So Lord my graciously help me
I would turn your prayerful attention to the second epistle of Paul
to the Corinthians and chapter 13 and verse 14. So that's 2
Corinthians 13 and the last verse which is verse 14. And here we have Paul writing
and closing his letter to the Corinthians, and we might say,
the Lord be with you. But this is how he says it. 2
Corinthians 13 verse 14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you
all. Amen. That's 2 Corinthians 13
verse 14. As the Lord helps this day, I
desire to bring before you this great doctrine of the Trinity. These three persons that are
each so intimately involved in our salvation. Those three persons
that are equal in glory, they're equal in the Godhead, and yet
they are distinct. And as the Lord helps me then,
and it's a doctrine which is right through the word of God,
it's more veiled in the Old Testament, becomes clearer in the New, but
it is right through the word of God. And it's so important
if we are to worship God, we are to worship a God that we
are to know him. And this is how he's revealed
himself in his word. As one God, and yet three distinct
persons. If we go right to the beginning
of the Word of God, Genesis chapter 1, it starts in this way. In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth. One God that created everything. There's a singularity in God. There's just one God. And yet
you see later on in that same chapter in Genesis 1 we read
in verse 26. And God said let us make man
in our image. Clearly there was a plurality
in God as well. Father Son and Holy Spirit let
us make man in our image. And so a man was to be made in
God's image. And so what is the image of God?
Well, he has chosen to reveal himself as Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit, a God of love. You see, if you think of love,
really love has to have one to love and an object to love. And from eternity past, God was
alone. There was one God. So how could
he really demonstrate love if there was not, as it were, more
than one person in the Godhead? But with our God, there was that
love between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit from
eternity past. And God has said, let us make
man in our image. We are to be those that know
what it is to love. and those that know this God
as our God. So we have, let us make man in
our image, after our likeness. See this is what God has said
and it's only said of human beings that they were made in the image
of God. Nothing else was in the creation, but humans were made
in the image of God. If you then turn to Deuteronomy,
Deuteronomy chapter 4, we have these words written by Moses. It says, verse 35 in Deuteronomy
4, unto thee it was showed that thou mightest know that the Lord,
he is God. There is none else beside him. So the idea of a multitude of
gods, which was true around the early of Israel, there was those
nations around them, they worshipped many gods. There was a god of
this region, and a god of the valley, and a god of the mountains,
and a god in this place, and a god in that place. But you
see, here we are introduced to a god that made everything, there
is only one god, and there is none beside him. And yet, that
one god has, has manifest himself in those three distinct persons. If we just move on to the New
Testament now in John's Gospel. John's Gospel starts in a very
similar way to Genesis 1-1. In the beginning was the word. That's another name for the Lord
Jesus Christ. The Son of God, the Word. And
it says, and the Word was with God. That means they were distinct.
The Word was one thing and God was another. We would say God
the Son and God the Father. And the Word was, was God. So in this first verse of John's Gospel
we're introduced to this idea, these great pillars really in
the Trinity, the two great pillars is an equality and a distinction. So there's equality in the Godhead. The Lord Jesus Christ and God
the Father and God the Holy Spirit, there's an equality. They all
have the nature of being God. And yet they have distinct roles.
They are separate persons in that sense. Three persons, one
God. So in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was
in the beginning with God. So we have that God was, that
there is an equality between the persons in the Godhead and
yet a distinction. In John's Gospel, later on in
John's Gospel, John 17, often referred to as the high priestly
prayer of the Lord Jesus, John 17 verse 3, we read this, and
this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true
God, you see there's a singularity there, thee, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. You see there's a distinction
and there's also equality. And that's a great truth. of
the Trinity. If I pop into the book of Acts,
we see clear there that the Holy Spirit is also spoken of as God as well. If
you look in Acts 5, This is the account where Ananias and Sapphira
had lied about the amount of money they'd sold their property
for and came and gave it to Peter and pretending that it was all
the money when it wasn't really. Acts 5 verse 3, and Peter said,
Ananias, why has Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy
Ghost? and to keep back part of the
price of the land. Whilst it remained, was it not
thine own? And after it was sold, was it
not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this
thing in thine heart, that thou hast not lied unto men, but unto
God?" So here we have a clear reference that the Holy Ghost
is also God. interesting just to look at the
historic nature of when the Trinity, as it were, became established
as a doctrine. It was actually in the year 325,
325 years after the birth of Christ, as it were, that this
doctrine became laid down as we would know it today. And even
then, they didn't really acknowledge the Holy Ghost quite as much
as the Father and the Son. And it was a bit later, a few
years later, that they actually included the Holy Ghost as the
third person of the Trinity in that doctrine. So these are things
that are clear in Scripture, but bringing them together, three
persons and yet one God, they're not easy for us to grasp. And
yet, as the Lord helps me, I want to show something of the distinct
nature of the different persons in the Godhead and see how this
actually shows us something more about God. To me, it certainly
has. in terms of broadening our understanding
when God says, let us make man in our image. What does that
mean? What is the image of God? Well,
he is a trinity. He is, there's a distinction
and there's equality. And that's so much true of human
beings, isn't there? There's an equality between male
and female and yet there's a distinction. The world hates it. The world
seeks to destroy it. But there's equality and distinction
and it goes right back up to the Godhead. God is like that. Let us make man in our image. And man, fallen man, and Satan
is seeking to destroy that image. And yet, you see, the gates of
hell shall not ultimately prevail against it. Well, let us look
first then at the role of the Father. We read in Ephesians
that glorious chapter of the Ephesians that speaks so much.
I tried to point it out before we read that so many different
persons of the Godhead that Paul is speaking of, they have distinct
roles, they're not all the same. But let us first look at Psalm
2. So I say that the Trinity is
not just in the New Testament. If we look at Psalm 2, we see
something of the supreme authority of the Father. But you might
say, but you just said that there was equality. There is equality
and yet there is authority and submission in the Godhead. And
you see that's also equally in marriage. There is to be that
equality and yet there is to be that authority and there is
to be that submission. Another thing that the world
hates. But this is all This is how God is, let us make man in
our image. That is what God said and that
is what God did. If you look at Psalm 2, it begins with the
heathen raging, the people imagining a vain thing, the kings of the
earth. set themselves. The rulers take
counsel against the Lord and against his anointed. They're
against the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us break their bands asunder
and cast away their cords from us. Verse 4, he that sitteth
in the heavens shall laugh. This is God the Father now. The
Lord shall have them in derision. See, the nations of the earth
are seeking to destroy God and to destroy his people and his
image and his laws. And yet God is sitting on no
precarious throne. May we see that in our lives.
The Lord shall have them in derision. He shall laugh at them. Then
shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore
displeasure. But what does the Father say?
Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion. This is God
the Father speaking, that he has set his King, the Lord Jesus
Christ is going to be set upon his holy hill of Zion. This is
going to be God's answer to all the rebellion and all the sin.
The Lord Jesus Christ, though they sought to destroy him, yet
he is set upon his throne. But then if you look in verse
7, this is more the words of God, the son speaking, I will
declare the decree, and then he repeats something that God
the Father has said to him. I will declare the decree, the
Lord hath said unto me, so this is verse 7 of Psalm 2, thou art
my son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me and I shall give
thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the
earth for thy possession. So here clearly we have set before
us as the father is that one that gives that authority to
his beloved son. So we see here that there is
an order in the Godhead. And we live in a world which
defies order, this sad, this critical theory. as opposed to traditional theory. The critical
theory is seeking to say that all authority is evil and needs
to be destroyed. All authority. But you see in
the very Godhead there is authority and there is submission. And
they say if there's authority and submission it's abused but
it isn't in the Godhead. There's perfect love in the Godhead,
between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and yet there
is order, and yet there is submission. And you see these things then,
I hadn't really seen their significance of how what God tells us to do
in our lives, he actually is that in the Godhead himself,
which he couldn't be if he was one God and one person in the
Godhead. If you had one person in the Godhead only, how could
he demonstrate submission? Submission to whom? But he does
demonstrate submission You see that the Lord Jesus says not
my will but thine be done the submission that there is in the
Godhead. Though the Lord Jesus was so
great yet he submitted to his father. Beautiful. And so we
are to be like him in our submission. And if you look in Matthew's
gospel chapter 28 at the end of Matthew Matthew's gospel it
tells us about that great commission. that God gave to his disciples. Matthew 28, if you look in verse
18, and Jesus came and spake unto them saying, all power is
given unto me in heaven and in earth. Who gave him that power?
Where did that power come from? When Jesus said all power is
given unto me, it was given to him by the Father. So we see
the supreme authority of the Father in the Godhead and yet
an equality. And it's something that this
world despises and this world says can't be. You can't have
order and submission and love. No, but you can, you have it
in the Godhead. And that's such a beautiful example of it. In
Ephesians that we read together, Ephesians chapter one, I'm talking now about the supreme
nature of the Father in the Godhead. Ephesians 1 and verse 20 it says,
which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and
set him at his own right hand. So when Jesus was risen from
the dead he set Jesus at the right hand of the Father. Well
the right hand of somebody is your right hand man but the most
glorious is the one that sits. Sits next to them as it were.
And so that is ultimately the father is the one that's ultimately
the supreme. We have that also in Philippians. that beautiful chapter where
it talks about Philippians 2 about the Lord Jesus making himself
of no reputation, though he had an equality with God, though
he was equal to God, he made himself of no reputation, he
emptied himself, became obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross. This is Ephesians 2, wherefore God also is highly
exhorted in giving him a name which is above every name. that
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in things in heaven
and things on earth, things under the earth, and that every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. What does it say after
that? To the glory of God, the Father. So the glory, you see, ultimately
is the supreme glory, is the Father. And so we see that great,
beautiful theme in the Word of God. So as we've named as a text
that closing blessing that Paul said, the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
be with you all. He's seeking to know that blessing
of the three persons of the Trinity, all involved in their different
work, but we're starting to trace out the work of the Father. And if we just look at the supreme
nature of the Father, I just want to point you to 1 Corinthians
and 15. Here we have a great word which
shows the supremacy of ultimately the Father. 1 Corinthians 15
and verses 27 and 28. I'll start reading from verse
26 actually. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
So this is 1 Corinthians 15 verse 27. For he hath put all things
under his feet. But when he saith all things
are put under him it is manifest that he is accepted which put
all things under him. So in other words everything
is put under the feet of Christ apart from one thing and that's
God the father. Verse 28, and when all things
shall be subdued unto him, unto Christ, then shall the Son also
himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that
God may be all and all in all. So we see here the supremacy
of the Father in the Godhead. And then but the supremacy and
then if we look in also go back to Ephesians where we read Ephesians
1 we see that he is the great designer. He is the great designer. He designed the plan of salvation. You see, we always think of the
son was being sent. God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son. He gave it. It was the father
that gave the son. He sent his son into the world. You see, this was a commission
that the father did to the son. And the son willingly was obedient
to that command. And so the great plan of salvation
is so precious. But if you look in Ephesians
1 verse 9, Ephesians 1 verse 9, having made known unto us
the mystery of his will, So this is the revelation of God's will
to us, God the Father's will, according to his good pleasure
which he hath purposed in himself, that in the dispensation of the
fullness of times he might gather together all in one, all things
in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth
and even in him. 11. In whom also we have obtained
an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him
who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. So all things, that great plan
of salvation, it seems clear from what we have recorded in
scripture, was the great mind, the architect of God the Father. He was the one that devised this
great plan of salvation. In love to the fallen sons of
Adam, he had this great plan of salvation where he would send
forth his beloved son. And these things are precious,
you see, because I don't know for yourself, but you can get
focused very much on the Lord Jesus Christ and that he is very,
as it were, keen on saving people, but the Father's not so keen.
But when you see it in the light of, correctly with scripture,
we see that God the Father is the instigator of the whole plan
of salvation. He designed this plan to satisfy
the justice of God and to bring guilty sinners back to God by
sending his only begotten Son into the world so that there
would be a way back to God. from the dark paths of sin. So
the great plan of salvation was in the mind of the Father. And
yet, it is a great wonder, isn't it, that this great plan of salvation
that was formed in the personhood of the Father is a great plan
that focuses on the glory of the Son. You see, it's very clear that
the sun is centre place. You go to Revelation, what are
they singing when they're around the throne? They're singing,
worthy is the lamb. So the father that was the great
architect of this great plan of salvation, has made his beloved
son to be center stage. Although ultimately, when everything's
put under him, it's going to be clear that it was ultimately
to the glory of God the Father, as 1 Corinthians 15 says. But here you see, there's something
beautiful here, I think. You see, it's right and godly
that we defer honor. And here we see that even in
the Godhead, God the Father designed that
his son and not himself should be center stage. Something very
precious there. We are to be made in the image
of God. But sadly you see through the
fall that image has become Mars. And therefore, Satan gets his
way. And we want to be center stage.
We want to live to our glory. We want to be selfish and self-centered. But we were made in the image
of God. And God, you see, delighted in
his beloved son and set his son to be center stage in the great
plan of redemption. That's something very, very precious.
If you look in Hebrews, Hebrews 1 speaks so gloriously of God
the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews 1 verse 1. hath in these last days spoken
unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things,
by whom also he made the worlds, being the brightness of his glory
and the express image of his person. You see, in the Ten Commandments,
we're told not to make any image of God, no graven images. But here, when the Lord Jesus
comes, he is the express image of God. He is the image of God,
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high, being made so much better than the angels,
as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. And unto which of the angels said
he at any time, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee? In verse 6 of Hebrews 1 it says,
and again, when he bringeth forth in the firstborn into the world,
he saith, and let all the angels of God worship him. See, so God
the Father in that great plan of salvation has designed that
his beloved son should be the centerpiece of worship. It's precious, isn't it? Isn't
that God-like? You see, he teaches us, you see,
to... In 1 Corinthians chapter 13,
we have spoken of that beautiful theme of charity or love. And we're told in verse 4 of
1 Corinthians 13, charity suffereth long and is kind. Charity envieth
not. There's no envying in the Godhead.
Charity envieth not itself, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
behaveth itself not unseemly, seeketh not her own. I never realized that really
God the Father, in the way he organized this great plan of
salvation with his beloved son, was beautifully showing that
in himself, not telling us to do something that he doesn't
do himself. But you see, this is the love
of God. Love seeketh not her own. And God the Father, in his
great plan of salvation, he desired that his son should be sent to
place. And of course, on earth, you
listen to the words of Jesus, he ever delighted to glorify
his father. And the Father ever delighted
to glorify the Son. A trinity of love, but an order
and a submission. And these things are precious. So the God the Father is that
great architect of the plan of salvation, but also he is the
great giver of gifts. The gifts, if you think in James
chapter one, we read, that every good and every perfect gift cometh
down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning. All those gifts come from the
Father, and we are to pray to the Father. Jesus, in his patterned
prayer, said, Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy
name. We are to come to the Father
through the Lord Jesus Christ, with the aid of the Holy Spirit.
Three persons of the Godhead all involved in our as it were,
entering into God's presence. And so, you see, but they're
distinct persons, they have different roles. We see that the Lord,
God the Father, didn't come to this earth to suffer, bleed and
die, did he? It was God the Son, a distinct
role. And yet they're working together,
you see. And you see, this is something
that our the satanic nature of seeking to destroy that which
God has made in marriage. There is to be a working together,
distinct roles, but working together for a single purpose. And this
is what the Godhead does. Let us make man in our image.
This is what God has said and this is the image that is seeking
to be defaced. in this world, that there's no
such thing as male and female, just a neutrality, just the same,
but in the Godhead, they're not the same, that there's an equality,
but they're not, that there's a distinction. And these things
are very precious. If you look in Romans chapter
8, Romans chapter 8, we read these words, in verse 32, he
that spared not his own son, this must be talking about God
the Father, yes, he that spared not his own son, but delivered
him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give
us all things? So we see here the giving nature
of the Father, who gives us all things through the Son, through
the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ, by the aid of the Holy
Spirit, applying these things to our consciences. So we see
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the distinct roles and
yet the common purpose that the Lord has appointed for that.
But if you look in John's Gospel, chapter 8, we see the nature
of our God, the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. John 8 and verse 28, then said
Jesus unto them, when ye have lifted, this is John 8 verse
28, then said Jesus unto them, when ye have lifted up the Son
of Man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing
of myself. This is God, the Son, speaking
here. He's saying that though he is
God, yet he does nothing of himself. the humility, that I do nothing of myself,
but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me."
You see, so many times in the Gospel of John, the Lord Jesus
speaks about the fact that he was sent. He didn't make up his
own mind when he was in glory and said, I think it would be
a good idea if I come to this earth. We never read that. He came willingly, but he was
sent. There was a commission. There
was an order. And there was a submission in
the sun to obey that order. And so we see there's, and people
will tell you, well, if there's a authority, all authority oppresses. That's what the critical theory
tells you. It's oppressive. Authority is oppressive. But
you see, here we have the authority of God the Father over the, and
the submission of God the Son. And that equally has perfect
love. Perfect love. Delighting. to do his father's will. So we
see something of the preciousness of these things. That I do nothing of myself,
but as my father hath taught me, I speak these things. And
he that sent me is with me. The father hath not left me alone,
for I do always those things that please him. So we see here
the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ. You see in Philippians it says,
let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. This mind, what mind? The mind
of humility. The mind of seeking to do his
father's will. The mind of seeking to do that
and that to be the great aim in our lives. Not to be, there's
a thinking today, you need to be independent thinkers. You
need to do your own thing. Well, the Lord Jesus Christ was
not an independent thinker in that sense. He delighted to do
his father's will. And we as Christians should not
be independent in the sense of seeking our own way and seeking
our own glory. But we should be seeking to do
his will. And so as We've mentioned for a text the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the love of
God. You see, we can think perhaps,
and I suppose in my mind I'd be more thinking about the love
of the Lord Jesus Christ being willing to come to this earth,
being willing to stand in my place, being willing to bear,
to drink that cup of the wrath of God. But here it's the love
of God. God the Father planned this.
God the Father commanded, sent his only begotten Son to do this
for us. You see, the love of God. Don't
overlook this love of God. But God has appointed that the
Lord Jesus Christ should be centre stage. And it's not a... He hasn't
got a problem with that. He's appointed it. And that's
also another beautiful aspect of the humility in the Godhead. How could there be humility in
a Godhead when there's one person? How could you show humility?
But you see there is this humbleness. The Father seeking the glory
of the Son. The Son seeking the glory of
the Father. The Holy Spirit seeking to glorify
the Son. And to speak of those things,
we want to speak of that later perhaps. So we have the three
persons all seeking the glory of another. Let us make man in
our image. That's the image that man was
made in. And you see, by the fall, you see we've fallen. That
image has become marred. We've become selfish, self-seeking,
self-promoting oneself. And it's so opposite to what
God is. God is that one who is that trinity
of love, that trinity of order, that trinity of authority and
submission and seeking the good of one another and all working
together in their distinct roles for one great purpose, that there
should be redemption. There should be a way back to
God for lost and ruined sinners who have fallen, who have smashed
that image that they were made in in the Garden of Eden. You
see, in the Garden of Eden we read that at the end of the first
day, God saw that it was very good he had made. Everything
that he had made, it was very good. And let us make man in
our image. and it does say in verse 27 and
male and female created he them and yet interestingly in chapter
2 of Genesis which is still before the fall we read that something was not good before the fall. Genesis 2 verse 18 and the Lord
God said it is not good. This is before the fall. It is
not good that man should be alone. I will make him and help meet
for him. You see, so God is that trinity
of persons that has that relationship one toward the other and that
love one toward the other. And that is the image that he
sought human beings to have. That image of his creator, that
image of love, that image of working together, a helpmate
for them, and yet a distinction. The three persons in the Godhead
are not identical. They're identical in equality,
in power, but they have different roles. And so it is what God
has created, male and female. They are, in one sense there's
an equality, and in another sense there's that diversity in there
and differences. And you see that so much even if we look at 1 Corinthians 11. 1 Corinthians 11, this is spelled
out, how Paul speaks of the order in the Godhead and then tells
us how that should affect the order in the church. 1 Corinthians 11, be followers
of me even as I also am of Christ. Now I praise you brethren that
you remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I
deliver them unto you. But I would have you know that
the head of every man is Christ, there's an order there. And the
head of the woman is the man, an order and a submission. And
the head of Christ is God, an order and a submission. You see,
there's an order, and then it goes on to talk about head coverings
in worship, an order and a submission. And so these things go right
back up to, you might say, why is it necessary? There's an order
and there's an authority and there's a submission in the very
Godhead. And these things, God says, let us make man in our
image. That image of that order and
that submission is to be stamped upon the human race in perfect
love. That was the pre-fall. There was that to be that union
and love. And that is what God is seeking to restore. in redemption,
bring us back to God, bring us back to that love so that we
can, all things work together for them that fear God. In Romans
8 it says that we may be conformed to the image of his son, that
we may be Christ-like, that we may be God-like and therefore
know what it is to know these attributes in our lives. And so as we've read together,
this lovely greeting or farewell that the Apostle says, the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion
of the Holy Ghost. The only other place in the Bible
where those three are brought together in just the same way
as in one verse is in Matthew 28. in that great commission,
where those three are brought together. And we repeat that
often, or always, in a baptismal service. Matthew 28 verse 19. Go ye therefore and teach your
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost. Those Trinity all involved in
the salvation of his people. The Father in sending his only
begotten Son in love to a fallen race has made it so that his
just anger against sin can be satisfied in the death of another. And that death of another is
his only begotten Son who he loved from all eternity. It is a tremendous plan of salvation.
It is such a great love where God loved his people and sent
his only begotten son, but then he's given him a name which is
above every name, the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow. God has appointed that his son
should be the centerpiece of glory, that the lamb is all the
glory in Emmanuel's land, and yet who planned it? the Father
who the Lamb sits upon the right hand of. Ultimately the glory
will go back to God. Go ye therefore and teach all
nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost. It's interesting that these,
the doctrine as we know it of the Trinity, it was in the fourth
century before it was really fleshed out as we would know
it today. It's in the Bible, of course, but to actually bring
it together as a doctrine, it's clear that the apostles spoke
of it and right through the Word of God, as we've tried to give
you a little inclination this morning. The grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the
Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen. May you, as you
think of that well-known verse, that you might think of the work,
as we particularly focused on the work of God the Father in
this great plan of salvation, and how each one are involved,
and each one show that love, one to the other, that distinctness,
and yet that unity of purpose. It's been described like singing.
You can have everybody singing the melody. But you can have
sometimes, as we often sing, you have singing in parts. They're
singing some high, some low, but when they're singing nicely,
all amounts to one glorious song. And so, different parts. The
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit had different parts. And
God designed it so. for his glory, and to demonstrate
his love, and to say that we, he made us in that very image. What an image to be made in.
And though it was marred by the fall, yet it is to be restored,
a glorious church, having no spot nor wrinkle, to be like
him. Amen.