So Lord, may you graciously help
me, I turn your prayerful attention to the chapter that we read in
Luke's Gospel, chapter 24. And reading verse 32. And they
said one to another, this is Cleopas and his companion, did
not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the
way and while he opened to us the Scriptures. That's Luke 24
and verse 32. Although I do want to go through
this precious account that we have before us and how much instruction
it is for us today. So that's Luke 24 verse 32. So with this precious account
we have, which took place on the night, the evening that the
Lord Jesus had risen from the dead, we have these two disciples
really, although they weren't of the 12, but they were his
disciples, Cleopas and his companion, and they were walking away from
Jerusalem. They'd witnessed some very difficult
events recently in Jerusalem with the taking of the Lord Jesus,
Him being judged by the high priests and then by the Romans,
and sentenced to death, the crucifixion and all that went with that.
and then laid in the tomb. These things were very difficult
for them. and they had not at that point
laid hold on the realisation that this is exactly what the
Messiah was to do. And yet they had not at that
time grasped that. And so we have here the beautiful
gentleness of the Lord Jesus Christ as he comes to be with
them and to commune with them. So if we look in verse 13, and
behold, two of them went that same day to a village called
Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about three score furlongs. So
six to seven miles, something like that, between six and seven
miles from Jerusalem to Emmaus. So really almost two hours of
walking. It would take downhill to go
from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus. And so they had two
hours, really, if you like, to talk together. But the Lord Jesus
joined with them. And they were talking together
and they were concerned, you see. and they talked together of all
these things that had happened and it came to pass that while
they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near and went
with them and what a mercy it is when we are in our difficulties
that the Lord is able to come and join us and to be with us
although of course for these disciples there was the physical
presence of the Lord Jesus and we are not promised that But
in a sense, you see, because of what happened, we're told
specifically in verse 16, but their eyes were holden that they
should not know him. And this is a very important
point and clearly the Lord intended this. They were never rebuked
for not knowing who he was. They were gently rebuked for
not realizing and not laying hold of those truths that he
had spoken of before he died. But they were never approved
for not seeing Jesus, not recognizing who he was. So there was a purposeful
withholding so that they didn't recognize who he was. They didn't
recognize that this was the one that had just been crucified
and risen from the dead. And it's actually really important
to this account that that was the case. You see, if Jesus had
joined with them and they'd immediately recognized who he was, then all
that he spoke about from the Old Testament would have would
have seemed not so important because they would have just
suddenly rejoiced that he was alive. But you see, in their
eyes being holden, it meant that this stranger, as they saw him
to be, was able to really preach to them as really preachers today
can preach of Christ yes of course he was the son of God and in
that sense of course he was the greatest preacher that ever lived
but in another sense he was somebody that was not speaking of himself
as far as they were concerned he was speaking of Christ but
not of himself he was like a preacher would today we preach not ourselves
but Christ Jesus the Lord and this is very important because
we are not promised you see that in our journey that the Lord
physically will come and walk with us not physically in physical
presence and yet you see we are encouraged that by faith that
we walk with him it is to be by faith and by laying hold of
the scriptures and you see we today with the word of God before
us can do that and have that privilege today, though we do
not have the physical presence with the Lord Jesus. So in a
sense, there is a similarity between us and those two on the
road to Emmaus, because they did not recognize the presence
of the Lord Jesus purposely. He hid it from them. And so as
they walk, In verse 17 we're told, and he
said unto them, what manner of communications are these, that
ye have one to another as ye walk and are sad? So he recognized
that they were sad. He recognized that they had a
great heavy load upon them. And they were talking about it.
And they were concerned about it. They didn't just say, well,
we don't understand this, now we'll think of something else.
But no, it was so heavy upon them. And one of them whose name was
Cleobaz answered and said, aren't there only a stranger in Jerusalem
has not known those things which are come to pass in these days?
So they ask him, don't you know what's happened? To which he
replies, what things? The Lord Jesus is so, that beautiful,
that wonderful listener, isn't he? He draws his people out and
as we think about it, as we are commanded to come and to cast
their cares upon him, to pray to him and to, as it were, set
out all our troubles and difficulties to him, bring it to the Lord
in prayer. He was encouraging these disciples,
you see, to unbosom all their troubles and to tell him all
their concerns. And we are encouraged today to
do just the same, to pray, and to tell of the difficulties,
to tell of the impossibilities, to tell of the things that we're
struggling with, to tell of the things that we cannot join together. What things? What things? How he is that one that draws
his people out, encourages them, you see, to come and speak to
him. And so today, as we come with
our difficulties, and I don't know what particular path you're
in, in your experience today, but as we have things that we
cannot understand, things that are too great for us, to come
and to be able to lay them at his feet. And he said what things? And
so they give him a quick summary of what's happened. And they
said unto him concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet,
mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how
the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned
to death and have crucified him. So they give him a very short
summary of what's just happened in the last few days in Jerusalem. Then in verse 21 we come to the
crux of the depths of their sadness. But we trusted that it had been
he which should have redeemed Israel. So here they come to
the real kernel of the trouble. This one who had had this done
to him by the chief priests and all those things, This was the
very one that they had put their trust in to be their saviour. We trust that he should have
redeemed Israel. So this was their greatest trouble. The one that had died, they put their trust in him.
In a sense, they put their trust rightly in him. But as far as
they were concerned, the fact that he had been taken and been
scourged and been crucified and laid in the tomb, as far as they
were concerned, that meant that now there was a huge question
mark over whether he really was the Messiah. But we trusted that
it had been he which should have redeemed Israel. And beside all
this, today is the third day. So they acknowledged that there
had been reports of the resurrection. Yea, and certain women also of
our company made us astonished which were early at the sepulchre.
And when they found not his body, they came saying that they had
seen a vision of angels which said that he was alive. And certain
of them which were with us went to the sepulchre and found it
even so as the women had said, but him They saw not. So they tell that there had been
these reports of the resurrection and yet they couldn't lay hold
on them. They seemed too, too amazing. They couldn't grasp them. Then
you see Jesus starts speaking to them, this stranger, this
stranger that didn't seem to know exactly what had happened
in Jerusalem. He asked, what things? Now he's going to expound to
them the depths of what was happening in Jerusalem and how the whole
Old Testament was pointing to that very event. And so he speaks, then said he
unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that
the prophets have spoken. Isn't it Sometimes when something
happens in our pathway and we think because it's happened like
that, then everything else has been thrown into disarray. But
here you see he was able to point them back and to show that what
had happened, although to their minds it was so out of place,
so opposite to what they expected, it was exactly what the Old Testament
had said. They hadn't grasped it before.
But this stranger, as they thought he was, came and opened the scriptures
to them. And this is really important,
because we don't, we're not promised the physical presence of Christ
today. But when the Lord's servants
open the scriptures, then you see Christ is to be revealed
in those scriptures. And so, though they did physically
have Jesus with them, they didn't realise they had him with them.
And that's really important. Otherwise, really, these points
from the Old Testament would have not had anywhere near the
weight. But here, you see, Jesus gives
honour to the Old Testament. It gives honour to those prophets
and builds a case from the Old Testament scriptures that the
Messiah was to be a suffering Messiah. and was to lay down his life. What all the Old Testament sacrifices
were pointing towards was one that would lay down his life,
that he might take it again. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
against the man that is my fellow. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep
shall be scattered in Zechariah. So many texts in the Old Testament
spoke so specifically about what Jesus would do and how the Messiah
would do this. And so in verse 26 we have this,
ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into
his glory. Ought not Christ. This word ought is a necessity. This is absolutely necessary
that the Messiah should do this. And why was it so necessary?
Because we're sinners. and we needed one to stand in
our place, you see the disciples didn't realise it They didn't
always realise that, and of course, we are so often slow learners.
Peter, you see, in Matthew 16, when Jesus said to the disciples,
whom do ye say that I am? In Matthew 16, Peter answered
and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. He
gave a very good answer in Matthew 16, verse 16. But Peter didn't know what the
Christ, the Son of God would do. Because only a few verses
later Jesus says to them in verse 21 of Matthew 16, from that time
forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must
go unto Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders and
chief priests and scribes and be gilled and raised again the
third day. He told them all these things.
Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it
far from thee, Lord, this shall not be unto thee. So Peter knew
that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God, but he
didn't know what Christ came to do. He didn't realise that
he needed a saviour that would lay down his own personal life
for Peter and for his church. And so you see the disciples
and we each need to come to realise the exceeding sinfulness of sin. That there was no other way.
Jesus said in that garden of Gethsemane, if it be possible
let this cup pass from me. And by the answer he received
in terms of the silence, it was clear that it was not possible.
There was no other way for the church to be set free. then for
the Messiah should die and stand in their place and that's what
all the Old Testament was pointing to and beginning at Moses and
all the prophets he expounded unto them in all the scriptures
concerning himself oh what a rich a rich sermon this must have
been I'm sure many of us would have
thought, if only we could read that sermon. Wouldn't it have
been lovely if it was recorded? So that we could read just what
Jesus said. And as I say, it was probably
something like a two hour walk from Jerusalem to Emmaus. What are the topics that he spoke
of? What places in the Old Testament did he bring out Christ from? Well, clearly, if it was recorded,
we would love to read it. But it is not recorded. And it's
often been said that what is not recorded in the Bible is
also very significant as what is. You see, if we had recorded,
maybe we could think of perhaps what said in the garden of eden the
seed of the woman shall crush the serpent's head we'd have
perhaps the exodus we'd have the paschal lamb we'd have isaiah
53 perhaps showing the suffering servant we'd have zachariah that
i mentioned smite the shepherd we'd have these we don't know
what what he spoke from but he could well have spoken from those
texts couldn't he and then we would have this sermon that says
there's these let's say 5, 10, 15, 20 places in the Old Testament
that speak of Christ but you see what we're told here
is and beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded
unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself
Not just in 20 places or 30 places, but in all the scriptures. If
it had been a natural sermon, speaking at a normal rate, he
could not have mentioned everything in the Old Testament in that
two hours, could he? Unless it was supernatural. He
would have mentioned certain things. And no sermon can mention
everything in the Bible in one sermon, can it? But, you see,
we're told that it's in all the scriptures and i've looked at
a word in in proverbs in proverbs 25 we read this proverbs 25 verse
2 it says it is the glory of god to conceal a thing but the
honor of kings to search out a matter That's Proverbs 25 verse
2. It is the glory of God to conceal
a thing, but the honor of kings to search out a matter. And so
God has put hidden treasure in his word. This hidden treasure,
not hidden from us, but hidden for us. for us to search, for
his servants to search out, for those that preach the gospel
to be able to search out those places in all the scriptures
that speak of Christ. And so there is so much treasure
in the word of God and as I say, the fact that we do not have
an account of that sermon, I do believe that God is saying,
that you're to search it out and to find out those hidden
treasures that I've hid for you for us in the scriptures. Ought
not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his
glory? You see, their great problem
was that something had gone wrong. and so often in our lives we
have something come into our lives and we can only see that
it's just gone wrong everything's gone differently than we expected
it's all gone in the wrong direction But you see, as Christ spoke
from the Old Testament, he was able to lead them on gently,
to show them that the Messiah was to be a suffering Messiah.
The Messiah was to lay down his life. The Messiah was to be a
humble Messiah. The Messiah was then to rise
again victorious over sin, death, hell and the grave. This is what
the Messiah would do. And then, of course, they had
this one whom we trusted should have redeemed Israel and they
realised that therefore the Lord Jesus and all that had happened
to him perfectly fitted with everything that the Old Testament
told them. And you see that fed their faith.
That was music to their heart. And so we have, as we've said
for a text, They said one to another, did not our heart burn
within us? While he talked with us by the
way, while he opened to us the scriptures, it was not because
they recognised that he was the Christ. No, that was not the
reason their heart burnt within them. They didn't say when they
got back, now our heart burns within us. No, did not our heart
burn within us? while he opened unto us the scriptures
and while he was with us in the way and talked with us and so
we see here an encouragement to preachers today that in preaching
the word from the Old Testament and from the whole of the word
of God there is it is to be a blessing to God's people and to stir up
their hearts that they may lay hold on Christ And that's so
important, isn't it? To lay hold on Christ. That these
things are not just facts. You see, there's much history,
isn't there, in the Old Testament? Of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph. All those, the patriarchs and
all those accounts that are given, but they're not just history,
they are about Christ. They show us something at the
coming of the Just One. And so, you see, in preaching
those things, we can, by God's grace and by His Holy Spirit,
we can warm the hearts of His people as they lay hold on the
truth of the scripture. And beginning at Moses and all
the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the
things concerning himself and now you see they're going to
he's going to give them a test and they drew nigh unto the village
whither they went and he made as though he would have gone
further why did he do that? he was testing them you see he
was testing the disciples Cleopas and his companion is What do
you mean to me? What do I mean to you? This stranger,
are you neutral about whether I'm with you or not with you? What do you think of me as a
stranger, this stranger that has been used to preach Christ?
Well, they made it very clear that they were not neutral to
this stranger, to this one that they had said, aren't thou only
a stranger in Jerusalem? Ah, they came to love that stranger
for the gospel's sake. They came to love that stranger.
They didn't know who he was. They never say, how did you know
all these things? They must have been amazed, mustn't
they, as he weaved together all the Old Testament scriptures,
pointing to the beauties of Christ, the suitability of all that had
taken place. But you see, he gives them a
test. He made as if he would have gone further. And how the
Lord, you see, he draws people out. And I thought of that of
Moses. Moses, you see, Moses was told to take the children
of Israel into the promised land, wasn't he? And then they had
that sadness with the golden calf and all that took place
then. And God comes back to Moses and
said, I will send an angel before thee. And Moses in Exodus 33
comes to God in prayer and says, I don't want to go with an angel. If thy presence go not with me,
carry us not up hence. You see, Moses would not go forward
into the promised land just with an angel. He wanted the presence
of his God. and so here you see and God said
that he would not go up with them but you see Moses in prayer
gained as it were gained that agreement from God that he would
go with Israel and how God you see is to be pleaded with and
he is able to be merciful and gracious. So he appears to be
doing one thing, but it's the trial of your faith which is
much more precious than gold that perishes. These two disciples,
they were tried. Would they be neutral? Would
they say, well, yes, if you want to go on and walk further, that's
fine by us, but thank you for your company while you've been
with us. No, they... He made as if he would have gone
further, but they constrained him. They were concerned, like Jacob
saying, I will not let thee go except thou bless me. But they
constrained him, saying, Abide with us, for it is toward evening,
and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with
them. He made as if he was going to
go further, but it drew out of the disciples. It showed them
what their true desires were and that they wanted his presence
and that the preaching of the gospel to them had made them
love that stranger. He left that stranger because
he spoke of Christ. We preach not ourselves, but
Christ Jesus, the Lord. And this stranger, as far as
they were concerned, was not preaching himself. But Christ
Jesus, the Lord, of course, uniquely, he was preaching about himself
because he was the Lord. But today, as we preach Christ,
as those that preach the gospel, they are preaching Christ. But
they constrained him, saying, Abide with us, for it is toward
evening, the day is fast spent. And he went in to tarry with
them. And it came to pass that he sat at meat with them. He
took bread, and blessed it, and break, and gave to them. And
their eyes were opened." So God took away that that impediment
that they had in their eyesight earlier on, that their eyes were
holden, that they should not know him. He enabled them to
see who he was, and then suddenly they realised that actually the
stranger was the Lord Jesus himself. The whole time he'd been speaking
of himself, they didn't realise it. and that had given that authenticity
and credibility to the Old Testament. And it had meant that they had
worshipped, their heart had burnt within them, not because they
knew that they had the Risen Lord with them, but because they
knew that Christ was their Saviour. That's why their heart burnt
within them. that the one we trusted, that
it should have been he that should have redeemed Israel, they realised
from the Old Testament that actually their thoughts of a Messiah were
wrong. And the true thoughts of a Messiah
were exactly what he had done. And you see, we do not always
see it like that, do we? You see, if you look in Isaiah,
52 the end of isaiah 53 which which
comes just before isaiah 53 which talks about the suffering servant
but if you look in isaiah 52 and verse 13 you have probably
what the disciples had their view of the messiah was isaiah
52 verse 13 behold my servant shall deal prudently that he
should be exalted and extolled and be very high. I'm sure the
disciples would say, yes, that's the Messiah we want, that's who
we had in mind. But look at the next verse. Verse
14, as many were astonished at thee, his visage was so marred,
more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men. But
you see, so verse 14 seems to be so opposite to verse 13. But
you see both 13 and 14 are both gloriously true. He was. He was. Behold my servant that
shall deal prudently. He shall be exalted and extolled
and be very high. That was ultimately true of Christ. Paul picks her up in Philippians
2. Wherefore God hath highly exalted
him and given him a name which is above every name, that at
the name of Jesus every knee should bow and every tongue should
confess. He has got an exalted name. but
before the crown is the cross. He was going to be despised,
his visage was going to be marred more than any man and in their
thoughts this meant that he couldn't be the Messiah. And yet you see
in the preaching of the gospel from the Old Testament, Jesus
was able to speak of himself in that way that They were able
to say, and they said one to another, did not our heart burn
within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened
to us the scriptures. So this is an encouragement for
preachers today, isn't it? As they preach the word. that
this can bond the people to the preacher because they are speaking
of one he is speaking of one that they love and the one that
they have put their trust in and these disciples have put
their trust in Jesus and yet they feared that they had been
mistaken because of the events they considered that it all come
to nothing and of course today yes this was in the event of
their salvation but In the times of God's people's experiences,
they sometimes think that this is gonna happen or that's gonna
happen, and then suddenly they find that it's very different
than they thought. And they need to come back and
realize, does that mean that their whole faith is wrong? Does
that mean that their whole trust is wrong? Does that mean that
everything is wrong? Does that mean they're deceived
completely? Well, when the word of God comes with power, you
see, and confirms the truth that they've laid hold on, that it
doesn't mean that everything's gone. Yes, they were wrong in
a certain matter. Perhaps their view of what they
thought was going to happen needed to be corrected. But, you see,
like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth
them that fear him. He knoweth our frame, he remembereth
that we are dust. And so this was an encouragement
to these dear disciples. And they said one to another,
did not our heart burn within us? You see, they had been, he
said, oh fools and slow of heart. But after he spoke to them from
the scriptures, from Moses and the prophets and the Psalms,
they said, did not our heart burn within us? Oh, that there
was that, there was a response. They weren't neutral, were they?
They weren't saying, well, you come if you want to stay the
night with us, but if not, you go your own way, we're easy. No, they said, but they constrained
him. And you see, when we have been
blessed in our souls, there's an affection, there's a love.
that goes to other of God's people. They recognised, they didn't
know who this man was, but they recognised he was a godly man.
They recognised he was one that loved the saviour. One that had
an interest, as it were, in the things of God. And they loved
him. As he preached, they loved him.
did not our heart burn within us while he taught with us by
the way while he opened to us the scriptures and yet this man
was a total stranger to them as far as they were concerned
and he didn't seem to know much about what was going on in Jerusalem
and yet of course as he expounded the scriptures he must have made
it abundantly obvious that he knew deeply what was going on
in Jerusalem In a way, we don't know whether he drew from the
Psalms, because Psalm 22, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? Psalm 69, it goes into the very
thoughts of the Lord Jesus on the cross, and all that he suffered,
we don't know just which ones he used, or whether he used all
of them, I don't know. But you see, he demonstrated,
of course, how great he was. And of course, in the preaching
of the gospel, we come to worship one that is mighty, one that
is able, one that is able to do far more exceeding abundantly
above all that we can ask or think. But then, you see, they
had said to him, it is toward evening and the day is far spent.
So in their minds, it was too late to go anywhere that night. It was the end of the day. But
of course, when Jesus breaks bread with them and they recognize
who he was, and realize that they'd actually been this stranger
that had spoken of Christ was actually their Lord and Master,
they were just so rejoicing, they went straight back, those
two hours, uphill, all the way to Jerusalem, to tell the others,
to tell the other disciples, And they rose up the same hour
and returned to Jerusalem, even though the day is far spent,
and it is toward evening, and found the eleven gathered together,
and them that were with them, saying, The Lord is risen indeed,
and hath appeared to Simon. And they told what things were
done in the way, how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
They spoke of the fact that they had laid hold of the resurrection
you see that's the thing the resurrection physically took
place at the beginning of the day but really in the hearts
of these two disciples cleobaz and his companion it really took
place at the end of the day it was at the end of the day they
laid hold of it And if you take that over the course of time,
when does the resurrection take place, as it were, in each of
the hearts of God's people? It's when he reveals himself
to them. But then they hold upon the hope set before them in the
gospel. Then there's a redemption accomplished
at Calvary and with him rising from the tomb. But when it's
applied to God's people, then they rejoice, isn't it? It's
when it's made precious to them personally. So this was so precious
to the disciples. And he said unto them, peace
be unto you. It was as if Jesus was given
a summary of everything that had happened. And it was a violent
scenes that they'd witnessed, violent scenes. of the scourging,
of the crucifixion, of the crown of thorns, of the mockery, of
all the wickedness that was going on. Would you describe this as
peace? It seemed the opposite of peace. Jesus is saying, peace be unto
you. This whole event, all that have
taken place, it's for your peace. It's to bring peace, because
I've dealt with your sin. I've dealt with all your uncleannesses. I've dealt with all the sin that
you should have had that done to you. You should have been
stood in that place. You should have entered into
those hours of darkness, that hell that the Lord, as it were,
descended into, I believe, in those hours of darkness between midday and three o'clock those
hours of darkness where he experienced what his church his whole church
should experience through a never-ending eternity in hell if they were
sent there he experienced that all that's why it's said behold
and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow you might
say but there are other people that have been crucified there
are there were there have been others but there is a uniqueness
about Christ's suffering, because it was not just crucifixion,
it was the sword of divine justice entered into him, and he endured
what his people should have, he endured the wrath of God that
was due for his people's sins, that would sink them into eternal
hell forever, all spent on Christ in those few hours at the cross.
And so this is a sorrow like no other sorrow. And he stood
in their places. And that's why he could stand
up and say, peace be unto you. There's peace because of what's
happened. Yes, as far as you're concerned,
you would have thought it was much more peaceful if I'd have
never died. But actually then the wrath of
God would have been remaining upon you. And then you would
have been still in your sins. but peace be unto you. And then he says later on, then
opened he their understanding. You see in this chapter we have
things being closed and things being opened. That beautiful
verse 45, then opened he their understanding that they might
understand the scriptures. And said unto them, thus it is
written and thus it behoved Christ. It was absolutely necessary Thus
it behoved Christ. You see, if you'd had a Messiah
that didn't suffer, he would not be the Messiah. He would
be a deceiver. Thus it is written and thus it
behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third
day. And that repentance and remission
of sins should be preached in his name among all nations beginning
at Jerusalem. This is the basis of reconciliation. This is the gospel. You see Peter
recognised this early on. when he was fishing in his boat
and he'd been all night and caught nothing and Jesus had been preaching
from his boat and he told him to launch out into the deep and
then they got that great catch of fish and Peter suddenly recognised
that this was not just another person, this was the son of God
in his boat. And he said, depart from me for
I am a sinful man. But Jesus didn't say, that Peter
could only see that that was the way forward. But Jesus said,
I will make you fishers of men. He didn't say you've got to depart. But the only reason that he didn't
need to depart was because Jesus was going to deal with his sin.
And this is how he could say peace be unto you. It's all linked. Peter, that that's the only reason
why you as a sinful man can have fellowship with God. is because
I've suffered all these things. Did not our heart burn within
us while he talked with us by the way, while he opened to us
the scriptures? May there be many times in the
house of God, as your pastor and others open the scriptures,
that your heart will burn within you. As you respond to these
glorious truths and realise your personal interest in them, by
God's grace and you worship that God should have brought about
such a plan of redemption which will be the glory of heaven to
a never-ending eternity. Worthy is the Lamb. It's going
to be the song of the redeemed throughout a never-ending eternity.
And as our heart burns within us that we may give our personal
praise and worship to this one who is worthy. worthy is the
Lamb. Amen.