The Friend of God

several times in the Word of
God, Abraham is called the friend of God. In 2 Chronicles, if you
wish to mark those places or read them, in the book of 2 Chronicles
chapter 20, 2 Chronicles 20 verse 7, Abraham is called the friend
of God. It says in 2 Chronicles chapter
20 verse 7, Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the
inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest
it to the seed of Abraham thy friend forever? Abraham thy friend
forever. And then in the book of Isaiah
chapter 41 verse 8, Another scripture refers to Abraham
as the friend of God, Isaiah 41, verse 8. It says, But thou,
Israel, art my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed
of Abraham, my friend. And then over in the book of
James, in James chapter 2, verse 23, again we read Abraham called
the friend of God. And the scripture was fulfilled,
James 2.23, which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed
unto him, or counted unto him, for righteousness, and he was
called the friend of God. Now among the Arabs and the Jewish
people, Abraham is still spoken of as the friend of Many times
when they refer to Abraham now, he is called the friend of God. Many translate this word, the
lover of God, or the beloved of God. Now someone may say,
that's a high degree. So high that I cannot attain
unto it. It would be idle for me to dream
of being accounted the friend of God. But I don't believe that. I believe that you and I, like
Abraham, can also be the friend of God. Abraham, my friend, God
said. Abraham believed God, and it
was accounted unto him for righteousness, and he was called the friend
of God. Our Lord said in John 15, You
are my friend, You are my friends if you do whatsoever I command
you. Henceforth I have called you
not servants, but I have called you my friends." Now Hebrews
chapter 11 verse 6 says this, Without faith it is impossible
to please God. Abraham was the friend of God
because he believed God. Abraham believed God and he was
called the friend of God. And without faith it's impossible
to please God, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
and that he's the rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Abraham, friend of God, because he believed. And I want us to
turn tonight to, I think, the most severe trial of Abraham's
faith, and I believe the most beautiful picture in the Bible
anywhere of Abraham's Believing God. Believing God. And I'm going to point out seven
things about faith. Faith which is pleasing to God. The faith which we must have
if we are to be called with Abraham the friend of God. Now if I can
read this experience, Abraham friend of God, and this experience
can be Then I believe as Abraham was the friend of God, I can
be the friend of God. That's what I want to be. Let's
look at verse 1. And it came to pass after these
things that God did try Abraham. Now faith is going to be tried.
Faith is going to be tried. I can be certain that if my faith
is true faith, if it is saving faith, If it is faith that is
pleasing to God, it's going to be tried, it's going to be tested,
it's going to be proved in a very severe and strong manner. Now,
we have several scriptures that tell us that. Let me read a few
of them to you. First of all, from the book of
James, chapter 1, verse 2 and 3. The scripture says, My brethren,
count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations or different
trials. Knowing this, that the trying
of your faith worketh patience. Faith is going to be tried. And
then in 1 Peter 1, verse 6 and 7, Peter writes this, wherein
you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you
are in heaviness through manifold trials, that the trial of your
faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though
it be tried with fire, might be found under praise and honor
and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ." And then in 1
Peter 4, verse 12 and 13, the apostle writes this, in 1 Peter
4, verse 12, "'Beloved, think it not strange concerning the
fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing
happened to but rejoice inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's
suffering, that when his glory shall be revealed, you may be
glad also with exceeding joy." So it says in our text, it came
to pass after these things that God did try Abraham. God tried him. And faith, if
it's saving faith, if it's faith that pleases God, I can be certain
of this, it's going to be tried. And it's going to be tried in
a very severe and strong manner. Now this is what I noted also. Many trials of faith did God
put upon Abraham. For example, he was comfortable
and happy down in his home, in his home country, and God came
to him and said, leave your home and leave your father and leave
your friends and go to a land I'll show you. So Abraham left
his home and left his friends and left his family and began
to wander. And he wandered around in a strange
land, having no home for many, many years, living in tents. He never had a son, an heir.
He was promised a son, he was promised an heir, but no son
came. And then he, through suggestions
by Saber and Hagar and others, produced a son. But it wasn't
the right son. And then he had to send him away.
He loved that boy Ishmael, but he had to send him away. Abraham
was tried in wars with heathen kings his whole life from the
time he left his home until this hour was a series of trials. And here it says it came to pass
after these things, after all of these trials and after all
of these experiences that God came to him when he was old and
full of days, 120 years old. You'd think that the warfare
was over. You'd think that the time of testing was over. You'd
think that the trials were over. Lord, I proved myself again and
again and again. But after these things, he must
face his most severe trial, the most severe trial of his whole
experience, of his whole life. And I'm saying this, that our
last trials may be the greatest trials. We can never say that
the journey is over, we can never say that the race is run until
we are with Christ. And the scripture says this,
He that endureth to the end, the same shall be said. The scripture
tells us that we are of the household of faith, of household of Christ,
if we keep our confidence steadfast through every trial unto the
end. And no man, having put his hand
to the plow, and turns and looks back, is fit for the kingdom
of God." So Abraham, after these things, after many battles, after
many victories, after many trials, and after many times of testing,
here in the shady years of his life, here in the gray hairs
of his life, in the final days of his life has got to face his
most severe and greatest trial. But I promise you, faith is going
to be tried. And Peter tells us, don't think
it strange, beloved, when you have to endure trials. I'll tell
you when you ought to think it strange, when you don't have
to endure trials. It's something wrong with the
person whom God never tries, because he tries all of his people.
He chastens all of his people. And faith, if it is pleasing
to God, will be tried. All right? Verse 2. Now I want
you to look at every word of this second verse. It deserves
our particular attention. Every word of this second verse.
Look at it carefully. And he said, Take now thy son. thine only son, Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah. Offer him therefore
a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, which I'll tell
thee of." The second thing about faith is this. Faith is not only
going to be tried, but faith is devoted to Christ alone. Now the believer, the true believer,
is a person who loves. The scripture says, he that loveth
not knoweth not God. I'm not talking to people tonight
who do not love. The love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. I have no message tonight for
people who know nothing of the love of God which is shed abroad
in the heart by the Holy Spirit. Abraham was a man who loved his
son. He loved his family. But this
is obvious in this scripture, he didn't love that son more
than he loved Christ. He didn't love that family more
than he loved Christ. You listen to our Lord. Over
here in the 10th chapter of Matthew, verse 37 and 38, our Lord said,
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of
me, and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not
worthy of me. Now the believer loves his family,
but he does not love his family more than he loves Christ. The
believer loves life. He loves living. He loves the
good things that God has given, but not more than Christ. Our Lord said to Peter, Peter
was out there fishing with the disciples, and he brought them
in. They gathered around him, and our Lord looked at Peter,
and he said, Do you love me more than these? I think the Lord
pointed to that boat, and those nets, and that sea, and those
fish, and all these things that Peter loved. He was a fisherman,
a big fisherman. But our Lord said, Peter, do
you love me more than these? More than these? The child of
God, the believer, loves life. He loves living, but not more
than Christ. He that saveth his life shall
lose it. He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. Christ
is our first love. And that's what the Lord is proving
here. He's proving the faith of his
friend is a devoted faith, devoted to Christ. We're devoted to other
things. We're devoted to his word, to
his church, to his people, to our families, to our friends,
to these things, but Christ is first. In fact, the charge against
that church in Revelation 2 verse 4 was this, You've left your
first love. You've left your first love.
Anything is out of place if it's in the place of Christ. Anything
is out of place. Any person is out of place in
your life if it's in the place of Christ. Anything at all. He is first. That's what he's
saying here. You take your son, whom you love, your only son,
Isaac, and you sacrifice him to me. I believe true faith. is willing to be stripped of
everything and everyone but Christ. Job said, The Lord gave, and
the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
David said in Psalm 71, Lord, when I am old and gray-headed,
don't forsake me. Don't forsake me. David said
again, My mother and my father may forsake me, but the Lord
will take me up. Don't, Lord, forsake me. A man
who is willing to be parted from the fellowship of Christ for
any reason and for any payment and for any enjoyment does not
know Christ. Now you put that down. That's what I'm saying. Faith
is going to be tried. If it's saving faith, God's going
to try it. He says that all the way through.
I read those scriptures, that the trial of your faith, being
more precious than gold, will endure to the glory of Christ.
It'll be tried. And brother, I'll tell you this,
that faith is so devoted to Christ, it'll be willing to part with
anything in this world to walk with Christ. And a man or woman
who is willing for that fellowship and communion with Christ to
be broken for any mess of pottage, whatever it is, doesn't know
Christ. For he that loveth father, mother,
brother, sister, husband, wife, yea, his own life more than me
is not worthy of me. Now what's the third thing? The
third thing about faith, it'll be tried, it's devoted faith,
and God requires that. He's a jealous God. He's going
to be first in your heart or he's not going to live in your
heart. Verse 3, and Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled
his ass and started for the place that God told him about. Now,
faith is obedience. It's obedience. Evidently, God
came to Abraham in the evening, probably around the evening sacrifice.
because he didn't start that evening, he didn't start that
afternoon, he started early the next morning. God spoke to him
probably in the evening sacrifice, and it says first thing in the
morning, he rose up early, early in the morning. I got something
to do. I got some orders from God. I
got a message from the Lord. I got to be about my father's
business. Now, Abraham could have presented many human arguments
for not obeying that command. Abraham, take your son, whom
you love, your only son, and sacrifice him to me for a burnt
offer. Abraham could have presented
many human arguments for not obeying that command. But, Lord,
while you said in Isaac, my seed would be called, how in the world
can I have seed in Isaac if I kill him? But, Lord, how can I explain
an act like that to my wife? This is the promised son. This
is the cherished son. This is the only son. How can
I explain that? How can I ever face my wife again
if I do that? But Lord, I'd be a terrible man
in the sight of other men if I did it. What will the heathen
that live about me think if I take the life of my son? Lord, I'm
an old man. I want to close my days in joy. I don't understand why you're
calling on me to suffer like this. But he offered no argument. You won't find one. The scripture
says that when God told him that, he rose up early in the morning
and started for the mountains. He presented no argument. He
believed God. It says, Abraham believed God. And it was counted to him for
righteousness, oh, that we would believe God, though we cannot
understand. Somebody said where reason ends,
hate begins. where reason ends, where human
wisdom ends, that's where faith begins. God's word, God's commandment
must not be subjected to human wisdom. When our Lord was at the marriage
feast in Cana of Galilee, they told him the wine was gone, and
Mary, his mother, called the service, and this is what she
said. She said, Whatsoever he saith to you, do it. And I believe
that's the best advice that can be given to any human being.
Whatsoever the Lord says, you do it. Don't you look for a reason
not to do it. Don't you look for any reason
to do it except he sent it. That's sufficient. Whatever he
says, you do it. Now look at verse 4. Now this
is interesting right here. Now watch it. First of all, faith
will be tried. That's what he said. He came
to pass after these things that God tried Abraham. Who did it?
God did it. God did it. He tried Abraham. Faith is devoted. God hid him
at the particular point where he knew that the trial would
be the most severe. And then thirdly, faith is obedient. It rises up right now. Right
now. It obeys God. But now the fourth
thing, verse 4, then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes
and saw the place afar off. Now, the place God designed for
the offering of Isaac was three days' journey. Can you imagine what those three
days were like to Abraham? Can you just imagine? Or if God
had come to him one night and said, now Abraham, offer Isaac
tomorrow morning. He wouldn't have slept that night.
He'd have got up the next morning and went about to deep. But God
let him think about it. One night, one day, one night,
another day, one night, and another day. Abraham, if you're going
to change your mind, you've got plenty of time to do it. God
will give you plenty of time. These three days, I'm sure, were
like three years to that old man. He saddled the donkeys,
he and the boy walked along, and I'm sure the days of travel,
he watched that boy, how proud he was of him, how his life was
wrapped up in him, how he loved him, what a wonderful son he
was, and as they walked along through the day, he relived every
time of joy and every time of pride and every time of of experience
that they had together. He relived those experiences
through the day, and then I'm sure at night as the fire was
burning, he never slept. He sat over against the rock,
and he watched that boy lying there sleeping, and he watched
the fire as it flickered, and he looked up at the stars. God
didn't say anything. God didn't say anything. God
already had given him authority. And he was letting Abraham spend
some time thinking about. God prepares his vessels and
he does it through trial and he does it through time. Time. And that time and that trial
will be of sufficient length to establish and prove that faith. And prove that faith. God slowly
prepares his vessels. For example, Moses. When Moses
came out of Egypt he was forty years old. God put him, took
him out of the universities of Egypt, took him out of the wealth
and luxury of Egypt, took him out of the mainstream of life,
and put him off over yonder on the backside of a desert for
40 years, sitting in the quiet of the desert moon and the desert
sun for 40 years, looking at sheep and sand and sun, getting
him ready for a task. Gave him plenty of time. David
was ordained, he was anointed king of Israel back when he was
a lad. He didn't take the throne until
he'd gone through battles, he'd gone through caves, he'd gone
through all manner of extreme trials and tests. He had plenty
of time to take another ship or to change his mind. Joseph
was headed for the throne of Egypt, but he came that way through
the pit, Potiphar's house, and prison before he ever got to
the throne. on the Lord, and he shall strengthen
thine heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord." And
people that have the idea because it doesn't happen today, God's
not in it, or because it doesn't happen tomorrow, God's not in
it, or because it doesn't happen next year, God's not in it. That
proves many times God is in it, because he prepares his vessels
slowly. He makes them wait. He makes
them wait. He tries them. He spoke to Abraham,
go sacrifice your son. And then the heavens were quiet
for three days and nights. God never said another word.
Think about it, Abraham. Think about it. Think about it. God's not rushing you. That's
what bothers me about so many of these soul winners. Give me
a hand now. Make a decision now. Trust Christ now. Do it now.
Hold on. Christ said, you sit down and
count the cost. You sit down and count the cost. You may not
want on this train. You may not want to walk this
road. You may find out 15 or 20 years from now you're not
on the road, too. Christ is Lord of all, or He's
not Lord at all. But look at verse 5. But faith
is patient, and verse 5, faith is certain. And Abraham said
to the young men, finally they came to the mountain where he
was to sacrifice Isaac, and he said to the young men, now you
stay here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship,
what's this next line, and come again unto you. I and the lad will go yonder
to worship and will come again unto you. This is what I say.
Abraham believed God. He knew that God had said, in
Isaac shall thy seed be called. He knew that God had said, Isaac
will be a great nation. He knew that God had said, Isaac
will have sons and daughters. And he knew this, that whatever
happened to Isaac couldn't change the sovereign God's purpose.
God's going to accomplish Old Abraham believed God. Look
at Hebrews chapter 11. He was willing to sacrifice his
son. He was willing to carry out what
God told him to do. He was willing to put that boy
on the altar and offer him a burnt offering, but he knew this. God
was going to either raise him from the dead and bring him back
to life there, or God Almighty was going to reveal to him something
else. But he said, that boy and I are coming back together. That's
what he said to these persons. In Hebrews 11, look at this,
verse 17, "...by faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up
Isaac..." And he actually offered him up in his heart. He actually
slew him. He had already given him to God
in his heart. There wasn't any doubt about what he was going
to do when he got to that mountain. "...Abraham, just like Christ,
was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world in the
purpose and mind and heart of God, Abraham had already offered
up that boy. And that he that had received
the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was
said that in Isaac shalt thou seed be called, Abraham accounted
that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead. Even
from the dead. Brethren, faith is certain. How can you be so sure? I've
read the last chapter of this book. I know what's going to
happen. Did you ever buy a book and read
it and turn over and read the last chapter before you read
the first chapter? Well, when you do that, you don't
get near as excited reading through the book. When the hero gets
in trouble, you say, he'll be all right, I've read the last
chapter. And the hero loses his shirt and loses his fortune,
loses his family, well, he's going to be all right, I read
the last chapter. And that's what I say about this life, it's
going to be all right, I've read the last chapter. Our Lord said
whom he foreknew, he predestinated. Whom he predestinated, he called.
Whom he called, he justified. Whom he justified, he already
glorified. Whatever God does, we know this,
that his promises and purposes in Christ Jesus are going to
be fulfilled. I'm certain of that. That's the
reason I'm not too alarmed about the Communists and Third World
War, and communist takeover, and liberalism, and all this
socialism, other things. God's on the throne? He's on
the atom bomb, and the hydrogen bomb, and all the other bombs?
Have you read the last chapter? Man's not going to destroy this
world. God is. God is. And all things work together
for good to them that love God. Maybe we need some judgment.
Maybe we need some trying times. Maybe we need a depression. Maybe
we need a war. If we have one, God will send
it and we'll walk through it rejoicing. That's so. And it's time we quit wringing
our hands and acting like a little bunch of people that don't have
a God. The songwriter said, He leadeth me, O blessed thought,
O words with heavenly comfort brought, content whatever lot
I see, since it's God through Jordan who leadeth me. Abraham
said to those boys, here he was going up the mountain to slay
his son, he said, Now you stay here, Isaac, and I'll be back
after awhile. Isaac and I'll be back." He didn't
know how much blood was going to run and how many tears were
going to be shed and how much agony he was going through and
how long it would take, but he said, Isaac and I'll be back.
And that's what I think every one of us ought to quit talking
about the sovereignty of God unless we can believe it in our
hearts and act like it. Quit murmuring and complaining
and quarreling and arguing. Our contentment is the assurance
that he's going to do everything for our good and his glory and
rest in him. Enter his rest. This old man,
this man of faith, this friend of God, he says it's going to
be all right. It's going to be all right. Now
look at verse 7. Here's an interesting thing.
Faith is informed. It's not only, faith is not only
devoted and contented But faith is informed. In verse 7, Isaac
spake unto Abraham his father and said, My father, and we parents
ought to look at this right here. He said, My father, and Abraham
said, Here am I, my son. And Isaac said, He'd been taught
by his father. He'd been taught this. He'd been
taught without the shedding of blood there's no remission for
sin. Isaac had been taught that salvation was not in works and
salvation was not in deeds. Salvation was in the blood. Isaac
had been taught from Leviticus 17, 11, I have given you the
blood upon the altar to make an atonement for your soul. It's
the blood that makes the atonement for the soul. And Isaac said,
Father, here's the fire and the wood. Father, you can't have
an offering without a lamb. Where's the lamb? But do our
sons and daughters know that? Do we know it? Well, brother
man, I believe I'll go to heaven. I've always tried to live the
best I could. Where's the lamb? Well, brother
man, I don't believe God sent me to hell now. I've been a Baptist
all my life. Where's the lamb? Well, I've been baptized. I've
made a profession back when I was a boy, and I was baptized, and
I kind of drifted away, you know. You know, I believe one saint
always says, where is the lamb? Father, here's the fire and here's
the wood, where is the lamb? In your testimony, in your offering
of praise, let me ask you, where is the lamb? If there's not the
Lamb of God in your testimony, you're not saved. You haven't
an offering sufficient to put away sin. You haven't an offering
that will be pleasing to God. You haven't an offering that's
effectual to put away transgressions without the Lamb of God. And
John the Baptist tells us who he is. He looks at Christ Jesus
and says, There's the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin
of the world. And I like what Abraham said
back to his boy. He said, Father, where's the
Lamb? And Abraham said, My son, God
will provide, watch this, himself a lamb. God provided the lamb
and God himself is that lamb. God will provide himself a lamb. And do you know they tell me
that Mount Moriah, where they were standing at that moment,
is Mount Calvary where Christ died. many hundreds of years
later. On that very mountain, God did
provide himself a lamb, for God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto himself. But faith knows without the shedding
of blood there's no remission. Faith knows that salvation is
not in my deeds, it's not in my work, it's not in my church
membership, It's not in my decisions, it's not in my ordinances and
ceremonies, it's in Christ the Lamb of God, there's a fountain
filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners
plunge beneath that flood, lose all their guilty standings. And
then watch this, faith rewarded. In verse 10, And Abraham stretched
forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. Now let
me point this out before we go any further. Faith is going to
be tried. How it responds determines whether or not it's faith. Faith
is going to be tried. Faith is going to be tried for
its devotion. Is Christ first or isn't he first? Is Christ all or isn't he all?
Is Christ everything or something else everything? That's what
it's going to be tried for. Because that's when the Lord
said, Abraham, now I know you love me. I know you knew you
loved Isaac. It was obvious you loved Isaac,
but in this trial we've proved that I'm still the Lord and I'm
first. It's going to be tried. Now watch
this. So Abraham stretched forth his
hand, took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the
Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, here I am.
Lay not your hand upon the lad. Here I am, Lord. Here I am. Abraham, here I am. Here I am,
Lord, all that I have is on this altar. Here I am, Lord, I have
nothing but thee. Here I am, Lord, totally submissive
to thy sovereign purpose. Here I am, Lord, though you slay
me, I'll trust you. Here I am, Lord, here I am, save
me or I perish. the knife coming down unless
you stop me. Here I am, Lord. Here I am."
It was then that faith was rewarded, for it was then that the substitute
was revealed. Listen. When he held the knife
to slay his son, and God said, Abraham, he said, Here am I!
He said, Don't touch your son. Verse 13, And Abraham lifted
up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a
thicket. I tell you, when we come to the
end of our so-called abilities, somebody said man's extremity
is God's opportunity. When we come to the end of ourselves,
when we come to the impossibility of any way, shape, form or fashion
of pleasing a holy God, when we come to the end of ourselves, But then I believe that we can
lift up our eyes and we'll see him who is our substitute. In
Psalms 107, I want you to look at this. In Psalms 107, I think
this is the reason why many eyes have not beheld the beauty of
Christ. It's because they've never really
come to the end of themselves. There's too much flesh left.
There's too much self. There's too much human righteousness.
Look at verse 2 of Psalm 107, "...let the redeemed of the Lord
say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and
gathered them out of the lands from the east and the west and
the north and the south. They wandered in the wilderness
in a solitary way, they found no city to dwell in, hungry and
thirsty, their soul fainted in them, and then they cried to
the Lord in their trouble." And he delivered them out of their
distresses. Abraham, at this place, was totally
emptied. Totally emptied. And then he
was filled. In this place, Abraham was totally
slain. And then he began to live. In
this place, Abraham was totally stripped. Completely stripped. Here I am, Lord. Here is everything
I have. Here is total, complete submission. Here, Lord, is no rebellion.
Save me or I perish. What you do with me is in your
hands. Here I am." And that's when faith was rewarded. Now
watch faith's song in verse 14. Here's the song of faith. And Abraham called the name of
that place, the Lord will provide. As it is said to this day, in
the mount of the Lord, I have seen it. You know why this man
was a friend of God? A friend of God. Faith was tried. Faith was devoted. Faith was obedient. When God
commanded he rose up, faith was patient. Three days and three
nights, patient, waiting on God. And faith was certain. He told
those young men, I don't know how it's going to turn out. I
mean, I don't know how it's going to take place, but I know how it's
going to turn out. I believe in the purpose and promise of
God. You wait here, and Isaac and I are coming back. And faith
was absolutely obedient, and then faith was informed, I know
it takes blood to cleanse, and then faith was rewarded. When
he came to the end of himself, when he put that son on the altar,
God showed him the Lamb. He took Isaac off and put the
ram in his place. The scripture says, in the stead
of his son. Our Father in Heaven, we thank
Thee for this example. This is faith. We see why Abraham
is the friend of God. With Abraham, God was first. With Abraham, God's word was
his command and his desire. All things were submitted under
the wisdom and direction of his God, he believed. Our Father,
we pray that when our faith is tried, that it may come forth
as purified gold, that it may come forth as a trophy of thy
grace. Give us this faith. O Lord, we
pray with our disciples, increase our faith. Let us see the beauty
and glory of Him who is our substitute and our sacrifice. May Christ
Jesus, our Lord, be glorified in our faith, that we may be
called the friend of God. We pray it in His name and for
His glory. Amen.

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