Let us turn then to God's Word.
Our text is found in that 36th chapter in Job. Job chapter 36 and the 22nd verse. Behold God exalted by His power,
who teacheth like Him. Observe the opening words in
the verse. Behold, you know the significance
of such a word. We are directed to consider,
to fix the eye and to ponder just what is being said in this
part of Holy Scripture. Behold, says Elihu, God exalteth
by his power, who teacheth like him. And I want us in particular
to behold the question that we have in the last four words of
the verse. Behold, do teachers like him? The observation has been made
that questions are not the least instructive part of this wonderful
book of Job. In fact, We know that there are
questions, striking questions to be found in every part of
Holy Scripture. But here in Job, in particular,
because the words that we have in chapter 11, Canst thou by
searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty? unto perfection. A whole series
of questions are asked by Zophar in that portion from verse 7
to verse 9, and questions that very much remind us of the greatness
of God. We might say that there are certain
questions that are asked that are intended to impress upon
us something of the greatness and the glory that belongs unto
God. And I suppose in many respects
the most remarkable of questions concerning God are those that
we find at the end of Micah chapter 7. We made reference to those
words only this morning of course, who is a pardoning God like thee,
or who has grace so rich and free, says Samuel Davis in the
hymn that is really based upon those words at the end of Micah.
Micah 7 verse 18, Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth
iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant
of his heritage. how great God is, how glorious
God is. And the questions, I say, have
that tendency to convey to us something of the glories that
belong unto the Almighty. But then there are other questions
asked, and these questions have quite the opposite effect. We might say that they are down-bringing
questions, And such, of course, is that that Job himself asked
in the previous chapter, in chapter 7 and verse 73, and they are
words that are very similar, of course, to what we find in
the Psalms. In Psalm 8 and then again in
Psalm 144, what is man? Job asks the same question here
in chapter 7 and verse 17. What is man? That thou shouldest
magnify him and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him. Reminds us really of the insignificance
of man. The question is intended to have
that impression upon us, to make us to understand something of
the weakness and the insignificance of man. What is man? When we compare him with the
Great and the Almighty God there are various questions then that
are asked and the questions are very striking questions. Satan
comes in the very first chapter of the book with a question and
he is so proud as to put that question to God. Does Job fear
God for naught, he asks? Job himself asks many questions. One of those that is very striking,
of course, concerns a man standing before God. How should a man
be just with God, asks Job. And then he asked that God might
yet make provision for him. He asked that God would yet give
him one to be his shelter and to stand before God on his behalf. Lay down now, put me in a shelter
with thee. Who is heard? that will strike
hands with me?" asks Job. There are so many questions,
I say, that we could turn to and turn to, I trust, with some
profit here in the book of Job. But this question that we have
in this 32nd chapter tonight is what I want, with the Lord's
help, to direct your attention to. Who teaches life here? asks Elijah, and he's referring
to God, who teacheth like him. Remember how in the first part
of Job, after we'd introduced to Job and told a little of the
history of the man, there are those who are referred to as
his friends that appear on the scene in chapter 2 at verse 11. These three men come to him.
Elipas, Bildad and Zophar. And after that introduce we have
those cycles of speeches. These men speak, Job answers
them. There are a whole cycle of speeches. One speaks, Job answers, another
speaks, Job answers that one and so on. But then at chapter
32 another character appears Elihu and Elihu makes
a very long speech from chapter 32 right through to chapter 37
and so what we have here as our text are words that were spoken
by this man Elihu now the name Elihu the meaning of the name
is interesting because it literally means my God Himself. My God Himself. And some would suggest that Elihu
is in fact an appearance of God. Theophany, as it's called, to
use a technical term, it's an appearance of God. Is it an appearance
of the Lord Jesus Christ? We have these appearances in
the Old Testament. He comes, does he not, as the
angel of the Lord. He came to Abraham. And last
week we said he came to Gideon, he came to Manoah and his wife,
the parents of Samson. Are we to understand then that
this Elihu is also an appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ? What
does he say as he appears in chapter 33? And verse 6 he says, Behold I
am according to thy wish in God's stead. I also am formed out of the clays. It is a reference to the fact
that Christ would become incarnate, God manifest in the flesh, bone
of our bones and flesh of our flesh. speaks again here in this 36th
chapter at the beginning remember. Verse 2. Suffer me a little he
says and I will show thee that I have yet to speak on God's
behalf. I will fetch my knowledge from
afar. Whoever Elihu is He is quite
a remarkable person, even if we don't necessarily agree that
this is an appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is certainly
speaking on behalf of God. This is part, of course, of the
inspired scriptures. And here he asks this remarkable
question concerning the teaching of God. Who teacheth like him? And I want then, for a little
while tonight, just to consider something of this teaching of
God. What does God teach? Well, two things in principle.
He teaches the knowledge of self, the knowledge of sinful self,
and then He teaches the knowledge of the Saviour. In many ways,
that is the whole point, the whole purpose of the scripture,
is it not? There is that knowledge of sinful
self. There is in the Bible a two-fold
revelation. That's what Calvin says in the
opening words of his great book, The Institute of the Christian
Religion. The very first sentence he makes
a point concerning the scriptures that in them we have this two-fold
revelation. have a revealing of God but we
also have a revealing of man. Now clearly the Bible is a revelation
of God. Remember when God brings the
children of Israel out of Egypt and he brings them into the wilderness
of Sinai and they are taken to the mountains of Horeb And there
on the mount Sinai, he enters into a covenant with them. We
have the words of that covenant, the Ten Commandments, recorded
of course. in Exodus chapter 20 in the first
place and then repeated later in Deuteronomy chapter 5 when
they're 40 years later on the boundaries of the promised land
and Moses there in Deuteronomy 5 is recounting something of
their experience. But in Exodus chapter 20 when
they're first brought to the mount after all the preparations
that we read of in chapter 19 Chapter 20 opens and God spake
all these words saying, I am the Lord by God, which hath brought
thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. It's a sort of preamble. And
then after that we have the Ten Commandments beginning, Thou
shalt have no other gods before me and so on. But see what God
says in words. He speaks all these words saying,
I am the Lord my God. What is God doing then in the
law? He is giving to the children of Israel a revelation of himself. They don't see any image. they
don't see any similitude that would be an impossibility God
is a spirit but there is in the declaring of the commandments
a revelation God is making himself known to this people and so when
there is that recounting in Deuteronomy chapter 5 after The repetition of the same commandment
in the former part of the chapter, verse 24, Moses reminds them. Deuteronomy 5, 24, Ye said, Behold,
the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness. Now mark what they said. Behold,
the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness. And we have heard his voice out
of the midst of the fire and we have seen this day that God
doth talk with man and deliver. How did God show them himself? He showed them himself verbally
by speaking. They didn't see any similitude
at all. That's quite plain from what
we have in the previous chapter there, Deuteronomy 4. And verse 12, The LORD spake
unto you out of the midst of the fire, ye heard the voice
of the words, but saw no similitude, only ye heard a voice. And then
verse 15, Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, for ye
saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto
you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire, lest ye corrupt
yourselves, and make you a graven image, ye similitude of any figure,
the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that
is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flyeth
in the air, the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,
the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the
earth, unless thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou
seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host
of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them. God is not seen, you see. God
is the invisible God. God is a spirit. And yet, God
showed them himself, God showed them His greatness, God showed
them His glory. He is the Holy One. He is not
His law, that law that is holy. He is not His commandment, that
commandment which is holy and just and good. And in all of
that there is a revelation of Him, the Holy One of Israel,
the God who is of eyes too pure to behold iniquity, the God who
cannot look upon sin. Now in the light of that revelation
of God in His glory and His holiness, man is made to see himself and
to see something of the horror of his condition, to see that
he is in fact a sinner. Remember in creation what God
did. He makes all things out of nothing
and he does it in six days and there is a certain progression
in that work of creation and we come to the sixth day and
what does God do? He creates the man. And He does
it so differently to how He created all else. Everything else is
simply by fiat. That means the Word of God is
fake and it was done. He commanded and He stood fast. That's how God works. God said,
that's the divine fiat. God said, let there be light. And there was light. He just
speaks creation into being. But when it comes to man of course,
man who is to stand at the very apex of all this great work of
creation, he doesn't just speak man into existence. God speaks
to himself, there's a counsel in the Godhead, God said let
us make man in our image after our likeness. Remarkable words
really. We turn back to those words concerning
the creation of the man, and the woman, remember. In the very
first chapter of Scripture, Genesis chapter 1, verses 26 and 27,
God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness,
and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth. So God created man, In his own image, in the image of
God, created he him, male and female, created he them. And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth. For the glory that belongs to
man is as we see Him there in creation. He doesn't evolve from
some lower life form. He is actually created by God. God takes of the dust of the
earth forms His body and God breathes into His nostrils a
breath of life and He becomes a living soul. He is distinguished
from all brute creation. And we see Him. pristine, that
he comes from the hand of his maker, but there in Genesis chapter
4. Although he is created in the
image of God, although he is made in God's
likeness, we have that record so soon after his creation, where
he sins, he transgresses the commandment of God, he falls,
As Adam and Eve they transgress as sinners. We see the ugliness
of their sin immediately. And you see when we come to the
Word of God what do we see? We have this revelation of God
but the Bible is also in a sense like a mirror. That's how it's
spoken of, remember at the end of James chapter 1, it's a glass. And as we come do we not see
ourselves? We should see ourselves, but we are not to go our way
and then forget what manner of men and women we are. We see
ourselves and we see that we are not what God created us.
We do not conform to God. We do not conform to God's commandments. We transgress God's laws as the
law finds us out. And the Lord, of course, as Paul
came to realise, He is spiritual. And he says he is carnal. He
has been a natural man. The Lord is a spiritual Lord.
It doesn't just have to do with our actions, our external deeds. It has to do with the very attitude
of our heart and our mind. How he finds us out. How we are there revealed to
be those who are sinners against God. And this was Job's experience.
What does he say right at the end? There in the last chapter, chapter 42, verses 5 and 6, I
have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye
seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself and
repent in dust and ashes. Oh, he is made to be aware of
his finishing. This is how God teaches a man.
He teaches a man what he is. Or has God taught you what you
are? Has God showed you in the light of His Word what you are? And you may just see something
of what the preacher constantly speaks of in the book of Ecclesiastes,
it's vanity, it's vexation of spirit. This is what sin has
brought in its wake, is it not? This is Job's experience. He had to learn from God. It
was God who understood him. It was God who taught him. His wife, the most intimate of
all his relations, his wife understood him not at all. She couldn't
be of any help to him. She spoke really as a foolish
woman, remember. She would have him to curse God
and to die. In chapter 2 and verse 9, Then
said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thy integrity? Curse God and die. But he said
unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speakers.
What? Shall we receive good at the
hand of God and shall we not receive evil in all this? Did
not Job sin? with his lips, or the foolishness
of what his wife said. She was no help to him. She couldn't
give him any profitable advice or instruction. Again he speaks
of it, does he not, in the 19th chapter. And there at verse 17
he says, My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreat
it for the children's sake of mine own she was no help to him. Those friends who came to him,
Eliphaz and Bildad and Zophar, though they spoke many things
and said some remarkable, wonderful things, yet he says that they
were miserable comforters. They understood him not. But
it is God who understands him. And it is God, you see, who is
being directed to here by Elijah. Who teaches like Him? Who teaches like God? God knows,
God understands, God gives the best of all instruction and direction. Look back in chapter 34 and there verse 31 surely it
is made to be said unto God and then verse 32 that which I see
not teach them if I have done iniquity I will do no more All
it is means, you see, to come to God with such a request as
Elijah is directing Job to make here in this verse. That which
I see not. Teach them. Teach them. If I have done iniquity, I will
do no more. And we need to ask God, you see,
to save us, to teach us, to show us what sin is. It's a painful
experience. It was painful for Job. And this is what God is doing,
you see. He was a justified man, was Job. He was a saved sinner,
but there was much of self in him still. And so he must be
dealt with by God. His self-righteousness must be
purged away. He must be brought to see and
to feel increasingly what he is as a sinner. There must be
that knowledge of self. You see, two things follow when
God is pleased to come to a man and to teach him and to give
him this knowledge. First of all, the man is taught
a sense of his sin. This is the first branch, you
see, of God's teaching we're dealing with. How he teaches
the knowledge of sinful self. Paul tells us how all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God. All have sinned. And it's
not just Paul. Solomon says something very similar.
He says, not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and
sinneth not. And the preacher in Ecclesiastes
says the same thing. We find this then throughout
the scripture that man is a sinner. All men have sinned. Though all are sinners in God's
sight, there are but few so in their own. And we need to be taught that
we are sinners. God sees us as sinners, but do
we see ourselves? This is where God's law comes
in, of course. This is where God's law is a
schoolmaster, it's a teacher. We know that what things of the
law say, It says to them who are under the law that every
mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before
God. Paul is speaking there in Romans
3 of the point of the law. Therefore he says, by the deeds
of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by
the law is the knowledge of sin. This is what God is saying in
His Word. Men's mouths have got to be stopped. They've got to
be brought to realise that they're guilty sinners, that they're
undone sinners. That's how God sees them, but
how few, and how very few, are aware of their sinnership. And yet these are the very ones
that Christ has come to save. Oh, it must begin here, they
that are whole have no need of the position, but they that are
sick. These are the words of the Lord
Jesus Christ himself. He says it, I came not to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Oh, who teaches like
him? Does God teach us what we are?
And teach us in such a manner that we feel it, our mouths are
stopped, We can do nothing, we cannot help ourselves, our case,
our condition is a helpless condition. When God teaches us, we'll know
it, we'll feel it. And it's not just something that
we learn at the beginning and that's it, it's learned once
and forever. God has to continually teach his people their sinnership,
does he not? We see it here. In verse 7 we read of his dealings
with the righteous. He withdraweth not his eyes from
the righteous. God's eyes are upon his people.
And look at what he goes on to say in verse 8. If they be bound
in fetters and beholden in cords of affliction, then he showeth
them their work and their transgressions that they have exceed it. He opened also their ears to
discipline and commanded that they return from iniquity. He is teaching these people. And it's line upon line, line
upon line, here a little, there a little. This is how God instructs
us. And He is continually showing
us and revealing to us our true state, our true condition. There is in the teaching of God
in this sense that the sinner is brought to that condition
where he has a sense of his sins. He is a sensible sinner, to use
the old expression, sensible sinner. But there is more than
that when God is teaching. There will also be a sorrow over
their sins. That's what happens with the
godly. When God shows them their sin,
it grieves them. They see their sin not only in
the light of that holy, righteous, just Lord of God, but they see
their sin in the light of the fullness of that revelation that
God has given in the Lord Jesus Christ. They see their sin in
the light of those terrible sufferings that Christ endured when he died
for sinners. Lord, and terrors do but harden
all the while they work alone, but a sense of blood would harden.
Soon dissolves the heart of stone. Have our hard hearts have to
be brought to that, you see, to be dissolved, to be broken. Here is that that distinguishes
the godly man from the ungodly man. What do we read of the hypocrite? Verse 13, the hypocrites in hearts
heap up wrath They cry not when He bindeth them, nor when God
deals with them. They're not brought to cry out
to Him. They're not made to feel any
sorrow over their sins. Now, it's true that all men will
know trouble. It happens to both the righteous
and the unrighteous alike, trouble. In chapter 5 and verse 7 we have
that word, I'm sure it's familiar to many of you. Man is born unto
trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Man cannot avoid trouble. Not
just godly people have troubles in their lives, all people have
troubles in their lives. Would you see the hypocrite?
He doesn't cry when God's dealing with him. When God binds him,
when he's in any trouble, he's not made to call out to God. Here is the mark of the godly
man. There is some exercise in his soul, he feels these things.
And when God binds him, when God chastens him, what does he
do? Oh, he's made to cry out, to call upon God. Again, Paul
tells us that no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous,
but grievous. Nevertheless, thank God for the
neverthelesses, nevertheless afterwards, it yields up the
peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised thereby. All friends, to be those who
know what it is to be exercised, to feel something in our soul, How awful to have a non-feeling
religion, just going through the motions, coming to services,
going from services, attending prayer meetings, going from the
prayer meetings, feeling nothing. Just a round of duties, we do
it, we've done it, we were brought up to do it, we still do it.
I don't decry that it's good that we develop those sort of
habits. But all as we come to feel that we want to know some
exercise in our soul, we want God to touch us, to deal with
us. We want to bear this mark, it's the mark of a godly man,
you know. God's teaching him. And what is God teaching him?
He's teaching him all about himself, he's teaching him his sinnership.
And this is the first branch I saw, the knowledge, of self,
the knowledge of ourselves as we really are in the sight of
God, the knowledge, the sense, the sorrowing over our sins. Who teaches like him? But then let's just turn to the
second branch of this teaching of God. What else does God teach?
Does he not also do something very positive to these people? He teaches them the knowledge
of Himself. He teaches them the knowledge
of the Saviour. Now look at the first parts of
the text. Behold God exalted by His power. How God does exalt man. What
is man? That thou art mindful of him
and the Son of Man that thou visitest. It's a down bringing question.
It humbles man to the dust. But what does God do when He's
humbled man? God exalts us by His power. He brings that sinner
out of the state of nature and He brings that sinner into the
state of grace. And only God can do it. Joseph
Hart is writing what he says in that lovely little preface
to his hymn book. Only He who made the world can
make a Christian. Only God can make a Christian.
And God exalts by His power. What is a Christian? Paul says
we are His workmanship in Christ Jesus. The Christian is the very
workmanship of God. God makes a Christian. Again,
Paul tells us that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature,
he is a new creation. You see, only he who made the
world can do it. If a man is in Christ, he is
a new creation. All things have passed away. All things have become new. This is what God does and it
is a great work, it's a mighty work that God is performing in
the soul of that sinner when he's teaching him the knowledge
not only of his sinnership but showing him that there is a way
of salvation and that way is found only in the Lord Jesus
Christ when God works that faith in the man's soul and God has
to work the faith We cannot give ourselves faith,
we cannot work up faith of ourselves. Doesn't the Bible tell us quite
plainly, it is the gift of God? Are we not told again that it's
faith of the operation of God? And what an operation it is,
what a mighty work it is. Again, remember those words in
Ephesians 1, it's the exceeding greatness of His power to us
who do believe. If you have faith, true faith,
saving faith, justifying faith, that's what you've had. The power
of God. And not just the greatness of
the power of God. No Paul, typical Pauline language
there in Ephesians 1, He just keeps piling the words one on
top of the other. It's the exceeding greatness
of his power to us who believe. To believe, you see, is a mighty
work of God-faith. We cannot work it ourselves. All we have to do is look to
him. Christ himself is the author of it. Christ himself is the
finisher of it. Behold, God exalteth by his power,
who teacheth like him. David knew it, did he not? David
certainly knew it, he experienced it. The Lord raised him out of
the miry cloud. That's what God did for him,
that's what God did in him. He raised him out of the miry
cloud, set his feet upon a rock, established him in the Lord Jesus
Christ. He brought me up also out of
a horrible pit, out of the miry cloud, set my feet upon a rock,
that rock the Lord Jesus Christ. He exalts man, you see. How remarkable
that God should take account of a man in that fashion. There is profit here, you see.
Isn't the word of God said to be a profitable word? It's given
by inspiration of God, says the apostle to Timothy, and is profitable. It's profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
that the man of God may be perfect. that is entire, complete in all
his parts, furnished unto every good work. His workmanship created in Christ
Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that
you should walk in them. Now he says through Isaiah much
the same, and the Lord thy God which teaches
thee to profit. He teaches his people to profit.
He makes the Bible profitable to us. Or do you find that you
read the Word of God and you want to be profited from your
reading of it? You want the Word to take hold
of your mind, but not only your mind, you want to think and write,
you want to begin thinking God's thoughts, seeing things as God
sees them, but you want more than right thoughts, you want
more than a notional religion, you want that word to take hold
of your heart, and to sink into the very depths of your soul,
and you want to be profiting. Well the word is profitable,
but God must come and God must teach us to profit. from his
word. We need that God should come
and instruct us. Now, there are two aspects of
course to God's teaching. There's the negative, we've already
in many ways touched on that. There's that negative aspect
of God showing us, teaching us the knowledge of ourselves as
sinners and then over against that the positive teaching us
the knowledge of himself as the saviour. Now, look at how Job
speaks of that in a previous passage in chapter 5 and verse 18 he says this of God's
dealings he maketh sore and bindeth up he woundeth and his hands
make whole this is how God teaches, none teach like him who teaches
like him is the question, none None can teach like He teaches.
Deuteronomy 32 and verse 39 He says, I, even I am He and there
is no God with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and
I heal. Neither is there any that can
deliver out of my hand. Oh God take us in handy. God
be our instructor and our teacher. None can deliver us out of His
hand. But He is that One who will work
in us and He will work to profit in us, though there be the negative
aspect, though there be the wounding and the killing, there is also
the healing and the giving of life. This is how God teaches
and it is the power of God that has to be demonstrated in such
teaching as that. This is that knowledge then of
God. And where do we have that knowledge
ultimately? Well we have it of course in
the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is what
God will bring his people to. He will bring them to Christ. We must not come short of that.
It's no good being a sensible sinner. It's no good being a
sorrowing sinner and resting in that. I have a sense of my
sins, it grieves me, and I feel something of the horror of it.
I hate my sin, and I hate my sin because alas, I'm such a
perverse and foolish creature that I love what I hate. This
is true, is it not? This is the paradox of the Christian's
experience, and all that is good, but it's not enough. It's not
enough for you not to come short of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
the important thing. To know Him. This is life eternal,
he said. To know Thee, the only true God
and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. Ultimately we must come
to that, the knowledge of God in the face of the Lord Jesus
Christ, who is the image of the invisible God. Now we read in
John chapter 6 and we concluded that reading at verse 45. And Paul quotes from the Old
Testament there. He quotes words from Isaiah 54. So we have the
statement in the Old Testament in Isaiah 54 and then it's repeated
and it's repeated by the Lord Jesus Christ himself in John
chapter 6. Twice, twice. Remember that no word of God
is a vain idle word. What is it that Christ says there?
It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught
of God. Every man therefore that has
heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me. who teacheth like him, if you're
taught by God. And if you've heard that voice
of God speaking to you in the Scriptures, if you've learned
of God, this will be the consequence. You'll come to Christ. You must
come to Christ. That's what God's purpose is,
to bring that sinner that He is instructing and teaching to
the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, to see that all
of salvation is only in Him. For of Him are ye in Christ Jesus,
says Paul, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness
and sanctification and redemption. We have no wisdom of our own,
we must be taught by God, He must give us wisdom. If a man
lacks wisdom then he'll ask of God, He'll give it to all men
liberally and afraid of not. You know God never upbraids anyone
when they ask. He doesn't upbraid askers. Ask
Him. Ask Him to teach you. Ask Him
to give you that knowledge. Plead with Him to fulfil those
words John 6.45 in your experience to be taught of Behold God exalted by His power,
who teacheth like Him. And what does He teach us? He
teaches us the truth of self, but He also teaches the truth
of Him who is the only Saviour. O God grant that we each and
all of us might know that great salvation which is in Christ
Jesus. Amen.