Chapter 22. This is one of those
questions that God asked to a sinner. We find it in Isaiah 22, 16. He says, What hast thou here,
and whom hast thou here? What was taking place in Jerusalem
is a picture of the injustice and the oppression of this entire
world. Here you have just a little picture
of it in this one city, Jerusalem. But this is a picture of the
oppression and injustice going on throughout this world. God
brought the Assyrian army upon Jerusalem. Now at that time the
Assyrian army had subservient to them the Medes and the Persians. So this was a great army that
came up against Jerusalem. And God brought that army to
turn the children of Jerusalem to Him. To make them look to
Him and cry out unto Him. But instead, they looked to their
weapons and to their fortifications. They looked to their wisdom and
to their works. God's preacher Isaiah was sent
to him, and in verse 11, the second half of the verse, he
cried out and he said, you know, you've made all this, you've
looked to all these things, but you have not looked to the maker
thereof. You haven't looked to God who
made these things. The Lord sent the enemy to make
them repent and look to God, and they did the opposite. Look
at verse 12. In that day did the Lord God
of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to boldness,
and to girding with sackcloth. That is repentance. He called them to repent, to
turn from themselves to God, and trust God. And behold, joy
and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and
drinking wine, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall
die. Here's what was taking place. You had all these smaller towns
of Judah that were outside of Jerusalem. That was the covering
of Judah that the scripture talks about. See, the army had to fight
them before they could get to Jerusalem. But when all those
towns in Jerusalem saw this army coming, they fled and they all
went into Jerusalem. So all of a sudden you had this
influx of people and Jerusalem all of a sudden was like a boom
town. And so businessmen in Jerusalem were getting rich. And the one
getting the richest was Shebna. He was the treasurer over Jerusalem
and he was becoming stinking rich from all of this because
all these people that came to Jerusalem, they got to eat, they
got to wash their clothes, they got all the basic needs you and
I have. And so he was making money hand over fist. He was
supposed to be a nail in a sure place. You get the picture there.
You have a nail, you can hang all your vessels on it and it's
sure and it's going to be there and it's not going to be moved.
And he was supposed to be a nail in a sure place. God had put
him as a ruler there in that place. But because he was getting
so rich, he didn't want them looking to God. He didn't want
them to stop doing what they were doing. because he was getting
wealthy from it and he didn't want it to change. So he gave
the vain counsel saying let us eat and drink, just live it up. Just spend and do what you're
doing because we're going to all die anyway and let's just
live it up. He wanted to make as much as
he could make while he could make it knowing they were all
going to die. A worldly philosopher said this,
He said, change will never come because those who stand to lose
the most by change hold the most power. And those who stand to
gain the most by change hold none of the power. That's a true
statement. A worldly philosopher said that.
God said it best. He said the love of money is
the root of all evil. It's what's going on in the heart.
It's the heart of man. That's the problem. See, the
same principle is in the poor and in the oppressed as is in
the rich that are doing the oppressing. The same principle is in the
poor man's heart. You and I see some injustice
and we see some oppression in the world and it feeds your flesh
and you think, oh, I want to change that. I want to do something
to make a change about that. and you start looking to all
these earthly things that you can do to make it change, just
like they were looking to these earthly things to protect themselves.
You see, real change comes by what God is doing right here.
He takes down the man who's not to be counted upon, who can't
be counted upon, and He sets up the man who can be counted
on. And what that is a picture of,
God removes Shibna just as God subdues our old man of sinful
flesh. And God sets up in his place. He sets up his Eliakim who is
a picture of Christ. He creates in us a new man and
sets up Christ in our heart. And Christ can be counted on.
And that's how true change is made. It's made through the preaching
of the gospel of Christ. God removes our fleshly confidence,
which is no nail in a sure place, and he sets up Christ in our
hearts, who is a nail in a sure place. And he is one upon whom
we can hang all the weight of our eternal souls. And that's
what's being pictured here. So first of all, I want to show
you Shebna. God subdues our old man of flesh. And then secondly, we'll see
Eliakim. picture Christ, then God sets
up Christ in our hearts. And then thirdly, Christ becomes
our nail in a sure place upon whom we rest all. And when that's
the case, true change has been made. Now you'll have somebody
who is compassionate and who is a loving person because they
know something about their own sin and they know what God's
done for them. First of all, in Shebna, we see that God must
put down our flesh and all our fleshly confidences. Shebna was
full of pride and ambition. It says there in verse 15, Thus
saith the Lord God of hosts, Go get thee unto this treasurer,
even unto Shebna which is over the house. Now you notice how
God is making this change? He didn't look to Shebna to do
this. He sent Isaiah, his preacher. This change is going to come
about through the preaching of the gospel. That's how God makes
this change, this true spiritual change that he's picturing here
in this physical change of these two men. It's through the preaching
of the gospel. But Shebna here, you see, he
was the treasurer. He had worked himself into this
position of treasurer over all of Jerusalem. He had a lot of
power. He was like the Ethiopian eunuch.
Remember, he was the treasurer of Candese, the queen of Africa. Well, this man, he was the treasurer
over all of Jerusalem. But he was faithful to no one
but Shebna. That's all. And He's a picture
of my flesh and your flesh. He's a picture of my heart and
your heart by nature just like all sinners come into this world.
We come forth ambitious for this world with no regard for God
or for anybody else. That's how we come forth. And
Shebna thought he was going to remain forever. He thought he
was going to live, and when he told them to do, that's what
he meant. Eat, drink, live it up. And enjoy it while you can. And he thought he was going to
do this for a long time. But God sent his preacher with
a question. And this is a question we all need to heed. Now listen
to this question, verse 16. What hast thou here? And whom
hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here,
as he that heweth him out a sepulcher on high, and then that graveth
that habitation for himself in a rock? Now that's a good question
we need to all ask ourselves and heed it. What hast thou here,
and who hast thou here? As we come into this world, we're
just like Shebna. Jerusalem was not Shebna's place. He wasn't even from there. And
who whom hast thou here? He didn't have any brothers and
sisters there. He wasn't even an Israelite. He came from another
place. He was a Gentile. How did he
end up getting there? He came in by hook and crook.
That's right. He came in through that deceitful
wicked king Ahaz. That's how he got in. Ahaz
was crooked and he gave sheep no place. That's how he got to
be where he was. There's a whole lot of people
that come into the church like this. They come into the church
and this question, God will have to bring this question home to
them. What do you have here? And who do you have here? Because
by nature, you and I in this world, we come forth dead in
trespasses and sins. We have nothing nor do we have
anyone as we come into this world. Listen to Ephesians 2.12, speaking
of us before we knew Christ. At that time, you were without
Christ. Who have you here? We didn't
have Christ. being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers
from the covenants of promise, we were aliens to God's true
Israel, to His people. We didn't have any true brothers
and sisters, not any spiritual brothers and sisters when we
were dead in our sins. He says, having no hope, Shebna
was supposed to be a nail in a sure place. He was supposed
to be a solid hope for the people of Jerusalem. He was no hope
for himself, much less for anybody else. And that was us. We had
no hope. and without God in the world.
Listen to what Christ said. Now listen carefully to this.
You sitting here tonight that don't believe on Christ, listen
to this right here. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. The wrath of God abideth on him. What have you here? Who have
you here? All spiritual dead sinners do
just what Shebna did. We try to carve out a place in
this world. We try to work for ourselves
in this world thinking we're going to remain forever. Now
Shebna might have made him a grave. A lot of times people, when they
get elected to an office, the preachers do this. They'll become
a pastor of a church and they'll go and they'll buy them a cemetery
plot so they can say to the people, I'm going to be here forever.
Washibna here, he may have made him a sepulcher. He may have. But what God is showing here
is by all His working and all His conniving and all Him thinking
He's really setting His house up on high and He's setting His
house on solid ground, the Lord said, what you're really doing
is you're carving yourself out a grave. That's all you're doing. And that's all men and women
are doing that are looking for a place of stability in this
world by their wisdom and by their works. That's all we were
doing, brethren. Look over at Luke 6. Listen to
what our Lord says. Luke chapter 6. If man doesn't
have Christ, you and I don't have Christ, we have no saving
stability in this life. We do not have a nail in a sheer
place. If we don't have Christ, we have
no place that we can hang all our eternal Souls. We have no place to hang anything
upon if we don't have Christ. I don't care. The richest man,
it looks like he's got wealth and he's set up for the rest
of his life and he'll be fine from here on out. Let's look
at what Christ said. Luke 6 verse 47. He said, Whosoever
cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth
them, I will show you to whom he is like. He is like a man
which built a house, and dig deep, and laid the foundation
on a rock. And when the flood arose, the
stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it,
for it was founded upon a rock. Christ is that rock. You build
all your hope on Christ the rock. He's the nail in a sure place.
But now watch this. But he that heareth and doeth
not, he's like a man that without a foundation built a house upon
the earth. He built a house on sand against
which the stream did beat vehemently and immediately it fell and the
ruin of that house was great. So what's going to have to happen
here for for Jerusalem. What's going to have to happen
for God's people to have this nail in a sure place? Sheba's
going to have to be put down. God's going to have to put him
down. And for you and I to have any hope, God's going to have
to put down our old man of flesh. What did God say there? Look
at verse 14. It was revealed in mine ears
by the Lord of hosts. Surely this iniquity shall not
be purged from you till you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
For we can live, we're going to have to be killed. For we
can live, all our vain confidences and all our hopes and all the
things that we think is solid rock and is a nail in a sure
place, all those vain refuges are going to have to be killed
before us. That old man of flesh is going
to have to be slain. Look here in verse 17. Behold,
the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and
will surely cover thee. He'll surely violently turn and
toss thee like a ball into a large country. There shalt thou die,
and there the chariots of thy glory, and all those things you
thought was all your protection and all your safety, they'll
be the shame of your house. And I'll drive thee from thy
station, and from thy state shall He pull thee down. And that's
what God's got to do to us. He's going to have to cast us
down and all our pride and all our ambition and all our vain
refuge, God has to throw that all down and cause the devil
to stop ruling over us. He said, no man can enter into
a strong man's house and spoil his goods except he will first
bind the strong man, then he'll spoil his house. And that's what
God, it's a necessary work that God has to do. He has to come
and bind the devil's power over you and he has to subdue that
old man of flesh. Now, let's look at Eliakim. Eliakim
is a picture of Christ and when God has graciously put down the
old man of sin, when He's put him down, God sets up Christ
in our hearts. Here's the picture we see here.
God graciously puts down our flesh and he sets up a new master
in our heart, Christ Jesus the Lord. Verse 20. And it shall
come to pass in that day that I will call my servant. Look here, Eliakim. His name
means my God will raise up. The son of Hilkiah. Hilkiah means
my portion is Jehovah. Christ Jesus is God's servant.
whom God raised up, whose portion is the Lord God Jehovah. That
means everything he did, he did to honor God. Scripture says
Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest. Shebnahir
was a man who he worked and connived and did everything ruthlessly
and immorally to work himself into this high position of treasurer
in Israel. And that's what you and I were
doing. We were conniving and thieving
and robbing and trying to get ourselves into a position. Christ,
He didn't glorify Himself to be made High Priest. Eliakim
here, He didn't glorify Himself to be put in this place. God
put Him in this place. And Christ didn't, He didn't
glorify Himself to be made the High Priest of His people. God
chose Him and God put Him in that place. Christ glorified
not himself to be made a high priest, but he that said unto
him, Thou art my son, today have I begotten thee. God raised up
Christ. God gave Eliakim the glory that
once belonged to Shebna. He took that glory from Shebna
and gave it to Eliakim. Look at verse 21. And I'll clothe
him with thy robe, God said, and strengthen him with thy girdle.
He said this to Shebna, I'm going to clothe Eliakim with your robe,
Shebna, and I'm going to strengthen him with your girdle. Now get
the picture here. God's going to have to strip
us of our self-righteousness. Just like He took that robe off
Shebna and put it on Eliakim, God's going to have to take our
robe of vain self-righteousness, strip us of it, He's going to
make us see Christ in that perfect robe of righteousness to make
us see He's all our righteousness. This is what has to be done.
And God has to strip us of having faith in our faith. That's what
this girdle pictures. Most people in religion have
faith in their faith. They have faith in something
they've done. God has to strip us of that and make us behold
we're not saved by our faith, we're saved by Christ's faith,
by His faithfulness. He does give you faith to trust
His faithfulness. Don't misunderstand me, but I'm
saying even the faith God gives you couldn't save you if it wasn't
laying hold of Christ's faithfulness. That's why our poor little weak
faith that God gives us is saving faith because of the object of
our faith. But if a man just has faith in
his faith, that won't save him. We gotta have faith in Christ's
faithfulness. That's why those scriptures are
so important that says, now the righteousness of God without
the law is manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets,
even the righteousness which is by the faith of Christ Jesus. It's the faith of Christ. It's
His faithfulness. We're not saved justified by
the works of the law, but by the faith of Christ. That's why
we've believed in Christ, that we might be justified by the
faith of Christ and not by the works of the law. Paul told the
Galatians. So He strips us of that. Let
me just give this to you. You can look it up later. I want
you to understand that when He says, I'll clothe him with thy
robe and I'll strengthen him with thy girdle, that's speaking
of Christ's righteousness and His faithfulness. Listen to this.
Revelation 1.13 says, In the midst of the seven candlesticks,
John saw one like the Son of Man clothed with a garment down
to the foot. Gird about the palps with a golden
girdle. What does that mean? Look back
at Isaiah 11, 5. Isaiah 11, 5. This is speaking of Christ Jesus
right here. He's the stem of Jesse, the branch
that grew out of his roots. And he says there in verse 5,
Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness
the girdle of his reins. He's talking about his righteousness
and his faithfulness. So God has to strip us of all
our doing, our works of righteousness and make us see Christ as our
righteousness. He has to strip us of having
faith in ourselves and give us faith in Christ's faithfulness.
And then look here, back in Isaiah 22, God strips us of our so-called
power thinking everything's by our will and makes us see the
government of God's kingdom is on Christ's shoulder. It's not
on my shoulder or your shoulder. God said if I was hungry, I wouldn't
ask you. You think God's going to trust
anything to little thieving, robbing worms like us? Look at
this. He's going to strip us of our
power and show us the government's on Christ's shoulder and show
us that He's faithful to all His house, to His elect. Verse
21 says, Isaiah 22, 21, He says, And I will commit Thy government
into His hand and He shall be a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. God's going to have to
take the government from us. We thought the government was
on our shoulder. We thought we were in charge
and the power was ours. God takes that from you, shows
you you don't have power to stop a common cold, much less anything
else. The power is Christ. The government's
on His shoulder. Look over at Isaiah 9 and look
at verse 6. The government's on Christ's
shoulder. And he's faithful to God's elect. He's not like Sheepna.
He's not like our old man of flesh. Christ is faithful. Look
here, Isaiah 9, 6. Unto us a child is born, unto
us a son is given. And the government shall be upon
his shoulder. The government of God's kingdom,
the government of God's house is on Christ's shoulder. And
his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor of the Mighty God,
the Everlasting Father. the prince of peace. See there,
he's the king on whose shoulder the government is and he's our
everlasting father. Paul, God said back there in
Isaiah 22, 21. He said, I'll commit thy government
into his hand and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Christ will always be the king. and he'll always be the everlasting
father of his people. You know, we're going to live
in a world one day just like this world right here, but it's
going to be a new heaven and a new earth and Christ is going
to be the king of that whole world. He's going to have, you
know, Israel used to didn't have kings. They wanted kings because
they saw the heathen nations had kings and they wanted to
be like them. But the ones God gave to judge them and rule them
were his preachers, his messengers, like Moses, who were a judge
to him. They were a priest to him. They
were a prophet to him, preacher to him. God's preacher, in God's
eyes, is the greatest under Christ of any in the world. Not kings. And so in that world Christ will
be the king. And he'll have his under shepherds
in the different towns and throughout the kingdom. And all the people
will be holy without sin. And there won't be any thieving
or oppression or robbery. Just imagine a world like that.
We're not talking about here when we read these things, we're
not talking about something that Christ just does for us now and
then this will be over. No, we're getting a taste of
it right now, of how it is. The church of God is sort of
a little microcosm, a little miniature version of what it
will be like in the whole world one day. And this is real. We're
talking about something real. This was a real war that took
place. You can read about it in history
books when the Assyrians came up against Israel. It really
happened. And God really removed this man Shebna and replaced
him with a man named Eliakim. Everything God's ever done in
history was to show us Christ. You've heard that play on words.
History is His story. And it's a picture of Christ.
And all of these things God's ever done in history, He's done
it to show us Christ. You miss out on the spiritual
many of these things and you miss out on Christ. You miss
the whole purpose of this whole world and everything God's ever
done in it. Let's read on. How is Christ faithful? How is
He the King? What do you mean when it says
the government's on His shoulder and He'll be a father to His
people? Well, it's what Christ did. He came forth to do the
work God sent Him to do. God gave Adam that glory like
He gave it to Shebna. But Adam did what Shebna did.
He sinned against God and He ruined the whole human race.
So God took that glory from Adam and He gave it to Christ. And
Christ came forth representing His people and He was faithful.
He spotlessly walked through this world fulfilling the Law
and the Prophets and presented Himself to the Father to take
all the sin of His people on Himself and bear our curse for
us so that He would declare God as just and a Savior. God's the One who fulfilled His
own Law and God's the One who saved His people from our sin.
And all that was because government was put on Christ's shoulder
to do it. and it was put on Christ's shoulder to be our... Adam was
our father, the father of all mankind, but he's not our everlasting
father. But Christ, the last Adam, he's
our everlasting father. When you're born of him, of incorruptible
seed, you have a new man in you that can't be corrupted, and
you're a son, you're a child of God now, and he will always
be your father. Always. So God's got to strip
us and He strips us of our will. He makes us see that Christ holds
the key to this house. Look here in verse 22. And the
key, the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder. So he shall open and none shall
shut and he shall shut and none shall open. What does that mean?
Well, it means if you're going to have this message open to
you and you're going to have these scriptures open to you
and the storehouse of grace is going to be open to you and the
storehouse of wisdom and understanding is going to be poured into your
heart, you know who's going to come with the key and unlock
it and give it to you? Christ is. He has the key. He has the key. You remember
we saw last Thursday night where he said, on this rock, Peter,
your name's rock, but on this rock am I going to build my church,
and the gates of hell will not prevail against it, and I'll
give you the keys, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound,
and whatever's bound in heaven will be bound, and I'm probably
paraphrasing that terribly, but you get the point. But the one
who has the keys is not you and me. It's not Peter, and it's
not the other preachers at God's end. The one who has the key
is Christ. He opens. And when He opens this storehouse
of grace and mercy and understanding and wisdom, no man can shut it.
No man can shut it. You can't shut it yourself by
your sending it away. You can't do that. Because when
He opens it, it's open. But when He shuts it, no man
can open it. It's shut. You go through this
life rejecting Him, saying, I'll call you when I have a convenient
season. Christ has shut it. And when
He shuts it, no man can open it. This is His power. So we got to go to Him. Just
like they went to Joseph to open the storehouses so they could
eat, we have to go to Christ to open the storehouse. He's
the one that has the key. And God makes us behold that
Christ is the nail in a sure place, and His throne becomes
glorious to us. Look at verse 23. He makes us
see Christ as the nail in a sure place. He makes His throne glorious
to us. He says there in verse 23, I
will fasten Him as a nail in a sure place, and He shall be
for a glorious throne to His Father's house. What does he
mean by his father's house? He means to all God's elect children. To us who make up the father's
house, we see him sitting upon a glorious throne. Remember John
said, I looked and I saw one, he saw a lamb in the throne that
had been slain. That's Christ and that's a glorious
throne. That's a glorious throne. When
God sets Christ up in our hearts, Christ becomes all these things
to us. He just said right here about Eliakim. He becomes to
us God's servant. He said, you're my servant, Eliakim.
And when He makes you behold that Christ is God's servant,
He makes you see you're not saved by your serving. We're saved
by Christ's service, by Him serving God. He makes you see that He's
our robe of righteousness. And He's the faithfulness, the
one that's faithful to God by whom we're saved. He makes Him
become sovereign ruler over us. The government's on His shoulder.
He becomes our faithful everlasting Father. He becomes the key holder,
the one we go to that has the keys to the storehouse of grace. We look to him on his glorious
high throne to rule all things in our lives. This is what happens.
You just imagine whenever Shebna, and you know the people knew
Shebna was robbing them blind. You know we got some senators
that have been lifelong senators, and every one of us know that
they're probably just the biggest crooks there is. Well, you know
they knew Shebna was robbing them blind. But think about it
when he took Shebna away and he set up Eliakim and they saw
what a good treasurer and governor he was. Don't you know they rejoiced? There was some real change made
then. Now things are going to be done honestly. Things are
going to be done in honor and glory to God and they're not
going to be robbing and oppressing the people. That's what happens
when God puts down our old man and sets Christ up in our heart.
That's when there's a real change made in a man. Then and only
then. Then, here's the last thing,
that's when we hang all our hope on Christ because He's a nail
in a sure place. Look at verse 24. They shall
hang upon Him all the glory of His Father's house. The offspring
in the issue, all vessels of small quality from the vessels
of cups even to all the vessels of flagons. So you get the picture
here. You have this nailed and it's
in the wall, it's nailed in a sure place. Christ is seated at the
right hand of God. And that nail itself is sure.
It can't bend or be broken. And they take all the vessels,
small and great, from the smallest to the greatest, and they can
hang all those vessels on this sure nail in a sure place. That
was a picture, a metaphor he was using to describe this faithful
man Eliakim. And he's a picture of Christ.
He's our nail in a sure place. And he says here, they shall
hang upon him all the glory of his father's house. Who's the glory of his father's
house? That's his elect. He says we're
his glory. His glories manifest in how He
saved us from our sins and made us righteous as God is righteous
and holy as God is holy. So He's the glory. He's our Father
and we're His glory. And He says, and they're going
to hang upon Eliakim all the glory of His Father's house.
Who hangs them? God does. God hung all His elect,
all of our eternal well-being, He hung it all. on Christ the
Lord, His Son, every bit of it. The offspring in the issue, that
means all God's elect, first to last, they're all hung on
Christ. All vessels of small quality,
from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons,
the big vessels. All God's elect, small and great,
Jew and Gentile, bond and free, male and female, rich and poor,
all God's elect, He hung our eternal security on Christ and
Christ alone. He didn't put it on you, He didn't
put it on me, He didn't put it on the church, He didn't put
it on anybody else. He hung us all on Christ. What about all our former vain
confidence when He's done this work? What about that old man
and all our vain refuge we had? Look at verse 25. In that day,
saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that we thought to be
fastened in a sure place, it'll be removed, and it'll be cut
down, and it'll fall. And the burden that was upon
it shall be cut off, for the Lord has spoken it. And the Lord's
Word never returns to him void. When the Lord's spoken a thing,
it's done. And he says he's going to bring
his people. The picture here is he's going to bring his people.
You think those people in Jerusalem, do you think they looked to Shebna
for anything else after this? Not ever again. God rolled that
man out somewhere, out in the middle of the wilderness somewhere
and killed him. Just took him out of the way.
And they didn't look to Shebna for anything else again. They
look to Eliakim only. And that's what he's saying here.
When he's put down your old man of flesh, you're not going to
look to him anymore. You're going to look to Christ
only. Christ only. When he set Christ in your heart.
Now look at Hebrews 6. We'll end with this. All who
believe on Christ, they rest in it all on a nail in a sure
place. Look here. We have a sure hope. Hebrews 6 verse 19. He says, he's speaking here of,
let's read verse 18. By two immutable things in which
it's impossible for God to lie, we have a strong consolation
who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before
us. which hope we have as an anchor
of the soul, both sure and steadfast, which entereth into that within
the veil, right into God's presence, whether, here's our hope right
here, whether the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus
made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. I pray
God come now and do what he did right here. I pray come and put
down Shebna in you and set up Eliakim. Put down your old man
of flesh and set up Christ reigning in your heart so that you rest
all your eternal soul on Christ and Him alone. Amen.