Let us turn to Hebrews chapter 12. We shall read a few verses here. Let us read verse 2 altogether. “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” And we read verse 6 altogether. “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” And we read altogether verse 10. “For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.” And verse 14. “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:”
The topic is based on verse 14, “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man – no man – shall see the Lord.” No man including the pastor. No man will see the Lord without holiness. It is very important to follow peace and holiness. And this is a command. We have to keep following or pursuing – nowadays people may pursue worldly values, fame, wealth, money, popularity and so on. Many things in the world; materialism. But here, God commands us. This is a command. If you and I fail to do God’s command, it is sin.
Do you and I follow or pursue peace and holiness? Do we follow holiness each day? When we open our eyes in the morning, we seek God first, we want to be like Him in holiness, in love, in righteousness, in humility, in submission to God’s Word, and so on. And here we see we are to follow peace with all men. God is the God of peace. The Lord Jesus is the Lord of peace and the Prince of Peace. And we are His children. We have to follow Him, we have to follow peace, follow peace with all men.
So even in the family. Many families nowadays have no peace at home. The husbands, and the wives, the parents and the children, the siblings among themselves – no peace. True peace comes from the Lord. If we do not turn to the Lord, if we do not trust and depend on the Lord, we cannot have His peace in our hearts. When we have peace in our hearts, we want others to have peace as well. We want to follow peace with all men.
We see the first family in the world, Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel. Adam and Eve disobeyed God so sin and death came into the world. We see two brothers, Cain, and Abel, only two brothers, blood brothers. They should have loved one another, they should have kept peace in their family. But Abel trusted in the Lord and depended on the Lord. He acknowledged his sins. What about his worship? He acknowledged his sins, so he needed a lamb, a lamb to die for his sins. So, God accepted Abel, accepted his worship and his offering.
But Cain trusted in himself. Even though he offered to God the best of his labour, without the lamb he did not acknowledge his sins. He worshipped God but God rejected him and his worship. We see that he envied his brother, he hated his brother, and he killed his brother. There was no peace at home. We see that even in the family when the husband, wife and children do not acknowledge their sins and their sinful nature, and if they do not turn to the Lord and acknowledge that they need Jesus Christ, they have a sinful nature like Cain.
All the envy, all the hatred in the heart causes all these problems and problems. They cannot love one another, endure one another, or submit to one another. They cannot be peacemakers, but instead, they are troublemakers, even in the family. So, we need the Lord Jesus Christ to be the head of the family, the head of the husband, the wife and their children as well. That’s why we need family worship – if we want peace in the family, we need family worship. All the parents and children come together in prayer. We pray together because we need Him. Satan is working very hard; he wants to destroy the family. That is why nowadays there is no peace in the family.
We see Jacob and the twelve children. When the brethren envied Joseph, they wanted to kill him and sell him to Egypt. There was no peace in the family. Jacob thought that Joseph was killed by a fierce animal, so he cried, he was so sad. No peace in the family because the brethren did not fear God, and did not trust in God. So may God help the parents and children return to the Lord. That is why in verse 2, “Looking unto (the Lord) Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.” We have to turn to Him, look to Him.
In Hebrews chapter 11 we see all the heroes of faith, including Abel, Enoch, Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Moses and so on and so forth. If we look at them, they may encourage us for a while. ‘Oh, I want to trust in the Lord like Abraham!’ But that cannot help. That is why we have to turn our eyes away from man, even the men of faith. We have to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, and look unto Him because He is the Author of our faith meaning that He is able to give you and me His faith. When we have His faith, we can trust in Him, we can trust in His Word. He is also the finisher of our faith. When He helps us to trust in Him, He also will perform what we trust about Him. It is amazing – from A to Z we just turn to the Lord and look to Him. He came to save you and me, He loved you and me. He knows for sure that without Him we cannot do anything. The Lord Jesus says in John chapter 15 verse 5, “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing” without the Lord Jesus. He knows that. Do you think that the branches can survive without the vine? Without the roots? No, cannot!
We must acknowledge that we need the Lord Jesus Christ, the source of our life, the source of our strength, the source of our holiness, righteousness, and wisdom. He is the source, the vine. So, you and I have to depend on the Lord Jesus Christ, moment by moment, not only on Sundays. Then we can have the strength and the power from the Lord Jesus Christ to bear much fruit. God does not give us life and eternal life as a separate gift: ‘Now I give you eternal life…’ No. God gives us eternal life in His Son. That is from 1 John chapter 5 verses 11 and 12. God has given us eternal life and it is in His Son. “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” So, you and I must have the Lord Jesus Christ. When we have His life, like the branches, if the branches keep attached and connected to the vine, then all the life, nutrition, and power from the vine will flow to the branches! How about you and me? Do we rely and depend on the Lord Jesus Christ moment by moment? ‘Oh Lord, without you I cannot do anything! Without you I have no strength, no power to overcome my sinful nature, my anger, my envy, my hatred – I cannot have the strength to endure others!’ Because if we want to have peace, we have to endure and love others, but if we don’t have love from God, then we cannot love them.
We need the strength and power from the Lord Jesus to forgive others as well. If we want to have peace in the family, if the husband is willing to forgive the wife, if the wife is willing to forgive the husband, if the children are able to forgive one another, then we have peace! And we need the love from the Lord Jesus Christ as well! We need Him as our strength and power so that we may overcome temptations, and the things of the world. We need Him. Without Him, we cannot do anything.
Christianity is not only the doctrines or the teachings. But it is the connection of the believers with God the Creator. God does not give us strength and power like a rechargeable battery as if sometimes we need to go to church to recharge. No, God does not give us such things. He gives us power like electricity. When the light we turn on is connected with electricity, it shines. But when we disconnect the light from the power, there’s no light. You and I must be connected with the Lord Jesus Christ moment by moment to have power from Him! To have His love, His strength, His wisdom to have peace with all men, not only in the family but the children, you go to school, you also must follow peace with your classmates. Do not envy them or hate them.
In the workplace as well, you do not need to envy others. Others may try to strive because of their sinful nature, they want to strive, to contend, to climb up the ladders of fame or power – we don’t have to envy them. We’re willing to endure them and forgive them. In the church as well, we have to follow peace with all the brethren in the church. We know that not all those in the church are perfect. We shouldn’t expect them to be perfect. So, we should be a helper, a peacemaker. This is one of the blessings the Lord Jesus preached in the Beatitudes. “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God” (Matthew 5:9). So, we should not be troublemakers but peacemakers between the brethren together, between the brethren with the pastor, between the session members. We should have peace. We come to worship God in one spirit, one mind and one heart. Be willing to forgive others because this is a command. God has forgiven us again and again and again and we must be willing to forgive others. Follow peace with all men. All men. Our neighbours as well.
Then follow “holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.” Holiness: the same term, the same word for sanctification. Follow holiness? Follow sanctification. Why? This is very important. Thank God that I had the chance to talk to the youth yesterday about sanctification. It’s very important. Many nowadays think that they believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and they have been baptised, so surely they are saved. Surely when the Lord Jesus comes, they will be raptured, they will not be left behind. But the Lord Jesus Christ confirms very clearly that one shall be taken up and one shall be left behind. Do you want to be raptured? To be taken up? You must be sanctified. Why? Because God is holy. God the Father sacrificed His Son the Lord Jesu Christ to pay a very costly price to redeem us, sinners. Not only to save us from Hell after death and the Lake of Fire on the judgement day but so that we might be sanctified to have fellowship with Him and be with Him forever because He is holy. He is so holy that you and I cannot comprehend. So holy that when the prophet Isaiah, when he could see the glory of God, and the singing of the angels “Holy, holy, holy”, then he had to cry, “Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts” (Isaiah 6:3-4).
Only when you and I can see the holiness of God like Job– God allowed Job to suffer a lot to purge, cleanse, purify and refine him. Satan accused Job because God said, ‘You see that my servant is a just and righteous man, he’s perfect.’ Then Satan said, ‘Well he trusts in God because God has given him so many material blessings and God has protected him as well.’ So, God allowed Satan to touch Job. All his material blessings, properties and ten children were taken away in one day. Thank God that Job still worshipped God and he said, ‘God has given, and God has taken away. Blessed be the Lord.’ The second time that Satan accused Job, God allowed Satan to touch even the body of Job with a skin disease. Even his wife could not bear with Job. ‘Do you still now keep your integrity, your faith in God? No. Curse God and die!’ – which means to commit suicide. We see that Satan even used his wife to discourage Job, to curse God and commit suicide. We know that God’s children never commit suicide. Satan will do all things to trouble and suppress God’s servants, but true children of God always have hope. They live in hope in God; they never commit suicide. Even though Job wished that he had not been born, he never committed suicide.
Then God allowed His three friends to come to comfort Job, but they could not understand God’s work in the life of Job. So they said, ‘Job, God is very righteous. If you live a good life, you must be blessed. You must have something wrong between you and God. Just repent!’ We know that Job was a just man. Why? Because in chapter 1 we see that he offered a sacrifice to God every day. So in the Old Testament when Abel offered a sacrifice of a lamb, for example, to redeem their sins, he was called a just man, a righteous man. God said of Job, ‘You see, he is just, he is righteous because he trusted in the sacrifice, the lamb.’ It was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ who would come to die the sins of the whole world.
But during the conversation between the three friends and Job, Job defended his righteousness. He mentioned his righteousness twice. In the end, he said that God was not righteous because he allowed all these trials and troubles to come upon him. Then his young friend Elihu defended the righteousness of God. Then God appeared to Job and spoke to him directly. After that, Job said, ‘I have heard about You, but now my eyes have seen You, and I abhor myself, I’m disgusted at myself. So I repent in dust and ashes.’ Who can help Job to have this deep humility and repentance? Only God. Usually, we never hate, abhor ourselves, we’re never disgusted with ourselves. ‘I love me. I love myself.’ But only when Job could see the holiness of God, then he could abhor himself and repent in dust and ashes. No man could help Job. No trial, not even the chastisement from God could not do it. Only when a person encounters God, meets God in a person way does he or she know the holiness of God and repent in dust and ashes. After that, God restored double blessings to Job because he acknowledged that he had all these things from God, not because of his righteousness.
So we see that without holiness, without sanctification, no man will see the Lord. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ will come again, and through the signs of the end times, we know that He will come very soon. And He will come very soon. He will come first to receive His church. That is His invisible coming; unbelievers will not know. Even professing Christians who are not born again will not be able to hear the sound of the trumpet. They will be left behind. We see the Lord Jesus said that two would be sleeping in the same bed, for example a husband and wife. The husband or wife would be taken up while the other one doesn’t realise it. Even two who are working in the field, one is taken up and the other does not know where or why. ‘My friend disappeared?’ Or two will be working to grind the mill. One will be taken up and the other will be left behind. That will be fulfilled. That word, the word of our Lord Jesus Christ will be fulfilled. That will happen.
You and I do not want to be left behind because if we are left behind under the reign of the Antichrist and the false prophet, they will force all to worship the Antichrist, worship Satan and worship the image or idol of the Antichrist. Those who do not want to worship him will be killed, as in Revelation 13. You and I do not want to be left behind, we want to be raptured. Then you and I must follow righteousness, because without which, no man shall see the Lord when He comes invisibly. Because after the seven years of tribulation and the final world war, Armageddon… Then in Revelation 19, the Lord Jesus and His church will descend, will come down. They will defeat the enemies and establish His kingdom of peace on Earth for one thousand years. That is the visible coming – the Bible tells us that all eyes shall see Him. But here we see that without holiness, no man will see the Lord. This means that no man will see the Lord at His invisible coming.
So if you and I want to be raptured, we must follow holiness and sanctification. What does ‘sanctification’ mean? It means we must be separate from sin, from any kind of sins. Sins like worldliness, ungodliness, all things that are against God’s Word, all the things that are not suitable for the holy presence of God. We must be separate. We cannot follow the majority that say ‘It is OK’ – no. We must be sanctified because that is God’s purpose, God’s will and God’s command. In Ephesians chapter 1 verse 4, “[God] hath chosen us [even] before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy.” This is the purpose. He has chosen us “that we should be holy and without blame in love.” And in Ephesians chapter 5 verses 25-27, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;” – for the church – “That he might sanctify and cleanse it… That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” So we see that the purpose for which the Lord Jesus loved the church and gave Himself for the church was that He may sanctify it and cleanse it by the washing of water by the Word. So the purpose for which the Lord Jesus died for you and I was that you and I would be sanctified because He wants to present you and I to Himself.
He is holy, so you and I must be holy. He is our Husband, and He wants to present His bride also holy. In 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 3, “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification”. That is God’s will for you and I. And 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 16, “Be ye holy; for I am holy.” So after this service you must remember what you have learnt: God’s purpose, God’s will, God’s command for you and I is to be holy. We should not be deceived by the majority of churches nowadays who say, ‘If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will be saved.’ But they don’t follow holiness. They do not follow sanctification. Sanctification is not only us separating from sin and anything that is not suitable for God’s holy presence, our own will, self-will, our pride. But we must dedicate ourselves to the Lord.
We must belong to the Lord. We must present our bodies to the Lord as a holy and living sacrifice. If our lives, our time, and our bodies still belong to us, it is not sanctification. ‘Oh my eyes belong to me so I’ll watch whatever I like, I’ll read whatever I like. My ears belong to me so I’ll listen to any kind of music. My tongue belongs to me so I’ll say whatever I like.’ This is not sanctification. You and I, after we separate ourselves from sin, from anything that is not suitable with God’s Word and His holy presence, we have to dedicate our lives, our time, our whole being to God – we belong to Him.
But that’s not enough. One last thing that’s very important: we must have the holy presence of God in us. That is the last part, but it’s very important because without God’s holy presence in us, we are not sanctified. Even though we may separate ourselves from the things of the world, we may dedicate ourselves to God like those who live in the monasteries, but they do not have God in themselves. They do not submit themselves to God and to the Lord Jesus Christ. They do not invite the Lord Jesus into their hearts to control them. They do not have the Holy Spirit controlling them or dwelling in them. It is not sanctification.
We see, when God appeared to Moses in a burning bush, and He commanded, "Moses, Moses, take off your shoes because the land upon whom you stand is Holy Ground." Holy, why? Because of the Holy presence of God. And after that, the presence of God is not there, it is not a holy ground anymore. You and I are holy before God because we have God's holy presence in us. We must say this truth so that we shall not be proud because my holiness is God's holy presence I separate from sin because I want God's holy presence in me. That is why I have to separate from anything that is not pleasing to my God. I want God to be with me, so I have to please Him, and He is so holy. I have to separate myself from sin, from everything that is not suitable for His holy presence.
And I shall not despise others because if we don't see this truth, "Oh, I have severed myself from many things, so I am holier than others." No, even though we may separate ourselves from many things and belong to the Lord, but not enough if we don't have His holy presence in us. He is living in us. We are not sanctified at all. We are sanctified by the holy presence of the Lord our God. So, without holiness, no man will see the Lord. We must have the Lord Jesus in us. We must have the Holy Spirit. That is why the Holy Spirit inspired upon to write to the Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 30: "Grieve not the Holy Spirit." Grieve not the Holy Spirit. It's through Him that you are sealed until the day of redemption. When the Lord Jesus comes invisibly, He doesn't care how long we have followed Him or what we have done for Him, but whether we have the Seal of the Holy Spirit in us. Without the Seal of the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ will not recognize you and me. "I don't know you. Depart from me." We shall be rejected. So we should not grieve the Holy Spirit.
When the Holy Spirit prompts, He was in us, and He prompts us to pray. We have to pray. We have to read the Bible. We have to read the Bible because He is the author of the Bible. Do you read the Bible every day? Two basic signs of a newly born baby – there are many signs – but the two basic sides if you know that you are born again. First, you need the Lord. The baby cannot survive by itself. It needs the parents. We need the Lord so much that, "Oh, Lord, I cannot live without You. You are all in all things for me." Like the branches cannot live without divine. And the second sign: we need God's Word, the Bible, because the Bible tells us that we have to desire the sincere milk of the Word. Like a newborn child, newborn baby, with our meals. You see, the baby will cry. You cry. Do you know if we are born again, we shall thirst for God's Word? No need others to remind us, "Have you read the Bible today, my son, my daughter, my husband, my wife?" No, because we need God's Word to be fed, to be nurtured. Those are the two basic signs.
And because of sins and shortcomings, you know that we have a lot of shortcomings. In James, chapter 4, the last verse, he that knows what is good and he does not do it, it is sin. There are so many good things we know from God's Word, but we have not done it. It is sin. It's a shortcoming. It's a sin that comes short of the glory of God, becomes short of God's holy presence, God's holding us, God's wisdom, God's righteousness. It is sin. So, that is why we need the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank God so much that He wants you and me to have fellowship with Him and to live with Him forever. That is why the Lord Jesus Christ had to come and die, to bear our sins, and He shed His blood. Because without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins. There is that had to become man, to die, to shed His blood.
So Hebrews, chapter 12, now you turn to chapter 13. Hebrews, chapter 13, the next chapter. We can read altogether verse 12. Let us read it all together. "Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate." Sanctify the people with His own blood because sanctified, when we are sanctified, we must be cleansed, but be washed from our own sins. What, what is about to wash us?
Oh, I have commission already, oh Lord, so sorry, so sorry. Now I, I am determined not to commit that miss that again, but because of our civil nature, we just keep on sinning again, again, again. That is our sinful nature. That is why we need the strength and the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, like the branches need the power, the strength from the body, so that we may overcome our civil nature.
That is why we have to look unto the Lord Jesus Christ all the time, so that we may have strength to do God's will, to do what is good. Because we fail to do that, it is scenery when I remember the command from Ephesians, chapter 5, verse 18: 'Be filled with the Holy Spirit.' It means that let the Holy Spirit control you completely. Then I can say that, 'Oh, I haven't done that perfectly, I may, oh, oh Holy Spirit, controlled me now when I am preaching, when I read the Bible, when I pray.' But after that, many things in the world distracted me, and then I may let the things of the world occupy me and control me, even my own nature. So, that is not sanctification. Sanctification is the holy presence of God in us. That is the holy presence of the Holy Spirit. So, we had to let the Holy Spirit control us completely, and the fruit of the Holy Spirit, not only love and joy and peace and long-suffering and goodness and gentleness and meekness and faith and self-control, but the fruit of the Holy Spirit is holiness. Holiness.
Many had they say, better not all, I am filled with the Holy Spirit when they speak in tongues. No, no. Certain pretty much bear the fruit of holy holiness because Holy Spirit, when we are filled with him, we must be filled with holiness. You and I can turn to Romans, chapter 6. Let us read Romans, chapter 6. Romans, chapter 6. Let it read altogether, verse 22. Romans, chapter 6, verse 22. Let that drink all together.
Romans, chapter 6, verse 22: 'But now been make free from sin and become servants of God, to have the fruit unto holiness in the end have lasted life.' So, the fruit unto holiness. This fruit many Christians maybe ignore, fruit of holiness because we must be holy.
So, brothers and sisters, we want to see the Lord when he comes invisibly. We want to be rapture. We should not be like the five foolish virgins because the Lord Jesus tells us the parable of the ten virgins. They are virgins, it means that they are also separated unto the Lord, and they are watching, they're waiting for the coming of them the bridegroom. But the five wise virgins, they went with them, the oil. The other five, they trust in themselves, 'Oh, no need. I can meet the bridegroom.' So, they don't bring the oil. The oil refers to the Holy Spirit.
So, when the bridegroom comes late, and then turn up them fell asleep, fell asleep because the flesh, we are weak. But the difference, the five wise version, they have the oil. So, when the bridegroom comes and then the five wise version, they just dreamed that the lamb and with the oil, and then they can meet the bridegroom, and the bridegroom welcome them. But the five foolish virgins did not have the oil. Now they, they asked for the five wise version. Please give me joy. But cannot, I cannot give you the Holy Spirit. You must receive the Holy Spirit. You must submit yourself to the Holy Spirit. I cannot give you. So when the five foolish virgins went out to buy the oil, and they came back, and then what? What does the bridegroom say to them when they knock the door? The bridegroom would say, 'I have never known you. Depart from me.' They were rejected. The oil refers to the Holy Spirit.
You and I must submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is the author of the Holy Bible. He will guide us, He will teach us through the Bible. So when you and I are born again, the Holy Spirit will move our hearts to read the Bible, to know God's will, to do the gospel, and to see our shortcomings. And then we need the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ to wash us so that when the Lord Jesus comes, we shall be ready for the rapture.
So please remember, we are sanctified by God's word. 'Sanctify them through that truth. Thy word is truth.' And we are sanctified by the blood of Jesus Christ. Anytime you and I are convicted of our sins, our shortcomings, turn to the Lord Jesus. Oh Lord, wash me, cleanse me. And then we are sanctified by the holy presence of the Holy Spirit.
May God help you, mean not to grieve Him, but obey Him, trust in Him. And we look unto the Lord Jesus because He is ready to help. He came to save us, and He is ever living to pray for you and me and to help you. He knows that without Him, He can do nothing. You cannot do anything. So we have to turn to Him, trust in Him, depend on Him.
So when you return home, remember, 'I must follow peace with all men. I must pursue holiness, sanctification, because without sanctification, I cannot see the Lord.' And you look at the Lord Jesus Christ, moment by moment, because He is able to help you to separate from sin, to strengthen you, to overcome temptations and the things of the world, and to overcome Satan.
And you need God's word. You need the Holy Spirit and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hope to watch you. First John, chapter 1, verse 7. If we walk in the light as He God is in the light, we have fellowship with Him, with God, and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, His Son, purges us from all sin. Purges, cleanses, in simple present tense in Greek. It means that all the time, all the time, purges us. God wants you and me to have fellowship with Him. But because He is so holy, He has provided the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, ready to cleanse us, to wash us, so that we may have fellowship with God, the holy God.
So we see, remember, our stone in the flowing stream, always clean. Flowing stream, no moss on the stone. So you and I can trust in the blood of the Lord Jesus to wash us all the time, to make us clean and pure, to prepare ourselves to see the Lord Jesus Christ at His invisible coming. May God bless all of us, and we hope all of us will meet the Lord there, and none will be left behind.
And if any one of you here, you are not sure that you are saved, you are not sure that you are born again, turn to Jesus Christ, confess your sins to Him, ask Him, 'Lord, please forgive my sins, save me, and dwell in me.' The Lord Jesus said to the church in Laodicea, He knocked, 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock. He who hears My voice and opens the door, I will come unto him and sup with him and he with Me.' So may God bless all of us. Let us turn to the Lord in prayer.
Oh Father in heaven, thank You so much for that word. Help us to acknowledge that without the Lord Jesus, we cannot do anything. We have no power, no strength to overcome ourselves, temptations, and the things of the world or Satan. We cannot follow peace, we cannot follow holiness without the Lord Jesus Christ. We need the Holy Spirit. Help us, oh Father, to humble ourselves and to depend on the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit moment by moment, like the branches abiding. Oh Father, forgive us and cleanse us all the time in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ so that we may maintain our fellowship with You. Wherever we are, oh Lord, we commit all our best unto You. In the name of the Lord Jesus we pray. Amen.