Again, good Morning Post sating lahat.
Happy New Year. Welcome to our first Lord's Day
service in 2026 at New Advent season series, a book of
Ecclesiastes atang tidal pona acting, preaching this morning
is served God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.
And this ceremony still written by Reverend Mark Chen.
Beloved, life under the sun is hard.
God does cruise the earth, a tapping apple doing suckers the
Garden of Eden by the sweat of your brow.
You shall eat of all of your labours until you die.
Work will be hard, relationship will be hard, life will be
frustrating, and that is the theme of the Book of
Ecclesiastes. And we have seen the effects of
sin under the sun because there is oppression, there is hard
work, there is loneliness, and there is change or fickleness.
We sin against others and others sin against us.
There is deep disappointment in our lives and we don't need to
be convinced that life is broken because all we need to do is to
look around and we will know that life indeed is broken.
However, Mahapatra, the problem with us is this that when we go
through lives, trials, we behave and react in a sinful way.
When there is oppression, our reaction is we retaliate
sinfully. When there is exhausting work,
we despair and when there are relationship problems, what we
do is we gossip and we slander and we justify our misbehaviors.
We tell ourselves in my I'm so lonely, so I I deserve this
things, or I'm so angry I have to exact my vengeance to my
enemies and I'm so disadvantaged so they owe me and why can't I
misbehave? That's why this is the problem
of Solomon in this part of the book of Ecclesiastes.
He was bothered by how people have failed to honour and
reverence God as they go through lives brokenness.
He was concerned that believers make promises to follow God, but
anyhow they sin when the going gets tough.
He was also concerned that we promised to God to do something
in exchange of help, but the moment we receive that help from
God, we forget our promises. 7 Talk is cheap, and that's the
vanity under the sun that bothered King Solomon.
And isn't it ironic, Mahapatra, that we are so concerned about
how unjust life is to us, how unjust life is under the sun,
but we are not bother how unjust we are towards God?
And that in itself is a greater vanity.
Beloved, we are all weak. God saved us.
He gave us manna on earth. He gave us water from the rock.
He gave us quail from the heavens.
He led us with His word, but we still don't trust Him in Israel.
Even wanted to return to Egypt and not 40 days after they
received the law, they have committed adultery by
worshipping the golden calf. Chapati That when we face
trials, we forget God. We complain of injustice, but we
commit them against God. We don't honour him or serve him
acceptably. And so in this part of
Ecclesiastes, King Solomon reminds us with two rebukes.
The first rebuke is we have this honoured A fearsome God, and the
second rebuke is let us serve God with reverence and fear, but
before that let us go to the Lord in prayer.
Blessed Lord, who has caused the Holy Scripture to be written for
our learning, please grant us. Please grant that we may hear,
read, learn and inwardly digest them, that through the comfort
of Your Holy Word we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed
hope of everlasting life which You have given us in our Saviour
Jesus Christ. Amen.
So now let's go to the Let's go to the first heading or the
first rebuke. The first rebuke of King Solomon
is that we have dishonoured A fearsome God.
And it all starts in verse one, when King Solomon considered the
worship of God. We'll look at the achievements
of men, the seasons of life, the injustices, and the dark clouds
under heaven. But now we are looking at the
religious life of people, and in Ecclesiastes King Solomon says,
guard your steps. When you go to the House of God,
go near to listen, rather than to offer the sacrifices of fools
who do not know that they root that they do wrong.
So when Solomon saw what's happening in his Kingdom, he was
deeply troubled. There was a vein and a vexing
thing that is happening. The people had dishonoured God
by treating him with contempt. He described the situation where
they were going to the temple to worship, but instead of
listening to God and giving him what he wanted, they offered the
sacrifice of fools. In other words, the religious
life of the people in the time of King Solomon is dishonorable
to God and we can even call it as evil or wicked.
And they didn't even consider that God was displeased and
dishonoured by it. And this is a dangerous thing.
Solomon told them to guard their steps when they went to the
Temple, and we know by reading the Old Testament that the
Temple is the focal point of the worship of the Israelites.
But the question mark Kapatid is bakit K Lang Sabihin, King
Solomon to guard your steps when you go to the temple.
The temple is not dangerous. Isn't it was in the pub and
temple? Is it a place of worship?
It is a place of refuge or a place of peace, and you should
guard your steps. It means that there is danger
lurking in that place. Or was it Mark apartheid that
King Solomon said that we should guard our steps when we go to
the temple because God is a dangerous God?
Well, actually that is the answer to the question.
The reason we should guard our steps when we go to the temple
of God is because we are worshipping A fearsome God and
that is something that we have already forget in our
generation. You see, worship is only safe
when we worship a domesticated God, a God only of love, mercy,
pardon is and forgiveness. A God that is made by our own
imagination. It is a God that does not punish
sin. It is a God who is like a
grandfather managing chilla, nagging mabitleng, lagging Hindi
Nagagalit. But, brothers and sisters, that
is not the God of Ecclesiastes, and surely that is not the God
of the Scriptures, because God is not domesticated.
The God that we serve is a dangerous God.
Palangpol inverse 6. It even says there that God can
get angry with what you say. I'm some people don't Why should
God be angry at what you say? So he said and God is a God that
is capable of being angry. And in verse 7 it says that we
are to fear God, and we see this throughout the Bible.
So let's have a tour. In the Old Testament Nathan's
Exodus, when Moses saw the burning Bush in Mount Sinai, he
was told by God to remove his sandals because he is standing
on holy ground. And then Nancy Moses guard para
Israelites Pinakawalan among Egyptians.
They met God in Mount Sinai as well, but they have to prepare
for three days and they were not supposed to touch the foot of
the mountain. A barrier was even placed
between them and the mountain to protect them.
And when it's already the turn of God to speak, lightning and
fire blackened the mountain, and the people trembled.
And when Moses asked to see God's face, Anupam Sabini got
Sanya. Sanya is that you cannot see the
face of God and live. And then we also have the
prophet Isaiah. The prophet Isaiah had the
vision of Christ in the temple, but when he saw Christ on the
throne, he also saw angels surrounding Christ.
And these angels look different because they have three sets of
wings. With one pair they cover their
eyes, with another pair they fly, and with another pair they
cover their body. And these angels, even though
they are glorious beings, they have to close their eyes, they
have to cover their faces because they could not look at
Christ, because Christ is a fearsome God.
Now we can understand in the Old Testament that God is a fearsome
God. But brothers and sisters, the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob does not change.
So the God that we have seen in the Old Testament is the same
God that we will see in the New Testament.
That's why when Christ was on the Mount of Transfiguration,
Nahita Pusha Nakayama disciples, when his face and his clothes
gleamed with an unapproachable light, Manila is that they are
covered with fear. They trembled at the sight of
the glorified Christ. And when Christ comes at his
second coming and description puts Kanyasa revelation this,
that he will be riding a White Horse with all of his armies
behind him, and in his mouth will be a sword.
And with that sword he will destroy his enemies and rule
with an iron sceptre. And the revelation says that he
will conquer them in his wrath, because Christ is a fearsome
God. And as Hebrews 12 says, we must
serve him acceptably in reverence and godly fear,
because our God is a consuming fire.
That's why the people in the time of Solomon has to guard
themselves or to guard their steps as they approach the
Kingdom of God or the temple of God.
Because the kind of God that we worship is not a domesticated
God, that it's not the kind of God that we worship in the
pigment of our imagination At backing up Uba, when we say that
our God is a holy God, then he is also a dangerous God.
Mahabadi. The reason why God is dangerous
to us is because the people of God has dishonoured Him by the
way they serve Him, by offering what Solomon called the
sacrifices of fools. Yes, this can be done by the way
we worship. We know the story of Nada in a
bahu Nalaiku Banat Ancilla, who they were the sons of Iran.
They were the first priest in the line of priests in the in
the race of Levi and Makita. Punati accounts a Bible that
they have worshipped God incorrectly in a way that they
were never commanded. Specifically what they did is
they offered an authorised fire in the temple of God, or they
offered what we call a strange fire and this thing displeased
God. And what God did is that he
struck them inside the tent and they died there at backing up
Benyon. It is because the God that they
are worshipping is not a team God.
He is a fearsome God, especially to those people who dishonour
him. And us Reform Christians, when
we think about this honourable worship, we immediately think
about the form of worship or the liturgy.
And at the back of our mind we have this boasting in ourselves
that we say, well, we are not guilty of that because we as
Reformed Christians, we follow the regulative principles of
worship. Diploma in the Evangelical this
Nung Gitara secular music, but we only sing hymns and psalms.
You know, we are very good when it comes to worship.
But, brothers and sisters, the kind of dishonorable service
that Solomon was concerned about in his day was not about the
form. It's not about the outward
expression of worship, but it is something altogether common.
In fact, it is much worse common because what we are talking
about here is the attitude of the heart that even though we
are correct in how we worship God in form, we can still make a
mistake when we take God lightly.
That is our problem that even though we follow the regulated
principle of worship that we do all things in a proper way, If
our heart is not right with God and we don't think, we don't
take seriously the fearsome God in heaven, then we are nothing
different with the people. In the time of King Solomon in
Act 5, we will remember the story of Ananias in Safira
Analysis of the era. They brought money to the
apostles on your mark. Christians been in bed.
Maluba in action proceed sport napping bentahan.
I denied the apostle to be used for helping the poor or
paramount operate on church. Ananias and Sapphira are right
when they offered their money to the church, so their form is
right. However, the problem is that
they took God lightly by lying to his face.
Because I'm Sabanilla and analysing Safira, I've been an
amino Amari Arianne at and he became nominated dial.
We are such generous Christians, but the truth is Hindi kahaniya
ibinigay nila apostles and they lied to God and as a consequence
God struck them dead. In verse 6, we are told that God
can destroy all that we have achieved.
And in the example of Ananias and Sapphira, it's not only that
God took from them all that they have achieved, but God also took
their lives. It's because they took Him
lightly. They did not fear him, They
thought that he was a domesticated God, but they knew
in a hard way that they are wrong.
And in Solomon's day, he saw how the people were taking God
lightly by making promises but not keeping them.
That's why Inverse 2 Asabi pudo on.
Do not be quick with your mouth. Do not be hasty in your heart to
utter anything before God because God is in heaven and you
are on earth, so let your words be few.
Now according to the context, Solomon has spoken about the
frustrations of life. So Nathan Baguntaya nag Advent
season series unless I see Elder Charlie at young preaching poor
no time. Lyon is about the injustices of
life, like oppression, hard work, loneliness and difficult
seasons of life. We know that these things can do
drive us over the edge. It can make us desperate and
when we cannot accept the messiness of life, we make
desperate promise to God so that God would help us.
Well, we are serious when we make these promises, usually God
you, we already forget the promises that we made.
Like, for example, we will make hasty promises such as Lord
Pagaling Mulanya Anako McCormack served Telugu Sayo.
Ohh yeah. Lord Chabal Benjamin and
Dadagdagan kayaking offerings or sometimes Hindi promise gay God,
but we negotiate with him as if we are on the same level with
God. You ever pulsating starting
young adults, we ask God to send us a spouse perhaps in different
we bargain with God and we say God banana wedding cake
unbeliever. Now the classical Okaya, young
Hindu, Christian, and in all this rush and hasty vows, it
shows how weak we are and how faithless we are.
The Hebrew word for the word rash, RASH, Hindi po rash,
narashima Katya. But rash can be translated to
the word anxious. So when we say that we make vows
rashly, we are also saying that we are making vows anxiously.
We are making promises to God out of worry and out of
desperation. So we ask God to help us, to
deliver us, and while asking God's help, we promise God that
we will do these things, and we will do those things.
But the moment we are delivered from our problems, we forget
about our promises to God and not apathy.
We we don't only make rash promises to God, but we also
make hasty promises to God. And the Hebrew word translated
as hasty also means impetuous or impatient union attitude, that
we want things our way right here, right now.
But Solomon reminds us in the book of Ecclesiastes that God is
in heaven and we are here on earth, that we are small and he
is great, that the earth is limited and heaven is infinite
and God has a purpose in everything that we do.
But we people are just like Job. We are anxious and we are
impatient and we want things to happen our own way, right here,
right now. That's why we make those hasty
and rash vows before God. So Solomon rebuked them for
this, honouring God by taking a fearsome God lightly.
But Solomon does not stop there. Now we will go to the second
rebuke. And the second rebuke is about
us serving God with reverence and godly fear.
In verse 4 it says that God has no pleasure with fools.
Any fools do not fear God, as Proverbs says.
Then therefore us Christians must Revere God and serve him,
not like the fools. But the question is how?
How are we going to do that? How are we going to prevent
ourselves from this honouring God?
And the answer to that, magkapatid, is that we should
not break our vows. That is how we Revere and how we
serve God. When we make promises to God,
let's keep those promises. Let us not break our vows to
God. Well, yes, there are some bows
which are so rash and so foolish that if we kept them, the
consequences are horrifying. Take, for example, the story of
Jetta. So see Jepta.
He was helped by God to win a battle.
And because Jetta is overjoyed by the deliverance of God, if
unhappiness ajos Sabina God you own them Lalabas sapping to
Anakin Bahai, you offer Kayo as a sacrifice.
And we know how tragic this story is because when Jetta went
home, the first being that came out of the door of his house is
his own daughter, Akkineni Langan, Young Ally and Kanyang
Sariling Anna. Okay, God, well, God, God's
people can sometimes make very rash vows and even sinful vows.
And I will tell you, brothers and sisters, that we are not
bound by those vows right now. Ali Kayaking, Anak, Alan Among
obliged. Why not inside kindness and
being penaten that you took eval?
So there are rush and sinful vows, but if the vow or the
promise that we made is not a sin, then that vow is legitimate
at the party rabbinate. In that the vow is legitimate,
then we are bound to keep them even though they are made out of
desperation. So there are times that people
come to regret certain promises that they make to God.
And so how do we react? Sometimes we react as Lord.
Sorry, indignant talaga gusto. I promise you I don't really
mean it or I know I made a vow to serve God, but the
circumstances are different now at Indiana Shayang is served.
But verse 6 says suffer not thy mouth to cause the flesh to sin.
Neither say thou before the Angel that it was an error.
Solomon rebuked us by saying do not break your vows.
Do not sin by excusing yourself, telling the Angel that the
promises that you made was a mistake.
The word Angel here This is a King James Version SB.
The word Angel refers to the temple messenger, that is the
one who communicate with God. In other words, it pertains to
the priest because the Old Testament Israel, if someone
wants to make a vow, they go to the temple and they tell their
vow to the priest. Like for example priest Priest.
I would like to make a vow to God.
Nah cum papagali in London, 30% now honey nothing harvest this
year instead of the usual 10% at the young priest.
But there are instances where after the deliverance or after
the healing was made by God, the person will tell the prisoner no
sorry higher than 30% but happening 10% per annum.
It became way God in the Cosina China estimate.
And this mistake is not only made by Old Testament people,
this also committed by us Christians today.
For many of us, we think that Christianity is not what we have
signed for. When you took your vow, when we
made our profession of faith, some of us after taking that vow
will say, sorry, I did not know that being Christian would be
this hard, or I did not know that as a member of the church I
have responsibility. Hello considerate pointing at an
attendance or painting. Or that I'd be called to do my
part. I did not know that when I
became a Christian. I have to foresake all of my sin
and therefore we say I think I made a mistake.
But Solomon said do not pursue sake your promise.
And why? Because in verse 6, if you say
you won't keep your vow, then God will be angry.
Because even though you do not take your words seriously, God
takes our promises seriously because He is in heaven.
He is the fearsome God. He is the all consuming fire.
And when we break our promises, it shows that we do not fear
Him, that we are dishonoring Him.
It only shows that we have domesticated God in our minds,
that we have forgotten the accounts like Ananias and
Sapphira made-up and by who we think that these things do not
happen anymore. But verse 6 also says that in
his anger, out of our excuse and justifications, God may remove
the works of our hands. Dearly beloved, while the
accounts of Nedap and Abyu and an IAS and Safira seems
incredulous to us today and we think that they will not happen,
many of us have experienced another kind of chastisement and
that is what we call the leanness of the soul.
Hindi. Finding a boy or Hindi, but
because we have forgotten our promises to God after we made
our vow in this church. Add me.
Allow us to have the things that we want, but after that, what
will come to us is the leanness of the soul.
It's that sense of dissatisfaction.
It's that sense of spiritual dryness.
Take for example the story of Elimelech and Naomi from the
Book of Ruth. See Elimelech, Shyong, Asawa,
Niru, Sinayo, Minneman, Shapu, young mother-in-law, Nakuru,
Opponent. Famines are Bethlehem,
consensual and Natera because they are being chastised by God,
and Elimelech and Naomi, they don't want to bear the
chastisement of God. So what they did is they lived
in the land of Moab. The land of Moab is a Pagan
land. It is a curse land and that is
wrong that when you are being disciplined by God indicate
dappa Thomas paranoid Hindi that's more.
But after that, what happened next?
Elimelech died and all of his sons died, and Naomi together
with Ruth. They became destitute in the
experience. The leanness of the soul.
So we see God may give us what we want, but after that we'll
come the dryness, the discontentment, the the
dissatisfaction, the leanness of the soul.
So let us not pretend that we know that God requires us to
keep our promises. However magkapatid the good news
is, even though God is a dangerous God.
Now height Nayang going more with Mongolian and then
afterwards he will give you the leanness of the soul.
We know that if you are a true son of the OR daughter of God,
he will give you the leanness for your own good because he
sends it to us that we should return to him.
Kayang apple Ki Naomi Naomi in in her destitution and guanya
bumalik pusha Judah. And then another example is the
story of the prodigal son. So in prodigal son dundin so
wildin Kenya lahat nang mananya umalis nagpasa he, he had
whatever he wants with his own hands.
And then after that God gave him the leanness of the soul only to
make him come back to his own father.
So we see that God is still gracious even in these times of
chastisement. But what is clear is that in
each of these cases, these people experience the leanness
of the soul because God is not attained God.
So therefore let us keep our vows, because in verse 4, when
you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it because He
has no pleasure in fools. So fulfill your vow.
So my rapid asked ourselves, what are the promises that we
made to God so far? Because if we made a promise to
God, we must keep them. Now we have another example, but
this time this is a positive example.
This is the example of Hannah so see Hannah Maharanis dinchang
desperation dahil Hindi kana. So Hannah made a desperate but a
calculated and serious foul at And God is that Combigan Shannon
Josanna Ibibigay is to serve in the temple of his God all the
days of his life. And when Hannah made his
promise, he knew and he understand the holiness of God.
And when she had bare a child, Pagkatapus Batana Lyon, she gave
that child to the service of God, and that is the prophet
Samuel. We can see here that her vow was
accompanied by faith and reverence.
And we should follow the example of Hannah so dearly beloved, the
promises that you have made to God, the fair not to pay them.
Let us not delay to fulfill them a stretch.
Members. What did you promise at your
baptism? And I been optimised as an
adult. Surely there is a vow there.
Or if you had your profession of faith in this church, well,
nothing go anima promises Naginawa Nathan in the presence
of God. Or if you are someone here, a
guest who is contemplating to become a member of this church,
undergoing inquiries class and soon enough you will have your
professional fee. What is the promise that you
will make in the presence of God marrying Kalimutan and Nathan
Sabina? I do, but it's in the form of
question and answer time, Abuba And the question goes something
like this. Have you taken a firm resolution
always to lead a Christian life, to for sake the world and its
evil lost as is becoming a member of Christ and His Church,
and to submit yourself to all Christian admonitions?
That is the question that we answered during our professional
free As you know, I'm so good. Nothing had I yes.
And if our answer is yes, then we should keep our vowel.
So when temptations come, let us not give in to that temptation
so easily. When discouragement come, let us
not let those discouragement overwhelm us.
What problem? Igo goes.
The national church ego goes. 19 Elders ego goes CRC and if you
are at odds with one another Gunna Brahmi scared that we will
love each other here. Parramatta away which?
What should we do? We must forebear with each
other. We must forgive.
We must seek forgiveness container Camille, and we must
do good to our fellow Christians.
So let's ask ourselves, how are we serving one another in this
church? Or how are we involved in the
extension of the Kingdom of God? So let us not make our vows
become in vain. Solomon concludes this section
in verse 7, which says much dreaming and many words are
meaningless, therefore fear God evident Mark Chin Neto Father,
much stock is cheap. It is just like daydreaming.
So fear God instead. So what are some applications
for us in this preaching Canina an application, But let me
consolidate them to you. Firstly, we need a mindset
reset. In our reformed tradition, we
have reverence for God, especially in our form of
worship. Napa Chandana adding form of
worship, not adding liturgy. We desire to exalt Him and not
ourselves. We worship him rightly with our
sons and our biblical hymns. Hymns.
When we see an error in the way we do worship, we act
fastidiously to get things right and we want to correct our
doctrines. But if we do not have the right
attitude in our hearts, then we are missing the point.
The question that we should ask ourselves is that do we fear
God? Do we fear God now?
I said that we should reset our mind instead and not change our
mind because we already have the mindset.
Apple, we are following the right forms of worship.
Okay? Nothing away is that our form of
worship must be aligned with our hearts so that it's not only the
form but also the the substance. So This is why while our worship
may reflect the form of evidence, we may not have the
expressed desire to leave carefully for him to live in
awe, that is, He is a consuming fire that He is not
domesticated. So may our form of worship in
our hearts be right. Secondly, Magkapatid, we must
humble ourselves because we are selfish.
We are more concerned with the injustices that is done by this
life to us, our oppression, our seasons of life, our
disappointments in work and in our relationships.
But how about the injustices that we have committed against
God in the past, preaching that we had in the book of
Ecclesiastes? What resonated in us is that
life is unjust, but this preaching must resonate with us
as well. And what he says is that we have
become unjust to God as well because we have domesticated
him. And so do we acknowledge that we
do not fear God in the way that we should fear him.
Because communal Ginagawa Nathan all along.
That is a very big vanity that we are more concerned about
ourselves than our God. And perhaps we feel the
displeasure of God today, and perhaps we are experiencing the
leanness of the soul. And if that is the case in us,
then Matt, then what must we do? Thirdly, we need a greater
resolve. Verse one said that people did
not even consider it evil that they have dishonoured God.
So now apartheid. If you know in yourself that you
have this honoured God, then get right with Him.
If you have vowed to live righteously, then pursue
righteousness. Some of us may be in the deep
sin right now, but let's remember that we can never get
too far in sin. Kait Nagano Bakalim, you seen
attacking Assad Lakhan, we can still turn to God and repent and
he will still forgive us. Or perhaps we are at odds with
each other, Meron dito Papansinan or makaway.
Then what we should do? We should reconcile with each
other. We must forgive a container
company. We should ask for forgiveness
because after all, we are all part of the body of Christ and
perhaps we are experiencing the leanness of the soul because we
have been this honouring God all along.
But God is gracious even now to call us to repentance.
So the question is, why should we not repent?
If God is calling us to repent, then we should repent.
And 4th. And lastly, let us never forget
what Christ has done. Dearly beloved, God is not a
domesticated God. I think I've already stressed
that sufficiently in this preaching.
He is a fearsome God, and that's why we serve Him acceptably with
reverence and a godly fear, because He is a consuming fire.
But even though God is consuming fire, that fire does not come
upon us to destroy us today. And that is because Christ has
already faced that fire for us. He has gone before us with His
blood into the temple of God, holy and just to represent us.
He has fulfilled all of His vows before God and that's why we do
not come to the mountain of God that is darkened with fire and
loud thunderings, but Christ has harsh those thunderings for us.
Instead, we have come to Mount Zion, We have come to the city
of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem where Christ
and all of his angels are, where the souls of men have been made
perfect. So brothers and sisters, we are
privileged. We are privileged to be loved by
God. And while He does not destroy us
with His fire, He may be purging you right now to purify you.
And why indiscipline at Manchester Wiseman?
It is so that we can live as one of those whose souls have been
cleansed. So if you are weary and tired
because life is messy on earth and you have been cumbered with
much sin, and you think to yourself, how can I?
How can God upset me? If you think that I've broken so
many laws, I've broken so many promises of God that I've made
to Him. If you think that you are so
dirty and so weak and unfaithful to God, if you think that you
have focused so much on the injustices done to you rather
than how you have committed injustice to God, then remember
this. In Hebrews 12/3 it is said,
Consider Him that endured such opposition from sinners against
himself, so that you won't be wearied and faint in your
hearts, because Christ was faithful for us, so that we may
not be wary, that we may not be rash, hasty, or fame.
So let us all be faithful. Let's all go to the Lord in
prayer, our merciful God, who is pleased to condescend to speak
to us through Your Word. Grant us all Your grace, that we
may not be mere hearers of Your Word only, but doors as well.
Peace. Give us the grace of your Holy
Spirit that we may believe what we have been proclaimed, what
has been proclaimed to us. May we bring glory and honour to
Your name in all that we do as you conform us to the image of
Your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. All of this gracious Father, we
ask in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.