That's exactly why we're here,
to sing praises to our Savior, sing glory to His name. Would you please turn with me
in your Bibles to the 28th chapter of Matthew, and while you're
turning there, let me share something with you. I might have shared
this with you some time ago, but I have a reason for wanting
to share it again. Now my dad was a man's man. And he taught me and my brother,
who was 18 months older than me, he taught us to act like
men. Matter of fact, and he didn't
punish us, but he shamed us if we cried when we got hurt. If we fell down, scratched an
elbow, or got a little blood on our knee. and we started crying,
he would shame us. Men don't cry. Sissies cry. Girls cry. Men suck it up. They take the pain. Don't show
that pain. And he was just a man's man,
and it worked. Except when he wasn't around.
Mama kissed the pain away, so we'd cry a little bit. But anyway,
he was one who believed men should be men. He was a home barber,
a good one. He cut people's hair, did a good
job, made sure that me and my brother didn't let our hair grow
long. He kept it cut about the way
that I'm wearing my hair today. And he made it very clear that
we were not to keep company with boys who like boys in a wrong
way. And it was taught back then that that was wrong. It was not
an accepted lifestyle. But anyway, I share that with
you to set the stage for a true story that I'm about to share. Judy and I were delivered from
the power of darkness and translated into God's eternal kingdom in our late 20s. We lived up
in Northern California. And a couple of years later,
when we were in our early 30s, we moved to Montana to help our
pastor start a Sovereign Grace Church in a little town called
Hamilton, down in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. And we had
two boys, but no daughters. Well, our daughter Shelly was
born shortly after we moved to Montana. She's our piano player.
She's with us this morning, so I get to talk about her a little
bit. But when Shelly was about 18 months old, we were downtown
Montana, me and my wife, and we parked over on the right across
the street from a toddler shop where they sold baby clothes
and toddler's clothes, and we wanted to buy Shelly a new dress.
And when we walked into the store, Judy left her purse in the car
because she was carrying Shelly. And we had just recently bought
coats that matched. And Judy had bought a purse that
matched her coat, matched mine too. And when we went inside that
store, Up by the cash register, there was a counter with a glass
top, a clear glass top. And underneath that glass, there
were different pictures of babies and toddlers. And I just reached
in and pulled out my wallet and showed the owner of the store
a picture of Shelly. And she just almost died asking
me for that picture. Can I please have that? I want
to put that under the glass on my counter. I said, no, that
stays in my wallet. You can't have that. I'm sorry.
And Judy said, I have one in my purse that you can give her.
I said, well, she's not getting this one. So being the gentleman
I was, I walked across the street and got Judy's purse out of the
car and was walking back across the street carrying her purse
that matched my coat. Two rugged, native Montana cowboys
were walking down the sidewalk right in front of that toddler
shop, and they didn't say a word. They looked me square in the
eye, looked down at the purse that I was carrying, looked me
back in the eye, and then looked forward and kept on walking,
and I just went, oh! I lost sleep over that. That was the absolute most humiliating,
embarrassing event of my entire life. And I'm not a young person. I've been around for a long time.
Well, I share that with you to say this. As humiliating and
as embarrassing as that was, I would rather go through that
all over again than to have someone see me come out of a goat barn,
a religious building where the minister and the people teach
and believe in universal atonement. I'm telling you the truth. I
don't want anybody to get the wrong impression. I don't want
people to think that I agree with those people who believe
that lie that's right out of the pit. Listen, you cannot believe
that Jesus Christ is your savior if you believe in universal atonement. You stop and think about this.
If we believe that people are going to go to eternal torment
that Jesus died for, what gained us favor with God? It cannot
be something that Jesus Christ has done. Of course it isn't. They believe their decision for
Jesus, or their so-called free will gained them favor with God,
and it's another Jesus that they're bowing down to. It's another
spirit that captivates them, and it's a perversion of the
gospel that they believe that they are not followers of the
Lord Jesus Christ. And let me say that again. Anyone
who believes in universal atonement is not a follower of the Christ
of Holy Scripture. And that's the title of this
morning's message, The Christ of Holy Scripture. So if you're
with me in Matthew chapter 28, our Lord has already gone to
the cross. He has already redeemed his chosen
people with his precious blood. He has gone into the grave. He
has come out of the grave. He's the resurrected Christ and
he's about to ascend to glory and he has appointed a place
for his apostles to meet him And we read in verse 16 of Matthew
28, Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into
a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And verse 17 reads this
way, When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted. Well, was it Thomas? He was doubting
Thomas at one time. But when he saw Christ Wounds
in his hands and his feet and a sword wound in his side, he
cried out to Christ, my Lord and my God. Now listen to me. Jesus Christ is the object of
all worship. The Christ of Holy Scripture
is the object of all worship. When he was born of the Virgin,
When he was laying in that manger because there wasn't any room
for him in the inn, God commanded all of his holy angels to worship
the Christ child. And just get a picture of that.
I don't know how many angels there were, myriads and myriads
of angels in the heavens, singing praises to that little baby that
lay there in the manger. Folks, I'm telling you the truth.
Jesus Christ is the object of all worship. And he said to his
apostles, in verses 19 and 20, Now, let me start at 18. And
Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto
me in heaven and in earth. All power is given unto me in
heaven and in earth. All power... I cannot stress
that. All power has been given to the
glorified God-man, Jesus Christ. Now, if He has all power, Will
there ever be a day when he gets more power? He has it all right
now, folks. He's on his sovereign throne
of power right now, ruling and reigning over this whole universe
and everything in it. He's Lord of all. There's a preacher out in California
who's probably the most well-known preacher in the so-called modern
Christian movement. and a member of his congregation,
and I have this on tape. I'm not making this up. They
set microphones up in the aisles of the church and people on Wednesday
night could ask the pastor questions. And this one lady asked this
famous preacher, how do we explain to the Jews that Christ is the
Messiah when they say he can't be because the government's not
on his shoulders. That so-called minister told
that woman, tell them they're right. The government's not on
his shoulders yet. But it will be during the thousand-year
reign with Christ on this earth. I don't care what your eschatology
is. Let me tell you this, that man
denied that Jesus Christ is God Almighty. He was telling that
woman, he's not God yet, but he's going to be one day. Jesus
Christ has always been God. There never was a time when he
wasn't God. Even when he walked on this earth,
he was God in a human body. Jesus Christ is God our Creator. This Word of God plainly teaches
that He is. And so, that man is a false preacher
in my book. Now, the apostles worshipped
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Christ of Holy Scripture. And if that
man who talked to that woman If he had ever seen Christ in
all of His glory, he would not have answered her that way. I
don't believe, and I'm not sure exactly how
true what I'm about to say is, but I don't believe the holy
angels of God saw God in all of His glory until Christ ascended
and sat down on His throne of glory. I don't believe they saw
God in His glory until that day. And the reason I'm telling you
that, the reason I believe that, is Lucifer deceived one-third
of the created angelic beings by trying to exalt himself before
them, saying he would be like the Most High God. He deceived
them, and drew one-third of the angels with Him when He fell.
Had they ever seen God in all of His glory, they could never
have been deceived by Lucifer. And if this religious organization
that believes in universal atonement and the free will of man ever
sees Jesus Christ in all of His glory, they'll never be deceived
by a false preacher again. If we hear His voice, We won't
listen to the voices of strangers. Now let me take you over to the
10th chapter of John. John chapter 10. The Christ of Holy Scripture
sent his apostles out to preach the gospel. I didn't read the
rest of Matthew 28, but he told them to go and preached the gospel,
teaching the converts under their preaching to observe all things
that He had commanded them, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Baptizing true followers of Jesus
Christ in the name of the Father who chose us in Christ before
the foundation of the world, in the name of the Son who went
to the cross and purged our sins from God's sight forever by his
supreme sacrifice, and to the Holy Spirit who alone can make
the gospel effectual in our hearts, baptizing Those converts, in
the name of Jesus Christ, in Him dwells all the fullness of
the Godhead bodily. Now those apostles taught God's
enlightened children to observe all things that the Lord had
commanded them. They were to teach converts to
observe God's perfect, particular redemption. God's perfect, particular redemption. Now folks, the Christ of the
Holy Scripture did not try to save His people. He by Himself purged our sins. He obtained eternal redemption
for us. He reconciled us to God by His
death. And He, the Lord Jesus Christ,
is the very one who forgives us our sins. He has the power
to do that. While He was here on this earth,
there was a man sick of the palsy, He had four friends who knew
that Jesus Christ could heal him. So they took their friend,
he was on a bed, he couldn't, he was paralyzed, he couldn't
move. They took him to where Jesus was teaching. He was in
a building and there was such a crowd of people, these four
men couldn't get their friend in close enough to the Christ
of Holy Scripture. So they got up on, now this is
quite an undertaking, they got up on top of this building, tore
a hole in the roof right above where Jesus Christ was standing
teaching, lowered their friend right down into the presence
of Jesus Christ, And He, the Christ of Holy Scripture, commended
those four men for their faith. Not the man that was laying on
the bed, the men who brought Him into the presence of the
Christ of Holy Scripture. Then our Lord looked at that
man on the bed who could not get up, and He said, Be of good
cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee. And people that were standing
there, unbelievers, their minds were filled with thoughts, saying,
who can forgive sin but God only? Who does he think he is? And
he could read their thoughts. So he said, which is easier,
for me to say thy sins are forgiven thee or to tell this man to get
up and walk? But so that you know that the
Son of Man has the power to forgive sins. He looked at that man on
his paralyzed bed, or his bed where he was paralyzed. He said,
get up and walk. And the man just stood up and
started walking, and people were just filled with awe. Jesus Christ
has the power to forgive us our sins, but not at the expense
of His holy justice. God's holy justice must be satisfied. Did you hear me? God's holy justice
must be satisfied. The soul that sinneth, it must
die. And so the substitutionary death
of Jesus Christ is the believer's hope. He laid down His life for
His sheep. And we died in Him. God has already
punished us in our substitute. And here in John chapter 10,
in verse 11, our Lord said this, I am the Good Shepherd. The Good
Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep. He didn't say He gave
His life for the goats. He said he gives his life for
the sheep. And down in verses 14 through
16, we read where our Lord said, I am the good shepherd, and know
my sheep, and I am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even
so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. Once
again, he plainly stated that he lays down his life for the
sheep. And he says in verse 16, and other sheep I have which
are not of this fold, them also I'm pausing on purpose. Them
also I must bring. He didn't say, I hope to bring
them. He said, I must bring them. He laid down his life for them.
He satisfied the holy justice of God for them. He paid the
redemption price in full for them. Not one thing can be laid
to the charge of God's elect. Jesus paid it all, all to him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
and he washed it white as snow. He said, them also I must bring,
and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and
one shepherd. So these apostles of the Lord
Jesus Christ, they were taught particular redemption and they
taught their converts to observe particular redemption. And we
are to observe particular redemption. Jesus Christ died for me. It is enough that
Jesus died and that he died for me. And those apostles also taught
their converts to observe God's sovereign, distinguishing grace. There's a difference between
God's enlightened sheep and goats who are playing religion. There's
a difference between those who believe in the Christ of holy
scriptures and those who believe in a Jesus who can't do anything
unless you let him. And right here in John chapter
10, if you're with me, starting at verse 23, we read, And Jesus
walked in the temple on Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews round
about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to
doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us
plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you
and you believe not. The works that I do in my father's
name, they bear witness of me, but ye believe not because ye
are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. He didn't lay down
his life for them. He laid down his life for the
sheep and he told them, you're not my sheep. This is God's sovereign,
distinguishing grace. He didn't say, you're not my
sheep because you don't believe. He said, do you believe not because
you're not my sheep? Do you believe in the Christ
of Holy Scripture? If you have embraced Him, if
we by God-given faith have embraced the Christ of Holy Scripture,
brethren, we're His sheep. We never were goats. Our Lord's
not in the business of changing goats into sheep. He's the Good
Shepherd seeking His lost sheep. We weren't seeking Him, but He
was seeking us, and He found us. He brought us under the preaching
of His glorious gospel. He enlightened our minds with
the truths of the gospel, and we became followers of Jesus
Christ because of His sovereign power that was just expressed
in such a way that every enlightened child of God knows. Nothing in
my hands I bring, simply to thy cross I cling. Now the followers
of the Christ of Holy Scripture are to observe God's sovereign,
irresistible grace. Right here in John chapter 10,
starting at verse 27, We read where our Lord Jesus said, my
sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. We must hear the voice of Jesus
Christ. Now the voice of God's preacher,
it's important and I know that. The gospel must be preached.
We must tell people who Jesus Christ is and we must tell our
hearers what He has done, and we must tell our hearers where
He is now. Now, Jesus Christ is Jehovah
God, equal with the Father. We'll get to that in just a moment.
But He, Jesus Christ, the Christ of Holy Scripture, is on His
sovereign throne of power, and when the preacher that He sends
proclaims the gospel, we must hear the voice of Jesus Christ. And it's not an audible voice. It's a voice we hear inwardly. It's a voice that comes right
from God Himself speaking to the heart, saying, I bought you
with my precious blood. You belong to me." We must hear
His voice. And when we do, we come out of
darkness into His marvelous light. That's God's sovereign, irresistible,
drawing power. Now, people can resist the power
that's in the preacher. Those unbelieving Jews resisted
the power of Stephen, but it was his spirit within him they
resisted. Nobody can resist the sovereign,
irresistible, drawing power of God the Holy Spirit at the appointed
time of love that God has for His chosen people. We're going
to hear His voice. And we're going to follow Him.
And when we know the voice of Jesus Christ, like I said earlier,
we will not be deceived by the voices of strangers. And we'll
want to hear His voice over and over and over again. And we do
every time we hear the glorious gospel of God's amazing grace.
Now listen to me. I believe that God's enlightened
children should make it a point to be where the gospel is preached
every Lord's Day. Now, I realize we're not legalists,
and I realize there are things that come up which will prevent
us from being where the saints of God worship the Lord Jesus
Christ on the appointed times of worship, but that should not
be something that we just use as an excuse. We should make
every effort to be where the gospel is preached every time
we're under the preaching of the gospel, we're hearing the
voice of the Christ of Holy Scripture who sits on his throne in glory,
reassuring us, confirming us, making sure that we don't forget
that Jesus Christ is the one who spoke to us under the preaching
of his gospel. So we're to observe the sovereign,
irresistible power of Jesus Christ. And we're to observe His preserving
power. We're kept by the power of God
through faith and through salvation, ready to be revealed at the last
time. Verse 28 tells us where the Lord
Jesus said, I give unto them, he's talking about his sheep
that hear his voice, I give unto them eternal life, and they shall
never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Folks, listen, absolutely nothing can separate God's children from
the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. We're as sure
of heaven as if we're already there. Jesus Christ will not
lose not one for whom he died. All are going to be in glory.
We're all going to see him in his glory. That was his prayer
in the 17th chapter of John. He said, Father, I pray that
those whom God has given me will be with me where I am. that they
may behold my glory." We're going to see Him in all of His glory. Right now, it's through the eye
of God-given faith. Well, one day, faith will give
way to sight, and we'll see the Christ of Holy Scripture on His
sovereign throne of power, and we'll worship Him in His presence
for all eternity. Also, God's enlightened saints
are to observe God's sovereign electing grace. Election is not
a word that we should be ashamed of. We should rejoice that God
chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. Do I
belong to Jesus Christ? If I do, God the Father gave
me to Him in the eternal covenant of grace way back before the
Lord created anything. We read right here in verse 29,
where our Lord said, talking about His sheep, My Father which
gave them Me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck
them out of My Father's hand. So, we have the truth and our
Lord made this statement over and over and over again concerning
His Father giving Him a sheep. At least five times in the 17th
chapter of John, matter of fact, In the ninth verse of John 17,
he tells us, and his apostles heard him pray this, he said,
I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but
for those whom thou hast given me. So he prays for us, but he
doesn't pray for the goats. He doesn't pray for the reprobates. He doesn't pray for those who
were not chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world.
He prays for his chosen people. and we're to delight in the doctrine
of God's sovereign electing grace. Brethren, our names were written
in the land of the Book of Life before this world was created.
We're His chosen blood-bought children. I rejoice in that,
don't you? I rejoice in the fact that Jesus
Christ has received a people from God the Father conditional
upon what He would do for them, and He, the Lord Jesus Christ,
met all the conditions of the eternal covenant of grace. All
of them. All of them. Now, if you will,
turn over to John chapter 14. Our subject this morning is the
Christ of Holy Scripture. And while He was here on this
earth, our Lord Jesus gave a clear warning to those who would dare
offend one of His little children. He said, take heed that ye despise
not one of these little ones, for I say unto you, that in heaven
their angels do always behold the face of my Father, which
is in heaven." So, in other words, he was implying that if you offend
one of these little ones that the Father gave me, they have
guardian angels, and they always behold the face of the Father,
ready to do His bidding. And He might send one of His
angels to take vengeance on those who would offend, one for whom
Christ suffered and bled and died for. Now, my question is, what face do the holy angels of God behold? I believe when it refers to Then
beholding the face of the Father, it has to do with his attributes. God is omnipotent. God is omniscient. God is omnipresent. All those
angels knew these attributes of God. Well, all of those attributes
are seen in the Lord Jesus Christ. We just read in Matthew 28 that
all power in heaven and earth has been given to him. So he's
omnipotent. He told his disciples, lo, I
am with you always, even to the end of the world. So he's omnipresent.
And when he was telling Peter, when he was asking Peter, do
you love me? After the third time, Peter was just grieved,
said, Lord, Thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love
you. So he's omniscient. He knows
everything. You can't hide anything from
Jesus Christ. And when he ascended to glory,
I know the scripture says he sat down at the right hand of
the majesty on high. That means he's God's strong
right arm. All of the stars were created
just by him a flip of his fingers, he said,
let him be. But salvation is by God's strong
right arm. And so Jesus Christ is in the
midst of his throne, he's God's strong right arm. We read in
Revelation where he's not to the side of the throne, he's
in the midst of the throne, and there's a rainbow over the throne,
plainly stating that he is a God who grants covenant mercies.
The rainbow has to do with a covenant. God promised Noah that he would
never destroy the world by a flood again, and he put a rainbow in
the sky, a sign of the covenant. Jesus Christ is on his sovereign
throne of power and all the angels in heaven, and Peter wrote this
writing under divine inspiration, all the angels in heaven are
in subjection to the Christ of Holy Scripture. All principalities,
all powers, everything is in subjection to him. All things
are under his feet. And when the angels in heaven
behold the face of God, they're looking into the face of the
Christ of Holy Scripture in all of His glory. Now here in John
chapter 14, starting at verse 1, our Lord is speaking to His
apostles. He says, Let not your heart be
troubled. You believe in God? Believe also
in Me. In My Father's house are many
mansions, If it were not so, I would have told you, I go to
prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that
where I am there you may be also. And whither I go, you know the
way. And whither I go, you know, and the
way, you know." And Thomas said in verse five, He saith unto
him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know
the way? Jesus said, I am the way, the
truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me. That doesn't mean Now, we come
to the Father by exercising our free will and saying some kind
of a made-up prayer in the name of Jesus. That means we come
to the Father by His sovereign, irresistible power. Jesus Christ
draws us to Himself. Now, in verse 7, our Lord said, if
you had known Me, you should have known My Father, And from
henceforth ye know him, and have seen him." I didn't write this,
but I believe it, don't you? Philip said unto him, Show us
the Father, and it sufficeth us. Show us the Father, we'll
be satisfied. And Jesus said unto him, Have
I been so long time with you? And yet hast thou not known me,
Philip? He that hath seen thee hath seen
the Father. And how sayest thou then, Show
us the Father? When we see Jesus Christ through
the eye of God given faith, we see in Him all the fullness of
the Godhead in His body. In Him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead. We just read over in John chapter
10 where our Lord Jesus said, I and my Father are one. He's
equal with God the Father in essence and power and purpose.
You can't separate them. I know there's only one God.
I also know there are three divine persons, Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. Peter wrote of that, or no, John
wrote about that in 1 John. He said there are three that
bear record in heaven. The Father, the Word, and the
Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit. And these three
are one. Here's what I'm telling you. When we see the glory of God,
we're looking into the face of Jesus Christ. When those angels
in heaven saw the glory of God, they saw the God-man seating
on His throne of power, ready to do His bidding. Our Lord Himself
said, He sends His holy angels. I need to share one more passage
of Scripture with you, over in 2 Corinthians chapter 4. Because
we might ask ourselves, how can I know for sure, how can I know
for sure that I've seen the Christ of Holy Scripture? Well, we're
told right here in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 how we can know. We were in darkness and we loved
that darkness. We hated the light. We wouldn't
come to the light lest our deeds should be reproved, evil. We
wanted a God of our own imagination. We'll fall down and worship anything
but the Christ of Holy Scripture until He, the Lord Jesus, commands
the light to shine in our hearts. We read that right here Starting
at verse 5 of 2 Corinthians 4, Paul says, We preach not ourselves,
but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus'
sake. For God, who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give
the light, now catch this, of the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ. For we have this treasure in
earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and
not of us. Now it was Jesus Christ, our
creator, who said, let there be light. He commanded the light
and the light shone. I'm telling you, folks, that's
power. That's God's creating power. Everything we see in the heavens
and all of this on this earth, the valleys, the mountains, the
trees, the flowers, all of these things were created by Jesus
Christ, our sovereign Lord. And He's the one who speaks the
light to shine. And when we came under the preaching
of His glorious Gospel, at His appointed time of love for us,
He said, let there be light. The same God who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness back in Genesis, the first part
of Genesis, is the God who commands the light to shine in our hearts,
that we might have what Brother Larry taught in Sunday School
this morning. that we might have the wisdom,
the knowledge, the instruction, those things that point us to
Jesus Christ. He is God's wisdom. He's the
power of God. He's the wisdom of God. And He
must reveal Himself to us. And when He does, when He does,
We'll be different. He'll change the path that we
were on. He'll put us on that straight
and narrow path that leads to his kingdom. And we'll rejoice
in Jesus Christ our Lord. Brethren, we come into this building
in the middle of the night, we can't see. You turn the light
on, and lo, the light reveals the furnishing, the furnitures,
the piano, the pews, this pulpit. And that's what the light does.
The light reveals Jesus Christ, our great, wonderful, sovereign
Lord, who saved us by the supreme sacrifice of Himself. Now I don't
know, I don't know what path my Lord
has put you on, but I know the Christ of Holy Scripture is the
one who put you on that path. And he didn't say it would be
easy. But he did say, lo, I am with you always, even unto the
end of the world. And he did say, through his holy
apostle Paul, and we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are the called according
to his purpose. So whatever path we're on, and
I watched my wife She's going through some very difficult times
during this aging process. Both of us are. But we're not
going through anything that our Lord has not determined for us
to go through. What I'm saying is, it does not
matter what He is pleased to bring our way. We can trust Him. He has never made a mistake.
He will never make a mistake. And He loves us too much to allow
anything to happen to us except that which is for our good and
for His glory. So keep on keeping on. Keep looking
to Jehovah Christ, our Lord, and we'll find perfect peace
in every situation that He's pleased to take us through. Brethren,
this is the Christ of Holy Scripture. He's not begging for somebody
to give Him a chance. Salvation is not by chance. Salvation
is by the perfect redeeming work of Jesus Christ, our Lord. And
when He speaks to us, we will not listen to another voice,
but we'll listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, and we will
believe that gospel that gives Him all the praise and all the
glory.