The Law of Worship II

You have your Bible with you in them plies to Exodus Exodus chapter between two Excus chapters. When you will continue looking at a wrong of the worship, you remember looting at the first for commandments, and when the first four commands to teach us about worship, we've uh the find worship is borrowing Bruce Leave last definition of worship. True worship happens when we set our mind's attention and mutsuffection on the Lord, praising him for who he is and for what he has done. Simplest definition of the word worship is to ascribe to work, which when Old English word which means to describe the work there admitting words in the Bible that sort of define worship describe and worship to us. And the way that we ascribe worth, the words that mean to prostrate, before to kiss, tool to bow for The idea is that there are these actions, all of these things that we do, we do because we are ascribing worth. We're ascribing for through God. I want to give us tonight. Another working definition is what I've come up with to sort of define what I mean when I say the law of worship. And here's what I'm defining as in the Law of worship, every man must worship God. Excuse me, every man must worship the One True God, righting, reverently and regulate. You say that again, every man must worship the One True God, righting, reverently and regularly. That's what I mean when I refer to the Law of worship. And what we'll do when we release next eight messagers are sort of unfold that we'll look at each of the four commandments. And I'm spending two messages on each of the four commandments. And the first one that I want to do is throw lay out the law, and the second one sort of apply it to the way that we engage in worship. Now, when I'm laying out the law, my goal quite simply is this, I want to magnify and glorify the work of Christ. See other times, when we hear the law, what we're listening for is this. I'm listening to the law, and I want to hear what I'm doing right. And if there's something that I'm not doing right, I want to act the direction so that I can do that thing that I'm doing wrong. You're not doing right, because again, legalism were justified by keeping the law. I want to present these commandments to you in such a way that will destroy it. You cannot do, not, have, not, will never keep these commands. You are in capable. And when you embrace that, there are a couple of things that happen. Number One, you recognize that you are a ruined center and needing a savior. You don't just need to work harder, try harder to do that. You are a ruined center. You need to have a sayor. And number two, you recognize the magnitude of the holiness and righteousness of Christ. Because as you get a glimpse of the law really and what the law really requires, the weight of it is overwhelming. It crushes you. And yet before you succumb to the weight of the law, you are reminded this is what Christ accomplished on my behalf, both in terms of his active obedience in keeping the entirety of the law, and in terms of his passive obedience in accepting in himself and his body on the tree the penalty that was due to us because we did not, do, not, cannot, will not keep the law. So as we go through this knowing that that's what this is about. These are not exercises in legalism where we're trying to take boxes, et cetera. Here's what you need to add to your list of things to do. That is overwhelming, it's too much to me. But flip this around in your mind so that you understand that what we're looking at is the matter of the righteousness of Christ and what it is that Christ, through the imputed righteousness forms in us, and what it looks like is we're being sanctified. So with that in mine, we stated again what I mean when I say the law of worship. Every man must worship the One True God rightly, reverently, and regularly. And this just comes from the first World commandments. From the first Commandment we get the idea that every man must worship the One True God, perie, every man must worship the real True God. From the second commanders get that every man must worship the bunchue of God rightly. From the third Commandment we get that every man who must worship the One True God not only rightly, but referently. And then from the fourth Commandment we get the idea that every man must worship the One True God or True God, not only report not only reverently, but regularly so if this definition is pulled from those four commands. So let's read them together, and they will come back and look at the first commandment tonight. Verse one. And God spoke all these words, saying, I am a Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of featured, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. That that's the first commandment. There it is in I'm God. You don't get enough. You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in the hed and above, or that is in the earth and eve, or that is in the water under the earth. You shout a bow down to their more, serve them for either word, your God, and jealous of God, visiting the iniquity the fathers with the children to the third and fourth generation of those who pick me, but showing a stepfast loved the thousands of those who love me, and keep my commandments. Verse seven. You shall not take the name of the Order your God in pain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Verse date. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and throw your work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you should have waiting work, you your son or your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, or your live stock, or the soldier, or is in your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. There are those first four commandments, that first table of the law, if you will, those furtiorial commandments that have to do with our relationship to God. And the second table was the horizontal commandments that have to do with our relationship to our federal Man. And from these commandments we get this law of worship, that every man must worship the One True God rightly, reverently, and regularly. What this means is application. Any man who does not worship God is sinning. Any man who does not worship God is sinning. Do we believe that any man who worships another God is sinning? Any man who worships another God is sinning. Any man who is worshiping a misrepresentation of God is sinning. In other words, a man who is sincere but in error the sinning. So from the first one we get the atheist. Right. The man who is not worshiping God, he's in sin. According to a ball worship because every man must worship. Every man must worship God. So a man who is not worshiping God, a man who chooses not to identify himself as one who believes in God, is sin, not as in his a man who doesn't believe in God, because there's no such thing as a man who doesn't believe in God. Romans Chapter one makes that titter. Not only does every man believe in God, every man knows news of God. Every atheist is not only sinning because of he is not worshiping God, but he's sinning because he's a liar who says he's an atheist when the Bible says he knows God. And then it's a liar. So there's every man who worships another guy. We can get there, right, every man who worships another God. So it's not just a sin for a man to be an atheist. It's a sin for a man to be able to a Buddhist or a Muslim, or Hindu or any of these other things. It's sitting full. It is an affront to the one true Living God. Again, we often have a problem with this because there's the way that we'd rather think. We rather think that really what God wants is for everybody. Everybody gonna be good, right, I mean basically, you know, just live by the mob rule living and I live to unto others as you have been doing to you. And if a person is practicing another religion and that religion is helping them to be a good moral person, we recognize that word talked about that word this morning, giving you right because the ones that that religion is helping them to be a good moral person. And and really it isn't that all that God is? After not? According to the first World of Jeans, it is not enough because it's efficient. Well in there os to go. The other route is that well, actually, aren't we all we all worship with the same God. I mean, really we may call God different things, but essentially we all worship the same God. No, we don't. That's not true. Let's just take it least four that I mentioned, right, Let's take Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Why do I take it these fools? Well, because the argument is that we all worship the same God. Right well, according to Christianity, we worship the one True and Living God, the try human God, God, the Father's Son, the Holy Spirit is one God in three persons. That is the God who we worship. And we say that we worship the saying God that the Muslim is worship. However, according to the Qoran, you shall not say the three The doctrine of the Trinity is not just blasphemy, it is blasphemy and punishable by death. How is it that we can argue that being worship with the same God, But according to Islam, worshiping the God of liable as we see him as a crime punishable by death. And then Buddhists, Buddhist worship the same God. No Budhis of them is actually atheistic. Buddhists don't believe in a God in the same way you and I believe in a God. So now we say we all worship the same God. But the Buddihs don't even worship with God. They hit he's a thousands of the gods. We all worship to the same God. You see how that is logically inconsistent and absolutely impossible. We do not all worship the same God. We don't. And any man who does not worship one for God. Any man who worships another God is sinning. Any man who worships God according to his own design is sinning. Any man who worships God you're refriendly is sinnay. Any man who worships God regularly is sinning. Now here's what I did. I didn't say, you know, if you miss a Sunday, right, you need to get you know, people get sick things. That's not what I say. When I talk about worshiping God very regularly. I talk about those individuals are who are special Ocasian Christians amen is sometimes called them a CMB Christian Christmas Mother's Days too, right, the special occasion Christians. They have no time for God. But when they get married and why he get married in church of the ministry. Right, these individuals, and perhaps the most of the gregious of all is the person who has no time for God and then they die and their body is brought into the church for a funeral when they had no time for God in their life, no time for the worship of the one true and Living God. Now they die and we want to have a worship service. Do you you just say the difference between that and somebody who who didn't make it on us? This is nice? This is you do understand that, right, That's what when that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about occasionally. So our text very simple. Look at those first couple of verses. There godspel all these words saying specifically verse two and three really goes. Three is where we find their commandment. But verse two, verse two is egredient important, not just for the first commandment, but for all the commandments. Verse two sort of the preamble to the ten commandments. This is not just a statement with the first commandment the way it is, it's very important to understanding the first comandment. It's important to understanding all the commandments. I am in the order bred of God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. And then the commandment comes, you shall have no other gods before me. Now this commandment can be confusing, mainly because of the way that it is stated you shall have to know other gods before me, but also because of the pream on the winder regard in argument out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. So here's the way some people miss construe the commandment. It's a clearly what is being stated here is that young way is Israel's government, and Israel is entering into a covenanment with young men. So he is telling Israel and they shouldn't have another government. Certainly, this is not a commandment that can be applied to all of the other people's and all of the other nations out there who have not agreed to enter into this covenant. Again, look at it. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of eater, out of the house of slavery. Obviously, this is a way of seeking to Israel, right, and then he says you you, Israel shall have no other gods before me. This is the way people stated truth is something quite different. First of all, we see the truth in the way that he has seated the preamble. If you will look again at verse two, I am the Lord your God. He doesn't just say I am your God. He says I am the Lord your God. It specifically he says I am Yelloway, you're hello human yaway is the self existent one, the eternal one. What you said here, he is, I am God, and I am your God. I am not just God in general, I am your God. In particular. I am God regardless of whether you acknowledge it or not, regardless of whether you know it or not, I am God. But you is real. Are in a very unique position because not only and I'm God to you like I am God to everyone else and everything else, because I am a self existent one who sold everything into creation, but I have a personal relationship with you in that I have personally chosen you as my people, and I personally brought you out and delivered you from Israel. So God is not saying here that it is referred for you. I'm God. Now for the other people, they have other gods, right the bail and rab whomever. Okay, the pharaohs is themselves of God. That the six seems again, all those people, he said, we don't want all those people have their gods. But right now, right here, this is just you and me, and we're getting ready to make this special govenant. And in this special covenant, we're gonna agree that between us I'm gonna be God for you. It's not what's being stated here. God is emphasizing the special and personal relationship between himself and israelth So that's the first thing. The grammar of many uses here makes it clear that this is not God saying I'm your God. Other people have their goellens. When he identifies himself as a good way, he is identified themsel as God. Period end of discussion. He is God. We must worship God because he is God. Secondly, beyond that, it's Israel's place. Beyond understanding just the grammar, when we understand it's rest place as a nation. It makes it clear that God is not just saying that this is limited to the nation of Israel. Genesis, chapter twelve, verses one to three. Remember one of the rights. Next is a lot of passages we're going to talk about here. Some of them are more familiar than the others. This is one of the more familiar ones. Now, the Lord said to April, go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you, and I will make him of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your a name angry. So that he will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you, I will curse, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. In you, in Abraham, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So even from the establishment of the Abraham Covenant, remember Abraham, there are Jews. Abraham Abraham. That comes the first clue. He's of another ethnicity, and God creates an ethnicity for hidden through the covenant. Has nothing to do with this blood life. There no nothing at all to do with this blood line. They are an Oman who shared his blood line terrorised author, But it wasn't terror his father with whom God establishes this covenant. It is a man with whom God establishes this covenant. So again, this is not a bloodline covenant. And through this covenant, God says he who bless all the families of the earth. It was never entertaining that Israel would be off in a corner somewhere, hiding the reality of who God is under a bushem, even in Exodus Exodus ninety sixteen, and in the purpose of the Exodus. But for this purpose I had raised you up, God says to Pharaoh, to show you my power, so that by name they'd be proclaimed in all the earth. God says, I am delivering Israel from you, the smallest and most insignificant nation in the everybody. That God chose Israel because they were small and insignibitant. And then this small and insignificant nation that wasn't a nation, this family goes into captivity in Egypt and they become a nation. And then you come into the livers them from the most powerful nation in the perth, so that he could demonstrate his power throughout the earth, and so everyone would know he is gone, dude, only twenty eight to twenty all the people said that the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you, you little tiny Israel. This is true of the Temple, that's true of Israel. Was worship all of it, all of it to point to who God is. God chooses Israel as a vehicle to proclaim himself to the world, to introduce himself to the world. This tiny nation, who he places where not in an insignificant place, but he places them in the most significant language on earth. A little, tiny piece of land that connects Asia, Africa, and Europe. And all of the greatest civilizations in the history of the world, certainly all of them in the ancient East ward over and fought over this tiny piece of land. And God gave to a tiny nation called Israel. Why he puts them in the center of the universe. He puts their temple at the center of the universe so that the world can see and know that He is gone. Not only do we see this through just the grammar there and the way that God introduces himself, and now only do we see this through through the very purpose of Israel's existence, but it's also clear from the fact that God judges all the nations. Again, we must worship God because he's God, and he makes that clear from this first command, not just for Israel, but for the world. And God judges the nations. So twenty two Verses twenty seven and twenty eight, all the is of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship it before you, For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations. So forty six ten be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. Among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth, not us Israel pslemnaty to eight. Arise O, God, judge the earth, for you shall inherit all the nations. Psalm ninety six y ten say among the nations the Lord reigns. Yes, the world is established. It shall never be moved people to judge the peoples with equity, which peoples all peoples. Because he is God. We must worship God, because he is God. Every man must worship God, because he is God. You're not an incipent because you're not in Israelite. You're not exhibit because you weren't born a Christian. You're not exhibit because you weren't born where the Bible is, every man must worship the blood run living God. And in the next stress, when we talk about the application of this, one of the applications of this missions, why don't we evangelis this? Why do we do missions? I've said it many times that I've put a job talk about this many times because I believe it's so funny. Hyper argues that the missions exists because worship does not. We cannot be satisfied until everybow bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God and Father. It is not okay that there is one man anywhere in one corner of the earth who is not worshiping the One True and Living God. That's fun. We do mission, that's fun. It's not a man's syn view. It's a god's senator view. Our desire is that Christ might have the fullness of the reward for which he died. Every man must worship the wonder True and the Living to God. Every nation will be just try God. We see this clearity in the relations chapter six. Look at the relationship six, not the baby. Whether or not we read the gold thing, but it's just it's seventeen verses and it makes the point. It makes the point. You got the land before the throne in chapter four to five, and John weeping because there's there's no one worthy to open this grove, no one worthy to break in seals. And then here's the land and the slain and worthy to break the seals. And in chapter four, chapter five, there is a worship in heaven, glorious worship in heaven for the God who's worth your horses? When we talk about that, But then he breaks the seals. There's worship in chapters forty five because he's worthy to break the seals and open the scrolls. But what does it mean to break the seals and open this rolls? Chapter six, Verse one. Now I watched when the man opened one of the out of the seals, and I heard one of the world creatures singing a loud voice by thunder come, And I look look at behold a white horse, and its rider had a boat, and the crown was given to him, and he came out conquering and to conquer. Verse three. When he opened the second sealing, I heard the second of the bead to say come, and I became another horse, bright red. It's ride horse was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword. When he opened the third though, I heard the third to say come, And I looked and behold a black horse, and its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four of the creatures, saying a quarter of weak for Adinarius and three quarts of bar lead for a denarius, and do not harm the over the wine. When they were with the fourth Siel, I heard the voice of the fourth of the vid we just say come. And I looked and behold a pale horse, and its rider's fame was of death, and hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth to kill with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, and by the wild pieces of the earth. When you opened the fifth, see of our salt under the arms or the souls of those who had been slain me for the word God, for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a lah voice, Little sovereign Lord Holy, if you were how long before you were judged? And avenge our blood on those who dwelt on the earth. Then they were each gittering a road, and told to rest us no longer, And so the number of their fellow saves, of their fellow servants, and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been. When he opened the CITs to seal, I looked and behold there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as syclicals, and the rich and the powerful, everyone's slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, called into the mountains, and rocks fall of us and hide us from the face of him who was seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come. And who can't stand and ask you a question? If the law of God only applies to Israel, who agreed to that government? Wise the whole earth judged at the into the age. Because this is Cousino brand, everyone to hall, didn't hit free shot and break the President, Pope and the city work who can each will hold water off? And the unoff and the over four four over the hands board forty sports and excuses, sir, it's run dynamic, heard from the ship from sea, riceful story come to me and we're gonna be here to get her. Or at a hop plastic sisters, three really random spots. Now this literal word because the shorts didn't see the great hip hop the worst short or look the first words there. There's the union, work, work, goods man matter, He's a man, that's the count until the missions like what man, of course man, because he is he gonna beat that he doesn't be because he works. He signed on the isn't he doesn't not as you speaking against hes on times Bors goes to finishing her for say two twelve times changed the number for such a man sister that makes depp because it's not up man and such a pop. 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Sometimes we don't want you because he's worried. We we can, we can be here from the rest of the night, reading scriptures that point that point to this and describe worth to God. But but I wanted to be one in particularson. It's interesting you would you would think that you know, would be a psalm of something or other, right, But I just don't know that this truth is encapsulated any more clearly and succinctly. We're gonna find in the Romans Chapter eleven. Romans eleven, the last three verses of a little Romans. You're getting verse thirty three, Oh, the death of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments and how insuitable his ways? For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor, or who has given him a gift to him that he might be repaid for from him, and through him and to him are all famous. To him be glory forever on him. God is worthy of worship, So we we must. We must worship the One of the truth and giving God. We must do so because commandity. We must do so, because He's worthy of it. The what does this command require? This commandment is not just saying that we have to make a decision to agree that God is God. The summary of this commandment is found in a number of places. Jesus refers to it, and he's asked the greatest commandment, and he summarizes the first four commandments when he says, love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your spriend That is what's required in this commandment, that with every thought, and in every deed, and with every breath and fiber and sinion, you acknowledge God as God and your God. And never for one nano second allow anything in your mind or in cactuality to even begin to compete with the place of God in your life. You can't do that. You can't even get through a church service without your mind on it. They say, Amen, you want to say a right, you can't. I mean you can't you get able to read your body in the morning and you read two verses and then you're like, wait, ay, man, God, you you can't. You can't you following you can't I guess to what Christ did? Christ from the place of God's pregnant in his mind. This is this from the Westminster Parture Catechism. And we'll get through some way this in the catechisms about the First Commandment. Question one oh five asked the question what are the sins forbidden in the First Commandment? And the goal here was, mister larger catechism is to sort of compile and understanding it from the whole Council of God of what it actually means when you look intoto a TALENTI scripture. And again this is not exhaustive, but let's just do something. Who aim you all, Let's use to some of those the answering question in one O five. Remember what are the sins forbid in the First Commandment? The sins forbidden in the First Commandment are atheism in denying or not having the God, idology, in having or worshiping more gods than one, or anything with the or instead of the true God. Okay, fine, rare. We're Christians, we're unwistanding. But wait a minute. You became a Christian, which means that before you became a Christian you were guilty of violating this. Praise God for the blood, amenity, and even as a Christian you don't keep this perfect. But that's just the first say. The not having and avouching him for God or our God, the omission or neglect of anything due to him, anything due to him, the omission or neglect of anything due to Him required in his commandments, ignorance, forgetfulness, misapprehensions, false opinions, unworthy or wicked thoughts of him. You might rest, I'm not bold and curious searching into his secrets, all profaneness, hatred of God, self love, self seeking, all other inordinate or immoderate setting of our mind, will or affections upon other things, and taking him off from Him, in whole or in part. Vain, credulity, unbelieved heresy, misbelief and distrust, despair, encouragibleness and insensibleness, under judgments, partness of heart, tribe, presumption, carnal security, timiding of God, use it unlawful means, and trusting it in lawful means carnal delights, enjoys me to go on and on and all because this is an issue of the heart. The first Commandment demands that God be enthroned on your heart and that nothing ever be allowed to compete with Him in thought, word or indeed, do you see that's the heart of the commandment. I mean, this was Jesus and in the sil on the mound he's doing some of this this safe stuff here, and the Westminster rhymes are really taking a theologically cute from that change. Jesus says, any way, you've heard, you've read to command it right, you shall not commit adultry. And you think that you think that you're fine because you haven't technically committed adultry. But here's what I want you to know. The commandment goes deeper. The commandment goes to the heart. If you've ever looked on another person with lust in your heart, you haven't done on the inside. But the commandment for business, because of the commandment, it is not I sais not just about other outward observance, but about inward and absolute perfect compliance and righteousness. And so when it comes to the first community, it is the infronement of the one true and living God in your heart work, and nothing effort, not for a second being amounted to interfere with, compete with, or compromise His place on that throne. By the way, everything that you believe about God that is wrong is a violation of the first commander, because that's not who God is. You realize when you believe something wrongly about God, you've throned God on your heart, and you say, I'm in throning you God. You're the one who is a sea. But the ethens you are not true of God, which means that you've been thrown something that's not the God the Bible, which means we violated the first commandment. In your it's in to keep the first command which is why I say, Dad, you can't keep their compui, But Christ did on your behalf. He can't this law perfectly, and it was without sin. And in that great exchange where we come to Him and your pipotence and faith, his righteousness is perfect. Righteousness is imputed to us, and our sinfulness is impautity. You and I break this commandment all day every day, and it was nailed to the cross, and I er it no more. Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord on myself, and then it was nailed to the cross. But that's only half the story. Christ's perfect righteousness and keeping the First Commandment, which which we really we can't. We can't keep the First Commandment for a man. But He's perfect keeping of it has been imputed to us. He took our seithfulness and gave us imputed to us his righteousness. So we stand before God, holy righteous, complete, forgiven, perfected in Christ. And it is this important because it comes full sum when we worship. And again this is about the law of worship. And when we worship, this is part of the reason that we worship. We worship God for who he is. Amen, we also worship God for what he's done. What is the preamble, I am the Lord your God, who brought him out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. And in Egypt and slavery, it becomes, over the course of redemptive history, a picture of what a picture of God delivering his people from the mind interesting. So, on the one hand, the law is this blunt instrument that says you are guilty because you must worship the one you are living God, perfectly. You must do it because of demented, and he must do it because he's worthy of it. And you don't do it, you can't do it. And just when we feel like we're about to be beating down and destroy it by this unway for an unforgiving law, the grace of God comes and says that all of that is true, and Christ Jesus paid it all all to him. I know said had left your criticisms saying he wants the wife so and so. In our worship, there's this this dance we do if you will, Oh, that's just talking about nas between our humble and repentant and acknowledgement of our guilty and our overwhelming and rejoicing in the grace of God and the gift of God to the person and work of Christ, who takes away that every man must worship, going true God right, being reverently and braverment. And then we examine the first of these requirements, we find ourselves falling and wovely, shirt but God and being rich and brasing because the great love with which He loved has made us alive. Together with Christ grace, you can can say fleet to Christ, for he has fulfilled the law of worship on my life and makes us worthy to offer perfect worship to a perfect God. That's better. Gracious God, our heavenly Father, about before you, and all those things are important. You are, gracious God. That is the only way we can come for you and not be consumed by your holiness. And you are our heaven and a father. Though our sins would disqualify us, You are our heavenly Father, would give your only begotten son to pay the penalty that we owed. You may be him who knew no sin to become a sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in rip. What an amazing, overwhelming truth, Grandma, your grace that in our worship, who might keep it? If the fee front of our minds as we set our heart's attention and mind's affection on your brace, your folks, who you are and full of being done. Thank you for the great privilege of being called the children of God, being your presence, being among your people, and offering your worship that you deserve, that you demand, that you require, and that apart from Christ, we can never offer. By your Chrism through these wend we are more than able. We are more than conquerors. And you offer to you this worship because you are indeed the one true being God, and you are worthy. You pray these things, and Jesus