Hallowed Be Your Name

Introduction (3 mins)

Cross Conference

Early this year, in January, our young adults group attended a virtual missions conference called the Cross Conference. It was such an encouraging time of worship and learning from pastors like Trip Lee, David Platt, Kevin DeYoung and John Piper as they preached together through the Lord’s Prayer. I would say that everyone in our group grew in their passion for being a Great Commission people with a few members expressing immediate interest in global and local missions.

It was during that conference that I heard a message that absolutely transformed my prayer life and resonated with so much of what I had learned from preaching in Deuteronomy last fall and with so much of what I was about to learn in the months that followed. The message was by John Piper who was preaching on our passage for this morning, Matthew 6:9, “9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.”I say all of this because I want to give credit to where it is do, because I will be making the same main point as Piper today. And I will be doing that because what I want to do is bring you to the same table that Piper brought the Union young adults group to in January and give you a taste of the sweet truths that are in this single verse.

Structure and Main Point

Today we will be looking at the entirety of verse 9 which I have divided into three parts. In 9a we will learn How to Pray, and also How not to Pray. In 9b we will see Who We Pray to, and in 9c we will learn Why and What we Pray.

How to Pray - 9a

Who we Pray to - 9b

Why and What we Pray - 9c

And the main idea today is that the ultimate purpose of prayer and the ultimate petition we ask of the Father is this - that He would hallow His name in our hearts. The why and the what of prayers must always be this: Father, hallow your name in our hearts.

Transition

So then, lets begin by looking at the first part of verse 9, How to Pray.

How to Pray - 9a

How Not to Pray - Mathew 6:1-8

The Lord’s prayer in Matthew actually falls right in the middle of Jesus’ sermon on the Mount. This is the sermon that begins in Matthew 5 with those famous blessings, called the beatitudes, and His teachings on the 10 commandments which focus not on outward adherence to the law but on the attitudes of the heart.

But In chapter 6, Jesus transitions from teaching on inward righteousness to addressing the outward, performative righteousness that was so common in the life of the Judaizers. Jesus gives 3 examples of the hypocrisy that was rampant in the religious culture of His day. In verses 2-4 He warns His followers against giving for the purpose of being seen. In verses 5-15 He teaches against the common practice of praying to be seen and heard by others. And in verses 16-18 He addresses the performance of dressing up so in a way that everyone would know that you were fasting.

Instead, Jesus instructs His disciples to “give in secret” - verse 4, “to pray in secret” - verse 6, and fast in a way that people won’t know when they see you - verse 17. And then He gives this promise three times after each instruction, “your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.”

The Main Message

So when you step back and look at this entire section the main message is this: The outward actions of the spiritual life, of giving, praying and fasting, should not be done for the miniscule glory and honor that mere men can give. Instead they must but done in secret and for the glory of God who will bless us. Our good works, our holiness and devotion to God should never be done as a performance for others to see. Now, others may see our acts of obedience to God. In fact, earlier in the sermon on the mount, Jesus says this, “16 “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” The point is not to hide your holiness. The point is to be holy for your Father in Heaven is Holy - to give and to pray and to fast and to sing and to serve in such a way that the attention and the honor and the glory is all God’s.

Transition - Pray in this way

Which brings us back to Jesus section on prayer in chapter 6. The prayer of the religious hypocrites was characterized by being incredibly long, loud and filled with empty phrases so that, as Jesus puts it in verse 5, “they will be heard for their many words.” Jesus then transitions in verse 8 to teach us how to pray, “8 “So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him” - verse 9 - “Pray, then, in this way:” And in the next 5 verses Jesus will expand on how to pray. But in the context, what we see is that we must beware of praying like the hypocrite Judaizers. We must not pray for the ears of men, seeking to impress others or even coax and convince God but instead we are instructed by our Lord to come before our Good in prayer with a heart of humility - like a young child coming to share with His tender Father.

Which leads us into our next point - Who We Pray to

Who We Pray to - 9b

Something New

Look back at verse 9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven...”

Too Familiar with our Father

When we live this side of the cross and we hear this most familiar prayer, oftentimes the amazing reality that Jesus is teaching is lost on us. We pray to Our Father. This reality would have been mind blowing for Jesus’ original hearers. Old Testament scholar Joachim Jeremias in his writing on this prayer makes the argument that no Jew would have ever addressed God directly as “my Father” or “Abba” which is the Aramaic word most likely used by Jesus here. In fact, the Jews condemned Jesus for doing this very thing in John 5:18, “18 For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.”

So take a moment and try to remove the apathy or familiarity to this reality that might have crept into your heart. Jesus isn’t just teaching us how to pray here. He is showing us something new. He is revealing a gospel mystery to His hearers - a mystery that makes prayer possible. And the mystery is this, we can pray and we can have our prayers answered because we pray to our Father, the God of the universe, the Creator of all things, the sovereign Lord of all. And we pray to Him as our Father because we have been adopted as His children into His family.

Father-Son Relationship

In the book of Matthew, every time Jesus prays, He calls God Father. Why? Because He has a Father-and-Son relationship with God - He is the Son of God. But what Jesus is revealing is that this relationship to God as His child can be true for those who have believed in Jesus Christ, who have had their sins washed clean by His blood, who have turned from enmity against God to following after the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 1:12–13 NASB95

12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

This is what John teaches in His gospel - John 1:12, “12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” If you’ve been born again, you are God’s child. And then at the end of John, as we learned this past Easter, when Jesus rose victoriously from the dead on the 3rd day He triumphantly instructed Mary to give this message to His blood bought disciples, “go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’” John 20:17. If Jesus has been raised from the dead, which He has, Amen? We have the right to be called His brothers and sisters, to call His Father our Father.

Romans 8:15 NASB95

15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

This is also what we see from Paul who writes this to the Romans in Romans 8:15, “15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”’ We call God Abba Father because we have received a spirit of adoption as His sons and daughters. Paul further develops this doctrine in Ephesians where He makes the point that we were once dead in our sins, living in the passions of our flesh, carrying out our sinful desires, by nature children of wrath. Ephesians 2:4-5, “4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).” We have been made alive, raised from our dead spiritual state, redeemed through Christ’s blood, forgiven of our sins, seated with Christ where He lavishes us with His grace, and gives us every spiritual blessing, granting us an inheritance and sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

Why? Why has He done this? We did He pour out His mercy and His love upon us? How do we come to receive these invaluable treasures from Him? Ephesians 1:5, “5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself” These are our benefits, our blessings, because we have been made God’s children through Christ Jesus. When we are born again, when we believe on Him in faith we are united with Christ. We are in Christ, and we receive His privileges, His position, His provision for we have been adopted as sons through Him.

Gospel Connection

All of this amazing reality is packed into that one phrase - our Father. Every time you pray, stop and marvel at the wonderful mystery of calling God “Father.”

And if you are here and you do not know Him as Father - if you have not believed in the Son and received Him as your only Savior from your sins and followed after Him as your Lord and Master of your life - this is not a reality that you share in right now. As I just read, you are not God’s child but you are a child of wrath - you are still at war with Him. Instead of following Christ you are choosing to carry out our sinful desires. Instead of living as His disciple, following Him and His ways, you are living out the passions of your flesh. Instead of blessing and inheritance you have judgement.

Oh dear friend, stop running and stop working to earn a seat at the family table in God’s house. Jesus came to save sinners like me and like you - believe that He does. Cry out to Him for forgiveness. Believe that He died for your sins. That He rose from the dead to give you eternal life. Leave your sins and your lusts and your wicked passions behind and follow Him and you too can be adopted through Him into God’s family. You too can call the God of the Universe my Father.

A Father who Hears

Now, remember that I said, this mystery - that God is our Father - is what makes prayer possible. Charles Simeon makes this point, “if we are his children by adoption and grace, what may we not expect at his hands? When we come to him as members of that great family, pleading for ourselves individually, and for the whole collectively, and addressing him in the name of all, as “our Father,” I think he cannot turn away his ear from us: “We may ask what we will, and it shall be done unto us.” Only let us come with “a spirit of adoption, crying, Abba, Father!” and, however “wide we may open our mouths, he will fill them.”

Matthew 7:7–11 NASB95

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 “Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? 10 “Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? 11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

And of course Simeon is making his point as you draws from Jesus’ own teaching just a few verses later in chapter 7:9-11, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.9 “Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? 10 “Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? 11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!”

God entertains our prayers because we are His children, His sons and His daughters. We have this intimate and personal relationship with the God who is in Heaven as Jesus says in our passage. The majestic One who is High and Lifted up, Who is sitting on His Kingly throne with the Cherubim flying around singing Holy, Holy, Holy - we call Him “Abba”.

The Fruit of Praying to your Father

To be able to come to God as our Father in prayer should mean the end of our feelings of loneliness or our fears of rejection and inadequacy due to our own failures. He is a Faithful Father who has promised to never forsake us. To be able to come to God as our Father in prayer should fill us with hope and calm any anxiety we might have - if an earthly father will give all he has to protect and provide for his children, how much more will our perfect Father in heaven provide for and protect us.

Application

In light of this reality let me just share this application from Charles Simeon, “those who account prayer a drudgery…are bitter enemies to their own souls.” You are keeping yourself from the sweetest if you, like me, struggle to pray, let that statement from Pastor Charles snap you out of it. Stop warring against yourself, stop being an enemy to your soul. Sons and daughters of God, pray! Just pray! And when you pray, pray with wonder in your heart to your Father in Heaven.

Which brings me to our last section - Why and What We Pray

Why and What We Pray (9c)

1 of 6 Petitions

Matthew 6:9–13 NASB95

9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread. 12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’

First notice with me the structure of the Lord’s Prayer. Listen as I read verses 9-13, “9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread. 12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” What Jesus gives us here are two sets of petitions or requests. The first set - “hallowed be your name” and “your kingdom come” and “Your will be done” are petitions for the manifestation of God’s glory. The second set of petitions - “give us daily bread” and “forgive our debts” and, “deliver us from evil” relate to, as Calvin puts it, “those things which are necessary for our salvation.”

Requests not Praise

Now this may not be news to you, but it was very new to me when I first heard this text preached. For my entire life up until this past January, I had always assumed that that first set of three were acclamations of praise - Your name is hallowed, your kingdom will come, your will will be done. But that’s not the case here. Jesus is instructing us to ask these things of God. To request, to plead with our Father that He would cause His name to be hallowed, that He would bring His Kingdom, that He would accomplish His will. As I will point out later, this is a stunning and comforting reality, that we are to ask God to accomplish these things in us and in the world.

Hallowed?

So what exactly are we asking for when we plead with our Father, “hallowed be your name”? What does it mean to hallow His name? The word hallow is from the greek word for sanctify, or set apart, or make holy. But God is already holy. He is three times holy. What does Jesus mean here? How do we sanctify the one who is perfectly holy?

1 Peter 3:15 NASB95

15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;

There is one other place in the New Testament where this word hallowed or sanctify is used in reference to God and we just studied it a few months ago and it’s in 1 Peter 3:15, which is on your handout there, “15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;” - Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts

It’s from this use of the word that we can rightly understand what Jesus means: we are to request that God cause us to see Him as He is - Holy, to value Him as holy, esteem Him as holy, treasure Him as holy. And God’s holiness does not just denote His perfect righteousness but it ultimately describes His complete supremacy, His utter uniqueness, His ultimate transcendence. Do you view God this way? Pray that He would cause you to.

Commandments 1 & 2

Remember what we learned in Deuteronomy. Israel first commandment was this: have no other God’s before YHWH - why? Because there was no other God besides YHWH. He is supreme. He alone existed before the creation of the natural world and the supernatural world - He is the pre-existent Creator God. Think of Israel’s second command - do not make an idol or likeness to worship or serve - why? YHWH says, “for I, YHWH your God am a jealous God.” You must not bring the Creator God down to the level of created things by giving your worship and devotion to idols. He is transcendent. And so, in the Shema we saw that the only proper response to being in relationship with this God was this: love Him with all your heart, all your soul, and all your might. The heart of the entire law was this: Israel was to love God by choosing Him over and above anyone else and choosing to heed what He has to say in every situation. Because He is the only God and the only God for them. They were to hallow His name.

YHWH Reveals His Name

And His name is not just limited to all the names of God in the Bible. Which is what I think naturally comes to mind here. But think of how, in Exodus 34, when Moses “calls upon the name of the Lord” YHWH passed by in front of Him and proclaimed His name to Moses saying, ‘“The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; 7 who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin...”(Ex. 34:6–7) - His name then represents all that He is as God - His divine nature and His divine character. To hallow God’s name then is to hallow God as God. To set Him apart in His proper place - as the supreme and transcendent and holy and only God.

The New Moses on the Mount

Now I make this connection back to Deuteronomy because Jesus intentionally connected Himself back to Moses with the sermon on the mount. Deuteronomy was also a sermon, given by Moses on a mountain. But Jesus’ sermon was different. The latter half of that sermon by Moses was characterized by this phrase, “cursed shall you be...”but Jesus sermon begins “blessed are those”. Jesus reframes the commandments for His new covenant people by emphasizing the need for obedience from the heart. And when we come to our first request of the Lord’s Prayer we see something wonderful, Jesus instructs us to ask God to accomplish what He commanded for the Israelites - “hallow your name in us. Sanctify your name. Cause us to see you as supreme, to see you as transcendent. Help us Father to see that you are in a class by yourself, that you are alone God, that you are utterly unique and infinitely pure. Help us Father to see you as the ultimate treasure worthy of all of our worship and devotion.” As Piper puts it, “‘Hallowed be your name!” is a prayer, a yearning, a pleading from God’s people to God that he would cause his name to be hallowed, reverenced, revered, esteemed, valued, honored, admired, loved, and cherished. Supremely.”’

1st Among 6

But where in us is His name to be hallowed? In our hearts. Which brings me to my main point today, and this is what was so eye openning for me when I first heard it from Piper’s sermon in January. The first petition in the Lord’s Prayer is not just one amongst the first set of three. It is unique, it is distinguished, it is highlighted by the reality that this petition explicitly pleads with God to make a heart change. And its the only one that does that. It stands alone amongst the other five requests. The other five requests are for God to accomplish that which is external to us. Surely bringing about His kingdom, accomplishing His will, and seeking His provision, and forgiving us from our debts and delivering us from evil involve a heart response. But this firs petition explicitly requests that God accomplish something inside of us. In our hearts.

Which makes this first petition the ultimate and primary petition in the Lord’s Prayer. The first set of three requests isn’t just served by the second set of three requests. But the first request -that God’s name be hallowed in us - is served by the next five. His Kingdom comes so that His name would be hallowed in all the earth by every tongue making the confession that He is Lord. His will, His purpose, His plan for all of creation is for the hallowing of His name. Our lives are sustained by daily bread so that His name is hallowed in our existence and by our worship. Our sins have been forgiven so that we will hallow His name for all eternity in His holy presence. We are protected from temptation so that we may hallow His name by being conformed more and more into His image. These other five requests are essential to pray for, but they are not ultimate requests - they are penultimate. They serve the first one

So then the ultimate purpose of the universe, the ultimate purpose of prayer, and the ultimate request that we must ask of our Heavenly Father is this: Hallowed be your name.

Why Jesus Came, Why We Pray

Is this not what Jesus said was His ultimate purpose in coming? When Jesus comes to His final hour, as He is praying to His Father in the Garden He says this, John 12:27-28, ‘“27 Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. 28 “Father, glorify Your name.” Surely Jesus came to this earth to save sinners - but for what purpose? Why were you and I ultimately saved? To glorify His name, to magnify His name, to hallow His name so that in the end there will be, as John saw in Revelation 7, “a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

This is the purpose of our salvation in Christ Jesus - that God’s name be glorified, that it be treasured, that it be hallowed. Forever and ever. Amen. And again the ultimate purpose of prayer and the ultimate petition we ask of our Heavenly Father is the same ultimate purpose of our salvation, of God’s grand redemptive plan - that He would hallow His name in our hearts. Dear saints, may we ever and always pray for this!

Concluding Applications

Repent, believe, and follow after Christ and be adopted into God’s family

Pray as our Savior instructs us - Hallowed be your name

Feeling too guilty, shameful, or insufficient to pray? Run to your Father!

The Struggle of the Flesh

Now, it is so crucial that we understand that this is something we ask God to accomplish. It is so easy to hear this lofty and amazing calling to glorify God, to praise Him and worship Him and then feel so inadequate, so weak, for that amazing purpose to feel so weighty that it’s just beyond you. And there’s a reason for that. The natural tendency of our heart as human beings is to do the exact opposite. We are marred by the stain of sin so that, as we will see in our study through Romans 1 in the coming weeks we exchange the glory of the incorruptible God for an image of man, or of creatures or of our own heart. We worship the creation rather than the creator because we exchange the truth of God, that He is transcendent, supreme, infinitely pure, for a lie. Naturally we do not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him. That’s our nature.

But praise be to God that He gives us a new heart, that He transforms us, that He regenerates us with the Holy Spirit so that we are born again. So that we are new creatures in Christ with hearts that are freed from enslavement to that sin - that are free follow Him, free to hallow HIs name. So then, as those who have this new heart, who are able to worship God and love God as He desires -how does our savior instruct us to pray? Father help me to hallow your name in this new heart flesh you have given me. It’s not easy. It’s a daily battle. But isn’t it sweet and comforting and encouraging that our Savior instructs us here to ask our Father for help?

Now maybe you are here and you are still saying to yourself, this is too lofty, too glorious, too much. Perhaps you are here and you feel weighed down by the guilt and shame of your sin and your lack of faithfulness to God and that’s keeping you from prayer. Or Maybe you are suffering and struggling and God feels far off and the last thing that you can think about doing is bringing yourself to pray. Possibly you feel guilty because your prayer life has been non-existent lately and you have this lie about God lingering in the back of your mind that He is just like you, that when you come him, he might give you the cold shoulder so to speak and return the same distant attitude you’ve had toward Him. And I’m speaking from experience, I’ve had all of these thoughts and doubts and insecurities in my mind and in my heart , even as recent as last week.

What I want to say to those of you who are in that place right now is this, God is your Father in Heaven. His love and His faithfulness is not like yours. He will not return your coldness and lack of consistency with a coldness of His own. He will not be indifferent to you when you come to Him in prayer. You are His child in Christ. You have been adopted through Christ Jesus. Which means this, your faithfulness and your righteousness before and toward God is not your own but is Christ’s perfect righteousness and perfect faithfulness to His Father.

In the Gospel of Luke, we see Christ illustrate God’s heart toward His wayward child who comes home to Him. I am speaking of the parable of the prodigal son. Think back to the climax of the story. The son reaches rock bottom in his failure and faithlessness and he comes to his senses and decides to return home. Listen as I read starting in Luke 15:20, “20 “So he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 21 “And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 “But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; 23 and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; 24 for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.” This is the heart of your Father toward you - He is so filled with compassion that He is longing and looking for you to come home and when you do, He runs to you to embrace you in His arms. Oh dear brothers and sisters, run to Him in prayer, and plead with your Father, hallowed be your name in my heart again.

And if that still doesn’t silence your doubts, let me give you one last argument. Think of these three realities: 1. We are praying to our Father, our Father who will not withhold His good gifts. 2. We are praying for Him to accomplish in us His ultimate purpose - to hallow His name in us. And 3. when we pray like this, we are doing so in obedience to the teaching of Jesus our Lord. Will He not answer this request by saying, yes my child?

Restate Main Point

Again, this is the ultimate purpose of our prayer and the primary request that we must ask - Father God hallow your name, glorify your name, sanctify your name, magnify your name in my heart, in this church, in the hearts of my family members, of my coworkers, of my classmates, of my neighbors, of the people in this city and in this country, in the hearts of the governor and the president, in the hearts of the people in Turkey, and Cameroon and Mexico and Myanmar and in all the world. Cause us to see your beauty, to fear you as God, to treasure you above all, to worship you and you alone, to love you with a love so devoted that all others loves look like hate in comparison. Hallowed be your name in our hearts O God. May we pray, then, like this.

Let’s pray.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, hallow your name in us today we pray. Be our vision, Oh High King of Heaven, make yourself first and only in our hearts, in our church, in our city, in our country in our world. Lord transform us so that we magnify your name, that we treasure your name, that we glorify your name And Lord we pray that you would also keep us from pride as we pray and as we live for you. Keep us from seeking the reward of man’s empty praise. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

Benediction

The ultimate purpose of prayer and the ultimate petition we ask of the Father is this - that He would hallow His name in our hearts. The why and the what of prayers must always be this: Father, hallow your name in our hearts.

“20 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever.” to which we all say, “Amen.”