Episode Transcript
Let's take our Bibles and turn to Job chapter four.
Job chapter four.
And we will begin today's lesson in the second part of verse 17 Job chapter 4 verse 17.
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Job chapter 4 verse 17.
Last week we heard Eliphaz ask a rhetorical question.
And that question was, shall mortal man be more just than God?
And we, that's right, the answer is no.
We look closely at what was meant by the term mortal man.
And we saw that all who are born of Adam's race are mortal men.
And that includes women too, because if you believe the Bible.
Then you know that woman came from man.
Man didn't come from woman.
God made the man, he made the woman from the man, and then the rest is history and it's still being made, isn't it?
And the obvious uh we we also studied the word just and how it applies to both God and mortal man and the conclusion from Scripture Was that mortal man cannot be more just than God?
In fact, he cannot be equally as just as God And what really drives the point home is that mortal man is not just at all.
And we closed our study by reading where Jesus is called the just one.
And there's only one who is just.
And for us to be just, you say, well, I thought you just said we can't be just.
We can't.
In our own flesh.
But for us to be just, we have to be found in Him, in Jesus, by faith.
Romans chapter 5 verse 1 says, Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And now that we've learned this about being just, let's look at the next question that Eliphaz asked Job in verse 17.
He said, shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Now that's very similar to the first question But we have some new words to consider in this second question.
The man to which Eliphaz refers is, of course, mortal man.
You can say man or you can say mortal man, and it's the same thing.
Mortal man had a beginning, and mortal man will have an end.
Mortal man had to be created, so this word man would surely not refer to immortal man.
In fact, this word translated man is sometimes translated as the word mighty.
And the emphasis of the Hebrew word translated man or mighty is on the strength of the man as opposed to that of the woman.
And yes, I know there are some women who are physically stronger than men.
And that's what happens when you combine strength training and anabolic steroids.
And I don't care if every female on the planet takes steroids and is stronger than I am.
I'm not ruining my body with that stuff.
And by the way, when females use this drug for muscle-building purposes, it's actually testosterone and other derivatives of it.
And their femininity starts turning to masculinity.
And there are a multitude of physiological and psychological problems that are awaiting women who do that.
So without that interference, that chemical interference, the fact that men are stronger than women is by God's design.
So if somebody has a If a lady has a problem with that, then she just needs to take it up with God.
We'll just send her directly to the source.
And without the influence of performance-enhancing drugs, men will always be stronger than women across the board.
Now let me say one more thing about that.
Because we're talking about the Hebrew word for man, and that it means mighty in the scriptures, and it separates the the male from the female as far as strength goes.
If a man sits at a desk all day or on the couch or otherwise doesn't do any physical labor and he is able to, then he's failing to develop and use the strength that God intended for him to have.
Now not all men are going to have the same level of strength.
That that's for certain.
We're all different.
But if all things are normal, there's not chemical interference, and there's not some sort of physical impediment, then a man ought to be stronger than his wife.
He ought to be able to protect her.
I can promise you Adam was stronger, physically stronger than Eve.
And he ought to be able to protect her and do the hard labor that he is expected to do.
And again, if he has a physical handicap or an illness, that's different.
When my grandpa William Mac Shepherd, now that is a man's name right there, isn't it?
And he certainly was.
When he was dying of cancer, my grandmother had to help him do most things.
And she at that time was stronger than he was because he was weak in his infirmity.
The cancer had robbed him of all of his strength.
And she was always a physically strong woman, but when my grandpa was healthy, he was the strong man of the house.
And he worked in the oil field and he worked as a mechanic and did lots of manual labor.
So the point of the word man here in the scripture is that men by nature are physically stronger than women.
Now let's look at the words more pure.
More pure.
Because Eliphaz asked if a man shall be more pure than his maker, and more pure means more clean.
And the word for pure, in fact, is almost always translated as the word clean.
It can be clean in a physical sense.
Or in a ceremonial sense, or in a moral sense.
It's a broadly used word.
And so I'll show you a couple of the, or a few of the applications of this word clean in the scripture.
We can look at Leviticus chapter 13, where we read about the law of the lepers when they were pronounced clean or unclean.
And in verse 6, this is Leviticus 13, 6, says, and the priest shall look on him that is on the leper again the seventh day, and behold, If the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean.
It is but a scab, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
Now in that case, the word clean is used to describe the skin and the clothes And that's pretty basic.
That's the physical cleanness.
When we wash our hands, our aim is to make them clean, or at least cleaner than they were before we washed them Now a second use of the word clean or pure, same word as in our text, is the ceremonial one.
Ceremonial purity, ceremonial cleanness.
And you'll again find in Leviticus an example of that.
And I'll read from Leviticus chapter 22, verses 6 through 7.
Leviticus 22 verses 6 through 7.
The soul which had, and that's used for a person.
The word soul here is used for a living person.
The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, till the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he wash his flesh with water.
And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it is his food.
Now the simple act of touching something that is unclean doesn't always make you physically unclean.
But there in that passage, it could have made or did make somebody ceremonially unclean.
I've touched the hand of a deceased loved one in the who's lying in the casket and who physically is very clean, the the the Undertaker. uh goes through a lot of trouble to make that love one presentable for a little while for the various customs that we have.
And that didn't transfer any actual uncleanness to me when I did that.
But what God was trying to teach the children of Israel was more about or less about actually touching something dead.
He was trying to teach them to put a difference between the clean and the unclean.
And this was the example between the pure and the impure, and pure is our word in Job that we're looking at.
Now, if an Israelite were to touch a dead animal, let's say, and that dead animal has blood all over it, then all the Israelite would have to do to be physically clean is just wash his hands.
But the Leviticus passage that I just read Said that the sun had to go down for that Israelite to be clean if he had done these other things.
Now the sun going down doesn't wash away physical uncleanness, does it?
The sun just goes down.
The sun can go down and you can still be just as physically dirty as you were when the sun was up.
But in that passage, it marked the time when the Israelite who touched the dead thing could now be pronounced ceremonially clean.
And then the third use of the word clean, which is the same as our word pure again, refers to being morally clean.
In Jeremiah chapter 13 verse 27, Jeremiah 13, 27, speaking to Jerusalem through the prophet.
Jeremiah through Jeremiah, God said, I have seen thine adulteries and thy neigings, the lewdness of thy whoredom and thine abominations on the hills in the fields.
Woe unto thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean?
When shall it once be?
Now Jerusalem could not be morally clean or pure because they had sinned by committing adulteries and uh both physical adultery and spiritual adultery because they went after other gods instead of the Lord God.
And they had sinned in the form of many abominations.
And all these things made them morally unclean.
And going back now to our text in Job.
The question is whether man, mortal man, shall be more pure than his maker.
There are the words, his maker Now, a maker is another broadly used word to describe one who does the work, one who makes things.
Not too hard to understand that.
But the application of this word in this verse is to man's maker, who is God.
Speaking to the children of Israel through Isaiah the prophet, God said this in Isaiah chapter 44, verse 2.
Isaiah 44, 2.
Thus saith the Lord that made thee and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee, fear not, O Jacob, my servant.
And thou Jasuran, whom I have chosen.
God made Israel the people, every one of them.
Psalm chapter 95, verse 6 reiterates that.
Psalm 95, 6 says, Oh come, let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
There's a beautiful little chorus that is from that verse.
So these verses that I read you make it clear that man is not self-made.
If you ever read an article, maybe in a business journal or something, that says So-and-so was a self-made millionaire.
You know, somebody might say that about Jeff Bezos, who began rapping things in his apartment and sending them out to people and learn what to do and he now has Amazon as a he's a billionaire, but he's not self-made and somebody may say, well he was a self-made man.
He started in his own apartment.
Well, whose stuff did he start with?
He started with God's stuff.
Everything he has and everything he owns belongs to God first.
He has a maker.
And if you think about it, what sets Christianity apart, one of the things that sets Christianity apart from Macroevolution.
Macroevolution is the the part of the evolutionary system where people who believe it believe that this form of life can turn into this form of life.
And the the evolutionists teach that there is no God.
They teach that there was some sort of cataclysmic explosion that resulted in the creation of life.
Now when I was a little boy, I blew up a lot of things with fireworks.
And I never one time saw it blow anything into order.
It blew it into chaos.
It made a mess.
And uh I'll tell you well I'm not going to tell you that because my mother's still living and she's she'll hear about this so I'll just I'll just hold that.
I might tell you one day But they teach that this explosion resulted in life.
And they believe that the smallest, simplest life form evolved into a more complex life form. ultimately turning into man at some point.
So the evolutionists believe a process was man's maker.
Christians, on the other hand, believe that God created all things, with man being the last of them.
And there are some religious people who try to merge the Bible and evolution together so they can hold on to both things.
They say, well, I'm a Christian, but.
You know, I believe this other thing.
Well you can't you can't do that.
That's logically impossible.
You might be able to explain, well, uh, evolution.
I saw it happen in the monkeys in Africa.
And uh I think there really is evolution.
There are lots of different terms, and I'm not going to try to teach you all about evolution because I don't know all about it. about the theory, but there are things called adaptations and mutations, gene mutations and all that.
That's not the same That's not one life form turning into another life form.
And to believe that is part of the denial of God being our Maker.
And Christianity sets forth God as an infinite, eternal being who has always been And he had no maker, he had no beginning, God had no beginning, and he will have no end.
And when we are asked, when Christians are asked, well, how did life on earth begin?
Then we can easily say life was given by the one who was life.
And who had the power to give life?
When an evolutionist is asked the same question.
Then he's met with an insurmountable hurdle.
He can't overcome it.
Because on one hand He has to agree that whatever the first particle of matter was that eventually became part of the Big Bang, that that matter had to come from somewhere.
So you just keep asking them the question, where did that come from?
Now you parents in here have had uh many of you had children who were at that age where you have to say you got a three-question limit.
You get to ask three questions and then we're done for a minute.
Otherwise it's why, why, why?
And it'll occupy the greater part of your day answering why.
Now the children are really wanting to know why, but you have to sometimes put an end to it for a few minutes.
But if you do that with an evolutionist, you say, well, where'd that come from?
And then they give you whatever their answer is.
Well, where'd that come from?
You're eventually going to arrive At this question, where did the first particle of matter come from?
Before even life.
You said there was a big bang, an explosion.
That means something had to blow out.
There had to be some matter.
Where did that come from?
And you know what they're gonna have to tell you?
Well, we just don't know that yet.
A Christian never has to say, we just don't know that yet.
Because we don't subscribe to the Big Bang theory, as it were, as it's popularly called now.
And to be intellectually honest, an evolutionist has to admit that there is at least the possibility of a greater power.
Even though he claims to believe in no such power.
And young people and adults, you will be confronted by someone who tries to push evolution on you.
And while we never want to be argumentative with people, and I just refuse to be, it just takes up too much of my energy.
If somebody doesn't want to hear the truth, then I just dust my feet and go on my way and they can believe what they want to.
But if they want to have a logical discussion without a bunch of heated words and all that, then I'm happy to do that as well But we need to stand our ground.
We don't need to be argumentative, but we do need to stand our ground, and I want to help you deal with this issue so you're not so uncomfortable with the subject.
And you don't have to be a scholar or an accomplished scientist to have this discussion either.
And save me right there.
And rather than argue with an evolutionist, what I've found is, and you'll find this to be the case too, simply ask them questions and let them answer.
And here are a couple of good questions to ask.
And you can do it very respectfully.
One, how did life arise from non-living matter?
Because they do not accept the interven the divine intervention or the divine creation.
And so how did life arise from non-living matter?
There's your questi first question.
Now we all agree, the evolutionist and the Christian, we all agree that life began somewhere Our belief is that we have a maker and the Lord God is our maker, just like the Scripture said And so the evolutionists must explain how dead matter gave life to the first living organism.
They must.
And speaking about that dead matter, we ask the next question.
Can matter arise from nothing?
This is similar to what I said a minute ago.
But it's very simple.
Can matter arise from nothing?
And this is the hurdle they cannot overcome.
Another one.
And the most stubborn scientist would agree you cannot make something from nothing Every laboratory experiment that's ever been conducted was conducted with matter.
Whether it be the matter of the chemicals themselves, or the glass beakers and pipettes that are used, or the bunts and burners and microscopes, or any other thing.
Could a scientist perform an experiment with nothing?
No, of course not.
He relies upon things.
And those things were made, and those things have a maker.
So even the non-living matter has a maker.
And by the way, if you'll be patient with that evolutionist, they'll come to the place where they and where they cannot logically continue the discussion.
Sadly what you'll find most of the time is you'll never get that far.
You'll be called all kinds of names.
You'll be told, well, you're just ignorant and you Christians are Bible toters and gun clingers and all that.
Just walk away.
But perhaps the evolutionists will be kind enough to tell you, well, we just can't be sure about that.
Listen, that's your open door.
To share the Genesis account of creation with them.
Did you know that?
And if they'll let you, that's when you do it.
But sadly, many people won't listen to your witness.
But know this, we are made and we have a maker.
Now let's consider the question.
Whether man is more pure than his maker.
Now we've learned about what pure means.
It means clean.
And we've learned that God is our Maker, and in fact, everything and everyone has a Maker.
And we look specifically at how man has a maker.
And our maker was life, is life, and he gives life.
But this maker also made everything that does not have life.
You consider the rocks, the water.
All even the smallest elements, the atoms, every neutron, proton, and electron, God made it.
And we could call these things non-life matter or non-living matter.
John chapter 1, verses 1 through 3.
John chapter 1, verses 1 through 3.
And this is the synopsis of the Genesis account in the New Testament.
In the beginning was the word, that's with a capital W, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God The same was in the beginning with God.
Now here's our question about where matter came from.
All things were made by him.
And without him was not anything made that was made.
So you learn two things there.
All things were made by God, and anything that was made doesn't have another maker.
It says all things were made by him.
So that makes your discussion with the evolutionists simple.
I told you you don't have to be And we have a rocket scientist who comes to church.
His name is Carlos, so we do have a rocket scientist among us sometimes.
But your rocket scientist is a Christian.
And he would tell you the same thing.
All things have a maker, and God is the maker.
You don't have to describe how or understand the evolutionist description of how they say the amoeba became a frog and a fish and then a monkey and then a man.
You don't need to know all the biological processes and all the long scientific terms.
It's helpful if you do, but if you don't, that's okay.
You simply point to this verse, all things were made by him, this verse in John 1.
So it's well established now.
That man's maker is God.
So let's return to the text and reread the question.
Back in Job 4. 17, shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Now in my notes I've underscored the word more.
And using logical analysis here, we can deduct from this question that man's maker is pure.
Because the question was, shall man be more pure than his maker?
So it's evident that man's maker is pure.
Man's maker's purity, his cleanness, is the standard to which man's purity is to be compared So let's first see how pure God is.
That's we have to know where God is on this spectrum.
And then we can see what effort man must make not only to be equal in that purity, but also to exceed that purity, because that's the question being asked.
Can this happen?
Shall man be more pure than his Maker?
Hebrews chapter 4, verses 14 through 15.
Hebrews chapter 4, verses 14 through 15.
Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
That makes it easy, right?
Jesus was without sin.
And Jesus is God Therefore, all we have to do is be without sin, and we can be as pure as God, as pure as our Maker.
Well, wait a minute, there's a problem.
There's a big problem.
Romans chapter 3 verse 23.
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Well that ruins that, doesn't it?
That means every person born of Adam's race has sinned and come short of the glory of God We've all come short of God's purity.
And that's the question before us is shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
And without taking another step into this subject, one thing is sure.
Man cannot be more pure than his Maker because he's fallen short of his glory.
He's fallen short of his cleanness, his purity.
And he can't even be as pure as his maker.
And because of what we've learned up to now, we can answer Elifaz's second rhetorical question here.
With a resounding no.
Man cannot be more pure than his maker.
Now look back in verse 18.
Eliphaz continues speaking of God.
Behold, he put no trust in his servants.
That is, God, man's maker, put no trust in his servants.
Now let's break up this phrase for just a moment If you go back and look in your concordance, the word put and the word trust are exactly the same Hebrew word.
And they're usually translated as the word believe.
God doesn't believe his servants.
Another translation renders that phrase this way.
Truly he puts no faith in his servants.
Well, who are his servants?
If you look at that word, they're bond slaves.
They're bound to serve him, that is.
Now think about it.
Is there anyone who's ever been born Who can say that he is not bound or obligated to serve God?
Is there anyone who can say, well, I'm not obligated to serve my Maker?
They may say that, but they have no right to.
And specifically speaking of Christians, God not only made us, but he redeemed us But even the whole creation is under God and serves at his goodwill and pleasure.
Now this is again something that separates Christianity and everything else.
Christianity and unbelief is this rebellion by the creature, mankind, against his creator, saying, I can do what I want to.
No, you can't.
You may, but you don't have the legal authority to do that.
Your legal responsibility is to do what God says.
Psalm chapter 100, verses 1 through 3.
Psalm 100, 1 through 3.
Says, make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
Now that's everywhere, isn't it?
Serve the Lord with gladness.
Come before his presence with singing.
Know ye that the Lord he is God, it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves, and we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
The psalm says all the lands.
It tells all the lands, meaning all the people of those lands.
To make a joyful noise unto the Lord and to serve him with gladness.
And to not do so is to sin against the Lord.
Even so, if all the people of all those nations were to come before the Lord and make a joyful noise and serve God, God would not put his trust in them.
Now, why is this important?
You might say, oh, but I want God to believe me.
Listen, man has lied to God more times than we can count.
How many times has a person said, oh God, if you'll help me just this one time, I'll never do it again?
Some people have had said that hanging over a toilet.
And what happens after they say that?
They do wrong again.
I had an employee Who did something he wasn't supposed to do?
And it wasn't a serious matter, but I had to correct him and show him how I wanted it done, the right way to do it.
And his words to me were, it will never happen again.
Now, the particular thing he did could have been easily repeated in a moment of laxity or or inattention.
And when he told me it will never happen again, I said, I appreciate that, but don't be too hard on yourself.
I don't want you to do it again, but if you did, it's not the end of the world.
And it's not that I didn't want him to do the right thing every time afterward.
It's that I knew there was a slight probability he might do it again.
And if he did, I wouldn't be caught off guard.
It wouldn't wreck my world.
And God will not put his trust in a sinner's words.
He doesn't put his faith in us.
We put our faith in him.
We trust him.
And when I studied this verse and the next one.
It appeared to me that the word servants here may be referring to the angels as well Because verse 19 clearly refers to mankind.
But we'll look at that in a few moments.
Not only does God not put his trust in his servants, but look down in the text.
He says, and his angels he charged with folly.
Now when the word angels is used in the Old Testament, It's normally used either as an angel of the Lord or as the Lord Jesus Christ, and you'll see it capitalized when that's the case.
And the thrust of that word for angels is that of a messenger, which is a word that's also used to translate the original Hebrew word.
The word messenger is sometimes or often a man.
And we've already dealt with men, so let's deal with the angels.
But let's first look at what this word folly means.
So we'll know which angels Eliphaz is talking about.
The word for folly is used one time in the Old Testament and it means error.
Now there are a lot of uses of the English word folly in the Old Testament, but there's only one use of the Hebrew word that's been translated folly here.
And so we have to look at it closely, and it means error.
Now I want you to remember something.
The angels who are with God.
Who are in his presence, who serve him, are holy angels.
God is holy.
And nothing may appear in his presence that is unholy, or he'll judge it and destroy it And we had to be redeemed by the spotless lamb, by the blood of a spotless lamb, in order to appear in God's presence one day.
Because we have to appear without sin, and we can't do that without the blood of Christ.
So don't think that By reading this verse where it says and his angels he charged with folly, don't think there are a bunch of sinning angels hanging around God and every once in a while he charges them with folly.
The ones who are in the presence of the Lord serving him day and night are the ones who kept their first estate.
And I'm going to read you where that came from.
That's in the book of Jude verse 6.
There's only one chapter, so you can say Jude chapter 1 verse 6, or you can just say Jude verse 6.
It says, and the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation.
He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
And those angels who sinned and whom God threw out of heaven along with Lucifer.
Who was Satan after that?
Those angels had a first estate.
And what that means is that was their beginning.
Their first estate was their beginning or their principality.
And both of which words are also used to translate the Greek word for first estate.
So you could say first estate, you could say principality, or you could say beginning.
And there's no possibility or plan of redemption for those angels.
They were in error.
Now that right there ought to make you thank God for his mercy and grace toward us.
Because he didn't have to make a plan of redemption for us.
He could have said, nope, you're done.
And those angels are the ones whom God charged with folly, and they will be destroyed at the judgment of the great day.
And I've never seen anything in the Bible that teaches that angels, the heavenly beings, have the possibility of redemption.
I've never seen it.
And maybe there've been some who've made the case, but I j I just think it falls on its face.
And you contrast those angels that did not keep their first estate with the ones who remain in the presence of the Lord.
I'll give you Psalm chapter 103, verses 19 through 20.
Psalm 103, 19 through 21.
That just drove somebody crazy.
If they were taking notes and they already wrote a zero and they had to turn it into a one, I'm sorry.
The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all.
Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his that do his pleasure.
Now the characteristics of the angels I just read about are that they excel in strength That they do God's commandments and they hearken or hear, listen to his voice.
Matthew chapter 25, verse 31.
I've got several scriptures for you here for these angels.
Matthew 25, 31.
When the Son of Man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels With him.
Who's coming with Jesus?
The holy angels.
With him.
Then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory.
And then in that same chapter in Matthew 25, verse 41, speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ, then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart.
From me, ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
His angels And one more passage just to reiterate the lack of a redemption plan.
And it's not because God forgot.
There is no redemption plan for these angels whom he charged with folly.
First Peter chapter one verses ten through twelve.
First Peter one verses ten through twelve Speaking of salvation, Peter wrote, of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently. who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you, searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow, unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them That have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.
Listen to this.
So we just read all about the gospel.
Which things the angels desire to look into Now, what does that mean?
They desire to look into.
That means literally they desired that they stooped down.
And like a person would bow his body in order to inspect something.
So if Brother Jesse were to come up here and hand me something, And he was down here, and I I stooped down to really look at it just mainly because I can't read very far off That's the thrust of this this word here, or these words.
They looked, those angels looked closely at the things pertaining to the gospel.
Why is that?
They didn't have the gospel for the angels.
There wasn't a gospel for the angels.
The gospel for the angels was the wonderful story that they proclaimed, but they desired to look into it.
It wasn't available for angels.
And I think the case is clear enough that the angels God charged with folly were the fallen angels, the ones for whom the lake of fire was prepared, that they may be cast there along with the devil.
And I love that Peter teaches us that the Spirit of Christ was in the prophets when they testified beforehand of the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow.
And when we come back next week, we're going to pick up with verse 19.
And he changes gears just a little bit here for us.
Eliphaz does.
So let's pray.
Father, thank you for every person who came.
And Lord, we pray that you'd take this word and that you would teach it to us by your Spirit.
And that we'd meditate upon it and consider it.
And Lord, that it would add to us, it would profit us greatly.
And we look forward to the teaching and the singing, the fellowship during the next hour, and ask you to bless it and to glorify yourself and your church in Jesus' name.
Amen.
