Which Side of the Cross - Lesson 22
Mike Doyle · Dec 3, 2017
Which Side of the Cross, No. 46
Holly Hills Bible Church
https://www.hollyhillsbiblechurch.org/teaching/messages/492661032300

Transcribed from the recording by SermonAudio, so expect the occasional misheard word.

So what we're trying to do with the short time that we have left is make sure that we have an understanding of all four aspects of biblical faith. I think we're pretty good on the essence of faith. I think we're pretty good on the principle of faith. I think the definite article in front of the word faith is fairly easy to understand. But personal faith is probably what we'll concentrate on for the rest of the time.

And so, I know we've asked this question in previous classes, but the question number one today is what is personal faith? So, what is it? Do you have any? It's personal. What is personal faith? I'll prime the pump a little bit. I've got five aspects of it. Faith is the human response that God slash the Lord Jesus Christ expects from his person, his word and his promises.

Do you like that? I happen to be looking at an article yesterday. Any of you guys get this in the mail or get it electronically? It's called Grace Family Journal. Do you get this? It's really a good publication. Dennis Roxer, who's the pastor there, has got a great article in the summer of 2017. He puts it out four times a year. It's called Faith Resting in God's Great and Precious Promises. It's a really good article. And you can go there to their website and look at it. It's just DuluthBibleChurch.org. It's real simple. And they're pretty good, some of the stuff they put out.

So, faith is the human response that God-slash-Christ expects from his person, his word, and his promises. What do you think about that? You like that? Okay, your turn. Personal faith. Somebody just jump out there and say something. Should I just stand here quietly? Or walk in Christ? To walk in Christ? The second thing I put down is confidence or trust in a reliable object. confidence or trust in a reliable object, God's character, His ability, His facts, His promises, His words, His acts. Is God reliable? We all go, yeah, He is. But sometimes with personal situation that's going on, we doubt. But what personal faith is, is a confidence and a trust in a reliable object, and the object is obviously God Himself. the things of God.

Mike, you mentioned, I guess it was four or five weeks ago, that faith in salvation lacked the trust component because you don't know him that way yet. Do you remember that discussion? So it's interesting to think about faith potentially becoming even deeper after this salvation. Oh yeah. Something you mentioned that we didn't go into for very long, I think you quoted somebody on that. It might have been, who was that? The Romans? Newell? Newell. That might be the quote that you gave me. Did you give me a quote from Newell? I did. Yeah, that might be it.

Anyway, yeah, and when you consider that the information that is presented to a non-believer about salvation is pretty radical to them, because there is an invitation to place their confidence and their trust in somebody else, outside themselves, and in their mind, is the reward good enough, big enough, is it valuable enough for me to go for it?

That's why it's so important for the guy that's delivering the message, he see that life in you. That's also why it's so important to present the Word of God rather than your opinion. Let the Word of God do the work because the words are powerful. So could you say that personal faith is the only part or the only definition that we have of faith that's subjective? Oh wow, that's pretty good. I like that. I think that's right. Because I mean we all have a personal faith but hopefully the Lord is leading that.

Because you do run across personal faith that has very little to do with the reality of the other faiths. Yeah, there's biblical faith and non-biblical faith. The whole world operates on non-biblical faith. They have a faith in an object That's either themselves or the world. But they could also have a faith in a religious system. That's right. And that's one of the things that this article that Roxer covers that is really, really interesting.

Let's see what he says. I should be better prepared so we don't have... We only got three lessons. I've got to hurry up. I can't find it, but he makes that point that your faith can rest in something other than the Lord Jesus. He made the comment that people come to Christ and they come religiously, and if you come to Christ religiously, then you're rigid to keep the rules. If you come by grace, it's a different environment. what you're talking about. Because the reformers, their faith is in their ability or the Spirit's ability to cause them to keep the law.

That's where their faith lies. Personal faith is the only aspect of the four letter on the board that is subjective to the person. But it's objective first, right? So there's an objective message. You would hope. You would hope. We should expect that a biblical faith would have an objective object or message so that it can be subjectively believed. And that's what's so cool about this class, is that so seldom is this taught through.

I don't know about everybody else, but I have found great comfort in going through these different phases of faith. Because your personal faith is what grows as you understand the other aspects. So that word subjective is sometimes used in other contexts, and it can be... I know how you're referring to it is right on, but maybe just expand on what subjective means in this context, how you're viewing it. Just so that we're not thinking that faith is subjective, meaning that it's however you feel, or whatever it is that you... How about your heart? But I think sometimes personal faith is just exactly that. Right? Right.

Although I must say for a non-believer to be presented the gospel and the benefits of it that the Lord Jesus is the Son of God, He became a man and He died on a cross. for the sins of the world and your sins. And by believing that, he was buried and resurrected, and by believing that, God will save you for all eternity. God will save you for all eternity, in my judgment, is the difficult part to believe, for me personally. Because coming out of a religion, Catholicism in my case, I already knew the facts up to the eternity of it. I knew that Jesus died. I got this thing last week from my buddy in California from Dr. Barnhouse about how you witness to a Catholic. Did I tell you that last week? No, you didn't. Did I? Yeah, you told me. It's interesting.

He says, why did Jesus come? Five questions. Why did Jesus come? First one is he came to die. The Catholic could say sure, that's fine. Did he come to die for what? What did he come here to die for? He came to die for the sins of the world, and your sins too. Did he complete the job? In other words, did he accomplish his task? Did he pay for all of the sins of the world and all of your sins? If the answer is yes, then what did he leave for you to do? What didn't he cover? And that's the essence of Catholicism. Their whole doctrine is based on what Christ left for them to do. If you come out of Catholicism to trust, have personal faith in the gospel, is a very difficult thing.

Because you've been doing spiritual push-ups your whole life, or you gave up. You think it's all phony. So it's very difficult. It's really difficult to buy that aspect. He will save you for all eternity. That's really tough, I think. To really put your personal trust and rest in that fact. So you've got to have the right facts to start with. Would you agree? The right facts are really important. That's why we spend all that time on the essence of what faith is. What are the facts? for salvation. We say it's the gospel.

Christ died on the cross for your sins. He was buried. He was resurrected. And 1 Corinthians 15 says he was seen by many. So his resurrection was a reality. Based on that, if you put your personal trust and rest in that, God will save you. He will save you for all eternity. And that was my question to the guys that were trying to lead me to Christ. You mean I don't have to do anything else? And they said, that's right, you don't have to. And I said, come on, the world doesn't run that way. And their answer was, we're not talking about the world, we're talking about God and your salvation. So you've got to have the facts first, the most important thing. And you can't add to or take away from God's facts.

We have a tendency to do that. We want an emotional experience, we want You know, we've gone through this a hundred times. When I first met Courtney, he says to me, well, you've got to receive Jesus into your heart. I said, well, what is that? And I said, the same Dennis Roxer wrote a book that says why receiving Jesus into your heart doesn't save you. Unless you've been presented with those facts, you can buy it. I received Jesus into my heart. I got saved. Did you really? Did you really?

I think that's some of where I'm kind of thinking. A lot of times you'll hear someone say, you present a gospel and someone will say, I like that. That sounds really good. I'll add that to my portfolio. I'll have some of that. I'll have a little of Jesus just in case. Yeah, works for me. I'm going to say, is it going to be there for me today? Maybe Christ.

And certain truths that you've presented It's kind of like a piece of the pizza. I'll add a little bit of a different topping to it. And that's what you're referring to as not adding to or taking away. The subjectivity a lot of times in today's world is such a big hot button because of the postmodern concepts that people come to the table with. You present them the facts and they say, Well, what that means to me is X, and so I'm going to believe that based on what it means to me. That's right. It runs with your filter. Yeah. That's right.

And so, well, it is 100% personal, and by personal that's the subjective component. It's also 100% objective in terms of what is believed. I can modify that in my mind to fit my own world, my own way of thinking, if that makes sense. No, it makes sense.

So the point being is that the objective word is the most critical aspect of where my rest and trust is. And sometimes that's a huge change of mind. that I have to take God at His word objectively and not how I feel about it. And that's also the biggest barrier to the growth of believers. Because think about this.

So I get saved, I'm moving along, I'm reading my Bible, and I start to run into some of these incredible facts. Not the least of which is that I was crucified with Christ. Well, how do I feel about that? And could that possibly be true? Because there's no, just like the gospel, there's no empirical evidence that I can find that I was at that cross 2,000 years ago with Christ, other than the fact that His word says it.

So part of the spiritual growth of a believer is learning the process of just taking God at His word, just looking at what it says and saying, I may not even understand it, but you said it. I was just thinking that a guy that you witness to, he's really got to understand that he's already dead. Yeah, see, and a lot of this understanding, or all of this understanding comes from the Spirit of God working in their heart. Because without Him, nobody gets saved. Without His persuasion, you can forget that. I was just going to say, it just fits that when I was in the college, a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses came to my place, and they taught me everything that was I'm messing up. And so it's a thing of what is it you're putting your faith in? A bunch of lies for the real gospel. Yeah.

You know, I think getting back to the subjective, you know, the definition of looking at if you're based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes or opinions. And, you know, I think in the personal faith, I think The only subjective part I think of it, it still comes down to a binary choice.

You believe or you don't. That is the subjective part of it. Do you believe or not, I think. Don't you think right there that what you believe is critical and you could be confused at that point by what J.D. was saying. I believe how I think about this. to get back to the objective part, which is based, I think it's under the ring, you know, it's the things of God. It ultimately comes down to do you believe it or not.

Yes, it does. And that's the binary choice. Our subjective part is do we believe it or not. That's the only thing that is subjective, I think. Our personal, which is do we believe it or not. Right. And if there's a subjective part, that's the only thing.

It's not that, yeah, I kind of think that or I don't. It's binary, I think. You either believe it or you don't. Why don't you explain to these people what binary means? Well, there's zeros and ones. It's either you believe it or you don't. There's only two choices. Binary being two. There's only two choices. And that always comes down to it.

And it starts from, do you believe who Christ is? you know, to the believer or the unbeliever. That's you either believe or you don't. And that's the binary choice between believers and unbelievers. And then that still comes down to everything comes down to that. It's still a choice. And I mean, the subjective part is only a choice.

Do you believe or don't? And that's where our growth is, is we begin to believe him. and we progress in our spiritual growth by, I guess, subjectively believing in what he's told us. Well, another aspect of this is that I think that God gave us a will and we only use it for one thing. We use it to believe. You don't use it for anything else. You might think you do, that I've got the will to do this and that, but you don't make that move unless you believe So faith is built into the human, out of the womb.

They can make decisions and believe about, well, I'm going to go here rather than here. I'm going to believe this rather than that. I'm going to trust this rather than this. So I have a will, but it's designed for me to believe or not believe, or believe this or believe that. Believe the gospel or believe something other than the gospel, or just not believe it. I'm not done with personal faith.

Third thing, the only act of appropriation that is excluded from a works classification. I'll read that again. The only act of appropriation, you know what appropriation means? I took it to myself. It's the only act of appropriation that is excluded from a works classification.

In other words, faith is not considered a work, something that I do that I get credit for. Where's all the credit? It's in what I believe. It isn't in the fact that I believed it, it's in what I believe. It's one of the only acts a human can do where he doesn't get any credit for doing it. The credit is in what he believes, the appropriating. Appropriation, faith is an appropriating factor.

I appropriate salvation by believing in the gospel. What kind of credit? Does God say, okay, I'll give you 40% of grace because you did that? No, you get nothing. You get all grace or you get nothing because it's not an act that I do as a human being. where I can turn to God and say, you owe me because I did, I believe. No, it's coming at me and if I appropriate it to myself, it's a free gift. The whole thing is free. I get in on the gift by a non-meritorious act of faith. Okay? That make sense? Yes.

In that quote from Newell, he says, Faith is an act of the soul which looks wholly away from self as regards both merit or demerit, and honors the Almighty in all gracious in a way not indeed in the least meritorious. But it brings his creatures to him in the right attitude, complete submission and confidence. We see, then, in part, why faith, And only faith is the way to reach and touch the value and power of the propitiation.

Wow, that's pretty, that's cool. That wasn't the thing I was thinking of, but it's good. That's awesome. You always like reading the Bible. I know, I know. Gotta pay attention. Next aspect, personal faith equals resting in the facts presented to you by the Holy Spirit It's believing in the person and work of the Lord Jesus, who he is and what he did.

Personal trust and rest in what is revealed to us in terms of the essence of faith, the things of God, the reality which God reveals to us, and that reality is in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. So that's my definition of personal faith. There's a lot wrapped up in understanding what personal faith is. Is personal faith a feeling?

Personal faith in the facts is like the train on the tracks. This is a guy who understands binary. Facts lead and the feelings follow. So it's important to understand. Personal faith takes God at His word and the feelings may follow, but they don't necessarily have to. When I exercise faith in the gospel for salvation, it has nothing to do with how I feel about it. The facts are true. My feelings don't make them true or make them not true, but my salvation, the free gift that's offered me, is rested upon whether I believe it or not, whether I'll place my trust and my rest, which is probably an emotion, my rest in what God has done through Christ.

Something that's interesting about that is that you said feelings may come or may not. That's accurate. But what if it's a feeling that's negative? Do you need to get worried about that? Is that something you need to stew about? It doesn't have anything to do with your faith, but there may be There may be feelings of doubt that follow at times, like, I think I believed, I'm not sure, I think I did. You sometimes wrestle with feelings that come along after making a decision, and this is not just about salvation, this is about trusting the Lord with something else in your life. Sure, spiritual growth, yeah. It's interesting that we have those feelings, but we maybe don't have anything to do with that decision of faith, and you don't need to get wrapped up about it.

I know. And they're likely going to change. They're going to change over time, but your faith, it was in the facts, and it keeps you on the tracks of those feelings regardless of what they are, good or bad, or confused over time. The Lord is not concerned in that way.

I would take issue with his concern and let me tell you why. How is God going to teach me as a sentient, by sentient meaning a being who has emotions and will and a mind and I can experience, how is he going to teach me how to walk by faith and not by how I feel? He's going to allow me to do this, to put me in a situation where I've got all this wonderful feeling going and the next thing I know I'm in the train wreck. And it's like, what happened?

And God is quietly and persuasively teaching me, faith is trusting me. Don't trust your feelings. Trust me. Trust my word. Trust what I'm telling you. and the emotion part of it will follow. It doesn't come first. I will confirm in you that your faith was something that I wanted you to do. You see that? The confirmation doesn't come before the faith. There is that peace and rest that comes. I will track that concern. He is concerned with the outcome of faith in your life emotionally.

But you don't have to dial that in. That's not your... Well, you can't. Right. And we often think that we've got to fix our feeling problem. Yeah. How do I fix how I'm feeling? Yeah. I think often though when your faith is in the facts and you are trusting him, he is going to help those feelings align because your faith is in the facts and you're not looking at your feelings.

And so eventually, hopefully, you know, What is the one thing that God offers us in Christ that you can't get any place else? Peace. Peace and rest, right? Those are the two commodities that you cannot get them in the world. They're not available in the world. There are no place you can find them.

And that's why he uses them because the one commodity that I want I want to rest. So he confirms my faith by there's a rest involved in it. There's a peace about it. I don't even have to be able to explain it, but I know that it's true. And we're told in scripture, that's the Holy Spirit. That's what He does. What is the fruit of the Spirit? Love, joy, peace, patience. All those things as a result of the Spirit. Yeah, that's right. So that's cool. I mean, it's really cool, the confirmation. And sometimes there's a long road of spiritual growth, just to learn that one lesson. I have to trust the Lord regardless of how I feel about it, or what the circumstances are, no matter what's going on around me. Mount Stanford's greatest saying was, I have to trust the Lord has come to that.

Oh, by the way, it has to come to that. If it doesn't come to that, you're still stuck with feelings and open door, closed door, all of that nonsense that goes on. The road to the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, from his perspective, was an open door. From everybody else's, it was a closed door. It's already come to that, though. That's the miracle of salvation. That's right. We're halfway through the class. We've got question one out of the way. Colossians 2, 6, and 7. Let's talk about that for a minute. Somebody go to it. While you're turning, I'll read it.

Therefore, as you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him, established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. So now we get a command. You have received the Lord Jesus Christ. How did you receive him?

By believing, by faith. So now walk that same way. Walk by faith. So how do you do that? Well first that train wreck happened. That's a positive attitude. So what this is really talking about is the principle of faith and how we walk. We walk the same way that we were saved. We received Christ by faith in his person, in his work, active voice. We did it. We participated, we believed via the Holy Spirit, we were justified and that's the fact. So let's expand on this a little bit. We're to walk the same way we were saved.

To repeat myself, if I'm saved by the Holy Spirit and he uses it, someone to lead me to Christ who is objective about the word, who understands about grace and understands about faith, I have a real advantage in spiritual growth. If they have eliminated the feeling part and adding stuff to it and that kind of thing, I'm way ahead of the game because I've learned from the very beginning that my salvation was a gift appropriated by me by the act of faith and the facts of the word and the person of Christ. I learned that. I am much more likely, as I go on now, as I walk, to function that same way.

But if I came to Christ via making Jesus the Lord of my life and all of these other things, or I walked down or I received Jesus into my heart, now we have a whole unlearning process that the spirit has to go through to get me back to the point where I will just take him at his word, his objective word. It's really important to understand that. And so when you see that, you see how careful, if the Lord has you involved with the salvation of another human being, if you're the conduit through which he's going to work, it's the responsibility to be careful there is really important and to stick with the word more word less opinion more of his word less of your opinion is really critical and stay on the fact that it's a gift the grace part of it and the faith part and the facts part of it is really critical because if you get to this verse in Colossians 2 and you're a feely, touchy, emotional person and you read this verse and you say, I'm supposed to walk by my feelings or how I feel about the word of God. Is that right? How's that working out for you? There won't be any rest there. God is very careful in terms of his principles and they only work if we're involved in them.

Do you understand what I mean by that? A principle is how a thing operates or functions and it does it the same way every time. The principle of faith functions and operates the same way every time. And it only allows the believer to grow in the knowledge and grace of the Lord Jesus if we're functioning by the principle. See that? Now the Spirit of God sometimes has to get us to unlearn certain things that are little personal things that we like or this little black box behind your left ear which are all your rules and how you're supposed to function and just trust him. It's really tough to do but the spirit is up to the job. So a principle is a law. Well it's not a law in the sense it's a statute. It's a law in the sense that the function of it is consistent every time. So we received his life by resting in what God reveals about himself and his work on the cross. We walk in his life by resting on who Christ is and who we are in Christ.

So imagine if you start to run into this issue about being in Christ, in Christ, 147 times, in Christ, in Christ. How do I deal with something like that? What does it mean to be in Christ? What does that mean and where am I in Him? I'm looking for some empirical evidence that would show me, well what does it mean to be in Christ? Am I in His mind? How do you, well let me ask you, how do you perceive what being in Christ is?

Somebody give me your... Well, I've come to believe that I was ascended with Jesus and I'm in Him, sitting in the direction of God and heaven and places. And I don't know why that makes sense to me now that I believe it. Okay, now that's really good.

We received Him by a whole principle of faith. We received him by the essence of faith, didn't we? We believed the facts. We believed the specific word of faith. We believed the gospel. We heard it and we responded. We just rested and we trusted in the Lord. Right? Isn't that what we did?

So you could say, I've entered into the truth that Jesus presented and I believe it. That's me. I've come short of his glory. I'm a sinner. I trusted in Jesus Christ who came and died and paid the penalty for my sins. Personal faith. So the two things that are important to us is to receive and to walk by the same principle. And I dare say that gets to be a lot harder than just getting saved.

If you met the Lord in middle age, which I did at 35, the first question after I was saved was, I started looking around and thought, well what do they do? What do these Christians do? How do they act? It always seemed really weird to me. How do they do what they do? So you watch them. And it isn't long before you spot a couple of phonies. And you think, oh, well, that person over there, they seem to be genuine. So you go up and you say, what's the deal with you?

I think the third day after I was saved, a guy handed me a book that said, now that you're saved, here's what you do. And because I came out of Catholicism and all the legalism, I looked at it and I said, no, thank you. I didn't have to do anything to get saved, other than believe. I don't need a list of rules, I got rid of those. But it's hard, because that's what you do. You look around and say, what do these Christians do and how do they function? They function by faith. Well, can I see your faith? Can I see your faith? I can see that you have faith by what you do, but I can't see your faith. for a while. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Hang out.

Second Corinthians or Colossians rather than some verses that were rooted. It takes time to grow roots. I was actually just going to talk about that. I'm sorry, I'm not hearing you. It says we're rooted. Let's follow that. That's really good. It's time to grow those roots. And we don't see them.

So even if we say, which I did, well I'm saved, you know, and I tell people. And it's like, so what? You know, you look the same to me and I look the same to myself. But if I go back to the word, I think we should be praying all the time for those the Lord brings into our lives that they would be able to hear what the Holy Spirit is telling them because I think like with our son the Holy Spirit is talking all the time to a person to everyone to try to draw them to Christ and where was I going with that? Ask JD, he knows. We need, when we're dealing with people too, to talk about the fact that when you receive Christ, you received a whole new life. Everything is new and you can't see that But you grow a root on it, and it holds you, and you're secure in Him.

You're not who you were before. You walk through this life, you're in Him. And therefore, sure, you sin, but 1 John 1, 9 is right there. The minute you realize you've sinned, you say, OK, Lord, I know what I did. Like you said, you realize one day, I'm not that guy anymore. I'm somebody different, J.D. Well, I've been looking at this for a while. This is our family verse 6 and 7. I don't know if it's a family, but essentially, verse 6 we've talked about is the personal side of faith, right?

So, therefore, as you received him, now you receive him by faith. So now, walk in him. That walk in him is by faith, and those are all your responsibilities, but if you look at firmly rooted and built up and established, those are all passive. Those are things that are being done to you.

Those roots are being established and built up by the Lord's work. It's not us trying to dig in and hold tight. It's us simply operating by faith and He's establishing, He's growing those roots. But the faith, the essence of faith is that They're fully grown.

Positionally, they are. Positionally, yeah. Well, right there, I have a question. There's an output to all of that, and it's gratitude. It's an overflowing type of gratitude, and that's you. So if rooting, grounding, and establishing is what is known in Greek as passive voice, which means that the action is being done to you, and the only thing, what you're doing is receiving. Can you frustrate that receiving? You can screw anything up. How do you screw it up? By not believing it. That's how you screw it up. But you know what?

I'm so thankful that most of the time the Spirit doesn't listen to me. He's about His business. He's doing this rooting process, this grounding process, He's going about His business. Now a lot of times, Part of that process is that I've got to have several train wrecks so that I understand, well, this isn't the way, well, that's not the way, well, that was idiot, I shouldn't have done that. And I come back to the point, well, I'm supposed to just trust him. Oh yeah, let's get on with it. Well, he's been getting on with it the whole time.

I'm just learning to catch up. This whole idea, the passive voice, It was a huge revelation when I first heard it from Malloy. I thought my Christian life was my responsibility, this rooting, grounding, and establishing. And just to understand the pastor's voice as something being done to me, what did that allow me to do? Rest. Let the Spirit of God get on with his job.

That very last part is interesting too, because we were talking about how the feeling side of things, but gratitude. That's interesting, that when you walk in him in this way, he's doing these things, and your response to that is overflowing gratitude. Yeah, you wake up one day and you're... It's broken down by all these train wrecks, but Paul's laying out in a simple way how a Christian walks and what that looks like. They're thankful. And I think that's worship. Boy, Mike, that's really profound, because that's really what it is. That's what worship really is.

I have come to the understanding that the Spirit of God has been doing all of this in my life. And I may or may not have recognized it, but the day that I do, it's like, wow. There was actually today's heart, although both faith and joy are included in the fruit of the spirit, joy can only flourish upon the foundation of faith. When faith is present and active, favorable circumstances are not necessary for joy. Trials and tribulations cannot doubt it.

There are some Christians who seem to be afraid of enjoying all the rays of the sun of righteousness. They are afraid of being too happy. Perhaps some of us have not really considered that joy is itself a part of that fruit by which the Father is glorified. There is nothing to be gained by despondency. Doubts are not marks of humility. Unbelief is really evidence of pride. And there is no cloud so effectively shuts out the glad sunshine of our gracious Father's face as the thick cloud of unbelief."

Yeah, for those of you who read The Hungry Heart, the one today is appropriate for what we talked about today. You know, Mike, I think the Church really needs to understand We think it's a bass guitar. He told me one day when I kidded about that, he said, well, I'm on my way to worship now. Let's close. Father, how we thank you for your grace. And we ask you that you would continue, continue to root us, ground us, and establish us in the Lord Jesus Christ. And we pray in his precious name. Amen.