Major Bible Themes

We're going to finish up on covenants. Let's see here. I think. We're going through Lewisbury Chafer's major Bible themes. This one is on the covenants. And we went through the dispensations, now we're covering the covenants. And we got through most of this just kind of briefly. This was a very busy slide, but I think it is a good way to lay out all the different covenants. The Eternal Covenant, which is the base of the foundation.

And just a way of quick review, what's a covenant? An agreement between two people. Right. Two people in a binding agreement. Okay, it's always two parties in a binding agreement. So the eternal covenant, who's that? That's the foundation. Who's that between? God and Christ. Okay. And what was the covenant? The eternal covenant. Jesus would come and die for us and keep God's reason. Yep. Two conditions there. Christ would come, die on the cross, God accepted that payment, and raised Him.

So that's the eternal one, the Abrahamic covenant. Again, those, in just a quick summary, there would be a great nation, all nations would be blessed, and He would bless the Jews. And from that came the Palestinian, the Davidic, and the New Covenant. Basically, the Palestinian one was a land-based covenant. The Davidic covenant promised a kingdom, a throne, and a king, and also a seed.

And who is the seed? Jesus, literally. Christ. Okay? So, do you remember conditional and unconditional? Is the Davidic one conditional or unconditional? First of all, what is conditional? And an unconditional? It will happen regardless. Okay. So is the Davidic one conditional or unconditional? Unconditional. Unconditional. God was going to do it no matter what. Okay. So on this one, on this slide, basically, which, I should say, which ones are conditional? The land, the seed and the blessing? Those are conditional? Not the seed. The Eternal Covenant is conditional. The Eternal is conditional. And what else? The Mosaic. Mosaic. Okay. Those are the ones that are conditional.

The land, the sea, all those, the Abrahamic ones and the Palestinian, the land, they get it. It's not predicated on what they do. The seed, the throne, there will be an eternal throne, an eternal kingdom. And the blessings, those were all unconditional. God said, I'm going to do it. The mosaic one was, here are the laws. If you do it, you'll be blessed. If you don't, consequences.

And by way of correction, I did go back and, as Craig correct me last time, the ones that aren't shown up here, the Adamic and the Noahic, covenants and talking about whether they were unconditional or conditional. And they were unconditional, it was going to happen anyway. When I didn't check my notes, I was just blathering on there. The point is, there were some conditional things that happened, but God was going to do it anyway. Those things were going to happen. So those were unconditional. So I just want to clarify that. From last week... I have a question.

The Eternal Covenant, did you say that that one was conditional? Yeah, what happened? What had to happen? Jesus was going to have to die and be raised, but that was going to happen anyway, because He's God. Christ had to do something, right? So if you have to do something, that's the condition. If Christ came and died, what would God do? Raise Him up.

And then again, the real key is this right here, which is the wall of separation, and where a lot of the the problems come. But getting back a little bit, I kind of touched on it a little bit. It's funny today, when we look at the Palestinian covenant about land, how important that is today, when you read about what's going on. I'm finally hearing a couple commentators actually say, you know there isn't going to be peace there. you know, especially if you keep whittling down the land, that what? God unconditionally said, Israel, this is your land. So when we keep whittling it down, it's kind of funny. Oh, there's going to be peace. Only if you give up more land, there'll be peace. Will there ever be peace if we do that? No. So I'm actually, it's kind of funny.

You're starting to hear a few people say, yeah, this ain't going to happen. No matter how many presidents and how many congresses and all this, So it is relevant to today. But you know I'm so concerned about it because all the countries are now surrounding Israel and are they going to plow into them and that's the end? I don't know how that can happen that they can keep their land.

You know it's one of those things and that's where actually to me if I was a non-believer How do these guys always make it out of these raids? Look, I remember in 67 when it was 10 to 1. And they had all the guns blaring. And what happened? Six days later, you know, they blasted them all. That to me, you know, says how do you, I mean, that to me was divine in that, you know, how does a foe 10 to 1 outnumbered kick the booty of all the people attacking?

You know, I don't worry, and if you look at actually a lot of the end time prophecies, God isn't going to let that happen. This land will be preserved for them. So, and there's a whole bunch of prophecies that basically the Lord will take care of those nations that attack Israel.

So, I mean, there's a lot, I mean, I go into, yeah. What we know is that once we get to the Millennial Kingdom, that that is absolutely, that's people's land. I thought that was 2014. No, that's absolutely right. And there may be, depending on what's going on, I look at a lot of events and what's going on, and Craig's right, they could be removed, but the final time is the Millennial Kingdom. You know, when you look at actually the tribulation, I mean, there is a lot that goes on in the tribulation, too.

I mean, they shut it. I mean, had it not ended then, basically everything would have been wiped out. And basically, but then at that point, the Millennial Kingdom is their land. That land that he promised through the Palestinian covenant will be given to them, not to be taken away. OK. Let's see. OK, so we've touched on a lot of that.

We'll get into more detail in the next slide for what's happening on the church and what the New Covenant is. It probably says up here, yes, some verses for where the New Covenant for the church. And this is where there's a New Covenant for Israel and a New Covenant for the church. And that's where, when you mix those, it's terrible because you start mixing earthly blessings with heavenly blessings, our blessings in the church. And when you get that covenant theology where you're saying, okay, what's promised for Israel is promised to us. Is that correct? No. And thankfully not. Again, these are all earthly based. So do we want that? No. We want the new covenant. So if we look at, if you can look at first Corinthians 11, 23 through 26, this is where it talks about the new covenant for the church. So 1 Corinthians 11, 23 through 26.

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread, and when I had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. In the same way he took the cup also after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until it comes." This is the cup of the new covenant.

If you look also at 2 Corinthians 3, 4-6, it states about the new covenant. 2 Corinthians 3, 4-6. Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." Again, another reference to the new covenant for the Church.

All right, we'll move on. Now this is the one, this slide, and this is the one when Hal was teaching us years ago at another fellowship. And then when I came here and he was talking about it a little bit more. We talked about the dispensations and a lot of people get into dispensations, and that's great.

I think they're administrations, which I think that word, Craig could probably actually say whatever the word for dispensations, it's administrations I think. The actual word in... Oh, for dispensation. Yeah, it's not actually dispensations, but it's, I think... It has to do with household. Yeah, it's administration, so... Stewardships. What? Stewardships. It's like administration. It's like, you know, kind of operating systems almost. It's kind of how things are going to be run.

And those are valid to break it up in those. how God is working in these individual time periods. But this is more than what you see throughout Scripture. There's clearly called out three different pathways or lineages that are throughout Scripture. The Gentiles, Israel, and the Church. Those three follow through the Old Testament and then in the New Testament, the Church. So, when you look at this slide, there's a lot on this slide, and it kind of shows where the covenants, how the covenants fall into place.

Also, if we get here, we can look at the eternal and temporal lines. The eternal covenant is what? Eternal. The endemic is what? Does it end? Yes. Okay. At the cross. Okay. Let's see. The Abrahamic, Palestinian, Davidic, and the New Covenant for Israel are what? Eternal. They keep going on. And where are they based? Right. And remember, what happens at the end of the Millennial Kingdom? What happens? New Heaven, New Earth. So, where are the Jews based? It's eternal. It's an eternal covenant. Which, you know, like I said, if you go into covenant theology where you want to mix the covenants of Israel in with what we have. Bad choice. It doesn't apply. I mean, it's not right, but it's not something you want. Did you say something? All right. So, yeah, under the Davidic covenant, God promised unconditionally an everlasting throne. And you can look at 2 Samuel 7, 16 and Psalms 89, 36 for that, an everlasting king.

Jeremiah 33 17 and an everlasting kingdom Daniel 7 14 and 1st Chronicles 17 3 through 15 but especially in verses 9 and 14 so we believers do not receive any blessings from the new covenant as expressed by Jeremiah 31 that's the new covenant for Israel okay So I'll read that real quick again because I think it's important to show what that covenant was in Jeremiah 31, 31 through 34.

Behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, declares the Lord. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord.

I will put my law within them, and on their heart I will write it. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. they will not teach again. Each man his neighbor, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. I will remember no more."

So, who does the Lord specifically call out for the new covenant? Who does it apply to? Israel. It's in verse 31, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Remember, at that time, the split kingdom, so Israel and Judah. So all the Jews will be put under this new covenant.

Okay? All right. Okay, what about the Noach covenant? Where does it show it in? The end of the tribulation. Beginning of the millennium. Remember, what did the Noahic Covenant represent? They would never flood the earth again? Nope. It started something.

I want kings. I want rulers. I want a human government. It was human government. They wanted to be put under... Oh, yeah. So, what happens in the Millennial Kingdom? Who rules and reigns? Christ. So, does the human end? So, the Noah ends at the Millennial Kingdom, at the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom. So, what other unconditional, eternal covenants does that fulfill, actually, when Christ is put on the throne? What other covenant does that fulfill in the Millennial Kingdom?

The Davidic Covenant. Davidic. Throne and King. Okay, who's sitting at that point? The Eternal. Remember this was an Eternal one. Who's going to be sitting on the throne? Christ. Christ. Okay. Alright, what about the Mosaic Covenant? When does it end? When Christ appeared. Not when he appeared. I mean when he died. What was again? Bale was torn. Appeared on the earth. Oh come on. Pentecost. Oh yeah. Because what do we enter into then? What was the mosaic? It was love. And what do we enter in after the cross?

Grace. Grace. Okay? Alright. Oh, what fulfilled the law? It's resurrection. I didn't want to put it right, but who fulfilled the law? Christ. Romans 8, 1-5, Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. And as an offering of sin, he condemned the sin in flesh, so that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

The other one, which is up here, what about the Beatitudes? Are they for us? Jews. So, that's one of those ones which, again, people confuse a lot. It sounds really good. If you look at the Beatitudes, and you can look at those in Matthew 5, 3 through 12, and a lot of people look at those and say, man, those are great. Do those apply to us? If you know identification and you know who you are in Christ, do they even make sense to us?

I'm just trying, you know. Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. Are we going to inherit the earth? Do you want to inherit the earth? No. I'm just looking through. We will inherit the earth. I mean, won't we all be on Earth? And maybe inherit is the wrong word.

We'll rule and reign during Christ's Millennial Kingdom. And then there's a new Heaven and a new Earth. So, where are we at, at any time, past the Rapture? With Christ. So wherever Christ is, is where we are. But since He'll be on the Earth, You know, I'm not real sure, you know, as far as he's ruling and reigning, but he's also in a new heaven at the right hand. Right. So, wherever he is, we are. And wherever that is, is heaven. Right.

Okay, again, a lot of those ones, you know, the blessed and the blessed, it doesn't make sense if you apply it to us. So a lot of people mistakenly take the Beatitudes and say, Oh, that's great. Oh, that's wonderful. That's, you know, this is talking specifically to the Jews when? In the millennial kingdom. Okay. All right. Yeah.

Then, then again, everything gets wiped out. All those, um, everything gets wiped out at that point, a new heaven and new earth. And I think, isn't Satan released for a short period of time? I can't remember, but I think at the end. And then after that, everything's destroyed. He's thrown into the lake of fire, and then a new heaven and a new earth. The earth is destroyed, then a new heaven and a new earth. Okay, what about the New Covenant as believers? So, when was that instituted? When did that first come up about the New Covenant? Where was that brought up?

First Corinthians 11. What about after the Millennial Kingdom? If you look at, and this answer is actually just what you were talking about Russ, but after the Millennial Kingdom, if you look at Revelation 21 verse 1, after the Millennial Kingdom, Revelation 21 1, Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there was no longer any sea." So, end of the Millennial Kingdom, after the release, after this, Satan's thrown in the lake of fire, earth, new heaven, new earth.

Okay? So, everybody okay with this? Yep? You don't... Go ahead. You go ahead. No, no. I was going to say, as far as Jews and church and all that, after we have a new heaven and new earth, how does that work? Well, Jews will be on earth, and they'll have the eternal king, the eternal throne, all those eternal ones of the Davidic will still be maintained. Christ will be sitting on the throne, still be ruling and reigning. And on the new earth, the Jews will reside.

And for us, wherever Christ is, we'll be. And I'm not 100% on, he's ruling and reigning, he's on the throne, but he's in a new heaven, so whether that's omnipresent and we're omni-with him, I'm not 100% sure on that one. But all I know is wherever he is, we are.

You know when the earth gets, it's going to be all fire? It'll be removed, yes. Okay, is that man-made because we're letting bombs off? No. Or is it because God? God. We can't destroy the Earth. As much as we could try, I don't think we could do it. Only God can do that. As long as you buy your carbon offsets. This political announcement was brought to you by... Yes, if we don't get our carbon offsets, we are going to destroy the Earth. Okay?

So, we're going to look a little bit more into some of the different covenants and different things. So, the Eternal Covenant, that is brought out in Hebrews 13.20. That is, again, First, there's blood shed by Jesus and then God raised him from the dead.

If you look at Hebrews 13.20, Now the God of peace who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord. Again, talking about the blood of the eternal covenant, that's the first part of the covenant. Okay, where Christ would shed his blood.

And according to the law, if you look at Hebrews 9.22, Again, why do you need to shed blood? According to the law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. So again, to pay for the sins, there has to be shedding of blood.

Remember how in the Old Testament, what did they do? Sacrifice. And what did that do? It covered it. The blood of the Lord did what? Take away. Okay? So why the resurrection? What did that signify? Pre-creation? There was a victory over death, which was what sin brought. Getting there. But what did the... By resurrecting Christ, what did that mean? That God was satisfied. God was satisfied. The conditions, Christ's blood paid for, God says, I'm satisfied. And part of the covenant, the eternal covenant was, I'll raise you up.

In 1 Corinthians 15, 16 and 17, for if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless. You're still in your sins. So, if God wasn't satisfied and didn't raise Christ, where are we? Still in our sins.

So, very important part of the eternal covenant. Two parts, two conditions. Christ died, shed his blood. Second half of the covenant was that the two parties, God would raise him up. And that would say he was propitiated or satisfied. If we look at 1 John, 2 verses 1 and 2. My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins. Not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

Okay? Remember that 25 cent word, propitiation? What does that mean? Atonement? What? Atonement? God is satisfied. Satisfied. It means God was satisfied. He was propitiated. He was satisfied with the sacrifice. The other one which is here, and we bring this up a lot, which I think is just the sad part of all this. What was the last part of that verse in 1 John 2, verse 2? And he himself is the propitiation for our sins. Not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. Who is this for? Who did the blood of Christ cover?

Every human being. Everyone. Now I'm not going to point to the guy in the White House that Mike always does. I'm going to point to the house over here. This guy. This guy gets beat up all the time. How about that guy? The guy with the trailer over here in the house over here. Did Christ die for his sins? Yes. Yeah. The hardest part for me to understand is that guy has a gift. There's just waiting for him. It's like having a Porsche or a Ferrari in your garage and you have the keys right outside the door. But you never go out and get the keys to drive the Ferrari out of there. And that's a horrible example of how it's priceless.

We have all these things promised to us. The new covenant in his blood which gives us Christ's very life. fellowship with him, all these different things. But that guy right across here has that same gift waiting for him. All he has to do is what? Believe. Believe. It's not a bunch of work, a lot of efforts, a lot of different things. It's the non-meritorious, no work, effort, just to believe and you get everything that's promised.

You know, I was listening to the television, Kevorkian died, and I'm thinking, He truly had a hardened heart, like what Mike says. That he, even if he were at the pearly gates, he would still have that. The way he, there was no emotion, he was just flat, and he had no faith. It went to waste. You know, a Kevorkian or anybody who doesn't receive, will still, the day they step into eternity, are going to still reject.

Yeah, he's one of them. And, you know, the amazing part, If he accepted the Lord, if he believed, he'd be right there with us. You know, as cruel, you know, you look at Hitler, or Kharkin, or name your despot, nasty, whatever, and how nasty they are. How does that compare to you, if you were a non-believer? Same. Exactly the same. I helped a little old lady across the street. I helped at the Salvation Army. I did all these things. I'm a great person. Hitler killed all the people.

In God's eyes? Yeah. So as much as we think of Kevorkian, he's the same as us if we don't believe. If we're not in the New Covenant. Now, Israel's new covenant. The time for their new covenant, the real one, is in the Millennial Kingdom. That's when all these promises, and Craig was right, the land may go back and forth.

We don't know when the Lord's coming back for us, for the rapture. So there could be times where Israel is removed again. Just like what, 70 AD? You know, the temple, everything's eradicated and they've been split until 1948 and then come back to a nation. They could do that again. Could be another thousand years. I don't know. But what we do know is in the Millennial Kingdom, they will get their land.

They will get a king. Which will be Christ. Christ. Christ will be ruling on David's throne. That was the promise to David. And the place will be in Palestine, the Palestinian covenant. The interesting part, which I just think is fascinating, and that's where you think also in that Jeremiah one, if you're a covenant theologist and you're trying to place us into Israel's covenant, have we had the law written on our hearts?

You guys can close all your Bibles, right? Because you have it written on your heart, everything that's in there, right? You can just quote any scripture, everything. There's no need for teaching, right? I can shut the mic down. Okay, Bruce, you know it all. So let me pull a few verses and see if you can quote them.

Again, that's why you have to be really creative to try and pull the Jewish or the Israel's covenant, New Covenant, to us, because are these things true now? God will write the law of the kingdom on their hearts, and Israel will receive the earthly blessings. Do they have all the land that God promised to them now? No. So, again, all these things don't add up to, even if you want to throw us into the covenant theology, It doesn't make sense. So, what type is it? Unconditional. What does that mean? It doesn't change. It doesn't matter what happens. It doesn't matter anybody's actions. It will happen. And the duration is eternal. That's important. Again, earthly, where are the Jews going to be? Earth. Earth during the millennial, after the millennial, and the new earth. It's an eternal covenant. And you can look that up in Jeremiah 31 verses 31 through 34.

Now this is going to be a really busy one. If you look at this, this is key aspects of the new covenant. And again, these are all different things. And I basically put a couple of the ones in there that I just think were kind of how it shows that we aren't attached to it. Again, it's a new covenant. It's two parties. It's God and Israel. The time of the covenant is days to come. You can look at that in verse 31 of Jeremiah. The primary features, God puts a law in their inward parts. God writes the law in their hearts. All Israel shall know God. Is that today?

So, And so, if we're lumped into that, you know, again, these are things, if you lump it in, you can't make covenant work to a new believer, in our new covenant. Okay? Comparison of the new to old covenant, the Mosaic covenant. The old covenant could not take away sin or impart life.

Again, if you look at that, events surrounding the New Covenant, Israel will dwell in the land, never to be scattered again, as we were talking about, once the Millennial Kingdom starts. Are they going to be moved off the land? Never again. Israel will have a king over them. Israel is to dwell in the land forever. God will set a sanctuary in the land and that's in Ezekiel 37. The nations will recognize Israel and their God.

Does that happen now? No. Again, days in the future. This is the end for the Millennial Kingdom. Okay? And again, there's just a whole bunch of information. If you look at this, if you look at that there's a ton on there about the new covenant with Israel and how if you look at it rationally as compared to us it doesn't make sense. Alright let me see here. It doesn't make sense because of our brain? Well, through scripture it doesn't make sense. If you look at what's promised to us And then if you're kind of lumping us into the new covenant for Israel, it doesn't make sense.

I mean, do we have the written on our hearts right now? No. I mean, is God's law written on our hearts? No. Is Israel possessing the land right now? No. Again, if you try and apply who we are, if you look at the new covenant for us, we are what? Placed into Christ, right? His life is our life, all the identification truths. You know, it doesn't make sense. So at some point we're going to have His law written into our heart while we're in Christ.

But then how does that law continue to be serving as a tutor? What does that scripture say? It says that Christ is a tutor. The law is a tutor. Yeah, the law is a tutor, but what does the verse immediately after that say? You know the scripture. It says, and everybody goes to that, it says, well, the law is a tutor to tell us about Christ. The verse immediately after that says that with Christ coming, there is no need for the tutor.

So, after that, do we need the law? They're not the same as us. They have God's law written in their heart. They know now all the laws. They're written in their heart. They know them now. There's a verse in Jeremiah that says, no need to teach them anymore, because they're in here. Remember, that's Jews, not us. Our life is Christ. So there's a difference. But what would it serve the Jews to know all this law? Because then that's why in the Millennial Kingdom, the lion will sit with the lamb. There will be no, you know, a lot of the things, because it's written on their heart. They don't need to teach it. They will act according to their heart.

You might have the same question I do. It's like, man, that law has been a bummer since day one. Now they've got the law in their hearts and living forward. What was the law meant to do? To convict us. I couldn't keep any of them. It made sin what? Flourish. Flourish. Because you couldn't keep it, you couldn't do it. But now with it written in your heart, you maintain it. Do you have that? It's in your heart. What rules you now? Christ. Well, the Jews. Oh. The law in their heart. The law in their heart. Okay? Alright, so the New Covenant. So, and who are the two parties in the New Covenant? For the Church? Christ and the Believers. Who? Christ and the Believers. Christ and the Believers. Okay. And, okay.

So, a couple of Well, if you look at 1 Corinthians 11.25, that's our typical one.

We're going to see that upstairs in about 20 minutes as we partake in the Lord's Supper. In the same way, he took the cup after supper, saying, This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat the bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Also in Matthew 26, 27 and 28, when he had taken the cup and given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink from it, all of you. For this is my blood as a covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.

And then if you look at Hebrews 13.20, again that's talking about the new covenant. Now the God of peace who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant. Again, this is referencing the eternal covenant, which was between God and Christ. Christ shed his blood, God would raise him up. Okay, so basically the cup represents Christ's blood, death on the cross, the eternal covenant.

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I thought that was a good way to do that, especially as we head upstairs and we have the Lord's Supper. All right, let's close. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time. Father, we thank you again just for all the thoughts of the covenant and what's happening with the Jews and Israel.

But more importantly, we thank you for us as believers, what the new covenant in the cup, the blood of the Lord Jesus and what it represents to us and how much that is so incredible that we're placed into Christ. Our very life is His life and that we will come to rule and reign during that millennial period with the Lord Jesus. And Father, we just thank you again for all that that new covenant for us as new believers, what that entails. Again, just the many things that happen immediately when we have that, when we first believe that we have so many things that are positionally that are true about us throughout eternity, that what happened exactly at that moment.

We're thankful for all those things. And Father, we just thank you again just for the intimacy that we can have before you and with you. Father, we just pray for upstairs and pray for Vern as he delivers the message. Just prepare our hearts to receive it. Father, we just thank you for all these things in Christ's name. Amen.