Would you turn back to Daniel
chapter four? Now, this is a chapter that I
quote very frequently, particularly verses 34 and 35. And at the time of writing, Nebuchadnezzar
was the most powerful man in the world. And this was written
during that time that Israel was in captivity. They had been
brought by Nebuchadnezzar into Babylon, and they were there
for 70 years. They'd been rooted up from their
land. And there were five different kings mentioned that ruled over
them. There was Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar,
Darius, Ahasuerus, and Cyrus, who brought them back to Israel.
But Nebuchadnezzar was the first. And I said, he was the most powerful
man in the world. And I believe that the Lord saved
this man. This man is actually used to
write scripture. And that's remarkable. This heathen
king, God revealed himself to him and he is used to write scripture
as we see. Now, what he is telling us is
what God taught him. Verse one, Nebuchadnezzar, the
king, unto all people, nations, and languages that dwell in the
earth, peace be multiplied unto you. I thought it good to show
the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward
me. Now I've entitled this message,
When God is the Teacher. When God is the teacher. In John 6, verse 45, the Lord
Jesus quotes Isaiah 54, 13, as it's written, they shall all
be taught of God. Now, who is the all? Everybody
he's taught. All of the elect, all of those
who believe. If you are saved by the grace
of God, God himself has been your teacher. He may have used
instrumentality, but you were not taught by a man. You were
taught by God. That's why you believe when God
is the teacher. And beloved, when he teaches
you, you're taught He never fails in his teaching. I've heard people
say so many times, God's trying to teach me this. No, no, no,
no. God doesn't try to do anything. If he teaches you, you're taught. And this is what those that he
has taught believe. Now he says in verse three, how
great are his signs, how mighty are his wonders. His kingdom
is an everlasting kingdom. Earthly kingdoms never last,
they're temporal. United States, I believe by the
Lord's mercy is the greatest country in the world. I believe
that. And it's not gonna stay that
way if the Lord doesn't return first. Kingdoms come, kingdoms
go. They're never gonna last. They're
temporal, they're temporary, but His kingdom is eternal. It has no beginning and it will
never end. I love it in John chapter six,
when the people tried to take the Lord and make Him king, He
refused them. No man's going to make Him king.
He is the eternal King. And notice Nebuchadnezzar said
his dominion, that is his sovereignty. That's what the word means. What
is sovereignty? His absolute control of everything. Now you can't take that too far.
It means God is the cause of whatever you're talking about.
If you talk about creation, God is the cause. He spake the world
into existence as an act of His own will. If you talk about providence,
whatever's taking place, God is the cause. The only reason
it happened is because God willed it to happen. I know somebody's
gonna say, are you saying God's the author of sin? Well, I'm
saying there wouldn't be any sin unless he willed it to happen.
I will say that, he's in control. I know that when Adam fell, it
was because it was God's will for him to fall. In the day you
eat thereof, you shall surely die. Let me show you a passage
I read this morning. I was just reading in Judges.
I'd read this before and I'd forgotten about it, but look
in Judges chapter 14, 13. No, 14. Verse one, and Samson went down
to Timnath and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the
Philistines. Now, he was forbidden in the scripture to go after
a woman of the Philistines. It was sin and it was wrong on
his part. There was no justification for
it. He was committing a sin when
he did this. And he came up and told his father
and his mother and said, I've seen a woman in Timnath of the
daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore, get her for me
to wife. Did his father and his mother
said to him, is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren
or among all my people that thou goes to take a wife of the uncircumcised
Philistines? And Samson said to his father,
get her for me for she pleases me well. But his father and his
mother knew not that it was of the Lord. The Lord was controlling
this. That he, the Lord, sought an
occasion against the Philistines. For at that time, the Philistines
had dominion over Israel. Now God was using this to use
Samson to destroy the Philistines. What Samson did was wrong. What
Samson did was sinful. No way he could justify it and
say, well, God and his sovereignty caused me to do that. You can't
do that. But this was of the Lord. just like everything else
in Providence is. The king's heart is in the hand
of the Lord as the rivers of water. He turneth it wither,
soever he will. The lot is cast into the lap,
but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. When we speak
of God's sovereignty in Providence, that means he is the first cause
behind everything. And you know what? If you love
him, that'll make you happy. You'll be glad. Now, if you don't
love him, you won't like that. You'll find out all kinds of
objections to it, but if you love him, you'll be glad it's
that way. And God's sovereignty is most
especially seen in salvation. He said, I will have mercy on
whom I will have mercy. And whom he will, he hearteneth. That's the truth. That's who
God is. The Lord reigneth. I love that
passage in Acts 4 27 of a truth. Both Herod and Pontius Pilate
and the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together.
Listen to this for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined
before to be done. Now, how clear is that? Everything
they did to Christ, when they were nailing the spikes in his
hands and feet, when they thrust the spear in his side, all they
were doing was what God's hand and counsel determined before
to be done. Now, this is who God is. His kingdom is an everlasting,
eternal kingdom, and his dominion from generation to generation. Now, if you love him, you love
this. This is an issue of love, how
you respond to this. If you don't love him, you will
not love this. But all who love him love the
absolute sovereignty and kingship of God. Now let's go and read
verse four. Nebuchadnezzar is gonna tell us what happened. I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest
in my house, and flourishing in my palace. I was happy. You
know, people say everybody's thirsting for God. They just
got a hole in their heart that only God can fill. Not Nebuchadnezzar. He was doing just fine. He didn't
have any need for God. He was happy, flourishing, resting
in his house. Things were great. Verse five. I saw a dream which made me afraid. The Lord intervened and changed
his happiness. And the thoughts upon my bed
and the visions of my head troubled me. I didn't understand what
I saw, but I know that my happiness departed. Therefore made I decree
to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they
might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream."
Now, listen, you and I, are not going to understand what God's
Word says unless He makes it known. Now you can just write
that down. Anything you truly understand,
He has made known. You will not know the interpretation,
you will not know the meaning, unless He makes it known. And He didn't make it known to
any of these astrologers or soothsayers or magicians, the wise men, of
this place. Then came in the magicians, the
astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers, and I told them
the dream before them, but they did not know. They did not make
known unto me the interpretation thereof, because God wasn't a
teacher. They didn't know. But at the last, Daniel came
in before me. Now, why was Daniel last? You
remember in chapter two how he made known to Nebuchadnezzar
the interpretation of the dream? And he even told him what the
dream was. Nebuchadnezzar couldn't even remember what the dream
was. He said, tell me what it was and tell me what it means.
He told him what the dream was and what it meant. And you'd
think he would have been the first person that Nebuchadnezzar would
have called in, but he's last. He's last. But at the last, Daniel
came in before, whose name was Belteshazzar. They changed his
name according to the name of my God. and in whom is the spirit
of the Holy God. And for him, I told the dream
saying, Oh, Belchadar, master of the magicians, because I know
that the spirit of the Holy God is in thee and no secret troubles
thee. Tell me the visions of my dream
that I've seen in the interpretation thereof. He'd done it before
and he was expecting him to do it again. Verse 10, Thus were
the visions of mine head in my bed, I saw, and behold, a tree
in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
The tree grew and was strong, and the height thereof reached
unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.
That's how big it was, it covered the earth. The leaves thereof
were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and it was meat for all.
What a serviceable tree this was! The beasts of the field
had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in
the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. What a tree! I
saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, a Watcher
and Holy One came down from heaven. I suppose this is an angel. It
could be a pre-incarnate appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ. But
he didn't understand what this was. He called him a Watcher.
And the holy one came down from heaven, verse 14, and he cried
aloud and said thus, you down the tree, cut off his branches,
shake off his leaves and scatter his fruit. Let the beast get
away from under it and the fowls from his branches. Nevertheless,
leave the stump. It's going to be cut down, but
leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band
of iron and brass and the tender grass of the field. and let it
be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the
beasts of the earth, and the grass of the earth. Let his heart
be changed from a man's, and let a beast's heart be given
unto him, till seven years pass over him." Now, this is the dream. The tree is cut down, seven years,
it turns into a beast. It had no understanding. This
man was given a mental disease of some kind. I've read different
things. Some say this was schizophrenia. I've read other things. I don't
know. But God took his mind away and
he was given the mind of a beast. Verse 16, let his heart be changed
for man's and let a beast's heart be given unto him and let seven
times, seven years pass over it. This matters by the decree
of the watchers and the demand by the word of the holy ones
to the intent. Here's what is going to be learned
from this. This is what happens when God
teaches you to the intent that the living may know. Now note
the living. There's dead, they're not gonna
know anything, are they? They're not gonna understand,
but the living. Those God gives life to, when he teaches you,
this is what you know. This is what you believe from
the very depths of your heart. You know this is so. If you have
life, only the living know this. The dead have no understanding
of this. Really, the dead have no interest in it, but the living
do. This matters by the decree of the watchers and the demand
by the word of the holy ones that the living may know that
the most high ruleth in the kingdom of men. Us, everything that's
happened to us today, the world. The Most High ruleth in the kingdom
of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over
it the basis of men. Now the Most High rules, this
is a reference to the absolute sovereignty of God. He rules in the kingdom of men. Whatever happens among men, he
is the cause. His will is always done. Whatever it is, it's the Lord. I love what Eli said. When Samuel said, God's gonna
kill your two sons, he said, it's the Lord. Let him do what
seemeth him good. When those men came up and cursed
David, or Shemai cursed David, and Abshai said, let me go take
his head off. David said, the Lord said, curse
David. He's doing what the Lord told
him to do. Now understand this, everything
is under the complete control of God. There is, now listen
to me. There is no such thing as free
will. Let me repeat that. I want you
to hear this. There is no such thing as free
will like men do what they will to do. Now, what do I mean by
that? Men have a will. No question about that. You have
a will. Your will is your desire, it's
your intent. Everybody has that, but the will
is controlled by your nature. You see, your will is what you
really are, what you really want, what you really desire. Now,
if you have an evil nature, you have evil desires, don't you?
And your will is controlled by your nature. There is no such
thing as free will. The nature controls the will.
If you have an evil nature, your evil nature controls your will.
If you have a holy nature, God has a holy nature. God is not
free to sin, is he? He's not free to tell a lie.
He's not free to be unjust because it's against his nature. He's
holy and his will is holy. His will is controlled by his
nature. Now, your nature determines your
will and God's will is sovereign over the actions of men, over
the free actions of men. over the things men do what they
want to do. When you do something, it's not like you feel some kind
of force making you do it. You do what you want to do. You
always do what you want to do. But God is in complete sovereign
control over the free and uncoerced actions of men. And God works
in his people, Philippians 2.13. It's God that worketh in you.
both the will and to do of His good pleasure. Now, all men have
a will, no doubt about that, but how much ability do you have
to make sure your will comes to pass? You don't have any ability
to make sure your will comes to pass. You might have a will,
you might want something, you might desire something, you might
choose something, but you have no ability to make it come to
pass. And we're actually taught to
have this in our very fiber of thinking. If the Lord will, we'll
go do this and we'll go do that. If the Lord will, we ought to
think that with regard to everything we think we want to do. I want
to do this. If the Lord will, we realize we have no control
over anything and he has absolute sovereign control. Now, God has
a will. You have a will, God has a will.
Here's the difference between us and God. God has the ability,
omnipotence, to always make his will come to pass. And with regard
to everything, the Most High ruleth. in the kingdom of men,
and gives it to whomsoever he will, and sets up over it the
basest of men, including Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar was found out
that he was one of those basest of men that God had put in control. Now, when God is your teacher,
here's what you're taught, among other things, but here's where
we're beginning. You're taught that God is God. That He really
is God, not in words, only. but he is the cause of everything. And isn't that comforting? To
know that everything that's taken place, he is in control of it. He never responds to anything.
He doesn't act, he simply wills and it happens. And he gives
no account of his matters. Now verse 18, this dream, I King
Nebuchadnezzar have seen, Now thou, Belshazzar, declare the
interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom
are not able to make known unto me the interpretation, but thou
art able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee. Now he's
given this dream of this great tree that fed the earth, being
cut down, all the animals leave it, the stump is left, it goes
seven years, and it represents him being given mental disease
of some kind where he went out and lived like a beast, lived
in the woods. They drove him from the kingdom.
And let's go on reading verse 19. Then Daniel, whose name was
Belteshazzar, that's the name they called him when he was brought
from the Jerusalem and placed in Babylon and they gave him
a new name. When he heard this dream, he
was astounded for one hour. He was upset. He was amazed. He sat there for an hour and
his thoughts troubled him. The king spake and said, Belchazar,
let not the dream of the interpretation thereof trouble thee. Belshazzar
answered and said, Daniel, that's Daniel, my Lord, the dream be
to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine
enemies. I don't want this to be the case regarding you. I
really don't want this. He loved this man. And he wanted
the best for him. And when he heard this dream,
he knew he's in trouble. Verse 20. The tree that thou
sawest, which grew and was strong, whose height reached unto the
heaven and the sight thereof to all the earth, whose leaves
were fair and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for
all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose
branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation. It's thou,
O King. Thou art grown and become strong,
for thy greatness is grown and reacheth unto heaven, and thy
dominion to the end of the earth. The Lord has put you in this
powerful position. And whereas the king saw a watcher
and a holy one coming down from heaven saying, you the tree down
to destroy it, yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in
the earth, even with a band of iron and brass in the tender
grass of the field and let it be wet with the dew of heaven
and let his portion be with the beasts of the field till seven
years pass over him. This is the interpretation. O
king, this is the decree of the most high God, which has come
upon my Lord, the king. that they shall drive thee from
men, you the most powerful man on the earth, they'll drive thee
from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field,
and they shall make thee to eat grass as an oxen, and they shall
wet thee with the dew of heaven, you're gonna stay outside, and
seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the Most
High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever
he will. God is going to do this to you. He's gonna teach you. And you're
gonna know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men
and gives it to whoever he wills to give it. Verse 26, And whereas they commanded to
leave the stump of the tree roots, thy kingdom shall be sure unto
thee after thou shall have known that the heavens do rule. Wherefore, verse 27, that's what
God's gonna teach him, the heavens do rule, God is God. Wherefore,
O king, Let my counsel, this is my advice, be acceptable unto
thee. Break off thy sins by righteousness, doing right, and by showing mercy
to the poor. It may be a lengthening of thy
tranquility. It may be, who can tell? If you
do this, if you do what's right, and if you start showing mercy
instead of being so harsh, maybe this will happen a long time
from now. Who can tell what God is going to do? That reminds
me of the king of Nineveh when he said, when the Lord said,
when Jonah said, this place is going to be destroyed in 40 days. And he said, who can tell? Who
can tell? If we ask the Lord for mercy,
who can tell? Verse 28, all of this came upon
King Nebuchadnezzar. And at the end of 12 months,
a year later, He walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
Maybe he forgot about this dream. Verse 30, the king spake and
said, is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house
of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of
my majesty? What an incredibly stupid, insolent
thing to say. Nebuchadnezzar. Who do you think
you are? What pride and arrogance do you
really have such a high opinion of yourself? Now, when a man
has that high opinion of himself, what kind of opinion does he
have of God? Very small, if anything. Oh, look at this kingdom that
I've made myself. Oh, this is for my honor. And
this is for my majesty. Nebuchadnezzar, you're a fool
to make such a stupid, insolent statement as that. But he did.
He was so high on himself. And wherever you have high thoughts
of yourself, you'll have low thoughts of God. He obviously
did. Verse 31, while the word was
in the king's mouth, before he finished the sentence, there
fell a voice from heaven saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee
it's spoken. The kingdom is departed from
thee. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall
be with the beasts of the field. They shall make thee to eat grass
as an oxen, and seven years shall pass over thee until thou know
the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever
he will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled
upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men, and
the grass as an oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of
heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagle's feathers, so matted,
and his nails, his fingernails and his toenails look like bird
claws. And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven,
and mine understanding returned to me." Just like God said it
would. This is gonna last seven years
and you're gonna learn something. And he did. He said, my understanding
returned unto me. And what did he do? I blessed
the most high and honored him that liveth forever. whose dominion
is an everlasting dominion and his generation, his kingdom from
generation to generation. Now this is what God taught him.
His dominion, he's God. It's from generation to generation.
His kingdom is forever. And let me repeat this statement.
If you love him, you love this. And if you don't love him, you
don't love this. This is a matter of loving God
as he is. Somebody says, well, I don't
love that God. Well, you don't love God then. And he's in control
of that too. The very thoughts you have, he's
in absolute control of. I love thinking about that. The
thoughts going through your mind right now, he's the cause of. either for grace or for judgment.
I don't know which, but he is the cause of, he is an absolute
control. He's God. He's God. I love preaching
this God. And what else did he learn? Verse
35. And all the inhabitants of the
earth are reputed as nothing. Now he found out who God is.
He's God. And this is what happens when
God teaches you. You find out that he really is God, and you
find out who you really are, and who all men really are. Nothing. Nothing. If a man thinks himself
to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. When Paul spoke of himself, he
said, in nothing am I behind the chiefest apostles, though
I be nothing. Now, beloved, it's a good thing
to be nothing. Because it's only when you are
nothing that Christ is all to you. If you are something, Christ
is not all to you. But if you are nothing, Christ
is all to you. I love that verse. I am a poor sinner and nothing
at all. but Jesus Christ is my all in
all. Now, in my salvation, I'm nothing. He's everything. How about you? In my election, God chosen me
before time began. It didn't have anything to do
with Him seeing anything in me that made me savable. Oh, he'll
be a preacher one day. Oh, no, no, no. Chosen in Christ. Christ is everything
in my election. In my redemption, listen, I had
nothing. No cooperation on my part. He
did it all. He paid all the price. I did
nothing. He did it all. Jesus paid it all, all the debt
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. In
my justification, I guarantee you I was nothing in that. I
had no hand of contribution in that. He made me righteous. He took my sin and made it his
sin. And he took his glorious righteousness
and made it mine. And in this glorious transaction,
I did nothing. In my regeneration, when I was
given life, I didn't ask for it. I didn't have any life. I
was dead. He said, live. And I lived. I did nothing. Now, in my preservation, the
only reason I've persevered up to this point is because he's
preserved. Not because of any strength on
my part. If he'd take me all the way to heaven and say, all
you gotta do is make the last step, I'd crash down to hell
and you would too. He is all in my preservation. And when I stand before God glorified, perfectly conformed in the image
of Christ, he is all and I am nothing. You see your calling,
brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many
mighty, not many noble are called, but God's chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the wise, and the base things
of the world, and the things which are, what, nothing, not,
to bring to naught the things that are that no flesh should
glory in his presence. I love the way Isaiah says, all
the nations are counted as a drop in the bucket and the dust of
the balances. It's so insignificant, you don't
even bother to knock it off. It's not going to make any bearing
on the weight of something, the small dust of the balances. How much do our wills affect
anything? His will is death. He doeth according to his will
in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth,
and none can stay his hand. No one can thwart His will. No
one can stop His will. Won't you let Jesus have His
way? That's blasphemy. He has His
way. Nobody can stop Him. Somebody
says, He's a gentleman. You've got to open up the door
of your heart. No, He'll crash it down. Nobody's going to keep
Him out. He's God. His will is always done. He'd
do it according to His will in heaven and right here on earth.
Somebody said this to me in the last year, don't you want to
see the Lord reign completely? He does. He does. None can stay his hand or say
unto him, what doest thou? Give an account for yourself.
Do you know the Lord doesn't answer to mere you? He doesn't know
you in the explanation. He gives no account of these
matters. And I love Romans 9, one of my favorite chapters in
the Bible, where Paul said, therefore, hath he mercy on whom he will
have mercy? And whom he will, he hardeneth.
Thou wilt say unto me, why? Why does he yet find fault? Who
has resisted his will? If he hardens me, how can he
find fault with me? Because he did it. How can he
hold me responsible? Why does he yet find fault? I
love Paul's answer, nay, but old man, who are you to reply
against God? Do you feel like God's moral
superior that you can sit in judgment on what he does? Whatever
he does is right. Now, let's go on reading. Verse 36, at the same time my reason returned
unto me, You know, man's religion is so
unreasonable. It's so irrational. It's so silly. And he said, well, at the same
time, my reason returned to me when I saw who rules and for
the glory of my kingdom, mine honor and brightness returned
unto me. My counselors, my Lord sought me unto me and I was established
in my kingdom and excellent majesty was added to me. Now I, Nebuchadnezzar,
praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works
are truth. No lies, no error. I love what the Lord said about
himself. I am the truth. You know, I've seen where athletes
have called themselves that, the truth. Really? I don't think
so. He is the truth. And all his ways are judgment. His throne shall not the judge
of the earth do right. And those that walk in pride,
Like me, Nebuchadnezzar says. Those that walk in pride. Now,
what is more unreasonable than pride? What is more base than
pride? What's more of a lie than pride?
Oh, look what I've done. What do you have that you didn't
receive? Who made you to differ from somebody
else? Those that walk in pride, God
hates pride. Christ hates pride. God resists the proud and he
gives grace to the humble. He loves humility. Now I wanna
close this by looking at Luke chapter 18. Those that walk in
pride, he is able also to abase. I wanna show you someone who
walked in pride and someone who walked in humility. Verse nine. And he spake this
parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were
righteous. It's called self-righteousness. They trusted in themselves that
they were righteous. And what happens with everybody
who does that? They despised others. They looked down upon
others. They looked at others and said,
at least I'm not that bad. I may not be perfect, but at
least I'm not like so-and-so. Verse 10, two men went up into
the temple to pray. The one a Pharisee, a religious
man, a separated man. and the other a publican, a man
who made his living dishonestly, collecting taxes for the Roman
government, the most hated man in all of the land. The Pharisee, the religious man,
stood and prayed thus with himself. I love the way the Lord lets
us know this prayer never reached God. He thought it was, but he
was praying thus with himself. He was completely ignorant of
the character of God. God, I thank thee, not for mercy, not for grace,
not for the forgiveness of sins, I thank thee that I'm not as
other men are. Extortioners, unjust adulterers,
or even as this publican. Now I need to say this, those
things that he said he was not guilty of, he was guilty of.
It's a lie. He was an extortioner. He was
unjust. He was an adulterer. Anytime
somebody starts telling you about what all they don't do, they're
lying. They're lying. He was. I fast twice in the week. I give
tithes of all that I possess. And the publican Standing afar
off would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but
smote upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful. God, be propitious is the actual
word. Do something about my sin. God,
be merciful to me, the sinner. I tell you, this man went down
to his house justified, rather than the other, for everyone
that exalts himself shall be abased. And he that humbles himself shall
be exalted. Give him the walking pride the
Lord knows how to abase. That's what somebody learns when
God is their teacher. Let's pray. Lord, we ask in Christ's name
that you would be our teacher by your spirit. Teach us who
you are. Teach us who we are, and teach
us to humble ourselves and not walk in pride. Enable us to look
to Thy dear Son as all in our salvation. Let us see our nothingness
just enough to see that He is all in our salvation. In His
blessed name we pray, amen.