Good evening. All right, we're gonna be in
Isaiah chapter nine, and basically just looking at verse six tonight. Now we saw last time how that
Christ is that blessing that should come upon the land of
Zebulun and Naphtali, because he's the light which shines into
the valley of the shadow of death, and he's the one that gives light
and life to men and we know that Christ himself has increased
the nation bringing in the Gentiles and that through him we who are
born into darkness and spiritual death were brought to his light
to see and to know the true and living God and that we might
walk in fellowship with him in the light. because he's the one
that through his death he brought reconciliation to the people,
to his people, to reconcile them to his father. And he's broken
that yoke, that yoking burden that was upon us that we ourselves
could never fulfill, that we could never keep the law of requirements
and ordinances that were against us, so he nailed them to his
tree. And so he's broken that yoke
off of our neck and he's freed us from the condemnation of the
law and the dominion of sin. So we don't look to the law,
thankfully we're not walking by the law, looking to that law
of Moses that we might know how to walk before him but we do
understand that he's delivered us from the dominion of sin and
given us his spirit so that by the life which he's given us
we now walk and we know him and we know how to live and walk
before our God and how to serve the brethren and to love the
brethren and how to do that. We're not looking to the law.
The law is good. We don't have any problem with the law. It's
not made for a righteous man, though. It's made for an unrighteous
man. So we have the Spirit, and so we walk in that truth. So
all this was accomplished by Christ himself through his death
on the cross. Now this week, tonight, I want
us to further glorify Christ in looking at the few names,
because these are not all the names that are given to Christ,
but these few names that are ascribed to Him in this verse
tonight, and to show that Christ is the Savior, that He is sufficient
to meet all the sinner's needs. Our title is A Child Born, A
Son Given. A Child Born, and a Son Given. And I first just want to go over
a little overview here and then we'll look at these names. So
the scriptures declare to us the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ our Lord. That's how God makes himself
known to us. It's through Christ the Son. And Christ himself is the greatest
of all gifts that we receive. Paul wrote, thanks be unto God
for his unspeakable gift. We can't even describe it except
the Spirit give us light and life to know Him. And then, only
then does He lose our tongue and begin to enable us to declare
Him and to speak of His glories and to describe and make known
this mystery, how that God would save sinners. And He did it in
His Son, Jesus Christ. And so we know Him by His revelation. so that we understand that he
who made the worlds and all that is in them, that he himself became
flesh and dwelt among us. And we understand that what we
need now, we know and understand that it's not by human wisdom,
it's not by our intellect, it's not by something that we do that
opens this book to us. He gives us understanding. He
gives us that spirit whereby we know Him so that when we hear
these things declared by someone that He's raised up, your spirit
testifies with my spirit that He is indeed the Son of God. He is the precious Savior. He's
exactly what I need because I'm the sinner worthy of death and
condemnation and hell, but in Him is life and light and liberty
and He gives it to me. Me, a sinner. So we're thankful
for that. And so We know this understanding
must be given of God, as our Lord said in John 14, even the
spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive. And the reason
why the world can't receive him, he tells us right in a verse,
is because it seeth him not. Because this world needs something
that it can see and then it'll believe. But of course, once
you see it, if seeing is believing then why do you need to believe?
It's the hand of belief. So, neither knoweth him but ye
know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. So Christ is the one that opens
our understanding so that we are by his power, divine power
and grace, we're able to receive him and to know him. It says
in Luke 24, 45, then opened he their understanding that they
might understand the scriptures. And so it's Christ, that's what
he does for us. Even this day, He opens our mind and He opens
our understanding that we might understand what is being declared
of Him, that we might know Him who is salvation for His people. Because we only rightly understand
the Word of God, we only see that it's speaking of Christ
by divine revelation. So he does that by his divine
power, and then we see the beauty and the joy of his salvation,
and that it's all met together. Mercy and justice are met together
in Christ. He's satisfied, the Lord God,
with his death on the cross there. So in our text, Christ is called
a child, yet we also see that he's called the counselor. He's
called the son, and yet he's also the everlasting father. And while the warfare of men
rages on, earlier we saw that he's called the Prince of Peace,
and he was crucified in weakness, and yet he's called the Mighty
God. He's rejected of men, and his own received him not when
he came, yet the government rests upon his shoulder. So these blessed
truths must and shall be known by his people, but the learned
and the wise, they shall not know them, they will not understand
them, they will not comprehend them. And that's because in 1
Corinthians 2 verses 9 through 10 and verse 14 says, but as
it is written, I have not seen nor ear heard, neither I ventured
into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him. But God hath revealed them unto
us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the
deep things of God. And then down in verse 14, but
the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness unto him. Neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. So let's look at these
names that are used to describe the blessings that the church
has, that she receives of her Lord, of what he has done for
her, the Lord Jesus Christ. Isaiah 9.6 For unto us a child
is born. Unto us or for us a child is born. A child is born for
our benefit. He's given for our profit, not
for angels, but for men. He's Abraham's seed. As it says
in 1 Timothy 3.16, without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh. In Hebrews 2.17, we're told,
in all things it behooved him, who was made flesh, to be made
like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful
high priest in things pertaining to God. to make reconciliation
for the sins of the people, and to that end, to make reconciliation
for the people, he needed to be a man, and yet be a sinless
man, a man without sin, so that we see, we understand the blessing
when the angel was talking to Joseph in Matthew chapter 1. He quoted from Isaiah 7 14, Behold
a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son and
they shall call his name Emmanuel which being interpreted is God
with us. So that The virgin birth, our
understanding of the virgin birth isn't so that we can be wowed
and say, oh wow, there's another miracle and isn't that just amazing,
but it was necessary that Christ should be born of a virgin, that
he didn't come forth of the seed of man because the seed of man
is corrupt. When Adam sinned, He corrupted
himself, he corrupted all his seed in him so that Christ must
come of the seed of woman. That which was conceived in Mary
is of the Holy Ghost for that reason. He is fully man, but
he's fully God. He doesn't come from the seed
of man, which is corrupt, but he comes from the seed of God,
born of the seed of woman. That's why the virgin birth is
important. It wasn't that Mary was sinless,
it's that God himself is holy and sinless and Christ didn't
come forth of man's crop seed. It was conceived of the Holy
Ghost. So next in the text it says, unto us a son is given. So notice that the son here is
given. He wasn't born. The son is given. The son of God has no beginning.
He has no end and he has no beginning. He was given of God the Father. He's eternal with the Father.
This is what, he's the Word of God, as it says in John chapter
one, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by him,
and without him was not anything made that was made. And then
it says, that word was made flesh and dwelt among us. So this is
Christ our Savior, he's fully man, he's fully God, the God-man
that would save us from our sins. It says in Romans 1 verses 2
through 4, it speaks of Christ, which he had promised to for
by his prophets in the holy scriptures. concerning his son Jesus Christ
our Lord which was made of the seed of David according to the
flesh and declared to be the son of God with power according
to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead.
So Christ was born a child for us. He's a son given by God the
Father to us or for us or to us And so that he might sanctify
us and that he would justify us before the law, that he would
make us holy by satisfying the law and justice, he fulfilled
all the righteous requirements that we were to fulfill, he fulfilled
them all, and he laid down his life for our benefit, for us,
to purchase us from the penalty and the debt of sin that was
ours. He destroyed the works of Satan
that he had over us, and it's because Christ himself is a fit
mediator. He is the Redeemer. His blood
is precious to God. And so when he spilled his blood,
when he poured out his blood to purge us of our sins, God
accepted it. He offered himself to the Father. I've heard people say, you know,
speak of when Christ offered himself to man, and he didn't
offer himself to man. He offered himself to the Father,
Hebrews says. That's the only offering that
Christ made. He offered himself to the Father, and thankfully
the Father accepted it. The Father received him and raised
him from the dead so that we now know our sins are forgiven. We're cleansed from the debt
that we owe to holy God. So, if God became a man, then
surely that's good news for us. There's a good hope for us because
now... because of that we have the righteousness
necessary to stand before god because he can't look upon sin
we must be perfect even as he is perfect we must be holy even
as he is holy and because that was necessary he gave his son
he provided his son to to to make us holy in him through his
death through his life so we we live before Him, but if Christ
wasn't, if God wasn't made a man, then we are yet in our sins and
we have no hope. We will have to pay the price
for the sins that we've committed against holy God, our creator. So, but the scriptures, thankfully,
they declare and teach that Christ is the Savior. He is Lord. We
have a good hope in Him. Paul wrote to Timothy saying
in 1 Timothy 2.5, for there is one God and one mediator. between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for
all to be testified in due time. And so to those that are given
that testimony, Those are the ones that Christ came to save. Those who receive that testament,
who believe Him, they testify that they are those that Christ
came to save. And it's because they will be
called and they shall believe. They will hear and they will
bow before Him. Maybe not the first time, maybe
not the second, but the Lord will have his people. And however
long it takes, he'll use all those things for his glory, for
his honor, for his praise. because they're going to glorify
Him and worship Him for how He saved them and delivered them
in the day. So, believing on Christ, we see
how He's our priest, how He made satisfaction to the Father, how
He continues to intercede for us on our behalf, because we
need His intercession, we need His help, we need His provision,
we need His life, and to know Him. It says in Hebrews 7, 24
and 25, but this man because he continueth ever hath
an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to
save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. And then we see how
that he's our prophet because he's the one who teaches us all
things necessary that we need to know to serve and to worship
our God, that we might know him in spirit and in truth and worship
him in spirit and in truth. He's our prophet. He's the one
that teaches us. He's the one who opens our understanding
to understand these things. In Deuteronomy 18, 18, the Lord
speaking to Moses said, I will raise them up a prophet from
among their brethren like unto thee Moses and will put my words
in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command
him. So we know that what the Lord
tells us, what Christ himself tells us, it's exactly what we
need to know. We can rest upon his word, trust
him that this is truth and we now know God. We walk with God
the Father because of Christ. And then we see how that he's
our king, how that he rules all things even now. In Hebrews 1,
it says, but unto the son he saith, thy throne, O God, is
forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is
the scepter of thy kingdom. All right, so now to that office,
because he is the king, it leads us directly to this next view
of Christ in the scriptures here. It says, the government shall
be upon his shoulder. So Christ as king rules over
all, and he himself has the keys of life and death. There's a
text in Isaiah 22, verse 20 to 22, and the whole passage, even
a little bit longer, is really beautiful, but I'm just going
to read those three verses, Isaiah 22, 20 through 22. And it shall
come to pass in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim,
the son of Hilkiah. This man Eliakim is a type of
Christ and his name signifies the Lord will raise up. It says
in verse 21, I will clothe him with thy robe. He's going to
be given the robe of a civil magistrate to rule and the Lord
will strengthen him with thy girdle and I will commit thy
government into his hand. And he shall be a father to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. And the
key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder. So he
shall open, and none shall shut, and he shall shut, and none shall
open. And that's exactly what Christ
does for us. He's the one who opens the way of salvation. We
go through the gate, through Christ, because He opens it up
to us, that we might know Him, that we might enter in that straight
gate, that narrow way, that few find. But He opens it up for
us. And to others, it's shut. And
they go on the broad way, the easy way, the highway that they
think is the right way to go, but they're lost. It says in
Revelation 3, 7 and 8, And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia
write, These things saith he that is holy, he that is true,
he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth,
and shutteth, and no man openeth. I know thy works. Behold, I have
set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. For thou
hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied
my name." So the Lord is our strength. He's our sovereign.
He's the sovereign Word of God. He is the sovereign King by whom
we know God and by whom we serve Him, and He's able to bring to
pass whatsoever it is that He commands, that He gives to us
and commands us to do. It says in John 13, a new commandment
I give you. give unto you, that ye love one
another, as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that
ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." And so
he gives us a spirit whereby we walk in fellowship, that we
might know him and know what he means when he says, love your
brethren, that we might know in that day when it's needed,
when they need our help and our patience and our kindness
and the forgiveness that he gives to us, that we might do that
exercise, those fruits of righteousness that he bears in us, that he
receives the glory and the praise for it. And he's the one that
does that in his people. He says in Jeremiah 31, 33, but
this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my law in
their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be
their God and they shall be my people. And just to that point,
that's why we emphasize the regeneration, the life that we have by the
spirit, because some think that when we say we don't, We don't
look to the law of Moses to know how to live. They think that
we're giving ourselves license to sin, but we don't say that
the scriptures teach that we have license or liberty to go
and do what the flesh lusts to do, naturally. And that's not
at all, but he writes his word, his law on our hearts, not the
law of Moses, but the law that we might know how to walk before
Him. That's why it's so important
that He gives us His Spirit, why it's so important that we
understand He destroyed, broke the dominion, the reigning power
that sin has over us, that He gives us that hunger and the
thirst for righteousness, that we might know Him and know how
to walk before our God, how to be pleasing to Him, in the light
and the knowledge that we have in Christ. That's why those scriptures
that speak of 1 John 1.7 that says, but if we walk in the light,
even as he is in the light, we have fellowship with him and
the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sins. Why would he
say that? Because in the light, the sins
that we're doing that the Lord wills that we put away, because
I would imagine there's many things that we do that don't
even come to see the light, but there's so much that we do in
darkness, but when you walk in the light, as he is in the light,
you have fellowship with him because he's bringing to light,
that's a bright light, he's bringing to light those things that we're
doing that we ought not to be doing, And by His Spirit, He
brings us to confess them to Him, and He cleanses us from
all sin by the blood of Christ. It's so simple when you begin
to see how that we walk by the Spirit. We don't walk by the
flesh. That's why we're not looking
to the Law of Moses, which is written on tables of stone. It's
a fleshly thing. We're walking by the spirit. We have the power of the spirit. So it's such a sweet view when
you see it. All right, now moving on. It
says, his name shall be called Wonderful. And it is a good,
sweet thing to consider how wonderful Christ is. Paul said, brethren,
think on these things whatsoever is lovely and pure. Think on those things. And to
think on Christ being wonderful is a blessed, it's a good thing
for us to do. And it says in Hebrews 1, verses
1 through 4, that God, who at sundry times, various times,
and in various manners, spake in time past unto the fathers
by the prophets, But now he hath in these last days spoken unto
us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also
he made the worlds. For being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding
all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty
on high, being made so much better than the angels. And as he hath
by inheritance obtained, as he hath by inheritance obtained
a more excellent name than they." So that it's amazing for us to
read and to know and understand that he who created the heavens
and the earth, who made all things, that he came down and served
us brethren. That he by himself purged our
sins there on the cross and he sat down now on the right hand
of the majesty on high, so that that one, Christ himself, did
this for us. It wasn't because he needed to
do it. He didn't need to do anything for himself, but he willingly
humbled himself and came and served his brethren. So that
we see that there and turn over to Philippians 2 verse 5. Philippians
2 verse 5. It says, let this mind be in
you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made
himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant
and was made in the likeness of men. So that we see this is
his humility. When he was made like us, that's
a humiliation. He's stepping down to be made
like us and to come among men and women that have filthy and
sinful thoughts and treating one another the way that they
do, and the self-righteous, arrogant, puffed-up Pharisees, and just
all that vile sin. He came and dwelt among us, who
is perfect and holy and knows no sin, has no sin in Himself,
and He dwelt among us. And he says to us, he that overcometh
will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame
and am set down in my father's throne. That's amazing that Christ
should say that to us, he that overcomes, I will grant to him
to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set
down with my father in his throne. That's a wonder that we should
be glorified with Christ in that manner. And that's why, and the
only reason why is because of anything good in us. It isn't
because of any strength or power or ability in this flesh, but
it's all by His divine power working in us. It's all according
as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain
unto life in Godliness. It's all because He's the one
that grows us and teaches us and keeps us and will raise us
up in that day by his power having cleansed us and washed us from
our sins. So it says in verse 8, being
found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross. So that Christ who
is perfect, and holy and without sin. The scriptures say that
he was made sin that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him. He bore the sin to put it away
once and for all as a perfect sacrifice to put away our sin. Wherefore, verse nine, God also
hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every
name. And that name It's wonderful. It's wonderful. Christ is wonderful
for what he's done for his people. Next, we see that he's the counselor.
And some do say that, you know, they put that word wonderful
and counselor together, so it's wonderful counselor, but he's
the counselor. And as such, in his wisdom, he
sent the spirit to comfort us and to counsel us, to teach us,
to enable us to walk before him in a manner that's pleasing to
him. Turn over to Isaiah 55. Isaiah 55 in verse one. Here's the counsel of the Lord
to us who are sinners, to us who have been shown that we are
sinners, and shown that there's nothing we can do in and of ourselves
to make ourselves right with God, to make ourselves righteous
before him. He says, Isaiah 55, one, ho,
everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that
hath no money, come ye, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and
milk without money and without price. Wherefore do you spend
money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which
satisfyeth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and
eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself
in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto
me. Herein your soul shall live.
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
mercies of David. Behold, I have given him for
a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations
that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord
thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified
thee. Seek ye the Lord while he may
be found, Call ye upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake
his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him
return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him. And
to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." So your faithful creator,
that's him. Those are the words that he sends
to his people, because he's a faithful provider. And so he's teaching
us and showing us that He's good, he's kind, he's trustworthy,
he's dependable, he's provided salvation for his people. Why
fight him and resist him and complain and treat him despitefully? Because he's shown himself to
be faithful and just to his people. All who trust in him shall not
be ashamed, they shall never be disappointed. So it'll be
testified who those are that Christ died for them. It will
be testified because they'll believe and they'll walk before
Him in truth. I like what John Gill said on
that. He said, for regeneration and
faith make not men a child, but rather to appear so to be. He's
saying that our faith and the life that we're given to walk
before Him, that's not what makes us a child of God, but it makes
it known that that's exactly what we are. It makes us appear
to be that, his children, because we believe him. We believe him,
and that's how we're known. We believe him, and we love him,
and we love his people. So, all right. Then we see that
he's the mighty God. Christ said in John 1030, I and
my Father are one. And when Philip asked the Lord
to show them the Father. Jesus saith unto him, Have I
been so long with you? And yet hast thou not known me,
Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. And how
sayest thou then, Show us the Father? So he, you know, Paul
even declared to us concerning Christ, he says that in him dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in
Him. We're complete in Him. He's the
mighty God, which is the head of all principality and power,
so that we see in Christ when He walked in the flesh here,
we see His omniscience. We see and know that He's omnipresent. He knew all things. He could see the men toiling
out there in the middle of of the lake there, and then we see
how that he's omnipotent where we read of his disciples that
they feared exceedingly and said one to another, what manner of
man is this that even the wind and the sea obey him? Alright,
so then next we see that he's the everlasting father. That's
because Christ is the father of all his children. We come
forth of his seed, his incorruptible seed. He's given us life. He's
the one who's made us children. He's the one who has made us his children and adopted us into
the family of God. Isaiah 9 3 said that thou has
multiplied the nation so that he's the author of our birth
giving us the new birth by the Spirit and he's the finisher
of our faith and he says to the father behold I and the children
which thou has given me and so yeah he just declares that behold
I and the children which thou has given me." And so he presents
us to the Father all his children, all his sons and daughters that
he has made clean and given them robes of righteousness to stand
before their holy God. So a father, you know, we see
as a provider and Christ has made full provision for us as
the Father. He's provided everything. Do
you believe that? That he's provided everything you need to stand
before God. There's not another thing. You
could die right now. trust in Christ, and you need
nothing more. He's provided everything. That's
a father. That's a faithful father to his children that he accomplished
as he obtained our salvation through the shedding of his blood.
It says in Hebrews 9, 12, neither by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for us. All right, and then finally
we see he's called the Prince of Peace. It's because Christ
himself has made peace between us and God the Father. Therefore,
being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ. That's what Paul said in Romans
5, 1. And then in Colossians 1, 20, for he made peace through
the blood of his cross. Christ has reconciled all things
to himself. He's reconciled us to God the
Father so that now the Father has given us the church, the
ministry of reconciliation to preach and to declare what Christ
has done for his people, how that he is everything, that there's
nothing that we do But the life that we now have, we give Him
the praise and the glory for because He's the one who gave
us life. He's the one who gives us light.
He's the one who brings us into fellowship with Him. He's the
one who causes us to confess our sins before Him, that we
were dead and undone and had no life. apart from Him, but
that He's given us that life. Now that He's the one that's
washed us in His own blood and purified us and made us whole
and perfect before God and acceptable to God. And so we glorify Him
and praise Him in this verse in Isaiah 9, 6, and 7. We'll
just close reading this. We sing these verses of Him.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the
government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall
be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government
and peace there shall be no end. upon the throne of David and
upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgment
and with justice from henceforth, even forever. The zeal of the
Lord of hosts will perform this. Praise his name that he has performed
it and not left it to us to do, or we'd all be undone. But thanks
be to God for his unspeakable gift, the Lord Jesus Christ.
All right, let's pray. Our gracious Lord, we thank you,
Father. that unto us a child is born,
that unto us a son is given. Lord, we thank you for your great
love and compassion and mercy upon us, that you would send
your own darling son, by whom you made the heavens and the
earth. Lord, that in mercy and kindness you humbled yourself
and became a man like unto us, yet without sin, and remained
perfect, and did all things well, healed us of our infirmities,
of our diseases, and the sickness of sin. Lord, that you give us
life, and that by your Spirit the Father and the Son now dwell
with us. Lord, help us to walk before
you rightly. Keep us walking in that light,
having fellowship with the Father and the Son, confessing our sins,
And Lord, that you would wash us and cleanse us with the blood
of Jesus Christ. Restore us to fellowship in you.
Bless us with your spirit. Put your spirit upon us. Lord,
help us open our understanding that we may understand the scriptures.
Help us to walk by your spirit, pleasing you, serving you, and
serving your brethren. And Lord, we pray not for the
things that we want to disconsume in our flesh, but Lord, we pray
that your will be done, that your kingdom would come, on earth
even as it is in heaven, Lord. Lord, let us see your glory.
Let us praise your name. Lord, let us serve you and glorify
your name in the midst of the people. Lord, that you would
bless this people in this area of Missouri and Ozark and Nixa
and Springfield and all the other surrounding areas that you would
call out your people out of darkness. Lord, that you would establish
your church, and that it would be a beacon of light here in
this dark part of the world, and that you would save your
people. Call them out, Lord. Save us. We pray this in Jesus'
name, for his glory and his praise. Amen.