Turn again this morning to James
and chapter 1. We read from verse 5 the following. James chapter 1. If any of you
lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally,
and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask
in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like
a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let
not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.
A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. If any of you
lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally
and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask
in faith, nothing wavering. Do you lack wisdom? Do you seek
wisdom? Do you desire wisdom? True wisdom
only comes from above, only comes from heaven. There is a natural
wisdom that man has, and there is the wisdom of God. True wisdom is found in Christ
alone, in his gospel alone. For He is wisdom. He is truth. He is life. He is the way unto God. He is
salvation. Do you seek wisdom? Or do you continue in the wisdom
of men, which takes you one way? There is a way which seemeth
right unto men, unto a man, but it leads unto destruction. There's
a way that seems wise to the natural man. The natural man
seeks his own things, his own ends, his own glory, his own
riches. He shuts his mind unto God and
eternity. He shuts his mind unto the righteousness
of God. unto eternal heavenly things.
He has no time for them. He despises them. He says, I
will prosper by my own hand, my own mind. And he goes his
own way, which leads unto destruction. There is another wisdom which
comes down from above. That wisdom which leads unto
everlasting life. That wisdom which King Solomon,
David's son, sought when as a young man he ascended unto the throne. We read earlier from 1 Kings
3, where from verse 5 we read that
in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night and
God said, ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said, Thou
hast shown unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according
as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in
uprightness of heart with thee. And thou hast kept for him this
great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his
throne, as it is this day. And now, O Lord my God, thou
hast made thy servant king instead of David my father. And I am
but a little child, I know not how to go out or come in. And thy servant is in the midst
of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people that cannot
be numbered nor counted for multitude. Give therefore thy servant an
understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern
between good and bad, for who is able to judge this, thy so
greater people? And the speech pleased the Lord,
that Solomon had asked this thing. And God said unto him, Because
thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long
life, neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the
life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding
to discern judgment, behold, I have done according to thy
words. Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart,
so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee
shall any arise like unto thee. And I have given thee that which
thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall
not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if
thou wilt walk in my ways to keep my statutes and my commandments
as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Solomon awoke and behold it was a dream and he came to Jerusalem
and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord and offered
up burnt offerings and offered peace offerings and made a feast
to all his servants. Solomon asked not for riches. He asked not for health or long
life. He asked not for victory over
his enemies. His concern was not for those
natural gains that the natural man would seek after. But he
asked for wisdom. Wisdom to lead a people. Wisdom
to know right from wrong. Wisdom to make right judgment. Wisdom to know righteousness. Wisdom to know and walk before
his God. what caused Solomon to ask for
this wisdom? The Lord did. The Lord's hand
was upon him. We read earlier in the chapter
that Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David
his father. God has shown his grace and his
mercy unto Solomon. God had taught Solomon what he
was when Solomon came to the throne. He was not puffed up
in pride. He did not think of himself as
great. But he says unto the Lord, I
am but a little child. I know not how to go out or come
in. I'm nothing, God. I'm not up
to this task. How can I lead this great people? Give me understanding. Give me
discernment. Give me wisdom. What do you seek? Do you, like the multitudes,
seek after riches? If you came to God and bothered
to pray, would you ask for riches? If God said, ask of me what I
shall give thee, what would you ask? for your health, for pleasure,
for riches, for a home, for prosperity, to be delivered from this sickness
or this difficulty, would you ask for the natural things? Solomon
asked for wisdom. And so pleased was the Lord that
he asked for that and not for riches and long life. that God
gave him the rest in addition. Solomon sought not riches, yet
God made him the richest king. Solomon sought not for health,
yet God gave him long life. God prospered him because Solomon
loved the Lord and desired wisdom. If any of you lack wisdom, let
him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth
not, James says, and it shall be given him. But let him ask
in faith. What do you seek? Have you ever
come before God and said, God, give me wisdom. Give me heavenly
wisdom. Show me the truth. Lead me unto salvation. Lead me to thy son. O Lord, make
thyself known unto me. I am nothing. I am but a child. I know not what to do. Lord,
have mercy upon me. Make me wise unto salvation. What are your prayers? What do
you ask of God? Plenty in religion, plenty of
people in religion pray. Every day they pray. Today people
will gather in their churches in their meetings and there will
be many prayers prayed. This week they will have their
prayer meetings and they will pray their prayers outwardly.
Each day, many who profess to love God will come before him
praying for this and praying for that. But what do they pray
for? What do you pray for? What do
you ask for? So many things that are prayed
for, so many that ask, ask not in faith. They don't really believe. that God will hear their prayers,
they don't really wait and trust in the Lord. They ask, and then
they go about to gain what they want. They pray their prayers, but
in case God isn't listening, they go about seeking the answer
themselves. They don't really ask in faith,
they don't really believe. And what they do ask for is so
temporary, So naturally minded, seeking that which is here below.
They're asking, isn't that which springs from faith and is directed
by faith? So they ask amiss. And not only
them, you and I too, we're all alike by nature. The natural
man seeks his own things. He seeks his own ways. He wants
comfort, he wants ease. He wants health. He's so concerned
about that which affects him in the everyday and so unconcerned
about seeking the Lord, seeking his glory. seeking Christ, so
unconcerned about the kingdom of God and the gospel and the
preaching of the gospel, so unconcerned about the salvation of his soul
and other souls, so unconcerned about eternity to come. As people
pray, they come to God with their lips, when their hearts are far
from him. There is that which is outward
when inwardly the heart is in another place. They're double-minded. As James says, let him ask in
faith nothing wavering for he that wavereth is like a wave
of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that
man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double-minded
man is unstable in all his ways. He comes unto God and says, Lord,
do this and do that. when his heart is seeking this
and seeking that. He's divided within. One moment
he asks for this and another moment he wants that. One moment
he comes into the Lord's presence and before other people to be
heard and to be seen, seeking the Lord's glory whilst in a
meeting. The next moment he's seeking his own pleasure, his
own glory. He goes this way and that way,
he's blown about. He's so affected by the response
of others towards him. He asks to be seen of men that
he might receive their applause and glory. But when men persecute
him, he will go another way. We are so easily affected by
the company we keep. When we come into a meeting and
there are believers there, we will act and talk and pray to
be seen of them one way. Then when we go out into the
world, into our school or our workplace or amongst the company
of the world, who ridicule, So easily our language, our speech,
our desires change. Like a wave tossed about by the
wind, double-minded, sometimes supposedly believing, speaking
as of faith, and other times not. Blown about, led to and
fro by the wind, turning this way and that way. Blown about
in religion by every wind of doctrine. One moment we think
this, another moment we're persuaded of that. Led by the times and
the fashions. Following the influence of men. The trends. The blowing of the
wind. How easily we are swayed. And
yet to turn from Christ, his gospel, to turn from faith alone,
is to turn to our eternal destruction. A double-minded man is unstable
in all his ways. Let not that man think that he
shall receive anything of the Lord. Either God gives you faith,
And that faith will ask for what faith desires, or you will just
utter prayers in an appearance of religion, an appearance of
godliness, saying one thing whilst going another way. How often
Israel of old were like this. One moment God came to their
rescue. One moment God delivered them
from their enemies. And they fell down upon their
faces in thanksgiving and praise. One moment they would cry out,
all that the Lord has commanded that we will do. One moment they
were all for it. And the next moment they were
distracted and led astray. The next moment strangers came
into their midst and led them along this way. The next moment
they were offering up offerings unto strange gods, turning this
way and that way. One moment they sought the Lord
and one moment they sought Baal. So much so that in 1 Kings 18
the prophet Elijah stood up before them and came unto all the people
and said, how long shall ye halt between two opinions? If the
Lord be God, follow him. But if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not
a word. How long halt ye between two opinions? Well, what of you? Elijah should stand there before
you today what of you how long shall you halt between two opinions
if the Lord is God follow him but if Baal then follow him where are you headed likewise Joshua when he led the
people through the wilderness, into the promised land, through
Jordan, stood before the people one day and said, if it seem
evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you
will serve, whether the gods which your father served that
were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites
in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we
will serve the Lord. Will you serve the gods of this
world, the gods of riches, the gods of pleasure, the gods of
status, the gods of prosperity, the gods of the natural man?
Will you serve yourself and bow down to the God of your own glory? Or has God come in the Gospel
to you and said it that way, which seems so wise to you, naturally
speaking, will lead to destruction? Has God opened your heart, like
Joshua's, to say, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord? Has God come unto you like he
came unto Solomon and shown you that you're but a child? You
know nothing. You don't know whether you're
coming or going. You know nothing by nature. All
your knowledge, whether it's natural knowledge or knowledge
in religion, all your knowledge has brought you nowhere. Has
brought you to see nothing, to know nothing. It's brought you
nowhere, it will destroy you. as God made you a little child,
to come unto Him and say, Lord, give me understanding, give me
wisdom, give me salvation. Jesus said, suffer the little
children to come unto me. Except ye come as a little child,
brought down to be nothing, brought down to know that all that you
have by nature, all your natural wisdom, all your understanding,
all your supposed righteousness and good works, everything you
have and do is nothing, except God makes you like a little child. You cannot enter into the kingdom
of God. You lack wisdom. Do you seek
wisdom? If any of you lack wisdom, let
him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraid
if not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith,
nothing wavering. Oh what a statement! God says
here, if you come unto him in faith, ask in wisdom, he will
give it. He gives to all men liberally
and upbraid if not. He'll never turn you away. If
you desire his wisdom, if you desire understanding of the truth,
he'll never turn you away. Consider the context. James moves
on to this statement regarding prayer, regarding the seeking
of wisdom, following on from his discussion of the trials
and the temptations which come the believers way and those trials those temptations
which come upon us when we're brought into trial when sickness
comes our way when bereavement hits us when we lose a loved
one when financial ruin looms when some tragedy or war is at
our doorstep when trials come our way What does it lead us
to do? The faithful are brought in the
midst of these trials to ask God for wisdom. The natural instinct when trouble
comes would be to ask for the trouble to be removed. Deliver
me from this sickness. Give me a job, O Lord. Bring
me out of this trial. It's to ask for deliverance from
the difficulty we find ourselves in. But true faith in the midst
of the trial is brought to ask for wisdom. It's brought the
way that Christ was brought. When Christ, in his hour of need,
faced the judgment of God upon the cross. when he came to Gethsemane,
knowing what he should endure, when he came approaching that
hour of judgment, when he knew that he would bear his people's
sins, a multitude of sins, when he knew that God must make him
to be sinned, that he might make his people the righteousness
of God in him, when he knew the judgment was coming upon him,
when he knew what cup he must drink, when he knew the wrath
of God must pour down upon him in fierce anger because of what
he was made to be, because of the curse that he should become,
because of the guilt that he would have as one who bore the
sins of all his people when he approached that hour and knew
the awfulness of the cup of God's wrath that he must drink. He
prayed, he cried out, if it be possible, let this cut pass from
me. Nevertheless, Lord, not my will
but thine be done. He prayed that the Lord's will
be done. In asking if it be possible let
this cup pass from me Christ knew it couldn't be. He's making
a statement. He's declaring to us it's not
possible that sinners should be saved except I drink this
awful cup. It is not possible that God's
wrath can be spared. It is not possible that sin can
be forgiven by turning a blind eye to it. It's not possible
that Christ can be spared the judgment of sin upon the cross. It's not possible. He must drink
the cup. He knew it. So he said, let thy will be done.
There is that in which he presents to us, that naturally speaking
as a man, this pain was beyond comprehension. This suffering
was unimaginable. He'd rather be delivered from
it, spared it if it were possible. He can't bear it. But he knows by faith. that he must bear it in order
to save his people from their sins, he must drink that cup. So he prays in wisdom, he prays
in faith, he asks in faith, nevertheless not my will but thine be done,
Lord. There's no prayer, there's no
faith like Christ's. There's no example like His. There's no suffering, no trial
like the trial that Christ entered into upon the cross. Knowing this, that the trying
of your faith worketh patience. Let patience have a perfect work,
that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you
lack wisdom, let him ask of God, but let him ask in faith. When trials come our way, only God can give us that wisdom. And that prayer of faith to say,
Lord, Do whatsoever thou wilt. O Lord, this trial is more than
I can bear, but if thou hast sent it for my good, give me
grace to endure. Lord, deliver me if thou choose,
but if thou would bring me through this and give me grace to stand
in the trying hour. O Lord, give me wisdom. give
me discernment, give me understanding, to know right from wrong, to
know that you're in control, to know that you're sovereign,
to know that even these events, you're behind them, you're ruling
over them, you're using them for my good. O Lord, I'd be spared
if I could be, but, Lord, use this for good. If I must go through
this fire, then send me through it and watch over me. Give me
grace to stand in it. Cause me to stand fast in the
midst of it. Be at my side, O Lord. I'd rather be here in the midst
of the fire, knowing that Thou art my God and I am Thy child,
than be delivered and spared it. but left to myself left to my own wisdom left to
my own way in a way which leads to destruction O Lord hear my
cry watch over me Lord if any of you lack wisdom let him ask
of God but let him ask in faith let him ask in faith What does
faith ask for? What does faith ask for? We all
have temporal needs. We all have trials which we go
through. We all have those things which
we will be brought to pray for on a daily basis. Help me with
this, Lord. Deliver me from that, Lord. Watch
over me. Watch over us as we travel. Watch
over my family. Provide our need, Lord. We all
have these temporal needs. But are they really that which
faith asks for? Our Heavenly Father know if we've
need of all these things. He know if we've need of food
and raiment. He knows all that we need. He'll
watch over us. Is this really what faith desires. In Matthew chapter 6, 24 the
Lord teaches that no man can serve two masters for either
he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold
to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Therefore I say unto you, take no fork for your life what ye
shall eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body what ye
shall put on. Is not the life more than meat,
and the body more than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air,
for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feedeth
them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking
fork can add one cubit under his thatcher? And why take ye
forth for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet
I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these. Wherefore if God so clove the
grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into
the oven, shall he not much more clove you, O ye of little faith? Wherefore take no thought, saying,
What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall
we be clothed? For after all these things do
the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knoweth
that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the
kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you. Take therefore no thought for
the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of
itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Seek ye
first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto you. Oh, what a reminder of Solomon.
Christ here even refers to Solomon. What a reminder of him. He sought
wisdom. He sought the kingdom of God.
He sought the glory of God. And God gave him all his natural
need. Faith. Praise. For God's wisdom. Yes, we have
natural needs. Yes, we will pray. But the Lord
will provide. Ask and wait on Him. He will
provide. What does faith really desire? What does faith really ask for?
Faith seeks the Lord. It seeks to know the Lord. It
seeks to walk before the Lord. It seeks to walk with Him, to
hear Him, to commune with Him. Faith needs Christ. Faith needs God. It needs to
walk with Him. Christ Himself lived by faith
throughout all His days. And his constant walk was a communion
with his father. Every day he prayed ceaselessly. Every day he walked in communion
with the father, doing those things which pleased the father.
He was found in the temple in Jerusalem. as a child and his
parents eventually found him there asking questions and answering
questions in the temple and they said what are you doing here
son and he said I must be about my father's business he sought
the glory of God he walked before God he sought his things he communed
with his God so does the child of God Faith
believes, faith trusts, faith waits, faith rests in God, faith
needs to know God. Faith's constant cry is unto
its God. Hear me, O Lord. What does faith
ask for? It seeks the Lord, it seeks wisdom,
it seeks his glory. Faith asks for righteousness,
life, peace, rest, salvation. Seek ye first the Kingdom of
God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added
unto you. If any of you lack wisdom let
him ask of God but let him ask in faith. Do you believe? Do you believe in God's Son? Do you believe that He came for
you? Is He your Saviour? Do you look
unto Christ for salvation? Do you trust in Him alone? Do
you believe that He came in your place and suffered in your place? Do you believe He bore your sins
upon the cross? Is He your Saviour? Do you believe
you're His? If you do, do you believe that
God will truly answer your prayer for salvation. Do you believe
that He is your righteousness? That He is your wisdom? That
He is your everlasting life? That He is your all? Do you believe
He will provide everything you need? Do you desire His glory? Christ says in Matthew 7, ask
and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall find, knock and
it shall be opened unto you. Do you believe that? If you read
that chapter Christ goes on to say, Everyone
that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to
him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there
of you whom, if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or
if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then be
an evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children. How
much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things
to them that ask him? Therefore all things whatsoever
ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for
this is the law and the prophets. Enter ye in at the straight gate,
for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat, because straight is
the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and
few there be that find it. do you ask in faith? Has God brought you to a gate? There's a wide gate, which is
easily passed through, and a broad way that leadeth to destruction. And there are many companions
you can walk with along that way. But straight is the gate. And narrow is the way which leadeth
unto life, and few there be that find it. But those who are given
faith to knock, to seek, to ask, will be answered. Ask, and it
shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened
unto you. What have you asked for? What
have you sought? Do you ask in faith? Christ always
lived, walked and asked by faith. We read that he is the author,
the captain, and the finisher, the object of faith. He is the
one that went before his people in faith. He is the one that
gives them faith. He is the one that their faith
looks unto. What do we see in his faith?
He always walked with his father. He always sought his glory. He sought his glory in redeeming
a people. He came into this world for one
end, to go to the cross, to suffer and to die in the place of sinners,
to offer himself up as a ransom prize, to pay the redemption
fee, to set his people free. He came to suffer in the darkness, under the wrath of God's fires,
under the pouring judgment of God, to have the sword of God's
justice plunged into his very heart, he came to suffer and
to bring forth the glory of God in salvation, as he did so. His glory is seen in the salvation
of his people, his glory is seen in redemption, and His glorious
scene, when Christ, hanging upon the cross, enduring God's wrath,
cast out by all men, forsaken even by His Father because of
what He was made to be, because of the curse, because of the
guilt, because of the iniquity. Because of what he was made to
be in his people's place, rejected by all in the midst of this suffering,
Christ looked unto God by faith. He prayed in faith, he trusted
in faith, he asked in faith, he looked by wisdom unto his
God. He drank that cup. because he
knew it was God's will, God's purpose to save his people. He
knew he must drink it and he must drink it to the very dregs,
he must drink every drop. And he believed and trusted that
as he gave up the ghost, as he went into the depths, as he was
laid in the grave, that through his death everyone for whom he
suffered would be set free. Christ was given a people by
the Father A people chosen before the foundation of the earth,
elected by grace. Their very names were written
upon his heart. He loved them. He loved them
before ever they were born. He loved them when they were
born and went astray speaking lies. He loved them as they hated
him. He loved them as they rejected
him. He loved them as he suffered
and died for them. He loves them throughout their
lifetime. He loves them today. He loves
them as he sends forth the gospel to call them unto grace. He loves
them when they hear and when they're broken by that gospel.
He loves them when they cry out in faith and ask for his salvation. He loves them as he quickens
them unto life. He loves them as he leads them
forth unto glory and he will love them forever. Their names
have always been on his heart. Is your name written upon his
heart, upon his breastplate? Did he love you from all eternity? Does he love you today? Did he
suffer in your place? He believed that through his
death, Everyone for whom he suffered should be saved and would be
saved. He knew that he would see the
travail of his soul and be satisfied. As he suffered, he prayed, he
asked that everyone would come to salvation, that none would
be lost And he knew they would. He knew they would be saved. He knew that none would be lost.
He knew that they would come unto salvation. He knew that
his death would accomplish everything for which God purposed it. He
loved his own to the end. He always lived by faith. He always asked in faith. He always sought. God's wisdom
to you. We see his faith, we see his
prayer, we see his love for his own in John chapter 17. Read there what he said. To close, these words spake Jesus,
lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has
come, glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify thee. As thou has given him power over
all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou
has given him. And this is life eternal, that
they might know thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom
thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the
earth. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And
now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the
glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested
thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine
they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all
things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given
unto them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received
them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they
have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but
for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine, and all
mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world,
but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father,
keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that
they may be one as we are. While I was with them in the
world, I kept them in thy name. Those that thou gavest me, I
have kept, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition
that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now I come to thee, and these
things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled
in themselves. I have given them thy word. And
the world have hated them, because they are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldst
take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them
from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of
the world. Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. As thou hast
sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into
the world. And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word, that they all may be one. as
thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may
be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent
me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them,
that they may be one even as we are one, I in them, and thou
in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the
world may know that thou hast sent me. and has loved them as
Thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also
whom Thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may
behold my glory which Thou hast given me, for Thou lovest me
before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the
world have not known Thee, but I have known Thee, and these
have known that Thou hast sent me, and I have declared unto
them Thy name. and will declare it, that the
love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. Oh, what a prayer. Is that your
prayer? Do you pray for God's glory?
Do you pray for God's people? Do you pray for God's wisdom? Do you pray for righteousness
and everlasting life? This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou
hast sent. Oh, ask in faith that God shows
you Himself, that He should reveal Christ unto you as your Saviour,
as your righteousness, as your hope, as your salvation. as your wisdom.