We'll begin reading at verse
16 of John chapter 3. For God so loved the world that
he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send his
Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world
through him. Whoever believes in him is not
condemned. But whoever does not believe
stands condemned already, because he has not believed in the name
of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict. Light has
come into the world, but men love darkness instead of light
because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates
the light and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds
will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth
comes into the light so that it may be seen plainly that what
he has done has been done through God. Heavenly Father, we ask
that at this time you would be with us to bless us, send your
Spirit to testify of your Son, to work in our hearts that faith
which is the gift of God. Our God, we stand humbled before
you. We are humbled simply in the
thoughts of who you are. For to think upon you and to
try to understand you is much more than our minds can do. We are doubly humbled, Lord,
that you would receive such people as us. That you would desire our worship.
And when we have rendered it, you would receive it. Lord, we have no right in your
presence except that right which is given to us in Jesus Christ.
But through him we have boldness to enter into the most holy place,
there to meet with our God, not in the terrors of judgment, but
in the rest, in the peace, of our home. Lord, the time will come when
you will call each one of us home. Until then, may our hearts feel
at home in your gospel. And may we find a resting place,
even here in this life, in the message of your Son. In
his name we pray. Amen. Now, the word that's rendered
verdict in verse 19 is that word, that Greek word, crisis or crisis. We spoke of it somewhat this
morning. We noted this morning that it can carry the sense of
a turning point. A crisis is a deciding time. That is, a crisis time is a deciding
time, a set of circumstances which allow for only two alternatives. And one's destiny or outcome
hangs upon the decision. Now, one of the things that I
enjoy when looking at history, you know, we watch the History
Channel or something like that and see some event of the past
that had remarkable results and ramifications even
today. And you look at it and you try
to find the crisis point. in that historical event on which
the outcome turned, and sometimes the crisis point seemed to be
a very small thing. A decision that was made, and
maybe it was made right and brought success, or maybe it was made
wrong and brought disaster. In our country's history, I can
think of one crisis that seemed so insignificant at the time,
but the outcome of a war may have hung on this small thing.
When the armies of of the Confederacy and the armies of the Union came
together there at Gettysburg. The South got there first, my
understanding is, and they had an opportunity to occupy the
high ground. I mean, the Union army wasn't
even there yet. And they come upon that place and, you know,
particularly in the kind of warfare they engaged in back then, having
the high ground was very important. But for reasons I cannot remember,
the commander at that point decided not to occupy the high ground,
but to move on to somewhere else. And that little decision, before
the battle even began, was the crisis, was the turning point. Had that Confederate commander
taken that hill, He may have, or the Confederate Army may have
won that, but good chance they would have won that, the Battle
of Gettysburg. And had they won that battle,
very likely they would have carried the war. It's amazing sometimes
to see where the crisis is. The crisis of eternal destiny
is Christ. That's it. It may seem an insignificant
thing to the world. You know, this morning when I
was talking about it, I said it's good that the history of
the world be divided on this crisis point, the appearance
of the Lord Jesus Christ, His birth, life, and death some 2,000
years ago. That's the hinge on which the
world's destiny turns. But you know, in our experience,
In the experience of every person in this world, coming into contact with Christ
is the crisis point. It is the point at which their
eternal destiny is sealed. Now, I understand that man's
eternal destiny was determined before time started, that God
ordained all things. But we don't live in eternity,
do we? We live in time. We don't experience eternity.
We experience time. And we don't need to be afraid
to say that a man's choice determines his destiny. Now, we realize
his choice was determined by God. And his destiny was laid
out by God way back yonder. But so far as our experience
of things are concerned, As we move through this thing called
time, our choices determine where we end up. For instance, let's just take
this example to illustrate. If we're looking for a job, and
two jobs are presented to us, and we make a choice of which
job we will take, and what job we take will determine the outcome. We realize that the choice we
make at that moment was already determined by God, because everything's
already been determined by God, isn't it? But we don't have any
trouble saying, well, I made the right choice, I made the
wrong choice, I made a good choice, and it caused good things to
happen to me. Well, in like manner, even though
we understand that the choice was made by God long ago, the
choice is also made by us in time. And the choice is always
over this, Christ. That's always what the crisis
point of our lives are, Christ. Everything hinges on that. Everything turns on Him. When
one is confronted with Christ, he is confronted with only two
choices, to believe or not to believe, to receive or to reject,
to follow or to rebel. That's the only two choices.
That's what makes it a crisis. It's not A, B, C, and D. It's
A and B. That's all. And the ultimate
destiny hinges upon that choice. There are some crisis moments,
I believe, revealed in Scripture. Crisis moments in people's lives.
Take, for instance, that rich young ruler who came to the Lord
and he said, What good thing must I do to
gain eternal life? And the Lord said, well, you
know, the commandments. And he said, oh, yeah, I know,
I've kept them from my youth up. And then the Lord. Created
a crisis for this man. Says, then go sell everything
you have, give it to the poor and follow me. This man didn't have several
choices, he had two. And they actually concerned Christ. Would it be your riches, or would
it be Christ? Oh, if this man had known. I
realize, of course, what we know in the flesh really won't make
a difference in the end, but you think, if this man had known
the solemn moment that lay before him, how miserably he chose. It says he went away sad because
he was very rich. Isn't that interesting? He went
away sad because he was rich. We always think being rich makes
us happy. It made this man very sad. And at that crisis moment,
this man chose awfully. Now, I do not know if that was
the final and ultimate crisis moment in that man's life. It
may be that God met him again. God is so gracious. But we never
hear about that man again. How about Judas? The Lord has
predicted, he said there at the supper, he said, one of you is
going to betray me. And eventually the Lord said
to Judas, and what a crisis moment is set before Judas, he says,
whatever you're going to do, do it quickly. What are you going to do? You know, he'd already made the
agreement. He'd already conspired. But still, the deed has not been
carried out. He can back away. Now, I know
that it's already been said in eternity. It's already even been
prophesied in scriptures that one of the Lord's companions
was raised up his heel against him. I know it. God's already
set this in motion. But Judas is standing there. And he makes a choice. And for 30 pieces of silver,
he betrays the Lord and seals his doom. And as they said, he
went to his own place. A time of crisis for him. There's
Felix. And the Apostle Paul speaks to
him. And Felix becomes troubled. I
mean, it pricks his conscience what he hears from Paul. And
he says, wait a minute. I said, no, tell you what, I'll
call you at a more convenient time. Do you know what that man did? When he cut off Paul mid-sermon,
the word had become to have an effect on him. And he didn't
like the effect it was having. And he made a choice. And he
made a bad one. He made a choice to cut off the
pain. He made a choice to cut off the conviction. He made the
choice to not make a choice. And you know something? Since
we are already born with a choice made, we're condemned already
to not make a choice. It's to choose against Christ. That's exactly what Felix did.
And as far as we know, that more convenient time never came. and they chose badly. One of
Agrippa, to whom Paul spoke, and he made his arguments, and
you know, Paul, the believer in sovereign grace, nonetheless,
with all the power that he could muster, would appeal to people
and beseech them, be ye reconciled to God. And Agrippa, confronted
with the crisis, said to Paul, do you think that in such a short
you could persuade me to become a Christian. There are some happier crises. Not every crisis turns out that
way. A man's on his way with his own agenda, with his own
purpose of destruction and death, and a voice comes from heaven
and says to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? And
he's confronted with a crisis. The Lord Jesus Christ confronts
him and, as it were, says, stop, choose. I've let you go this far because
you were doing it in ignorance. You didn't realize the choices
you were making by your actions, but now I make it clear to you,
you have taken up arms against me. You are persecuting me when
you persecute my people. You are rejecting me and my gospel
when you reject them preaching it. Now Paul, or Saul, what are you going to
do? This is a crisis with grace.
For that crisis moment was used by God to turn the heart of Saul
into Paul. Sometime before that, when our
Lord Jesus Christ was still on this earth, he had died and raised
from the dead, but there was one of his disciples who would
not believe. His brethren had said to him,
we have seen the Lord, and he in such thought, yeah, right.
I don't know what you saw, but I'll tell you, I'll believe what
you say when I see The wounds in his hands. I'll believe it
then. And so the Lord Jesus Christ
created a crisis. Thomas didn't ever expect to
see the Lord Jesus Christ, but then there he stood. And he held
out his hands and he opened up his outer garment to reveal that
wound in his side. And he said, Thomas, don't doubt,
believe. Here, touch, look. It's me. And Thomas, in that moment, was
brought to a crisis. And by the grace of God, he fell
on his knees and said, My Lord and my God. Hundreds, maybe thousands of
years before that, a man named Job was brought to the crisis. I don't mean by the trials that
he bore. That was not his crisis. That was his trouble, but it
wasn't his crisis. His crisis came when after his friends had
spoken to him and after Elihu had spoken to him and rebuked
him and after he had tried to justify himself and all that,
God spoke. And I believe it's for two or
three chapters. God lays into him. And he says time and time
again to Job, where were you when I did this? When I created
the heavens and the earth, where were you? When I formed the stars,
where were you? Where were you when I made Behemoth
and Leviathan? Where were you, Job? Who are
you? What are you? And Job was brought to a crisis,
and he says, in times past I've heard of you, but now my eye
sees you. And I abhor myself and repent
in dust and ashes. A happy crisis. When we preach, we try to create
a crisis. A crisis point in people's lives.
That is, we try to confront men with Christ, the light of the
world. This is the verdict. This is
the crisis. Light has come into the world, and we do the best
we can to shine that light and create that crisis. Now, fleshly preachers try to
create false crises, false moments of crisis. If you'd been raised
in the religion I was in, you'd know what I was talking about.
They'll preach a message, and then they begin their emotional
manipulation. They begin to try to create an
emotional crisis in you, and they begin to tell stories to
tug at your heart, or stories to create emotions of sadness
and grief, and they play the songs and sing the songs over
and over again, and they're trying to create a crisis and move you
to a particular decision. They try to tell you that it's
all on the line right then. They use the fear of death to
create a crisis. How often at funerals do preachers
try to twist the hearts of the people who attend by laying before
them death? Friends, that's not what creates
the crisis that's important. The crisis is this. Light comes
into the world. That creates the crisis. It's
not the testimony of our death that creates the crisis. It's not the emotional turmoil
created by a drawn-out invitation that creates the crisis. The
crisis is created when the light comes. For it is a crisis between
light and dark, truth and error, Christ and self. That's always
the crisis. And since darkness and error
and self are always there, all you have to do to create the
crisis is bring in the light, the truth, and Christ. And the
crisis is there. We try to preach in such a way
that men feel that a choice is laid before them and that they
are compelled to choose. Brother Rolf Barnard, I believe
it was him, would make this statement from time to time, I'm preaching
for a verdict. You know, I have preached in
some places, not many, but I've preached a few times where the
word was rejected. And I have preached a lot of
times, being that I'm the pastor of this congregation where the
truth is believed, I've preached thousands of times when the word
is received. Do you know what bothers me more
than anything? Not when the word is received
or the word is rejected, but when nothing happens. When men
and women go away from the word unmoved. when they don't feel that a crisis
has been put upon them and that a choice of loyalties must be
made. I rejoice that week after week,
I preach the gospel here. And you know, whenever we preach
the gospel, we lay the crisis. The crisis is laid before you
week after week. At least I attempt to do that.
And you know, the believer, he always chooses right in this
regard. As we'll see here in just a minute, He always comes
to the light. And it's a joy to see it when
every week Christ Himself is presented to you one way or the
other, and you rejoice to move to the light. You know, this choice is not
made once for all. Now, that's the kind of religion
I was raised in, you know. They believe in this thing called
eternal security. If they can get you to sign on
the line, If they can get you all twisted up so that you'll
sign that decision card that's in the pew, or you'll come down
front or whatever, you made the decision, and after that, there's
no backing out. You're in, you know? But faith is not a one-time
event. Faith is a living principle within
the heart of those that are being regenerated. And all through
their lives, they believe. All through their lives, they
choose to follow Jesus Christ. As we sang, take the world, but
give me Jesus. How many times is the believer
confronted with that one? Here's the world. Here's Jesus. And you know, sometimes we stumble
around a bit. I'll admit, you know, we got flesh friends, you
know. But when it comes down to it,
when God brings us to the crisis, He may let us wander around a
little bit, because we don't even realize we've been brought
to a crisis. We don't even realize that we're
choosing wrong in the things we do. And God will give us a
bit of lease. God will allow us to go so far.
But eventually, if we belong to him, if we're chasing after
the world, he will lay Christ there before us and say, all
right, now choose. And we'll say, oh Lord, I messed
up. But you take the world, just
give me Jesus. If I must choose, the choice
is made. We might get trapped into chasing
after our own righteousness and thinking ourselves pretty good
and just like a peacock putting up our feathers, you know, and
bragging to the whole world. Well, we're sovereign gracers.
And eventually, the Lord God will reveal to us that what we're
doing is choosing against Christ. He said, now it's going to be
you, it's going to be Christ. What will it be? And once again, we say,
oh, Lord, you're right. I've been boasting in myself.
I've been bragging on myself. I've been trusting in myself.
Oh, what a fool I've been that I'll tell you who I choose. I
choose Christ and His righteousness. Any day the choice is laid before
me. That's what I choose. Maybe it would do us well if
we could get in a pattern of every morning, creating a crisis
within our own minds, to get up with this. Here's the day
before me. What shall I choose? Which direction shall I go? That
we would pray to God and say, Lord, don't let me be deceived
now. Don't let me follow the world thinking I'm doing okay. Don't let me chase after the
wrong thing thinking that I'm pursuing the right thing. Make
me conscious and aware and give me grace at all times that when
the crisis comes, I choose the right. But having said all that about
creating a crisis, it's really only God that can create the
crisis, because only God can shine the light. And in preaching, we declare
the truth, and hope that God will shine the light, and that
men will be brought to that point when they will choose. And that
with the grace of the light, God will also bring the grace
of sight and the grace of faith, and they will choose correctly.
Now, here is the crisis laid out, the turning point, the hinge,
as it were, on which all things turn. Verse 18, whoever believes
in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands
condemned already because he has not believed in the name
of God's one and only Son. Now, the crisis point is Christ. himself, the him here. And the experience of the crisis
is whether or not we believe. Christ, so to speak, is the fork
in the road. And whether we choose to believe
or to continue on in our self-righteousness and self-confidence, those are
the choices laid out. All men are divided into two
categories, believers and non-believers. Which are you? Which are you? Note that the
presence or absence of faith is the entirety of the criteria. Now, once again, and I like this,
one of the things I like about studying language, we have crisis
and we have criteria, and they come from the same root word. We are at the crisis point, and
here's the criteria, whether or not you believe. We are at
the crisis, the turning point, and here are the choices. Do
you believe or do you not? And isn't that simple? Do you
believe or don't you? Not do you feel like you believe,
but do you believe? Not have you made a profession
of faith, but have you believed? Not do you belong to a church?
Not were you raised by a Christian family? Not, do you belong to
a Christian nation? Do you believe in Him? Is your
trust in Christ? Or is it not? Now, once the Lord speaks, He
speaks fully. For the Holy Spirit to inspire
these words, and yet there be some other criteria than faith. would be for the Holy Spirit
to have deceived. And we know that He won't do
that. The Holy Spirit inspired John to record these words. And these words, inspired by
the Spirit, are the whole of the issue. God didn't leave anything out.
Whoever believes in Him, is not condemned. Whoever does not believe
in him stands condemned already. It is faith and faith alone that
is the point on which this crisis turns. Do you believe or do you
not? With subtlety, the agents of
darkness attempt to corrupt this crisis point. They attempt to
make things that are not faith look like faith. Sometimes maybe
they're not even so subtle and they boldly interject other criteria
than faith. Yes, you've got to believe, but
you've got to do this too. You've got to believe and such
and such. And whenever they add such and
such, they have adulterated, they have corrupted the truth.
And the criteria is no longer so simple. And the criteria is
not the single issue. Do you believe the Son of God
or do you not? But more often, these agents
of darkness operate with the subtlety of their leader, the
devil, who is the best deceiver there ever was. Most of us won't fall for a bald-faced
lie. Boy, you package it right, and
we'll swallow it whole. They'll talk about faith, and
they'll talk about grace, and they use those words, but by
the time they're done, Faith and grace has become works and
self-righteousness. Sometimes their subtlety comes
in this way. Well, we understand that salvation
is by faith. But you know, anybody who believes
is going to live a certain way, and here's the way they will
live. Oh, how subtle is the serpent. to corrupt our minds from the
simplicity which is in Christ. Is there a way that believers
will live? Yes. And I'll hurry and get to
it here in just a minute. There is a way that believers
live. It's not what they say. It's not what these agents of
darkness say. Well, if a man's a Christian,
he wouldn't do that. Well, go tell David. You tell David. Well, if a man's a Christian,
he'll never deny the gospel. Tell Peter. Tell Peter that. If a man said he won't lose his
temper like that, if a man said he won't get drunk, tell Noah. There's not a thing a believer
can't and absolutely will not do. You might find him at any
time doing anything except one thing, which we'll look at in
a minute. But they subtly bring in Something about you in this
issue, other than whether or not you believe. Is it not true
that when they say things like, well, you know, we believe that
salvation is by grace through faith, but if a believer lives,
or if a man actually believes he's going to live like this,
and does that not immediately turn the minds of the people
to how they live? With subtlety, that preaching
gets people back to looking at themselves and concerning their
conscience and their heart with themselves rather than Christ. Here's the crisis, Christ. Here's the experience of the
crisis, whether or not you believe it. This is the verdict. Here
it is. Light has come into the world,
but men love darkness instead of light because their deeds
were evil. Everyone who does evil hates
the light and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds
will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth
comes into the light so that it may be seen plainly that what
he has done has been done through God. Now, I have heard it preached,
and myself have preached this text of Scripture this way. that
everyone who does evil hates the gospel, and he'd never come
to the gospel, because the gospel is going to show that he's done
some bad things. You know something? That's not
at all what this scripture means. Look over here. Now, hold your
place in John chapter 3. Over here in 1 John chapter 3,
I believe, is going to give us a window into this scripture.
to gain some understanding, and it'll make perfect sense. 1 John 3, verse 11. This is the
message you heard from the beginning. We should love one another. Now,
do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered
his brother. And why did he murder him? Because
his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.
I used to look at that and I'd think, now what did he mean?
He murdered him because his deeds were evil. Wasn't his murder
his evil deed? No. It was an evil deed, but
it's not the evil deeds John's talking about. What was the evil
deed he was talking about? Bringing that bloodless sacrifice. That was the evil deed that prompted
Cain to murder Abel. Cain was brought to the crisis,
so to speak. The time of sacrifice came, and
it was laid before Cain. Will you have Christ or will
you have yourself? And Cain said, I'm taking me.
I'm going to bring in the works of my own hands to sacrifice.
And with an evil heart, an evil heart of unbelief, he brought
before the living God the works of his own hands, and it was
called evil. Yet by faith, Abel brought before
the Lord. A sacrifice of blood. And believe
me, Abel understood that that lamb couldn't put away his sin.
By faith, Abel understood that lamb represented one who was
yet to come. But he brought a lamb signifying
that in his crisis, he chose to follow Christ. He chose to
cast his soul upon Christ. And that was called righteous.
Abraham believed God. And it was counted to him as
righteousness. Abel believed God, and it was credited to him
as righteousness. The evil that it speaks of in
1 John was not the evil of the murder. It was the evil of a
self-righteous approach to God. Now let's go back to John chapter
3. Men love darkness instead of
light because their deeds are evil. Natural man is full of
a self-righteousness, which is nothing but self-wickedness.
They are full of a sense of their own worth. And so long as they
live in darkness, that self-worth is encouraged. The dark religions
of this world encourage all their self-morality and all their self-sacrifices
and all their religious duties. And for that, they're able to
pat themselves on the back. But light came into the world.
And what did light do? It revealed that all their righteousness
was nothing but wickedness. And they hated it. Those who
hated Christ, why did they hate him? Who was it hating him? Was it the adulterers? Was it the drunks? Was it the
covetous like Zacchaeus? No. That isn't who hated him. It was the Pharisees. It was
the Sadducees who owned the temple. It was the scribes who made their
living being the experts of Scripture. And they were doing all that
they were doing, thinking themselves to be righteous. And light came
into the world and revealed that their deeds were evil, not righteous. And they hated the light on that
account. Men love darkness instead of
light. Because the darkness of false
religion will never reveal the wickedness of their righteousness. So everyone who does evil hates
the light. It hates the light of Christ.
Everyone who is occupied with the evil of his own righteousness
absolutely despises the gospel. And he will not come to the light.
You cannot make them hear the gospel. Oh, they hear it once,
and as soon as they catch on to what it is you're saying,
they're gone. They're not going to have that.
Oh, they'll shake the preacher's hand on the way out the door.
This has a good message. What else can they say? They
won't ever come back through that door again. Because they
are not going to let the light expose them for what they really
are. The sad thing for them is, there'll
come a day when they can't escape the light. When they'll stand
before Him who is the light, and they'll say, Lord, Lord,
didn't we do this? Didn't we preach in your name?
And didn't we cast out devils in your name? And didn't we do many wonderful works
in your name? And he'll answer them, and he'll
say, I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of
iniquity. They hate the light. But one
of these days, they're going to confront him. But it would
be too late to simply be exposed for what they are with no opportunity
to come to the light that they might be made clean. Verse 21, But whoever lives by
the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly
that what he has done has been done through God. Here's what
believers do. Somebody that really believes
it will affect what they do. And here's what they do. They
have come to the light. They love the light. They rejoice
in the light. They walk according to the truth.
They know what they are. They know that their righteousness
is filthy rags. And they love to come to the
light that it may be exposed that what has happened to them
was by God's work. For they delight in God's work. They rejoice to be exposed for
the sinners they are, because then they can lay hold of the
promise, Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, of
whom I am the chief. They love to come into the light,
because in the presence of the light, they find a way for sinners
to be made clean. They find a way for the dead
to be raised. They find a way for the ignorant
to be taught and the rebel subdued. They find a way of salvation
worked by God, not by man. And when the truth shines on
them and exposes them for what they are, they simply bow before
Him who exposes them and says, Yea, Lord, I'm a sinner. Have
mercy on me. And when they feel guilt arise
within their heart, and let me understand this, guilt is the
product of self-righteousness. That's all it is. He who has
no righteousness of his own has no guilt. Guilt is the product
of self-righteousness, and you know what I love to do when I
feel that guilt and recognize its self-righteous source? Come
to the light and find out that the light told me all along I
was a sinner. And that I don't have to worry
about the fact that I'm a sinner, because there's salvation for
sinners. I don't delight in the fact that
I am a sinner, but I delight in the fact that, knowing that
I'm a sinner, that there is a way for sinners to be saved. My guilt tells me that there
is no real righteousness in me. And so I love the light which
tells me that and affirms it. And I find that what I'm thinking
is in complete agreement with what God is saying. And that
God goes on to say, but your guilt is washed clean in the
blood of my Son. They love to come to the light
so that it be seen plainly that what He has done, that His coming
to the Lord Jesus Christ, has been done through God. That when the crisis point came
and He chose a right, even that was the work of God. Don't you
just love it when the light reveals to you that everything about
you that's Godward was done by God? Don't you just love it when
the light confirms in your heart that your understanding of your
sinfulness was a gift from God given to you, that your faith
in Christ was a gift of God given to you, that your continued perseverance
is a gift of God given to you, that everything you've ever done
or experienced that brought you Godward was a work of God. Oh,
I love to know that, because I also know this, what God has
begun, God will bring to perfection. And if He began a good work in
me, if He shined the light in me, He will keep doing it. Oh,
give me the light. And let me bask in it. And let it reveal me for what
I am and reveal Christ for who He is. For in the knowledge of
those two things, well, it's just easy to choose
a right. when you know who you are and
you know who Christ is. It's one of those no-brainer
decisions, isn't it? It's only when we hide. It's
only when we live in the shadows and the darkness that we don't
know what to do. It's only then that we're confused.
Let us never run from the light. Let's always run to it. That
our deeds may be exposed for what they are. and that all our
self-deeds be exposed for the wickedness they are. And yet
in the light, all the glorious works of God are also revealed,
and we rejoice in them. Our God and Father, oh, send
that light, the blessed gospel light, into us. Reveal Christ. May we live forever in the light
of Him. May we never hate the light. At every point when the crisis
comes, Lord, may we be drawn to the light. It's in the name
of that light that we pray. Amen. Alright, you are dismissed.