Okay. We are going to talk today about a familiar passage that you may be familiar with. It is coming from Isaiah 6, the first eight verses in Isaiah 6. Isaiah 6:1-8 reads as follows:
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
We are going to entitle the message, “Here am I; send me.”
In verse 1, where it is talking about the year that King Uzziah died, let us turn to 2 Chronicles where the Lord tells us about King Uzziah. In 2 Chronicles 26, He tells us about King Uzziah and how he died. I am going to start reading at verse 1. 2 Chronicles 26:1-23:
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did. And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper. And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims. And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly. Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them. Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry. Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains. The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred. And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones. And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men: and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God. Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him. And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land. Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
So now that we know what happened to Uzziah, let us go back to Isaiah 6. In this same year, this is when Isaiah had this vision. This is a vision that he is having of the Lord, of His throne and of Him. As a matter of fact, I do not think that there is another place in Scripture where it is describing things that are going on in Heaven like this. In any case, this is written for us. Isaiah 6:1:
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
He is describing this vision to us, so we have to look at these things spiritually that are taking place in this vision. First of all, the Lord is sitting on His throne, and sitting denotes that He is ruling. So let us just take a look at a couple of Scriptures that deal with sitting.
In 1 Kings 22, we have a verse here that deals with the Lord being seated on His throne. 1 Kings 22:19:
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
This is a vision that Micah had. Micah was a prophet and he saw the Lord sitting while everybody else is standing “on His right hand and on His left.” So the whole Host of Heaven is standing and the Lord is the only One who is seated.
Now it is true that when Stephen was stoned, when he looked, he saw the Lord standing, but He was as the high priest and the high priest did not sit down; he just stands. So Stephen sees Him standing there.
But the Lord is the only One who, really, is seated in Heaven because He is ruling. This is how we know that the Lord is King, the Lord and the Lord of Glory, because He is seated.
Even in Daniel 12, it says, “and at that time shall Michael stand up,” so the implication is that He was seated. Therefore, Michael had to be ruling in order for Him to stand up. And we know that Michael is not an angel, but that He is the Lord. Michael is the Lord, the Lord Jesus.
Okay. So let us take a look at another verse. Turn to Jeremiah 22:4. It says:
For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
You see, the Lord Jesus is “King of kings, and Lord of lords,” so He is the King. He is the One who is seated.
So now let us go back to Isaiah 6. We know that it is the Lord who is ruling and that He is the One who is sitting. Isaiah 6:1:
…the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Now this word is translated as “train” only right here in Isaiah 6. But now, let us turn to Jeremiah 13 to see if we can get a sense of how God uses this word “train.” It is translated as a different word, and we will see that.
In Jeremiah 13:22, it says:
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
The word “skirts” here is the word “train” in Isaiah 6. These “skirts” that are being discovered are as if you have a secret sin, let us say, that is in your life, then God is going to discover it. You cannot hide anything from Him, so He is going to discover anything that you have in your life that is not supposed to be there. He already knows about it, but He is going to let you know that He knows about it.
Sometimes, if we have things like that in our lives, somehow, I guess, mentally, we try to cut it off and we do not think that God sees it or we do not think that God knows about it. So that is what it is like. We do not think that God sees everything, yet He does see everything, so we cannot fool God into thinking that He did not see or that He does not know about this thought that came through our minds or this thing that we did. We cannot hide anything from God. He knows everything, and so He is going to discover whatever it is.
Again, in this same chapter, just scoot down to Jeremiah 13:26-27. He says:
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Now here, we know that He is talking about the church, because He is going to discover those things that are in the church. All the different doctrines that are in the churches that do not line up with God’s Word, well, He is going to pull the covers off of those things.
As a matter of fact, that is what is happening now. That has been happening since He left the church. Now the Church Age is over with, and so all of those doctrines and all of those things that are in there now, they are being discovered. They are being discovered. They cannot hide those things anymore.
Earlier today, we heard about different doctrines that deal with pride. So all of those things are being uncovered, and it is really shameful. It is going to be shameful to those when May 21st, 2011, comes and they are not raptured. That is when it is going to be a real shameful time. And so God is going to pull the covers off of those things. You cannot hide anything from Him.
So, therefore, that is what this word “train” comes from. It “filled the temple.” “His train filled the temple.” And so, if it is filling temple, then there is no place that you can hide. You cannot hide anything from Him, and there is no place to go. And we do not want to forget that. He does not want us to forget that, because God knows and sees everything that we do, and He is going to discover anything that is not like Him.
Okay. Go back to Isaiah 6, and we will look at verse 2. Isaiah 6:2 says:
Above it…
Above what? Above the throne.
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Okay, now, who are the seraphims? Does God tell us this in His Word? It is only translated as “seraphims” here in Isaiah 6, but in Numbers 21, let us turn to Numbers 21 where God gives us a few verses about this word. I am going to start reading at verse 4.
Numbers 21:4-6:
And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the LORD sent fiery serpents…
That is the same word as “seraphims.” Numbers 21:6-9:
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
This serpent in this instance is a picture of the Lord Jesus. But how is a serpent a picture of the Lord Jesus?
If we look back into Isaiah 6, we will see that these seraphims are not angels as we were taught. They are a picture of God as the Judge, because in Numbers 21, these people, God’s people, Israel, they had sinned against the Lord. They were speaking out against the Lord and against Moses, so God sent the fiery serpents to bite them. The serpents would bite them and they would die. Then they realized, “Hey, we sinned against the Lord. Moses, help us!”
So Moses goes to the Lord and He asks Him to help them and the Lord said, “Okay. Make an image, make a serpent.” And Moses made a serpent out of brass. Anyone who was bitten would look to the serpent that he had put on the pole and they would live.
Does God tell us anything else about this? Well, He sure does. He tells us in John 3:14-15:
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
So just as they looked to the serpent that was on the pole in the wilderness, which represented the Lord Jesus Christ, they knew that they were going to die after they had gotten bit. Just like, spiritually, if we are unsaved and we get bitten, if we are bitten by sin or the judgment of God is coming upon us, the only way that we can get away from that is that we have to look to Him. We have to look to the One who is going to judge us. We have to look to the Judge and ask Him for His mercy. He is the only One who can have mercy on us. Mercy now takes the form of the Lord Jesus Christ, but it is the same Person.
I do not claim to know exactly how the Godhead works, but I do know that I was under God’s judgment and that I was bitten by sin, just like all of us. If you believe that you are saved, this is salvation here. And all of us have to come through this particular situation. Because the people in the wilderness, once they were bitten, they knew that they were going to die. They knew that they were going to die, as it is if we know that we are in sin or that we are sinful.
But see, God has to wake us up to let us know that we are in sin. We do not even know this. We are just having a good time, and we do not even know that we are in sin. We do not even know it until the Lord opens our eyes and we take a look at our life in the light of what God’s Word says.
Before, we could read something in God’s Word and not even see it, not see anything until the Lord opened our eyes. Now it is much more serious. It is much more serious now. Before, we took sin lightly. But now, we do not take sin lightly anymore. I am not saying that we do not sin. But if and when we do sin, it is a horrible thing for us. It is horrible!
This is the way that a child of God should be. Sin should be abhorrent to us in our lives. We try to live godly, but what happens is that sometimes we might get off the track. But I tell you what, it is like this. Before, to give you an example, it is like if you take a pig and put a pig in mud, he is at home in that. He loves it. Oh, he loves to wallow around in the mud! But if you take a lamb and you put him in the mud, he does not like that. He is not going to like it. He is going to be uncomfortable.
And that is the way it is with sin in our lives. We do not like that. We do not like it! We have to get away from it. We have to get cleaned up, and then just put us out in the pasture and just let us eat the grass, and that is it.
That is about the life of a lamb, really. They do not eat anything else. They do not attack anything. Nothing! This is all they do! And they depend on the shepherd also. They depend on the shepherd for everything. And do we not depend on the Lord Jesus? It is no wonder that the Lord says in Psalm 23, “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
So let us go back to Isaiah 6:2, these verses here where it talks about each one had six wings:
…with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
I do not claim to know what God is teaching right here. I have an indication of the first wings, but I do not want to teach it because I do not really, really know what He is saying there. So what we are going to do is move to verse 3. Isaiah 6:3 says:
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
We know that the seraphims are God as the Judge, and we know that the Lord Jehovah God is sitting on the throne. Well, then that means that if the seraphims are saying, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts,” and “one cried unto another,” both of them, the seraphims, are saying, “Holy, Holy, Holy.” But wait a minute! They are God!
So the Lord is praising Himself for who He is. What higher praise can God give than to give praise to Himself? Can He do that? Yes He can, because He is God. He can do that, because He is Holy, He is Righteous, and He is the Judge of all the earth. What can He not do?
Well, if somebody said, “There is nothing the Lord cannot do.” Oh, yes; there is one thing that He cannot do. He cannot lie! He cannot lie!
So, like I said, when we get into the Godhead, we have to be very, very careful that nothing is taught outside of what God gives us in His Word.
Again, Isaiah 6:3:
…Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
How is the whole earth full of His glory? Well, just look around. Just look around. Look at the trees. Look at a tree. I mean, all of these scientists, they are going to Pluto and Jupiter, but there is a tree right here, right in front of us! And we cannot really know all of the aspects of it, yet we need that tree to live because the tree breathes off oxygen and takes in carbon dioxide, and we just do the opposite. So we need the trees and the trees need us to live.
Is that not wonderful! That brings glory to God! That is His glory; it is part of His glory! What else in the whole earth? Look at all of the fishes in the sea, all the different kinds of fishes that are in the sea, and God created everything! Just look at the stars sometime at night. That is God’s glory! That brings glory to God. Just look at anything! Look at an insect. Look at the birds in the sky.
You know, sometimes in the busyness of the day, we could take a minute and just look at those things. Look at those things and just think about God’s glory and how glorious He is! “The whole earth is full of His glory.” And we could look anywhere.
Now in Isaiah 6:4, it says:
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Let us look at this word “post.” We know that the “door” is the Lord Jesus. So let us take a look at the posts. Let us look at Deuteronomy 11, and I will start reading at verse 18. Deuteronomy 11:18-22:
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
These “posts” have to do with God’s Word. So the posts have to do with God’s Word. Looking back in Isaiah 6:4:
And the posts…
This has to do with God’s Word.
…of the door…
This has to do with God’s Word, because Christ is the Door, but yet, still, He is the Word of God.
And also:
…the voice of him that cried…
“The voice of Him,” is the voice of the Lord, the Word of God. So everything here is pointing to God’s Word, and then it says:
…and the house was filled with smoke.
So what does the “smoke” have to do with? Let us go to Genesis 15:17:
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
This “smoking furnace,” the word “smoking” is the same word as “smoke” in Isaiah 6:4. Notice what it is doing. There is a “smoking furnace” and a “burning lamp.” So this smoke has to do with God’s judgment. Smoke has to do with judgment.
Now let us turn over to Exodus 19, and let us see if this will follow. Exodus 19:18 says:
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
This has to do with God’s judgment. So we are looking at things that have to do with this word “smoke.” This word “smoke” is synonymous with God’s judgment.
Now let us take a look in Psalm 18:8-9. It says:
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
This is judgment. This is speaking of God’s judgment.
So this smoke that is in Isaiah 6, where “the house was filled with smoke,” God is reminding us again here that He is the Judge. He is “the Judge of all the earth.” Yes He is the Word of God, and He is merciful, yes! But we cannot forget, and God will not allow us to forget, that He is the Judge. He is the Judge.
Now let us take a look at Isaiah 6:5. This is after Isaiah saw all of these things here, and then he cries out and says:
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Once we see or know, because we do not have visions today, but once we know who the Lord is, who He really is, then we see how undone we are, how messed up we are, how sinful we are. We look in the mirror and we say, “Hey, I am undone! I am unclean! I am sinful!” I am sinful! But before, we did not know that, because we did not know who the Lord really was. He did not allow us to know Him. But when He does allow us to know Him, then we will see just how messed up we are and we will cry out to the Lord, just like Isaiah cried out, “Woe is me! I am undone.”
And not only me, and not that we are supposed to be looking at anybody else, but everybody is messed up. But we do not look at everybody else. We just want to look at ourselves, because it is a fulltime job just trying to keep ourselves the way we need to be. So we do not want to look at anybody else.
It is easy to find sin in somebody else’s life, because all you have to do is say, “Well, I do not do that!” But there is something that you do! There is something. No, you do not do that and you do not do the other thing.
And it is only by God’s grace that we all are not doing what is going on out there today. It is only by His grace! That is why, if you cannot thank the Lord for anything, you can always thank the Lord for that! You can always, always do that, always you can, because you will find out, just like Isaiah did, “Woe is me! Woe is me!”
Now Isaiah had this vision, but we have God’s Word, you see. But in this vision that he is having here, He is showing us, through His Word, what the vision is, and we see salvation in all of these things. Then in Isaiah 6:6-7, He says:
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Now wait a minute! How can a piece of coal purge his sin? If we look at what is going on here:
Then flew one of the seraphims…
We know that this seraphim represents God as the Judge. So now, He came unto him:
…having a live coal in his hand….
Now this “live coal,” I do not know if any of you have ever made a fire or had a furnace. I used to have one in my house when I was growing up and I used to have to shake the coal down and the ashes and everything and scoop in there and put the ashes in the little metal bucket or whatever and take them out to the trash man. But when the fire was real hot and you opened that door and you looked in there, those coals were red; they were red-hot. I mean, I would not even think about putting my hand in there!
So now, this seraphim has a “live coal.” Notice that it is in his hand, and the hand speaks of God’s will. So this coal is speaking of the judgment of God. God is the Judge, and He was judged for us. So by Him taking this live coal that He has in His hand, which He took from the altar, and the altar is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all of those sacrifices in the Old Testament were sacrifices on the altar, so the altar is speaking about Christ, and the coal is speaking about the Lord Jesus Christ because He was judged for us.
And here it is, He is the Judge that judged Him. It can get kind of, you know, forgive me for that, but sometimes when you get into the Godhead like that, it is very difficult to understand what is going on. We know that the Judge is the Lord Jesus Christ, the coal is pointing to Him as the Judge, and we were cleansed by Him.
Now look at the next verse. It says in Isaiah 6:7:
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
God is the One who is saying this! He did all of this. He did everything, because Isaiah, he was just standing there! He was just standing there, just like us. We cannot do anything to obtain salvation. We cannot grab the coals off the fire. We did not go through the judgment! Christ did that! He went through the judgment for us. And so, therefore, He goes through the judgment, but yet He is the Judge! He is the One that judged us! Oh boy, it is really getting complicated now. But see, that is how merciful He is. Look at how merciful He is!
And Isaiah just finished saying, “I am undone. I am unclean. Woe is me. I am all messed up!” Just like us, we are all messed up until the Lord cleansed us. He touched our lips. He touched our lips with these coals. Actually, it was our heart, but the mouth here would be a picture of who we are, because he is unclean.
His iniquity is taken away, and we know that the Lord Jesus does that. “And thy sin purged.” His iniquity has been taken away and his sin has been purged, and now he says in Isaiah 6:8:
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying…
“The voice of the Lord,” that is His Word. And we did not hear it before. The Word was always there, but we did not hear it. We did not hear it, but the Lord opened our ears so that we could hear Him, we could hear His voice, we could hear His Word. And once He did that, look at what happened. He says:
…I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
So after our iniquity is gone, our sin is purged, now we are ready to go. We cannot go and we cannot say, “Lord, here am I; send me,” before this other process happens. He has to save us first, before we go out there.
Where are we going? Well, let us take a look at Matthew 28. Where is the Lord sending us? After we are cleansed, after the Lord has saved us, this is what He tells us, through His Word. He says in Matthew 28:19-20:
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
That is what He commands us to do, and we take His Word out there. Now, it can be in the form of a tract, or you can verbally tell an individual about the Lord. But do not just tell them about the love of God. Do not forget His judgment, because “if the salt have lost his savour…it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” So we have to tell people about God’s judgment, as well as God’s mercy. We cannot leave out the fact that God is the Judge and that He is the One who brings salvation to all of us.
And we cannot be proud and we cannot look down at someone and say, “Oh, I am saved and you are not.” Oh, no. That is the whole wrong attitude, because we do not know how we became saved. How can we have an attitude like that, because we do not know! We cannot know and we cannot walk in pride, because in Ephesians 2, He talks about the fact that we cannot brag or boast. If we could, we would! We would! We would do that. If we could do that, we would. But the way that God set His salvation up, we cannot brag or boast about anything at all. And in Isaiah 6, He tells us right where we came from, and it is not a pretty picture.
Let us pray. Thank you, Dear Lord. Thank you for Your Word. Father, we ask that You would forgive anything, Lord, that was said that was not in accordance with Your Word. And Father, we just thank You, Lord. We thank You for that wonderful, wonderful salvation, Lord, that You have given us through Your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And, Father, that we might not brag or boast about anything. We cannot be proud about the fact that we are saved, because we do not deserve it. We do not deserve this wonderful, wonderful salvation that You have given us. The only thing that we can do is rejoice in it. And, Father, we just thank You, again and again, for it is in Jesus’ Name that we pray. Amen.
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