We didn't get to spend much time
on verse 23 last week, and I wanted to go back and look at that to
start off the lesson tonight, but it ended up being the lesson
tonight. There's so much in that that we'll only scratch the surface
tonight, but it begs at least the time we'll give it tonight
to consider this glorious truth. You are Christ's. We've already noticed and stressed
who it is that Paul is speaking to in this letter. It's those
who he calls in verse 2 of chapter 1, the church of God, which is
at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus. That's
a particular kind of people that the Lord himself has set apart
in the Lord Jesus Christ, called to be saints. Wait a minute,
wasn't there a vote, you know, to vote us into sainthood? Yeah,
there was just one vote in God. God said, that's a saint right
there. And that was it. That's the vote right there.
That's the qualification, the will of God, not anything in
us. called to be saints with all
that in every place. He mentions Corinth there, but
then he said, included is everybody everywhere that calls upon Christ. Same people. If you're a saint,
I guarantee you, I don't know a lot of things about you, but
I know this. You're daily, continually calling upon the name of Christ
as a saint of God. The name of Jesus Christ our
Lord, both theirs and ours. And so now, in the context of
chapter 3, he says, you're Christ's. And he's talking about glorying
in men, as he has throughout that chapter, and of course,
rebuking these who did so. And he reasons at the end of
the chapter, why would you glory in anything but Christ, seeing
that you have him? and in him you have everything. Have you ever known somebody
in a physical earthly sense that had everything and still found
something to grap about? Yeah, you know me, don't you? What in the world are we thinking
when we ever mumble and grumble about anything? Well, in a spiritual sense, it's
the same to a much greater degree. You have everything in Christ.
The world is yours. Paul said, I'm yours. Apollos
is yours. Peter is yours. All of God's
ministers are given. God gave some gifts to men. Ministers, prophets, apostles,
preachers, teachers. And I'm just one of them. Just
one of them. And he gave you the whole world when he gave
you Christ. Things present, things to come. Life and death, they're
both yours. To live is Christ. To die is gain. And you're going
to find some way. to boast because of our wretched
sinfulness. But what a glorious statement
this is. What would all of this in these previous verses, what
would it be worth? What would the world be worth
to you? What would this life be worth to you? What would all
of the things and people in this world be worth to you apart from
Christ? It would be nothing. It'd be
empty. He got to go here with it. to finish with this because
none of this other stuff means anything without Christ. It's
all included in Christ as we'll see. You are Christ's. There
are those who pretty much own the world in the sense that as
much or more of it than they can ever practically deal with.
But what is that without Christ? There are men who have had other
men dedicated to their constant service, the way that Paul said
that he and Apollos and Cephas were dedicated to the service
of the people of God. But what is that apart from Christ,
to have men waiting on you and serving you? I can't think of
any sense in which life and death and things present and things
to come could be said to be yours, except in Christ. But if they
could be, without you being in Christ. What would you give? Would you give him up to be his,
to belong to him? If you know him, you would. Why
doesn't Paul say it this way? Christ is mine. He's been talking
about things that are ours before this, but then he reverses the
ownership here in this case, doesn't he? Why do you think
he does that? Everything else is said to be mine, but here
the ownership is reversed. Instead of me owning something,
such as the world and these other things, I am owned by someone. Me belonging to the Lord Jesus
Christ and he belonging to me are inseparable realities, are
they not? One cannot be true without the
other. Solomon said in his song, My beloved is mine and I am his.
And then he said it again, he said it in 2.16, and then he
said it again in 6.3. I am my beloved's, and my beloved
is mine. If you take one away, what happens
to the other? They're gone too. You can't separate them. If I'm
Christ's, then he undoubtedly is mine. And if he is mine, then it can
only mean that I am eternally his. But saying it this way is
better, the way Paul said it. Why? He is mine. Here's the reason
it's better. He's mine because I'm his. You understand that, don't you?
And you see, the cause is always worthy of more admiration and
preeminence than the effect. We see that in 1 John 4. Turn
over there with me. 1 John chapter 4 and verse 10. John said, herein is love. This world talks a lot about
love, don't we? We write songs about love. One
popular artist wrote a song called, I Want to Know What Love Is.
Well, if you do, here it is, John said. Herein is love. Not
that we love God. Well, I might surprise some,
wouldn't it? I reckon it would. But it oughtn't. But that he
loved us, that's love. Love is free. It's selfless. Our love's not
that way, is it? So when you're talking about
love, he specifically says not that we love God because our
love is not that way. It doesn't define true love. He loved us and sent his Son
to be the propitiation for our sins. He loved us in that while
we were yet sinners Christ died for us. We don't have the capacity
to love like that. Well John, why do you say this? The strict definition of love
cannot include our love to God. He specifically excludes our
love to God. He takes the trouble to do that.
Why? Look at verse 19. We love Him
because He first loved us. You see the parallel between
what we're looking at in 1 Corinthians 3? We do love God. We do love
God. When the Lord Jesus Christ asked
Peter that question three times, Do you love me? Peter wasn't
dishonest with his Lord. He said, You know everything.
You know that I love you. But the question that Christ
asked Peter there was not, why do you love me? That's a different
matter, isn't it? That's a different question.
He didn't ask him, why do you love me? I imagine Peter could
have answered that question. You think he could have? That's
just me speculating there. I think he probably could have
answered that question. That's not what the Lord asked.
He said, do you love me? He answered the question that
was asked him. But when we speak of love, we must magnify the
cause rather than the effect. And we do, by God's grace. We
love him, and we do love him, but we love him because he first
loved us. Our love is a result of the fact
that he loved us. Now we rejoice in the effect,
but we don't glorify. the effect. We rejoice in the effect, but
it is Christ who loved us and gave himself for us who is worthy
of all the glory. And we do, by his grace, give
him all the glory in that. Not to mention that our love
cannot even be compared to his in quality. That is not even
what we are talking about. We are talking about cause and effect.
Now, similarly to this, I do rejoice in the truth that Christ
is mine. And Paul could have mentioned
that here, it would have been beautiful. He does mention it, in fact,
because it's included. It's inseparable from the fact
that I'm his. And I rejoice in that truth,
don't you? Christ is mine. What do we mean by that? What
did Solomon mean by that when he said, my beloved is mine?
Well, we own him, don't we? That's Lord. When I say that's
my life right there, I say it with a sense of pride. with a
sense of glory and in effect that's my wife. You do that with
your children when they do something good. When they don't it's like
that's your child. When they do something right
it does happen every once in a while. That's my boy. That's my girl. Well in a sense
we say we glory in him don't we? Christ is mine, I own him
as my lord, as my king. That's my king. That despised
one on the cross there. To everybody else he's the offscaring
of the earth. He was defeated and broken and
nailed to a cross but that's my king right there. That's my
lord that you're talking about. I own him as such. He's my savior. I've got no other hope but him.
He's mine. He is my substitute. Without
Him, I am under the wrath of God and have no way out of it.
He is my sin offering. I am guilty before God, but I
have to have an offering. Do you know who my offering is?
It is Christ. Behold the Lamb of God that takes
away the sin of the world. This sinner's sin right here.
He is my sin offering. He is my all. He is everything. All and in all. I have nothing,
I am nothing, I can do nothing without Him. So you see, we do
own Him as ours. Christ is mine. And I willingly
lay hold of Christ, and I cling to Christ. As Spurgeon said,
I've told you this a hundred times, you'll be able to quote
this, I know. Spurgeon said, if I go to Him,
I go there clinging to Christ. Is that your attitude? I'm going
to have to cling to Him. I'm just going to have to. I've
got no other choice. I will not go away. Will you
go away? I will not. Where would I go? To whom would I go? You see what
we say when we say Christ is mine. He's mine. He's mine as
that great gift that God. Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable
gift. When somebody gives something
to you, it's yours. And he's mine in that sense. I'm
like that merchant man seeking goodly pearls. And it says he
found a pearl of great price and he went and sold everything
that he had. And he said, I got to have that pearl. It cost me
all that I have. It doesn't make any difference.
I won't miss any of it because I'm going to have that pearl.
You see, how about you? Have you done that in the case
of Christ? I know that our love is weak and feeble and our faith
is practically non-existent. But those who know, who see Christ
are like that merchant man. Everything else is expendable.
I've got to have Christ. He said, if you come after me
and hate not your father, mother, brother, sister, and your own
life also people tend to forget that last part because they're
like hate your father oh yeah it's obvious what he's saying
there isn't it we're to honor our father and our mother until
they stand in between me and christ and they got to go they
got to go well and but but we forget that last part don't we
in your own life also hating yourself Why do you hate yourself? Because
I stand between me and Christ, don't I? This flesh stands between
me. The Spirit truly is willing,
Christ said. Ah, but the flesh. The flesh. I'll fall asleep. I can't even
watch with Him for an hour because of this flesh. Do you hate that
about yourself? My goodness. So we do lay hold of Him. Well,
we lay hold of Him with all of our hearts. If you believe with
all your heart, and you confessed that when you got in the water,
didn't you? I believe with all of my heart, and I love him and
let hold of him. But there's a reason for it.
That's the effect. He is mine right now, in time,
because from eternity, I'm his. I've always been his. I'm his
right now, I'm always going to be his. Whatever else I am, however
miserable, whatever people think about me, whatever happens to
me, whatever I have to go through, whatever else, I'm his. I'm his. Do you see why Paul said it the
way that he did? Remember the context here. Why
would you glory in anything or anyone else, seeing that you
are Christ's? I want to try to give us, by
God's grace, tonight some idea of the scope, the magnitude of
this glorious, wonderful truth. You are Christ's. It will comfort
your soul if I can give it to you, if God will give it to us.
First, Paul reverses the ownership here for another reason. all
these other things that are yours all these other things that are
said to be yours are yours because they belong to him and since
you're his he makes them yours you see the progression there's
a progression and did you hear what i said he owns everything
he made everything of him and through him and to him are all
things. And because you belong to him
in a relationship of divine, eternal, infinite love, he gives
it all to you. It's yours." That's what Paul
is saying here. I conceivably illustrate this
with the relationship of a father and an adopted son. The adopted
child enjoys the riches, the estate, He eats the wonderful
foods and benefits from all of the means of a wealthy father
that has adopted him. Why? Because he belongs to the
Father. Ye are Christ's. You see that? Because that adopted son is that
Father's son, he enjoys all things. Not because the Father belongs
to him, although he can say, that's my father. He does belong
to him, but that's not why he enjoys everything. It's because
of this. The relationship exists, and
all the benefits of the relationship are enjoyed by the son. They are enjoyed because that
father went down and made a choice and said, that boy right there
is my boy. And he took him to himself and
made him his boy. And because of that, he enjoys
everything that's that father's. That's a little glimmer of an
illustration of what Paul is saying here. You're Christ. He's
already said everything's yours. And now he's given in a sense
an explanation of that and confirming that you belong to the one who
owns it all. Christ said the silver's mine
and the gold is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills is mine.
We've already said of him, through him, to him, all things. He's
given it to us. The world is yours, I'll give
men for you. Why? They're His to give. They're
His to give. They're in His hand and He gives
them freely to His people. And He causes all things, all
possessions, everything in this life, all circumstances, happen
the way they do for you as His people. That's what I tried to
get a glimpse of. I told you it was beyond me,
didn't I? I was telling you the truth. and it's beyond you too,
but if we can get just a glimmer of it Lord just reveal a little
bit, just through that glass darkly if we can just see Christ
as ours and us as His comfort, rest, peace, security, joy everything
we have because of that relationship and that relationship exists
by His will and choice That's what I'm trying to tell you.
I'm trying to tell you, in the spiritual reality of this here,
Christ not only chose us and we belong to him because he did,
but he himself is the benefit. He's the inheritance. He's the
all that we have to enjoy because we're his. Because of him, in
him, by virtue of our relationship to him, all things Listen, turn
to Deuteronomy 32. It's always been this way. It's always been this way. And it's illustrated, the spiritual
truth of this is illustrated in God's relationship to his
earthly people, the Jews. They're not Israel which are
of Israel, but God's dealings with Israel reveal his dealings
with spiritual Israel. So this is good. Deuteronomy
32, 8. When the Most High divided to
the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of
Adam, and He set the bounds of the people according to the number
of the children of Israel, God gave the children of Israel the
promised land. There were people living in that
land. He told them, you go and kill every one of them. Kill
every man, woman, child, and beast. that land is yours. He divided this earth up and
he gave his people the best of it. Why? Verse 9, for the Lord's portion
is his people. It's all ours because we're his,
that's why. That's what he's saying there
now. Jacob is the lot of God's inheritance. Jacob, thou rural
Jacob, supplanter, evil, worm. Yeah, but he's God's worm. And
he found him in a desert land, and in the waste-housing wilderness
he led him about, and he instructed it, and he kept him as the apple
of his eye. Yeah, I'm a worm, but you touch
me, you touch the apple of his eye. My goodness. I'm going to get a hold of this
someday. As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
fluttereth over her yon, and spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh
them, and beareth them on her wings. So the Lord alone did
leave that worm, and there was no strange God with him. all things are ours because we're
his. That's what Paul is trying to
say, and that's what he did say. It's what we're trying to grasp.
Don't think of it now as Christ giving us a lot of things to
enjoy because we're his. That's really not right. Think
of it this way. Because we are his, he is ours. And having him, we have everything.
He is everything. Was Paul exaggerating when he
said Christ is all and all? If you think he was exaggerating,
think about it a little bit longer. From the word of God, I know
you know that. Lamentations 324, the Lord is
my portion, saith my soul. We're his portion and he's our
portion. Therefore, will I hope in him. Paul said the world is yours.
But what is a world without Christ in it? He's not saying that Christ
gave you this earth. What good is this earth apart
from Christ? He's saying that having Him,
we have this whole world. This world exists because of
Him. He made it. And the only thing good in it
is what's Christ and what he did and who he is and his truth
and his glory and the earth is full of his glory or it wouldn't
be worth looking at. Wouldn't be worth living in.
What are his ministers but they who minister Christ and his people.
All of us are yours, Paul said. What good is that apart from
Christ? What is life? Paul said to live
is Christ. What else is life? What about
death? Well, it's just gain. It's just
Christ in a greater sense. We're going to go be with Him
and see Him as He is when we die. So what is death apart from
Christ? Things present and things to
come. He said the things present are yours. Things to come are
yours. What is that? Christ said I'm the Alpha and
I'm the Omega. I'm the beginning and I'm the
end. Yours. Yours. Is He that to you? Is He the Alpha and Omega? Is
He the beginning and the end to you? If you're His, He is.
And He's yours, because you're His. Now, we're Christ in many
senses, and I want to just touch on these. We've talked about
this before, but we belong to Christ in a lot of glorious senses. First of all, He's God Almighty.
He's God. I and my Father are one, He says.
In Psalm 24 it says, as I quoted a while ago, the earth is the
Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and they that live
in it, they that dwell therein. That's you. And as God Almighty,
he owns everything in this world. But more especially and more
glorious to his people were his by election, by choice. Wait a minute, Chris, I thought
it was the Father that elected. Yeah, and the Son. He said, you've not chosen me,
I've chosen you. And the Holy Spirit, the wind
blows where it pleases. Regenerates, saves, He saves
where He pleases. So it's all the fullness of the
Godhead who is engaged in the electing grace of God. And the
Lord Jesus Christ, we're His by choice. We're his because
he picked us out. And then we're his by creation.
Psalm 103, know ye that the Lord, he is God. It is he that made
us. Not we ourselves, we're his people. The sheep of his pasture. We know from John 1, it's Christ
who made all things. Without him, without the word
that was made flesh and dwelt among us, without that word Nothing
was made that was made. And because he made it, he owns
us. We're his. He'll do with us as he pleases.
I'm just glad it pleases him to have mercy. And then we're
his by creation, but we're his by new creation as well. Ephesians 2.10, we're his workmanship. Whose workmanship? His, your
Christ. Created in Christ Jesus unto
good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk
in them. If he hadn't before ordained it, I wouldn't be walking
in them, would you? And we're his by redemption.
Titus 2.14, he gave himself for us. Why did he do that? Why did
God, why did Christ die? Well, he's doing the best he
could, you know, to save everybody. If you'll come to Him, you know.
Well, it says here, He gave Himself for us that He might redeem us,
that He might purchase us out of slavery, and purify unto Himself
a peculiar people, zealous of good works. That word peculiar
there means this, literally, that which is one's own. belonging to one's possessions. Ye are Christ's. He died to see to it. And then we're his by commission.
Dee knows a little bit about this. 2 Timothy 2, 4, No man
that woreth and tangleth himself with the affairs of this lot,
that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. When
he was in the army, Dee, You were theirs, weren't you? They
let you know that pretty often, I'm sure. We're His by commission. We're under commission to the
Lord Jesus Christ. John 20, 21, Then said Jesus
unto them again, Peace be unto you, as my Father hath sent me,
even so send I you. What did he say? Know ye not
that I must be about my Father's business? The Father sent Christ
to accomplish something, to do a work, to be busy about it,
to be diligent about it, to be faithful in it, and to be successful
in it. And He sends us as the Father
sent Him, and He's going to see to it that we're successful in
it. And I'm going to show you that in the Scripture in a minute.
Remember that thought. Christ sees to it that we're
successful. And then by virtue of being given
to Christ, we're His. I said a while ago, somebody
gives you a gift, it's yours. That's the definition of a gift. It's given to you. It belonged
to me, but now I've given it to you. And now it's yours. And John 17, 6, Christ said,
I've manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me. Don't you rejoice in this gospel?
It's a sure gospel. You see, there were some men
that were given to Christ, and he said, I haven't lost any of
them. And he said, I've manifested
my name, I've revealed my glory to them, my character, my person,
to those that you gave me out of the world. Thine they were,
and thou gavest them me. And they've kept that word. They've
kept that word, and he saw to it that we do. He sees to it
that we do. By surety-ship engagement, we're
Christ's. What do I mean by that? That's
a big term there. It's very simple. Christ agreed
in eternity past to be responsible for us. To be responsible for
our sin debt. He didn't sign on as a cosigner
in case we couldn't pay up. He signed on knowing we would
never pay up. He signed on to pay, to pay for
us, to redeem us with his own precious blood. He agreed to
it in eternity. I'll be there surety. John 18, 9, that the saying might
be fulfilled, he which spake of them which thou gavest to
me, have I lost none? What does he mean, have I lost
none? They were given to him as their surety and as being
responsible for them, responsible for redeeming them, for saving
them, for everything to do with them. He said, I haven't lost
any. By suretyship and engagement,
we belong to him. And then as the great shepherd
and bishop of his church, we belong to Christ. Don't miss
this. 1 Peter 2.25, for you were as sheep going astray, but are
now returned unto the shepherd and bishop of your souls. What
is a bishop? Well, it's one of those guys
that wears one of them funny hats, you know. No, that's not
it. A bishop, here's the definition,
an overseer. A man charged with the duty of
seeing that things to be done by others are done rightly. Told
you to keep that thought, hold on to that thought, didn't I?
He's the bishop of your soul. He sees to it that what you do
is right. I can't mess up? No, not in him. Oh, I mess up every day. I mess
up every day. But in Christ, I'm holy and I'm
perfect and I'm righteous and I can't be anything but. A curator, a guardian, a superintendent,
the elder or overseer of a Christian church. Who's the overseer of
the church? Christ. And in that sense, you're His. You're not my people. You're
His people. And then, I've got to say this,
and we could go on. We're Christ in so many, so many
ways. But I've got to say this one.
We're Christ as His beloved bride. Let's turn to Ephesians 5. We've
got to look at that. You want to be comforted tonight?
I do. Ephesians 5.25. Husbands, love your wives, even
as Christ also loved the church. How much did he love it? He gave
himself for it. that he might sanctify and cleanse
it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present
it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or
any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that
loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his
own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord
the Church, for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and
of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave
his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and
they too shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but
I speak concerning Christ and the Church." You know, yes, there's
practical instruction there. Love your wife. He's talking
about Christ in the church. It's the spiritual truth here
that's preeminent. And he's saying the Lord of glory
gave himself and bought his bride unto himself. Like Gomer and
Hosea. One of my favorite gospel stories. He said she's mine. And he bought
her unto himself. And he took her home and said
you're not going to be for somebody else. You're going to be for
me. You are Christ. You're Christ. You're not going to be for somebody
else. While we go there in Jeremiah where we read, there were no
strange gods with him. You're not going to be somebody
else. You belong to somebody else. You belong to me. And then
we'll close. Paul said Christ is God's. Why
does Paul have this statement and what does it mean? I had to look into it. Christ
is God. Paul would remind us here that
Christ as a man, as the man, as our mediator, as our surety,
as our substitute, as our Lord, our Savior, is God's chosen mediator,
surety, substitute, Lord, and Savior. He's God's. He's not Lord because we own
Him as Lord. He's Lord because God made Him Lord. The Father
made Him Lord. God's Christ. You see how that
confirms all of this. It gives security to it all.
He is God's Christ. God's elect. God's ambassador. God's revelation. He's the Word. A Word reveals. It describes.
It opens up. It shows. It tells. And He told the very glory of
God. His person, not just what He
said. He is the Word. The revelation of God. You see,
He's God. He's God's presence with his
people. God with us. He's God's champion for his glory. He championed the glory of God,
didn't he? He said, I'm going to glorify
thou me that thy son may also glorify thee. You talk about
a champion. He went to exalt and glorify
the very character of God on the cross. Reveal the justice
of God, the glory of God, the holiness of God. the mercy of
God, the love of God, the grace. He's God's champion, and he's
our champion. He's the salvation, the security
of God's sheep, of God's elect. He's God's, and this seals the
whole matter. You see that? And it gives confident
assurance to us that all said before in these two verses is
certain and unshakable. You see that? It's rooted in
the very throne of God. Christ alluded to this very thing,
this very idea, this thought in John chapter 10. Turn there,
we're through. John chapter 10. The Lord Jesus
in verse 28, he said, I give unto my sheep eternal life, and
they shall never perish. I give unto them eternal life."
Did you know that Christ is the way, the truth, and the life?
He's saying, I'm giving them myself. We are Christ's and Christ
is ours. All things are ours. Having Christ,
we have all these things. And eternal life is not just
life that goes on forever. It's the quality of it. It's
what he's talking about. The world, present, future, life,
death, eternal life is all of that. And they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. And then he adds this. Have you
ever wondered why? My Father which gave them to
me is greater than all. In what sense is the Father greater
than the Son? In office. At this time Christ
is a man dwelling on the earth and he is the servant of the
Father by choice, by willing agreement, by taking that office
of coming to do his will. And he said the servant is not
greater than his Lord. He taught us that, didn't he?
And so in that sense, in the office that Christ held as our
surety and mediator, he said the Father is greater than me.
We are all in his hand. Ah, does that give you rest?
He's greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out
of my Father's hand. Does that confuse you? Does that make you think, well,
maybe he's not God? Verse 30. I know natural understanding
can't get a hold of this now, but isn't that clear? My Father's
greater than me, but don't forget this. You've seen me, you've
seen the Father. Only His people understand that.
And understanding it we have rest, don't we? Christ is God's. And we're Christ's. And because
we're His, having Him we have all. Because He is all and in
all. Does that come to you? Let's
bow in prayer. Lord, thank you for this glorious
truth. How except by God-given faith could we ever lay hold
of such a thing? Too wonderful to even contemplate,
except as you give us, through your word and by your Holy Spirit,
understanding of what you've said to us here, who Christ is
to us, what he means to us, what it means to belong to the Son
of God. Thank you for the blessing of
getting a glimpse of that tonight. Reveal Christ to us ever more
clearly, Lord. Cause us to just give ourselves to
him more and more. Cause us, Lord, to realize that
Christ is all and all else is vanity. To rejoice in him and
to labor in him. Give us grace, Lord, to do those
good works that you've ordained us to do. We know it's by your
grace alone that we do them. Give us strength. As you've ordained
it, I know that you will. But we do pray for it, Lord.
We acknowledge our need of your grace and your power. Without
the Lord Jesus, we can do nothing. And we desire to be a blessing
to your people. We desire to glorify your name
and worship you in this world. We desire to show forth your
death till you come. We desire for your gospel to
be proclaimed, and we pray for grace to do this. Thank you for
your divine love. Thank you for all these glorious
ways from your word in which we