Father, help us to see the value, the treasure of knowing your son, Jesus, the very one who created us and loves us and who has died for us, Lord. All other things can’t compare with the greatness of knowing your son. So we pray you would turn our hearts and our minds toward Christ this evening and that your word would mightily reveal him and that he would be applied to our hearts and our minds.
Father, we pray that you would bless our tithe and our offering and that, Lord, all things would be surrendered to you, that our very life would be in submission to Jesus. We pray that in his name. Amen. Amen.
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. I don’t like doing music and preaching because that’s just too much me on a stage, you know, but every once in a while, every once in a while. We are going to be in Revelation chapter 19 verses 11 through 16. So we’re going back to the book of Revelation and by God’s grace, we’ll finish it out over the next. in the next couple of months.
Revelation chapter 19,
verses 11 through 16 is where I hope to get us through. This evening.
And John writes, Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head, on His head are many diadems. And He has a name written that no one knows but Himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which He is called is the Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following Him on white horses. And from His mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. And He will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On His robe and on His thigh He has a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
I’m sure you’ve looked up before the meaning of your name. Um, maybe not. If you’re just not curious at all, I think most people have at least looked up the meaning of their name. I remember when I was younger, I looked up the meaning of Chad and it means warrior. And so I thought, oh, that’s cool. Year to date, I have not engaged in any wars. So, it’s a cool name, but it’s not necessarily indicative of me. I remember thinking the same thing, once about my dad’s name, which is Phillip. And, uh, about, I don’t know, five, ten years ago, we looked it up and Phillip means lover of horses. And we thought that was hilarious and so we were joking on my dad about it. And so for Christmas, Jessica got a horse calendar for every month of the year and wrapped up the horse calendar and gave it to him and everyone had a great big laugh except for my dad. So, it was funny. But in, um, in the ancient world, in, in, in the time, of, uh, the prophets and we, you know, Moses and this era in ancient Middle East, uh, names were reflective of who you were. So your name had something to do with you. It wasn’t just something slapped on you. Words held a certain power. And we talked about that years ago, not that I expect you to remember it exactly, when Jesus says, you should, um, let your, yes be yes and your no be no. Don’t even make oaths. What’s the reason for an oath? Well, it’s because people don’t trust people. That’s why you sign a contract, right? You’re saying, if I give you this much money, I’ll get this, and we sign a contract, right? You should be, as a Christian, so trustworthy that when you say yes or no, people just trust you. So, words, your words are as good as your character, right? We’re, we’re seeing at the very end of the end here, the horse, and it’s rider. And we’re told a few, a few names that the rider is called. And what we’ll powerfully see is that the names he’s given are who he is. The rider’s names tell us all that we need to know about him. Okay? Spoiler alert. It’s Jesus. Alright? The rider’s, Jesus. Like, you can probably guess that. But, it’s a beautiful picture of the very end. It’s a beautiful picture of Christ coming for his church and to once and for all vanquish evil. And I want us to see these names as we go. And by the way, if you don’t have a Bible, there’s Bibles in front of you if you want to follow along as we go. There’s a lot of apocalyptic literature and literature and esk words in here. I’ll just kind of read it as we go here. We’re told that in what John sees here, the heavens are opened up. Now, I want you to remember that first when John got this revelation in the beginning, it was a door. So God was beginning to show him a revelation of the very end of human history. And as it progressed, John got a vision of the temple, of who God is. And what God’s doing over human history. But now we’re just full throttle, full revelation. Here is the fullness of heaven opened up. And it is the glory and power of God’s reign overwhelming evil, overwhelming the whole earth. Remember when we started, the Father had a scroll in his hands. And the scroll was everything that would happen in the end. Who was the only person worthy to open that scroll and bring about God’s great end? Remember, it was Jesus. So here we’re at the end of the scroll where the story climaxes. But this is, I want to say to you, the best story. There’s no fictional tale or story you’ve heard or you love that can compare with this one because this is the real one. Think about Homer’s Odyssey in ancient literature or Beowulf or Robin Hood or King Arthur and his knights or the Lord of the Rings or even Superman. They’re so interesting, right? We get so invested in these stories. But here we have the one real final story of the one real hero, the real victor and champion of the world. Overwhelming the villain. And it’s a lasting story. What story will we want to hear ages from now in glory? What will that story be? It’ll be the story of God’s Son who came back and vanquished evil and saved His own people for His own possession.
We’re told that it’s on a white horse that He comes. Remember, white in the book of Revelation always means white. It always means victory. One who is conquered. So when a Roman general would come back from battle into Rome, he and all of his armies would be dressed in white. Back in Revelation chapter 6, if you remember, it was 6-2, in the seals, remember each seal represented something. The first seal was a rider on a white horse and he had a bow and it said that he was coming out to conquer. What we said then was that that was a parody of Christ. That was an antichrist. Because every other seal in chapter 6, it was famine, it was war, it was death, it was martyrdom. So the beginning is not when Christ would come on a white horse. That is the enemy parodying what it would be like. So we’re talking about that same person we’ve seen throughout Revelation who in the beginning is coming, coming off looking like a savior while he’s not truly the savior. But here we get the real picture of the real Christ on the real horse. The horse is significant because of its rider. That’s it.
And this rider is called, first name here, the rider is called faithful and true. Faithful and true. Now when you hear faithful and true, that’s really referring more to an idea in Hebrew thought than it is maybe what you would import as a 21st century person. It’s not talking about morality like it’s good or it’s bad or something’s true or it’s a lie. What John is saying with those two words has more to do with the Hebrew idea of reliability. Reliability. And reliability takes us back to the Old Testament covenants, right? The question for Abraham and Isaac and Jacob when they trusted God and left their homeland was is God reliable to keep his promises to make us a new people to bless the earth through us and to save us ultimately from our enemies? So Jesus coming back on the horse and his name being faithful and true, it is at the same time the Bible saying, everything that was great and glorious about God in the Old Testament and everything that God promised his people he would do, look at it coming in the end, Jesus, God is entirely reliable. You can trust him.
Jesus is called the Amen in the beginning of Revelation. That’s a Greek word that means, so let it be. So why do we say Amen when we end prayers? I don’t know, because that’s how they teach you to do it when you’re a kid. No, because it means, so let it be. If we’re praying something that honors the Father, we can put an Amen on that because God’s always going to answer prayers that honor him. In the same way, Jesus is the Amen. He’s the sureness of everything God has said.
And we’re told the one who is faithful and true, he does something. And he does it if you’ll see, in righteousness. So the one who is reliable, in righteousness does what? We’re told he judges and he makes war. He judges and he makes war. The ancient church in those first few centuries, they had plenty of judges and rulers, didn’t they? You had a series of pagan emperors who believed themselves to be God, who believed themselves deities, who did great violence against the church. They were inventors of all kinds of suffering and torture.
Think about the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin in Jesus’ time that condemned him to death. Were they good judges, the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin, in giving Jesus a fair trial? Absolutely not.
Is every world leader today a good judge who justly judges all things and only makes war when it’s appropriate and correct? I don’t think so. In fact, there was a story this past week that there was a man in England who was freed from prison for, after sitting in prison for 11 years for a crime he did not commit. He was sitting in prison for 11 years for murdering a man he did not murder. And after he was released, he was notified that he would have to pay $50,000 for his room and board for those 11 years. We do not have just judges.
So here’s this soon approaching day when ain’t nobody getting away with nothing. And all things will be made clear. So Jesus, the writer, he’s making here truly what you could call holy war. Usually we think about the Crusades and we ask I don’t know, is that just for the Roman Catholic Church to do what they did in the name of Jesus and that was a bloody war. This is truly holy war against the unrighteous nations, against the dragon and all those who took the mark of the beast. And I want you to think about that with me. What makes for a good judge? What makes for a good judge? I think the answer is perception. Right? If a judge can’t perceive what’s actually happening in a situation then that judge can’t deliberate according to the law to determine what’s right. So it’s not useless detail that John tells us that Jesus is his eyes are like a flame of fire. What does John mean by that? He’s saying there’s nothing on which Jesus will lay his eyes that he cannot perfectly see through. Jesus has perfect perception when he comes to judge the nations and everything he does and says will be right. More than that, we’re told that Jesus has many diadems on his head. Diadems. Now that’s an older word for basically crowns. Why does he have many? It would be an awkward picture if you actually drew someone with many crowns, right? That’s not, you’re not supposed to. It’s right, it’s apocalyptic literature. The point is Jesus isn’t king over a nation. Jesus comes as king over all the nations. Jesus comes to solidify his reign over the entire earth. So this is a rider, friends, who we have to deal with. Jesus is coming with full authority, full reliability, and perfect righteousness in the royalty of the king over all the earth. In the royalty of the king over all the earth. And we’re even told he has a name, and no one knows what that name is except for him. Now you can throw around a lot of theories about that name, and that refers to Yahweh in the Old Testament, or it refers to some other name, or this. There’s nothing really given to us about this name, and I probably like the interpretation best that it’s a name that you and I just couldn’t handle if we heard it. Because it talks about the fullness of the person of Jesus beyond what we could understand this side of glory.
So see this about Jesus. Jesus is faithful and true, meaning all of his promises are good. Every promise God makes to you in the Bible that he will preserve you, that he will keep you, that he will forgive you, that he will come back for you someday, it can be believed because the name of the one coming is those things. He is faithful and reliable. He is righteous. He is a king. He is God over all.
He’s the coming king of the earth, and I want that to give you great comfort. Great comfort. Think about this versus what we do at Christmas time. We celebrate Jesus at Christmas time, because in his lowly ministry when he came as a servant and to love people and to spend all his time with outcasts and to heal the sick and the blind, Jesus came to the crucifixion. Remember he came into Jerusalem on what? On a donkey’s colt. Jesus rode up into town in the most humble way he could, on a donkey’s colt. Now we see Jesus coming on a mighty war horse. Conquering evil and saving his people. And I do want that story to enrapture you. It has to. If it’s not, then we’re not really hearing the story. And you think about like children. You know, watch children. I was watching Josie do it today, actually. She was in her own mind, in her own world, making up this story and it was like, it was true in that moment, you know, and she was living it out. It was great. But I think as adults we do that too. Adults, to an embarrassing degree, get really into book and movie trilogies, don’t they? Think about The Lord of the Rings. I mean, there are people who get into it. I mean, there are people who have learned the fictional elvish language because, you know, they’re that into it. Or think about people who are Star Wars fanatics or Star Trek fanatics or Harry Potter fanatics and people get caught up in these stories and they’re almost real and they just live in the narrative and it’s amazing to them. I really want to ask you is there not a greater calling and reason to get caught up in this story? Because it’s not even fiction. It’s real. It’s the real story of God saving His people. And I wonder if we can take it out of Sunday and out of my quote-unquote religion and we can bring it to the car on Monday morning to work and we can bring it into the house in the evening and it truly is the story that is making everything else in life happen and be what it is because that is my story. Why? Because God called me into that story. Do you live with the sense of wonder of the story of the rider and his horse like you get to? Like you get to? So three words be an application on that. If we live in the story as we should live in that story, there must be in each of us a real sense of expectation.
It’s got to move from religion or fiction or interesting to my reality. You need to live with a great expectation of the horse and its rider returning. If you don’t, you won’t have the fervor you need for Jesus along the way. And I did a quick scan through the New Testament and there’s an overwhelming number of scriptures where Paul is encouraging this essentially. That you keep your mind on the last day. You keep passion for what’s coming. Don’t forget about the day. He calls it the day is coming and he wants you to give your all for that coming day. See, you’ve got to live in that reality. And I actually have a big long list of these if you want to take them home and read them later by way of encouragement where those are. But we have to be motivated by the day that’s coming if it’s real to us. Do you have great expectation? You’re like, I can’t put expectations on God. That sounds really like I’m above him. Nope. He wants you to put great expectations on him because he keeps his promise. Second, great anticipation.
It is a big mistake to tell a grandchild grandma is coming at the end of this week. Do you know why? Because every five seconds you’re going to hear when’s grandma going to be here? I told you Friday. When’s grandma going to be here? Friday. Friday. What? Are they here yet? All week long. Why? Because there’s this sense of anticipation. Boy, it’s like it’s here even though it’s not here yet. And there is so much joy in the excitement of what is coming. Even more so, should we not have joyful anticipation in all that we do because our king is coming? And then last, the word here is triumvirate. Triumphalism. Triumphalism. If ours is so great an ending, so glorious a victory in the wake of this conquering king, should we not live with courage despite how difficult it seems, despite how big our enemy seems at times? Does the Apostle Paul ever seem to slow down or to get discouraged or to feel like, oh boy, I can’t do it anymore. Even when he, when he gets stoned almost to death, and he does, when he gets beaten, and he does, when he gets thrown in prison, and he does, when he goes hungry, and he does, when he gets shipwrecked, and he does, no, Paul keeps on going to the end. He’s got courage for Christ because he knows who Christ is. We could say the same thing about Jesus. Did Jesus ever once relent? No, because Jesus knew the Father’s will and He knew the great ending and He calls us to the same. So, friends, live with a great expectation, anticipation, and a triumphant spirit of your returning king. Here’s the second name. The second name of the writer is the Word of God.
The Word of God.
In verse 13, it says, He is clothed in a robe, dipped in blood, and the name by which He is called is the Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following Him on white horses. And from His mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. And He will rule them with a rod of iron, and He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty. Now, I want to read you a bit from Isaiah 63 because it seems that Isaiah chapter 63 is kind of a foretelling of that as well, of the Messiah to come. And here’s what Isaiah says concerning Jesus in chapter 63, verse 1. Who is this who comes from Edom? Edom being the enemy of God’s people in the Old Testament. In crimson garments from Basra. He who is splendid in His apparel, marching in the greatness of His strength. It is I speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.
That one is asked, why is your apparel red and your garments like His who treads in winepress? His response, I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me. I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood spattered on my garments and stained all my apparel. For the day of vengeance was in my heart and my year of redemption had come. I looked, but there was no one to help. I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold. So my own arm brought me salvation and my wrath upheld me. I trampled down the peoples in my anger. I made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth. So I want you to see this is not when we read about the robe dipped in blood, this is not a reference to the blood of Jesus dying on the cross. There are plenty of those. But this is not Jesus’ blood on Jesus’ clothing.
These are the enemies of God. And I’ll quote one commentator who says here, people have the habit of dismissing large parts of the Bible because God does not think or behave like a social worker. We have fashioned a Jesus today that looks just like we want Him to look. Who approves everything we want Him to approve and who lets us get away with what we think we should get away with. But we can’t do that if we’re going to deal with the Jesus of the Bible. We can’t do that. Jesus reveals Himself in His Word and His Word reveals the fullness of His person. So if we take Jesus to be a conquering warrior to come, it undoes the idea of love as purely acceptance. To love someone is to accept them as they are completely. It does away with universalism. That in the end, all will be forgiven.
And you could reply to that and say, doesn’t that undo a patient, kind, forbearing God towards sinners? Doesn’t that undo a merciful God? And I want to say to you, it does not in any way undo that God. It in fact confirms that God. And here’s why. Anything past Genesis chapter 3 is a mercy of God. God said the day you eat of the fruit, you shall surely die. Did man die? No. God let man live. God sent His Son to take away his sins. We’re told in Romans that it was God’s forbearance that He did not destroy sinners. Why? Because God would have many to be saved. So as we read about God’s judgment, we know that it’s in the context of a God who has waited not just centuries, but millennia to bring judgment. Why? So that many would be saved. The Apostle Peter says, God would wish many to repent and not perish. So for those of us who are in Christ, this should invoke worship. That you can say in these last days, God has revealed Himself to you. He has spared you of what you deserve.
It invokes a seriousness concerning the authenticity of your salvation. Not to make you doubt it, but that you would renew your sincerity to live for the King who has forgiven you, who has washed you clean, who has made you new. And that you and I would steward the gift of grace given. That we would pursue holiness and sacrificial obedience. Another word that the Apostle Paul says so many times, if you did a search of it in the New Testament, is sincerity. He often says, and be sincere in faith and be sincere in heart. So God is calling us to a seriousness, not like a mad, boring seriousness, but to like a passionate seriousness and sincerity about the things of God. So great a gift to be called a friend of God, though we were once enemies, ought that not stir us up to high levels of devotion.
Shouldn’t it? High level commitment to the truth. To love the truth. To defend the truth. And the world may say, well, that’s hateful to say that. That seems mean. Well, no, it’s only who Christ says He is, and it’s what the Word of God calls all of us to surrender to that we may be spared, and we may live. So it should give us that renewed passion for our own holiness, gratitude for our salvation, but also renewed fervor for gospel proclamation. If it’s true that God finds no pleasure in destroying the wicked, and the prophet Ezekiel says that plainly, you and I should have no pleasure in the wicked being destroyed, which means we should be about the business that God tells us to be about. And what is that? Sharing the good news of Jesus with the world. Sharing with our neighbor, with our family, with the person across town, with the person across, the globe. You and I should be in constant conversation with one another about who and how we’re sharing Christ. That should fill our prayers. That’s what we should train towards, that many may come to saving faith in Christ. And honestly, if we want to call ourselves Jesus’ people, and we want to call ourselves church people, and whatever label you could come up with, it’s honestly, cruel if we’re not serious about evangelism. I think it’s cruelty to know each of us have stood in the place of an enemy, by God’s grace alone been spared, and then care so little for our fellow man who is on his way to destruction.
So friends, the word of God comes
to judge, comes to make war, we’re seeing that, but I want you to see why he’s given the name the word of God. The word of God. Again, this is a Christmas title, because we read John chapter 1 verse 1, and what does John chapter 1 verse 1 tell us? In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. We’re told that the whole world, everything was made through Jesus, and without Jesus, nothing was made. And then verse 14, popular Christmas verse, the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we have seen his glory, glory as the only son from the Father, full of grace. Grace and truth. So John tells us in his gospel, Jesus is the Logos, or the word of God. And what does that mean for him to be the word of God? It means that Jesus is the expression of everything that God is. Jesus is the visible manifestation of God. And what are we told about the Logos or the word of God? It’s that he was in the beginning creating everything. So Jesus was the one, the Hebrew writer tells us, who created everything. It says nothing was made without Jesus. Well, who’s in the very middle of human history, redeeming human history? The word entered into our world and reality to redeem it as the word of God. So you see what’s happening when we see this word of God title for Jesus at the very end. It means that he’s not just over the beginning and the middle. Jesus is beginning, middle, end, over literally everything as reigning king and savior.
The word of God, Jesus made manifest is God made manifest.
And this word comes as executioner of his enemies. Jesus is doing, all that the father willed for Jesus to do in creation, in redemption of the world. And then in salvation of his people at the end and destruction of evil. So Jesus is not reacting. He’s not doing damage control. He didn’t see this happening. How’d the world get so bad and messed up and the devil’s running around. I guess I’m going to have to come out of heaven and deal with this. That’s not what’s happening. The word of God is not happening. The word of God is doing exactly what the meticulous plan of God always was to vanquish evil, to save sinners to his glory forever. That’s the word of God.
And verse 14 is actually kind of comical when you read it. Because we’re told that following Jesus is this host of armies. This heavenly host. This heavenly host in linen. Now, why do you have armies? Well, you have armies because you need soldiers to fight, right? We don’t read anything about these armies fighting. We don’t read about angels fighting. We don’t read about redeemed saints doing anything as they ride with Christ down. We read that Jesus is the only one. We’re told that a sharp sword comes out of his mouth. So are we supposed to, again, apocalyptic literature, are we supposed to see a sword coming out of Jesus’ mouth? You know, it kind of makes you think of those, you know, magician kind of folks who pull the stuff out of their mouth. And it’s like, how did you get the sword that deep? That’s not what’s being said here. What’s being said is the word of God, the pronouncement he gives is a word of judgment. We’re told that beginning of Revelation, that the sword comes from the mouth of Christ. We’re told it’s by the breath of God that judgment comes to pass. We’re told in Hebrews chapter 4, verse 12, very popular verse, for the word of God is living and active, sharper than any what? Two-edged sword. So Christ comes with the word of God for judgment.
Next thing, what are we told about the word of God? He has a rod of iron in his hand. A rod of iron. A rod of iron. In Psalm chapter 2, we’re told the Son comes to do what with the rod of iron? Crush the wicked nations. He comes with the rod of iron to rule the nations. And then third, he treads out the winepress of the wrath of God. And we talked about the winepress several months ago. Remember how we talked, how wine’s made in the ancient world? Kind of gross, but you would have a big old barrel full of grapes and you’d jump it and then there would be tunnels coming out and the juice would seep out and then you would do your fermentation process to get wine. Same imagery, but the imagery is borrowed. Chapter 14 tells us not to be juice, but to be the blood of God’s enemies.
So, the reign of the rider who is called the word of God it is I want you to see this in the end completely, entirely comprehensive. There is not a one, there is not a nation that he does not judge according to his perfect, holy standard.
So the question comes for you you and I that coming day when the rider breaks through the clouds am I ready for that day? I was talking with a pastor friend of mine this past week and it’s kind of popular when you preach at youth camps or special things, the pastor will get up there and he means well, but he says stuff like do you really know that you’re saved? Do you really know that you’re saved? Do you really know? I know you’ve placed your faith in Christ and you’ve said that but hey, do you really know? And it’s like, I get it, you want people to be serious about their salvation, but I mean it’s like you’re going to cause us all to doubt and go crazy at the same time. So I’m not saying do you know to make you go come on, admit it, this is a game but at the same time the day’s fixed. And I want you to visit the sincerity of your own heart. When Christ your King, Christ your Creator, Christ your Judge returns to save His people and to destroy His enemies right? One are the sheep that He separates to eternal life He says the other are the goats He separates to eternal destruction. Is there sincerity in your heart?
Is the Word of God made flesh King of your heart and your mind?
You know, John Adams before he was President, before he was Vice President, he spent a length of time in France as a diplomat, trying to get France to you know, be an ally and to help them win the war. But he wrote to his wife when he was over there and they wrote a lot of letters back and forth to one another. And he once wrote this to her. I could fill volumes with descriptions of temples and palaces and paintings and sculptures and tapestry and porcelain if I could have the time. But I could not do this without neglecting my duty. The science of government is my duty more than all other sciences. The art of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place indeed to exclude all other arts. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study painting and poetry and mathematics and philosophy. You understand what he was saying is his one pursuit was the independence of America. And there were a lot of other good things he wished he could pursue. But for him to stay on task, for America to be an independent nation, he had to be a man of government and diplomacy and give his best to that.
Is Christ our king? Getting our best? Is the word of God who created all things, redeemed all things, and coming again to renew all things, is he getting your best? Are we like servants who must cower and look down at our feet when Jesus returns? Because man, we got a lot of things done but nothing to do with the kingdom. Boy, were you busy in life, but were you busy with the kingdom? Did the kingdom work?
So friends, this writer comes and he comes quickly.
Let’s be prepared. Let’s live with the joy and the anticipation of it. For the one who is faithful and true will do all he promises to us, to love us and keep us. The word of God will come and deal with evil once and for all. And then just last here, he’s given one more name. We’re told that on his garment and on his thigh he has a name written and it is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The Bible makes no bones about saying it out loud. Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Let us be found faithful and sincere and working heartedly unto Him when He comes.
Father, Your Word gives us comfort. It gives us peace.
It gives us assurance of a better hope and a better future.
But Lord, so also does it give us every instruction for the present that our minds and our hearts would be in the position you would have them as surrendering to Jesus and being conformed to His image and using our resources and our energy and everything you give us to serve His kingdom.
So Lord, we pray that the gospel story of Christ coming, it would live bigger in our minds. Jesus as Lord and Savior, it would just be deeper and so much more meaningful to us than we let it be sometimes. Father, forgive us when we take the gospel to be old hat or part of life or something else. Lord, let it be all of life. For if we are in Christ, Your Son Jesus is our life. Is our life. Oh Lord, that we would repent fully of sin and just trust in Christ. Thank You that You don’t call us to earn our salvation. You simply call us to trust in Christ. So may we each trust and obey and have every peace and joy now for the life to come. We pray that in Jesus’ name. Amen.