Covenant 09/20/2020

And we're grateful for him and for marrying their family. I heard you to continue to keep them in your prayers and the days that had as they move forward along with the Lord in and go day-by-day through a process of of a Griffin and reflection of my message this morning is crossover. From the plagues to the Passover God delivers his people from the hand of pharaoh as he Parts the rivers of the of the of the Red Sea and and they cross over delivered and redeemed Amazing Adventure. We've been on as we've studied the forerunners of our faith in this series. We started in the beginning with the creation of the world is God made everything that we see out of nothing any form of Adam and Eve in his own image endowed them with the ability to see into know and to understand to live and to love to serve him yet tragically tempted by Satan. They rebelled Against The God Who made them and they brought a great fall into the human community that changed the course of human events get in the face of God's character was revealed all the more And all-powerful God righteous and just Sovereign over all of creation reveal himself against the backdrop of human sin to be full of mercy and Grace. He called Adam and Eve to repentance. He reconcile them to himself into one another he closed them and then he promised to redeem them and their offspring from the Eternal consequences of their sin the promise of God in the form of a promised Messiah For unto us a child is born unto us the sun would be given her first born son had only begotten son who would crush the head of the serpent for the serpent would bruise his heel. We watched humankind collapse under the weight of sin. So great was the fall of Man that God brought judgment and a flood to destroy the Earth. But again, God was gracious any Spirit one family and kept his promise to Adam and Eve from the flood the nations of the earth were born Noah's descendants filled the Earth, but at the Tower of Babel human Pride again Rose, its ugly head inactive judgment and Grace again, the Lord confuse their language and disperse the sons and daughters did Adam across the face of the year. From this massive rebellion and confusion God intervened. He called a man named Abraham and blessed him with a family of natural means but a family that would come from a supernatural act of Grace Abram and Sarai were Barren but by God's grace they had a son and the promised continued we watch this God's hand rested upon this sovereignly chosen family Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and then Joseph the family group Generation by generation, but no sooner was this chosen family born that it was bound bound under the chains of Egyptian slavery as a pharaoh a rose and Egypt who did not know Joseph and enslave Israel in captivity. They cried out to the Lord from their bondage and he heard their cry Scott raised up a deliver a baby born not in a Manger not yet. But a baby born in a basket of reeds set adrift to float down the Nile by God's Sovereign plan into the Palace of pharaoh. Drawn out of the water. The boy was raised in the courts of pharaoh and trained in the ways of Egypt 40 years later and raised at the Injustice his people experience at the hands of the Egyptian this child now a man struck down in the Gyptian Taskmaster who is unjustly beating a Hebrew slave afraid for his life. He fled to a far-off land some forty years later is a Shepherd somewhere in the plains of Midian edit. El Faro the command of the Lord to let my people go It's a we pick up this morning where we left off last week with our story of this Forerunner of the face. This baby pulled from the bulrushes Moses. The one who was drawn out by God by a sovereign plan to redeem his people from their bondage. We find Moses and his brother are in standing before Pharaoh delivering God's command to let God's people go. You got a Bible go ahead and take it out and turn with me to Exodus chapter 5 or hope today will be the move through the plague and the Passover God's crossing over these people through the Red Sea and his Deliverance not simply of them. But of us is well, here's what the scripture tells us chapter 5 of Exodus Moses at Abby's real Let My People Go that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness. Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice and let Israel go. I do not know the Lord and moreover. I will not let Israel go. No response to God's command does not release God's people from their bondage, but he impresses them all the more burden of the Israelites to produce brick was was exaggerated as he took the straw that gave them the ability to do that from their hands and force them to go out and find straw on their own when the Hebrew taskmasters were unable to meet their quota. They were beaten by the Egyptians and eventually complained first to pharaoh and his leaders and then to Moses himself and Moses in turn turn to the Lord you find an Exodus chapter 6 is conversation has the Lord addresses Moses and his concerns the Lord tells Moses not to worry, but then his hand is heavy on Egypt that he might demonstrate his might and its power. He said to Moses in chapter 6 verse 1 C. I have made you like God to pharaoh and your brother are in shall be your Prophet. You shall speak all that. I command you and your brother. Aaron should tell if she'll tell pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. But I will harden Pharaoh's heart pain signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then. I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my host my people the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment Gyptian shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them to Moses and Aaron didn't so they did just as the Lord commanded them. Moses with 83 years old and Aaron 80 years old and are in 83 years old when they spoke to pharaoh. As we move through the rest of this battle between Moses and Pharaoh. We must realize that what we're looking at is not really a battle between Moses and Pharaoh as it's often depicted as a conflict between the Lord God Almighty and the god king of Egypt. Where was the greatest most powerful man in the world at this time? He oversaw the greatest nation that history had ever seen. He served as the Divine mediator between the gods of Egypt in the Egyptian people head and they viewed him as well. As a God is the pharaoh who ruled over them in Pharaoh the other rebellion of Adam and Eve had reached its zenith. Pharaoh in the culture that he ruled was Godless Spade the built-in leverage every gift that God had given them for their own self-interest and for their own Glory, while denying the name of the Lord pronouncing his rule over their lives and rejecting his very existence. Remember what Pharaoh said to Moses when he initially declared to him that God had commanded him to let God's people go Pharaoh said who is the Lord that I should obey his voice and let Israel go do not know the Lord and moreover. I will not let this people go the Apostle Paul paints a picture of a goblin sculpture in Romans chapter 1 verse 18 listen to descendants of Adam both the ruler and the people who have rejected the reality of the Living God the Apostle Paul writes in Romans chapter 1 verse 18 of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who buy their unrighteousness suppress the truth for what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them his invisible attributes namely his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made so that they are without excuse For although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish Hearts were darkened claiming to be wise they became fools and exchange the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things therefore God gave them up in the loss of their hearts to in Purity the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. I'll min. It's a snapshot of the Egyptian Nation tragically. I think it's a snapshot of our own Nation emerging and a Gob this way as well as people apart from God's grace. This is what the sons of atoms do they rise up and they Rebelle and they put themselves in the place of God. No clear picture has been drawn from the pages of scripture has we followed it through the forerunners of our faith. Then this not simply of a man who rebelled against God but of a whole culture who is turned its back on him the greatest expression of knowledge in science and technology was found here in Egypt, but it was pursued not for the glory of God. but for the glory of man would like to see your Babylon steroids as they pursued their own paths, but not only have they turned their back on God, but in their ignorance, they had Enslaved the very people that he meant to use to redeem the whole world from its sin. The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against the godlessness of men. The Sons and Daughters of Adam have hard hearts. We are not born neutral and we are not born good but we're born under the fall of Adam and Eve are nature's or corrupted hard desire is for our own pleasure in sin as it has a draw within us that we cannot overcome this vision of the hardness of the human heart is seen no more clearly than in the wife of pharaoh himself. As we saw last week one of the key subjects of this story is the relationship between Pharaoh the god of Egypt and the Lord God Almighty even before Moses entered into Egyptian territory God for told he told Moses very clearly that I have hardened Pharaoh's heart that he might not let my people go through great signs and wonders. I might demonstrate my glory not only to each other and to the world but to all that I have created. I saw this Hard Hearted son of Adam at the wrath of God is poured out on it is hardened all the more headaches rejection of the will of God is just an Evidence of how he had orderly Fallen Captive to the sin of his forebears. But Adam and Eve, I'm sorry Moses and Aaron make their way before pharaoh. And the man that Pharaoh let God's people go we saw last week that as they stood there before Pharaoh in that initial conflict. Will Winn Farrow said to them prove yourselves that you are from the Lord by working a miracle that Erin threw down his staff and it became as we saw last week at an inn not simply a serpent but some kind of sea creature or Monster dragon is sometimes how it was translated. It is an interesting Ezekiel in chapter 29 prophetically looking back on the the the the rulership of Fair Oaks makes this remark in the name of the Lord is equal rights and Ezekiel 29 bus says the Lord God behold. I am against you Pharaoh king of Egypt the great tanning or dragon that lies in the midst of his stream. It says my Nile is my own. I made it for myself. And so here and that initial exchange between Aaron and Moses and Pharaoh, Aaron throws down his staff and it becomes a sea monster of a dragon perhaps a crocodile different than the snake that Moses through down there on the mountains a different Hebrew word. And the die is cast in the battle begins and remarkably in that very moment Farrell summon the wise men in the sorcerer's of Egypt and they The Magician's of Egypt also did the Same by their secret parts. Stop for a moment and reset your mind when we read these biblical story. So often are my drift off into kind of a fairytale understanding. Is it worth reading? What is The Chronicles of Narnia or the story of The Lord of the Rings? We don't realize that these are real events real people. Can you imagine Moses says he stood before Pharaoh as he commanded Aaron to tell pharaoh to let God's people go and he commanded Aaron to throw down his staff and it turned into a crocodile or a serpent the barge some kind of a of a monster. You know, he must have imagined Moses's shock. Imagine Aaron's Shaw and the Godless Sorcerers of Egypt came and threw down their staff and their staffs became those very creatures in there. How would this be possible would it be possible simply by sleight of hand for where the Egyptian nation and their a false leaders and their magicians truly participating in some of the Godless powers of Satan at that time. Simply that his hand would be against Pharaoh as a man, but he would demonstrate his power over the gods of Egypt. This was not simply a human conflict that was raging here on the scene, but it was a Divine conflict. We already know people who sell phones are being murdered in the womb are the ones through whom God will bring about his promise that one of those Hebrew Sons will rise up to crush the head of the serpent that ancient dragon of old completely and totally and yet it's very people that the Egyptians have put into bondage who they commit genocide against it. So here in this initial encounter Moses and Aaron come head-to-head perhaps not simply with the human forces of Egypt, but the very satanic forces that attempted to bring about the destruction of God's creation from the very beginning. Indian that very moment is Moses and Aaron must have been overcome at what they saw the serpent her RR monster a crocodile or sit with the tanning of Herod devoured the Serpent's of the Egyptian magicians magicians in their very presence. Till we're told Pharaoh's heart was hardened and you would not listen to them as the Lord had said. It's no surprise to the Lord that part that Pharaoh's heart was hard not only had God hardened it as a sign of Wrath against the sinful man this God this leader of this garbage people as well in his Rebellion against the Lord was actively hardening his own heart as he rebelled and and rejected the very commands of God in his life. That was interesting. We won't go through each and every one of the plagues but as Moses moves through the 10 plagues as God ranks fourth on Egypt with powerful signs of Might and deliverance as he turns the Nile to blood as frogs feel. The land is lisen that spring from the dirt each and every one of these signs was a supernatural demonstration of the sovereignty of God over Egypt The Magicians Sorcerers come to Faroe and say this is the Finger of God. We cannot pretend to replicate what has been done here. At one point in the plagues. I think it was in the the demonstration of that the knots that came from the ground the Egyptian Sorcerers been their knee to the Lord and they encourage the Pharaoh the god-kings to do the same, but he does not listen to them pay hardens his heart all the more. From plague doctor plague not only does the Lord bring destruction upon Egypt, but seemingly he crushes the god that they serve the Nile River from which they found not only live but they believe was overseen divinely by one of their gods with turn to blood the very heart of their civilization was overcome by the power of the Lord and yet Ferrell does not relent and frogs you come upon the land a great sign of fertility for the Egyptians at one of their gods are frog like God that they worshipped as a sign of fertility over took everything such that they found frogs in every possible place in their life. What's interesting about this past week is Brayden and Bryce we're getting ready for school rating went out to the the front porch. He brought his shoes back on inside of his mom and told him to put his shoes on for school and Melinda watch his braids and put his foot into a shoe and all the sudden. He had a puzzled face and he pulled his foot back up out and he reaching the shoe and pulled out a frog from inside of his shoe and he screamed out in the Frog hopped away. What did Egyptians experience the same thing the very God who they worship to bring fertility and and a blessing to them over ran the bounds of the Nile River were found in every possible place until they died there on the sides of the ground and get Pharaoh would not relent and the story continues time and time again in the Lord brings a powerful hand against the Egyptians in Pharaoh will not repent. Until ultimately at the end of the series of plagues the Lord brings the greatest and most domineering of events to pass. He told Moses that in the night, he will bring the angel of death of the Egyptian Nation head will pass through the Egyptian cities and towns and strike down every first born son in the land both men and animals from this Mighty Act of judgment. The Hebrews are called to sacrifice a lamb the Passover Lamb and take the blood of that lamb and spread it over the top of their doorposts as a sign of what a sign of faith and trust in the God was promised to deliver them and if they mark their homes their families their lives under the blood of the Lamb. The angel of death will pass over them and they will be saved from God's Wrath and it broke for in Egypt. What tragically once again Pharaoh did not listen to Moses? He did not listen to God's warning. He hardened his heart and he and his people refused to submit to the Lord God Almighty and the angel of death came through the camp of the Egyptians the nation of Egypt that night and the firstborn was struck dead. Exodus chapter 12 verse 29 houses that midnight the Lord struck down all the first born in the land of Egypt from the firstborn of pharaoh who sat on his throne did the first born of the captive who was in the dungeon had all the firstborn of the livestock and ferrell rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians had it was a great cry in Egypt for there was not a house where someone was not dead. The summit Moses and Aaron by night and said up go out from among my people both you and the people of Israel and go serve the Lord as you have said take your flocks and your herds as you have said and be gone and blessed me also.

It's Kratom powder between the Lord God Almighty and the god king of the Egyptians comes to an end. In the Lord demonstrates his might and his power his Justice and is rap at the very same time. He demonstrates his Sovereign Grace and his Sovereign Mercy to those that he has called his own. I quite often we read from the New Testament those fundamental doctrinal truths that fit data buoy us up in our Christian faith with the point of some of this series The forerunners of faith is to stop and look at the truth of God's word as it appears for the first time in the pages of scripture. Stop and think what's Happening Here? The Sovereign God of all creation who made Adam and Eve in His image and gave them a promise that one day he would redeem them through their line that very God is the god of these Egyptians and the god of these Hebrews. And yet God shows his Mercy to the Hebrews and he passes over in the sentence is Mercy does from the lives of the Egyptians. Why is it that God has chosen the one in forsaken the other? Leaving in the stories that we read we run across this before. We remember the story of the sons of of of of of Isaac and Jacob and East off the in the womb. We were told by God inspired word that before either boy had done anything good or bad. The older would serve those bong younger Jacob. I have loved but Esau I have hated we were left there in Genesis pondering and puzzled by this Divine statement of God's Sovereign decision there in the lives of these two boys hit was reaffirmed in the Book of Romans in the New Testament as we saw God make it clear that Jacob I loved but Esau I have hated. And here in the story of Exodus, you have the grace of God for his people who he is called not because they are more numb numerous or more powerful than the other nations of the Earth, but simply because it was God's good pleasure to call them. If you have the story of God's grace poured out to them, but God's grace withheld from the Egyptians In This Moment. Both sons of Adam one experiencing God's justice and his wrath against sin and the hardness of heart and the others experiencing unwarranted and unmerited on earned and undeserving the Deliverance of God and His grace and stop and think of the marker that the Lord used in that moment to demonstrate his grace to the world. It was the face of these Hebrews as they took the Passover Lamb slaughtered it and put the blood of the Lamb over their doorposts had Act of Faith In The Blood of the lamb and active faith that God would deliver and do what he had said, it wasn't their faith that brought about their deliberate. It was God's mercy and Grace in response to that mercy and Grace they had trust in the Lord and they had faces. And they demonstrated that Faith the blood of the lamb and the angel of death passed over their homes. And they as sons of Adam and Eve just as the Egyptians were spared God's Wrath and delivered to become his very people. That very night Pharaoh calls Aaron and Moses into his presence. He does not wait until the next morning. Even as God had told Moses at the very beginning of this adventure and then the fair will not listen to me because I will harden his heart and I will strike down the firstborn of Egypt because he is not let my firstborn Israel go even if he told Moses at the very beginning so it came to pass the Affairs of men and the futures of the history of Nations and the futures of the history of us as people is not a surprise to the Lord for our pages are written in the Book of Life and our lives are told even before the day's happened. And God delivers his people there in that hour and they make their way out of Egypt in the Egyptian to surround them on either side. Give them Treasures foretold. Literally that the Israelites plunder the Egyptians without even lifting a sword they were so eager to see the Israelites leave their nation and go and be the people of God on their way in. It's there at the people of God leave the the the nation of Egypt and make their way out towards the promised land at that Pharaoh falls upon. The hardness of heart which new repentance for a moment has turned and I once again his vengeance is lit. Here's news that this great mass of people may be over a million Hebrews leaving the whole nation of Israel without a single stored or a weapon or army or cherry in Fort Worth. We're out there completely vulnerable in the wilderness and he thinks to himself what have I done? There's no such thing as a God Like This these events. I'm sure he began to reason it in his mind must have just come about by natural purposes. Who knows what he thought but he sent his armies out to go and hunt down the Israelites there in the wilderness. Told in Exodus 14 V when the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled the mind of pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people and they said we have done is real go from serving us. So he made ready his Chariot and took his army with him and took 600 shows and Chariot and all the Chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them and the Lord hardened the heart of pharaoh king of Egypt and he pursued the people of Israel by the people of Israel were going out defiantly. I made this point the beginning of the story I make it again. What are we told here in this very moment God hardens the heart of pharaoh for what purpose Spitzer would take his armies out into the Wilderness to pursue the very people of God. Have you ever experienced hardship in your life or difficult? Have you ever been the brunt of the focus of enemies who have risen up against you for ungodly purposes? Even In This Moment those who are pursuing the Israelites or pursuing them because God has ordained in this moment for what reason? In the midst of the conflict that will ensue and the fear that his people will experience he will demonstrate to them Beyond any scope of measure that he alone is their deliver. He is their strength and shield and ever-present help in times of trouble and they will never forget it. In fact, the whole world will never forget the mighty Deliverance of God on this day. Egyptians pursue them all pharaohs horses and chariots and his Horsemen and his army and overtook them and camped at the Sea by pick up in front of Baal zephon for 7:20. Drew near the people of Israel lifted up their eyes and behold the Egyptians were marching after them penned. They feared great and the people of Israel cried out to the Lord they sent to Moses is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have take us away to die in the wilderness. What are you done to us and bring us out of Egypt is not business what we say to you and Egypt leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptian for it would be better for us to serve the Egyptians been to die in the wilderness. And Moses said to the people fear not stand firm. And see the salvation of the Lord which he will work for you today.

You shall never see again? The Lord will fight for you and you have only to be silent. Sovereign purposes of God not only on display in the pages of scripture foretold before the events come to pass that we might know that Our God Saves and there is no man. There is no Nation. There is no spirit that can stand against Those whom God has sovereignly and graciously called his

the Lord said to Moses is Moses turn to the Lord in and ask the Lord for deliverance. Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divided and the people of Israel made go through the sea on dry ground. Stop and think she's not fairy tale or fable Moses stood with his back against an ocean and the Egyptian chariots and the greatest forces the rule that ever seen bearing down upon Him confidently, he told his people to stand firm because he knew that God would deliver him. But personally, he was afraid he called out to the Lord or what will we do? And what does the Lord say? Stop crying to me? Turn and go? Moses's response go where through the waters that stand before you.

Then were told a little bit further. I will harden the heart of the Egyptians to the day shall go in after you and I will get Glory over pharaoh and all his host his chariots and his Horsemen and the Egyptian South know that I am the Lord when I've gotten Glory / Pharaoh is chariots and his Horsemen so lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Did the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground? You think that there was any question and that moment when God parted the waters before them who was present and delivering them from the chains of Egypt in the bondage of pharaoh could not have been any question in their mind should an angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them and the pillar of cloud Moon from before the end and stood behind them coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel headwear and there was the cloud in the darkness and it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night. Did Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong East Wind all night and made the seed dry land. Ken Waters were divided. I noticed that similar language to Genesis when God divided the waters in the land appearing again here and the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground the waters being a wall to them on their right and on their left. It was not simply streams that it moved at ground level, but God had literally held up the waters like Great Wall one side to the other.

The Egyptians pursued had went in after them into the midst of the sea all pharaohs horses. His Chariot in his Horsemen head in the morning. Watch the Lord in the pillar of fire in a cloud look down on the Egyptian forces hand through the Egyptian forces into a panic clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily and the Egyptian said let us flee from before Israel for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians build. The Lord said to Moses stretch out your hand over the sea that the water make can't come back upon the Egyptians upon their Chariot and upon their Horsemen to Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the Sea return to its normal code course when the morning appeared and as the Egyptians fled into it the Lord through the Egyptians into the midst of the seat. The water is returned and covered The Chariot and The Horseman of all the hosts of pharaoh fitted followed them into the sea. Not one of them remain. But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the see the water's being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left drill that day from the hand of the Egyptians pain is real saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians to the people feared the Lord and they believe in the Lord and in his servant Moses. forerunners of the faith the story of an 80 year old man named Moses who spent seemingly 80 years of his life not relating very closely to the god of his forefathers. God appeared to him and called him to attach that he never felt the quit to accomplish and God equipped him to do what he called him and got went with him and got deliver his people from bondage and a mighty and Powerful way that they might know if he was the Lord that they might know that he alone was God and that they might know that they were his beloved people.

the story of the Deliverance of the people of God from the hand of pharaoh is not simply a story of History gone by It's a story of God's Deliverance on a much greater Ark. I want you to stop and think about the scope of scripture that we've looked at so far. Who do you think looks like Farrah most in the pages of the scriptures that we read about that great crocodile who sits in the midst of the river and says I have made Egypt in this Nile all for myself and for my own Glory I can't help but think of that ancient serpent the one who brought God's people into bondage for his own glory and for his own pleasure. The one who God promised from the very beginning one day to overthrow. And here Pharos, it says an incarnate expression in a sense of the belligerents of God's creation and even as God would overthrow Pharaoh in the pages of his Redemptive history on this day. One day not too much longer ahead. He would overthrow the serpent himself as the son of Adam and the Son of Eve as a son of Abraham Isaac and Joseph as the son of one of these families who came out of Egypt on this day with live. We die for the sins of his people much as that Passover Lamb had shed his blood and Rise Again. The death might pass over us who will put our faith in the blood of Jesus Christ and that we might cross over into a life that God intends for those he has graciously and mercifully called his own. We are the people of God. We are not God's people because we deserve it or because we've earned it. We are the people of God because he has called us out of the bulrushes out of the dark out of Despair Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve who have no right to be called by his name. I've been showed his grace not by the blood of the Passover Lamb in days past but by the blood of the Lamb himself Jesus the Christ There's good news in the gospel that we cannot even fully fathom. I hope in prayer as we look at the stories of these faithful for runners before us is that we two might be strengthened as God calls us to do things that very often we feel ill-equipped to do. Let's close with the word of Prayer. gracious and holy God we give you thanks for who you are we give you. Thanks Lord for your word. In which you describe your intent and your purposes even before you bring those things to pass that when we stand with our backs against the sea and our enemies bearing down upon us we can trust in you because you fulfill your promises. And of course Lord the greatest enemy that we face is death itself and it Bears down on each and every one of us and you have parted the Waters of eternal life for our sake and because of the blood of Jesus Christ had made a way for us or otherwise, there was no way that we might be safe and not only that we might be saved but that we might be reconciled to you and called your sons and daughters. Give you thanks and glory for all you've done for all that you're doing and for all that you will do in a Christ for your sake and For Your Glory in Jesus name we pray. Amen. What stand for