started verse 11 you remember Wednesday evening
we dealt with the first 10 verses about David said I'll bless the
Lord at all times and how he made his boast in the Lord and
why he did that gave himself several reasons why but there
in verse 11 he says this Come ye children, hearken unto me,
I will teach you the fear of the Lord. He went from praising
and blessing the Lord Jesus and all the reasons why, because
he saw the Lord and he heard Him. He looked unto Him and was
lightened. He cried unto the Lord and the Lord heard him.
The Lord had angels encamped around about Him, so he had many
reasons to bless the Lord. But here he comes to say, now
you children, those I've been telling to magnify the Lord with
me. He says, now I want to teach
you some things. I want to teach you the fear
of the Lord. I want to teach you. And what
is it to teach the fear of the Lord? We know that the Scriptures
tells us that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God. That's just the beginning of
it. And we know that even the Scriptures tells us, it commands
us to fear God. 1 Peter 2.17 says, Honor all
men, honor the king, love the brothers, and fear God. Fear God. That's a command, fear
God. And David says, come all you
children, you children of God. Now he's talking to people that's
even grown up, but they're all children of God. That's why John
said, little children I write unto you. He considered all the
people that he wrote to as children. Come you children and hearken
unto me and I'll teach you the fear of the Lord. Now here's
a man, just a man, He's the king of Israel. God called him a prophet. He is a shepherd. He was a warrior. And he was a sinner, redeemed
by the blood of the Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ. And he
was even one after God's own heart. So he's an experienced
man. He was experienced in some things.
And one thing he was experienced in was the fear of God. The fear
of the Lord. He wouldn't even kill Saul. Because
Saul was God's anointed, and he wouldn't even kill him, though
Saul would have killed him if he had the opportunity. David
feared God that much. And so he said, I'm going to
teach you the fear of the Lord. Well, what is it to teach the
fear of the Lord? First, I believe it is to teach God as He is.
Man will not think the God of today has no reason for anybody
to fear Him. You know He has no power. He
has no strength. They allow Him to create the
world. They allow Him to sit on a throne. But they don't want
Him invading your will. They don't want Him having power
over you, and over your will, and over your life, and over
your decisions, and over whether He'll save you or not. They don't
want that. Oh yes, sit on your throne and give us your blessings,
but just don't demand anything from us. Don't expect anything
from us. When we want you, we'll come
and ask. And you leave the rest of us alone and leave us the
rest of our lives alone. So watch and you know. So if
we're going to teach God as He is, we've got to teach Him as
He's high and holy and lifted up with all power and glory and
heaven and earth, vested into Him. God Himself says, look unto
Me. and be you saved, all the ends
of the earth, everywhere you go, east, west, north and south,
look unto me. You want salvation, you got to
find it with me. Because I'm a just God and a
Savior. And so you see, beloved, and
then we got to teach not only how God is, and I tell you this,
and I know this, and Scott Richardson, I tell you, I'll never forget
the first time I heard him say this. He said, God will not speak
to nor be spoken to by any member of the human race apart from
Jesus Christ his Son. So don't try to talk to God unless
you come to his Son. Don't try to get anything from
God unless you come to his Son. And then once we teach you how
God as he is, then we have to teach how one comes to know the
Lord. How do you come to know God?
How do you come to know the Lord Jesus Christ? How do you come
to know who God is? Well, it's through the preaching
of the gospel, through the preaching of His Word, through what God
says. And you know, how does one come to know the Lord? Well,
Isaiah, some people say, well, I found Him. No, no, that's not
how it's done. He finds you, and when He finds
you, then you understand who He is. Isaiah, you know, he run
around, he's crying, whoa, it's this one, whoa, it's that one.
Five times in chapter 5, he says, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And then he said, in the year the king Uzziah died, I saw the
Lord. I saw Him high and lifted up.
And His glory filled the temple. And then he says, what was me?
I'm undone. Oh, so you see, when a man comes,
how do you come to know the Lord? I'll tell you what, God, you'll
know the Lord because the Lord knows you first. That's what
Galatians 3, 4, 9 says, you know, after you have,
3, 9, after you have known the Lord or rather are known of the
Lord. If any man loves God the same
as known of Him, that don't mean that God knows you love Him.
That means that God knows you. It's why you do love Him. He
loved us. Why do you love Him? Because
He first loved us. And oh, I tell you, what is it
to teach the fear of the Lord? It's how to live. To teach the
fear of the Lord is how to live in the enjoyment of His grace. How to live in the enjoyment
of His presence. Do you live in the enjoyment
of the grace of God? I certainly do. What else am
I going to enjoy, you know, and rejoice in except the grace of
God here? And His blessed presence? Oh
my, and when you get the opportunity, and God enables you to, and opens
the door for you to, describe God to your children. When something
happens, an event happens, a thunderstorm, a car wreck, a big snowstorm,
or something like that, describe God as He is to your children.
You get up some morning, great big jackfrost on, say, you know,
tell your children, you know what that frost is? Let God breathe
last night. So you can describe God by events,
by the creation, by providences as they happen and you have opportunity. And David here is an experienced
teacher. He's known the Lord for a long
time now. And he says, come you children,
hearken unto me and I'll teach you the fear of God. And what
does he do here as he goes through these verses? Just look what
he teaches about the fear of God. He said, come and I'll teach
you the fear of the Lord. And here's the first thing he
asked. What man is he that desires life and loves many days that
he may see good? First thing he teaches about
the fear of God is your desire. What man is he that desires life? Now we're not talking about just
desire to live, to be old. Desires life. People are living, but they don't
have life, and they don't enjoy it. You desire life. Desire the life of Christ. Desire
life other than the life you have. Desire life that fills
your heart with joy. Desire life. And I tell you,
for a soul to desire life, and if his soul has anxiety, he must
have the right object. And I tell you what you read
tonight, see, it sets your affections on things above, and your heart
on things above, on the Lord Jesus Christ. And a man that
would see good, would you see good? Where are you going to
see good? In hell. In hell. Oh, my. Desire life. I tell you, I don't
know about you all, but I often do this. Lord, I want to be saved. I know how deceitful a heart
is. I know how the flesh sometimes
gets so in control. And when it's all said and done,
Lord, I desire life. I desire You. I desire to know
You above everything in this world. It would be awful to go
through this life. Preached for 35 years. I've been
pastor of this congregation in March of 1979. They called me to be pastor.
A handful was left down at Old Faith Chapel down in Vandiver.
And wouldn't it be awful that I preached for 35 years and preached
another 5 years and 40 years and come to find out that I was
wrong on it? That's why he said, I'm going
to teach you the fear of God. The first thing about the fear
of God, you desire life! Life! Life! Life! Lord, I want
you! Desire you! Lord, to whom shall
we go? That's the words of eternal life. And then all that man that would
see good, it begins with the fear of the Lord. And man lost
life. And Lord, where in the world
is the man that desires life? I got a family full of, I got
grandkids and great grandkids and brothers and sisters. I don't
know of one of them that desires life. Not a one of them. You got people in your family
that don't desire life? The fear of God, the first thing
He says, desire life. And that's the first thing. Desire
life, real life, true life, God-honoring life. Our Lord Jesus Christ said,
I've come that you might have life and have it more abundant.
He said, I am the life. And then another thing He teaches
us in the fear of God is this. Oh, keep your tongue from evil,
and that lifts from speaking God. And look at verse 14, depart
from evil, do good, seek peace, and pursue it. Oh, the first
thing, keep your tongue from evil too. What in the world is
it to keep... You know, people think that if
you just... Well, let me show you something over here in Psalm
141. You know, we'll deal with this, keep your tongue from evil.
Look at Psalm 141 verse 3. Keep your tongue, depart from
evil. Keep your tongue from evil. You
live for speaking God. You know, that's why when our
Lord said in Nathanael, when Andrew came and told him, or
Philip came and told him, he said, we found the Messiah, Jesus
of Nazareth. And the first thing he said,
there's nothing good that could possibly come out of Nazareth.
What in Nazareth? Oh, what a miserable little town
that is. Do you know anybody that ever
amounted to anything to come out of Nazareth? You know what
our Lord said about him? There's a man who's no guile. He just said, you know, that's
the way he viewed things. No guile about it. And then look
what he said here, talking about keeping your lips, keeping your
tongue, keeping you, depart from evil. He said in Psalm 141 verse
3, set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth. Boy, would you? Wouldn't you
actually love, you know, you see sometimes school teachers
and stuff used to all the time, they'd go like this, you know,
button it up, shut up. Boy, wouldn't you actually love
to have something on your lip that you could do like that and
shut it? But that's what he said, set
a watch, oh Lord, before my mouth. Lord, you do it. and watch what
he says, keep the door of my lips look over in Proverbs with me
verse 21 look in Proverbs 21 Proverbs 21 and verse 23 look
what he says here I've quoted you so many times but you don't
look at it again and I know we know this from experience everybody
in this building here Proverbs 21 23 can say that his tongue has got
him in trouble. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his
tongue keeps his soul from trouble. Every one of us has experienced
the other side of that. Every one of us in this building
today has experienced that our tongue has got us and our mouth
has got us in trouble. If you keep your mouth and your
tongue, you'll keep your soul from trouble. Look at Proverbs
29.11 and then we'll go back and deal with it. A fool utters all his mind. Can't get him to shut up. But
a wise man, he keeps it in till afterwards. So you see, beloved,
that's why I go back over and look. Keep your tongue from evil.
Keep your tongue from evil. When David teaches men about
fearing God and fearing the Lord, he teaches them keep your tongue
from evil and you live for speaking God. Now I'll tell you what,
when we talk about keeping our tongue from evil, there's none
of us going to go out here and cuss and use filthy language. That's not what he's talking
about. Go out here and there's four ways that we can
speak evil. First of all, we speak evil when
we talk evil about God. Say things about God that's not
so. Blame Him for things. accuse him of things, complain
to him about things, that'd be evil. You say evil things about
God. You say evil things about his
son. That's what we're talking about. Evil things about godly
things, right things, true things, holy things. And make light of
that. Evil about his son. And we talk evil about ourselves. How in the world can you talk
evil about yourself? Well, I'm not that bad of a person. You know, I'm really a pretty
good guy. I'm a pretty good woman. You
know, I've done a few things. That's evil talk. That's what
Paul meant. He said, I'm not going to say
anything evil. You know what I'm going to say about me before
I ever knew Christ? I'm going to talk about my righteousness.
It's done. I'm going to talk about my heritage.
It's done. I'm going to talk about my relationship
with my mother and daddy. Done. I'm going to talk about
being a Pharisee. Done. I'm going to talk about
my morality. Done. I'm going to talk about
my law keeping. Done. I'm going to talk about
how the folks admired me and talked about what a great man
he is. Done. And then we can talk evil. about
one another, or about other people. You can say evil things about
other people. And I'll tell you what, three
things ought to happen before anything comes out of your mouth.
First of all, is it true? Secondly, what good will it do? And thirdly, is it absolutely
necessary to say it? If it ain't true, Will it do any good to tell it?
And thirdly, would it be absolutely necessary to say it? Now a fool
would say yes, but a wise man would say, what would be the
use in saying that? To hurt that person or this person
or another person? And I'll tell you what, and then
he says depart from evil. How in the world do you depart
from evil? Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher. of our
faith. If you talk evil, then you're
going to speak evil, you're going to do evil. But he says, depart
from evil and do good. Seek peace. Now I love this right
here. Seek peace. Seek peace. That's another thing about teaching
the fear of the Lord. He said, I tell you what, people
that fear God, they fear the Lord, they seek peace. I'm going
to teach you that people that teach you the fear of God, they
seek peace. Oh my, ain't peace one of the most, peace, peace,
wonderful peace, coming down from the Father above. You know,
I'll tell you what, peace is one of the most wonderful, enjoyable
things that you'll ever have on this earth. Oh, peace. I'll tell you what,
peace for yourself, peace for your friends, Peace in the hall? Peace with your family? Oh, there's
nothing like having peace between people. In fact, he says, God
said that He'd make even your enemies to be at peace with you.
And that's what He did with us. We were His enemies, and He made
us at peace with Him. And oh, beloved, seek peace for
your mind. Your mind, oh, your mind sometimes
just goes in circles and just gets just worries and frets and
tries to figure things out and lays awake and just wonder if
this is going to happen, that's going to happen. But oh Lord,
please give me peace in my mind. Seek peace. Seek peace in your
heart. Seek peace for your soul. Seek
peace all around you. And then he says, not only seek
peace, but pursue it. Pursue it. Why do we have to
pursue it? Why do we have to? Because it's
an elusive thing. Because we are so contentious
and contrary and warriors by nature that we have to actually
pursue it. Pursue it, oh, go after it. And
I tell you, don't get involved in any kind of controversy except
the gospel and the truth. You know, whenever you get involved
in any controversy, you know what the first thing it'll do?
It'll destroy your peace. He that meddleth in another man's
affairs, it's like a ring in the nose. And you know, it'll
destroy your peace. You get things on your mind,
you get in a controversy, you get in an argument, you get into
some kind of misunderstanding, and it will destroy your peace.
You'll lay awake, and you'll worry, and you'll wonder. It'll
trouble your mind, it'll trouble your spirit. A fool meddles at
all times. But pursue peace. Pursue peace. Go after peace. Wherever there's
contention, go after peace. And I say, even as Paul said
this, he said, why don't you let somebody defraud you? defraud you as to want to have
contention. I told a fellow that one time,
he was in an argument, bad argument with his neighbor, and I said,
why in the world don't you just suffer the wrong and let it go?
You're the believer, he's not. Little Roddy, sitting yesterday
out on the porch, and I was reading, and I come to 1 Corinthians 13,
I said, Roddy, listen to this. Sit down here and listen to this. Though I speak with the tongues
of men and angels, and have not charity, I am become as a sounding
brass and a tinkling cymbal. Though I have faith to understand
all mysteries, and I have knowledge to understand all mysteries,
faith to remove mountains, and have not charity, I told her
love, it profits me nothing. And though I have all faith to
move mountains, and I give my body to deburr just the shade,
and give everything I've got to feed the poor. He said, I
have not love that parches me now. Love covers a multitude
of sin. And that's why he said here,
peace. Pursue peace. And if I can't
be someplace where there's peace, I'm going to go find me a hole
somewhere and crawl in it. That's what he says, seek peace. Peace, peace. Thank God we got
peace. God established peace. He bought
peace. And I've got peace with God.
I've got peace in my heart. And bless His holy name. I've
got peace with whatever tomorrow holds. I've got peace with it. Don't we, sweetheart? We've got
it. We've got it. And I'll tell you what, he says,
seek peace. He doesn't teach us to make peace, but to seek
it. To seek it. Follow peace with all men. And
then look what he says. He's going to teach us not only
about peace and pursuing it. Keep our tongues from evil and
depart from evil. But then he talks about prayer.
Look in verse 15. Oh, he's going to teach us the
fear of the Lord. He says, This is what the fear
of the Lord is about. The eyes of the Lord are upon
the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. Look in
verse 17. The righteous cry, and the Lord
hear it. The Lord's eyes are upon the
Lord, and his ears are open to it. Then the righteous cry, and
the Lord's here. And He delivers them out of all
their trouble. He teaches about prayer. You know what the fear
of the Lord is? The Lord sees you. His eyes are
on you. If His eyes are on despair, His
eyes are on you. He says, the eyes of the Lord
are upon the righteous. And listen, His ears are open
unto their cry. How many of y'all got to have
little bitty babies, and oh, you have babies, and you know,
and even in the middle of the night, They can make a peep. And you hear it. You put them down for a nap and
you just wait for them to wake up and start jabbering back. You know why? Because we listen. And that's the way God is with
us. He hears us. We're just children. You know,
mothers and grandmothers, they understand what babies need.
when somebody else can't. What's the matter with that baby?
I thought, well, listen, he wants a bottle, he needs this, he needs
that, he needs it, you know. They can tell by the, which they
can tell if he's hurt or what, but he says, you know, he says,
the Lord, his ears are open unto their cry. You say, well, I can't, you know,
I cry from my heart. It's in the middle of the night,
four o'clock in the morning, four o'clock in the afternoon.
If your heart cries out, The Lord said, He hears it. Just as often as you say, Oh
Lord, He hears that cry. If you say, Oh Lord, do this
to this person, they're in such a desperate condition. He hears
that cry. If you say, Oh Lord, give them
grace, He hears that cry. If you say, oh Lord, I can't
go, I just don't have any more strength. He hears that cry.
He hears every cry that every child of God ever makes. He didn't put it in there for
us just to, oh He does, He hears our cries. And sometimes that's
all it is, is a cry. It's a moan, it's a groan. And
oh, what a privilege, what a great blessing. And he understands,
and that's what he says there in verse 17, the righteous cry. And the Lord hears him. And he
delivers him. He calms those troubles, he calms
those heartaches, he calms those fears. And he takes them away,
and he allows you to rest. He understands our groanings,
the speeches of our heart that we can't even articulate. Bless His Holy Name. I'm grateful,
grateful, grateful that I don't have to make a long, long prayer
before the Lord. I don't have to say lots and
lots of things to express my needs, and you don't either.
God hears a cry. He hears a groan. He hears a
moan. He hears a desire. We don't have to get away and
just go name it off a whole bunch of things and address Him in
all these flowery words. How many little babies just walk
up to you and crawl up to you and then start crawling up to
you? And just looking up. And that's the way we are with
Christ. That's the way we are with God. Sometimes we have to
crawl and we just crawl up. Oh Lord, Lord, Lord. And then look what else he says
about it here. And it teaches us that we know the fear of the
Lord. In teaching the fear of the Lord, he talks about seeking
peace, departing from evil, desiring life, many days, and then about
prayer. Then he talks about the nearness
of the Lord. Look what he says in verse 18. The Lord is nigh unto them that
are of a broken heart, and save as such of a contrite spirit. The Lord is nigh to whom? Them that are of a broken heart.
Huh? Well, we have lots of things
break our hearts. Our hearts get broken many times
in a lifetime. They get hurt and broken many
times in a lifetime. And it's like Mary. Her heart
was broken. She went to look to the Lord
Jesus Christ. He wasn't in the tomb. And she's
supposed the gardener's standing there and she says, Sir, where's
your lady? Oh, tell me, just tell me where
he is. I'll go. I'm going to get him. I'm going
to take care of him. I'll go. I'll go take care of
his grave. I'm going to take care of him. And you know what? She's so heartbroken
and then the Lord Jesus says, Mary, it's not her heart that's
broken. Simon Peter, Satan, you're going
to deny me three times. And then you know what the first
thing the Lord told him? He says, you go tell Peter. And
my brethren, I see them over in Galilee. Peter was broken
hearted, the Lord was not. Oh, wherever God's people's broken
hearted, wherever their hearts are broken, and let me tell you
something. To have a broken heart is a mercy
from God. Talking to some out there in
the foyer today, talking about how we've grown over our our
coldness and grown over our minds get in a fog sometimes and they
just won't function, they just won't think and they just can't
remember things and you just moan and you actually groan and
mourn and ask God to forgive you that you're so cold or your
mind is so foggy and you can't pay attention and you can't read
the scriptures and you just, you actually, you know, you mourn
over it. And oh, for God to give a man
a broken heart To break your heart over somebody else's broken
heart. Oh, what a mercy that is. For
God to reach in there and crush your heart and make you that
heart through it can feel and feel not only self, but fulfill
the needs of other people and feel the broken heartedness of
others. Oh, what a mercy from God. How many of you have bemoaned
and mourned over your hard hearts over the years? Oh, God, how
could I have a heart so hard and so cold? And then, oh, the
Lord comes and He'll break it. Oh, He'll break it. And I tell
you what, the Lord, proud He knows you're far off, but He's
that humble as Himself. shall be exalted. Look with me
in Isaiah 57. Look with me here. Isaiah 57. You know, we read
about a little girl, and Steve Dixon mentioned back there a
little four-year-old girl chased a cat. Down by Crabber to No Zone. Chased
her cat out in the road to pick up truck killed her and hit her.
Can you imagine how broken hearted her family is right now? My heart
goes out to them. Oh, I just can't imagine. Just
can't imagine. Oh, so broken hearted. And it touches you to know that
what those poor families going through right now. Four year
old child. Little girl. But look what he said here in
Isaiah 57 verse 15. For thus saith the high and lofty
one that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is holy, I dwell in
the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite
and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and
to revive the hearts of the contrary one. And I tell you, a broken
heart is going to be a blessed thing. Look over here in Isaiah
61.1. It's what our Lord Jesus Christ came here. He came here
to deal with the broken hearted. Look down there. He says, The
Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. Christ came here to do this.
Because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto
the meek, He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted. Take the
broken hearted, and mend their heart and let me show you this
when he's coming again with what he's coming after. Psalm 66,
1 and 2. Look here, talking about this
broken heart. The Lord is nigh unto them that
are of a broken heart. He's nigh unto them. How many times have our hearts
been broken over the years And we just thought that they could
never ever get over it. Thus saith the Lord, the heaven
is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house
that you build unto me? Where is the place of my rest?
For all those things that my hand made, and all those things
have been, saith the Lord, but to this man will I look, even
to him that is poor, and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word. Oh, the Lord's dear, and oh,
for he's nondivisible, that I have a broken heart. Let me hurry
on here. Let's go back over to Psalm 34.
teaching the fear of the Lord. Then he teaches, the fear of
the Lord teaches us that there's going to be affliction. He says,
look there in verse 19, many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but the Lord delivers them out of them all. Oh my, many are
the afflictions of the righteous. Job says man that's born of a
woman is a few days and full of trouble. He's as a flower
that cometh forth and then is cut down. The Lord's people are
not saved from having afflictions. But I tell you what they're saved
from, they're saved while they're in their afflictions. Paul talked
about all of his afflictions. I was distressed, I was perplexed,
I was cast down. But the Lord kept me in all of
that. And I tell you what, and you find God's people, they've
always been afflicted. Daniel, he was thrown in the
lions' den. Three Hebrew children thrown
in the fire furnace. Joseph was thrown in the prison.
And I tell you one thing, I said in all their afflictions, Isaiah
63 and I said in all their afflictions, he is afflicted. That's what
it says about Christ. You look at that when you get
home. And I know this, our afflictions are light. You say, boy, they
don't seem like, preacher. Well, I tell you, they're light
in Christ of what Christ suffered. They're very light, you see.
And I tell you, they're very light compared to eternity. You know, what we go through
now compared to what we enjoy in eternity, our afflictions
are just light. And they're just for a moment.
Just for a moment. Just for a moment. And oh, many
of our afflictions. How many people are in this congregation
and in other congregations so afflicted? So afflicted. So afflicted. Afflicted with
diseases. Afflicted with worry. Afflicted with sickness. Afflicted with health problems, and also many
kinds of afflictions. And then he teaches us about
perseverance, and I'm through. Look in verse 22. The Lord redeemeth the soul of
his servants, and listen to this, and none of them that trust in
him shall be desolate. You know what, that word over
in the margin, it says, be guilty. None of them, the Lord redeems
the soul of His servants. We done been bought and paid
for. And then He says, none of them that trust in Him shall
be condemned, shall be guilty, shall be desolate, because the
Lord redeemed them. And I tell you what, those who
trust in Christ will never ever have to face their guilt before
God ever again. Never have to face condemnation.
Never have to face separation from God. I know what begins
in grace will end in glory. And that's why Paul said, He
which hath begun a good work in you, he shall, shall perform
it. unto that day, kept by the power
of God through faith. I give unto them eternal life,
and they shall never perish. All that you've given me, I've
lost none, and I'll raise them up at the last day. Look with
me in Psalm 138 and 8. Let me show you this and show
you a couple of things and I'll quit. Psalm 138, talking about what
begins in grace is going to end in glory. You can believe that. If God starts a work in you,
He's going to carry it on. He's going to finish it. Look
what He said here in Psalm 138, verse 8. The Lord will perfect
that which concerns me. Thy mercy, O Lord, endureth forever,
for Satan hath the work of thine own hands. The Lord's going to
perfect it, that which concerns me. And look at Psalm 57. No, Psalm 57. Can you read my
writing? Psalm 57. Oh, listen to this, talking about
trusting God and we'll never be condemned. I will cry unto
God Most High, listen to this, unto God that performeth all
things for me. Oh, does everything for me? How
many me's are there? How many me's are there? whole bunch of me's. And when
you read that, it's me you read. How many me's are there? Oh, bless the Lord's name. How
gracious and kind. Our Father, in the blessed name
of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for allowing