In the sermon 'Of God's Covenant - The 1689 SLBC 7' by Paul Carrington, the speaker explores the theme of God's covenant and His faithfulness. The sermon begins by referencing the high priest Jeshua in Zechariah 3, emphasizing the transformative power of God's covenant. Carrington contrasts dispensationalism, a newer interpretive lens of the Bible focusing on separate dispensations, with covenant theology, which sees God's work through covenants. He discusses three primary covenants: the covenant of works with Adam, the covenant of grace through Jesus Christ, and the covenant of redemption between the Father and the Son. The sermon highlights the depravity of humanity and the futility of trying to achieve righteousness through autonomy or false religions. Instead, salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ and the covenant of grace, which is foundational to all biblical covenants. Carrington emphasizes that God's covenant is a one-way agreement imposed by God, offering salvation to those who accept it through faith. The sermon concludes by affirming the eternal and unchanging nature of God's covenant, rooted in His sovereign will and the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Such a blessing to be able to come and to sing these songs and how they minister to us. You know I was singing that song that how firm a foundation and that last line is really what we're going to be talking about in that song where it says that that soul though all hell should endeavor to shake I'll never know never never forsake the faithfulness of God how can he say that it's because of what we're gonna be looking at tonight which is Talking of God's covenant and his faithfulness through this all and you know before before we left this this afternoon Mr.. Brown asked me he said how would you how would you encapsulate? What you're going to be talking about tonight. And really the first thing that popped into my mind is what he spoke about today.

And it was one of those visions that we looked at which was to do with the high priest, Jeshua, Joshua in Zechariah chapter 3. And I just want to quickly just touch on this not the whole chapter but just a few verses because Here you see a man Who had nothing and he's representative of something but you see a man who's there before God with the accuser of the brethren Satan at his side and It says and the Lord said to Satan the Lord rebuke you Satan the Lord has chosen Jerusalem the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you Is this not a brand plucked from the fire? And then what you see is this man who was guilty, I mean a nation that was guilty, he represented the nation, and there he is, he's standing there likely ashamed, and it talks of how he has filthy garments and he can't even take them off himself. It says take away the filthy garments from him. Someone else or some other group of people had to come or maybe angels came and had to strip him of his filthy rags.

And he says, See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes. And I said, Let them put a clean turban on his head, so they... Notice he didn't put something on his head or robe himself But it says so they put a clean turban on his head and they put the clothes on him and the angel of the Lord Stood by and that's what we're going to be talking about How do we get from where we are as a people or as an individual to where we will be and it's all to do with this concept of God's covenant and so we're clothed through covenant that's how I would how I would say it and you'll notice or you'll remember when we looked at chapter 6 which was the last chapter and we were talking about man's depraved state, and Mr. Brown made this statement. He said, if you have a representative that passes down sin, you also need a representative that cleanses sin.

As sin was imputed in Adam so righteousness is imputed in Christ. And so we get this idea of a federal head, right? By the first Adam we receive the sin nature that we have. But for those who believe and receive the second birth in Christ, we receive a new nature, and we have this promise through Jesus Christ himself. We're helpless, we're severed from God, except he's made a way for us.

And one of the statements he made, which I love, And I thought which was really important that we all get ahead our heads around is we are not sinners because we sin We sin because we are sinners it's such an important concept to really think about And so we saw man's total depravity and that we would almost side with the devil In our depravity rather than turn to the Lord. We want autonomy. That's really our quest, you know this this coming week We're gonna be at an event down in Raleigh and it's a bunch of feminists doing a women's march Promoting feminism autonomy. I have no one over me. I say what happens with my body.

I do whatever I want No, man, no government will ever tell me what to do, but that's that's not unique to feminism That's not unique to the sodomite movement or anything else. This is man's heart by nature, is that we want to be autonomous. We want to have our own way. But the end of autonomy is really the wages that sin pays and that's death. That's what we see all the way through the Bible.

Our desire to have our own autonomy will bring death and so all these false religions, everything that we see around us is really man's attempt to make himself right, to somehow make himself acceptable to God, but on his own terms. Not through being cleansed through sin, through Jesus Christ. And so God in his kindness, he's made a way for people like us who bear his image to come into into relationship with him and that's really what we're going to be talking about how does he do this he does it through the covenant and and something I just want to lay out right at the beginning here is really there's if you look through the Bible there's really three main systems that people use or a lens you could say that men have developed to kind of look through or interpret the scriptures and the most popular one and one of the newer ones is something called dispensationalism it kind of came up in the 1850s and but Before that we had what you call covenant theology. And now kind of as a bridge between dispensationalism and covenant theology, you've got this kind of what you call new covenant theology.

It's a newer model. And it's kind of this bridge between dispensationalism and covenant theology. Well, the Second London Baptist Confession deals with covenant theology, the oldest form. By no means, unfortunately, the most popular, the most popular way of kind of interpreting or looking through the grid that men use to interpret the Bible today is primarily, you know, dispensationalism, but popular doesn't necessarily mean correct, of course. And so what we're going to be looking at is this view that dispensationalism kind of gives this view that God's program in history is mainly through separate dispensations.

You know, God works in separate dispensations, whereas covenant theology says that God works mainly through covenants. And we're gonna be talking about three of those covenants primarily tonight, but really the concept of covenant is the story of the Bible. Right from the very beginning we're gonna see that God made a covenant with men, with Adam in the garden. But how we look at the Bible, what lens do we use, whether it's dispensational or covenant theology, that's going to determine how we look at a book like what we looked at today, Zechariah. It's going to determine how you look at a book like Isaiah, or even the book of Revelation.

So it's really important that we have an understanding of what covenant theology is so we can properly interpret the Bible. And so in this particular chapter, chapter 7 of the SLBC, we're going to be looking at three different covenants as I said. Two of the covenants are between God and man and then one of the covenants is between the Godhead itself or themself and so the covenant of redemption is in the third paragraph we'll get to that and that's between the Father and the Son that was made in eternity past And then we have the covenant of works, which is in the first chapter or first paragraph, and that was made in the Garden of Eden between God and Adam. Of course, that was broken, that covenant. And then we're going to look at the covenant of grace.

And thanks be to God that there is this covenant of grace that was realized or brought to fruition in Jesus Christ. And really it's the basis for all of the other Old Testament covenants, right? We've heard of the different covenants that God has made with Noah. God made a covenant with Moses. He made a covenant with Abraham.

He made a covenant with David. These are different covenants that he made, but all of those covenants in the Old Testament are kind of foundational or leading to the covenant of grace that we're going to be looking at and spending a lot of our time on today. So just by way of definition, what is a covenant? Well, a covenant is simply a binding Agreement or compact between two or more parties in legal terms It is a formal sealed agreement or contract so it's something that you know when you get married you're you're entering into covenant or even when you get a job you you can enter into some level of agreement but unlike marriage or any kind of earthly covenant that we make this is a one-way covenant in the sense that God's not asking us hey what do you think of these terms do you agree with these if so sign here That's not what the covenants are that we're gonna be talking about today. These are rather imposed by God.

God says this is the standard and you will be blessed or you will be destroyed based on your response. If you enter into it, you'll be blessed. If you decide to stay outside of it, it results in your destruction. And so, one of the most important things we're gonna, I think, argue tonight, or the key argument in this idea of the covenant is that we see All men, all men from the beginning of time until now who have ever been saved, have been saved through faith in Jesus Christ. Whether we're looking back to the cross 2, 000 years ago or men like Abraham and men like David, we're looking forward for the redemption.

And so this is the key, really one of the most fundamental things in covenant theology that that anyone who has ever been saved was saved by faith and faith in Jesus Christ maybe not understanding his name and his person but the Messiah to come to take away the sins of his people and So with that with that we're gonna just look at the first The first paragraph here. I think it's if you can put that up the first paragraph I'll just read it out. It says this that the distance between God and the creature is so great that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part which he has been pleased to express by way of covenant. And so in this first paragraph in chapter 7 we're exposed to this idea of the covenant of works. Now you won't see that phrase here on this paragraph but this idea of the covenant of works.

Now you won't see that phrase here on this paragraph, but this idea of the covenant of works is something that God entered into with Adam. You know, in the day that you eat thereof, speaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that you will surely die. And it was a covenant, as long as you're obedient, you will live. But when you break that covenant that I've made with you, you will surely die. But it starts off with this idea of God's glory.

And you know, it's one of those things, how do you measure the distance between God and his creatures how do you measure that it's it's absolutely impossible that's why Psalm says certainly every man at his best state is all together vanity You take the best man who's ever lived and he's altogether vanity because when you look at how perfect and holy God is there's no comparison. And so it starts off with really exalting God and abasing us. And in terms of value and worth, we have as human beings more in common with an ant than we do with the living God. Or you could take the brightest seraph and he would have more in common with me than that seraph would have with God. That's how high an exalted God is.

He's totally without... When we say that word, holy, when the seraph, you know, with the six wings, two, they're covering their feet and with two, they're covering their eyes and with two, they flew, All they're saying is, holy, holy, holy, other. There's nothing in comparison to you. And you think about that, that we have more in common with that creature than that creature has with God, these mighty, mighty creatures that stand before his presence. But the beautiful thing is that we're image-bearers.

What gives us any value is that the value that's been imputed to us simply as image-bearers, that we bear the image of God. But outside of that, we're nothing. And so it's really important, and I like how they start this off with really just abasing ourselves and looking to how great God is. And so one of the things to really consider is that our debt we owe him, and one of the scriptures that we'll look at in a minute speaks of the fact that we are owed nothing as a human race as individuals we absolutely are owed nothing in fact our debt is that we owe God all our worship We owe God obedience as reasonable creatures. That's really our responsibility and he did not owe us life even in our state of innocence.

I thought when I was reading this, you know, this whole thing between Adam, as long as Adam obeyed God, he would retain what God had given him, which was life, but the moment he would disobey, that was taken away. We often don't think of that as a covenant that God had made that has consequences in the sense that Adam was not entitled to life. It was simply something that was given on condition and it's really important that we grasp that because you know you talk to people today and oftentimes I'll talk to people and sinful man will will try to question God or he'll think of himself worthy of eternal life. Well, what would you say when you stand before God? Well, you know, I've tried to live a good life and I'm not that bad a person.

That's what you often will get when you talk to people, say, in the streets. Or they might even say, well, how could a good God send anyone to hell? If God is good, why doesn't he just save people? But rather, when you begin to understand the holiness and the goodness and the otherness of God, the question becomes, how could God save anyone? Or why would God save anyone?

Because we're all deserving of total destruction and so this paragraph really really outlines that well in Luke 17 I'll just read this briefly but it's one of the the verses that they reference here And it says here and which of you Having a servant plowing or tending sheep will say to him when he has come from the field come at once and sit down to eat but will he not rather say to him prepare something for my supper and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk and afterward you will eat and drink." Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not. So likewise you, when you have done all those things which are commanded, say we are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do. And that's man's lot.

We have a duty to praise God, but that doesn't necessitate God having a duty towards us. And one of the 19th century theologian A.A. Hodge he said it this way the very act of creation brings the creature under obligation the fact that God gave us life and created we're now under obligation or owed obedience to him but it cannot bring the creator in obligation to the creature. And so we're talking about this covenant of works here. It ends with this idea of kind of the pre-fall condition, and the sad part about this is when you end this particular chapter, that covenant that God made with Adam, there was no way in that covenant to expiate sin or to put away sin if Adam transgressed that covenant.

And so we're left with Adam as we all know being the results of Adam's sin transgressing the covenant, but it doesn't end there. We begin to see something later on, even though the situation looks bleak, because even in this, God is so gracious in that he sends the seed-crushing person of Jesus Christ, or the one who's going to actually destroy the serpent's head to crush and Destroy and so Christ will come in the future and so it's progressively revealed as we go on and so in paragraph 2 It says this moreover man having brought himself under the curse of the law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace wherein he freely offered unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ requiring of them faith in him that they may be saved and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life his Holy Spirit to make them willing and able to believe. And so the first covenant as we just mentioned it had no ability to save or to deal with the cancer of sin. And you think about man's attempts to get rid of sin, you know, think of like a raging fire.

And what does man do? Man in his attempts to get rid of sin, he takes buckets of gasoline and tries to douse the flames. But does that work? All it does is it causes the flames to rage more and more out of control. And that's what man tries to do when he tries to to deal with sin on his own terms.

He becomes more and more enslaved. You know, we're talking in between the services today about there's this group of people in Asia that were trying to get rid of sin, and they would go about 50 miles, and every third step walking, they would prostrate themselves. And then, get up. Three more steps. Fall flat on their face in a muddy, rutted road, going uphill to this mountain somewhere in Asia to try when they get there to say that we've somehow helped to reduce our sentence.

That's man's attempt. You know, if you look around us, even here in North Carolina, we got that invasive species called the kudzu. You ever see that plant? You can't live here more than a month and not, what is that when you're driving down the road, but you know that that plant was introduced into United States in 1876, it was brought over from Japan and people admired, look at this beauty, you see it in the spring, It's got these beautiful blossoms and broad leaves. You know it looks really beautiful and then on top of that they said you know what?

This is a plant that can Eradicate erosion if you just plant it. It's helpful to remove erosion but What do we see as a result of this attempt? I mean you see total destruction almost of habitat. It grows more than a foot per day. I mean and it goes in all different directions.

It overwhelms all other plants. It blocks the sunlight. It does all sorts of damage. It strangles trees and on top of that it feeds on herbicide when you try to put it to death The thing actually flourishes. There's no way to to really get rid of it.

And this is man's Attempt next time you drive by one of those patches Tell your children this is what sin does it just grows and grows and nothing can eradicate it But except one thing and that is the blood of Jesus Christ and that's what this covenant here talks about all men's attempts are vain And so this covenant of grace is like what we just talked about in in the book of Zechariah where we see a brand Plucked from the fire. I mean everything had come to its lowest ebb in that this stick or twig has no value in itself and it's sitting there in a fire and someone reaches in probably at great pain to himself and pulls that twig out. It has no value except the value that's imputed to it and that's what this covenant of grace is the word grace simply means unmerited favor that you don't deserve it You know, sometimes you can rack your brain. I remember when I first became a Christian I'm trying why would God save me and I'm trying to understand why would God save me until I understood fully this idea of grace that there's nothing in me that is worthy or worth being saved.

It's simply God's unmerited favor towards me. But when a Christian understands that, then you begin not perfectly, but you begin or want to dispense that to other people. That's why Peter says that we've become stewards of the manifold grace of God because now you can show kindness and grace to others who don't deserve it. It's one of the effects of being in Christ. And what he says here, where the first first covenant and even Moses covenant the mosaic covenant couldn't get rid of sin what we see here is that God makes us willing and able to believe we can't even do that on our own and that's why you read in Ezekiel it says this that I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh I will put my spirit within you and Cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my judgments and do them." In Psalm 110 verse 3 says, your people shall be volunteers in the day of your power.

That's what God makes us. He makes us to be volunteers and we enter in to covenant with him through Jesus Christ. And so what man could never achieve through the covenant of works or even by the Mosaic covenant or by obedience, God achieves on our behalf through the covenant of grace to the praise of his glory. I mean to think about that, that we become recipients of the grace of God. That's that's all we are It redounds to his glory like nothing else.

And so it taught you know chapter or paragraph 3 We'll get to this one here and I love this this particular paragraph, you know, it says this, this covenant is revealed in the gospel, first of all to Adam in the promise of salvation by the seed of the woman and afterward by farther steps until the full discovery thereof was completed in the New Testament. And it is founded in that eternal covenant transaction that was between the Father and the Son about the redemption of the elect. And it is alone by the grace of this covenant that all the posterity of fallen Adam that ever were saved did obtain life and blessed immortality, man being now utterly incapable of acceptance with God upon those terms which Adam stood in his state of innocency. And one thing I just want to point to here is that this covenant of grace, when was it first revealed? This covenant of grace was first revealed all the way back in the first book of the Bible.

We talked about the covenant of works, which you'll find in Genesis chapter 2. But in Genesis chapter 3, after man totally blew it, he disobeyed God and was now worthy of death. You know what it says in Genesis 315, and we've read this probably a number of times, but it says, and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel." And this is speaking of what will come and in theological terms it's called the proto-evangelion or the first gospel all the way back in Genesis chapter 3. Think about that.

That God is, man you have sinned, but even then something will happen that the one who separated our fellowship, The one who separated God from man, the devil, his works will be totally overthrown and one will come from your flesh that will crush his head. It's an amazing, amazing thing And you know the beautiful thing about Genesis chapter three? You go down a few more verses, I think it's in verse 21, and what do you see? Adam and Eve are banished from the garden. But do you know what God does?

There they were. How did God find them? Clothed in what? Fig leaves, their own attempt to make themselves covered because of the nakedness of sin that sin causes us to feel. But God does what?

He slays an animal and covers them with skins just like we just read earlier of Jeshua, Joshua the high priest, helpless, filthy, unable to do a thing for himself, and God says take away the filthy garments and he puts on Adam and Eve this animal skin to clothe them. It's a picture of what God is going to do to clothe us with Jesus Christ. It's amazing to think that this is all the way back, right? In Genesis chapter 3, God is bringing all his will to pass. And I love this because by degrees, it talks about this idea by farther steps, right?

How was the gospel revealed? If you think of like a sunrise in the morning, it doesn't just, the sun doesn't just pop into the sky and it's broad daylight, but by degrees, right? The Sun comes up and it comes up until it's shining in its fullness in the day And so that's in the same way through various covenants through the covenant of Noah You know through the covenant he made with Abraham through Moses through David God is is showing that he's gonna bring something to pass little by little. And one of the things, if you listen to Paul Washer, one of the things he says about Jesus Christ, and I thought this was amazing, is that he is the only expected person. And what that means is there's no other person like Caesar or you pick any politician or great man that was expected or prophesied and awaited like Jesus Christ.

And he was he was right from the very beginning and we'll see even from before the beginning he was promised and awaited. And so I want to just talk very briefly. If you think about this, right, God, he makes this promise in Genesis 3, 15, that the seed could be anyone descending from Adam, right? He just says, your seed to Eve. It could be any one of the human race, but afterwards mankind is nearly wiped out by the flood and God saves and enters into covenant with Noah.

And then a limitation enters in Genesis chapter 12 and he narrows the stream down to who? To Abraham. So now it's not just all mankind but it's narrowed down to a particular person. He enters into the Abrahamic covenant and then at the end of Genesis we see that the seed is going to come from Judah in Genesis 49 and then we hear about the Mosaic Covenant and this is really the first covenant really made with the nation of Israel in it. It explicitly makes known God's demands for righteousness and obedience.

It actually introduces Officially the sacrificial system with this lamb of God or this Passover the spotless lamb coming to take away sins and to alleviate the angel of death from passing over and then hundreds of years later you get the Davidic covenant with King David. And he promises that there shall not be a man failing to sit on the throne. And then finally, between David and Christ, you see a flood of prophets. And they give clearer and clearer and clearer testimony, talking about Bethlehem. They talk about this who has believed our report, the suffering servant, and this stream just becomes more and more narrowed.

So you get to a man like Simeon, and there is a man sitting every single day going to the temple, awaiting the consolation of Israel. Remember, he's the only expected person in history and God revealed to him that he was not going to die until he saw the Lord's Christ and and when he saw this baby he took him up in his arm, you could just imagine the emotion, and he says, Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared before the face of all peoples, a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of your people Israel. And so this is how God has brought all of his will to pass from this broad swath and then gradually he reveals who the Messiah will be until Christ comes in the flesh and And it's amazing to think about how God has brought it to pass when you think of even a nation Plucked from the fire and your individual life plucked from the fire God didn't have to do any of that but he's been pleased to do it to bring about his will and he's done it through entering into covenant with us.

It's a phenomenal thing to think about and so it talks about the fact that it's founded, this covenant is founded in that eternal covenant transaction which was between the Father and the Son about the redemption of God's elect. So we've talked about the covenant of works in chapter or paragraph 1, we've talked about the covenant of grace in Jesus Christ, but now we get to see this, that before creation, God the Father and God the Son entered into a covenant called the covenant of redemption. And what does this tell us? It tells us this, that everything that has happened, Adam's fall, all the hell that we see, even the problems you have in your own life all these things are decreed by God from eternity past to save his elect He wasn't reacting as things got from bad to worse. God wasn't responding.

There wasn't a plan B. These people went this way, Adam sinned, Jesus what do I do now? Okay, one like come up. No, everything from even before time began, God had purposed that this is how it was going to be and the father and the son entered into covenant together that should give us confidence that God is in control of every situation that God is is the one that is guiding things no matter how low and ebb they get that God is the one who's bringing all these things to pass for his great glory and that the greatest symbol of this covenant, the greatest symbol is the cross of Jesus Christ and that's why Paul says but God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. And the cross, it's not popular because it tells us as people that we are wrong, but it strips man before it builds him up, and it causes us to say, men and brethren, like they did in Acts, what shall we do?

That this spotless, sinless son of God would die for us who are nothing but filthy rags with all of our righteousness. It should cause us to say, Lord, have mercy upon me a sinner and turn to him with full heart. The last thing I want to say is this, is that after the fall, right, again I want to make this so clear that salvation has always been by one way. That's why when you see in John chapter 8 when Jesus is speaking, when he speaks of Abraham, right, he says before Abraham was, I am. And the people got up and you're not even 50 years old and so on and they got angry at him and he says Abraham rejoiced to see my day.

You see how Moses, it says how Moses, when in Hebrews chapter 11, you know, when he looked at the reproach of Christ and the treasures of Egypt, how did he know about the reproaches of Christ? He was looking for it. That's when All of Hebrews 11 is talking about a group of people looking for a city that actually has foundations Whose builder and maker is God and how does each one of these men or women in Hebrews 11? How does it begin the description by faith? It's always by faith We have to remember that whether it's looking forward to the cross or us looking backwards to the cross All men are saved through faith other those other systems of religion For example dispensationalism or new covenant theology.

They don't necessarily capture that well, but this view really, really does. And so it's important that we have that same view. Men like Simeon who were hoping and waiting for this. And so unlike the Old Covenant that demanded obedience but granted no power to obey. The amazing grace of the new covenant established in Christ's precious blood grants what it demands.

It gives us the power to obey through Jesus Christ who overcame. And so this is what John Newton says, I love this quote, he says, God has so loved rebellious ungrateful sinners as to appoint them a savior in the person of his only son. Though free to us, it cost him dearly. Though free to us, it cost him dearly. But the wilderness has now become a fruitful field through the covenanted work of the Messiah.

And so I just want to end with this small passage from Hebrews chapter 10, verse 12 to 18, speaking of the Lord our Savior. It says, but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time, waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering he is perfected forever, those who are being sanctified. But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days says the Lord I will put my laws into their hearts and into their minds I will write them then he adds their sins and their lawless deeds. I will remember no more Now where there is remission of these there is no longer an offering for sin.

So let's pray. Oh Lord we we so marvel at your wisdom Lord how unsearchable are your ways that even before the foundation of the world, Lord, you conspired to save sinners Lord, knowing exactly who we are, how at odds we are with you Lord, how depraved and dark we are. And Lord, you've sent your Son Jesus Christ for us to be brought back into fellowship with you, Lord. What can we say to these things? Well, we praise you tonight and we thank you that you have entered into covenant with us, Lord.

And Lord, you have given us hope, you've given us a place, You've written and inscribed our names in heaven, Lord, in the Book of Life. You are so worthy of praise, Lord, where sin has abounded. Lord, we see how much more grace has abounded in each one of us. And so we praise you, we thank you, and pray, Lord, that you would let these truths sink down into our hearts to stabilize and comfort and help us in all of our distress and troubles that we would see that though all hell should endeavor to shake Lord that you will never know never forsake because of your faithfulness and keeping your covenant so we thank you in Jesus name amen Amen. Amen.