Jesus: Lord of the Sabbath, Part 2

Surrenderer you gave up your life that we might experience that life And I pray lord that we would learn from your example What it means to give our life away that we might obtain the greatness of you Your word says that whoever wishes to save his life will lose it Whatever wishes to lose his life today Will find it So we pray lord that you would go before us that we might find truth in your word Understanding who you are and what you've done. We pray in jesus name. Amen We find ourselves this morning in luke chapter 6 as we continue to make our way through this great book And as you're turning there, I want to read to you a conversation a private conversation That jesus had at the end of his ministry with pilate And we'll set the tone for our topic this morning Verse 33 of john chapter 18.

It says Pilate therefore entered again into the praetorium and summoned jesus and said to him Are you the king? Of the jews now now pilot is having this conversation with the lord And listen to what christ says Are you saying this on your own initiative or did others tell you about me Pilate answered I am not a jew.

Am I your own nation and the chief priest delivered you up to me? What have you done Jesus answered my kingdom is not of this world If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would be fighting that I might not be delivered up to the jews but as it is My kingdom Is not of this realm Pilate therefore said to him So you are a king Jesus answered you say correctly that I am a king For this I have been born And for this I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice Pilate said to him What is?

Truth the words of christ simply put Say I came to bear witness To the truth The most important aspect of the ministry of christ Was the truth He is the god of truth Came to present the only truth Pilate sarcastically would say well What is truth as if to say truth would be relevant? Truth is what you think it is or truth is what I think it is. But really what is truth? But with christ Truth was absolute Because he is the god of truth the night before this event in john 18 John 14 christ spoke to his men and said I am the way I am the truth I am the life He was echoing the words That he said to moses Way back in exodus chapter 34 When he said the lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed the lord the lord god compassionate and gracious slow to anger abounding in loving kindness and abounding in Truth god is the god of truth christ came to bear witness To the truth it was David who said in psalm 31 verse number five that God is the god of truth And in psalm 117 It says verse number two the truth of the lord is everlasting God's word is everlasting because god's word is who he is.

He is eternal his word Is eternal christ came to preach the truth to bear witness to the truth it was and is the most important thing in all the world There's nothing more important than truth Nothing Why truth is that which regenerates the soul? Without the truth there would be no salvation How do we know that? james chapter one verse number 18 says In the exercise of his will He brought us forth by the word of truth Truth regenerates the soul without The teaching and preaching of the truth no one is ever saved So truth regenerates Truth is that which liberates john chapter 8 verse number 31 Jesus therefore was saying to those jews who had believed him if you abide in my word Then you are truly disciples of mine And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free Truth liberates because truth Regenerates truth is that Which consecrates?

john 17 17 christ says That his word Is truth He said as he prayed father Sanctify them in truth consecrate them in truth for my word is truth so truth regenerates truth liberates truth consecrates and truth Illuminates psalm 43 Psalm 43 Says this in verse number three.

Oh send out thy light and by truth Let them lead me let them bring me to thy holy hill and to thy dwelling places The light is equivalent to the truth because the truth is the light Psalm 119 105 talks about how god's word is a light how god's word is a lamp It directs us. It shows us which way to go Why is truth the most important thing in all the world is because truth regenerates? truth truth liberates truth consecrates truth Illuminates it shows us where to go. It tells us what to do. Why because god is the god of truth But truth Also infuriates All those who oppose it Absolutely infuriates those who live in error It infuriates those who don't want to follow it And that's why christ came to bear witness to the truth Because he came to bring a sword to divide Those in error and those who would hear the voice of truth and follow him And therefore we begin to see in john chapter 6 how the truth of god infuriates the religious establishment How they become outraged at the truth that christ came to bear witness to They were against him That's why truth is the most important thing in all the world People forget there are two things that characterize the ministry of christ One is is that he always presented the truth always And because he did hostility arose all around him Those two aspects Characterize the ministry of christ.

He always proclaimed the truth He never compromised it. He made sure he lived the truth because he's the god of truth and he made sure he proclaimed that truth And because he did those around him who were opposed to the truth became absolutely enraged with him We think of god as a god of love and of god of grace and a god of mercy and he was all that But because he's the god of truth, he always presented the truth and when you do that Those who are opposed to truth hate you They despise you They reject you they ridicule you they will not stand for anything that you stand for Not because you want to be hated not because you want to be disliked not because you want to be rejected But because you want to present the god who is the god of truth It's as simple as that And christ was the consummate truth teller He was the one who came to bear witness to the truth He spoke it He lived it because it revealed Him Now having said that you realize that people will say well Do you mean if I don't believe what you believe i'm not going to go to heaven Well, the answer to that is If you don't believe what god says about the way to heaven, you will not go to heaven if you reject it See there's only one way to heaven it's through christ our lord.

It's by grace through faith. That's it. No other way If you present that to people those who oppose that Will hate you They will not like you You must understand that And the religious establishment the pharisees the sadducees could not stand christ Because he exposed them He exposed their error Not because he was an angry man Not because he was a vengeful person Just because he spoke the truth And he lived the truth Those who were in error would not want to be around him That's one of the great lessons that we in christianity today have forgotten We want to be very ecumenical in our approach.

We want to bring all kinds of religions together and and find some common ground Well, the only commonality is truth and the truth if rejected Has no common ground. That's why in john chapter 5 But before we got to chapter 6 we talked about the gospel and christ says listen the gospel that I preach Is like a new patch and you can't put a new patch on an old garment Because when you wash the garment it will destroy the old garment The gospel that I preach is like new wine That cannot be put into old wine skins because if you do when it ferments it will burst those old wine skins Christ says very simply you cannot mingle nor.

Can you mix the truth with any works based system? You cannot mix or mingle the truth of christ with any religious system. You cannot Why because truth stands as absolute it stands alone It stands concrete and it cannot be mixed or mingled with anything that's filled with error So christ preached it that's why we spent 10 weeks talking to you about the gospel After that because we want to make sure that when you present the gospel you present the truth of the gospel So people know what it is. We believe and why?

And so we come to christ In the sixth chapter of luke And we see him as the consummate truth teller How he sets to expose the religion Of the day something about christ When he exposed error, he exposed it privately, but more so he exposed it publicly People sometimes get it upset with me because I name names from the pulpit. I criticize religions and Certain preachers from the pulpit The reason I do that is because christ publicly denounced all false religion He denounced it publicly because there are people on the outside Considering making a decision about who it is.

They're going to follow and why? So you must make sure they have the truth They understand the truth And if there's a religion that is public it must be publicly denounced If it's an error Why? Because people need to hear the truth And if we don't tell them who will And christ exposed error because he trumpeted the truth Error was always exposed and always will it be exposed if you speak the truth And christ was that consummate truth teller And he told the truth About everything that was false Especially when it came to the sabbath ritual of the day because in judaism their religion Would rise or fall on what they believed about the sabbath And the pharisees had concocted all kinds of rituals all kinds of traditions all kinds of ceremonies about what they believe Should happen on the sabbath And christ came to destroy that He didn't come to destroy the law he came to fulfill the law So he fulfilled the sabbath in a biblical matter, but he did not fulfill the sabbath in their traditional manner because their tradition in their mind had risen above the bible And what they believed about their religion and what they believed about judaism and what they believed about the sabbath ritual took precedence over what God had actually said way back in exodus 20 verses 9 to 11 Christ kept the sabbath christ just said listen.

The sabbath is basically for rest It's it's basically for rejoicing It's basically set aside for you to reflect upon me The only thing I don't want you to do on a sabbath is work. That's it. Just don't work. Enjoy me But the pharisees had concocted all kinds of rules and regulations That were opposed to what god had originally said And the jews believed that if you didn't do what they had developed And concocted then you would not earn acceptance with god. You would not go to heaven and christ says no that's not true That's not the way it is So he came to expose error And so we began last week in luke chapter 6 talking to you about the instruction About the sabbath we talked to you about what it is.

They believed and why And then we moved from there to talk to you about the incident that took place on the sabbath That the disciples and in christ were walking through the fields They were all hungry. So they would grab some of the grain that was there and eat it and the pharisees Immediately indicted them Why because in their minds the minds of the pharisees the disciples in christ had violated the sabbath So christ gave them some instruction We talked about this last week if you were not here You might want to get the tape to be caught up to where we are where we are But he gave them some instruction about a story saying have you not read?

The incident with david way back in first samuel 21 Did you not read about how david and his men ate the consecrated bread the the bread?

Of his presence the bread designed only for the priest to eat after seven days How halim ahimelech gave david and his men food to eat when they were hungry because they were in need And if god did not indict ahimelech or david because they would violate a ceremonial law a ceremonial Celebration because there was a greater law and that's the law Of need the law of compassion the law of mercy that would that would go way beyond that and Ahimelech knew that and gave bread to david and to his men to eat christ in essence says listen if God did not indict them because they violated a ceremonial law listen God is not going to indict us for breaking a traditional law that's been set up by men And after all he says i'm the lord of the sabbath I'm the one who designed The sabbath I am the son of man In other words i'm the messiah and messiah is lord of the sabbath and I can do whatever I want to do on the sabbath Because I created it And that's where we left off last week Which leads us to what we're going to call the instigation on the sabbath You need to know that that christ set up scenarios He did them purposefully He did them purposefully to expose error In here on another sabbath in luke 6 not the same sabbath It could have been the following sabbath.

It could have been another month down the road We don't know the bible just simply says these words verse 6 And it came about on another sabbath that he entered the synagogue And was teaching and there was a man there whose right hand was withered And the scribes and the pharisees were watching him closely to see if he healed on the sabbath In order that they might find reason to accuse him But he knew what they were thinking And he said to the man with the withered hand rise and come forward and he rose and came forward And jesus said to them I ask you is it lawful on the sabbath to do good Or to do harm to save a life or to destroy it And after looking around at them all He said to him stretch out your hand And he did so His hand was restored But they themselves were filled with rage and discussed together what they might do With jesus The instigation begins on a sabbath day Where christ himself would go as he always did on the sabbath to worship he went to the synagogue He went to teach And that was the the consummate Aspect of his ministry.

He he continued to teach to teach to teach to teach why because he had to present the truth People are saved when the truth is preached So that's what he did. He taught And so on this day on the sabbath He was teaching He came to worship because that's what he did He fulfilled the law of the sabbath because he was going to set that day aside to rest to reflect To rejoice and part of that was to get people to reflect on the right thing and that was the truth about who god is and so He began to teach And notice in verse number six that as he was teaching there was a man Whose right hand was withered or had atrophied There was a man in the audience Who was there now whether that man was planted there?

by the pharisees for all to see The text does not say But there was a man there with a withered hand And so as christ was teaching it says in verse number seven and the scribes and the pharisees were watching him closely To see if he healed on the sabbath in order that they might find reason to accuse him They wanted to know if christ was going to heal this man. They were looking closely. They were looking carefully It's it's a word designed to tell you about their ulterior motives their impure motives They came Not to see the messianic credentials of the messiah They came not to witness a wonderful miracle.

They came primarily to accuse the messiah They came because they weren't listening They were just looking They were looking closely, but it doesn't say that they were listening intently to what he had to say Because they didn't care what jesus had to say They were looking for a way to accuse him They wanted him to heal this man their hard hearts refused to let them see the truth They wanted him to heal this guy Not because they wanted to have more evidence that he was the messiah They had already seen healings in luke chapter 5 We saw where the paralyzed man was let down through the roof and christ healed him They had seen a multitude of people's lives healed Either in person or they had seen or heard about it secondhand They had heard the truth.

They knew that christ could forgive sins. They knew that too because he had already demonstrated that in luke chapter 5 So they had seen and heard it all in their mind And they were looking for christ to perform one more healing Because all that christ did never registered in their hard hearts Didn't take effect They were looking for ways to accuse him Now listen the rabbis had said that there could be no Healing or helping on the sabbath If if someone was sick they needed to remain sick until the day after the sabbath Because to take care of them would be Work and you could not work on the sabbath.

There were two two ways or two incidences where that was Not if not in effect and that would be if someone was going to deliver a baby You could help them deliver a baby on that day Or if someone was about to die Then you could take care of them on that day. But outside of those two aspects The delivery of a baby and someone dying you could not help another soul It would be work You can't do that. Well this man with the withered hand he wasn't dying And he wasn't going to deliver a baby So he didn't fall into that category And so they were looking for ways to accuse christ.

Listen to what the bible says It says verse 8 but he knew what they were thinking Isn't that good? See, that's one of the great confidences I have in god as a preacher He knows exactly what you're thinking right now as we're speaking He knows what you're thinking about I don't have to know what you're thinking about just god knows everything that you're thinking right now at this moment Just like he did then As he sat in that synagogue teaching he knew exactly what was going on in the minds of men He knew that Remember last week he told you about simeon luke chapter 2 that christ was going to reveal the thoughts Of man, he would become assigned to be opposed.

Why would be he be assigned to be opposed? Why would christ be opposed why on the eighth day of the of christ's birth? He was eight days old and he was in simeon's arm with simeon look at mary and say mary He is going to reveal the hearts of man And he will be opposed because he does so It's because he is the essence of truth And truth penetrates the depths of a soul And christ the great consummate truth teller because he's the god of truth would reveal the error in man's hearts and because He did he would be opposed So that's one thing we need to understand If you're going to live for truth If you're going to speak the truth You will be opposed People who don't want to live in line with the truth will come against you And christ knew what they were thinking He knew they were thinking in their minds heal him Heal him.

Heal him. Heal him. Heal him. Go ahead. Heal him. He knew That was in their minds He knew exactly What was happening? Go over to chapter 9 verse number 47. This is characteristic of the ministry of christ luke 9 verse number 47 It says these words And an argument arose among them as to which of them might be the greatest but jesus knowing what they were thinking in their heart Took a child and stood him by his side. This is in reference to his disciples. He knew what they were thinking in their hearts They didn't have to speak to him for him to know he knew What was going on in their hearts luke 11 verse number 17 says this but he knew their thoughts And said to them over and over again.

You read about christ knowing their thoughts Knowing what was in their mind knowing what was in their hearts. He knew because he's god and god is omniscient. God knows everything And christ knew as these pharisees sat around Of course in the chief seats because that's what they always did they sat in the seats of prominence and there they were sitting next to him prominently thinking in their minds go ahead Heal this man We dare you We dare you to heal this man on the sabbath because if you do you will violate the laws of the sabbath and so christ knowing what they were thinking Knowing this man was not on the brink of death knowing that this man was not about to deliver a baby He could wait till tomorrow to be healed I mean after all he just had a withered hand how long he had it We don't know but he could still function he could still walk.

He could still talk. He wasn't in pain. It had atrophied but yet christ knew That this was an opportunity to expose Their falsehood So knowing what they were thinking remember the people in the audience did not know what the pharisees were thinking Just jesus knew what they were thinking And so in verse number nine, it goes as follows and jesus said to them Well, first of all, he he talks to him.

He knows what they're thinking. He says, okay Rise up you with withered hand Come here Oh, you must love this because the pharisees on the edge of the seats thinking We got him Oh, he's falling right into our trap He's going to heal this guy the sabbath and we are going to indict him and we will prove to everybody in this synagogue That this man is a blasphemer So christ played right into their hands christ just says You with with that hand? Why don't you come over here for a minute? What did the man do he obeyed?

He came He knew christ was the healer He had heard the stories Thousands had been healed He knew what christ could do and maybe the only reason he was there was to be healed or maybe he was planted there by the pharisees Because they wanted to indict christ on that day so now He brings the man forward in verse nine jesus said to them I ask you Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good? Or to do harm to save a life Or to destroy it Christ loves to ask questions That they can't answer Or put it better this way they can answer it But they won't answer it Because if they answer it according to their tradition They look like fools So they can't answer they can't speak christ says let me ask you a question.

Is it lawful? This is their law not his law not god's law. This is the pharisees law. Is it lawful? Is it lawful for anyone to do good To help someone On the sabbath Tell me Is it lawful is according to your law? Is it okay to do good to somebody to help somebody who is in need? If they answer yes Then they just gave him the authority to heal the man on sabbath And that would violate their tradition So they couldn't say yes So then christ says is it lawful To do to do harm to someone And to destroy them.

Is that lawful? Is that what your tradition teaches? Well, they couldn't say yes because then they would look Merciless and they would be condemned by those around them So they couldn't answer yes to that question. They couldn't say anything. So they kept their mouths shut But there is an answer There's a biblical answer Way back in isaiah chapter chapter one There's an answer Christ or god the father indicts israel for their stubborn hearts Indicts them because they would go through the motions of religion But they wouldn't do it with their heart They would pay tribute to god Outwardly, but inwardly they were far from god It says in verse number 11 of isaiah chapter 1 What are your multiplied sacrifices to me?

Say to the lord now now christ had developed the sacrificial system, right? God had developed that because that was The way man would receive atonement for sins But now he says what are they to me? They mean nothing to me Why? Because you come with your heart far from me He says this I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle and I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls lambs and or goats When you come to appear before me who requires of you this trampling? of my courts Why do you come into my presence?

with an offering But your heart Is so far from me He says this Bring your worthless offerings no longer Incense is an abomination to me new moon and sabbath the calling of assemblies I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly. I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts They have become a burden to me. I am weary of burying them So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you Yes, even though you multiply prayers. I will not listen your hands are covered with blood You come to me you offer sacrifices you pray to me, but i'm not going to listen you want to know why This is why verse 16 wash yourselves make yourselves clean Remove the evil of your deeds from my sight cease to do evil learn to do good Seek justice reprove the ruthless defend the orphan plead For the widow in other words listen you come but you show no mercy You come but you demonstrate no compassion You come but there is no grace in your lives You come because there's no reality of me in your heart And so you just go through the externals you go through the motions outwardly you come to me in prayer as if to Gain my approval.

I want nothing to do with you I will not listen because there are people in need all around you and you will not meet those needs You will not demonstrate my heart to the people who have a need over in isaiah chapter 58 58 verse number six Is this not the fast which I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness? To undo the bands of the yoke and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke Lighten up fellas You gotta lighten up Verse seven is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into the house When you see the naked to cover him and not to hide yourself from your own flesh verse number 13 If because of the sabbath you turn your foot from doing your own pleasure on my holy day And call the sabbath a delight the holy day of the lord honorable and shall honor it Desisting from your own ways from seeking your own pleasure and speaking your own word then you will take delight in the lord They knew those verses They understood the heart of god They knew what isaiah had said It was not something that they had not read And every pharisee would know isaiah 11 or excuse me isaiah chapter 1 isaiah chapter 58 They would they were the keepers and the protectors of the law They knew exactly what it said And christ says okay Is it lawful for me or anybody?

To do good on the sabbath to help somebody on a sabbath Or is it lawful to harm somebody on the sabbath? Is it lawful to destroy them on the sabbath because that's what your law? Promotes your law promotes harm your law promotes Destruction it doesn't promote mercy and goodness and kindness none of those things Does not promote so the pharisee sat there And said nothing He trapped them in their own desires Oh, they wanted him to heal Because they wanted to catch him breaking their traditional laws And he calls them on their own laws in front of everybody publicly Why to publicly humiliate and denounce to denounce their hypocrisy?

That's why So Listen the crowd didn't know What the pharisees were thinking They had no idea It's the pharisees couldn't say anything out loud. The text says And after looking around at them all Now imagine this You're trying to entrap the messiah You're trying to catch him breaking your law not god's law, but their law And they thought their law was god's law Now how many times we told you this we told you last week again I'm going to say the same thing over and over to you and that is we are so Used to hearing error that when truth is presented.

We think the truth is wrong See that was a problem with the pharisees They were so used to their error filled traditions that when christ came to present the truth. They thought he was a blasphemer But he wasn't He was a truth teller. He came to present the truth And so he looks around at them all. Can you imagine the penetrating eyes of the messiah? Looking at you you see one thing about christ or one thing about anybody when they present the truth. They never turn away If you're presenting the truth saying thus saith the lord you can look somebody right in the eye and speak the truth But a characteristic of those who are in error Is to turn away They can't face the truth they turn And christ would look at them all Never once flinching as he would span the audience looking at the pharisees right in the eye Looked at all of them You could imagine them sitting there, you know kind of Looking around and you're talking to me You know They don't want to face the truth of their error-filled lives But christ never broke eye contact with the audience Because he spoke the truth when you speak the truth.

You have nothing to be ashamed of You never turn away See that was christ Mark's account is rather interesting. It says he looked at them listen with anger Our loving lord Our gracious kind and merciful savior looked at them with anger Why with anger? Because they were leading everybody in the synagogue. They were leading the jewish nation away from the truth You know, they led them away from the truth They were he was leading them away from the god of truth That's what they that's where the pharisees would be leading the people and so he was angry with them He was always angry with error He was always angry with falsehood He would never accept it That's a lesson for you and me, right never accept falsehood hypocrisy Lies always preach and teach and accept the truth.

That's what jesus did Mark's account he says he looked at them with anger. He never turned away And then it says he looked at the man stretch out your hand He healed him restored him God endorsed his son by giving his son creative powers In front of everybody The man was healed verse 11 What's it say? And everybody rejoiced Because of the mercy of god, is that what it says? It's not what it says It says but they themselves were filled with Rage, this is the insurrection on the sabbath They were filled with rage Instead of repenting because their error had been exposed Instead of falling down and begging for mercy and saying you're right god.

We are wrong and you are true What do they do? They their hearts were filled with rage They became so incensed so angry Because their error was exposed They were humiliated And the prideful person when humiliated becomes more arrogant and more hard-hearted And they turned against him all the more It says that they sought for ways to to come against him Matthew's account says these words that the pharisees went out and counted together against him as how they might destroy him It was at this point It was at this point in the ministry of christ where the religious establishment says, okay, he must be destroyed We must find a way to kill him mark's account says they sided with the herodians And the pharisees and the herodians had absolutely nothing in common.

They hated one another The herodians were a political sect and they were followers of herod Death And the pharisees hated them But they became strange bedfellows When it came to the death of the messiah They were counseled with the herodians because they had a common enemy What was the common enemy? the truth The truth was the common enemy to them and they sought for a way to destroy the messiah Because he spoke the truth And they would not submit to the authority of the king What does this mean for you and me?

It means a lot Because we need to come to grips with the fact that people when they hear the truth a lot of times they become so hard-hearted It was donald gray barnhouse who said these words about luke chapter 6 in his commentary He says it is at this point in history that israel's clock stopped Because israel god's chosen had specially blessed people rejected her messiah God placed her on the shelf as a nation until the fullness of the gentiles would come in It was at this point their clock stopped It was at this point where the religious establishment said, okay, it's over This man In all of his lies and all of his blasphemy must be destroyed And yet all the people speak the truth All he did was present the truth And they were totally against him amazing And yet And yet listen to acts 15 Verse number five But certain ones are the sect of the pharisees who had Believed there were some pharisees the bible tells us in those days there were some six thousand pharisees in israel There were some according to acts 15 who believed There were some who gave their life to the messiah There were some who believed the truth who came around And that that gives us great encouragement because we we share cross with people and they they reject the truth They become obstinate against the truth.

And yet we need to continue to pray that god would break their cold hearts And shatter them and cause them to be warm and to receive the truth of the gospel Because god can save them the apostle paul, of course was one of those pharisees Wasn't he? And god saved him And god used him in a great and mighty way I wonder this morning what your attitude attitude is toward christ I wonder if you know people whose attitude toward christ is absolutely obstinate They become enraged when you speak the truth to them.

What do you do? You keep presenting the truth. That's what jesus did As we read through the book of luke, we will see the pharisees are always present. They're always there They're always hiding someplace always trying to entrap him always doing something Interesting to note that when it came time to bring final accusations against christ none of them said that he had violated sabbath law none That was not an accusation brought against christ One of the false accusations brought against christ at the end of his ministry They would think of other accusations to bring against him But because he spoke and lived the truth they set a course To kill the messiah they couldn't stone him that would be against roman law If they could they would have they could not do that So they sought for a way to to to entrap him and to kill him.

That was their plan Why? Because he came to bear witness to the truth He came to present the truth in a world of error And as we see christ in his ministry, we've got to be encouraged to speak the truth to live the truth In a world of error because if we don't who will? Who will tell people? the truth about jesus the messiah Let's pray Father, we thank you lord for today in your great work in and through our lives We thank you that you are the god of truth and we can present to people the truth We know lord that your word is truth and we know lord that your word is that which speaks complete honesty And I pray That is your people We would be the kind of individuals that always stand on the truth never compromising Preaching it Portraying it Presenting it at every turn So people will know the god of truth In jesus name.

Amen