to be thankful that God might open our eyes. This
notion, this notion that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah,
could come and fail and come and in some way have to do battle
to achieve his purposes is a Gentile heresy. It's the Gentile gods
masquerading in their Christian garb. Just like the Catholic
Church, wherever the Catholic Church goes around the world,
wherever it is, it melds itself into the system. When we were
in India, the Catholic Church had its idols. And the idols
had their chariots. The Hindus had their chariots,
and they had their festival days, and on their festival days, they
would take their gods out, and they'd parade their gods around
the place, and then at the end of it, they'd have a huge drunken
festival. They'd done their religious thing, and then they did their
fleshly thing. And the Roman Catholic churches do exactly
the same. In their churches, they've got their little chariots,
and they've got their gods, and they all carry their gods out
around the streets of the towns of India. Wherever the Catholic
Church has gone, it's morphed into the world it is, which is
why in our world it appears to be almost evangelical. The Catholic
Church up the road is running a course called the Alpha Course.
The Alpha Course is a course that was conspired out of a Pentecostal
Anglican church in London 20 odd years ago, and it's spread
throughout the world. The Jesus of the Alpha Course
is a pathetic, wimpish Jesus. The Jesus of the Alpha Course
is doing battle with the other gods, he's doing battle with
the other people, trying to get them to do something. It's not
the God of the scriptures. This Jesus is all about life,
Jesus. He's in a tussle, isn't he? He's
trying to win people's approval. He needs men. He needs men to bring him honour. If men won't believe in him,
he's a failure. He's out there pleading with
people. This idea that the Lord Jesus
died on Calvary's tree somehow to make salvation possible is
a Gentile heresy. It's not a Jewish heresy at all. The Jews believed in the absolute
sovereignty and the success of their Messiah. They just didn't
believe that Jesus was the one. So we need to be rescued. Part of what preaching the Gospels
about is just simply magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ, just to
make Him big, to just identify Him as the Jesus of the Scriptures,
to identify Him as the Messiah of God, to identify Him from
the Old Testament Scriptures as He really is. to have Him
laid out before us as God the Father describes Him, as God
the Holy Spirit has recorded God the Father describing Him,
to describe Him in all of His deity, in all of His surety,
to describe Him as that covenant of the people, to describe Him
as the one who was sent with a purpose from a holy God, a
purpose that was determined from eternity. In 2 Corinthians chapter
3 it says that God's servants, God's ministers, are ministers
of the eternal covenant, of the new covenant. We actually, to
be a minister is to be a table waiter. We lay out before people
the glories of the Lord Jesus Christ as covenant surety, as
the great I Am, the great God, the successful Saviour, The One
who in union with His people made a promise before the foundation
of the world that He would take all of the children of God and
He would present them wholly spotless, unblameable, unapprovable
in the sight of God and He would do it all by Himself. He would
do it all by Himself. And God's people, God's children,
are the recipients of the wonders of that grace. There are several
passages in the Old Testament I keep thinking, what did Paul
teach? What was Paul's doctrine in that church in Antioch? What did Paul and Barnabas teach?
over and over and over again. How did they describe God? They only had the Old Testament.
So they went to the Old Testament passages and they went to the
Old Testament passages that described the Lord Jesus Christ as the
Christ of God, described Him in His deity, described Him in
His sovereignty. Let's read some verses out of
Isaiah 42 and just look at them. We can only look at them briefly.
But I trust that you might, like the people in Antioch, find that
this Saviour is altogether perfectly suited to the needs of you, a
fallen sinner. That this Saviour is described
And the opening verses of chapter 42 is described by God. He says,
behold, you look upon him. Behold. Behold my servant whom
I uphold. So God the Father wants us to
look to God the Son. God the Father wants us to see
God the Son in his glory. And Paul and Barnabas and the
people in Antioch found that this God was the God that gathered
them together. Behold, my servant, mine elect,
in whom my soul delighteth. I have put my spirit upon him. He is the anointed one of God,
and all of the church, the Christians, are anointed people of one. And
he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. That word for
judgment can also be translated righteousness. But there will
be a judgment. He will bring forth judgment
to the people. He shall not cry, nor lift up,
nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed
shall he not break, and a smoking flax shall he not quench. He shall bring forth judgment
unto truth. There will be a judgment. There'll
be a judgment revealed. A judgment revealed in the life
and the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. A judgment revealed in
man's response to him. So that's the wickedness, the
wickedness that courses through the veins of all of Adam's children,
isn't it? That we will be as gods, says
Satan. That we will actually stand in
judgment of God and we'll decide, we'll decide whether we'll have
him or not. We'll decide His character. Such is idolatry. Such is idolatry. See, the righteous obedience
of the Lord Jesus Christ, this obedience, this judgment goes
way beyond just His moral perfections. He was obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross, says Philippians chapter 2. It's a
righteous obedience. The Lord Jesus Christ is mine
elect. He was called by God to this
work. No man takes that work upon himself. You wait like Aaron did and the
other priests. You wait for God to put that
honour upon you. He was called in righteousness. He is mine elect. God's children
love the doctrine of election because it's God the Father's
description of his Son. Primarily it's God the Father's
description of his Son. Election is unto salvation. He's mine elect. He shall bring
forth When you read these shalls and wills in the Old Testament,
that is what they preached again and again in all those sermons.
They preached that these shalls have taken place and these wills
have taken place in the life and death of the Lord Jesus Christ. He shall not cry, nor cause his
voice to be heard in the street. He won't go about pleading and
begging with men. Our God reigns. He reigns and
rules, and all of the thoughts and all of the hearts of all
people are in his hands. But those that are bruised, those
that are just smoking embers, those whom He has bruised, those
whom He has caused to have the life of fire. He will not quench. He shall bring forth judgment
unto truth. He will reveal the truth of who
God is and He will reveal the truth of who man is. He is the
truth itself. He'll bring that truth to judgment. He'll bring it out. And I love
verse four. What a great description of our
God. What an amazing unturning, overturning of the idolatrous
notions of religion. Just read it with me, brothers
and sisters. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. The Lord Jesus Christ came on
a mission as God's elect and he will not fail. And He will
not be discouraged. He has not failed, and right
now He is not discouraged. For the joy that was set before
Him, He endured the cross. He endured all of that cross.
The joy that's set before Him is the honour of His Father's
name. To have His Bride with Him. and to have his bride with him
in such a way that the salvation of his bride glorifies every
attribute of our great God. He shall not fail, and he won't
be discouraged, till he hath set judgment in the earth, and
the isles shall wait for his law. The isles are all those
islands like us. all those Gentile nations that
we'll read about in verse seven. So that's God the Father's description
of his son. This is God the Father's description
of himself. He describes himself. he'll make
sure that his son doesn't fail. Thus says the Lord God, he will
not send his son on a mission for which he will in any way
possibly fail. Thus saith the Lord God, that
created the heavens and stretched them out, he that spreadeth forth
the earth and that which cometh out of it, he hath given breath
unto the people upon it and spirit to them that walk therein. Our God describes himself as
absolutely sovereign over all things. He rules this creation
as a sovereign man, our great Redeemer and God. He rules over
all things. All people, all thoughts, all
things are in his hands. And God's children love it so. I love the fact that he's sovereign. So many people misuse the things
of the scriptures, don't they? They misuse the glorious things
of God. So many people, and we've met
with many of them, that use the doctrine of the sovereignty of
God. to cause people just to resign
themselves to the circumstances. And they say, what will be, will
be. And we've had people say, well, if I'm elect, God is going
to save me and I don't need to do anything. God is sovereign. He will do what he will. What
will be, will be. It all works out. You see, just
dry doctrine just leads to fatalism, doesn't it? You have to know
the purpose of doctrine, the only beneficial purpose of the
truths of scripture, is that they bring us into relationship
and enhance the relationship that the believers have with
the Lord Jesus Christ. The person of the Lord Jesus
Christ Him being present with you in the circumstances of life,
no matter how trying they may be, His presence with you causes
God's people to rejoice in the circumstances, to rejoice in
the fact that He's absolutely sovereign, that He's present
with you in it. It's not fatalism. The person
of the Lord Jesus Christ brings His people to hope, and to joy. As much as Paul taught doctrine,
he taught much people in Antioch. What he was teaching again and
again and again was teaching the person and the reality of
the Lord Jesus Christ that the doctrine reveals. See, people
can increase their knowledge about God. The Pharisees and
the scribes had extraordinary knowledge about God. that the person of the Lord Jesus
Christ brings God to you. It's much, much different, isn't it?
People can be proud of what they know, they can boast about what
they know, and they can operate with other people as if their
knowledge is something to be esteemed. But if your knowledge
doesn't bring you into relationship and enhance that relationship
with the Lord Jesus Christ, it is of no benefit whatsoever. Doctrine can be taught by men. This book can be understood logically. But the Lord Jesus Christ teaches
his people by revelation. by revelation. He teaches his
people by revealing himself. And when he reveals himself to
people, they see that he's sovereign and they delight in his sovereignty.
When he teaches his people himself and meets with them, they know
that a bruised reed and a smoking flax he won't break and he won't
quench because they've met him as a bruised reed and they've
met him as a smoking flax. See the Lord Jesus Christ is
experienced by faith. The Lord Jesus Christ is experienced
as a living reality. I hate just dry doctrinal arguments,
and I don't want to ever participate in them again, because what they're
doing is taking someone who is alive and is present there and
treating him as if he's some object that you can examine and
pull apart. He's alive. He's alive. He's a witness to it. It's not
mechanical. Lord, the Lord comes and he brings
and he gives to his people a new heart, a new heart to see him. And it takes the sovereign hand
of God. That's what happened in Acts
chapter one, the hand of God was with them. When the hand
of God is with them, that hand brings and reveals the Lord Jesus
Christ. But in verse five, the Lord speaks
of his absolute sovereignty. And then the Father speaks to
the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a conversation, it's
a fascinating conversation. I want to be in on a conversation
where God the Father is talking to God the Son. These are great
conversations and God has opened this. The things that are revealed
are given to us by God, they are revealed for our good. He says, I, the Lord, have called
thee in righteousness, and I will hold thine hand. The Father is with me always. The works that I do, says the
Lord Jesus, they are the works of the Father. I will hold thine
hand, and I will keep thee, I'll preserve you, I'll preserve you
in all that you do, and I will give thee for a covenant of the
people and for a light of the Gentiles. I can't help but think
that Paul must have preached from passages like this over
and over again. The passages in the Old Testament
that declare the glory of God in the revelation of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Like his people, the Lord Jesus
was kept. He was hold, he'll hold his hand.
God's people are kept by the power of God. through faith. They're kept by the power of
God. He's given as a covenant, he
says. He's given and give thee for
a covenant of the people. The people is a reference to
the church of God. In the book of Hebrews, 11 times
the church is called, the elect children of God are called the
people, the people. He is the surety of that covenant. He is the guarantor, but more
than a guarantor. When He struck hands with His
Father in that covenant in eternity, God the Father no longer ever
looks to us for anything. He looks to his son. God the
Father is very pleased with his son and very pleased with his
son's work and he has given him as a covenant. He has given him
as a covenant for the people. A covenant. That covenant is
spoken of so many times in the scriptures. You can read about
it in Jeremiah 31 and Hebrews 8. It's a covenant that God's children
like David spend their dying days resting on. That covenant
that's ordered and sure. Ordered and sure. Everything
that is needed by God is provided in this covenant. Everything
that's needed of God to be satisfied is in that covenant. All of the
holiness of God is in this covenant one. All of the justice of God,
all of the righteousness of God, all of my faithfulness is tied
up in this covenant. My faithfulness is the faithfulness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. My faith and my trust is in Him,
not in the things that I do. But the essence of the covenant,
in Jeremiah 31, 31, he says, I will be to them a
God, and they shall be to me a people. For all shall know
me from the least to the greatest. They'll know Him because their
sins are forgiven, their sins are taken away. So your salvation,
my salvation, is as secure and certain and stable as your surety. Who's taking responsibility for
your salvation? So there are three choices, aren't
there? There is God alone, there is God in some sort of contractual
arrangement with man, or there is man alone. There are countless
multitudes meeting God, even as we speak here, countless multitudes
not realising that they meet Him with a lie in their right
hand. They believe that they are righteous.
They believe that they have something to offer God. They believe that
they are right because of the things that they have done. This
covenant is a covenant between God and God. It's a covenant
signed and sealed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. I will
be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. He'll give him as a covenant
of the people. The people's covenant is him.
The covenant of the people is him. given by God. The only way we know about this
covenant, the only way we can see it, is to have it revealed
to us. It brings this covenant, it brings
union and communion. It's the outworking of this covenant
that gathered that church in Antioch. It's the outworking
of this covenant promise that brings all of the elect gathered
people of God together to hear the gospel throughout this world
and throughout time. God giving himself to us. to man, and God taking man to
himself. And it's not a covenant of works. It's a covenant of grace. It's a covenant of grace. The
believers in Antioch, like the believers in Cornelius' house,
were simply saved by belief. There is no reference to their
good works and no commands for them to do things. There is in
this covenant, we read on in Isaiah 42, is a covenant for
the people for a light of the Gentiles, for a light of the
Gentiles to open blind eyes There are two things that are necessary
to see, aren't there? You must have light and you must
have eyes, to open blind eyes. He's a light for the Gentiles
to open blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. One of the extraordinary things
is that One of the captivating things of Satan is the scriptures
say that Satan keeps his goods in peace. One of the remarkable
things about Satan's activity, and especially Satan's activity
in religious people, is that he causes them to think that
they are righteous. He causes them to think that
they are right by the things that they have done. The Pharisees
said they could see, and the Lord Jesus Christ told them that
they were children of the devil. Satan keeps his goods at peace. He keeps them in a prison. Unbelief is a prison. Everyone
who sins is a slave to sin. You are a slave and a prisoner
if you are not a believer. And only a sovereign hand of
Almighty God can draw you out of that prison house. So there
was a time, wasn't there, when you had no idea how God could
put away sin, except by my efforts. There was a time when you couldn't
believe. There was a time when you had
no interest in the things of God. You had no interest, you
had no taste for it, you had no heart for it. There was a
time when you couldn't believe. And there was a time when you
couldn't believe and didn't have a problem with not believing. And then light comes. Light comes. Light comes from
God to reveal who the Lord Jesus Christ is. There was a time when
you thought you were righteous. And there was a time when you
couldn't see the Lord Jesus Christ. You might remember that time.
I remember it with great shame now how the Lord Jesus Christ
was to me a curse word. And he became more and more of
a curse word the more I interacted with religion and the more I
saw from the religion that I was taught how pathetic he was. What
a pathetic wimp he was. And he was a pathetic wimp who
was helpful to other pathetic wimps. I remember saying to people,
he's only a crutch for those who can't help themselves. Satan has blinded the minds of
unbelievers. There was a time when you couldn't
see that the Lord Jesus Christ was who He was. You couldn't
see Him as God. You couldn't see Him as fulfilling
all the promises of God. You couldn't see Him as gospel. You couldn't see Him as precious. You couldn't see the glory of
God. There was a time when you could
read the Bible and you got some dose of religion and the Bible
became a book of rules. A book of rules about how you
could live morally and how by your moral obedience God would
be indebted to you. That you could do the law and
you could keep the law. There was a time There was a
time when the Lord opened the eyes of His people and they see
that this book is all about the Lord Jesus Christ. And it just
keeps revealing something more precious about Him. And you turn
the page and you read another verse and there's something more
precious about Him. That is what the Lord Jesus Christ
does in this covenant. He sends that light to the Gentiles,
and he opens those blind eyes, and the blind eyes now see. I love how those people who were
blind in the scriptures, like blind Bartimaeus, and that man
in John chapter 9 was blind from his birth. And the first thing they see
is the Lord Jesus Christ. Such is what happens when blind
eyes are open. And when blind eyes are open,
we are set free from the prison house. When that darkness is
unveiled. Light shines in that darkness
and we see Him. We see Him as the covenant. We
see Him as the one who shall not fail nor be discouraged.
We see Him. We see Him bringing out prisoners
from the prison house. He goes on to say, I am the Lord,
that is my name, and my glory will I not give to another, neither
my praise to graven images. Isn't it wonderful that the God
won't share his glory with another? He will not give to another.
He gets all the glory. God's children love the fact
that the Lord Jesus Christ gets all the glory in salvation. They
sing of him in heaven right now, and he has all the glory of heaven.
In the new creation, he'll have all the glory. He'll have all
the glory because he shall not fail. He'll have all the glory
because he will not be discouraged. He's not like the idle Jesus
of our day, a Jesus and a God who is graven by men, who needs
the praises of men for him to be honoured. He needs the activities
of men for him to be successful. Behold, the former things are
come to pass. All that is promised, all that
is promised in this covenant will come to pass. And the new
things do I declare. Before they spring forth, I tell
you of them. He's told us of them before they
have sprung forth. We are reading here something
that was written 720 years possibly before the Lord Jesus came. And
we've seen it, haven't we? It's been told, it's been declared,
and they've sprung forth. God makes promises and keeps
them. Sing unto the Lord a new song
and his praise from the end of the earth. Ye that go down to
the sea and all that is therein, the isles and the inhabitants
thereof, let the wilderness and the cities lift up their voice,
the villages that Kedar doth inhabit, let the inhabitants
of the rocks sing. Let those who are built on that
foundation, that sure foundation, that precious cornerstone, let
them shout from the top of the mountains, let them give glory
unto the Lord. You'll only give glory, you'll
only worship a sovereign, successful Saviour. You'll only worship
a God who is a God in covenant. We sing, we sing. God's children rejoice in him. I'll just have one more verse
about the covenant and then I'm finished. He says now in Hebrews
13.20, Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our
Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood
of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good
work to do His will. And how do you do His will? Because
He's working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight
through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Let's pray. Heavenly Father,
we thank you for the glories of your dear and precious son.
We thank you for him revealed in the Old Testament scriptures.
We thank you for the fulfilment of that in his life, his glorious
life, his sin-bearing death. and his extraordinary resurrection
and exaltation. Heavenly Father, we pray that
you'd cause us to have again and again our eyes opened, that
we might be set free from the prison house of sin, from the
captivity of the darkness of this world, from the wiles of
Satan. that we might simply, like the
believers in Antioch, find ourselves believing, and that there be
a gladness amongst the children of God because of the evident
grace of God upon us. Heavenly Father, help us to remember
Him. Cause us to know Him so that
we can remember Him. And as we remember His life and
His death and that bloodshed, may we remember, Heavenly Father,
it's the blood of an everlasting covenant of a great Savior who
cannot fail and cannot be discouraged. Set us free, shine a light, and
set us free, free to worship our great Saviour and God, our
Father. For we pray in His name and for
His glory. Amen.