I Will Build My Church

You may be seated.

Kids, you can now go to your King's Kids class,

and as they're on their way,

would you open up your Bibles to Matthew chapter 16?

Matthew 16 · chapter mention

If you've got a pew Bible,

I'm going to be reading a passage on page 977,

Matthew chapter 16, verses 13 through 20.

Matthew 16:13–20

Hear God's Word.

Now, when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi,

He asked His disciples,

Who do people say that the Son of Man is?

And they said, Some say John the Baptist,

others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.

He said to them, But who do you say that I am?

Simon Peter replied, You are the Christ,

the Son of the living God.

And Jesus answered him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona,

for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you,

but my Father who is in heaven.

And I tell you, you are Peter,

and on this rock I will build my church,

and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven,

and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven,

and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Then He strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that He was the Christ.

May God bless the hearing of His Word.

So what are you doing this summer?

What you got planned?

It's a fun question to ask people in early June,

because the summer lies in front of us.

It's full, full of possibilities and fun.

Maybe you're planning to go to the Harbor Market on every Saturday morning,

or maybe you're going to hit Twilight Jazz,

or July 4th at Wolf and Butyl,

or you're going to grill out as much as possible to perfect your burger.

Sure, maybe that's your plan.

Maybe you're going to go north,

cabin on a lake,

relax in a hammock,

for sure,

spend some time with friends.

It's not unusual when you ask someone that question,

and I've been asking that question all week long.

People's faces light up.

There's a twinkle in their eye before their answer,

because it's fun.

Summer's fun.

Summer in southeast Wisconsin is worth all of the winter cold, right?

But let's think outside the box a little bit.

What if you were to ask Jesus that question?

Jesus,

what are you doing this summer?

Jesus, what you got planned this summer?

What are you going to be doing?

Well, I think if you know your Bibles at all,

Jesus would reply likely,

referencing maybe Hebrews 1.3.

He'd say,

well, you know,

as the radiance of the glory of God,

and as the exact imprint of His nature,

my plan is to

continue upholding the universe

with the word of my power.

And we would say,

yes and amen.

That's a great plan.

Do you have anything else planned?

And He does.

He's told us this much

in the passage I just read you.

Matthew 16,

13 through 20,

we learn about who Jesus is

and what He's doing this summer.

Matthew 16,

13 through 20

is essentially a Q&A with Jesus.

Jesus asks a couple questions.

Peter gives a great confession.

And then Jesus responds to that confession

with some explanation,

framing the confession.

It's really interesting.

It all points to who Jesus is

and what He is doing this summer

in Kenosha and in Liberia

and in Kenya

and in Nepal

and in China

in addition to upholding the universe

by the word of His power.

So let's look at this Q&A with Jesus.

Starting with these two questions.

Now when Jesus came into the district

of Caesarea Philippi,

which was an area

that was mostly populated by Gentiles,

and so there's kind of a lull

with Jesus and His disciples.

And so He asked them,

the first question is kind of like a straw hole.

It's like,

what's the popular opinion?

Guys, guys,

what is the word on the street about me?

Who are people saying I am?

And His disciples say,

well, some say John the Baptist

in chapter 14 of Matthew,

he has been beheaded.

He's dead.

So they think he's,

some people think he's John the Baptist,

come back.

Some people think he's Elijah,

come back.

Some people think he's Jeremiah

or one of the other prophets.

What they all have in common is

people are saying that Jesus

is one who speaks for God,

a prophet of some type.

Let's fast forward

from the first century

to the 21st century,

and let's say Jesus asks us

this same question.

Who do people say the Son of Man is?

And now we're kind of thinking

about those people around us

and who they say Jesus is,

and maybe we'd say,

well, they think that,

Lord Jesus,

You are the kind of the authority on love,

and You taught on love,

and only love.

You taught on love,

or you were before your time,

or you were a good teacher.

You spoke truth to power.

You were a way to salvation.

Some people think that you were

a historical figure,

but you're kind of tough to figure out.

Even some people think

that you're irrelevant.

Some people think

you're a crutch.

Some people will equate you,

Jesus,

with some kind of like

anxiety med for the soul.

So what people are saying

about you

is that you're probably

a good guy,

but mostly irrelevant.

Jesus moves on to the next question.

But who do you say that I am?

Jesus has a way of making things personal,

doesn't He?

And with that question,

He moves from having His disciples

kind of talk about

what other people think about Him,

which is relatively easy,

to now getting personal.

What do you say?

Who do you say that I am?

What do you believe

to be true about me?

So let's get personal.

Imagine Jesus asks you

that question.

Who do you say that I am?

Maybe you're a Christian

and you've been walking

with the Lord Jesus for decades.

Who do you say that I am?

Maybe you're a Christian

and you have walked away

from the church,

even walked away from Jesus.

Who do you say that I am?

Maybe you're a non-Christian

but you're curious about Jesus.

Who do you say that I am?

Maybe you're a middle school

or a high school student

and you've been raised

in a Christian home.

And if Jesus were to ask you

that question,

who do you say that I am?

You might respond by saying,

well, my parents think.

But what Jesus wants to know is,

who do you say that He is?

With these two questions,

Jesus is very intentionally

focusing His disciples and us

on who He is.

But we can even be

a little bit more to the point.

We can ask a question like this.

Do you believe

that Jesus is presently dead

or alive?

Because depending on how

you answer that question

will kind of reveal

what you think that Jesus

is doing this summer.

If He's dead,

He's not doing anything this summer.

But if He's alive,

well, there's all sorts

of interesting possibilities.

possibilities.

This Q&A with Jesus

starts with two questions

posed by Jesus,

raising the question,

who do you say that I am?

And from there,

we move to verse 16.

Because Peter

answers the question.

Simon Peter replied,

you are the Christ,

the Son of the living God.

It's a confession.

It's a declaration.

Did you notice

the word the

before Christ?

That might seem

a little bit unusual

to you.

The Christ.

And if you didn't know it,

that word Christ

is actually a title.

It means Messiah.

The Christ

means the same thing

as the Messiah.

So what Peter is saying is,

you are the Messiah,

the Son of the living God.

So,

what's Messiah?

It means anointed one.

And all throughout

the Old Testament,

there are these prophecies

after prophecies

of this one

who would come,

an anointed one,

a promised one.

And all throughout

the Old Testament,

we are told

of who he is

and what he will do.

He would be a king

descended from David.

Last week,

we finished off

the book of Amos.

And Amos ends

with hope

that God is going

to restore

the booth

of David

in which this

one who would come

in the line of David,

he is going to gather

for himself

a people

called by his name

from both Jews

and Gentiles.

It's the Messiah.

We learn from 2 Samuel 7

that God promised

to David himself

that he would have

a descendant

who would sit

upon his throne

forever.

I want to point you

to one of my favorite

prophecies

of the coming Messiah.

It's in Isaiah chapter 9.

Isaiah 9 · chapter mention

If you want to open up

your Bibles

to Isaiah 9,

turn there.

It's on page 680

of your Pew Bible.

You're familiar

with this passage

because we say it a lot

during Christmas time.

But it's

for all year round.

For to us,

a child is born.

To us,

a son is given.

And the government

shall be upon

his shoulder,

his being the Messiah.

And his name

shall be called

Wonderful Counselor.

He's going to have

a wisdom like no one else.

Mighty God.

He is divine.

And so when Peter

confesses him

as you are the Christ,

the Messiah,

the Son of the living God,

he's saying,

you are God.

Divine.

God's divine Messiah.

Everlasting Father

is talking about

the everlasting

kingly reign

of the Messiah,

the Prince of Peace.

He's going to bring

he's going to bring

shalom

of the increase

of his government

and of peace

that will be no end

on the throne of David

and over his kingdom

to establish it

and uphold it

with justice

and righteousness

from this time

forth and forever.

The zeal of the Lord

of hosts

will do this.

And so do you know

what Peter is saying

here?

He's saying,

you are God's king.

God in the flesh

who has come

to establish

an everlasting kingdom

of increasing peace.

It's quite a confession.

Jesus asks,

who do you say I am?

And Peter's like,

you're the man.

You're the king.

The Christ,

the Messiah.

It has this confessional quality

as we read in Romans 10, 9.

If we confess with our mouths

that Jesus is Lord

and believe in our hearts

that God has raised him

from the dead,

you will be saved.

It's this confession

that Jesus is the Christ.

But here's the deal.

After Peter confesses

that Jesus is the Christ,

and we're back to Matthew 16,

Jesus in verse 21

goes on to explain

that this Christ

must suffer many things

and be killed

and on the third day

be raised from the dead.

And Peter's like,

not having it.

Far be it from you, Lord,

this shall never happen to you.

Peter got the confession right

that he's the Christ,

but he seemingly missed

the memo of Isaiah 53,

that he would be

a suffering Christ.

We have the benefit

of looking back on this

with the benefit of hindsight.

So not only do we know

that Jesus is the Christ

who fulfilled Isaiah 9, 6, and 7,

but he's the Christ

who fulfilled Isaiah 53.

Would you turn there?

It's on page 729

of your pew Bible.

Isaiah 53.

I'm just going to read you

three verses,

4, 5, and 6.

Again, this is

the suffering servant.

This is a prophecy

of the coming Messiah.

He's going to be a king

who's going to establish

an everlasting kingdom

of increasing peace

on the throne of David.

Surely he has

borne our griefs.

He, the Christ,

and carried our sorrows.

Yet we esteemed him,

the Messiah,

stricken,

smitten by God,

and afflicted.

But he,

the anointed one,

the Christ,

the Messiah,

was pierced

for our transgressions.

He,

this coming king,

was crushed

for our iniquities.

Upon him,

this,

this Messiah,

upon him

was the chastisement

that brought us peace.

And with his wounds

we are healed.

All we like sheep

have gone astray.

We have turned everyone

to his own way.

And the Lord

has laid on him

the iniquity of us all.

Jesus is the wonderful counselor,

mighty God,

everlasting father,

prince of peace,

who established

his forever kingdom

through his

substitutionary death

on the cross.

He established

his kingdom

through suffering

and death

and resurrection.

this

is the Messiah.

So if Jesus

were to ask you,

who do you say

that I am?

We get to say,

you

are

the

crucified

and

risen

Christ,

the King,

the Messiah.

Peter's confession

of Jesus

as the Christ,

it informs

our own

confession

of Jesus

as the Christ.

What you believe,

who you believe

Jesus is

will determine

what you believe

Jesus will be doing

this summer.

Which now brings

me to

verses 17

through 19

where Jesus

responds

to Peter's confession

that he is

the Christ.

And by the way,

he doesn't deny it.

he actually

works with it

with a three-fold

explanation.

And it's here

that we learn

what Jesus

will be doing

this summer.

So,

the first

explanation,

the first

aspect

is he's talking

about Peter's

confession

confession,

and he says

it's a revelation.

Look at verse 17

of chapter 16.

And Jesus

answered,

Blessed are you,

Simon Bar-Jonah.

That's a reference

to his dad,

Jonah.

For flesh and blood

has not revealed

this to you,

but my Father

who is in heaven.

So,

what Jesus

is saying

to Simon Peter

is that,

hey,

your confession

of me

as the Messiah

didn't come

from your dad.

It didn't come

from flesh and blood.

You didn't figure

it out on yourself.

You didn't come up

with it on your own.

No, no.

That confession

is a revelation

of God the Father

to you.

He gave you eyes

to see me

for who I am.

It's this gracious

working of God

to give eyes

to sinners

to see

who Jesus

truly is,

the crucified

and risen King.

And here's what

that means for us.

Most of us

in the room

would say,

hey,

I'm a follower

of Jesus.

I've gone

from darkness

into the light.

Jesus has

flipped me.

He's the great

repo man.

And he claimed me.

But here's the thing.

You didn't

of yourself

figure Jesus out.

You didn't

of your own

flesh and blood

come to realize

who Jesus is.

you yourself

have received

a revelation

from God

to be able

to recognize

Jesus

as the crucified

and risen Messiah.

That's a gift

of God to you

so that you

would believe

on Him

and be saved.

Blessed

are you,

Christian,

for that

revelation

is from

God the Father.

So this

confession

is a revelation,

but in verse

18,

this confession

is foundational

to something.

It's in verse

18 where we learn

what Jesus is doing

this summer.

And I tell you,

you are Peter

and on this rock

I will build

my church

and the gates

of hell

shall not prevail

against it.

I mean,

there's a lot here.

There have been

some serious

theological fights

fought over

this verse.

There's a play

on words here.

when Jesus says,

and I tell you,

you are Peter,

the Greek word

for that

is petros.

It's a masculine

noun.

And the play

on word

comes next.

And I tell you,

you are petros

and on this

petra

rock

I will build

my church.

We're not talking

about the Christian

band from the 80s.

Any petro fans

in the room?

Amen.

What Jesus

is doing here

is a play

on words.

This rock

that Jesus

is going to

build

his church

upon

is not

Peter per se.

It's Peter's

confession.

You are the Christ.

You are the Christ.

Jesus says,

hey,

you are Peter

and on this

confession

I will build

my church.

Your confession

that you are

the Christ.

I will build

my church

and the gates

of hell

shall not prevail

against it.

this confession

it's

foundational

to Jesus

building

his bride

his church.

Jesus

is the

cornerstone

of the church.

Who he is

is the very

basis

of who we are.

When you read

the word

church

he's not

building

a building

per se

he's building

a people.

A gathering

of people

from every

tribe

tongue

and nation

around the world.

The word

for church

is a Greek

word called

it's

ekklesia

and it

literally

means

called out

from.

To be

called out

from.

And it

came to be

used to

describe

the assembly

or congregating

of God's

people.

It's

God's

people

gathered.

And in the

New Testament

that word

church

is used

for both

local churches

like our

church.

A church

a people

in a time

in a place

with a specific

leadership

structure.

But it's

also used

to describe

the universal

church.

The church

of all time.

All who

would ever

believe in

Jesus.

And it's

the universal

church that

Jesus is

talking about

building here

in verse

18.

I will

build my

church

and the

gates

of hell

will not

prevail against

it.

You know

what my

favorite

word

in this

verse is?

It's the

word

my.

My

church.

He's

talking about

a

possession.

by virtue

of his

shed blood

he has

purchased

for himself

a people

from every

tribe,

tongue,

and nation

around the

world

from all

time.

My

people.

The

booth of

David

being

restored.

I will

build my

church.

I will

grow it.

I will

gather.

I will

add.

And I

will edify

my

church

for all

time.

And the

gates of

hell will

not prevail

against it.

Gates is a

reference to

the front

doors of a

city,

of a

fortified

city.

And those

gates were

a defensive

mechanism.

And so

in order for

gates to

prevail means

they're being

assaulted.

For gates

to prevail

means they

didn't open

when attacked,

when prevailed

upon.

And what

Jesus is

saying is I

will build

my church

and the

gates of

hell will

not prevail

against it.

I will

plunder

hell

and it

will not

rise

victorious

over me.

I will

gather for

myself

dead

sinners

from every

tribe,

tongue,

and nation

and give

them life

unstoppable.

What Jesus

is building

cannot be

stopped.

Not even

by the

gates of

hell.

It's

a description

of Jesus

on the

advance,

Aslan

on the

move.

It's a

wonder.

So what

is Jesus

doing this

summer?

He's

assaulting

hell.

He's

building

his church

globally.

Now,

throughout

the summer,

in far

away places

in our

neighborhoods,

Aslan's

on the

move.

Jesus

is at

work.

On

this rock,

this

confession,

this

foundational

confession

that I

am the

Christ.

That's

what I'm

building on.

That's

what he's

building on.

In

verse 19,

he goes

on to say

something about

this confession.

This confession

that you

are the

Christ,

it actually

is grounds

for admission

into the

church or

not.

Do you see

that in

verse 19?

I will

give you

the keys

of the

kingdom

of heaven

and whatever

you bind

on earth

shall be

bound in

heaven and

whatever you

loose on

earth shall

be loosed

in heaven.

Do you

know what

keys do?

Back in the

first century,

they didn't

have cars.

Keys were

for doors.

And what

a key would

do, it

would lock

a door and

keep someone

out or it

would open a

door and let

someone in.

And so,

what Jesus is

giving Peter

and the

apostles and

now individual

churches is the

responsibility for

determining who

can come into

the church and

who's to remain

out.

And the basis

of that

determination is

on the

confession.

You are the

Christ.

The crucified

and risen

Christ.

When someone

moved by the

Spirit is able

to confess that

Jesus is the

crucified and

risen Christ,

their lives

will change.

God's

God.

So, what we

see going on

here is this

responsibility that

Jesus is giving

Peter and then to

the apostles, to

the church.

We see it in

Matthew chapter

Matthew 18 · chapter mention

18.

The binding and

loosing is of

people, whether

they are part of

the kingdom of

Jesus or not,

whether they are

to be welcomed

into the church

church or not.

When we go

through a

membership class,

it culminates in

those people

seeking membership

to have an

interview with two

of our elders.

elders.

That interview is a

keys to the

kingdom moment

where two elders

are listening

carefully for a

clear profession

that Jesus is

crucified and

risen Christ.

A clear profession

that a confession

that Jesus is

someone's Lord and

they believe in

their heart that

God has raised

him from the

dead.

And so what we

have here is this

description of this

responsibility, even

authority given to

churches to protect

the church based

upon this confession.

So Jesus responds

to Peter's confession

by saying, that is a

revelation of God.

On that confession, I

am building my church.

church.

And here's some

keys to protect the

church, to make

sure those who are

added to the church

are only those who

confess me as the

Christ.

Let's come back to

this question.

Jesus, what are you

doing this summer?

Well, based upon this

passage, which clearly

reveals who Jesus is

and what he's doing,

this summer, Jesus is

going to be building

his church.

He's going to be saving

people and growing

people.

Just think about who

Jesus is.

In Matthew 1, he's

connected to Abraham.

Jesus is the

offspring through whom

God is going to bless

the nations from

Abraham.

He's descended of

David.

He is Emmanuel.

He, the second Adam,

did what the first Adam

couldn't do, resisted

the devil.

He preached a sermon

and he said this,

I came not to abolish the

law but to fulfill that.

Who says that but the

Christ?

In chapter 12, he says,

I'm the Lord of the

Sabbath.

Who says that kind of

stuff?

The Christ.

Chapter 16, he makes

sure his disciples know

that he, the Christ,

will suffer and he will

be killed and he will be

raised on the third day.

That's why in verse 20,

he tells them, hey, keep

the fact that I'm the

Christ on the down low

because they didn't

understand at that point

that the Christ must

suffer.

Chapter 17, he's

transfigured, his face

shone like the sun.

Chapter 21, he enters

the city of Jerusalem

and cleanses the temple

because he's the Christ.

Chapter 22, he gives

the greatest commandment

to love God with

everything you've got

and love your neighbor

as yourself.

He says all of the

Old Testament law, it

all depends on those

two commandments.

commandments.

In chapter 24 and 25, he

gets into the end times.

In chapter 25 in

particular, he started to

talk about final judgment

and he's referring to

himself as the king who

will judge all the

nations.

The Christ.

In chapter 26, he

institutes the Lord's

Supper.

Passover.

He reworks Passover and

says, now it's about me.

Do this in remembrance of

me.

Who does that?

The Christ does that.

In chapter 27, he's handed

over to sinful men and he

is brutalized and then

crucified, dead and buried,

just like he said.

Chapter 28, he's raised

from the dead on the third

day, just like he said.

And then he appears to

his disciples and he says

to them something that is

just amazing.

He says, all authority on

heaven and earth has been

given to me because he's

the Christ.

Go make disciples of the

nations.

Join me in building my

church.

Do you know what this

Christ is doing this

summer?

He's building his church.

He's gathering people from

every tribe, tongue, and

nation around the world.

So you know what the call

is?

Let's join him.

Let's join Jesus in what

he's doing here in our city

and around the world.

It's possible to view the

summer as kind of let's

bring it down a notch with

Jesus.

With Jesus?

So here are four ways that

we can join Jesus as he

builds his church this

summer.

You've heard him before.

First is this.

Treasure Jesus above all

else.

Treasure Jesus above all

else.

What you treasure, you

prioritize, and what you

prioritize, you treasure.

Treasure Jesus above all

else.

Here's how to do that.

You spend unrushed time

looking at Jesus.

Open a gospel.

Ask God to show you the

glory of the Son.

And you bask.

You just delight.

You stand in awe of who

Jesus is.

And here's what will

happen.

There's this phenomenon.

I've used this illustration

before.

Imagine two grand pianos up

on this stage.

They might not fit, but

bear with me.

If they're both in tune and

you hit center C on one, do

you know what happens in the

other?

It starts to hum center C.

They're both in tune.

And so when more and more of

us are treasuring Jesus above

all else, we will be in tune

together.

There's a great book.

If you want to read more about

it, I've got five up here,

gentle and lowly.

Read it this summer about

Jesus.

How about this?

You get to the end of August

and you're saying, man, I love

Jesus more than I've ever loved

him.

Treasure Jesus above all else.

It all starts there.

And then obey Jesus in all.

Obey what he's commanded you to

do.

If you don't know where to

start, go to Matthew chapter 5,

Matthew 5 · chapter mention

6, and 7.

He lays out his expectations for

those who follow him and then

seek to obey him.

Not only do we obey him in moral

commands, we obey him in the

commission which he's called us

to, the great commission, to go

make disciples of the nations.

We obey him in that.

So here are two ways that we can

obey Jesus this summer in

fulfilling the great commission.

We can move in a direction.

First one is this.

Would you be praying this?

Jesus, where are you at work in

my world?

Where are you at work in the lives

of people around me?

Who are you drawing to yourself?

Would you cause me to cross paths

with people that you are seeking

to draw to yourself or grow,

become a greater follower of you?

That's one.

Be praying.

Second is this.

Be positioning yourself.

This fall, I'm going to preach

through the gospel of Mark.

And it's just, it's going to be

Sunday after Sunday of Jesus.

How can you use this summer in the

lives of non-believers to eventually

invite them to come to church with you

come fall?

How do you use the summer?

Treasure Jesus.

Obey Jesus.

And all that he's commanded,

magnify Jesus among all people.

Magnify him.

Not a microscopic magnification

where you take something small

and make it big.

What we just saw in Matthew is

Jesus is not small.

He is big.

What we're talking about is a

telescopic magnification where you

are bringing something gigantic

and you're making it more visible

for people to magnify him,

to confess him before men.

If you find yourself ashamed of Jesus,

afraid to confess him before men,

afraid to identify yourself with him

before other people,

you need to confess that to him.

You fear man more than him.

That's not magnifying him.

That's being ashamed of him.

So maybe you should think about it.

If you haven't been baptized yet,

this August we're going to have a baptism.

That's a great step to magnify Jesus,

to go public with your union with Christ.

You may also need to put a stake

in the ground in a relationship

where you're saying,

you know what,

I just want to let you know

that I'm a follower of Jesus.

I can't do that

because I treasure him

and I will obey him.

You may lose friends over that,

but you're magnifying him in that.

Magnify Jesus among all people.

Treasure, obey, magnify, belong.

Belong to Jesus with all who treasure him.

Would you make this summer

a summer about building the church,

about joining Jesus in what he's doing?

And that can look like this.

It means inviting people over to your house.

Use your grill.

Use your deck.

Use your patio.

Gather people.

And when you bring brothers and sisters

from the church over,

ask them questions like,

so how did you become a follower of Jesus?

How did God reveal Jesus to you?

If you're new here,

just find someone.

Invite them over.

If you've been around for a while,

invite someone.

Bring them over.

Use the summer

to get sticky,

to knit together.

But the greatest way

is showing up every Sunday.

Gathering as the church.

Sunday after Sunday.

Belonging together to Jesus.

There's going to be some great preaching here

this summer.

I'm a little bummed I'm going to miss it.

But I am really excited for you.

This is how we join Jesus.

T-O-M-B.

The Christ went to the tomb dead

and came out alive

so that you can treasure him

and obey him,

magnify him,

and belong to him.

The summer of 2023 lies before us.

What is Jesus doing this summer?

Well, he's definitely upholding

the universe with the word of his power,

but because he's such a great multitasker,

he's also building his church.

So maybe the question is,

Christian,

will you join him

in what he's doing this summer?

Treasure,

obey,

magnify,

belong.

Let's pray.

Lord Jesus,

we are so grateful

that you are not dead,

but alive,

and that you are

not maybe working around the world,

but you are certainly

at work around the world.

Gathering a people

that you've purchased with your blood

into local churches,

building your universal church.

Lord Jesus,

would you exalt your name

throughout the summer,

not just in Christ the King Church.

but in all the churches

of Kenosha.

We pray this in the name of Jesus.

Amen.