Morning, everybody. Turn, if
you would, to Mark chapter 10. Mark the 10th chapter. The story
we're going to consider this morning is the story of the rich
young ruler, and that from Mark's perspective. I'll tell you right
on the offset, the overwhelming theme of this story is the blinding,
debilitating, and ultimately damning effects of self-righteousness,
unless the Lord intervenes. That is the overwhelming theme
of this story. Now, with that being said, let's
start off with just being honest with ourselves for just a few
seconds. We are all self-righteous, are we not? Beginning first and
foremost right here. Somebody says, how? How can a
believer be self-righteous? How's that possible? It goes something
like this. Maybe I come into a little extra money for the month. The
Lord just freely gives me a gift, and he puts it in my heart to
give just a small portion back to him. So I write out the check.
I walk back to the box back there. I drop in the box. I turn around
and walk away, and a little voice creeps up. It says, look at what
I just did. Man, I must be on the right track.
Self-righteousness. Let's say I got a brother or
sister in Christ that I've seen fall into a very grievous sin,
and I sit back and say, can a real believer act like that? We talk about this thing of total
depravity all the time, but when I say things like that or when
I think things like that, how much do I really believe it? As evil and as wicked as that
is, as evil and as wicked as we are, that is not the self-righteousness
that's talked about in this chapter. Self-righteousness that's talked
about here is self-righteousness before God. For a man stands
before the Lord with good works, perceived good works, good merits,
and personal ability, good things that originate from him, that
he believes the Lord will find favorable. That's the self-righteousness
that's taught here. And if the Lord doesn't bring
a self-righteous man to repentance, to repentance from dead works,
and give him a heart of faith, eyes, to see the Lord Jesus Christ,
that man will perish in his own self-righteousness. That's how
serious this thing is. So if you would, let's just go
verse by verse, and let's see if I can just make a few comments
about some of the things we're going to look at here. Pick up
in verse 17, let's look at this man's approach. Verse 17, and when he was gone
forth into the way, there came one running and kneeled to him. Now, we'll stop there for a second.
This looks good on the offset, right? This man came running,
seemingly with some urgency, seemingly with a great interest.
He kneeled to him, seemingly humble, seemingly respectful.
But now, this man will do what every man does when he comes
to the Lord Jesus Christ. He will make a confession about
who he perceives Jesus Christ to be and what he needs. Go back
reading. And asked him, good master, What
shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? We've got a little
problem there, don't we? Good master, teacher. Not Lord. Not Messiah. Not the Savior.
Not God himself. Teacher. You're a good man and
I'm a good man. And what I need here is information.
Information. What shall I do to inherit eternal
life? You're a good teacher and I need
information. I have ability. I just need you
to put me on the right track. We've got a problem there, don't
we? Now let's look back, let's look at a man who had a successful
coming in this exact same chapter. Look down at verse 46, this chapter.
You all know this story. And they came to Jericho, and
as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number
of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the
highway side, begging. And when he heard that it was
Jesus of Nazareth, He began to cry out and say, Jesus, thou
son of David, have mercy on me. Big difference from the way Bartimaeus
came and the rich young ruler came. Bartimaeus says, Jesus,
thou son of David. Now all Jews received a religious
education, even the poor and the blind. And one thing all
Jews knew was that the Messiah was coming. And they knew what
physical lineage he was going to come through. It was the line
of David. That's what Bartimaeus is saying here. Jesus, thou Son
of David, you are that Christ, you are that Messiah, you are
that Savior. All those Old Testament types, they all pointed to this
one, this God, who's passing before me right now, this Jesus
of Nazareth. He knew who he was coming to.
He was coming to the Lord, coming to the Savior. And he didn't
need information, he needed mercy. Why not information? It's because
Bartimaeus was blind. You could sit next to Bartimaeus
on that street corner, wherever he was. Say, Bartimaeus, here's
how you see. What you do is you open your eyes and you look and
you'll see all these wonderful objects and these things called
trees and colors and things like that. And Bartimaeus would sit
there and shake his head. What good is this going to do
me? My friend, the problem is not information. The problem
is inability. I'm blind and I can't see. And it's two problems we see
with the rich young ruler, right off the bat. Number one, he had
no idea who Jesus Christ is. The Lord hadn't revealed himself
to this man. The other problem he runs into
is this, he came to the Lord with ability. What shall I do
to inherit eternal life? And if you come to Christ with
your own ability, understand this, you exclude yourself from
his ability. Now look down at verse 18, this
man's going to be met with a rebuke. And Jesus said unto him, Why
callest thou me good? There is none good, but one,
that is God. So what's the Lord saying here? I love the fact
that the Lord never argues with men. It's completely beneath
him. And he's not going to argue with this man right here. What
he does do, though, and this is scary, he meets this man on
the grounds he comes to him on, and he applies the principle
of if-then. He says, OK, if I'm not to you, God. If I'm not the
Savior, if I'm not the Messiah, and I'm just a man, why would
you call me good? There's none good but God. And
this rebuke is very similar to the same rebuke he would give
the Pharisees. You remember the Pharisees would come to the Lord, they'd
have these schemes trying to entangle him in his words and
these lies. And how would he always answer
them? Have you ever read? Give them the scriptures. And this is the same thing he's
saying to this rich young ruler. He's saying, you're religious, right?
And you have the Old Testament, right? Clearly you've read that.
What about Psalm 14 through? What about they've all gone out
of the way? They've all become filthy. There's none that doeth
good. No, not one. You've read that, right? You
can imagine being, put yourself in the rich young ruler's place
right now, right? He's rich, he's young, and he's in charge.
Rich young people who are in charge are not used to rebuke.
No doubt he is reeling from this rebuke. No doubt he's thinking,
this is not what I had in mind. This is not what I expected.
See, he came running to begin with. Why? Because he thought
he was going to get a pat on the back. He thought the Lord was
going to look at him and say, you've done so good. Look at
you. You're a model right here. You've done fantastic. But all
of a sudden, he's met with this rebuke. And he's reeling from
this rebuke. But if you notice in the text
here, the Lord doesn't give this man any opportunity to rethink
his strategy. Doesn't give him any opportunity
to come a different way and say, well, maybe I came the wrong
way. Maybe I need to come differently. No, he says, you've gone down
this road. You'll want to come on the grounds of what you shall
do. And I'm going to meet you on those grounds and I'm going
to answer your foolish question. Now look down here at verse 19. The Lord answers his question,
do you want to come this way on the grounds of what you shall
do? Verse 19, thou knowest the commandments. You want to come
on those grounds, here you go. Keep the law. You know them,
you have the Old Testament, keep the law. But you keep them in
every aspect of your character all the time. You keep them in
action and deed. You keep them in thought and
imagination. You keep them in intention and motive and will
and desire and affection. In every aspect of your character
at all times, every time, keep the law. There you go. You want
to come to these grounds, that's your commandment. Now, look at
verse 20. This man is going to expose his
true blindness. And he answered and said unto
him, Master, still didn't know who he was talking to. Master,
all these have I observed from my youth. Keep the law. I've kept them. Notice this,
though. I don't detect any insincerity
in this man. He's not telling the truth. No man has kept the
law, not once. No man ever has. But I don't detect any insincerity.
He really did think that he had kept the law. He was really under
that impression. Why? Because he was blind. He
was absolutely and utterly blind. Now, a moment ago, we considered
Bartimaeus. And what was the one thing that
Bartimaeus had going for him? He knew he was blind. And he
had a great need. And he knew he couldn't satisfy
his own need. If Christ doesn't give me the sight, I'm not going
to see. He's blind. He knows it. And he has a great
need. The rich young ruler's blindness is so great, though,
that he doesn't even know he's blind. And since he doesn't know
he's blind, he doesn't know that he has a great need. What good is a physician to a
man that's not sick? Nothing. Now, there's two types
of blindness the scripture talks about. There is a good, God-given
blindness, and there is a negative, judicial blindness. The blindness
of the natural man. There's a story that illustrates it. Turn to
John 9. Look at verse 39. John 9, 39, pick up there. And Jesus said, for judgment
I'm coming to this world, that they which see not might see,
and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the
Pharisees which were with him heard these words and said unto
him, are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, if you
were blind, you should have no sin. But now you say we see. Therefore your sin remaineth. Here is a good blindness. This
is a good God-given blindness. If a man looks inside himself
and he can't find any reason that the Lord would look favorably
upon him in and of himself, if he is blind to himself, I can't
see anything good about me. This old heart is evil and everything
I do is evil simply because it comes from me, because of its
originating source. I can't detect any goodness. I'm blind to myself.
That's a good blindness. Because that man actually sees.
He sees things as they really are. That there is no goodness
inside you. And that man is given sight.
He can see that only in Christ the Father can find favor with
him. And that man who can only see
wickedness and evil and sinfulness, no good in and of himself, that
man has no sin. Looking to Christ, he has no
sin. The Lord Jesus Christ has put away that man's sin. That's
a good blindness. Blind to self, but eyes for Christ. That's a good blindness. Here's
the other blindness, the judicial blindness of the natural man.
If a man can see, if he can look inside himself and he can see
good works, moral behavior, ability, merit before God, good things
originating from me. That man is actually blind. He's
blind. He does not see things for what
they really are. And he's blind to Christ. He's
blind to his own sinfulness. He doesn't understand his nature
and what he is by nature. He's blind to it. He's blind
to who the Lord Jesus Christ is. Completely and utterly blind
to him. I won't take a lot of time talking
about this, but He was blind to the attributes of the Lord.
There are particular attributes about the Lord that I absolutely
love, and I know we'd be wrong for enjoying one attribute of
the Lord over another, but there's a couple I want to mention. His
sovereignty. He couldn't see that he's the sovereign, that
he rules and he reigns and he controls and everything that's
happening is just happening according to his purpose. I love that. I love being able to see that
about our Lord. Couldn't see that he's all-knowing.
He's all-knowing. Why does he know everything? Because he's
predetermined everything. He's written a book, and at the end
of the book is a period. The book's already been written.
What's going to happen tomorrow? Whatever's written on page 5,947, it's all
been written out. He's all-knowing because he's
predetermined everything. He is love. Love. Love so much for sinners that
he would give his own life, like John said this before, a willing
sacrifice for sinners, for people who by nature hated him. This
man couldn't see any of these wonderful attributes of who the
Lord was. Finally, he was blind to the
law, the true purpose of the law. What is the purpose of the
law? It's not a means of salvation, one purpose of the law to expose
that we can't keep it. That's it. This man was blind and he
was completely and utterly in the dark. The Lord's going to
give him the true commandment though. Look over verse 21. Mark 10 verse 21, Then Jesus beholding him loved
him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest. Let's stop right
there for just a second. Now, was the Lord saying that
because of this man's seemingly moral and ethical outward behavior,
he was just 99% there and he just needed one thing? I mean,
you're just so good, you know, you just lack one thing, you're
almost there, buddy. Is that what he means here? we know that's
not the case. This thing, this statement, one
thing thou lackest, this can be made, this is an accurate
statement that can be made to any man outside of Christ. You
go to the most moral and ethical individual that's ever walked
this earth, who is outside of Christ, go down to the prison
system, the most malicious and violent serial killer and rapist
that's on death row, who is outside of Christ, and you say the same
thing to him. One thing thou lackest. Now,
One thing, right? But in our experience and through
the scriptures, I need much more than one thing, right? There's
tons of stuff I need. I need mercy. I need the Lord
not to give me what I rightfully deserve and what I've earned.
I need grace. I need the polar opposite. I
need the Lord to give me what I have not earned and what I
do not deserve. I need the forgiveness of sins through the shed blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. I need the Lord Jesus Christ
to have bore my sins in his body. on that cross, to have bled and
died for me and my sins, and to have put them away, so much
so that the Father doesn't even remember them anymore. How could
God not remember something? Because it does not exist. It's
gone. How desperately I need that.
I need a real righteousness. Not a pasting, not a covering.
I need a real righteousness, the righteousness of Christ imputed
to me. So real, through my union with Him, that when the Father
looks at me, says, He really is righteous. It's real. I see nothing but my blessed
Son. I need that to be real. I need a righteousness. I need
life. I need life. My experience, mostly through
this life, is an experience of death. I feel dead most of the
time. Let's be honest with you. I need spiritual life. I need
the Lord to breathe spiritual life into me. I need a new man,
and I need all the spiritual gifts that accompany that new
man. All of them. I need many things as a sinner,
but if you look at all these things we need, and we just scratched
the surface, if you condense them down to one thing, you will
arrive at one whom? Christ. Man has Christ, he has
everything. If a man has not Christ, he has
nothing. The Lord said, I am the way,
the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father except
by me. He's everything. That's what he's saying to this
rich young ruler. He says, you don't have me. I haven't revealed
myself to you. I haven't done anything for you.
You lack everything because you don't have me. Now he's going to give this man
a twofold commandment. Go back to verse 21 real quick. Then Jesus, beholding him, loved
him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest. Now listen, this
is a twofold commandment. Go thy way, sell whatsoever thou
hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.
Here's the second part of the commandment. And come, take up
the cross, and follow me. Two things. Now, what is this
twofold commandment? This is the same twofold commandment
That is given to every man on the face of the earth. Every
man, woman, and child to ever walk the earth. This is your
commandment. I want you to read it. Turn to Mark 1, look at verse
14. Mark 1, pick up in verse 14. Now after the John was put in
prison, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom
of God and saying, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of
God is at hand. Repent ye and believe the gospel. That is the twofold commandment
to every man, woman, child on the face of the earth right now.
Repent ye and believe the gospel. And that's exactly what this
twofold commandment he gave to the rich young ruler was. And
it begins with repentance. Go. Sell whatsoever thou hast
and give to the poor. Now, this man's chief problem
was that he was rich. Not material rich. We're not
talking about money, we're not talking about lands, we're not talking
about nice clothes or houses or anything like that. He was
rich in a personal righteousness. Rich in merit before God, perceived
merit. He was rich in personal ability.
His problem was his riches. And the Lord says, repent of
that. What is repentance? It's a change of mind, right?
We've looked at that time and time again. Thought one way about
something, I think differently about it now. It's also a change
in the way you see things. I saw it this way before, I see
it correctly now. It involves turning. Turning. You're turning from one thing
to another. And when I turn from that one
thing to the other, I am turning my back on something. This is
what the Lord's saying is, all these good works, these personal
merits, this self-righteousness you've laid up for yourself,
see them for what they are. They're dead works. They cannot
produce life. They're just simple iniquities
that must be atoned for. Repent of them. Change your mind
about them. Turn your back on them. Get rid of them. What did
Bartimaeus do before he came to Christ physically? He shed
that robe. That stinking, vile robe that
typifies man's self-righteousness. He cast it aside and he came
to Christ. That's what he's telling this
man. These self-righteousnesses you have, this personal ability
you have, get rid of it. Get as far away from it as you
possibly can. Repent of that. The command of repentance. Here's
the second part of the command, the command of faith. They're
two sides of the same coin. Repentance and faith always come
together. Two sides of the same coin. First, come. Take up the
cross and follow me. Come. Look at this. Turn to Isaiah
55. This is no doubt one of my favorite
scriptures. Isaiah 55 in verse 1. Ho, every
one that thirsteth Come ye to the waters, and he that hath
no money, come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price. Folks, I can get in on that.
I can get in on that. Is anybody here thirsty? I mean,
honestly, does anybody have a God-given need? I need a salvation. I need to be free from your sin
and from the bondage of your sin and the power of your sin.
Does anybody need to have the shed blood of Christ shed for
him to be made whole? Does anybody have that need?
Is anybody thirsty for that? Then come! Come! There's only one way you can
come, though. There's only one prerequisite. You can have nothing. No money
to buy with, nothing to bargain with, nothing good about you,
nothing you can bring to the table. that would give you some
credit. Nothing. You can only come just
the way you are with nothing. And if you come with absolutely
nothing, the only prerequisite, you are freely given everything. Can you get in on that? If you
have nothing, what stands in your way? What keeps you from
Christ? Nothing. Buy wine and milk without
money and without price. Come. It's the first part of
the command. Come. Take up the cross. The cross,
the symbol of justification. What's he saying there? He's
saying, take your rightful place as a sinner, and look to that one
who hung on that cross and who's resurrected again, knowing that
who he is and what he did is everything that makes you holy
and blameless and unapprovable before the Father. Look to the
cross alone. Come, take up the cross, and
follow me. Now, I thought about this, right?
This might be a good illustration of my thought, but let's look
at it. How do you follow somebody effectively? Right? Now today
we have GPS. We have electronic means and
stuff like that. So you can follow someone without actually looking
to them. Used to not be the case. You ever went somewhere and so
let's say there's going to be a group of you all and you're
going to take two cores. But there's only one guy who knows how to get
to the final destination. So he drives the lead core, right?
And whoever's driving the follow core, what do you have to do?
You've got to keep your eyes on that lead core because you don't know where
you're going. You're just trusting that that guy in the lead core
is going to take you where you need to go. And so you've got to keep
your eyes on that car. He makes a right, you make a
right. He makes a left, you make a left. But if you start messing around
with your cell phone, or you start messing around with your stereo,
and you take your eyes off the lead car, he'll make a turn and you'll
be lost. This is what we do. We follow
the Lord Jesus Christ. We keep our eyes on Him. But if you start
looking to your walk, or to your works, you start looking to your
feelings, or your experiences, you lose hope, because you've
lost sight of Christ. You've got to keep your eyes And you
do that by faith. That's a God-given gift. I saw
a better example of how to follow somebody the other day. I was
in Walmart, and there was an old blind man who came in. He
was very old, and he was stark blind. He couldn't see a thing.
And he came in, and he had his son with him. And that old blind
man, he's walking next to his son, and he had a death grip
on his son's arm. And his son would take a step,
and the old blind man would take a step. And you could tell what was going
through that old blind man's head. I'm just going to cling on to
him. I'm going to cling on to my son, and he's going to walk
me through this door. He's going to get me all the way through
this door. We're going to get what we need, and we're going to get back home
without a scratch on us. But I'm going to cling on to
him. I'm not letting him go. That's faith. I'm clinging on
to Christ. Blind is the way I feel most
of the time. Blind. But I've got to hold him.
I'm not letting him go. Because he's going to lead me
all the way through this life and back home to the Father without
a scratch on me. That's how you follow somebody effectively. Alright, look at verse 22. This
man is given a command of repentance and faith. How does he respond?
Mark 10, 22. And he was sad at that saying,
and went away grieved, for he had great possessions. Now why
didn't he do what the Lord told him to do? Sell off whatsoever
thou hast, give to the poor, you'll have treasure in heaven.
Come, take up the cross, follow me. Why didn't he do it? Well,
look down at verse 26 of our text. And they were astonished
out of measure, saying among themselves, who then can be saved?
And Jesus, looking upon them, saith, with men, it is impossible. Impossible. And the illustration
we're given earlier on in this is a camel going through an eye
of a needle, the largest animal they knew going through the smallest
opening they knew. It is impossible. Why? Why? Well, first I thought
of John 6, 44. No man can come to me except
the Father which has sent me draw him. Repentance and faith,
believe the truth, are impossible for the natural man. The man
is commanded to repent and believe the gospel. He is held responsible
to repent and believe the gospel, but yet he can't. He can't repent. He can't see his possessions,
his works, his self-righteousnesses for what they are. He can't.
He lacks the ability. He has all the abilities of a
dead man. Whatever a dead man can do, that's what the natural
man can do. He can stink. That's it. No man can come to
me. But there's something else here, something greater. It has
something to do with John 5, 40, which is, and ye will not
come to me that ye might have life. This man didn't want to
obey. Why didn't he? because he had
great possessions. He loved his self-righteousness.
What's to do with that? Why do we love our self-righteousness
so much? Why are we so in love with it?
Look back over at verse 19 of your text again. The Lord starts out, he says, And
then he gives what's called the second table of law. Now, I don't
pretend to know anything about theology, but as far as I understand
it, theology separates the law into two tables. The first table
governs perfection of interaction between God and man. So it's,
thou shalt have no other gods before me, no idol worship, honor
the Sabbath to keep it holy. There's one other and I've forgotten
it, but forgive me. The other table governs perfection
of interaction between men. And in verse 19 here, that's
what the Lord gives, is the second table. Now, let's go on reading.
Thou knowest the commandments. Do not commit adultery, do not
kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not, honor
thy father and thy mother. So the second table of the law,
but which one does he leave out? There's one left out, right?
And that should draw our attention. Thou shalt not covet. This man was
very covetous, just like the rest of us are. And covetousness
is really the essence of all the other breaking of the law.
If any man breaks the law in any aspect, it begins with covetousness.
And really, covetousness was the subtlety that worked on Adam
and Eve in the garden. What did the serpent say to Eve? He said,
you shall be as gods. And you'll know the difference
between good and evil. And Todd's pointed this out several
times. What he's saying there is that you're just obeying your
nature right now. You're just acting according
to your nature. There's no moral virtue in what you do. But if you eat
this fruit, your eyes will be opened. You'll be just like God.
You'll know good from evil. And you can choose the good over
the evil. And there will be moral virtue in that. And Adam and
Eve, I can see that. I was like, oh, yeah, OK. That sounds good, right? And
then Adam and Eve start scratching their head, and they're like,
you know, that's interesting, because I hear these angels all the time,
and they're always singing His name, and always proclaiming
His name, but maybe, maybe if I start choosing the good over
the evil, maybe they'll start singing my name. There were covetants. They coveted
the place of God. They coveted glory. And that's
what the natural man wants. He wants a glory for himself. That's when you preach the gospel
to the natural man, it has no effect, unless the Lord makes
it effectual. Because the gospel says that
salvation is by grace, and if it's by grace, that means the
man's not going to get any glory. God's going to get all the glory.
And as long as a man has a shred of personal righteousness to
hold on to, that he thinks at the end of the day might get
him just a scrap of glory, he will not part with it. He will
not have Christ. He wants nothing to do with grace.
He cannot and he will not. But our natural inability and our
natural unwillingness is no match for the Lord's omnipotence. And
I want to show you something. Turn if you would back to verse
21. And then Jesus beholding him
loved him. What are you going to do with
that, right? What does that tell us? It tells us that this man
would come back. I am more assured of this man's
salvation than I am my own, to be quite honest, because of this
simple statement, Jesus loved him. Do you know what that means? That means this man cannot perish.
Because if he could, that would mean the love of God was absolutely
useless and had no effect. No. At the Lord's appointed time,
he would send the Spirit to blow upon this man. And he would be
brought to a repentant state. He couldn't change his own mind.
He couldn't see things for the way they really were. He couldn't
turn himself, but the Lord would turn him. And he would see his
personal righteousness for what it really was. nothing but a
filthy rag. And you imagine, and we've all
been through it, you've been converted, you think you're wearing
this sparkling white robe of personal righteousness and you
walk around all proud and all of a sudden you look down and it's filthy
and it's vile and it's scary and all of a sudden you're racing
to get it off of you because of how sickening it is. He would
be brought to that state and he would come to Christ, not
this time as a teacher but as a savior, not for information
but for mercy. I'm going to save this man his
own experience. I have no doubt about it. No doubt. If I'm assured
of anything, it's that. Now, my question I'm going to
leave everybody here with. For all the old believers here, I
hope I've given you some comfort, some consolation knowing you
just keep on coming the way you've been coming. You come with nothing. Keep on getting everything. I'd
like to address anyone here who has come the way of this rich
young ruler and you left grieved. You came to a teacher seeking
information. And you're left grieved because
you would not part with your possessions, your personal righteousness.
You love them too much. What about right now? Right now, can you see them for
what they really are? Dead works and iniquities that must be atoned
for. Can you see him now, not as a
teacher, but as a God? One that's to be bowed to and
worshiped, a Messiah. Savior can he come now not for
information but for mercy If you can then you come You take
up the cross and you follow him It's closing prayer real quick Lord, our Father in heaven, Lord,
we come to you this day in Christ's name. We pray, Lord, that you
would bring us to a repentance state, Lord, constantly turning
us away from ourself and towards Christ. And, Lord, cause us to
come, cause us to come with nothing, nothing to bring, nothing to
bargain with, no good works. Lord, cause us to come to you
and get everything. And, Lord, cause us to follow you. And,
Lord, cause our little ones to follow you. Lord, save us, save
us. Pray, Lord, for the service tonight. Lord, that you would bless Frank.
Lord, bless those of our number who are sick and suffering. Lord,
we pray you would be with them. We ask these things in Jesus'
name. Amen.