Okay, as you can see by the title
of this treatise, we're going to be talking about a specific
attribute of God. And just as a few prefacing remarks,
may I say to you that to rightly contemplate the eternal being
of God is an evidence of having experienced receiving a revelation
of Him through His Word by His Spirit. It may be said that to
rightly contemplate the eternal being of God will make the difference
between whether one truly confesses Christ as being the Savior, their
Savior, or whether one merely professes Christ in an attempt
to convince themselves and other fallen beings that they are Christians. A profession of Christ is very
serious business. It's an announcement that constructs
a personal platform of an exceedingly important and vital consideration. For it is a statement that one
makes that constitutes an individual claim that one is indeed an eternally
redeemed and adopted child of God. The question is, however,
is this claim being made out of speculation or genuine personal
experience? In other words, does one speak
of the character of the Christ of God as really and truly knowing
Him? Or do they do so because they
picked up a general religious understanding of the things of
God and His true children so they can converse about them
in a sort of glib and easy manner? If one's profession of Christ,
quote unquote, means a spiritually granted knowledge of God, a sanctifying
knowledge of the three persons of the Trinity, an acceptance
of a sinner with holy, holy, holy God, a union with Jesus
Christ in a cleansing of the conscience from sin by His blood,
the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, a living right now in the flesh
by the faith of the Son of God who loved and gave Himself for
you, if this is one's profession, one's claim on Christianity,
it is indeed a very serious matter for consideration. It is very
serious to profess things if one does not possess these things,
or should it be said, if one is not truly possessed by these
things. The confession of the psalmist
from Psalm 69 verse 5 is this, O God, Thou knowest my foolishness,
and my sins are not hid from Thee. The all-seeing eye of God's
omniscience sees and knows the truth of this very serious matter. Now to the paper in front of
you. It's my constant prayer to God that he give to me the
message that he wants to deliver through me. That's the case here
and now. I pray that you will find yourself
being instructed in the faith of Jesus Christ as we together,
by the leading of the Holy Spirit, contemplate a little of the greatness
of the all-seeing eye of God. The scripture says from Acts
15, verse 18, known unto God are all his works from the beginning
of the world. Of all the attributes of God,
the fact that He is omniscient is one of the most expressive
attributes of His eternal character. And to those of you who have
that extra page, you go to there. Ephesians 1, verses 5 and 6 declares
of God's dealing with us these things, having predestinated
us And the tense used here substantiates absolute predestination, having
predestinated us unto the adoption of children, or literally the
sonship, by Jesus Christ, who is the eternal Son of God, to
himself. according to the good pleasure
of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein,
that is, in His eternal good pleasure and the eternal praise
of the glory of His grace, He hath made us accepted, or literally
has dealt graciously with us in the Beloved. Ephesians 1.11 then goes on to
substantiate this truth when it says, in whom also, that is
in Christ in eternity, we have obtained an inheritance. Again
the tense used here serves to authenticate an already completed
occurrence. We have obtained an inheritance
being predestinated, completely corroborating what is communicated
in verse 5. It's absolute predestination
according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after
the counsel of His own will. That is, eternal God in accordance
with His eternal will and purpose, is the source of the power that
is performing right now in present time everything that the great
Almighty Triumvirate has determined and purposed to be done. That's
going on right now, beloved. This truth was presented in the
Holy Spirit-inspired preaching of Peter at Pentecost, where
God's omniscience is specifically referred to. Acts 2.23, Peter
says, Him, that is Christ Jesus who he's talking about, who he's
preaching, being delivered. That verbal phrase means presently
given up. by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God." That is by the eternal determination
of triune God's omniscience. Him being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken and by wicked
hands have crucified and slain. When he says, you have taken,
he speaks in the very present tense. So we see eternity unfolding,
unfolded in time. Now back to the treatise. God's
omnipresence, well, the rest of this, God's omnipresence and
power perform his eternal purposes, but it is his omniscience that
conceives, decrees, and then determines all that He has eternally
done. Time, present time, is the staging
arena, the platform upon which God has determined to display
all that He has purposed to be done in eternity for His eternal
glory. His omniscience is profound in
that it penetrates into the very fabric of the eternality of His
purposes. God Himself states this truth
quite plainly, Isaiah 14, 24. The Lord of hosts hath sworn,
saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and
as I have purposed. so shall it stand." Regrettably,
however, the omniscience of God is grossly understated and even
purposefully ignored where human fallenness is concerned. Fallen
human reasoning cannot even compute what it means to be continually
scrutinized inside and out from beginning to end by the all-seeing
eye of an holy, omniscient God. For example, Psalm 139 makes
such descriptive statements as, verse 1, O Lord, Thou hast searched
me, or literally, intimately examined me and known me. Verse 2, Thou knowest my down-sitting
and mine uprising. You understand. In other words,
the evidence of really and truly knowing is understanding. You
understand my thought afar off. For there's not a word in my
tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether." Verse
6, such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot
attain unto it. It's inaccessible. Verse 17,
how precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God. How great is
the sum of them. If I should count them, they're
more in number than the sand. What exactly, therefore, is the
verse really telling us when it says, known unto God are all
His works from the beginning of the world? Why was James led
of the Holy Spirit to make such a remarkable announcement as
this? The immediate context of this verse is the fresh realization
that God has revealed His eternally saving claim on a chosen people
that is multinational. and not just Jewish. Acts 15,
verses 7-9 tell us, And when there had been much disputing,
and that's disputing concerning the increasing numbers and numerous
occasions of the Gentiles coming into repentance and faith in
Christ, Peter rose up and said unto them, Men and brethren,
you know, or literally, you are quite acquainted with the indisputable
facts and you understand. How that a good while ago, and
he refers to Acts chapter 10, God made choice among us that
the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and
believe. And God, he says, which knoweth
the hearts, or literally God who is the heart knower of all
mankind. A confirmation of this is Psalm
33, 13-15. Flip in your Bibles quickly to
there and you will read these words. The Lord looketh from
heaven, he beholdeth all the sons of men, from the place of
his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
And then it says, "...he fashioneth their hearts alike." No exception. "...he considereth all their
works." And Acts 1.24, Luke, uses the same expression. They
have God who knoweth the hearts. And Peter brings this out. He
says, "...and God the heart knower, bear them, the Gentiles' witness,
in giving to them, the Gentiles, the Holy Spirit, even as He did
unto us Jews." Verse 9, he declared, "...and He put no difference
between us and them." Very revolutionary. Very radical to the ears of the
racially biased Jew. And Peter says the common denominator
is this, literally, having purified their hearts by the faith. And that's the faith of Jesus
Christ. Peter in verse 11 makes the additional astounding statement
of conclusion. Literally, he said, but by the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved in the
same manner as they also. Now literally, what he's saying
here, when he uses the word saved, I want you to understand the
tense of it. It's an infinitive aorist. Now, you know what an
infinitive is in English, is a verbal noun. It's taking a verb and the action
of that verb, whatever the action is, and turning it into a thing. And what we're talking about
is the action of God's saving our souls. And Peter is saying
that our souls, we believe, are saved souls by the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ, just like theirs. That the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ they were witnessing from all eternity. This grace
is being manifested in time, right in their very present time,
right in front of their faces. The salvation of the Gentiles.
And Peter realized, If our salvation isn't exactly like that, then
we're not saved. That's what he says here. Or
we believe to be saved ones by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Or we believe that we indeed are saved ones by the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter made this Holy Spirit inspired
declaration. And then there came a profound
period of silence that fell upon everyone who was there. There
was much disputing going on, bantering back and forth. Blood
pressures were raised. Peter stands up and he says,
men and brethren, and he utters forth these words under the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit. And it closed the mouths of every
gainsayer in the room. silence, profound silence, a
silence that was only to be broken by James, who spoke up and said,
and this is Acts 15 verses 13 through our verse 18. James says, men and brethren,
hearken unto me, listen to me. Simon hath declared how God at
the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them or to take
out from all other nations. You see, Gentiles is a word that
doesn't pertain to a specific nationality, but to any other
nationality other than Jewish. It refers to the every race,
kindred, tongue, and tribe other than the Jew. That's a part of the elect. And
here, James is drawing attention to and pointing directly at the
elect of God in the Gentiles to take out from among other
nations a people, he says, for His name. Verse 15, And to this
agree the words of the prophets, as it has been written. Then
he quotes from the prophecy of Amos, After this I will return,
and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down,
and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up.
And they have seen that take place. This was right before
their present eyes. And then he declares what Amos
declared. He just quotes Amos, that the
residue of men, God said, might seek after the Lord and all the
Gentiles upon whom my name has been called. Pentecost happened
right in the location of the temple of Herod, the resurrected
temple, reconstructed temple. That's where that great sermon
that the Spirit of God spoke through Peter that brought forward
the omniscience of God to the present day and pointed to the
wicked hands that took the Lord and Savior Jesus to the cross. And as James continues to quote
Amos, who's speaking the words of God Himself, who are saying
that the residue of men, not just Jews, the residue, the rest
of mankind and its types and kinds might seek after the Lord. And all the Gentiles upon whom
my name has been called, saith the Lord who doeth all these
things." Amos was the one that God chose to utter forth, this
is what I will do. This was prophesied and this
is why verse 18 comes with such forcefulness. Known unto God
are all his works from the beginning of the world or all his works
from eternity. It is God's omniscience that
settled the matter of the fact of what was right then happening
in and among them and all around them. Acts 15.12 reveals to us
how Paul and Barnabas related their wonderful experiences in
evangelizing the Gentiles. James then brings out how God
declared in advance through the writing of His prophets that
this time would indeed come to pass. Surely as I have thought,
the Lord of Hosts says, so shall it come to pass. And James is
led of the Holy Spirit to declare that God from all eternity has
purposed all of His works in regard to the salvation of all
His elect. Your salvation, my salvation
are coming to faith in Christ Jesus. The revelatory experience
that makes up The substance of that happening in your life,
in my life, God from all eternity had purposed that work. Known
unto God was that work from back then. His omniscience guaranteed
it's coming to pass. Surely, as I have thought, God
says, so shall it come to pass. All of God's works of saving
grace have been completely accomplished from the beginning of the world
through the eternal Son of God. The sinful flesh of all fallen
mankind, on the other hand, does not really want to even think
about the fact that nothing that happens is independent of God's
omniscience. Nothing of men that is willed,
wanted, or worked out ever escapes God's all-inclusive omniscience. He foreknew that it would be
because He predetermined that it should be. And He has in essence
described all that we are or ever will be in His holy word. We are described in this book,
these pages. His word is a holy mirror that
gives forth a true reflection of the very state of our souls. He sees us, each one, through
and through. He knows us, each one, even better
than we know ourselves. Our entire being, from the very
origin of our physical existence, when we were nothing but unformed
substances, Psalm 139 brings forward. Along with our ultimate
spiritual experience after this life is over. has been seen and
known, purposed, fixed, and accomplished in complete accordance with the
word of holy, holy, holy God. In fact, it is holy scripture
that dogmatically declares, Know ye that the Lord, He is God. It is He that hath made us and
not we ourselves. Holy Scripture also explains
in no uncertain terms that in Him we live and move and have
our being even right at this moment. Every breath that we
take is an act of God. We are here in this fallen world
because He has indeed eternally purposed a place for our existence.
And He being God, as He alone is, having purposed a place for
us in the existence of His vast creation, has also seen to it
that each of our destinies have been determined according to
an accountability that we have to His Holy Word that none of
us can escape having to face up to. and accountability for
each of us to be a fulfillment of what His Word describes of
a sinner that is lost or a sinner that is saved by grace, one or
the other. A sinner that lives out his time
here in this world serving only himself or a sinner that by God's
grace lives to serve and glorify the Savior, Christ Jesus. Once
again, his word of truth says from Hebrews 9, 27 and Romans
14, verse 12, and as it is appointed unto men once to die and after
this the judgment, so then every one of us shall give account
of himself to God. And it is most certain and sure
that a holy and just judgment will take place upon our God-ordained
and totally accountable immortal souls. The Word of God boldly
and plainly attests regarding all of His saved ones that His
purpose and grace which was given to them before the world began
is now made manifest or is now revealed by the appearing, by
the revelation of our Savior Jesus Christ who has abolished
death and brought life and immortality to light or literally life and
incorruptibility to life through the Gospel. the gospel of the
glory of Jesus Christ. Nothing escapes God's omniscient
notice. He does not overlook even the
most trivial of aspects concerning that which makes up our whole
lives. The deepest, darkest secrets
of our hearts are entirely exposed to the sight of His holy eye. This is true of every man, woman,
or child in and throughout all the generations of the history
of fallen humanity. All of us are held in strict
account with that which his holy word describes. For it is descriptively
written concerning his holy word. The Word of God is quick, or
living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents
of the heart. My beloved, this includes the
very willingness, the very willingness of human behavior. The next verse
says, neither is there any creature that is not manifest, that is
not revealed in his sight, his omniscient, all-seeing eye. But all things are naked and
open to the eyes of him, it says, with whom we have to do, which
literally means to whom we must give account. What exactly does this mean about
who we really are in this fallen world? This means that one is
either a lover, a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, or they
are not. It's as simple as that. The foreboding
reality of our current culture that at present time claims so
much to be Christian is that people's beliefs about the Lord
Jesus Christ are so much inundated with iniquity. Perversions of
the truth, as it is in Jesus. And the fact is that these perversions
of the truth directly concern what the Word of God plainly
teaches is the only true, pure, and sound doctrine of the gospel
of God's grace. And errors and heresies serve
only to further defile the already flesh-oriented mind of fallen
man, to further confuse his flesh-oriented judgment, to further corrupt
his flesh-oriented affections. This is true of all unregenerate
believing sinners of iniquitized Christianity everywhere. It is in the reality of this
situation that makes it so profound to realize that God's holy omniscient
eye, His most penetrating gaze of perfection, sees clearly the
truth of this matter among us and within us. His word from
Isaiah 64, verses 6 and 7 says this about us, but we are all
as an unclean thing. And all our righteousnesses are
as filthy rags. And we all do fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the
wind, have taken us away. And there's none that calleth
upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee.
And beloved, our accountability to his word of truth is just
waiting to be revealed and reckoned upon us. Therefore, since the
Bible plainly states that whatsoever is not of faith, and that's the
faith of Jesus Christ, is sin. What a day of reckoning that
will truly prove to be. God has manifested God has revealed
His pure word of truth, His holy word of faith in His eternally
beloved Son, who is our Lord and Savior, Jesus. John was inspired
by the Holy Spirit to declare from 1 John verses 1-3, he wrote, That which was from the beginning,
or from eternity, which we have heard, which we have seen with
our eyes. This is the hearing ear and the
seeing eye of Proverbs 20, 12, that are both from the Lord,
that alone experiences Christ, which we have looked upon, he
says, and our hands have handled. He goes another step further,
which we experience firsthand during our lifetime in this world
of the Word of Life, or that life which is the divine source
of our accountability to God, even the very Son of God Himself. For the life, John writes, that
is the only life that truly pleases God and is accepted by God into
holy heaven was manifested or revealed and we have seen it
and bear witness and show unto you that eternal life. The word
show there means literally to announce. This is the gospel
that's coming out of the ink in his pen, out of his mouth,
out of the breath of his lungs. that eternal life which was with
the Father and was manifested again, revealed unto us, that
which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you." Same word
for show in the previous text. Announce that we announce unto
you that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly, our fellowship
is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. Beloved, John
writes after this fashion concerning the Lord God that was personally
revealed unto him. Before God can be known by fallen
man, God must reveal Himself unto him. And this revelation
of Himself, He has done. He has accomplished in Jesus
Christ. Triune God sent the Son of God
into this world to be the Son of Man. The God-Man was sent
into the age of sin and death, where we are, to do this work
of divine revelation unto certain fallen sinners in this fallen
world. There's no getting around this
truth. These certain fallen sinners are all that comprise God's elect
unto eternal salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ is God's
true and only perfect representation of God before sinners of this
fallen world who have been chosen to receive the revelation of
Himself. And He is the true and only perfect representation before
God of sinners. who also have been chosen to
be redeemed, reconciled, and saved by Him. His representation
as being the eternal Son of God is made before sinners He has
saved to show them that He is their Savior. His representation
as being the eternal Son of Man is made before God on behalf
of these same sinners in order to show God that these are His
saved ones. This truth is so important for
us to come to understand, especially when we contemplate the omniscience,
the all-seeing eye of Almighty God. Proverbs 15.3, boldly declares
that the eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the
evil and the good. And as far as that's concerned,
it is written in the record of Scripture during the reign of
Asa, the king of Judah, around 940 B.C., these words, for the
eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to
show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect
toward him. But the one and only omniscient
God has this to say of the heart of fallen man. The heart of fallen
man, he says, is deceitful or literally is crooked, is fraudulent
above all things and desperately wicked or incurably sinful. Who can know it? And then he
himself, God, answers the question. He says, I, the Lord, search
the heart. I try the reins. That is, dear
ones, he sees the inward parts and the downward depths of the
sinfulness of our hearts. And he says he searches the heart,
he tries the reins, even to give every man according to his ways
and according to the fruit of his doings. We're accountable. The heart of fallen man is altogether
corrupted by sin. And it is holy God that sees
it and says that it is so. What a solemn reality this indeed
is. Your heart, my heart, with all
its unspeakable pride and all of the depths of its deceitfulness
and fraud is completely exposed to holy and just God. There's not a wish that rises
up from within us against God or a thought of our mind that
revels in rebellion against His sovereignty that goes unnoticed
by Him with whom we have to do. This naturally raises the question
as to which one of us then has a heart that is perfect toward
God. Indeed, Ecclesiastes 7.20 boldly
declares, There is not a just man upon
the earth that doeth good and sinneth not. In Ezekiel 18.20,
has God telling us, the soul that sins, it shall die. Now these are two terse statements
of undeniable and inescapable truth. Is it any wonder why the
2nd and 3rd verses of the 14th Psalm declare, the Lord looked
down from heaven upon the children of men, that is, the omniscient
eye of holy God thoroughly scrutinized all the sons of Adam to see if
there were any that did understand and seek God. He said, they are
all gone aside. They are all together become
filthy. He said, there is none that doeth
good, no, not one. This describes all of fallen
humanity without a single exception. Unless there come to pass a major
transformation that affects all of our entire being in a state
for all of eternity, it is certain that we will be eternally lost
to a most miserable and unfavorable judgment. The very next phrase
of Holy Scripture from this same psalm poses a most foreboding
question. It asks, have all the workers
of iniquity no knowledge and call not upon the Lord? Holy God must render a holy justice
upon anything and everything that is unholy. It is impossible
for Him to do anything less. Think about it. The omniscient
eye of God's holy justice examines thoroughly everything that makes
you to be who you really are in your entire fallen condition. Every unbelieving thought, every
wicked desire, every selfish and covetous motive, and every
idle word that is uttered is a focal point for the execution
of the holy justice of omniscient God. Do you believe this? Whether you do or not is irrelevant
to the fact of its reality upon all of us. When we are murdering
someone by hating them, the all-seeing eye of God's justice beholds
that murder. When we are casting untoward
looks, whatever they are, whatever the context, the all-seeing eye
of God's justice sees those looks. When we are caught by God's gaze
with covetousness in our hearts, even for just a brief second,
our whole eternity is by this determined to be done. And when
God, by His Holy Spirit, truly reveals the reality of this truth
unto you, you will suddenly experience and discover that you do have
a conscience in regards to the way that you live in this fallen
world. And that's a good thing. You
suddenly have an awakened conscience of thinking, an awakened conscience
of speaking, because now it is realized that you have an accountability
before God that is directly related with and to a pure, uncompromised
knowledge of His Holy Word. A knowledge of His Word of Truth
of which you were before so ignorant. And this Holy Spirit revealed
knowledge of the truth is not so much a knowledge that you've
gotten a hold of, but rather it's a knowledge that has gotten
a hold of you. And by that hold on you, it changes
you. For with this Holy Spirit given
and grace obtained knowledge of God, you cannot think and
speak of things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ in the same
way that you used to think and speak. You don't dare to do that. Purity permeates and pervades
the performance of your whole being, your whole person. Praise
the Lord. Being enlightened to the omniscience
of God illuminates the reality that sinners desperately need
a Savior. The Word of God reveals that
God's justice is most glorified, praise His name, in His salvation
of sinners, sinners such as we are. And in short, the explanation
of this truth is this. And there is one God and one
mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave
himself a ransom for all. And in these words, Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners. 1 Timothy 2.5, 1 Timothy 1.15. Here indeed is another inescapable
aspect of God's omniscience, namely, that the all-seeing eye
of His inflexible and His infinite justice upon sin and certain
chosen ones of all the sinners that sin has made is focused
not on them at all, but upon the man, Christ Jesus, their
mediator. He it is that gave himself to
be their ransom. The Word of grace and truth of
the faith of Jesus Christ declares concerning Him, who His own self,
bear our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead
to sins, should live unto righteousness. 1 Peter 2.24. And again, the
Word of God plainly puts it, for He hath made Him to be sin
for us who knew no sin. that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him, 2 Corinthians 5.21. God's all-seeing eye of
justice sees Him as our sin, as well as the fact that it beholds
us as the pure, the precious, and the pristine righteousness
of Jesus, whom alone holy God is pleased All of this is viewed
by God upon, in, and through the eternal person and work of
His beloved Son. In fact, it is in and through
the context of the person and work of Christ as being the propitiation
for elect sinners that the truth that declares known unto God
are all His works from the beginning of the world comes forth. He,
Christ Jesus, the eternal Son of God, is alone, worthy of all
the glory for the eternal salvation of His entire church. God Himself
boldly declares from Isaiah 45, verse 21, Who hath declared this
from ancient time, or from antiquity, or from eternity? who have told
it from that time, or more literally, from that place before time. Have not I the Lord? And there's
no God else beside Me, a just God and a Savior." He is both
the distributor of divine justice and the only Savior from its
full execution that there is. There is none like me, he says. And again, from Isaiah 46, verses
9 through 11, he says, for I am God and there is none else. I am God and there's none like
me. declaring the end from the beginning
and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,
my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. Yea, he says,
I have spoken it. I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it. I will also do it. that God's
justice and grace are both brought into perspective where the sinner's
salvation through the person and work of Christ is concerned. Both His justice and His grace. It has to be this way. It cannot
be any other way. The word of His perfect justice
and grace declares, the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity
of us all. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. He hath put him to grief. When
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days. He
shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied by
his knowledge. shall my righteous servant justify
many, for he shall bear their iniquities. Isaiah 53, 10 and
11. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but unto thy name give glory for thy mercy and for thy truth's
sake. Wherefore should the heathen
say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever He hath
pleased." Psalm 115, 1-3. Praise God, beloved. He has done
it. And He has done it from all eternity,
for all eternity. This is indeed the way that He
in His holy omniscience sees it. And may we by His grace be
granted to see it this way too. For the fact is, the foundation
of God standeth sure, having this seal. The Lord knows them
that are His. And let everyone that nameth
the name of Christ depart. from iniquity, 2 Timothy 2.19. Now the God of hope fill you
with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope through
the power of the Holy Ghost, Romans 15.13. Amen.