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0:42Looking at 1 Corinthians 13, looking at what love is, let me go ahead and read those verses to you, beginning in verse 4. Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous, love does not brag, and it is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. That's what love does.

1:21Love is the more excellent way. Paul, beginning at the end of verse, looking going back a Few verses looking at chapter 12 and verse 31, and now I show you still a more excellent way. And that excellent way, I'll just read through up to verse 3. If I speak with the tongues of men and angels but do not have love, I become a noisy gong or a clinging symbol. If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. And I give all my possessions to feed the poor and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. That's a remarkable statement. You can have all the gifts, all the knowledge, make tremendous sacrifices, and if you do not have love, it profits nothing. What a statement. I think one of the most important things that we can do as a church is to grow in our ability to love one another.

2:43Looking back at 1 Corinthians, the Corinthian church was a church of many divisions. They were prideful, impatient with one another, unkind. They were filled with all kinds of jealousy and self-love. And then Paul's message is... We just read, this is what love is, but the problem is you don't love because you're spiritually immature. So it is the task, it is the duty, it is the journey of Christian sanctification, or the Christian and Christian sanctification is to learn to love like Christ loved. That's what real love is. And learning how to do that is really what we are to do. It's going to take a series of deaths. Love, by its very virtue, by its very definition, is something that is flowing. It is something that is moving. It is like a river. It is dynamic. It is not static. And there are 15 verbs in 1 Corinthians 13, 4 through 7. 15 verbs, 7 positive, 8 are negative. And each thing describes what is antagonistic to our self-ego. Right? Love does what our self-ego won't do. Love doesn't do what our self-ego does.

4:19And so love is patient, kind, not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant. It does not act unbecomingly. It does not seek its own. It is not provoked. Does not take into an action a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. So, as we review, love is, we've already looked at this one, love is patient. The verb, I'm trying to translate these into verbs, so that love is waiting. That's really what patience is: it's waiting, love is waiting, love is kind, that is, love is helping as its motivation to help. Love is not jealous, that is, love is not coveting. It's by very nature, if you're coveting something, you are not loving, you are loving yourself. You're not loving.

5:18If you're envious of somebody, you are certainly not loving them, but loving self. So, tonight, we want to look at a couple more in verse 4. We'll just hopefully get through this verse and look at two more. Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous, love does not brag and is not arrogant. We'll look at the first one: love does not brag and is not arrogant. These two are very similar, yet there's a distinction, and so we want to walk through that.

5:52Love does not brag. It's a verb. Surprised. I don't know why we translated it. I don't know why this. Translations go this way, but this is what they do. But they miss the verbal. It's the act of speaking arrogantly. That's what bragging is, right? It's the act of speaking arrogantly in a conceited manner, talking in a conceited manner. And love is absolutely not bragging. It is not going. And you think about that. Why is that? Just love, what does conceited speech indicate?

6:41You can talk to me. I'm better. I'm better. I got something going here. I got something going that you need to know about. That's a self-love, right? That's not an arrogant speech. Arrogant speech. It is not bragging. A bragging spirit seeks to elevate itself by basically showing off. That's what a bragging spirit does. That's what arrogant speech is. It's like, he's like, you may not catch this, but I'm really something. And most of the time, it's our own imagination. We're a lot greater than we think we're a lot greater than we really are. So we've got to tell everybody we're a lot greater than we really are. And so that we can convince them, right? But a bragging spirit, that's what it seeks to elevate. Itself. I want to show off. I want to sport what I have that distinguishes me. That's what we do. We want to be distinguished. And so we look around, we look at others, and we think about, oh, I've got something going that this person doesn't have. I've got more than this. And so there is this bragging spirit. We use our mouth to say things.

7:56We use our language, our body language, or whatever, to say things that elevates ourselves by showing off. You know, you look back and it says, love is not jealous, right? Love is not coveting. Well, bragging, if you think about what jealousy is or what coveting is, it's wanting something that somebody else has. Well, bragging flips that around. Bragging seeks to make somebody else jealous over what you have or are or have accomplished. You see what bragging does, right? You're trying to make somebody else envious for what you have or what you can do or whatever.

8:47I think of a military parade. You know what a military parade is, right? You see a nation go out and sport their military power. What are they doing? Showing off. Why are they showing off? To show their supremacy, right? They want to show you that, and they sport think, boy, look at some of these military parades. And you see all this equipment out there paraded up and down. Like, look at our might. Look at our power.

9:24That's what bragging is about. Setting yourself up, showing, displaying. And as you read the book of 1 Corinthians, you become very aware that the Corinthian church cared very little for order in their services, for true fellowship with one another. They cared very little about building one another up. What they cared about was showing off. Showing off their knowledge, showing off their teachers, who discipled them, showing off their gifts, showing off. They would interrupt, they'd all wanted to speak at once. That was a dysfunctional church.

10:18Paul loved the church nonetheless, and he God loved the church nonetheless. But that's what they were doing. And as you look at Jesus, as we take this and now think about Jesus' life, we want to, all this is, we're wanting to learn what love is. We're wanting to learn to love like Jesus. And the one thing we learn very quickly is: Jesus was not a braggart, was he? If there was anybody who had reason to brag, reason to show off, it was Christ. And yet he had all the reason, all to show off, and yet he was certainly not a braggart. You can see this early on in the Gospels, certainly in this one, Luke. You remember when Satan tempted him? He took him to Jerusalem, some sort of satanic rapture, and had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here. For it is written, he will command his angels concerning you to guard you, and on their hands they will bear you up so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. He said, Look, if you are the Son of God, just show it out there. Temptation, just display, put it on display. Do this reckless thing. Put yourself down. On display, show off, show that you prove it, show it.

12:09Boy, yeah, he could do that. And Jesus answered and said, It is written, answered and said to him, It is said, You shall not put the Lord your God to the test. There's a guy, he knew who he was. He didn't have some inferiority complex, or he didn't have to go. Jesus in John chapter 5 talks about the contradiction between love and self-glory. If you're seeking glory for something, you cannot be loving somebody. If your primary motive is to receive glory, you don't, you're void of love. And he says this in chapter 5 and verse 41. He says, I do not receive glory from men. I'm not out here. I didn't come here to make man ooh and ah. He came here to please his father. But I know you, speaking of the Pharisees, that you do not have the love of God in yourself. You don't have the love for God in you. Why is that? He says, How can you? How can you believe when you? Receive glory from one another. One of the fundamental issues that was in the way was wanting the glory from people around them.

13:44And those that need glory, those that are seeking some sort of input, some sort of feel-good input, some way to feel elevated from man, they don't have the love of God in them. And so if I'm looking to you to elevate me, I am not loving you. Nor do I love God, nor am I loving like He loved. He goes on, I do not seek my glory. If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. He didn't come out seeking to elevate himself. He loved the Father. He wanted the heavenly Father elevated. He wanted his name vindicated. He wanted to honor him.

14:35And so if we're looking for ourselves or something from somebody, we're not loving. Remember Jesus before the Pharisees? Pharisees came out and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. Give us a sign. Sighing deeply in his spirit, he said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation. It's very interesting when you look at the context. He had just fed the 4,000. He had just walked on the water. He had fed the 5,000. He had just sent his disciples out all over the area and had given them all kinds of power over all kinds of unclean spirits and sicknesses. And they were going. These were his disciples. And now here they come. Okay, regardless of all that, we want to see a sign. We want to see a sign. And if ever, if there was a time when, okay, let me show you.

15:51You know? Let me show you. You still don't know who, you don't know who I am? You still don't know who I am. That was Jesus. Think about him before Pilate. Pilate questioned him, Are you the king of the Jews? And he answered him, It is as you say. The chief priests began to accuse him harshly. Then Pilate questioned him again, Do you not answer? See how many charges they bring against you? But Jesus made no further answer, so Pilate was amazed. Why? Do you not? Did you just hear what they're saying?

16:33And you're the king. You're their king. Jesus, yeah, I'm their king. I'm the king of the Jews. Yeah, let me show you. Let me show you what this king can do. None of that. Jesus was not a braggart. Bottom line is: if Christ is first in our hearts, we cannot brag. If Christ is first in your heart, you cannot be a braggart. Everything you have is given. Everything you have had to be redeemed. But if Christ is first, and if others, if you love others, you cannot brag. I think about it. Think about what bragging does. If you love someone, you really don't want to make them feel little in your presence, do you? But what does a braggart do? I want you to feel little in my presence. I want to be such a towering figure in this conversation, in this room, in this moment, and I want you to feel little.

18:00Before me, it's an awful thought, isn't it? Wanting to make somebody feel little in your presence. Well, that's what bragging does. And only the love of Christ in us can keep us from flaunting our perceived gifts, abilities, knowledge, or accomplishments. Listen, we are braggarts. Why? Because we're horribly insecure about ourselves. And so we have to, it's like we have to brag, we have to convince others that we're something because deep down we're troubled that we really aren't.

18:50And we have no satisfaction in ourselves. And so we have to. Well, love is not bragging. What are some ways that we might just invite some discussion in on this? Anybody have any thoughts? What are some ways we might display a bragging spirit as individuals or as a church or even as a nation? Talk to me. What are some ways we might do this? Really easy to feel like the way we do church is. The best way, or there's something superior about just the way we organize the other things that we do.

19:38Yeah, and you know, First Corinthians, we had the great, they had great gifts, right? They had all these teachers. They had some high-profile teachers that had come through. You all haven't, really. Yeah, you have had a couple of them. But their teachers were bragging about their teachers, bragging about their teaching, bragging about their gifts. Maybe it's their programs, right? You can certainly find things. But let me tell you who really does missions right. Let me tell you that. Right? We could, we can, right?

20:20What are other ways? Yes, sir. I have an experience here I want to church on Wendy. So since we don't have Hub Study here, and the first thing that the Pastor said was: I happen in our organizational and the state convention, I have served in this capacity, I have been pastor in this place. It was no easy for me to listen to that. Let me read to you my credentials. Before I say anything, I want you to know. Know who you're hearing from. Because it ain't going to make sense unless you ain't going to make sense one way or the other, but I need to make you.

21:09Other thoughts? Patrick? Well, one of the things Clive used to say, Pastor Clive, and I don't mean to be bashing on preachers tonight, but talk about how some preachers can be prideful. He says, I know preachers that go 10,000 miles to preach, but they won't cross the street to listen to another preacher. Yeah, that's good. Other thoughts? Yes, sir. Sometimes it's forced upon us. We live in a university town, and a lot of faculty members in and around the community.

21:43If you want to be promoted within the university system, you essentially have to put forth a hundred-page document bragging on yourself. Yes. Back. Can you speak up a little bit? We went to a church who worked in. They would tell you that if you weren't growing in posterity well, if you weren't growing like financially, or if you weren't stuck in like an apartment, that you were nothing. You were nothing. Well, Jesus sure is the exception to that one, isn't he? He didn't have a place to lay his head, right? Yeah, Jesus, you're nothing. Right? Boy.

22:30Yeah. Very good. Yes, sir. I think twofold. One is uh I know on a personal level it's something I tend to struggle with, in all honesty. Um I could sit down and read um like some like something heavy theology-wise. There's a sense where it's like I'm reading a book right now on um a rebuttal of the Bart Mervin hypothesis of canon stuff. Okay, yeah, I'm kind of weird. But it's fascinating, it's interesting to me. And there's a sense where I come across other Christians, it's all like, you don't know this? Ha how do you even how do you not know that? I I seen are you even saved? And then the second part that sometimes is humbling, and she knows, is that sometimes the sense of recognizing that God is always willing to teach through someone who doesn't sometimes know a lot of theology, but they're pract practically living out the Bible very well. I don't know the terms, but they'll say, that's so cool, I'm so happy for you. When it's in love, love rejoices with somebody.

23:32They're excited about something that happens in your life. And they're like, wow, I'm so happy for you. You know, it's like a dagger in my soul sometimes. Good. Thank you for sharing that. Let's keep moving. Well, certainly, what's the remedy for a bragging spirit? Pray for humility. Pray for humility, yes. Yeah, be careful. Pray for that one. That's one the Lord loves to answer. He wants us humble. Dangerous prayer. Dangerous prayer. Lord, humble me. Do whatever it takes to bring me into a humble spot. You know what you're praying.

24:09But yes, that's a good prayer. And he delights. And you can always add, humble me, but please do it as gently as possible. As quickly and gently, and bring all that in an optimic. Yes, sir. They talked about it on Wretched Radio one time about bragging being allowed in your home as long as you were talking about someone other than yourself. Yeah. And then the same thing with gossip. You were allowed to gossip as long as you were gossiping about yourself.

24:39Yeah. So speech that is self-depreciating is a remedy against a bragging spirit, right? And elevating others, right? That's a good remedy. And all that is an expression of love, right? Loving people around you. I mean, we can, sometimes the way we dress, we like to sport ourselves, sometimes by the way we talk about who we know, sometimes the way we can sure be pretty sophisticated. But in every manner, or we can be very sophisticated in elevating ourselves, but in every manner we are to be thinking about other people, loving. That's what Christ, he came loving. And if you're loving somebody, guess what? What? You're not trying to make them feel little in your presence. Right?

25:36Yes, sir. Something that just kind of clicked for me was that in the point that she made about bragging makes yourself feel big and others feel little, and with what Kevin was saying about needing to flip that around, is when John the Baptist writes says, I must decrease so that he may increase. Very good. And that was always kind of like a, I don't know, like, how do you practically do that? But when you think about it in terms of flipping the bragging around, so that you're making the people around you feel big so that you are small.

26:09Yes. You know, just like Jesus says, whatever you do for these, you did for me. Yes. By making others around you feel big and yourself small, you're decreasing so that you may increase. You're elevating others. You're loving others. That's what loving. We'll come to that passage you just mentioned in a little bit because it bears on the very next thought. Bears on this one too, right? Yes, John. I think a good remedy is just remembering where you were when Christ saved you. Very good. Remembering where you were when Christ saved you. Very good. Very good.

26:51Let's move on. Love is patient. Love is kind. It is not jealous. Love does not brag, is not arrogant. We're going to, it is not arrogant. This is interesting. What is the difference? I mean, it does not brag and is not arrogant. It seems like there's a little bit of redundancy here, right? Love is not arrogant. And guess what? Arrogant is a verb. Seeing a pattern here. But this is unique. It's a present verb, but it's passive. If you know the passive voice, like if you think about bragging, that's more of an active. It's more of your boasting, bragging over something you have or have done.

27:39Arrogant, the word here is passive. It's the idea of being puffed up or inflated. It's that idea of something is happening like an air pump plugging into you and right? That's kind of the idea. And that's what arrogance is about. It's about being something that's happening to you to make you inflated. Yes, sir. Okay, Thomas, I'm sorry to interrupt you at this point. I've got to ask. I have my wife and several other friends of ours who are huge grammar teachers. And so I'm really hung up on the verb part right here. Sorry. So the is, and mom's around. Me that know this stuff, correct? Make my mouth. The is is like a, what's called a, what is it? A living verb?

28:38Okay, I'm just, I'm just feeling this because I hear this in my house. I don't actually know how to teach it. All right? The arrogant would be an adjective. So are you saying that in Greek it's a verb? It's a verb. The word arrogant is a verb. And in Greek, it is one word. It says, love is not arrogant. That's three words. Actually, it's to not. But it is being conceited. That's the word. Love is not being conceited.

29:11Yeah, so it's that is the verb. The word arrogant. Aren't you all friendly arrogant? Yes, thank you for asking. But the word arrogant, I'd like to try to come up with something that connects with the verbs, but becoming proud, becoming conceited or haughty. There is a sense of like a quick anger, a reflex of haughtiness. You think about like, I remember when we were in Jericho, Jericho, there was all these peacocks everywhere. I don't know why peacocks hang out. In Jericho, but they do, and lots of them. And if you've seen a peacock, they love to walk around, then all of a sudden they see you and you know, with their big, huge array, and they just kind of strut around. They want you to know, I don't know what they're trying to do, hypnotize me. I wish you spoke English, because I'd like to ask you this question, you know. But they puff up. There's a strut.

30:27And it's interesting that six of the seven occurrences of this word happen here in 1 Corinthians. Six of the seventh occurrences of this word in the New Testament all happen arrogant. Arrogant. And this is how I would translate it as a verb. Instead of saying arrogant, love is not bowing up. It's not bowing up. It's not reacting to something in a way that inflates you. I mean, it could be a lot of things, but as you go through in 1 Corinthians, how Paul uses it, I'll just run through a few of them.

31:15Now, these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf. On behalf of one against the other. So there's an arrogance that can happen in knowledge. And Paul's saying, I don't want you guys going beyond what's written, because then what happens? You become arrogant. You know, I've got this one figured out. Knowledge does that.

31:47Now, some of you have become, there's an arrogance in defiance. This is kind of that attitude. Paul is talking about, now some have become arrogant as though I were not coming to you. But I will come to you soon if the Lord wills, and I shall find out not the words of those who are arrogant, but their power. For the kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power. So there are these people saying, oh, he ain't coming. What's he going to do? Come and take it. You know, that kind of, you know, right? It's okay. I like that attitude, but it's like we just got to keep it in its right place, right?

32:24But arrogance, right? Then there's an arrogance, they had arrogance in their immorality. Paul said, it is actually reported that there is an immorality among you, and an immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife. You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would have been removed from your midst. There is an arrogance in this defiance. And arrogance in immorality. Yeah.

33:03Boy, we see that all around our do things that are shameful, and we shouldn't be mourning, and instead we become a nation arrogant in our immorality. But then he goes on in chapter 8, and he says, Now, concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies. Wow, what is he saying there? It's a fascinating passage, what he does in chapter 8. But he's saying, Knowledge makes one arrogant, but love edifies. That arrogance. And then he goes on: if anyone supposes that he knows anything, he is not yet known as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by him. Therefore, concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world and that there is no God but one. 1 Corinthians 8. And then he goes on to deal with this issue of sacrificing to idols and eating food. But it's interesting how he talks about what does love do? Love builds something up. Arrogance tears it down. And in that context, he's saying, look, There are some of you that have knowledge. You are right.

34:35There is only one God. There is no God but one. And there is no such thing as an idol. You know that. But you're using it to destroy your brother. And that's what Paul is saying. Look, I won't eat meat if it causes someone to stumble. And you're right. And you hear that all the time. I'm right on this issue. This is correct. I am right. Yes, and in your rightness, in your knowledge, you're destroying somebody with that knowledge. And that's what Paul is talking about. But you look at Jesus' humility.

35:21Have this attitude in yourselves, which was in Christ, Jesus, who, although he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped. He was God, and he was not inflated, but emptied himself, taking the form of a bondservant, and being made in the likeness of men, being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Talk about the opposite of.

36:00Bowing up. It's laying down your life. Remember Jesus' humble restraint? You remember on the cross? There were those that were passing by and hurling abuse at him. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. Those are the passerbys. If you're the Son of God, come down. In the same way, the chief priests also, along with the scribes and the elders, they're all out there. They're mocking him. And they're saying, he saved others, he cannot save himself. He is the king of Israel. Let him now come down from the cross and we will believe him.

36:49And then there's these robbers next to him who had been crucified with him. They were also insulting him with the same words. There he is on the cross. Come down. I mean, it's a chorus of taunts. Come down. If you are the Son of God, come down. What would you and I have done? Okay. Anything else? Right? Bowing up, right? Do you know who I am? You're messing with the wrong person here, right? That's it. We bow up. We have a there's a restraint.

37:31Why was there a restraint? Because he loved. He loved people. He loved them. John the Baptist. Jonathan, you're right on. Remember when John the Baptist came to him and said, Rabbi, he who is with you beyond the Jordan to whom you have testified, behold, he is baptizing, and all are coming to him. John answered and said, Did he bow up? Yeah. But do you know who I am? They shouldn't be baptized. Let's get those numbers. No. John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. He who has the bride is the bridegroom. In other words, I don't want the bride.

38:29I want the bridegroom to have the bride. Why? Because I love the bridegroom. He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine has been made full. That's what love does, right? Love doesn't become bow up, become inflated. It loves to see good things happen to others. He must increase, but I must decrease. What a good, what a good way to live for the increase of others and for the decrease of self. Let that be true in all of your conversations. Let that be true in all of your exchanges. Let that just be true about you. That's what loving like Christ is like.

39:42I'm going to go ahead and we're really out of time. But any closing anybody have any thoughts or something they want to add before we close? No, there's a, I don't think it's in Baywood, but there's a pastor in Africa that whenever he has an American come over who's wanting to do some kind of mission work, you know, some kind of helpful work with the church over there, he has them sit down in a meeting with the town council or the elders or whoever. And his instructions of them are, I want you to sit there and say nothing. And at the end of the meeting, you thank them for changing.

40:30That's all you're allowed to say. Because he knows that as Americans, we have this sense that we have the answers. When we go into especially third world countries, like, well, well, look, look, we've been doing it right. I mean, look what we've got over here. So surely we can help you. And it's very humbling when you realize, yeah, I have that attitude. I think I can fix, you know, when we go to Malawi, yeah, I think I can fix what's wrong here.

41:03Yeah. And it's that, you know, it's out of a genuine desire to help. It's out of a genuine love for them, and yet that arrogance pops up. We can easily, yes, yes, come across very arrogant. Well, maybe this is a good time to shift gears here for just a moment. We're going to close the service. Something unique has happened with our relationship with Southern Oaks. Southern Oaks, a sister church of ours, has come to us, really come to the leadership here, looking to Emmanuel to ask for help in revitalizing it.

41:57And as one church loving another, We want to be party to that. So, this can happen on an individual level, but it also happens on a church body level. And today, something unique happened. They just had a, as you know, they're meeting here. Their church was burned down not that long ago. And they had a meeting, and they've been meeting here in our church building here in the afternoons on Sundays. And this today, they adopted, they moved to suspend their Constitution, come under the leadership of Emmanuel, or adopt the leadership of under the Constitution of Emmanuel, under a leadership team that has been put together. Jeff and James from our congregation here, and a couple of others, Ramiro and Nathan Cook from Southern Oaks, and that has become the functioning leadership team. And so we have pledged ourselves to help this church to expand.

43:30True renewal, revitalization. And what we're going to do is we're now, we have a leadership team in place. They formally have engaged us in this manner. We have engaged them. And so the next couple of years, we're looking at how this is going to roll out. We have a leadership team in place. What we want to add to this leadership team is what we're calling a revitalization team. Those who would like to be part of this renewing process. And those of you who have been around Emmanuel for very long know that we are a church that has been renewed. And it is our hope to see that spread, to see a true revival, see churches renewed and strengthened. So we're going to close the service and immediately after. So those of you, go get your kids if they're in truth or grace or whatever. But those of you who want to sit around here or stay here for about the next 15 minutes, we want to give you a little more specifics about this effort. So with that, let me close us in prayer and then we'll continue, okay? Heavenly Father, Father, we thank you for your goodness. We thank you for how you've blessed us in so many ways. We thank you for the fact that you loved us the way you have, that you have been patient, you have been mindful, you have been caring, you have been helpful with us. And so, Father, we ask that you would continue to let the things we talked about this Lord's Day be ever-present in our minds as we go this week.

45:30Father, help us to truly appreciate the love that you have for us and to turn around and show that love to others. For us, in Christ's name, amen.