Matthew 5:10-12

With me to Matthew chapter 5.

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Matthew chapter 5.

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So, as you're turning there,

you probably can already hear it a little bit in my voice,

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Thank you for that and continue in that.

So, we've reached verses 10 through 12.

I just want to start off by reading those,

and then we will jump right into it.

So, verses 10 through 12, picking up in verse 10 of Matthew chapter 5.

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It says,

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake,

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you

and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

11 and 12 are really just an expansion and a clarification of verse 10.

Most believe that Jesus talked about this beatitude a bit more,

just to stress its weight, its importance, and its surety.

It's certainly not a foreign concept at all to other New Testament writers.

So much of the New Testament does focus on the realities of persecution

and what the Christian's response should be to it.

Even in that last song, we're just saying,

set your mind, your mind, your mind on things above.

So much of the New Testament devotes itself to that.

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So, because this is a big topic in the New Testament in general,

there are a lot of different ways I could go with this sermon.

But so that you are just in knowing how I'm thinking about this,

I want to preach it from this text.

I want to stay true to what this text here talks about it.

And I'll also be talking about it a good bit within our context.

So, that's kind of where we're going with it today.

A lot more could be said.

I wish we could say a lot more.

But we'll hone it in a little bit for today.

So, how I'm going to structure it is in four main ways.

So, here they are.

So, just a bunch of different things of how the New Testament talks about persecution.

First one I have is the reason for persecution.

The reason for persecution.

The next is the reality of persecution.

The reality of persecution.

Next is the response to persecution.

The response to persecution.

And lastly, we'll have the results.

Of persecution.

The results of persecution.

So, first off, let's just go ahead and get right into it and start off with the reason for persecution.

So, I'd like to bring back to mind of how Nathan broke down the different sections of the Beatitudes a few weeks ago.

He said that the first three are really just focused on a great awareness of our sin.

And the world's lack of righteousness and their need for it.

So, looking at verse 3.

It says,

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

So, the poor in spirit being those who realize that they are dead.

They are stuck in their sins.

They can't do anything about it.

Can never get rid of them or become righteous on their own.

Verse 4.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

So, those mourning over the wickedness of the world as they see its brokenness and its just lack of concern.

A deep sadness, really, for the state of everything around us.

Verse 5.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

The meek being those who do not make much of themselves, but make much of God.

Those that acknowledge that everything is the Lord's and not theirs.

They'll have a great inheritance in the new earth.

So, those first three being about the reality of our need for righteousness and our inability to produce it on our own.

And then there's great blessings declared on them.

So, in the next one, we see that great need being met.

And then in verses, or the 5th, 6th, and 7th Beatitudes, we see outflows of that righteousness.

So, in verse 7.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

So, we see that those that have been given Christ's righteousness, they'll begin in their new nature.

They have that whole person righteousness.

They are restored image bearers of God.

And they're going to begin to show the mercifulness of God.

He's shown so much to us.

And so, we're beginning to express that to others.

In verse 8, it says,

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

So, again, those regenerated believers are now pure in heart.

They are not just seeking to do the right things.

But the Lord has given them a whole new nature.

That not only is able to do those right things, but longs to do those right things.

They're beginning to have that whole person righteousness.

They're not just doing the right things they want to.

And they're not, on the other end, just thinking the right things in their heart.

They're actually living them out.

They're living those out as that outflow of that new nature.

Verse 9, from last week.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

So, yet another way that the new regenerated believers are becoming like our Lord.

He was the ultimate and perfect peacemaker.

And so, we're following him in making peace.

And so, all of those, be added to that section, were the outflows of us being granted that righteousness and that new nature from the Lord.

But we get to verses 10 and 12.

It's something new.

It's all about persecution.

Not something that is coming from us.

And not something that we're realizing our need in.

But instead, that people are persecuting us.

So, something coming from outside of us, not from inside at all.

Not a longing.

Not an outflow.

It's something that we can't really foster or would ever want to foster.

But, the Lord declares those that experience persecution for righteousness' sake, blessed or flourishing or happy.

So, what causes this persecution?

What is the reason for it?

Why do people hate Christians?

Well, it's an outflow of all these other beatitudes.

Let's think about those again for a minute.

Is the world poor in spirit?

Is the world mourning over their sin?

Are unbelievers meek and unselfish?

Absolutely not.

We can attest to that.

We have been there.

Before we were given our new nature without Christ, we boast in ourselves.

We don't care much about our sin at all.

We don't see it as that big of a deal.

If we do start to see the horrors of what sin is, we don't seek to do the correct things to fix it.

We try to cover our own sin up.

But, we are in fact incapable of longing for righteousness.

No one is righteous.

No one seeks for God.

We were dead in our sins.

We certainly, before the Lord opened our eyes, did not hunger and thirst after righteousness.

We didn't show mercy.

Even if we had seemed to have some sort of good outward action, some inward motive proved our hearts to be impure.

We didn't have whole person righteousness at all.

We certainly were not striving after peace with others or peace with God.

None of this.

All these things are brought after the Lord gives us our new nature and begins the work of these things, of sanctifying us.

Right?

So, all those are given to you not because of a great longing in us to do better, to be better, to come to God.

But all those come to us when the Lord knocks us down.

When he makes us see the reality of our sin.

And gives us that new nature when we trust in him as our only hope for salvation.

So, why am I going on this really big, long spill about all this?

Because this is exactly why unbelievers persecute believers.

It's exactly why.

Because we are so, so, so different from them.

There's something about a believer that condemns them.

That makes them see that their so-called righteousness is nothing.

It looks like filthy rags.

Right?

They start to see that a bit and they hate that.

They hate that.

And so, who do they take it out on?

They take it out on the people that made them realize that.

The believers that have a new nature.

They see that they're completely different.

So, there's our reason for persecution.

Let's think about it in a little bit different of a light.

What does being righteous really mean?

What does being persecuted for righteousness sake really mean?

What means being like Jesus?

There's a very simplified way to think about it.

That's the truth, right?

To see that a little bit more, turn moving to John 15.

John 15.

John 15.

We're going to read verses 18 through 20 here.

It's another confirmation from the Lord about this.

Verse 18 starts saying,

If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own.

But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Remember the word that I said to you.

A servant is not greater than his master.

If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.

If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

So we see here the Lord telling us, yeah, if you're different than the world, they're going to be able to tell.

And they're not going to like that.

They're not going to like that at all.

If you were of the world, then yeah, you'd be all right.

They'd like you okay.

But no, if you are different and different in the way of being like me, they're going to hate you because they'll be convicted.

They'll see that otherness.

They'll notice that they're not just differing in degree.

We're not just trying a little bit harder to be good people.

We're an entirely different kind of creature.

The Lord has given us that new nature.

Jesus even goes so far to say that we should be concerned if the world does not hate us.

Luke 6.26.

So just after Luke's account of the Beatitudes, he lists a long list of woe unto yous.

And one of them says just that.

It says, woe to you when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Think about that.

Jesus, the vast majority of the time, was not well spoken of.

Sure, many people did follow him.

But so, so, so many did not.

But think about just how you picture a good Christian in your head.

I know that, like, when I think about that, for me, I tend to see someone that is always there for everyone in the community.

Someone well respected by all.

But I very rarely think of someone who is willing to take a stand for the truth and therefore people hate him.

He's kicked out of society, put in exile, told to stay away from everyone so that he can't pollute everyone with his thoughts.

I rarely think of that.

Or even the men that are, and women that are killed for taking a stand for the truth.

But our Lord Jesus says to be careful.

He says, woe unto us when society thinks well of us.

To be concerned when the world is right there with us.

When our lives don't bring some pushback, we should be alarmed.

Now, I want to clarify a bit right here.

I don't think it's generally the tendency in America or in our church culture to seek persecution or to root for it or to ag it on.

But in order just to be sure that we know what type of persecution Jesus is declaring this blessing on,

we should talk about the type it is, which I think we've hit some, and the type it is not.

He says that it is when we are persecuted for righteousness sake.

Or, in other words, persecuted for being like Jesus.

Right?

Living out these outflows, given that new nature.

Here are some things it does not say.

It does not say, blessed are they who are persecuted for being careless with their words.

It does not say, blessed are they who are persecuted for their political views, that they get confused with their faith.

It does not say that we are blessed when we are persecuted for a cause.

It says that we are blessed when we are persecuted for righteousness sake.

Now, think about those things as that it's not.

We certainly should not be careless with our words and should represent Christ both in grace and in truth when speaking into hard situations.

But these others that I mentioned, there's nothing wrong with them.

There's nothing wrong with having strong political views or having a really strong allegiance to some cause that you believe in.

And for sure, these certainly can and they should be informed by our faith.

But the blessing here is declared specifically when we are persecuted for righteousness sake.

Not slanders coming from someone who disagrees with your political views or your cause or that they think you said something that you shouldn't have.

We should not be going around trying to pick fights.

But we're simply trying to speak the truth and live the truth out in love.

When we come across a passage like this, I think it's important to remember the whole of Scripture on how we should live.

And there's so many exhortations in the New Testament that are about living quiet lives and to live as peaceably as we can with others.

Here's an example that comes to my mind.

Romans 12 verse 18 says,

Romans 12:18

If possible, so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all.

So, we're not going around picking fights.

But we do teach, we warn, we encourage, we exhort everyone with the truth.

So, in summary of that first point,

when we are persecuted for righteousness sake,

it is an outflow of us demonstrating the characteristics of a true believer in our Lord.

It's the outflow of that new nature that He has given us.

And when we do demonstrate those, people are not going to like it.

So, that leads to the second point.

The reality of persecution.

The reality of persecution.

So, already with what we've seen with the flow of this beatitude,

Jesus saying,

Woe unto us when men speak highly of us.

And Jesus saying that because the world hated Him,

it's also going to hate us as we follow Him.

I think we can see a pretty good case already that persecution is or should just be a reality for us.

In some form or fashion for all Christians.

To make that argument a little bit stronger,

turn with me to 2 Timothy 3.

2 Timothy 3.

So, this is a verse that I think is probably the most commonly quoted on this topic.

It comes in the middle of just a passage of Paul.

He's encouraging Timothy about persecution and about the authority of Scripture.

And in 2 Timothy 3 verse 12, he says this.

2 Timothy 3:12

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Read that again.

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

It makes no excuses.

It makes no ifs.

It makes no exceptions.

It says all.

All who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Everyone.

Everyone who desires to live a godly life in Christ Jesus.

Now, is that every believer?

Yes, that's absolutely every believer.

Because every believer has been given that new nature,

and that new nature's desire is to live a godly life.

So, that's absolutely every believer.

So, we can say, yeah, if we are followers of Christ,

if we love what He loves,

if we have been given the promised Spirit,

if we keep His commands and His commands are not grievous,

all of us, all of us who have put our full hope in Christ

will be persecuted.

Let that challenge us.

Let us examine our lives a bit in light of that.

Are we truly following Christ?

Are we actually living our lives in light of the truth of the gospel?

Are we blending in with the world?

Are men speaking highly of us?

Or are we being hated just as our Lord and Savior was hated?

Now, if someone was preaching this to me,

I would have three questions, I think, at least at this point.

So, a few different things that people might come up with.

First one is saying, I have never been persecuted.

What is wrong?

Am I an unfaithful Christian?

Maybe, maybe not.

Secondly, am I being disobedient?

Maybe, maybe not.

And third, are we really all going to experience persecution?

And we can confidently say absolutely yes on that one.

Now, join me back in Matthew 5.

So, flip back over there for a minute.

Let's notice the three different types of persecution that verses 10 to 12 mentions.

First off, we have physical persecution.

The word used in verses 10, 11, and 12 that is translated as persecuted,

its basic meaning is chasing, driving away, or pursuing.

So, over time, that word developed connotations of physical persecution, harassment,

abuse, or unjust treatment.

So, really, really intense persecution.

Secondly, in verse 12, we see reviling.

In other translations, the word revile is translated as insult or cast insult.

And it means exactly that, to cast a very strong insult at someone.

The third type we see is false accusation.

As people around us may utter, as it says,

all kinds of evil against you falsely.

Now, for those of us that are born and raised here,

maybe especially here in the South,

where almost everyone seems to be a cultural Christian,

may find that we have never been chased,

we've never been driven away,

or we've never been physically beaten for the faith.

I would wager to say that

very, very few of us in this room

have experienced this intense amount of persecution

that many of the early church did experience,

which is recorded for us,

and so many around the world

still experience today.

But that does not necessarily

mean that we have not experienced persecution.

Now, I want to be very, very, very careful here.

I'm not at all trying to put the pushback

or the slander or the false accusation

or the insults

that we may experience here on the same level

as our brothers and sisters being persecuted around the world.

But,

our faithfulness to our Lord,

our desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus,

our living out of that new nature,

is going to create some pushback.

It absolutely is going to create some pushback.

It's going to make some conflict

with those who are utterly unlike us.

We're new creatures.

We're different than the world.

It says,

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus

will be persecuted.

Now, this might look like

a lot of different things.

A family member telling you

that there are two things

that you were raised

not to talk about,

and those were politics and religion

as they're sitting frustrated

with you speaking truth at a holiday dinner.

It may look like a roommate

beginning to blame

everything that is wrong in the world on you

because they are beginning to be convicted

of their own sin

as they see your godly living.

It may look like a lost friendship

of a friend who

just doesn't want to

associate with you at all anymore

because you

spoke the gospel to them.

They were convicted of their sin,

and

you hated to see someone

that you're so close to

deny the Lord of

everything

and to suffer eternally.

It may be a grandparent

saying,

Your religion is great for you,

but

I don't want to talk to you about it,

and if that's what you're going to talk about,

I don't want to see you.

Could be being unwelcomed

at the lunch table at work

because you aren't willing to

tolerate the gossip

that usually happens.

Brothers and sisters,

these are all

so, so sad.

There are situations

that we would all regret.

There are situations

that show the depravity

of the natural human heart

before it's regenerated.

It does not want to hear truth,

and as it sees it

and sees its guilt,

it wants no part of it,

no part of it at all.

John MacArthur said

of this text

that Ty will preach

next week,

and I think it explains

why persecution

happens so well.

It just speaks to the reality

of that it's going to happen.

He said this,

when we become

Christ's salt

and Christ's light,

our salt

will sting

the world's

open wounds

of sin,

and our light

will irritate

its eyes

that are so used

to darkness.

Indeed,

all who desire

to live godly lives

in Christ Jesus

will be persecuted.

But church,

there is an outflow

of this persecution,

and that brings us

to our third point.

The result of persecution.

The result of persecution.

So back in Matthew 5 again,

I want to read

the whole thing again.

So blessed are those

who are persecuted

for righteousness' sake,

for theirs is the kingdom

of heaven.

Blessed are you

when others revile you

and persecute you

and utter all kinds

of evil against you

falsely on my account.

Rejoice and be glad,

for your reward

is great in heaven.

For so they persecuted

the prophets

who were before you.

So Jesus says

that when we are persecuted

for righteousness' sake,

when others revile us

and persecute us

and utter all kinds

of false accusations

against us,

then we are blessed.

We are flourishing.

We are happy.

Now we just said

that all of these things

are awful

and that we should

never want persecution.

Ever.

We would never want

to foster that.

We would never

want that for ourselves.

And it's true

that all of these things

are really awful.

even in our context.

These false accusations,

these insults,

they're awful.

They really are.

And so much more so

are brothers and sisters

worldwide that are

suffering physically

for the faith.

That's so awful.

It really, really is.

But the Lord says

we are blessed.

Now why is that?

What reason does He give?

Why are we blessed

when all of these awful things

happen to us?

Look at verse 10.

Verse 10 says,

For theirs is the kingdom

of heaven.

And down in verse 12,

it says,

For your reward

is great in heaven.

Okay?

So with those,

that should tell us

that we really are blessed

because this life

ultimately doesn't have

that much weight.

James 4.14 says,

For what is your life?

It is even a vapor

that appears for a little time

and then vanisheth away.

Our life here is so,

so fleeting.

So, so fleeting.

And so with that,

the promise that we're given

is His kingdom.

That we will reign with Him.

That our reward

is great in heaven.

An eternal thing.

Not a fleeting vapor.

And so we are blessed.

And another thing

to think about with this

is if we are persecuted

for righteousness sake,

it should give us

such great assurance.

Such great assurance.

Verse 12 says

that they persecuted

the prophets

who were before us.

Just like this.

On multiple occasions

throughout the book of Acts,

you'll see as the apostles

are like after a beating

or they've been run out

of a city.

What were they doing?

They were rejoicing

that they were count

worthy to suffer

for the Lord.

So if we were persecuted

for righteousness sake,

we are counted among

that long list

of God's people

that have suffered

for Him.

Flip over to

1 Peter 4.

I'm going to read

a few verses here.

I'll jump around

a little bit.

Pick it up in verse 12

to begin with.

It says,

Beloved,

do not be surprised

at the fiery trial

when it comes upon you

to test you

as though something strange

were happening to you.

But rejoice

insofar as you share

Christ's sufferings,

you may also rejoice

and be glad

when His glory is revealed.

If you are insulted

for the name of Christ,

you are blessed

because the Spirit of glory

and of God

rests upon you.

Jumping to 16.

Yet if anyone suffers

as a Christian,

let him not be ashamed,

but let him glorify God

in that name.

Jumping to 19.

Therefore,

let those who suffer

according to God's will

entrust their souls

to a faithful Creator

while doing good.

So we can see here

very clearly

that if we share

in Christ's sufferings,

then we can be confident

that the Spirit of God

rests upon us.

Therefore,

let us glorify God

that we are part

of His kingdom,

part of His family.

What sweet assurance

to be part of that group,

to know we have

the promised Spirit,

and to be part of those

that have suffered

for the Lord.

What blessings

to be co-heirs

with Christ

and to be part

of His kingdom.

What rejoicing

to be part of God's people

and for all eternity,

not just a short vapor

to rejoice with Him.

So that leads to our next

and our final point.

That is the response

to persecution.

The response

to persecution.

I know I'm having you

flip back and forth

from Matthew so much.

Turn back to Matthew 5.

Sorry.

So look down

at verse 12 here.

It gives us

the command

to rejoice

and to be glad

or in KJV

to rejoice

and be exceeding glad

for our reward

is great in heaven.

For believers,

these are not

the greatest days

of our lives.

This is not

all we have.

This is short.

This is fleeting.

It is but a vapor.

And so this persecution,

this pushback,

this tension,

these lies,

this wickedness

of this world,

these insults,

it's fleeting.

It's passing away.

2 Corinthians 4,

17 and 18

says,

For this light

momentary affliction

is preparing for us

an eternal weight

of glory

beyond all comparison

as we look

not to the things

that are seen

but to the things

that are unseen.

For the things

that are seen

are transient

but the things

that are unseen

are eternal.

This life

can't even be compared

at all

with the next.

And so this is not

what we should be

focusing on

so much of the time

but instead

focus on that

eternal weight

of glory.

Focus on the

kingdom of heaven.

Focus on the

treasures that the

Lord has stored

up for us there.

And the greatest

treasure is one

that we even have

now.

Knowing our Lord.

Knowing our Savior

who gave everything

for us.

Focusing on those

not whatever

may come at us

in this world.

Now so many

will try to make

a counter argument

here that says

that anything

that is fueled

by a motive

of reward

can't be proper.

Can't be a good

motivation.

That a person

that's having

that can't have

a true love

for Christ.

But they're simply

just seeking

a reward.

Now this

seems great

to do everything

out of love

for where you're

at now

and to enjoy

this life

for where it's

at.

But that's simply

not scriptural.

And any argument

that contradicts

scripture is not

great no matter

how great it

sounds.

Here we are

told to rejoice

for our reward

is great in heaven.

That is the reason

it says that we

are blessed,

we are flourishing,

and we are happy

that our reward

is great in heaven.

In Hebrews,

I think it was

quoted this morning

in the Lord's

Supper service,

it says that our

Lord endured the

cross for the joy

set before him.

He was looking

to an eternal

reward.

All throughout

scripture,

we are told so

much about eternity

and our life

to come,

and that is what

we are to long

for.

To use a bit

of MacArthur

language that I

heard in a sermon

of his a long

time ago,

to get through

the nasty

now and now,

we have to set

our minds

on the sweet

by and by.

Right?

We're longing

for a future,

future grace.

As believers,

we should not

consent ourselves

to dwell in

the temporal,

the fleeting,

the here and now,

the imperfect,

but to dwell in

the eternal,

the everlasting,

and the perfect.

And that's what

gets us through

this suffering,

this persecution,

this pushback,

and that's the

command we're

given here.

Rejoice and be

glad,

for your reward

is great in

heaven.

Grab your

bulletin.

John Calvin

said,

that's the quote

on your bulletin,

surely the gospel

does not confine

men's hearts to

delight in the

present life,

death,

but lifts them

to the hope

of immortality.

It does not

fasten them

to earthly

pleasures,

but by announcing

a hope that

rests in heaven,

it, so to speak,

transports them

thither.

We have so

little here.

Our brothers and

sisters around the

world suffering the

physical persecution

have so little

here.

Whatever insults,

pushback,

or false

accusations we may

suffer,

and so much

more so,

whatever beatings

or tortures

or even murders

that our fellow

brothers and

sisters suffer,

these are so

awful,

but we have

such a great

hope in heaven.

We have so

much to look

forward to.

I think so

many of our

hymns just

capture that

so, so, so

well.

I'm going to

take a couple

more minutes

here and

really help us

start living out

some of that

rejoicing command,

rejoicing in

our future

hope.

I just want to

read, I'll read

four hymns here

and then we'll

close.

So the first

two I'm going to

share are our

longing songs,

songs that are

excited about that

future reality but

aren't there yet.

So the first one,

there's going to

be a great

rejoicing.

There's going to

be a great

rejoicing.

The troubles of

this world will

wither up and

die.

That river of

tears made by

the lonely someday

will be dry.

There's going to

be a great

rejoicing.

There is going

to be a great

joy river.

There is going

to be a great

joy river.

Questions of

this world someday

will be known.

Who's robbing you

of peace and who

is the giver?

There's going to

be a great

joy river.

Some day you

will find me

guarded in his

fortress, open

heart and wings

that never touch

the ground.

Some day we

will gather in a

grand reunion.

The depths of

this old world are

nowhere to be

found.

There's going to

be a great

rejoicing.

This next one,

kingdom of heaven

that Alex and

Christopher led.

Where death

shall be no

more.

no mourning,

no crying,

no pain.

Every tear he'll

wipe away in the

kingdom of heaven.

Where nothing is

accursed, a city

with a crystal

river, the throne

of God and of the

land in the kingdom

of heaven.

Set your mind,

your mind,

your mind on

things above.

Set your eyes,

your eyes,

your eyes on the

risen sun.

Where there shall

be no night,

nor need for

sun to shine.

The Lord himself

will be our

light in the

kingdom of heaven.

Set your mind,

your mind,

your mind on

things above.

Set your eyes,

your eyes,

your eyes on

the risen sun.

Behold,

the home of

God is with

man.

Set your mind,

your mind,

your mind on

things above.

Set your eyes,

your eyes,

your eyes on

the risen sun.

Oh, let the

thirsty come.

Oh, let the

one who wants

drink freely of

the water of

the kingdom of

heaven.

So these next

two are more

in the perspective

of looking at

scenes in

eternity.

So this is the

last verse of

How Deep the

Father's Love.

Behold the

king upon the

throne, the

sons all brought

to glory.

Cry hallelujah

to the lamb

and sing

redemption story.

And all

creation joins

as one.

The wretch is

now God's

treasure.

By grace

alone, through

faith alone, in

Christ alone,

forever.

Last one.

This is the

last part of

All Glory Be

to Christ.

When on the

day the

great I am,

the faithful

and the

true, the

lamb who

was for

sinners slain

is making

all things

new.

Behold, our

God shall

live with us

and be our

steadfast light

and we

shall air

his people

be.

All Glory

Be to

Christ.

All Glory

Be to

Christ our

King.

All Glory

Be to

Christ.

His rule

and his reign

we will

ever sing.

All Glory

Be to

Christ.

Let's

pray.