Alright, brethren. Psalm 99. I want to read the last verse. He said, Exalt the Lord our God. Worship at His holy hill. For the Lord our God is holy. Now, three times in this psalm,
the Spirit of God says exalt and worship Jehovah three times. And in all three times, He tells
us why. He says, for the Lord our God
is holy. He's holy. We sing, holy, holy,
holy. That's an appropriate song for
this psalm. Our triune God is holy. He's
holy in His nature and He's holy in everything He does. He cannot
have any dealings with a sinner. He is too pure to have anything
to do with a sinner. If He saves His people, it will
be done in holiness. And He tells us in verse 1, He
says, The Lord reigneth. God is sovereign. He reigns from
His throne in glory. He reigneth. And so He's holy
in His sovereign reign, working all things. He's holy in all
that He does. And then it says in verse 1,
there the second part, it says, He sitteth between the cherubims. That's where the mercy seat was.
God is holy, and He's holy in His sovereignty, working all
things, and He's Sovereign in mercy. He dwells. He sits between the cherubim.
He's on the mercy seat. He is the mercy seat. He's sovereign
in mercy. Holy? Holy applies to everything
we're looking at here. He's holy in His sovereignty. He reigns. He's holy in His mercy. He sits on the judgment seat. He's sovereign in His mercy.
He reigns in mercy. And here we're told in verse
4, and this is speaking of the Lord, He's the King, and every
faithful King, He's their strength. And He says here, this King's
strength also loveth judgment. Thou dost establish equity. Thou
executes judgment and righteousness in Jacob, our Lord's holy, He's
sovereign, He is holy and sovereign in mercy and He is holy and sovereign
to work mercy justly. You get there? He is holy in
all of this. He is sovereign, He reigns. He
sits upon a throne of mercy. He is sovereign in His mercy.
And He is sovereign justly. He establishes equity. He executes
judgment and righteousness in Jacob. That is in his people,
in his church. That is his holy hill that he
is talking about here. So the Lord our God is holy.
That is what this psalm is showing us. He is holy. He is sovereign
and he is holy in his sovereignty. That means he is all powerful.
He is holy and he is sovereign in his mercy. He dwells between
the cherubim. He's holy and sovereign in mercy
and He does it justly. He executes judgment and equity
in His Jacobs, in His church. And this is what makes His people.
When we behold Him and we behold that He's holy, we behold He's
sovereign, we behold He's sovereign in mercy and He does so justly. This is what makes us tremble. This is what will make us bow
down and worship Him and exalt Him and give Him all the glory.
This is what humbles us in our heart. So our subject is those
four things, holy, sovereign, just, mercy. Holy, sovereign,
just, mercy. Now the Spirit of God begins
by declaring God our Savior reigns. He said the Lord reigneth. That
means God who made everything reigns. He reigns over all. He reigns at all times. And He
reigns with all power in heaven and earth. Everything is coming
to pass by His power. He reigneth. He reigneth. He
is working His will at all times according to His eternal purpose
so that absolutely nothing comes to pass except what He is willing
to come to pass. Ephesians 1 tells us that He
gives us an inheritance according to the purpose of Him who worketh
all things after the counsel of His own will. And so He said
in 1 Chronicles 16.31, Let the heavens be glad, let the earth
rejoice, and let men say among the nations, The Lord reigneth. Now some try to take God off
His throne in creation. And it's obvious the fall of
man and the ruin of all sinners in that man would rather attribute
creation to a big bang rather than to God who created all things. makes any attempt to prove God's
existence and His sovereignty in creation. It just declares
it. And that's what we should do.
He begins the book saying, in the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth. That's how it begins. In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth. He's sovereign
in creation. And men will reject the truth that God rules every
last detail that comes to pass in this world. But it's true. It shows sinners ruined condition
and that sinners want to attribute things that come to pass to luck
and to the stars and to anything but God. But God brings all things
to pass. Providence is God reigning and
ruling in everything that's coming to pass, bringing everything
to pass that comes to pass. That's God's sovereign power,
His hand. Now, secondly here, He declares
something even more blessed than God's holy, sovereign power over
all providence. He tells us here that He reigns
in sovereign mercy. He says there in verse 1, He
sitteth between the cherubims. He sitteth between the cherubims.
That's where the mercy seat was. God commanded Moses to make two
golden cherubims, they were angels, that means messengers, and they
were to overshadow the mercy seat. This is what he said in
Exodus 25.20. He said, and the cherubim shall
stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat
with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another. Toward
the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. You got the
ark, you know, it's about yea big, and you had these golden
cherubim that came up, and on top's the mercy seat, and they're
facing the mercy seat. And God said this in Exodus 25,
22. There I will meet with thee and
I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat from between
the two cherubim. This is what He commanded the
children of Israel. I will only meet with you They
are in the mercy seat. And so what he is declaring here
is the Lord reigns. He is holy in His reign of all
things, but He is holy in His sovereign mercy. Mercy is sovereign. Now if men will go with you on
creation, and attribute that to God's sovereign power. They
might go with you in Providence and attribute that to God's sovereign
power, but here is where you usually are going to run into
some opposition because God is sovereign in His mercy. He is
sovereign in His mercy. The scripture says, he hath mercy
on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. He's
sovereign in his mercy. And it's only in Christ, the
mercy seat, that God will meet with a sinner. He's holy. He
can't meet with us outside of Christ. He can't receive us outside
of Christ. It's only in Christ, the mercy
seat. Christ is the high priest for
His people. Christ is the Lamb of God whose
blood put away the sin of His people and made us righteous.
And Christ is that mercy seat, that propitiation that where
God will meet with His people and commune with His people,
only in Christ. 1 John 4.10 says, Herein is love,
not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son,
the propitiation for our sins. That's the same word that is
used for mercy, see. He's the propitiation. Our Lord,
our Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord God is described here as holy,
sovereign, reigning upon a throne of mercy. Sovereign and reigning
on a throne of mercy. He's the king and his throne
is the throne of mercy. He sitteth between the cherubim,
it said. We know he sits in glory. Why?
Because he finished the work of propitiating God. He finished
the work of appeasing God, of satisfying God by his blood which
he shed in place of his people. He accomplished that. He reconciled
his people to God, and he's working that in the hearts of his people.
He sits there in continuance because he ever lives to make
intercession for his people. He's sovereign, and He's sovereign
in mercy. He reigns. The Hebrew writer
says to every sinner who believes on Christ, he says, let us therefore
come boldly to His throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of need. Now you get that. He says it's His throne. He says here in our text, the
Lord reigneth. The Lord reigneth. He's the sovereign
king reigning on His throne, bringing all things to pass.
But it says He dwells between the two of them. His throne is
the throne of mercy and grace. It's the throne of mercy and
grace. And Christ is Himself the propitiation. He is the mercy
seat. He is the one in whom God promises
He will meet with His people and He will commune with His
people. So He tells us to come boldly with some confidence,
with some assurance, He will receive you. Come to where? To His throne. To His throne
of grace. Why? That we may obtain mercy. We need mercy. We need continual
mercy and grace. And He's the only giver of mercy
and grace. So He says, come to His throne
of grace. And then He says here, the Lord's
just in His holy and sovereign mercy. He's just in His holy
and sovereign mercy. He said in verse 4, the King's
strength also loveth judgment. Thou does establish equity. Thou
executes judgment and righteousness in Jacob. since God is holy,
and since those He's going to save or has saved are sinners. The only way God could receive
us, the only way God could have any dealings with us, is if His
justice was executed upon us. He will not clear the guilty.
That's why the Son of God took flesh. He came to execute judgment
and righteousness for Jacob, in Jacob, in His people. And
so it came where we are. The law said we had to die, and
it came where we are. And by Christ bearing our sin
and going before God, bearing the sin of His people, God executed
the death penalty on every one of His people in our Lord Jesus
Christ. The death penalty that the law
demands. We must die. God executed that. He poured that out on every one
of his people when he poured out his vengeance on the Lord
Jesus, our substitute, on Calvary's cross. That's why he's the propitiation.
That's why he's the mercy seeker. God is satisfied by what he did.
He's satisfied by what he did. And the Holy Spirit comes, and
when the gospel is being preached, he reigns, he's sovereign. to
work this. He reigns on a throne of mercy,
so he's going to be merciful to those that he redeemed, because
justice demands it. And so he comes, and by the power
of his Spirit, he works judgment in the heart of his child. What
does he do? He makes us justify God. He makes
us declare God's justice in saying, we are ruined, guilty sinners,
incapable of doing anything pleasing to God, except we be found in
Christ. And He brings you to Christ to
see Christ is the righteousness of God. And you confess it and
you bow to Him and you worship Him, casting all your care upon
Him because He is the righteousness of His people. He is the righteousness
of His people. Look at Romans 3.23. This is
what Paul declared to us. Romans 3.23. He says, for all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by
His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom
God has set forth a mercy seat, a propitiation. He appeased God,
He satisfied God, and it's through faith in His blood to declare
His righteousness, that He executes judgment and righteousness in
Jacob. To declare His righteousness
for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance
of God, to declare, I say at this time, His righteousness,
that He might be just and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus. That's how all boasting is excluded. God is holy. He can have nothing
to do with sinners like us. But He is sovereign. He reigns. So whatever God determined before
to be done, that is what shall be done. And He reigns on a throne
of mercy. And He reigns justly. He executed
judgment and justice in the earth. And when He makes you behold
Him in the heart, He makes us confess. were nothing but the
sinner. And He makes you come to Christ,
bowing to Christ, worshiping Christ, casting it all upon Christ,
exalting Christ as the only righteousness, the only way God is just and
justifier. And He's just and He justified
us personally. That's what you come confessing.
Now, the Lord is holy in His sovereign reign. to show mercy,
to show it justly to His people, and He's just to do this throughout
our lives. He's just to do this throughout
our lives. He's just to do this in Jacob. That is, all His elect
Jacobs in His holy hill, His church from His holy hill of
Zion. He's just and sovereign to work
this in His people, in all His people. This is what He's just
to work. Now He uses three men here to
show us this as an example. He uses Moses, Aaron, and Samuel. He said in verse 6, Moses and
Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon
his name, they called upon the Lord, and he answered them. Why
does he use these three? Well, one reason is when he originally
set up his church to be led, he set up his church to be led
by his servants. It wasn't by a king. His holy
nation wasn't governed by a king. It was governed by the gospel,
by his word going forward, delivered through the messenger he sent.
And the first two of those, when he delivered them out of Egypt
and began to show this, the first two was Aaron and Moses. And
the last one was Samuel. After Samuel, the people desired
to have a king like the other nations, like the heathen nations. And he gave them one. But this
was where it started and where it ended until Christ came and
showed us he's the prophet, priest, and king who leads his people,
his Jacobs, through his gospel. But he also uses these three
because We're going to see here these three men sinned and needed
mercy. And if they sinned and needed
mercy, we can be sure the rest of us are going to need mercy
too. And they were His ministers who our Lord dealt with personally. He dealt with them personally,
showing us that our Holy Lord is able to sovereignly reign
in mercy doing what's just in each of His Jacob's in His church
in His holy hill. Moses and Aaron and Samuel, like
all God's people, called upon the Lord because the Lord first
called upon them. That's the only reason we'll
call upon Him, but the point here is they called upon the
Lord and He answered them. What a blessing! We can come
to our Lord, call upon Him, and He will answer. He will answer,
listen to this from number 7 verse 89. It says, when Moses was gone
into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard
the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that
was upon the ark of testimony from between the two cherubims,
and he spake unto him. And God spoke to Moses face to
face, face to face. He spake unto them in Christ.
Look at verse 7. He spake unto them in the cloudy
pillar. That cloudy pillar is Christ. Holy God only speaks with a believing
sinner through Christ our mediator in Christ our mercy seat. That's
the only place He'll speak with us is in a mediator. Mediator
brought God our Father and His sinful people together in peace
in Him by His propitiating God for us. And so He'll meet with
us there. But through Christ the Lord,
He speaks to us by His gospel, He speaks to us in our hearts,
He speaks to us in His providence, He speaks to His people. But
He only speaks through Christ. But by Christ speaking in our
hearts, Just like these men were faithful. Look here in verse
7. They kept his testimony and the ordinance that he gave them.
He's declaring they were faithful. These were faithful men. They
were faithful. When Christ speaks into the heart,
revealing that in Him, God is just to show us mercy. When He
shows you God's just to show mercy, that you're a sinner and
that God's just to show you mercy because of Christ's blood. That's
what makes you believe on Him. You keep His testimony. They
kept His testimonies. You know, the only way that it
can be said that a sinner keeps God's testimonies is through
faith in Christ. The testimonies are His law.
And the only way it can be said we keep His testimonies is through
faith in Christ. That's what I just read in Romans
3. Just read in Romans 3. But they did. They kept His testimonies. But by Christ's voice, we delight
in the law of God in the inward man. By His voice, we delight
in every word of our Lord. And we would keep the whole law
perfectly if we could. We desire to in every way. But if we fail and we see our
failures, faith believes Christ has kept the law perfectly. And
I've kept the law perfectly in Him. That's what faith believes. That's our boasting, not us,
Christ, Christ. But they were faithful and they
kept his ordinances. The Passover and the ceremonies
of all that old covenant, the Passover and all the ceremonies
that God ordained, all of that was equivalent to worship under
the new covenant like we're doing right here now. Our Lord's given
us the gospel. He's given us the ordinance of
baptism. He's given us the ordinance of the Lord's table. And we come
here and we assemble because he assembles us. He gives us
hearts to worship Him and He makes you faithful to do this.
We don't dare look to any of these things for our righteousness
or think this is what makes us accepted with God no more than
they did. But we do through faith in Him,
our righteousness, we've kept His testimonies and we delight
in His Word. We seek to honor His Word and
obey Him and we seek to assemble and worship Him and keep His
ordinances. But they did this, but they were not without sin. And neither were anybody they
ministered to. And yet He made them behold His
sovereign just mercy for Christ's sake. He made them keep seeing
He was sovereign. He reigned. He reigned on the
throne of mercy. He reigns justly. He made them
see this. Look at this, verse 8. Thou answeredst
them, O Lord our God, thou wast a God that forgavest them, though
thou tookst vengeance of their inventions, their sins. Moses
and Aaron and Samuel were faithful, but they were not without sin,
and neither were any of God's people, neither was anybody they
were ministering to. And when his people sin, it displeases
God. Don't sin, and don't It displeases God. And so God
took vengeance on their inventions. That's what sin is. It's just
inventions. And He lovingly chastened them
as a faithful father. Now, when did they sin? Well,
they sinned several times, but I'm going to give you three instances.
Aaron sinned when he rose up against Moses. And God chastened
him sorely for that. And do you remember how he did
it? We saw this in a message. He
made Miriam, she rose up with him against Moses. Miriam became
a leper. And God, Aaron had sinned right
along with her. Right with her. And God told
Aaron to intercede for her. And He told Moses to intercede
for both of them. And in that you see a beautiful
picture of Christ on that throne of mercy interceding for us when
we sin against God. And we do. We constantly need
His intercession. It's just sometimes we see our
sin like we don't see it at other times. What He's showing us here is
our Lord, He's able to chasten, He's able to send His gospel,
He's able to speak into the heart, and He's able to do it effectually.
He sits on the throne. He sits on the throne of mercy
between the cherubims. And so our Lord, because He satisfied
justice for Aaron, He didn't destroy him. He had executed
judgment for him as his surety, agreeing to lay down his life
for him for eternity. So what did he do for him? He
did what was just for him. He went to him and turned him
to the Lord and had mercy on him. And when he did that, he
beheld the mercy that God had shown him in the face of his
sin And he showed him that mercy was just and it was all in Christ. It was all for Christ's sake.
And you know what that made Aaron do? It made him bow. It made
him exalt Christ. It made him tremble. It made
him worship the Lord. That's what the psalmist is telling
us. That's how he brings you to tremble. That's how he moves
you. That's how he brings you to exalt to him. He shows you
his constant, holy, sovereign mercy justly poured out on you
for Christ's sake. And Moses, Moses failed to sanctify
the Lord before the people when he cried out and he said, must
we fetch water for you out of this rock? There wasn't a we
to it. Moses didn't fetch the water.
The Lord is the one, the Lord's the rock and the Lord's the one
who gives the water. But he smoked that rock twice,
and Christ can't be smitten but once. He perfected His people
justly by that one offering and justified us, and He can't be
smitten again, nor can any of His people be smitten. But God
corrected that, He chastened that, and He chastened them surely
for that. What did He do? God made it so that Moses could
not lead the children of Israel into the Promised Land. He had
brought them all that way, all those years, and He couldn't
take them into the promised land. He was buried in the wilderness.
And God used Joshua to carry Him in there. But you know what
the Lord did? You know, if sin, if we sin,
that's all of us, and we can't excuse it, we can't blame anybody
else, it's us entirely. Any good that's worked, Anything
that's worked that's good, God gets the glory for that. Every
bit of it. And when God did this, He used
Joshua to take them in there and He showed us a beautiful,
the glory of our Lord. He showed it. In that Moses,
representing the law, couldn't take them into the land of Canaan
because the law can't bring us into heaven. But Christ, our
Joshua, Jesus, Savior, He carried them in there, and that's who
is leading us this whole way. That's who is going to deliver
us into glory. And brethren, just like the Lord chastened
Aaron, And He made and behold Moses interceding for Him, and
in that you see a picture of Christ interceding for us, just
like He made Jason Moses and had him be buried in the wilderness,
but He shows us Joshua leading them in. In Moses' heart, I guarantee
you that when God chastened him for smiting that rock, God showed
him Christ's glory in that rock, and He showed him Christ's glory
in Joshua leading them in instead of Him leading them in, and this
is what He does when He chastens us. When He takes vengeance on
our inventions, brings you and sets you down, and He shows you
He's holy, He shows you He's reigning sovereignly on His throne,
He shows you His throne is a throne of mercy, and He's showing mercy
to you justly because Christ laid down His life for you. And
you know what that does? That makes you hit your face
in reverence for God. Ashamed of you sin ashamed you
ever sinned against him and it makes you see him more makes
you know him more makes you faith increase makes you mercy for
others increase your long-suffering increase makes you more compassionate
and he any this is how he grows us in Christ's grace and in the
knowledge of Christ by constantly working is and it's Christ working
it. It's Christ working it What did Samuel do? well Samuel exalted
his sons to be judges in Israel. And they weren't just, they were
taking bribes and robbing the people. And Samuel didn't do
anything about it. And this was the excuse that the
children of Israel used to reject Samuel. because he had made his
sons judges and they rejected those sons and so they rejected
Samuel. But the real reason God told
him was they were rejecting the Lord and they wanted a heathen
king because they were envious of the other nations that had
these heathen kings. But you know that was some sore
chastening for Samuel. The Lord never fails to get the
point in the heart of his child. That was some sore chastening
for Samuel. That made Samuel see that he
should have never made his sons judges. And he saw that. The Lord chastened him. The Lord
corrected him. But the Lord did it in mercy
to him. Why? How was he able to make
that affection in his heart? Because he reigned. He's sovereign.
How was he able to have mercy on him? Because he's just to
do it because Christ was Samuel's surety. And by this sovereign
work, the Lord works in the heart. This is what He makes you to
know. The Lord is holy. The Lord is sovereign. The Lord
is just. He's merciful. And He's working
in the heart of His people. And He makes you see Him more
and know Him more and fall down at His feet and follow Him more.
And this is how He works. This is just as real in a church
today in His holy hill as He worked it throughout the Old
Testament and when He walked to serve. He really does. He really does. And this makes
us trust one another to our all-powerful Head and Savior. I think this
could be the psalm from which Paul was inspired to write Philippians
2. Look there, in Psalm 99, he says, The Lord reigneth, let
the people tremble. He sits between the cherubims.
He sits on a seat of mercy, a throne of mercy. Let the earth be moved. The Lord is great in Zion. He
is high above all the people. Let them praise thy great and
terrible name, for it is holy. After he tells us here about
Moses and Aaron and Samuel, He ends it by saying, exalt the
Lord our God and worship at His holy hill. The Lord our God is
holy. He is holy. Look here at Philippians
2. This is what makes us reverence the Lord in our dealings
with one another and to trust one another to Him and pray for
one another. He said in Philippians 2 and
verse 2, and he says first in verse 1, if there's any consolation
in Christ, any comfort of love, any fellowship of the Spirit,
any bowels and mercies, fulfill you my joy that you be like-minded,
having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind, Let
nothing be done through strife or vainglory. And I remind you,
there was strife and vainglory going on in the Church of Philippi
when Paul said this. You know, when we read these
things, it doesn't mean that it's not going on. It means stop
it. and trust this sovereign savior.
But he's the one that's going to make us do that. He's the
one that's going to get the glory for showing us he's merciful
to us in spite of us because he shed his blood for his people.
And this is what he says, look here. But in lowliness of mind,
let each esteem the other better than themselves. Look not ever,
man, on his own things, but ever, man, also on the things of others.
In other words, provide for one another. Let this mind be in
you, and all these things he's just been saying was also in
Christ Jesus. And he speaks there about Christ
making himself of no reputation, taking the form of a servant.
But look here, this is where I'm saying, verse 12. Wherefore,
my beloved, as you've always obeyed, not as in my present
only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation,
your own daily dealings with one another, with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in
you both to will and to do of His good pleasures. So do everything
without murmurings and disputings. That's exactly what the psalmist
is declaring. Exalt the Lord. How? Sanctify Him in your hearts as
being able to handle whatever situation comes up. He's sovereign. He's sovereign. Exalt the Lord
for His sovereign mercy. How? Be a merciful. Exalt the
Lord for being merciful and being just in doing so. How? By being
merciful. It's the only just thing to do.
It's the only just thing to do. And trust the Lord and pray to
Him and speak of Him to one another. We're sheep, brethren. We're
sheep. And sheep are prone to wonder.
We sing, prone to wonder, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the
God I love. Is that so? Is that? We know
it's so. We know it's so. What we want
the Lord to do, here's my heart I'll take and seal it. He's the
only one that can. He's the only one that can even
turn our heart to Him. He's the only one that can make
us cry this out to Him. Our sovereign Lord is the shepherd
and He is the sovereign shepherd. That's what He is saying here.
He is holy. He can't lose one of His people because He is holy.
The same holiness that sent His Son and laid down His life for
us won't let Him leave one of us. He won't lose one of us.
He is the sovereign shepherd and if one of His sheep wanders,
Our Lord is described as going forth as the shepherd and gathering
up His sheep and bringing them back to His holy hill and bringing
them back to exalt Him and worship Him and submit to Him and believe
Him and trust Him. And He's able to work this. And
He continues to work this in His people. It's our Holy Shepherd
that does it. And He said there'll be rejoicing
in heaven, and there'll be rejoicing among His saints when He brings
His sheep together. He rejoices in bringing His prodigals
home. Our Lord does. And it's Him that
works this, brethren. So this is what He says. After
He comes to the end there, declaring how the Lord worked this, I can
just see the psalmist writing this, because I know I was so
comforted studying this, and when I got to the end, it's how
I felt. Where he just says, oh, exalt
the Lord our God. Exalt Him. And worship at His
holy hill. Assemble with His saints. That's
His holy hill. Worship Him and at the holy hill
of Zion. For the Lord our God is holy.
Holy, holy, holy. And He's working this in His
people. You can be certain of this. We can be sure of this.
And rest in Him and trust Him. That humbles you. That makes
you humbled to trust Him. Alright, brethren. Father, we
thank You for this Word. We pray You bless it. Lord, we
pray You continue to work this in our hearts. How we thank You,
Lord, that You are holy, sovereign, just, and merciful. Lord, we thank You that You've
been saving Your church from the beginning. You've never lost
one yet. You won't lose one. Lord, help
us to exalt You in all our ways, in all our doings, and help us
to exalt You our word to one another. Help us, Lord, to pray
for one another. Cause us to be constantly cast
upon You and trusting You. Help us to help each other do
that. Lord, we pray You exalt it. We
pray that You get all the glory. We are ashamed and sorrowful,
Lord, where we failed and where we've sinned. Shame of it. forgiven anybody room to say
anything against us. Lord, forgive us for Christ's
sake and we pray that you continue to receive us in His justifying
righteousness alone. In His name we ask these things.
Amen.