The Greatest Verse in the Bible

Let's bow our heads in prayer together.

Our gracious God and Father, we thank you for bringing us to this place and time.

And we bless you that we have before us the living and enduring Word of God.

And now we come to you and pray that you will do for us that which we cannot do for ourselves.

Lord, open your Word to our hearts and open our hearts to your Word.

Give to each one of us the grace of understanding and the greater grace of obedience.

And we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

Well, as you will have gathered from the little opportunity I had with your pastor earlier,

we're going to be looking at the clean pages in this first service this morning.

So if you'd like to get a head start on some people and go back to those clean pages,

the minor prophets, just before the New Testament begins.

And we're going to be looking at, well, if I were to ask you,

which do you think is the greatest verse in the entire Bible,

I wonder how many of you would turn to the minor prophets.

Now, to say which is the greatest verse in the Bible is actually an illegitimate question,

but I think you know the kind of reasons it's asked.

Which do you think would be the greatest verse in the entire Bible?

How many would go to one of the minor prophets?

But I believe there's a case to be made out that it is there.

And it's in what in England we call the prophet Habakkuk.

And I understand that in America you call it Habakkuk,

but I will take no lessons in the English language from a country that parks its cars on the driveway

and drives them on the parkway.

So, but I will try to concede to my country cousins,

and it may be a mixture between the two, but at least you know exactly.

It's the one that begins with H, and then A, and then B.

And so if we get there, we'll have done well.

I don't want to give you the history lesson here for the sake of time,

but I will keep a very close eye on the time that's been allocated,

and I think we'll be absolutely fine.

Habakkuk wrote to the nation of Judah about 600 B.C.

You'll remember the Exodus and the journey to the Promised Land,

the ructions in the nation split into the ten northern tribes which became Israel,

the two southern tribes became Judah, and so on.

Well, some of the minor prophets ministered to the northern tribes before their exile,

some to the southern tribe before their exile,

and some to the southern tribe when they were,

and they were the only ones who were repatriated to their home country.

Well, Habakkuk prophesied to Judah when it was a terrible tailspin,

so much so that God raised up four prophets to warn it of the coming catastrophe.

That is to say of invasion and deportation.

Jeremiah, Nahum, Zephaniah, and Habakkuk.

And of the four, our friend Habakkuk is the mystery man.

We know nothing about him, about his tribe, his home, his family, his occupation, or his background.

But if we have problems with him because we are told very little about him,

they are nothing, now hear me carefully,

they are nothing compared to the problems that he had with God.

The prophet had problems with God.

Look at the beginning of the book.

The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet received,

How long, O Lord, must I call for help?

And you do not listen.

Or cry out to you, violence, but you do not save.

Why do you make me look at injustice?

Why do you tolerate wrong?

Destruction and violence are before me.

There is strife and conflict abounds.

Therefore the law is paralyzed.

Justice never prevails.

Wicked him in the righteous.

Justice is perverted.

You could get that on CNN tomorrow.

Who says the Bible is out of date?

These words could be written over tomorrow's headlines.

But this was the prophet's problems.

See, he and others were praying that God would do something about this situation.

And his whole concern was, why don't you listen?

And the particular word listen there simply means, well, why don't you listen and do something?

Habakkuk may, I hope, have doubted that God actually heard what they were praying.

When are you going to deliver our nation from this dreadful state?

Their problem was that God didn't seem to be answering in a way that led to any answer being given.

So all of this mess was going on in Judah at the time.

But that was not Habakkuk's problem.

The heart of man is so corrupt that while the excesses of sin should always, of course, sadden us, they should never surprise us.

And this was Habakkuk's first problem.

The country was an immoral and spiritual mess.

If we have a true grasp of the depravity of the human heart, that should never shock us.

We are hearing things.

I take what would be called, I think, a quality newspaper, a broadsheet in England.

There are now things appearing in full color on the front page of a quality broadsheet

that would never have been found in three lines on page 27 of that paper 50 years ago.

And it's the sheer excesses of violence, of immorality, of skullduggery in high places, corruption in the corridors of power.

It's the sheer volume of it that is so distressing in these days.

But, to repeat, if we knew of the depravity of the human heart, that would not shock us.

Habakkuk's problem was not man's actions.

It was God's inaction.

God was apparently not doing anything in answer to the fervent prayers of the prophet,

and we must imagine a godly remnant with him.

Now, we've all heard growing up in our particular ecclesiastical circles,

the phrase prayer changes things.

And you may have that in your home somewhere, on a plaque or a wall or worked out in wood or in some other fashion.

Prayer changes things.

Do you know you won't find those words in the Bible?

That's not a text from Scripture.

Prayer changes things is not actually taken verbatim from the Bible.

Now, we don't have time to develop what we mean when we say that prayer changes things.

Habakkuk's problem, however, was it seemed to change nothing.

And these verses we've read so far are some of the most honest in the whole of the Bible.

But notice carefully, and it seems to me importantly, at the beginning of verse 2,

how long.

That seems to me to be a clue that the prophet wasn't giving up.

He did not say, I'm going to give up praying.

Nothing is happening.

That's the end of that.

It's, but Lord, we will carry on praying.

I think this is the unwritten text.

We're going to carry on praying.

But Lord, please tell us, how long before you answer?

The issue, it seems, was not whether God would answer, but when.

Well, in verses 5 through 11, God answers Habakkuk.

And he begins like this, I am going to do something.

What music that must have been to the ears of the prophet.

I am going to do something.

If you've been praying for something for a long time, a physical situation, something within

your family, a situation outside of your family that you're desperately concerned about, a

nagging, a chronic problem within the church or whatever, and you in some way receive what

seems to you to be a clear word from God, I am going to do something.

Wouldn't that make your heart rate increase just a little bit?

God is going to do something.

But look, it gets better.

I am going to do something in your days.

Well, that's even more exciting.

I mean, to take this church family, for example, and I have no knowledge whatever of where the

church stands in all sorts of areas at the moment.

I know that it stands firmly theologically because I read and heard about your pastor and

I rejoice in the ministry that God has given him here.

But there are issues within the church and you say, you know, for a long time we've wanted

to make a move forward in that area.

And if God were to say these things to you in order, firstly, I have heard your prayers

and I'm going to do something.

Well, that would please you, although please seems a very weak word to use.

If he were then to say, and it's going to happen in your days, in other words, well, it's

going to happen, but you'll be dead and buried long before that.

It's going to happen in your day.

Just imagine your pulse racing a little bit more.

And God goes on.

I'm going to do something you would not believe even if you were told.

In other words, he is saying to the prophet, it is going to be something so stupendous that

unless I, God, had told it to you, if somebody else had said to you, this is going to happen

and God is going to do it, you'd say, we have a phrase in England, tell it to the Marines,

which simply means nobody's going to believe you.

Nobody's going to believe you.

But I can just imagine the prophet now hyperventilating.

God says, I'm going to do something massive in your day.

You will see it.

And you can just imagine the prophet saying, what on earth is this going to be?

And God tells him, I'm raising up the Babylonians.

Now, that, if you're not familiar with the picture here, you may say, well, he's raising

up the Babylonians.

What does that mean?

Well, the Babylonians were the most violent, cruel, oppressive pagan people you could imagine.

And God was saying, I'm going to answer your prayer and you're going to be invaded by this

pagan nation with whom I have no covenant at all and they're going to sweep in and destroy

the land.

If Habakkuk could play tennis and his name was John McEnroe, he'd have said, you can't

be serious.

So God's answer to the first problem raised was an even bigger one.

And the reason was because of who these Babylonians were.

Look at verse 8.

Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk.

Their cavalry gallops headlong.

Their horsemen come from afar.

They fly like a vulture, swooping to devour.

They all come bent on violence.

Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.

That doesn't sound much like a positive answer to prayer.

But the real reason why it was such a problem to Habakkuk was of what he knew about God.

Look at verse 12.

This is Habakkuk's statement of faith.

I like a confessional church.

A church that has a confession, a statement of faith.

I think of the great Westminster Confession in England and the 1689 Baptist Confession of

Faith and so forth.

These are great formulations brought together by godly men and securely based on Scripture.

And so this is Habakkuk's statement of faith.

O Lord, are you not from everlasting?

My God, my Holy One, we will not die.

O Lord, you have appointed them to execute judgment.

O Rock, you have ordained them to punish.

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil.

You cannot tolerate wrong.

Now can you see why it was such a problem to Habakkuk?

If he didn't really know very much about God, God's characteristics, God's attributes,

the things that govern everything, that self-govern everything that God did,

he would say, well, if that's the way God does things, that's the way God does things.

But just look again at verses 12 and 13.

He speaks of God's eternality.

You are from everlasting.

Of God's holiness, we won't be wiped out.

Of his faithfulness, we will not die.

Of his sovereignty, you have appointed them to execute.

Of his justice, to execute justice.

O Rock, he speaks of his stability.

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil.

He speaks of God's purity.

Well, that's great stuff.

But it's not the end of the problem.

Biblical doctrine is not like a jigsaw.

You get this bit of doctrine and put it in place,

and another bit over here, and another bit here, and another bit here.

And as you come here Sunday by Sunday and sit under Brother Stone's ministry,

you get to the point where you say,

my doctrine is now in place.

Now I can fold my arms and breeze through the rest of my Christian life.

There are few things more important than having a good, basic theological structure.

Not just a collection of nice texts floating around in your mind.

I would urge you to become systematic theologians.

That sounds pretty daunting.

What I mean is, begin to get an overall grasp, and a clear grasp,

and an ordered grasp of what the Bible is saying.

I heard of a man who once said he had no problems believing what the Bible said in general,

until he read a book claiming to solve them all.

And the Bible doesn't do that.

The fact is that only believers have Habakkuk's kind of problem.

So look at verse 13 again.

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil.

You cannot tolerate wrong.

Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?

That's what made the problem so great for Habakkuk.

He knew that God was a holy God, a pure God, a righteous God,

a God who could do no wrong.

And this righteous, pure, holy, do-no-wrong God was saying,

I'm answering your prayer for my people by sending in a nation with whom I don't even have a covenant,

a nation of pagan people, and they're going to wipe the country out.

And you see why he had a problem.

I mean, he really did.

Well, God's response comes, is developed at the beginning of chapter 2,

and the key phrase here is in verse 3.

It will come at the appointed time.

God is never in a hurry, never caught on the hop,

never up against a tight schedule.

Whenever God does something, it's never a moment too soon or a moment too late.

And this is the message to Habakkuk, of course.

In verse 8, I'm doing a work in your days.

God is never sitting on his hands.

And so, look at verse 4 in particular.

See, he, that is the Babylonian, he is puffed up.

His desires are not upright.

But, now in that one verse, and I know it may not come across instantly in reading it,

now God is speaking, not about the Babylonians,

but about his righteous people in Judah.

But, the righteous will live by his faith.

In other words, we are called to trust God even when we cannot trace him.

And I put it to you, and this is a purely personal thought,

that this has a claim to be the greatest verse in the whole Bible.

It is so important.

I mean, this phrase, the just shall live by faith.

So important that it's mentioned three times in the New Testament.

Once in Romans, once in Galatians, and once in Hebrews.

Now, the Galatians context and feeling is the same as the Romans one.

So, we'll miss that out.

So, we're going to turn first to the one in Romans.

So, this is where we go from now to the end of the service.

We'll look first at the reference in Romans,

then at the one in Hebrews,

and then we'll come back to the one in Habakkuk.

So, now you know exactly where we are.

So, turn with me, please, to Romans chapter 1 and verse 17.

Romans 1 · chapter mention

And this is the verse that God used

to trigger off the great 16th century Reformation,

Protestant Reformation, first of all, in Germany.

And here we have it in Romans 1 and verse 17.

At the end of the verse,

the righteous will live by faith.

Do you see it there in your Bibles?

Well, he's quoting Habakkuk.

In Germany,

in the 16th century,

a young man had been wrestling for years

with the problem of how to get right with God.

He was so earnest about it,

he joined a group called the Hermits of St. Augustine,

the most strict,

or one of the strictest orders

in the Roman Catholic Church.

He poured himself into study

and prayer and meditation and rituals.

He said, and I quote,

I was a good monk

and I kept the rule of my order so strictly

that if ever a monk got to heaven by his monkery,

it was I.

Unquote.

He fasted for days on end,

he slept without any blankets,

even in the dead of winter,

and nearly froze to death.

He was overwhelmed by a sense of two things,

God's holiness and his own sin.

And this is how it worked out in his mind.

If he was ever going to be forgiven,

if he was ever going to be made right with God,

he would need to have his sins forgiven,

wiped out.

If he was going to have his sins forgiven,

he would need to confess them.

And if he was to confess them,

he would need to remember them.

But what if he couldn't remember them all?

And some were left unconfessed

and therefore unforgiven.

And the more he turned that around in his mind,

the more depressed he got.

He went constantly to confession,

sometimes up to six hours at a time.

He drove his confessor crazy,

who once told him,

go away and do something worth confessing.

He was in a torment of guilt and fear and despair.

I quote again,

I was more than once driven to the very abyss of despair,

so that I wished I had never been created.

Love God, I hated him.

And it was while he was in that mood

that the Roman Catholic Church appointed him to lecture in the Bible,

on which I make no further comment.

But that's when it happened.

And so he started going through Romans 1.

And eventually he came to verse 17.

17.

In the gospel,

a righteousness from God is revealed,

a righteousness that is by faith from first to last.

And he thought,

this is worse than I thought.

That crushed him even further.

You see, he read,

a righteousness from God means God's righteousness.

So in the gospel,

this was the bit that bothered him,

was this gospel thing.

In the gospel,

the righteousness from God is revealed.

In other words,

it's telling me my death sentence in capital letters.

Or as we say in modern,

in a larger font.

I know that I'm condemned because of my sin.

And what is this gospel?

Oh, it tells me about the holiness of God.

Well, I already know that.

That's half of my problem.

My other problem is my own horrible sin.

And then one day,

the truth of the verse

broke in on him.

And he saw this,

that the righteousness of God

was not a quality of God.

It was a gift from God

granted in the gospel of Jesus Christ

who had fulfilled the law in every part

by meeting every part of it in his daily life

and meeting its penalty in full in his death.

And now this is what he says.

When I saw the difference,

that the law is one thing

and the gospel is another,

I broke through.

I felt myself to have gone through open doors

into paradise.

And the monk's name

was Martin Luther.

And the rest,

as they say,

is history.

Now this is the key to salvation.

The righteous will live by faith.

Jesus has done something that we

have not done,

any of us.

He fulfilled the law of God

in every part.

I do always those things

that please the Father.

He was tempted in every way

just as we are,

but was without sin.

He is Jesus Christ,

the righteous.

So he has fulfilled

every demand of the law

in terms of his daily life.

And then,

having done that,

and having been without any

traction in him

for the penalty

for sin,

he then offered that life.

He gave himself up.

And on the cross,

he suffered

everything that the Bible means

by death

in his body

and spirit.

On our behalf,

Christ died,

the Bible says,

the righteous

in the place

of the unrighteous

to bring us

to God.

And the one

who trusts in him

is declared

right with God,

not on the basis

that he's been

graded on a curve

and he's done

fairly well.

He is declared

right with God

on this basis alone.

Jesus fulfilled

every demand

of the law

in his life

and paid every penalty

of the law

in his death.

So the person

who trusts,

but the person

who trusts in Christ

has this amazing

experience.

All of his sin

is debited to Christ

and all of Christ's

righteousness

is credited

to him.

So the Christian

now stands

in God's sight

as if he had

never sinned.

And as one of our

old hymn writers

put it,

my hope is built

on nothing less

than Jesus'

blood and righteousness.

I dare not trust

the sweetest frame

but wholly lean

on Jesus' name.

On Christ,

the solid rock

I stand,

all other ground

is sinking sand.

Let me ask you

this morning,

are you there?

Have you come

to that place?

Or are you still

just a Southern Baptist?

Well, there's nothing

wrong with being

a Southern Baptist.

Some of them

will be in heaven.

The pastor agrees,

well, he's just

nodded,

so that's,

you can take that

as good.

But here,

be careful,

there are many

who won't.

That's a heartbreak

to your pastor,

to me,

and to any

Baptist pastor

who's got a heart

for God at all.

There are many

whose Christianity

will be,

I'm a Southern Baptist.

Their Christianity

ought to be,

Christ died for me

and lives in me.

I live,

yet not I,

but Christ lives

in me.

So it's the key

to salvation.

Now turn with me

to Hebrews chapter 10

Hebrews 10 · chapter mention

and verse 38.

We're doing well,

but only just.

We will need to hurry.

Hebrews 10

and verse 38.

This is written,

of course,

to Jews,

to Hebrews

who had been converted,

possibly living in Rome,

and they were caught

between a rock

and a hard place.

They were hated

by the Jews,

you'll find that

all over Acts,

and they were hated

by the Romans,

so they had a great

deal of suffering.

Look at verses

32,

3,

and 4.

Remember those

earlier days

after you'd received

the light,

when you'd stood

your ground

in a great contest

in the face of suffering.

Sometimes you were

publicly exposed

to insult and persecution,

and other times

you stood side by side

with those who were

so treated.

You sympathized

with those in prison

and joyfully accepted

the confiscation

of your property

because you knew

that you yourselves

had better

and lasting possessions.

So what were they

to do?

They were now

in this terrible mess.

The writer goes on,

So do not throw away

your confidence.

It will be richly rewarded.

You need to persevere

so that when you've done

the will of God,

you will receive

what he has promised.

For in just a very

little while,

he who is coming

will come

and will not delay.

So they were given

these two instructions,

these two encouragements.

they were to lay hold

upon the fact

that what he has promised,

what God had promised

to them,

would be given to them.

That is to say,

they would go to heaven

when they died.

And then in verse 37,

they are promised

the Lord's return.

In just a very little while,

he who is coming

will come

and will not delay.

So here they are

in a desperate position,

being persecuted,

having a hard time,

between a rock

and a hard place.

And the writer says,

look,

don't give up

because God is true

to his promises.

And when all of this

is over,

you will be in his

glorious presence forever

because you've trusted

in Christ.

And secondly,

the Lord has promised

to return

and he will return.

It may or may not be

during your lifetime,

but God is going

to return

and wrap this whole thing up

and bring in the glory

of the new heavens

and the new earth.

And you could just imagine

people reading this

for the first time

and saying,

well then,

what should we do

in the meantime?

And there it is,

a quotation from Habakkuk.

But in the meantime,

my righteous one

will live by faith.

There it is

in verse 38.

Now my friends,

you and I

in the 21st century,

we're in exactly

the same position.

It's tough

being a Christian

in today's world.

But we have

these two promises.

We have the promise

of a new heavens

and a new earth.

And God is going

to bring that about.

And you'll see

a lot of that

developed in ways

you perhaps

have not quite caught

before in the book

The Hitchhiker's Guide

to Heaven.

So there's going

to be the new heavens

and a new earth.

And the second is

Jesus will return.

Now you go on

some so-called

Christian television programs

on this side

of the Atlantic

and you would be

assured by the

practitioners there

pretty much that

they know exactly

when it's going to be.

And it's going to be

soon and it's going

to be any day now.

I am here to tell you

I haven't got a clue

when it's going to be.

And I don't know

when it's going to be.

And let me tell you

something else.

They don't either.

But they need to

raise money for

their television programs.

And of course

some of them

have been to Heaven

and been given

an inside track on it

and come back

as you know.

And if you believe that

I've got a second-hand car

I'd like to sell you

please see me afterwards.

But just here's

a fundamental principle

of the Christian faith.

We live by faith

not by sight.

We simply don't know

how these swirling

circumstances fit

into God's

eternal plan.

and we don't need

to know.

We don't need to know.

And the same is true

about our trials

and traumas.

The only answer

that makes natural sense

is to get rid of them

and to get rid of them

soon.

We want illness

to be cured,

our pains to disappear,

our financial problems

to be solved

and we want it

to happen immediately.

And these guys

on television

are banking on that.

But there's another option.

Faith has another option.

And let me quote

and I think it's

a brilliant statement

by Joni Erickson Tader

and I don't need

to explain who she is.

When we learn

to lean back

on sovereignty,

fixing and settling

our thoughts

on that unshakable,

unmovable reality,

we can experience

great inner peace.

Our troubles

may not change.

our pain

may not diminish.

Our loss

may not be restored.

Our problems

may not fade

with the new dawn.

But the power

of those things

to harm us

is broken

as we rest

in the fact

that God

is in control.

and that

is the just

living by faith.

We learn

to trust God

when we cannot

trace Him.

Well,

quickly back

as we close

to Habakkuk.

I hope you haven't

lost the place.

And we're in Habakkuk

Habakkuk 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2

and verse 4

and we see

that it's the key

to understanding history.

Now you know

the background,

you know the story

and haven't forgotten it.

The Babylonians

are going to come.

God is going

to execute judgment

on a nation

that's dishonored

His covenant

by means of a nation

with which He'd never

established one.

What should believers

do in the meantime?

And the message

from God is

live by faith.

Now we live

in the in-between time

between the second

coming of Christ

and the

between the first

coming of Christ

and the second coming.

The in-between time

is tough.

And we see it

globally

in World War II

the Cold War

the constant conflict

in the Middle East

endless sufferings

in Africa

the crushing

of human rights

in China

persecution

of the Christian church

in many ways

and places

almost everywhere

moral standards

seem to be

in free fall

and then there are

all the heartaches

and disappointments

and difficulties

we experience

at a personal level.

And it is natural

for us to ask

what's going on?

And the answer

is this

God is working

out his

eternal

unchangeable

and perfect

purposes

for the glory

of his name

and the eternal

good of his people.

Now most of you

will be familiar

with that great

statement

in Romans 8

but we know

that in all things

God works

for the good

that is the eternal

good

of those who love him

those who are called

according to

his purpose.

My dad

who was

a laborer

had a hobby

of repairing

watches

and you know

they were

real watches

before the Japanese

were invented

and you open them

at the back

and there were

wheels and cogs

and sprockets

and levers

going this way

and that

and it seemed

to be totally

confusing.

There'd be a big

wheel turning

this way

and three little

wheels going

the other way

and it just

looked totally

confusing.

It just didn't

make any sense

but watch carefully.

When you turned

the watch over

and looked

on the other

side

you could see

that all of

those conflicting

things

apparently

were all

working to

the common

good

to keeping

the perfect

time in the

watch.

And my friends

and of course

in a brief visit

like this

but I hope

many of you

might want to

stay to the

second service

and hear

a sermon

on the five

most amazing

words

in scripture

and you'll

find it

easier

to find

the text

because we're

going to be

in the

New Testament.

Some of you

may be going

through

real hardship

difficulty

trauma

bereavement

heartache

pain

sorrow

these are

just

the common

things

in our

lives

and you say

but it's

also confusing

this is

happening

but that's

happening

that contradicts

this

watch me

carefully

when you

get to

the other

side

when we

get to

the other

side

we will

see

that even

the worst

things in

this life

are contributing

to the best

things

in the life

to come

and God

calls us

to have

that

attitude

I close

with this

illustration

of William

Cooper

William Cooper

was a great

friend of

John Newton

wrote a

number of

hymns

that we

know

quite

well

but he

had

periods

of

depression

and that

may help

some

people

as a

godly

man

and greatly

used

man

there were

times

when

he was

dipping

and on

one occasion

he came

to the

point

where he

thought

well

I really

want to

end

it

all

and so

he got

hold of

his

horseman

and

said

I want

to go

for a

drive

pitch black

middle of

the night

and the

horseman

said

well

where do

you want

to go

oh

don't

know

just

anywhere

somewhere

down

near the

river

the river

ooze

and so

they took

off

and it

was

pitch

black

and after

a while

the horse

the horseman

said

sir

I'm

lost

I don't

know

where

we are

and

Cooper

said

well

find a

light

somewhere

and

if we

see a

light

shining

make

for

that

and

then

we

can

orient

ourselves

and see

quite

where we

are

and so

the

horseman

eventually

saw a

light

made

for it

and

found

that

they

were

back

home

and

Cooper

wrote

God

moves

in a

mysterious

way

his

wonders

to

perform

he

plants

his

footsteps

in

the

sea

and

rides

upon

the

storm

ye

fearful

saints

fresh

courage

take

the

clouds

ye

so

much

dread

are

big

with

mercy

and

will

break

with

blessings

on

your

head

his

purposes

will

ripen

fast

unfolding

every

hour

the

bud

may

have

a

better

taste

but

sweet

will

be

the

flower

the

just

shall

live

by

faith

let's

pray

gracious

father we

thank you for

your word

for quietening

our hearts

speak to us

I pray

draw from

our hearts

the response

of repentance

and faith

and love

that you

deserve

and that we

long for

in Jesus name

amen

thank you