Now, again, I'll make this request. I know we had a few come in and
welcome all the visitors. And if you will, there's a pew
Bible in the pew for a King James Bible. If you use that, just
because we'll all be using the same words and looking at the
same words. And if we were all sitting here
with a different textbook trying to learn English, we'd have trouble
being on the same page with each other. So if you will use that,
you can compare it with yours later if you want to, but turn with me to Psalm 68 to begin. Do you want God to get all the glory
in salvation? Do you want God to have all the
glory in your salvation? That's the purpose of God in
all things. When we enter into heaven, the
purpose of heaven is gonna be that we're gonna give God all
the glory. He's gonna receive all the praise,
all the honor, all the glory. If somebody paid you, agreed
with you, entered a contract with you for you to do some really
difficult job for them, And you looked over all the things required,
and you said, OK, I'll do it. It's a really difficult job.
And you set to work on it, and it took you a while, but you
did it. You finished everything you said
you'd do, and you did a good job at it. You really did a nice
job and finished it and knew they were going to be happy with
it. They come out, look it over, and they said, yep, you couldn't
have done better. than what I want to do. You did
it just like you were out there. You worked late. You sweated.
You toiled. You went through pain at work
when you're sick, everything. And you finished it. And the
person's pleased with it. And they say, come now. I'm going
to give you exactly what I told you I was going to pay you. And
as they're paying you for the job that you did, somebody that's
just walking by comes up and says, hey, I get part of that,
too, because I helped with that job. some stranger you don't
even know. How willing would you be to give
them part of that pay? How willing would you be to say,
okay, we'll just pay him the rest of the money because I don't
know him. He didn't put his hand to it,
but I'll give him part of it. I don't think any of us would
do that. God surely won't do that. God sent his son, and his
son finished the work which involved dying the cruel death of the
cross to justify his people and make his people holy, and he
accomplished it. And God says, I will not share
my glory with another. That means you and I are not
gonna have any part of our salvation that we can say we contributed
anything, nothing. Can you show me that preacher?
Here's our text, Psalm 68 verse 20. He that is our God is the God of salvation. And unto God the Lord belong
the issues from death. That's what salvation of a sinner
is. It's to be saved from death. And this text is saying God is
the God of that salvation. He is the one to whom it belongs
to deliver His people from death. The issues of death belong to
God. All the issues of death. Now,
we're all going to face death, physical death, one day. God's
appointed an hour and we're going to keep that appointment and
we're going to die one of these days. But our death is far worse
than just physical death. Far worse. For the sake of clarity,
I divided our deaths into four, but we're going to look at the
first two in some detail and the last two are pretty easy
because they're covered in the first two. But first of all,
judicial legal death is a problem we have. We come into the world
legally dead under God's judgment, under condemnation. We can't
do anything about that. But here's the good news, unto
God the Lord belong the issues from legal death. And secondly
is spiritual death. We're born into this world with
a spiritually dead nature. A nature that is dead in trespasses
and sins who cannot know God and will not bow to God. That's
what we talk about when we speak about the bondage of the nature.
The bondage of our nature as we come into this world is not
willing to bow to God and say, yes Lord, it's all of you. It won't do it. It wants some
of the glory. It wants a piece of it. By nature,
we're that person that walks up that had nothing to do with
the work and says, I want some of it. Give me some of that pay.
Well, unto God the Lord belong the issues from spiritual death.
And then thirdly, concerning our physical death, unto God
the Lord belong the issues from our physical death. And then
fourthly, there's what the scripture calls the second death. After
we die physically, we will meet God in judgment, and if we meet
God in our sins, guilty, God will cast us out to endure
the second death, which is eternal condemnation. It's a living death
that never ends. It's called hell. That's the
second death. But unto God the Lord belong
the issues from the second death. All our deaths, the only way
we can be saved is by God. The only way. Sin has caused
every sinner to face these four deaths. But the good news is,
under God the Lord belong the issues from death. God came in
human flesh for the purpose of saving His people from death. Go to Hebrews 2 and I will show
you that. Hebrews chapter 2, it says, verse 14, it says, For
as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
Speaking of Christ, it says, he also himself likewise took
part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them
who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. For verily he took not on him
the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham. There's that word again. He came
to die for his people. Wherefore in all things it behooved
him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful
and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God. And here's
what that means. To make reconciliation for the
sins of the people. Now Christ either accomplished
that, delivered his people from death, by reconciling us to God,
or if there's something left for us to do, we're saying Christ
failed. It's one of the two. Either he
succeeded or he failed. That's what God said he came
to do. That's what God said he did. To deliver us from death. Now, let's look at these four
kinds of death. First of all, unto God the Lord
belong the issues from legal death. Now let's go back to Romans
5. Romans 5, how did we all become
legally, judicially dead? How did we become condemned under
the curse and condemnation of the law? How did that happen?
Now listen carefully, because this is fundamental that you
get this. It was by the works of another. We became legally, judicially
dead not by the works of our hand, but by the works of another. God made it that way. God set
up one man named Adam who would be the father of the whole human
race and God made Adam to be the head of his wife and of all
his children. So whatever Adam did, that's
what all his people did. He was one with his wife, so
what he did, she did, and all his children were in him, in
his loins. So what he did, we did. We all came from Adam. Adam was
the head of the whole human race. God says what Adam did, we did. What did Adam do? In a perfect
world, where there was no sin, with no sin of his own, with
only one law to keep, Adam disobeyed God. That ought to end you and me
thinking we can ever obey to please God and be accepted of
God in something we do. Adam was in a perfect world,
a sinless environment, with no sin of his own, with one law,
and he broke it. And when he did, when he broke
it, you broke it. I want you to enter into this
just as real. You were in the garden. God gave the law to you personally. Just forget everybody else. Just
forget Adam. You were in that garden personally.
God gave you that law personally, and you broke that law personally.
That's called headship. That's how real we were in Adam,
and that's how real we broke that law in the garden. Now look
at Romans 5.12, wherefore as by one man sin entered into the
world and death by sin. There's our death. By one man. And so death passed upon all
men. God imputed guilt so that we
all legally died and then in time we all were born with Adam's
nature so that sin was imparted to us. I read on, and for that
all have sin. That means all are guilty, we
all die judicially. Look down at verse 17, look at
the middle part of the verse there, and it says, or just a
few words, by one man's offense, death reigned by one. Look down at verse 18, it says, By the offense of one, judgment
came upon all men to condemnation. That is, all who would be born
of Adam, all his children. Look down at verse 19. As by
one man's disobedience, many were made sinners. Everybody
he represented was made a sinner. Now be sure to get this. This
is vitally, vitally, vitally important. I have repeated this
and I'll continue to repeat it. God help me. Adam didn't give
us a chance to be guilty. Adam didn't put us in a state
where we could become guilty if we'd just exercise our will.
That's not what he did. He made us guilty. He made us sin. He made us die,
legally, judicially, by what he did. By what he did. We come into the world legally
dead. Now, what does that mean for us? God is holy. We have laws in the land, and
we call it justice when that law is exercised. We call it
injustice when that law is not carried out. God is holy. He never fails to carry out justice. God says in his word, I will
by no means clear the guilty. That means you and me have to
die under the law of God. We must. We must. I wish you and I could understand
this. When you go hear the gospel priest,
it's not about coming in and hearing some feel-good stories
about current events and how that applies to your life and
how you can treat your neighbor better. There's a lot of things
in the scripture tells us how to treat our neighbor better.
But the issue of the gospel has to do with righteousness. It
has to do with how we're saved from our sin and the guilt of
it. That's the issue. That's the
issue. God says He will by no means
clear the guilty. And except you have a righteousness
that is as righteous as God, God won't receive us. We've got
to have a perfection as perfect as God, because He's holy. He
can't have any fellowship with sinners. It's got to be perfect
to be accepted. We've got to be righteous. We've
got to have no sin. We've got to be holy. We've got to be perfect
to be accepted of God. Why did God make Adam that representative? Why did he make him that head?
Why did he make us become guilty in him? Do you want the glory
for making yourself guilty? That's not something we generally
want the glory for. We generally don't fight over
this and say, well, I want the glory for making myself guilty. Well, God made Adam the head
to picture Christ, his son, who is the last Adam. He was a head. He made Him the head and representative
of all who would be born of Him. He's the head of His bride, the
church, and that church is made up of children, elect children
that shall be born of Christ. Just like Adam died for everybody
that shall be born of Adam, Christ died for everybody that shall
be born of Christ. That's who He died for. Now that
doesn't mean everybody. Because not everybody's born
of Christ, not everybody believes on Christ. There's people who
leave this earth kicking and screaming against God and God
sends them to that second death. So does that mean Christ failed?
Did God love them today and then He decided I don't love them
anymore? God doesn't say He lives that way. God said, I love you
with an everlasting love. That's the scripture. He says,
who shall separate us from the love of God in Christ? What kind
of love would it be if I said I loved you, but I wouldn't pray
for you? If I said I loved you, but when
you're in danger, I don't try to save you? When you got a debt,
I don't try to pay it? God says in his word, if we say
we have the love of God in us and we have this world's goods
in our hand and we see our brother have need and we're not compassionate
on him and don't do anything to help him, we're a murderer.
We don't have the love of God in us. But God loves and he loves everlastingly. See, nothing was done by chance.
God, before this world was made, chose his son to be the head
of a bride. He chose a bride for his son.
And he made that bride up of all these chosen sinners that
he gave to his son. And his son said, I will take
full responsibility for all of them. It's called a covenant
of redemption, a covenant of grace. He said, I will do everything
necessary to bring them to you, righteous and holy and perfect.
And this is the gospel. The gospel is a hearing about
how Christ did this for us. This is what God people want
to hear. While the world wants to go to church and hear about
how they can get a Dr. Fields sermon basically
just telling you some psychology on why you are the way you are.
God's people want to hear about what Christ did. We come to hear
about God's works. We come to hear about what He
accomplished for us. We want Him to have all the glory.
We don't want the glory. And that in turn constrains you
in your heart to want to serve Him and honor Him from a new
spirit rather than that old legal mercenary an accusing and excusing
spirit. It gives you a new spirit. A
loving spirit. So He chose this people. Listen,
if you want to jump over to Ephesians 1, I'd like you to see this,
verse 3. Speaking to believers. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ. In heavenly places,
it's all spiritual blessings, If you're a believer, God blessed
you with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ
according as he had chosen us in him before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before
him in love. And then verse seven says, Christ
came and in Christ we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of sins according to the riches of his grace. Be sure to get
this. Here's what I'm saying to you.
If you don't like this statement, and then take that up with God,
but Christ didn't fail. He came to save a particular
people and He saved them. He came to bear the particular
sin of a particular people and answer to justice for that sin
and He did it. He did it. A man would accomplish
nothing if he walked in a courtroom and he said, I just want to die
for everybody's offenses. Well, whose offenses you want
to die for? We got men on death row here. You want to die for
one of them, or you just want to die for this guy who stole a
pickle? Which one you want to pay the
debt for? I mean, there's a difference. It's no ambiguous, I'm just going
to die. It's he came to die for particular
sinners that were on death row, to answer justice for those particular
sinners. Verse 17, he satisfied justice. Romans 5, 17, I'm sorry, go back
there. He satisfied justice. Look at
this. Now read it all together here. If by one man's offense,
death reigned by one, much more they which receive. That means
they're given from God, abundance of grace, and the gift of righteousness,
they shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. He did it. Verse
18, therefore, as by the offense of one, judgment came upon all
men. Everybody Adam represented, everybody
that would be born of Adam, died in Adam. Even so, by the righteousness
of one, not my righteousness, not your righteousness, Christ's
righteousness, by his righteousness, the free gift came upon all men. Everybody he died for, everybody
he represented, everybody that should be born of him, Justification
of life. For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many
be made righteous. The law entered that the offense
might abound. It entered to show you how bad
we are. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. That
as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. So
Christ, to Christ, belonged the issues from our legal death.
And he came and he accomplished our salvation from that legal
death. For everybody he died, he accomplished
that legal salvation from that legal death. He did it. Now secondly,
unto God the Lord belonged the issues from spiritual death. What are you saying, preacher?
Well, Adam's nature was corrupted by sin. When he sinned against
God, he became guilty and God took his spirit from him. And
Adam didn't die physically right then, but Adam right then, what
was the first thing he did after God took his spirit from him?
When he heard the voice of God, well, before he heard the voice
of God, what did he do? He started trying to work out
a righteousness for himself. He started trying to cover his
nakedness with fig leaves. And as soon as he heard God's
voice, did he think he had done a good enough job? No, he didn't.
He took off and ran and hid in the trees. Why? Because he told
God, because I knew I was naked. Well, you got thick leaves on,
Adam. Oh, no. Before God, I was still naked.
I broke his law. See, God's got to come to where
you are. He's got to come find you hiding in the trees, called
the first church of this and that, and the first church of
this and that, steeped in your religious work, steeps in everything
you're doing to try to please God, and all your fig leaves.
He's got to find you there, and he's got to say, why are you
hiding in all this mess? And he'll make you honest, and
you'll say, because Lord, I know I'm naked. How do you know he'll do this,
he has to do this? Because 1 Corinthians 2.4 says,
the natural man, that's how we're born the first time, the natural
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for their
foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they're
spiritually discerned. We're not spiritual by nature.
We're coming to this world born of a man, and so we're carnal. and we can't understand spiritual
things. We won't understand spiritual things. Every time a sinner comes
in and hears the gospel preached in truth and walks out without
believing on Christ and giving God all the glory, he proves
he's a natural man and everything he heard is foolishness to him. That's why Christ told Nicodemus.
Nicodemus had a bunch of fig leaves on. He was a ruler in
Israel. He was somebody. People looked at him like, when
they saw him coming down the street, they said, now there's
somebody. And he comes to our Lord Jesus Christ, and he starts
spouting off his religion, and our Lord said, let me tell you
something you need to understand. Till you're born of God, you
can't see me. You can't believe on me. You
don't have any idea who I am. And then what he said, verily,
verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he can't
see the kingdom of God. And Christ is the Kingdom of
God. He is the King of that Kingdom. You can't see Him until you are
born of God. Now what did you have to do with your first birth?
What did you have to do with your first birth? I didn't have
nothing to do with it. Not a thing. Well, God gets the glory in this
too. Unto God the Lord belong the issues from spiritual death. If we are going to be saved from
our spiritual death, God is going to do it. Christ purged the sin
of His people when He went to the cross. He accomplished their
redemption. He paid the wages we owe to the
law for each person He died for, He gave the law everything the
law demanded. He answered to its justice. He
was forsaken of God for them so they wouldn't have to be.
He paid that. That's justice. We don't just
punish random people for nothing. We punish the person that's guilty. Christ took our sin, the sin
of his particular people. He became the guilty one in place
of that guilty one. And for each one he died for,
he paid the wages of sin, which is death. And he did it. And
that act of doing that, was the righteous fulfillment of the
law, that was love to God and love to His people. He fulfilled
the positive and the negative of the law right there on the
cross. And what did He cry out? It is finished. So, that means if He did that
work and saved me and satisfied justice for me, and yet I come
into this world and I'm a natural man who don't know God and can't
know God, and can't make myself be born again, the issue from this spiritual
death is not in my hands, is it? But guess what? Since He satisfied justice for
me, He gonna see to it I'm brought under this gospel, and I hear
this good news, and He's gonna make me be born again. I had this illustration. If you
were to go to death row, And you said, I'm going to take the
place of that inmate right there. I'm going to die for that inmate
right there. And they say, OK, he's sentenced to die tomorrow.
You show up tomorrow, they strap you down or shoot you up or however
they do it, and they execute you. Justice is satisfied toward
that man. He's paid what he owed. You paid
it for him. So you know what the next step
has to be? Somebody has to go to that jail
cell and open up his cell and let him out so he can go. His sentence has been paid. It's
done. And if they don't open that jail
cell, if they take him and say, now we're going to make you die
too, that ain't justice. That's double jeopardy. That's
punishing the same man twice. The gospel is about how God is
righteous. Romans 3 says Christ came to
manifest the righteousness of God, how God is just, and he
is the justifier of the believer. So what I'm saying is to you,
the reason I'm setting this up like this, because now that he's
justified us, saved us from that legal death, he also gets the
glory to come and open the prison and save us from our natural
death. In Isaiah 49.9, God said, I've given Christ for a covenant,
of the people, and he said to Christ, that thou mayest say
to the prisoners, go forth, and to them that are in darkness,
show yourself. God raised him from the dead
and gave him the glory of sending this. He's the head of the church
that he might fill all in all. And he sends the gospel. If you're
here today, this is how you're going to be born again if he
does it. He puts you under the gospel. The gospel is the living
word. Christ is the living word. His
word, He's the one that gives life to His word. And the first
time you were born, it was corruptible seed from your sinful daddy.
But being born of Him, This word's incorruptible and creates a new
nature, a holy nature, a new spirit that He puts in you. Listen,
He said in 1 Peter 1.23, being born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth
and abideth forever, and this is the word which by the gospel
is preached unto you. It's not an accident for any
of us to be here today. God don't make accidents. There's
no such thing as luck. God's sovereign and He's ruling
everything in this world. And He brought you here. You're
hearing the truth of God today. Either God will bless it to be
a saver of life unto life or a saver of death unto death.
There's no middle ground when you hear the gospel. You're either
going to bow and believe it, or you're going to say, I hate
that. But you know how you're going to be saved from that spiritual
death of hating this Word? The only way is by God. Unto God belong the issues from
death. Not to you, not to me. A preacher,
I had a preacher tell me, I just need to exercise my will. That's
how to be born again. He ain't ever been born again.
That's why he told you that. You met a false prophet who told
you a lie. I'm telling you the truth. You
must be born again. You have as much to do with this
new birth as you did with your first birth. And if you have
anything to do with it, you get some glory in it. God said, that
ain't happening. I get the glory. But what I'm
saying to you, everybody he justified, he gonna send this gospel and
he gonna call up having predestinated us into the adoption of children
by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will.
That's Ephesians 1 5. He predestinated you to come
under this gospel And He said, and because you're sons, because
God's redeemed you, because you're sons, He sent forth the Spirit
of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father, therefore you're
no more a servant anymore, you're a son. And if you're a son, you're
an heir of God. As many as received Him, He came
to Israel, most of them rejected Him. But as many as received
Him, as many as said, we believe you, we trust you. To them, He
gave the privilege to become the sons of God. He said, you're
sons of God. How did they receive Him? How did they have faith to receive
Him? John 1.13 says they were born, not of blood, not of the
will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. But of God. You hath he quickened
who were dead in trespass and sin. Preacher, what about my
faith? By grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves. It's the gift of God, lest any
man should boast. lest I start saying, well what
about my faith? So God gives you that too. Is
there nothing I'll produce? What can a dead man produce?
Nothing. God gives life, he gives a new
spirit, he gives a new will, he gives faith, he gives repentance,
he makes you to quit looking to you and look to Christ and
say there's my salvation. Unto him belongs issues from
death. Now, these next two points I'll go real quick. Unto God
the Lord belong the issues from physical death. We're saved from
death a lot of times through our life. Paul called it deaths
often. He said he saved us from deaths
often. Things we don't even recognize, things we don't even see. Some
of them you probably do remember in your life where God had to
have done that or I'd have died. Nobody's going to die. This thing
of reporters saying, well, he died an untimely death, or he
died before his time, ain't no such a thing. People die at God's
appointed hour. And if he heals you today, that's
good, but it's just a little while, you're going to die again.
You're going to die. But here's the thing about that.
If he's saved you from legal death, and he's saved you from
spiritual death, you're not going to die. Oh, you're going to lay
down this body of death, this old nature that you got from
Adam that's nothing but sin, never will be sin. It's not getting
better and it's not any good. It's why you got to put perfume
on it all the time because it stinks. It's going to go back
to the dust. But this is what the Lord said,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, he has
everlasting life. This is the bread which came
down from heaven that a man may eat, thereof, and not die. Whosoever
eateth my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I
will raise him up at the last day. He said, whoever lives and
believes on me shall never die. Believer, we don't have a reason
to fear death. He came to deliver us from it,
and he has for his people. We have this old nature with
us that will make us a little fearful when we face death, but
God's not going to let that dominate you. He's going to give you dying
grace when you need it. Why? Because He's told us we're
confident and willing to be absent from the body and to be present
with the Lord. The minute you close your eyes,
you open them in glory. Just like on a hard day's work
when you lay down at night, as soon as your head hits the pellet,
it seems like the alarm clock goes off. Well, as soon as you
close your eyes, you're going to wake up and be with Christ.
He saves us from that death. Can you save yourself from physical
death? Well then let that be an answer to you, you can't save
yourself from legal death and you can't save yourself from
spiritual death either. And one day he's coming back
and he's going to raise our vile bodies that they be fashioned
like to his glorious body. We're not just going to be spirits
floating around on clouds. We're going to have real bodies
and be in a real heaven and a real earth, much like this one except
there won't be any sin whatsoever. And he said when that happens,
Death will be swallowed up in victory. And He said, thanks
be to God who gave us the victory through Christ Jesus. He did
it. Now lastly, you see, along with saving us from legal death,
and along with saving us from spiritual death, He saved His
people already from the second death. If I meet God at Judgment
Day without Christ, the second death is Death that comes from
God's judgment. It's being found, not having
the righteousness God requires. And God will say, depart from
me, you're a worker of iniquity, I never knew you. No matter how
hard you worked in religion, no matter what you did, God will
say, I never knew you. That's what Christ said. But,
if you have Christ, and you're robed in His righteousness, and
you've been made holy and perfect in Him, The scripture says, blessed
and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection. That
means you were raised when Christ was raised from the dead. It
means when he created life in you, regenerated you, you were
raised from the death of your spiritual nature. You partook
of that first resurrection. And he that hath part in that
first resurrection, on such the second death has no power. You
won't die that death. unto the Lord belong the issues
from death. You know what else it means?
We're dead to the law. When we've executed a man and
he's died, and we don't go out to his grave when they've buried
him out by the prison. We don't go out there and say,
now we found some more laws you're guilty of. He's dead. He paid the ultimate price. He's
dead to the law now. The law has nothing to say to
it. Romans 7 says, Christ made us to be dead to the law. All
death, He has the issues of all death. He made us dead to the
law. That's good news, brethren. That means Christ is our life. What this believer is going to
show today, she's going to show she's professing Christ. She's
going to profess that she believes that when Christ died, she died.
and she was buried. Her old man of sin, that part
of her that God hated, that sinful part, died under the justice
of God and was buried out of sight. That's what's going to
be pictured by her being submerged entirely in water. We bury people
in the ground. This is a watery grave. And when
she comes up out of that watery grave, she's going to be professing
that when Christ arose, she arose in Him to newness of life. Newness of life is your life
being in Christ at God's right hand. Newness of life is having
a new heart to where now you don't take people to the letter
of the word of God and try to condemn them with it. Now you
restore and love and forgive and hope all things and believe
all things and endure all things. That's love. That's obedience. That's trusting and obeying.
And that's what she's confessing she's doing. I pray that the
Lord will help you see today that He that is our God is the
God of salvation, and unto God the Lord belong the issues from
death. That means to God be the glory. Let's pray together. Our Father,
we thank You. Thank You that You didn't leave
salvation in the hands of sinners. Thankful, Lord, that You've been
clear in Your Word to show us that You do everything involved
in salvation. How simple you declare it. Salvation
is of the Lord. And we want to add to that, and
we want to take a part in that. Lord, make us see you do everything
in our salvation. Make us rejoice in that, make
us bow, make us remember what vile, wretched sinners we are,
so that we will indeed walk in newness of spirit. Help us, Lord. We're sinners and we're gonna
sin and we do sin and we hate our sin. Lord, deliver us from
it and keep us looking to you. Forgive us for where we've made
others stumble. Give us where we make others
become overtaken and Lord, help us to love one another. Help
us to trust Christ to teach and instruct and bow to him, be the
head. We ask this, Lord, giving you
all the glory and the honor and the praise. And we thank you
for this new believer. Be with her, keep her, instruct
her, and let us be helps to her. Lord, we ask it in Christ's name. Amen.