Luke 6:12-16; The Twelve

Well, if you have your Bible, just turn there with

me to Luke chapter six. We continue in our study

of Luke, and you see the thumbnail there was the

title of the sermon, the twelve.

And we're going to talk.

About this passage here in Luke six, beginning in verse

twelve and six. Luke six, twelve through sixteen. That'll be

our selection today. And before we read and continue on

wht we start off with a word of prayer. Father,

we just asked today that you would bless us as

we look at your word, help me to rightly divide

it and open our hearts as we hear it read,

and open our hearts as we hear it expounded today.

And Father, we just pray that you would speak to

us in that way that you do. May the spirit

of God blow through this hall today and touch hearts. Father,

May the words that I speak today be pleasing in

your sight for our praying Jesus name.

Amen.

So do you remember when you were a child on

the playground or in the classroom and captains were appointed

to select teams. You remember that, And just of course

it depended on the activity that the captains were selecting for.

You might have been selected first or last, or somewhere

in between. Denise has always told me that when she

was in elementary school, the teacher would select captains for

a spelling contest or for state capitals, and she was

always selected first. I would never have been selected first

and under those conditions. But if we were playing basketball

or football or something like that, then, of course for

a boy, that's different. If it was basketball, I was

always the last one chose, and if it was football,

I was somewhere further up the latter. But what was

the selection based on? Do you remember if it depended

on the game. I mean what you know, if maybe

you were one of the captains and you were trying

to choose your team.

Yeah, said very well. Could have been popularity.

Sometimes captains were selecting people that they knew could play

the game well right, Or they were selecting captains were

selecting people.

That they liked their friends.

You know, they wanted to build a team of people

that they already had camaraderie with, so they would select

on that basis. And if you had somebody who was

really good at the game and a good friend, while

they were the first pick. Sometimes captains were selecting according

to whom they disliked. They wanted their crew on their team,

whether they could play or not. The choice of the twelve, however,

was not like that. Jesus didn't choose based on ability

or likeability, or any other metric that influences the way

we choose things. We often say, and you'll hear this said,

that we have freedom of the will. Our will is

actually not free. It is enslaved to self causation. And

you see that perfectly illustrated in the way children will

select others for a team.

Sport or team activity.

It's based on selfish inclination about what they want or

what they don't want. And that's how we choose. However,

in choosing of the apostles, we see a truly free

will at work, a will that is directed by the

will of God. What Jesus does here gives us a

picture of that. Now we're going to talk about this,

the choosing of the apostles today. I'm going to read

this passage just for a moment. There are four lists

in the New Testament. In Matthew chapter ten. Matthew waits

later in his gospel to actually give us the list

of the apostles, but it's Matthew chapter ten, verses one

through four. Mark has it in chapter three, so he's

consistent here. He's following the same directory as Luke. Luke

has it here in six twelve through sixteen. And then

we have an another list in Acts in verse thirteen

of chapter one, but in Acts it is eleven because

Judas has already betrayed Christ and killed himself, so that

one is left out. So there are just eleven in

that Acts list, and the names appear in different orders

in both lists, except for Peter, who's always at the

first at the top of the list, Philip who's always

in the middle of the list, and James, the son

of Alpheus, who is in the bottom portion of the list.

So those three men always occur in the same place

in all four lists. So you can actually divide the

list of the disciples into thirds, So Peter and then

three others, Philip and three others, and James and three others.

Always that it comes in that way.

And you'll also notice in these lists that Luke, especially

in Luke, Luke, presents them in pairs. It's Peter and Andrew,

it's James and John.

So we'll see that in just a moment.

So and of course, just like the seventy, Jesus was

going to send them out two x two. And so

I think Luke has that in mind as he's presenting

the list of the disciples. So let's read, beginning here

in verse twelve Luke, Chapter six. And it came to

pass in those days that he went out into a

mountain to pray, and continued to online in prayer to God.

And when it was day, he called onto him his disciples,

and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named Apostles,

Simon whom he named Peter, and Andrew, his brother James,

and John Philip, and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the

son of Alpheus, and Simon called Zolotes, and Judas the

brother of James, and Judas is Scariot, which also was

the traitor.

Amen. So here we have the list.

But you'll notice that at the beginning of this passage

we begin verse twelve, we're not talking about the disciples yet,

where we're talking about Jesus.

Going off to pray.

So there's a preparation here before he selects the apostles,

and this comes after he's encounter with the Pharisees over

the Sabbath.

So you can imagine that Jesus was exhausted.

He's exhausted from the encounter with the Pharisees and all

the ministry that he's been doing, and he knows what's

about to happen. So right in that gap between what

has happened and what's about to happen, Jesus goes out

to pray. Dawn's song this morning was spot on. He

went out into a mountain to pray. Of course, now

this comes before the choosing of the twelve, and again

we need to take a close notice of this event.

Luke has been so consistent, hasn't he in telling us

about Jesus and his prayer life. It's almost like between

all these major events, we have Jesus going out to pray,

and here it is again. He goes out to a

quiet place somewhere in the mountain and he goes off

to pray. And again we need to notice this. Jesus

needed to refresh his soul after such an exhausting encounter

and to prepare himself for such an important duty. I

think we need to take a close look, or maybe

I should use a better verb than that. We should

take a close examination of how we handle the stresses

and responsibilities in.

Our own life.

Do we run to the Father before and after? Is

prayer and indispensable part of our soul's healthy habits. Just

a brief look around will confirm our interest in weight loss,

healthy lifestyles, beauty treatments, all the latest fashions. You know,

you just look at and just look at anything on

the television, the internet, wherever you're looking, magazines, newspapers, there's

always advertisements for these things. I can't hardly open uh.

I can't help hardly open my feet on YouTube without

somebody telling me how I need to lose weight in

the next thirty days, and they give me their plan.

They're going to give me their plan.

Of course I have to click on their link and

pay a fee and all the rest. But I'm sure

that they're doing that because people are actually clinking on

their clicking on their links and paying their fees. And

we don't want to be sick, and we don't want

to be overweight. We want to live a long and

healthy life. But let me just put it this way,

what measures do we take for our soul's health are

we taking any at all? If we could diagnose our

soul's condition, and only you can, what would it be

if there was a machine that could take a picture

of it, what would it be? Tim Kennedy had to

go this week to have an MRI done or last week?

Was it last week? Kim? It was last week?

And we were teasing him at Wednesday night Bible study

because he was going to take a picture of his head.

We were saying, well, they're not going to find anything

in there. You know, there's not going to be any

pictures because there's nothing in there. What's your soul looked

like if there was a machine that could take a

picture of it, would it be shriveled or would it be.

Healthy and full? That's the question. I think.

Jesus gives us this wonderful example, and it's not a throwaway.

This is not just an this is just not an

ornament here that adorns the page of scripture. But it

is an example for us we need to be men

and women of prayer. Actually, this illustrates just how important

the selection of the twelve was, because notice he continued

all night in prayer to God, so he didn't go

to sleep that night. He's exhausted from the encounter that

he had with the Pharisees, but he knows what's about

to happen, and so because that's so important, he's not

going to shut his eyes, but he's going to remain

in prayer all night long, all night in prayer, and

he has to be ready for the next day for

more work. Because if you continue reading, I mean, we

have the sermon on the plane coming up after a

great time of healing and ministering to the people, and

you could just imagine the exertion that he's under this

that entire time. But the thing that what fuels him

is not a good night's sleep, but a night.

Filled with prayer.

He was ready for ministry because he had been in prayer.

And of course it was important we look back on

the selection of these men and we realized the gravity

of the moment. Six of the fourteen men who were

Foundational apostles wrote or sponsored all of the books in

the New Testament. Six of the fourteen who were Foundational

apostles wrote or sponsored all of the books in the

New Testament. Those who are taught by Jesus teach us

every time we open the New Testament, our doctrine, the

nature of our practice, our ecclesiology, that is, the things

of the church, our organization, our theology, all of it.

So when Jesus prayed all night, he was not just

praying that he might make a good selection, but he

was praying for us as well, because he's going to

select ben who are going to do this work. So

that now, how many years later, we're still reading what

they taught us. And then it says when it was day,

he called unto him his disciples, and he chose twelve.

Here's the choosing.

Jesus didn't invite everyone in Galilee and Judea to this event,

just his disciples, those who followed him from a great

company of these disciples. He chooses just twelve men. And

as I was reading this or initially preparing for the

sermon two weeks ago, I guess I was thinking about this,

and I asked myself the question, why are we okay

with this choice? But when it comes to the doctrine

of election in God's free choice.

We have an issue.

We say, oh, well, that can't be. But Jesus makes

a choice here and we're okay with it. He's choosing

his team, and we're okay with it. This type of

choosing or election is a vocational calling to a foundational gifting,

not a calling to eternal salvation. But it does illustrate

the larger issue of election. First of all, Number one,

Jesus chose them to be apostles. They did not choose

to be apostles. Jesus is choosing them number one. Number two,

Jesus chose them not based on their qualifications, and we'll

come back to that after we look at the list

of these guys. Number three, Jesus choosing was not motivated

by selfish interests, as our choosing would be. It's not

the cause they're His self interest is not the cause

of his choosing. So there's no self causation here when

Jesus chooses these men. Again, we'll come back to that

as we look at the list. Jesus choosing demonstrated his

sovereignty as the chief cornerstone of the church. You remember

that Paul, writing in Ephesians chapter two, verses nineteen and twenty,

he says, now, therefore you are no more strangers than foreigners,

but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household

of God, and are built upon the foundation of the

apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.

So his sovereignty.

Over the building of the church is illustrated here in

his choosing these twelve men, because they're going to be

part of that foundation. The prophets have already done their work.

Now the apostles are going to link up with the

app or with the prophetic work and the Old Testament.

If the apostles link up with that in the New Testament,

all of it is linked to Christ, who's the cornerstone,

the foundation piece of the entire edifice that we now

call the church. And then he named it, says also

whom also he named apostles. So he calls his disciples,

chooses twelve and then names them apostles. The word apostle

means a scent one. We might think of this as

a missionary, right, and someone who is a missionary has

a mission. So, for example, if if I tell one

of my sons, I want you to go down to

the parts store and buy a part for the car.

We're working on the car together, and I say go

down the parts store and buy this part for the car,

and they say okay, and they get in the vehicle

and they go down to the parts store and they

buy the part. He's my missionary because I've given him

a task, a singular responsibility to go to the part

store by the part. That's his mission, and I send

him to do it. So he goes, because that's the

idea of a missionary. Apostle is the same, except you

build on that. If I send him to the parts

store with my credit card and I tell him go

to the part store, here's my credit card, by the part,

then he goes to the parts store with my authority

and with all of my resources at his beck and call.

So it doesn't matter how much the part costs. He

has all of my resources to purchase the part.

That's an apostle. So it's a.

Missionary, but it has so much more a meaning to

it because it comes with all of the authority of Heaven.

And these men, and only these men, during their lifetime,

had all that authority. Working signs and wonders. Miraculous gifts

were evident in their work, just like they were with

the Savior because their apostles and God gave them that authority.

Jesus is also called an apostle. They're in Hebrews chapter three.

The Hebrew writer says, where for a holy brethren, partakers

of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priests

of our profession Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him

that appointed him, as Moses was faithful in all his house.

Here again illustrates this idea of apostleship. Not only did

Jesus come with all the authority of heaven because he

was God is God, but he's faithful to him who

appointed him. So the apostolic office is appointed by Heaven.

And hear Jesus when he appoints these twelve, he is

appointing them as God, as his apostles, with his authority

to do a singular work, and that is to build

the church.

Apostles.

The men that Jesus called to be apostles were foundational apostles.

We've already heard from Ephesians chapter two, verse twenty. There

foundational the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus is

the chief cornerstone. So the foundation is connected to Christ.

And again this is illustrated for us rather beautifully actually

in Revelation chapter twenty one. Because of twenty one fourteen.

We have this.

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in

them the names of.

The twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

So there we see this illustration of the foundation stones

of the New Jerusalem laid, and in them are the

names of the twelve apostles, twelve foundations, in them the

names of the twelve Apostles. So these apostles are foundational.

They existed at the time of Christ, and after his

death and resurrection, they lived as long as however they

long they lived. They did their work, They established the church,

and they did it with all the authority of heaven,

just like Jesus when he came with all the authority

of heaven, appointed to do a singular job. These men

were also gifts to the church, because they're in Ephesians

chapter four. Paul writes, he gave some apostles, and some prophets,

and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers for the

perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,

for the edifying of the body of Christ. And so

these men are gifts for us. And every time we

open up the New Testament, there our gifts are waiting

to teach us apostleship came with signs. Following, Paul wrote

in Two Corinthians chapter twelve.

There in verse.

Two, and he teaches us about this thing of apostleship

by talking about himself, and he says this, truly, the

signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patients.

And that wonderful.

The very first, the very first sign of an apostle

is patients.

That's beautiful, all.

Patients in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. So if

you're an apostle, this is this is the sign of

your apostleship, the authority of having and being demonstrated in

your life patients, signs, wonders, mighty deeds. There are no

apostles today, ladies and gentlemen. However, there are false apostles,

and the Bible warns us about them. In Second Corinthians

chapter eleven, just a chapter before when we just read,

Paul writes, for such are false apostles, deceitful workers transforming

themselves into the apostles of Christ, and no marvel, for

Satan himself has transformed into an angel of light. Therefore,

it is no great thing if these ministers also be

transformed as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according

to their works. You see false apostles transforming themselves into

the apostles of Christ.

Today.

There are many false apostles in our modern day. They

are all over the place. Actually, there's more that can be.

There are more men and women who call themselves apostles

than we could actually list.

There's so many today.

And you just look, first of all, look at the

Latter day Saints. They have what's called the Quorum of

the Twelve Apostles. Are they apostles, No, they're not apostles

at all. Look at Chi Han, the founder of Harvest International.

He calls himself an apostle. Bill Johnson, the senior leader

of Bethel Church, calls himself an apostle. Lou Ingele, founder

of the Sinned, he calls himself an apostle. Todd White

calls himself an apostle.

And this is just a name a few.

So often you will find within charismatic communities a plurality

of men and women who call themselves apostles and take

for themselves whatever authority their followers.

Will give them.

But there are no signs, There are no wonders. There

are no miraculous or mighty deeds that follow, and often.

No patience whatsoever.

Everyone is expected to bend the knee when they apply

to themselves, and that's exactly what they're doing. They are

deceitful workers transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

Be careful, be careful.

The Apostolic age ended when the last apostle passed into eternity, and.

We don't know which one.

That was, probably probably John, he lived to a ripe

old age, but we don't know. And most of them

died by martyr, most of them, and with them ended

the Apostolic signs and gifts, and the revelation of God

was complete. There are no there's no more revelation of God.

Now we have it.

It's complete, we have it in our Bible. Here it

is all that the apostles taught us is right here.

Don't need to go outside, don't need to look forward

at a dream, don't need to listen for a voice.

You don't need to look around because of your experience,

or go to your local apostle and ask for the

a prophecy to give you some direction. Nope, you need

to look right here. In God's word. This is where

the This is where the revelation ends.

It is complete. It is full, from Genesis to revelation.

We have all of it.

Even Peter in his second letter points to the completed

revelation of the apostles when he says in chapter three

of that letter that you may be mindful of the

words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and

of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord

and Savior. We are to be mindful of what they

teach us, not only the prophets, but also the apostles.

Isn't it wonderful?

Peter and Paul both put prophets, the Old Testament prophets

in their revelation, together with the Apostolic ministry and their

revel And now, ladies and gentlemen, it is all complete.

The Apostolic age has ended. And anyone who tells you

differently probably wants to be an apostle. But they're no longer.

Now let's go to the list of the apostles. Let's

look at these men, because there are some fine fellas here.

First of all Simon, whom he also named Peter. We

know that these all three of these names we find,

you know, identifying Peter, Simon, Peter, and Cephis, and Andrew,

his brother Simon. We know this fella, of course. He's

his name appears first in all four lists. He's the

fisherman from Galilee. Luke took us to his house, remember

that in chapter four, verse thirty eight. And Simon is

the he's the book boysterous one. He's the one that

told Jesus this is gonna happen to you, and Jesus

told him get behind me, Satan.

Remember that.

Peter's always got an opinion and he's not afraid to

express it. He's very outspoken, this fellow Simon, Peter. Then

you have Andrew, who is his brother. We met him

first in Matthew chapter four, verse eighteen. We see him

in Mark chapter one, verse six. We find him attending

the ministry of John the Baptist there in John chapter one,

verse forty. He is a fisherman. He is in business

with his brother Peter, Simon and with James and John.

They have a fishing.

Business there on the lake of Galilee. Then we have

James and John. James is the brother of John. He's

a fisherman in business with Simon, and Andrew and his brother.

He was the first of the apostles to be martyred.

We find that in Acts chapter twelve, James and John

were dubbed by Jesus the sons of Thunder, and we

can only imagine the behavior that encouraged that designation, right,

the sons of Thunder. And Then we have John, another

son of Thunder, son of Zebedee. He is the brother

of James, a fisherman. He's in business with Simon and

Andrew and his brother James. This man wrote the Gospel

of John, first, second and third John, those letters and

the Book of Revelation. He was the one who reclined

against the breast of Jesus at the Last Supper, and

is the one that is called the beloved Disciple. Then

we have Philip and Bartholomew. Philip is a native of Bethsaida,

the hometown of Peter and Andrew. He was a disciple

of John the Baptist and was responsible for bringing Nathaniel

to Christ. He was the one Jesus asked about the

legisation sticks of the miracle Supper there in John chapter six.

You remember that Jesus asked Philip directly.

What are we going to do here.

Of course he knew Philip didn't Philip said, oh, the

whole year's salary wouldn't buy enough bread to feed all

these people. He's also the one whom the Hellenistic Jews

approached in John chapter twelve they wanted to see Jesus.

And he's the one with the question in John chapter fourteen.

So Philip is an important disciple. He Philip actually maybe

the the disciple in the list that's probably as significant

as any of the other disciples. He's the rock kind

of in the middle of the list. Bartholomew's next. His

name means son of Ptoloma. I see the bar there

at the beginning. That's an Aramaic word, means son of.

He's the son of Ptolomi or Philamyew actually would be

pronounced Ptolomiah. In John's gospel he is called Nathaniel, and

we learned from John that he was from cana That's

about all we know about Bartholomew, Bartholomew or Nathaniel. Then

we have Matthew and Thomas. Matthew is the same as

LEVI we know him. We just had his story here

in Luke's gospel. He's a publican who lived and worked

in Galilee. He authored the First Gospel, which is called

by his name Thomas, also called the twin Orditamus. He's

featured in John's Gospel in John eleven, in John fourteen,

in John twenty. We know Thomas. We love to read

Thomas's stories. He sometimes called the doubting Disciple for his

arrogant boast. In John chapter twenty, he's always grouped with Matthew.

They're always put together. It's said there in in Mark.

I think it's Mark.

He's the son of Alpheus, Mark three eighteen.

Yep, that's right.

And then these two are always followed by James. And

he's also a son of Alpheus. And it's been supposed

that these three, Matthew, Thomas, and James were brothers.

Isn't that interesting?

I get that from the Easton in his Bible dictionary.

Then we have James, the son of Alpheus and Simon,

called Zolotes James. He became the pastor of the Jerusalem

Church and presided at the first church councils. He has

sometimes called James the Less, and a lot of people

think that he's called James the Less because he was

a man of short stature. He wrote the epistle which

bears his name, the Book of James, which don read

from this morning. Then there's Simon Zolotes, or some translations

will have him called the Canaanean. I don't know if

her has that or not. He's either the Zolotes or

the Canaanian because he was a member of a political

sect by that name. That is, they were the Canaanites.

They wanted to free Canaan from the Romans. That's why

he's called Zolotes. He's a Zelot. He's involved with this

political sect. And as you read the history of that

first century period in Palestine where all this is happening,

there are lots of very violent political parties that want

to overthrow the Roman government, and he was a part

or one of those. So we could say that he

was a terrorist. He was a modern day terrorist, maybe.

That's what we would call him.

Because political rest was a constant feature in first century Palestine.

There were lots of religious Jews who wanted to take

the land back from the Romans by whatever means possible,

and all these little sects would pop up, flare up,

and then disappear. And usually they disappeared because the Romans

disappeared them. So that's Simon, Judas the brother of James,

and Judas is Scariot. Here's our last two. Judas the

brother of James, possibly the author of the Epistle of Jude.

Possibly he's also called Lebais or Thaddeus.

So if you see those.

Names in other lists or being mentioned that, this is

probably this Judas, brother of James. And then we have

the last one. And he always appears last in every list,

except for the Axe list, because then he's he's no

longer there. But Judas is Scariot. That word is scariot

means he's a man of Kirio. Must have been a

place there in Palestine. He's the one who betrayed Jesus

to the Jews. He kept the purse, that is, he

was the treasurer for our little group. He had all

the money, so he must have had some background with money.

Perhaps he was a former publican.

We don't know. That's just speculation.

He was also considered to be a thief. John says

that of him in John chapter twelve, verse six. He

had the he had the purse, and he liked having

the purse because he could dip into the purse. So

among these men, we have four fishermen, a publican, a

political zealot, a thief, a doubter, and three groups of brothers.

Would you choose them to be on your team? Not

for what they're not for what Jesus is calling them

to do. So Jesus makes a choice, but it's not

based on their experience. It's not based on their giftedness,

it's not based on their education, it's not based on

their place in society. He's making a choice based on

God's choosing of these men. I just don't think this

is a dream team. And anybody who would have looked

at Jesus' choice and known what was about to happen

with these men probably would have said to Jesus, hey,

can we talk a second.

Do you really want to choose Simon?

Do you really want to choose Judas Scariot? Is that

who you want on your team? Do you really want

someone who's going to doubt your resurrection in Thomas? Yeah,

we wouldn't have chosen them, but you see how unaffected

Jesus was by selfish causation. He chose them not for

their talents or their abilities. He didn't choose them for

their passions. He didn't choose them for their political associations

or who they knew. He didn't choose them because he

liked them. He didn't choose them because they were good

at a certain thing. Now we see clearly in this

example God's way in choosing his church.

And isn't it wonderful that.

He chose you despite who you are and what you've done.

Isn't it amazing that our God would choose us because

we know who we are, and we know what's in

our hearts, And yet for the church, he has chosen

us to.

Be his own people. How wonderful it is.

Our songs on that point, ladies and gentlemen, will fill eternity,

and the halls of the churches in this life will

ring with the glories of the grace of God in

our life because he chose me. Really, I shouldn't be

on the team, and yet he did. Well, let's consider

just a couple of things for our conclusion today. We'll

go back to the very first thing that we talked about, prayer.

What do you say about your soul's health? What how's

your prayer life?

Are you praying?

Remember, Biblical spirituality consists of Bible reading, Bible meditation. It

consists of prayer, It consists of contemplation, It consists of worship.

It consists of singing songs to the Lord. These are

just a few of the things that biblical spirituality consists of.

And here we have Christ teaching us about prayer and

the importance of it when we're exhausted, when we have

something coming up, and just because don't need reasons, just

because spending time with the Father is enough.

Of a reason to pray.

Pray, ladies and gentlemen, always with your Bible in front

of you. Always pray that way, and I guarantee you

your mind will wander less and you'll have more direction

in praying.

So what do you say about your soul's health?

Secondly, do you want to be a disciple of Jesus

but you think you can't because your life's not cleaned

up and you don't have the right skills, the abilities,

and so forth. No, don't ever think that He chooses

us not because of who we are, what we know,

what we have, where we are. He chooses us because

of his own grace. Thirdly, be careful of false apostles,

because there are plenty of them, and they come in

all shapes sizes. Some of them are pretty, some of

them are ugly. But they come with a false authority.

They come with a false religiosity. They come with deeds

and visions and all kinds of things. Don't listen to them.

There are no more apostles today. They will try to

convince you of their authority without a biblical warrant. Walk

away from the false apostles. Let's about for prayer, Your Father.

We thank you that you choose us. We do not

choose you, and you chose us an eternity past, long

before ever we could do anything good or bad. And

we ask Lord that you would help us now as

we consider these men, and what great men who weren't

great at all, at really much at anything, but you

chose them to do a great work, and Father, were

so grateful for them and for what they teach us.

We ask you now to bless our conclusion as we

consider and meditate on this final hymn, for we pray

in Jesus' name. Amen, the Lawd's going to come and

lead us now