In the sermon 'The God of All Truth' by Jason Dohm, the focus is on God's love for truth, as emphasized through the Ninth Commandment, 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.' Dohm argues that the Ten Commandments are not merely a list of rules but represent categories reflecting God's eternal nature. The Ninth Commandment, often seen narrowly as forbidding lying in judicial settings, encompasses a broader moral imperative against lying to or about others in any context. The sermon uses biblical examples, such as the story of Naboth and Jezebel, to illustrate the destructive power of false testimony and the societal necessity of truth in maintaining justice. Dohm explains that God's commandments are designed to protect individuals and society by promoting justice and integrity. The sermon emphasizes that growing in obedience to God's commandments is synonymous with growing in Christlikeness, as Jesus perfectly embodies truth. Consequently, Christians are called to speak truth in love and to defend the reputations of others, reflecting God's love for truth and righteousness.

The title of the sermon this morning is the God of all truth. Because God is completely righteous. He loves truth. He loves the truth. In fact, we're going to end the sermon today in Hebrews chapter 6.

It says, He cannot lie. He's so unswervingly, unchangingly good that He can't even lie. He's incapable of lying because He loves truth so much. He is the God of all truth. As we have preached through or worked through the Ten Commandments, I know I keep saying the same things over and over again, but I can't think that I should apologize because I'm finding that the repetition is helping me and I hope it's helping you to think correctly about the Ten Commandments.

It's so far away from just being a list of do's and don'ts. If the Ten Commandments says, there's been nothing but a list of do's and don'ts to you, may that be banished from your thinking and your heart forever. So here goes to say the same old things that I've been saying again and again without apology. The ninth commandment is one of the eight out of ten commandments that are framed in the negative. In other words, it tells you what not to do.

Thou shall Not. But Jesus said that all the law and the prophets hang on the two great commandments of love. Love God and love your neighbor. So it is framed in the negative. It tells you what not to do, but don't be fooled by that.

It's really about love. This is a commandment about love. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor is about loving God who loves truth and loving your neighbor. And also the Ten Commandments teach us about the eternal unchanging nature of God. We find in the Commandments what God loves and what God hates.

And so as we're studying the Commandments, what we're really secretly doing is studying God. Theology just means study of God. That's what we're doing in the Ten Commandments. We're learning about God by studying what He loves and what He hates because those things are all bound up in what He's like. And as we learn to obey the commandments, if you wanted to just summarize growing in obedience in just one phrase that collects it all up, you would say, growing in Christlikeness.

So the more we learn to obey any and all of these commandments, it's just being conformed into the image of Christ. It's just growing in Christlikeness because Christ did what God loves, and Christ never did what God hates because Jesus is God. As we come to our commandment, let's ask the Lord to help us. Oh God, I thank you that you love truth. Thank you that you are incapable of lying and you're incapable of ever promising something that you don't end up keeping.

All of our hope is bound up in that. God, I thank you that your Son did so much more than tell the truth. I thank you that He was and is the truth. He's the perfect embodiment of your righteousness. He's the ultimate revelation to us of what you're like.

To gaze on Jesus in the Gospels is to gaze on God. Pray that you would use this commandment to help us to love truth like you love it. To make us more incapable of lying than we've ever been. May it be so in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, major heading number one, or major point one, what the ninth commandment forbids.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. To be literal and nothing more than literal, what the ninth commandment forbids is actually quite narrow. But like every other of the Ten Commandments, this commandment is a category, not just a single isolated instance. So there's something else that I keep saying over and over and over again. Each commandment is a category.

Don't ever forget that. It's not a single isolated instance, but it is representative of a whole category of thoughts and words and deeds that God is speaking to. The seventh commandment, you shall not commit adultery, is a perfect example of how it's a category. Adultery in a narrow technical sense requires a person engaged in it to be married, but it's not just that single isolated instance that God is concerned about it. There is a category of our thoughts and what our thoughts wander to, of our words, and of our deeds.

And the category is simply represented by the narrow instance that appears in the commandment. And so it is with the ninth commandment. In the Ten Commandments, God gives us ten categories, not single isolated instances, that we can easily memorize and keep in focus. So if you wonder why did God do that, well I don't have a chapter and verse that says why God did that, but I suspect he wanted us to be able to have on one piece of paper the ten categories that express his eternal nature and that expresses what Christ-likeness really is so that we could memorize it and keep it in focus. Can you keep Deuteronomy in focus?

I can't. I mean, I can take it little by little, but as soon as I'm at the end, I've forgotten what's in the middle and at the beginning, I can't keep all of that in focus. The Ten Commandments I can memorize and keep in focus. I think that's why God has given them to us in that fashion. So let's start with the very literal and narrow sense of the ninth commandment because it's actually more important than I had ever considered.

In other words, as I studied it this week, I found, wow, this narrow sense of the Ninth Commandment is really, really critical. So look at the Ninth Commandment. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. What is this about, testimony in court? The narrow literal sense of the ninth commandment is about testimony in court.

Most commentators speak of the Hebrew words and how they are words whose primary usage is in the context of a judicial system, an official judicial system. Those are the Hebrew words that are used in here. Their primary usage has to do with what happens in court. Listen to what John MacArthur says in the Notes for his Study Bible. Justice is not served by untruthful testimony.

You know that's true. Practically all societies have recognized this principle and adjure all witnesses in courts to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. What's he saying? He's saying you can go to a culture that's not a Bible-based culture and they still recognize how important it is in official judicial proceedings to make the witness swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. In fact, in the United States, if you're being sworn in as a witness, you'll be asked to put your left hand on a Bible to raise it to this day.

I mean imagine how far the United States has fallen and yet to this day if you're called as a witness in court you'll be sworn in left hand on the Bible right hand up and you will promise before God to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And what John MacArthur is saying is every society has some form of that because they realize how foundational it is to justice anywhere that people acknowledge that it is wrong to bear false witness against your neighbor. It subverts justice in every way shape and form. Have you thought about that? Have you thought about how little we have if we don't have the ninth commandment as an accepted principle.

You go to a place where it's no big deal if you bear false witness against your neighbor and you have every kind of sin running rampant, without this as an accepted principle, you have no way to maintain or defend your reputation or even your property or your life. Let me say that again. Without the ninth commandment, you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. As an accepted principle, you have no way to maintain or defend your reputation. Anyone can say anything about you, whether it's true or not true.

You better be, when that happens, you better be in a society that says it's not right to do that or you can't even defend your property or your life. Consider the account of Jezebel and Naboth. Turn to 1 Kings 21. This is an Old Testament historical account of the wives, the queen, the most wicked queen of one of the most wicked kings in Israel's history, Ahab and Jezebel. And poor Naboth, this man who lives under this lawless king and queen who don't care anything about the ninth commandment.

And so they've broken it down in the society over which they govern as king and queen and then we see how this plays out. I'm going to be reading 1 Kings 21 verses 1 through 16. And it came to pass after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. So Ahab spoke to Naboth saying, give me your vineyard that I may have it for a vegetable garden because it is near next to my house and for it I will give you a vineyard better than it Or if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money. But Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers to you.

So Ahab went into his house sullen and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said to him, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food. But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, Why is your spirit so sullen that you eat no food? He said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, Give me your vineyard for money or else if it pleases you I will give you another vineyard for it." And he answered, I will not give you my vineyard. Then Jezebel his wife said to him, You now exercise authority over Israel.

Arise, eat food, and let your heart be cheerful. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." She wrote letters in Ahab's name, sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were dwelling in the city with Naboth. She wrote in the letters saying, Proclaim a fast and seek Naboth with high honor among the people and seek two men, scoundrels, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You have blasphemed God and the king. Then take him out and stone him, that he may die. So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who were inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.

They proclaimed a fast, and seated Naboth with high honor among the people. And two men, scoundrels, came in and sat before him, and the scoundrels witnessed against him saying, against Naboth, and the presence of the people saying, Naboth has blasphemed God and the king. And the townspeople of the town of Neboth were told that Neboth had been stoned and that he had been dead. And they took him out of the city and stoned him with stones so that he died. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.

And it came to pass when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard, a vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive but dead. So it was when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead that Ahab got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. Again this is probably the most lawless king and queen in the history of Israel. They have some competition but you can make a case for them. In a society like that, your life and property, not to mention your good name, are worth nothing as Naboth found out.

God is actually building a wall against false accusation and false testimony by giving us this commandment. Not just on stone, it is on stone, it is in writing, but writing it on the heart of every man, woman, boy, and girl. That is why Old Testament law establishes a couple of things. First, a requirement for multiple witnesses. This is all part of an expansion of the Ninth Commandment.

You can't have just one witness. You're to have multiple witnesses in official judicial settings to establish facts and second, a tremendous disincentive to violate the ninth commandment. So An incentive would be like offering candy to your children for obedience. If you're good, I'll give you candy. That's an incentive.

A disincentive would be, you're going to get the whooping of a lifetime if you disobey me. That's a disincentive. So, God has given both a requirement for multiple witnesses and a tremendous disincentive against bearing false witness against your neighbor. Both are found in Deuteronomy 19, so turn to Deuteronomy 19. Deuteronomy 19, follow along as I read 15 through 21.

Deuteronomy 19, 15 through 21. One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits. By the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established. If a false witness, and everyone this is right to the ninth commandment, if a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, Then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days, and the judges shall make careful inquiry. And indeed, If the witness is a false witness who has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother.

So you shall put away the evil from among you." God is actually calling, being a false witness, he's calling it evil here. Verse 20, and those who remain shall hear and fear and hear after, they shall not again commit such evil among you. Your eyes shall not pity. Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. So what's being said here?

First establishing two or three witnesses, not one witness to convict a man, but two or three witnesses to guard against false witnesses. It makes it harder, although as we saw in 1 Kings 21, you can have a conspiracy where the queen writes and the elders and leaders capitulate to her demands and multiple witnesses don't save you. You also have here the principle that if it's looked into and the testimony of the witness is found to be false testimony, what that false accuser, false witness had intended for the one that he's falsely testifying against gets done to him. And God says, don't pity If the penalty that would have been done would be life, take his life. If it would have been to take his eye, take his eye.

Hand for hand, foot for foot, Whatever he thought to have done to the one that he was falsely testifying against is what is to be done to the false witness. God is building a hedge against people sinning against you in that way, or you sinning against others in that way. So he has written it on our hearts to keep us back from it, but he's given also tremendous disincentives against doing it in his law. So false accusation or false testimony in court is the narrowest meaning in the category of the Ninth Commandment. Now let's zoom out and look at the category in breadth.

The broader thing forbidden is harming your neighbor through your words, either by lying to them or by speaking harmfully to others about them. It harms your neighbor to lie to him or her. And it harms your neighbor to speak badly to others about him or her. So Notice, you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Is that to be limited to the person who lives next door to you?

No. Is that to be limited to your friends, people you like? No. Then why your neighbor? I think what's being communicated here is that God wants us to have a charitable disposition towards everyone so that you think of other people as your neighbor.

Not just as someone who has no status with you, no relation with you, so it's no big deal if you bear false witness against them. He wants you to have a charitable disposition towards them that would make you say, I can't harm them by lying to them, I can't harm them by speaking badly about them to other people, they're my neighbor. God actually wants us to think of everyone like our neighbor. That's what's being communicated here. I think Jesus confirms that in the parable of the Good Samaritan, who is my neighbor.

It's not just your next door neighbor or people that you like or people that you naturally have a good disposition towards. It's another person that you're to have a charitable disposition towards. Now, The Hebrew words which are rendered false witness. You shall not bear false witness. It's a translation of two Hebrew words into two English words and it would be more literally lying witness.

You shall not bear false witness or lying witness. In fact, if you look at the translation of the Hebrew words, that Hebrew word, it's more often translated lie or lying than it is false or falsehood, although it appears many, many, many times in the Old Testament and it's translated a lot both ways. But the dominant translation is lie and lying. You shall not be a lying witness. This is about lying.

This is a commandment about lying to someone or lying about someone and these things are against your neighbor. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. It is to make yourself an enemy of your neighbor. Listen to Leviticus 19 verse 16. You shall not go about as a tale bearer among your people, nor shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor.

I am the Lord. This is exactly what the ninth commandment is about. You shall not go about as a tale bearer, a story carrier among your people. Let me ask you a question. You want somebody carrying stories about you?

Nor shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor to falsely accuse or give false testimony against your neighbor. Two verses later, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. So think about that. Leviticus 19 and 16 is about not being a tail bearer, not taking a stand against your neighbor. Two verses later, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

These things are all about the same thing. They're two sides of the same coin. Calvin says this, scarcely one in a hundred will be found who will be as kind in sparing the character of others as he himself desires to be pardoned for manifest vices." Let me say that again, think about it. John Calvin says this, scarcely one in a hundred, one percent will be found who will be as kind in sparing the character of others as he himself desires to be pardoned for manifest vices. In other words, when I ask you the question, do you want people carrying stories about you out and about, you know the answer is no.

Then what that means is, is if you love your neighbor as yourself, then you shouldn't be the carrier of stories out and about of others either. You should be as sparing to the character of others as you want people to be sparing to you about even your vices. Or listen to Proverbs 6 verses 16 and 19. Proverbs 6 verses 16 and 19. Proverbs 6, 16, these six things the Lord hates.

Yes, seven are an abomination to him. So I read verse 16 because it sets up this little section. It's about things God hates. He says, I'm going to give you six things that God hates and seven that are an abomination to him. And then the end of the list is this in verse 19, a false witness who speaks lies.

So here you have the direct connection between a false witness and the lies that are spoken by the false witness and one who sews discord among brethren. Of course those things are related. When a false witness speaks lies it is sowing discord. It is creating strife. God says that's an abomination.

So these are the things forbidden by the ninth commandment. Narrowly, false accusation or false testimony in an official court setting. And our whole justice system is based on the need for this commandment to be obeyed. Everything societally falls apart if you strip this out and make it a lawless place like the world of Ahab and Jezebel, ask Naboth. And more broadly, just lying, lying to or lying about.

We'll develop this more next week, But know this, God is very serious about this. How serious is God about this? Let's consult the last chapter in the Bible. So Revelation 22 verse 15. Just listen.

Revelation 22 verse 15. But outside, okay, there's been a description of heaven, now we're talking about outside, those who are cast out. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practices a lie. There's a number of lists like this in scripture. What do I mean by like this?

Lists of things where you go, oh, that's really bad. Oh, that's really bad. Oh, that's really bad. Does this belong on the list? Disobedience to parents makes it into a lot of those lists.

You're like, yeah, murderer, get the murderer, adulterer, get the adulterer. Disobedience to parents, gold, you know. God thinks about that sin differently than I think about that sin. We should just listen to this list again with that in mind. Outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practices a lie.

God takes this deadly seriously. Bearing false witness, lying, loving, and practicing a lie, God damns that sin. To the extent that we have trained ourselves to think this is a secondary sin that doesn't matter that much, just look at the list. Consider the list. Major point number two, what the ninth commandment requires.

What does the ninth commandment require? After all, these commandments are about Christlikeness and Jesus is so much more than not a false accuser. Jesus is so much more than not a slanderer. Jesus is so much more than not a liar. Turn to Psalm 15.

Turn to Psalm 15. Psalm 15 is about who can abide in God's tabernacle, who can live with God. So it gives you these, it's an exaltation of righteousness. Righteous people can abide with God. In fact, when you read the whole Psalm, it's not a long Psalm, it's five verses, when you read the whole psalm, you end up thinking, wow, this guy is perfect.

Exactly. Exactly. The perfect can dwell with God in his tabernacle. And really, the word Christ or Messiah or anointed one never appears in the psalm, but this is a description. When you get to the end and you say, who has ever lived like this?

You come up with the answer, only Jesus has ever lived like this. And so Jesus can dwell with his father and you can through his righteousness. I think is though is the great meaning of Psalm 15. But listen to the first three verses, Psalm 15, a Psalm of David. Lord, who may abide in your tabernacle?

It just makes me think of Esther. Esther comes and she can only live if the king extends his golden scepter and he does. He extends the golden scepter. This is something different. This is who can live in the tabernacle.

Who can abide in the tabernacle? Who may dwell in your holy hill? He who walks uprightly and works righteousness and speaks the truth in his heart. He who does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor does he take up a reproach against his friend. So much of this has a direct bearing on the ninth commandment you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

This is one who's welcome to dwell with God. Well who is that? One who speaks truth in his heart. He loves truth like God loves truth. He's not a backbiter, a false accuser, one offering false testimony, one lying to or lying about, not a tale bearer, not a tale bearer carrying stories.

Or consider Proverbs 12 22. Listen to Proverbs 12 22. Lying Lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are His delight." Both sides of the coin, I think Proverbs 12-22 is a wonderful description of the ninth commandment, you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. He hates that because he loves truth.

He hates lying lips because he loves truth. But those who deal truthfully are his delight. He just loves it when people tell the truth. In Ephesians 4.15, to venture into the New Testament, in Ephesians 4.15, Paul says we should what? Speak the truth in love.

Speak the truth in love. It's an exhortation to Christians to speak the truth in love. That is the polar opposite of bearing false witness against your neighbor, of harming your neighbor, opposing your neighbor by falsely accusing or offering false testimony against your neighbor. What's the exact opposite extreme of that? Speaking truth in love.

So don't lie to or about and harm your neighbor. Instead, speak the truth to help your neighbor as an expression of love." That's what Paul's saying. Listen to Matthew Poole. I pick up in the middle of a long quote, the first part that I'm not reading is about what the commandment forbids, but then he starts into what the commandment requires and that's what I was where I pick it up. Matthew Poole says this, and also requires, so the ninth commandment also requires a just and candid judgment of him, of your neighbor, and of his words and actions speaking well of him as far as truth and justice will permit." So he's saying what we know intuitively, this is not a call to lie and say nice things that aren't true about our neighbor, but to speak well of our neighbor as far as truth and justice will permit.

We're actually looking for the outer limits of where we can go in truth and justice to speak well of our neighbors and defending his good name against the calumnies and detractions of others. In other words, Matthew Poole is saying we also have an obligation when we hear slander to oppose it. When we hear tail-bearing somebody's out and about with a story, a half-truth, a misrepresentation, an unsubstantiated bit of news. You have an obligation to contradict that and to defend the reputation of the person being spoken of who's not there to defend themselves. We'll talk more about this next week.

The past two weeks we've talked about the golden rule and how it applies doing to others what you would have them to do unto you. Now continuing on things good mothers teach their children from the youngest age. What do they say? If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. Mothers are smart to say that.

I think there are some exceptions to that where you actually are bound to say what you know, but those instances are so far fewer than the opportunities that we use that principle to justify our own saying things that should never be said. Major point number three, what the ninth commandment teaches about God. What do we learn about God from this commandment? I'll give you two things. I'm sure there are more, but I'll give you these two.

Number one, The last commandment was, you shall not steal. And I said one of the things that that commandment teaches us about God is God is interested in your interests. In other words, your property is preserved by the fact that God has commanded and written on human hearts that you shouldn't steal. And that actually, that commandment actually disposes people to be kind and generous and to help you when you're in need so God is interested in your interests. Along that same vein with the ninth commandment, I would now say this, God cares about protecting your reputation and your good name.

By writing on the human heart that it's not right to bear false witness against your neighbor, God is showing a concern for your reputation and good name. The laws of God suppress evil, that He's put this sense of right and wrong in the heart of everyone you know, suppresses evil. That wasn't intuitive to people. We'd be going wild. It suppresses that evil and it promotes good.

That He's written it in stone and written it on the heart. God wants people to be charitably disposed towards you and how they speak about you and what they know about you. Aren't you glad God wants people to be charitably disposed towards you? And so he's actually given this commandment and built a wall against slander and tail bearing and lying and false accusation and false testimony. He's built a wall against those things by giving this commandment.

God cares about protecting your reputation in good name. Proverbs 22, one says this, a good name is to be chosen rather than great riches. God has erected this wall of defense against people who would trash your name. Number two. Number one was God cares about that.

God cares about you being able to maintain a good reputation. Number two. God in His perfect righteousness is only capable of the truth. This command just declares that. God loves truth.

God is only capable of truth. You should be so happy about that. Listen to Numbers 23 verses verse 19. Numbers 23 19. God puts these words in Balaam's mouth.

God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should repent. Has he said and will he not do? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good? The context there is Balaam has been hired by a king to curse God's people, and God puts these words in Balaam's mouth to say, I've made promises to these people. Do I ever not keep my promises?

Am I a man that I would lie, I would promise to do good to these people and then curse them? God always tells the truth, always. God always keeps His promises, Always. Let's end in Hebrews chapter 6. Turn there.

We'll read a few verses there Hebrews 6, 13-20. Hebrews 6, 13. For when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining how to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

This hope we have is an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, which enters the presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus having become high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. A lot of words and phrases, easy to get lost in that. What's the big point? The big point is this, is God has set a hope before us. Is it a sure hope or isn't it?

The writer of Hebrews says, God wanted you to be so confident in it that He swore on himself. It's impossible for him to lie. He promised and then took an oath. It's not needful for God to take an oath. Why did he take that oath?

So that you would have confidence that the promises made in and through Christ will be fulfilled. Your salvation, the hope of your salvation, which is an anchor to the soul, that's what he said here, what will anchor your soul down in a storm? It is that God has made promises in and through Jesus and He's incapable of not keeping them. Meaning He always keeps them. He is incapable of not keeping the promises that He's made in Christ and through Christ.

He will keep them. He must keep them. They will be kept. And it'll anchor your soul in the storm because he loves truth. And he wants to teach us to love truth like he loves truth.

And to be incapable of lying like he's incapable of lying. Or at least closer. Next week we'll take up that topic. Let's pray. God, you have made us great and precious promises.

God, we stand in awe to think that you would be mindful of our being able to have confidence in your promises to the point that you would do things that aren't necessary just to give us confidence that our hope is sure So that our souls would be anchored to your promises knowing That you're incapable of anything but the truth you can't lie you're incapable of anything but keeping your promises You can't not keep your promises because of your perfect righteousness, your perfect, unchangeable, eternal character. We rejoice in that God. Let us be so satisfied in you God, in Jesus name, amen.