Our scripture reading this evening is 1 John chapter four. 1 John chapter four. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God. Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God. And this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come, and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. They are of the world, therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. And everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us because that God sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believe the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in the world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him because he first loved us. Now the text for the sermon are the next two verses, 20 and 21. If any man say, I love God and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also. So far the text and so far the reading of God's holy word. Beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ, Do you love God? Do you love God? That you are here in church would indicate that you believe in God, that you confess that He is your God, that you do love Him, that you do desire to serve him with all your heart as he commanded. But then answer this too. Do you love all the members of this congregation? And do you love all who are clearly believers in Jesus Christ, whether they're part of this church or not? Everyone, not just your family, not just your friends. But everyone. Who confesses Jesus Christ? From the youngest to the oldest. From the office bearer who is deeply involved in the life of the church. To the one in the congregation that it's very difficult even to talk to. They want no attention. They slip out of the church. Do you love? Poor, troubled saints who have great struggles in their life, members that it's easy to ignore. Do you love someone who has hurt you, who has said something hard or done something that caused great pain? Do you love the brother? That's the question the text sets before us. Now perhaps you know immediately that there is someone or someones that you do not love, that you hold a grudge against that person, that you want that person to receive what he deserves for what he has done or said to you or about you in your life. And the text says this to you and to me, if that's true, If you come to church saying, I am here because I love God, but you do not love the fellow saints, your brothers, your sisters in Christ, then the text says, you are a liar. You're lying. When you say you love God, you don't. That's the word of the text. We know we're supposed to love, so we probably don't say very quickly, I hate, as the text says. If a man say, I love God, but, and hateth his brother. So we don't say hate because we know that's, that's not right. I shouldn't say that. But if we hold a grudge, if there's someone in the congregation, we simply cannot stand. Then we cannot say, that we love God. You recognize that the text contains part of the third element of self-examination. In the form that we read, the first element of self-examination is that we examine ourselves to see our sins And whether we are truly sorry for our sins, do we see how bad they are and are we really sorry for our sins? Secondly, we are to examine our hearts to see that there is a sure faith that we believe the promises of God, that our sins are forgiven in the cross of Jesus Christ and there alone. And then thirdly, we are to examine our conscience Whether it's true of us that we have resolved henceforward to live a new and holy life and to put aside all enmity and hatred and envy and live in true love with our neighbor. Now the text that we consider just takes that little slice of that self-examination. But obviously this is an important part because if we do not love the brother then we do not love God and if we do not love God we have no place at the table of the Lord we may not come to the table of the Lord that's how serious this is so let's examine this text under the theme loving God and the brother loving God and the brother will notice the commandment first of all that's especially verse 21 Secondly, the test, which is found in verse 20, and then the reassurance. Loving God and the brethren, the commandment, the test, and the reassurance. The commandment is, it says 21, this commandment have we from him that he who loveth God love his brother also. Do you love God? This is required of us. No one can be indifferent with regard to God. No one can simply say, I believe that there is a God. I will obey him. I'll follow his commandments. I'll do what he tells me to do. But I don't love him. That isn't possible. You cannot be that. If God were a dead idol, you could say that. I'll serve Him, I'll do what He wants. But God is not an idol. God is the living God. He knows our hearts, He knows exactly our motives, and He knows whether we love Him or not. He knows. This is God's command. It always has been with all His people. Listen to Deuteronomy 10, verse 12. And now Israel, what does the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and then to serve Him and keep His commandments? But what does the Lord thy God require of thee? That you love Him, that you love Him. Is this not the first and the great commandment that Jesus gave to us that we use Sunday after Sunday? What is the first and great commandment? Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, with all your physical strength. Love Him. What does that mean? What does it mean to love God? We need to know. And to understand that, we need to know what is love. Twice in this chapter, it said, God is love. God is love. That gives us some idea. Let's investigate that. God is love. That means it's an attribute of God. It's part of His very, what makes Him to be God. If you take away love from God, He wouldn't be God. This is a necessary part of him, is an attribute. God is his attributes, and therefore God is love. He isn't merely a loving God, but he is the essence of love. And you can see that when you look at the Trinity and see that within the very being of God, there are three persons who are knit together. Yes, they're one essence, but they're also knit together in a bond of love. Because Colossians 3.14 says, this is love, it is a bond of perfectness. It is a bond, and the perfectness doesn't mean sinlessness, although God is sinless, but perfection in the Bible. A bond of perfectness means that this love brings whatever relationship you have to its goal, what it ought to be. Love is the bond of perfectness, and that's true within God. So that within the three persons, their relationship is absolutely marvelous and perfect, because they love one another. Because the Father begets the Son, not in a mechanical way, but in love. Because the Son, begotten of the Father, reflects the perfections of God, not merely as a duty, but because He loves the Father. Because the Spirit who searches the deep things of God goes into the very being of the Father, and then He proceeds as breath from the Father to the Son, with the love, with the fellowship of the Father for the Son. And then the Spirit proceeds from the Son back to the Father, having searched the deep things of the Son, goes back to the Father with words of love. God is knit together in perfect love, a bond that unites them. God's love. That's what it is, first of all, a bond, but as an activity, love is delight in the one who is the object of love. It's delight. It's a desire to seek always the good. It's the desire to minimize self-importance and self-advantage and always seek the good, always seek the advantage of the one that you love. You want the one that you love to be blessed. You want the one who you love to be happy. Love delights in that person and seeks that, wills that. God's love outside of Himself comes into expression in Jesus Christ. God so loved the world, that is, God in this manner loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son. And this chapter says that again and again. God, here is love. that God loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. God's love is demonstrated in Jesus Christ. And his love for, and his own Jesus' love for the sheep is found in that he was willing to lay down his own life for his sheep. There is his love on display. So from that we learn what love is. Love is first of all a bond, a bond that unites two persons in fellowship. It is an activity of delight in each other. It is an activity where they seek the good, where they are always desiring the blessedness of the one that is to be loved. You see that in the bond The bond of love is so powerful that the book of the Song of Solomon says love is strong as death. As you cannot break the power of death, you cannot break the bond of love. It is that powerful. You see, that love is delight and activity. When you look at David and Jonathan, those two notable friends in the Bible, and the Bible says their souls were knit together in love. And Jonathan's love for David was such that he was willing to give up the whole of the kingdom for David. So much he loved him. You may have it. You may have the kingdom. You may be the next king with full approval of Jonathan. So to love God, to love God means especially three things. It means you delight in Him. You delight in God. The perfectly holy God who is worthy of all honor and all praise, you delight in Him. That must be true of us to the extent that we focus in on Him, we delight in Him to the exclusion of everything else. If you delight in something else, it must be only because you also delight in God. Only because that somehow serves your delight in God. God is everything. You delight in Him. Secondly, love is seeking Him with all your heart, wanting to know Him. wanting to be close to Him, wanting to fellowship with Him, seeking God with all your heart. The soul that loves God is never satisfied until that soul is with God. This is His delight, to be in His house, to be in His Word, to be in His presence. That's His delight. We sing that in Psalm, in Psalter number 302, to live apart from God is death, "'Tis good his face to seek." That's what love does. Love delights in God. Love seeks Him and wants to be close to Him. And thirdly, love therefore gives of self. Gives of self. Willing to give all things. You want to see how much love is willing to give? God asked Abraham essentially this question. How much do you love me? Do you love me more than you love your own and your only son? And Abraham's answer was, yes, I love God more than I love my son. I'm willing to give up my son because I love God that much. It's willing to give all. It's a delight in God. It's seeking God. It is giving up the whole of our life unto Him. A servant of God delights in serving Him, doing His will, offers himself as a living sacrifice of praise to God. That's love for God. The commandment is addressed then To whom who must hear this, those who love God must also love the brother. This is something we all need. We all need to hear this, every single one of us, without exception. Because by nature, no one will love either God or the brother. By nature, we will not. Man who had loved God after the fall could not and did not. He was filled with hatred for God because God is holy and man has become unholy and perverse and defiled so there isn't any delight in that. That holiness only condemns him. Man is a rebel. Man becomes an enemy of God. He would rather kill God than to love Him He doesn't have that in Him at all. Remember what the Heidelberg Catechism says, we are by nature prone to hate God and the neighbor. Prone to hate. And so, those who must hear this admonition are those whom God Himself has loved. Herein is love, not that we love God, but that He loved us. That always comes first, always, His love in us. It's first, of course, eternally, I realize that, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the fact that His love has to come into us first before there can be any kind of love coming out from us. God's love is sovereign. God's love is an attribute of God, so it's powerful. It's gracious. It's a love that draws unto himself. It's a love that fashions someone in his own image and righteousness and holiness and in true knowledge of God. It's a love that fills us with his love. It fills us so that we know that he loves us. And we have a heart that is overflowing with the love of God so that a little trickle of that love can go back to Him. That's the only way. We love Him because He first loved us. To them then comes this commandment, you love God? then love your brother also. Love your brother. So who is your brother? The word brother right away brings up the idea of a family, clearly, of a close tie with someone of the same blood. You have much in common with your own brother. And so I retained that even though the ladies of the congregation might wonder, why is it only talking about brother? I could have said in the sermon title, loving God and your fellow members of the church, but there's something lost there. The idea of brothers means there's something very close here. You're brothers. We're all in that sense of the word of the same family. Brothers in Christ, regardless of our gender. It's important that we recognize that we do not determine who is our brother. You don't do that in your family. Nobody gets to decide who's their brother or sister in a family. God determines that. And you don't get to decide that in the church either. You can't decide who is your brother and who isn't your brother or sister in the church. God determines that. God determines that by election. In 1 Thessalonians 1, 4, we read, Brethren, beloved, your election of God. Brethren, beloved, election of God. Those two things are inseparable, as also in 2 Peter 1.10. Wherefore, the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election, sure. He's talking to those who are elect. You are brothers. Those are also the people for whom Christ died. 1 John 3, 16, Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he hath laid down his life for us, we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. The people for whom Jesus Christ laid down his life, those are our brothers. They are the ones. They've been given the life of Jesus Christ. so that we share that life with them. They belong to the family of God. All the elect, all those redeemed in Jesus Christ, those are our brothers. So what does it mean to love the brother? We've looked at what it means to love God. What about to love the brother? As such, loving the brother is not merely being pleasant to someone, giving them a smile, saying something nice to them, That's not love according to the biblical sense. Too often in the church world, even as soon as you say something critical about someone, the conclusion is drawn, oh, you're not being loving. That's not at all the case necessarily at all. It is quite the opposite of love if you ignore someone's sin and say nothing to them and do not try to help them turn away from their sin. And you say, I don't care enough about you even to try. Go on in your sin. Go to your destruction. That's not love. So it isn't a matter merely of how you look at someone or what you say, whether it's kind or nice to them according to the standards of the world. But love is, first of all, A choice. It's a choice. You choose to love someone. The fact that God comes with a command indicates that it's something he's telling you you must do. You must will to love someone. You cannot say, oh, I'm sorry, I just can't. I can't love that person. No, God's word is you must. You must make this your deliberate choice to love. You love them for God's sake. You love them because God created them. You love them because God commands it. That's true of your neighbor, too. Love your neighbor as yourself. Regardless of how pleasant they are to you, that's immaterial. Love them, God says. This is something you must choose to do. But to love a brother is to love someone who has been recreated in the image of Jesus Christ. You choose to love that person, though the personality maybe doesn't match yours very well, though there may be some unpleasantness even there from a personality point of view, but we choose to love them, particularly because we see the work of God in them. We see that they are truly in the family of God. There can be a bond there. There can be a true bond of fellowship because we both have the life of Jesus Christ. But the emphasis of the chapter is that you show that love to the brother by your deeds. You must also love your neighbor But you don't have to go around the world frantically looking for a neighbor to find that you can love. Jesus made that clear in the parable of the Good Samaritan, where Jesus said, this is how you must act. If you see someone that God puts on your path that needs help, then you help. You show love, you show mercy, you do good to them. But you don't have to go all the world looking all over for places for neighbors. But that's different in the church. In the church, we need to go looking. In the church, we have a responsibility to each other that means I want to know if there's anybody in this congregation who is hurting. I want to know if there's anybody in this congregation that I can help. We don't have to go all over the world looking for neighbors, but we do have brothers and sisters. We have responsibilities toward each other. And the Bible makes it clear, we make an effort. To love them means I want to see how can I help other Christians. Again, this isn't something we will do by nature. We have that wretched nature. And it's a struggle to fight against our own selfishness and to show true love. We tend to be kind to people when we think they can serve our good. By nature, we will not love. But only someone who has experienced the love of God can love. Because the Holy Spirit has shed abroad the love of God in our hearts, that makes it possible for that love to flow out to other people. As I said, just a trickle goes back to God, a trickle can go out to the people who are around us. The child of God has known the love of God, a love that is seeking God in his love did not say, well, I'm going to just hang around here and see if they come to me. God in his love went out and sought his people and drew them unto himself. That's what we have experienced. That's the love we need to show to each other. We seek each other out. God's love is giving. Always giving, giving to those who are not worthy of it. who have not earned it ever and who forfeit the right of it. They're totally undeserved. That's the love we've experienced. That's the kind of love we need to give to each other. How can I give? How can I give of myself for the good of the other? The love of God is forgiving. The love of God forgives us day after day after day after day for the same sins we commit against Him. And so the love that we show to each other is a forgiving love. Seventy times seven, Jesus told Peter. And the love of God always seeks our blessedness, always seeks our good, and that's the love we display to each other. I'm seeking their good. I want their good. That's true love. As you experience the love from God, That love then can be shown to each other in the church of Jesus Christ. So that's what it means to love God and to love the brother. And so now we have a test. If a man say, I love God and hateth his brother, he is a liar. There's the test. You say you love God. Do you hate the brother or do you love the brother? And then he goes on to give a reason for that. For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? Puts it in a question form. Question forms always are there to give some emphasis to what he is saying. He could have put it in a normal sentence, but he puts it in question form, and that emphasizes it, and it makes us stop a moment and think about that. That's true, isn't it? For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? Now let's delve into that a bit. It is hard to serve God. Let's admit it. It's hard to serve God. It's hard to love God. We are so tied to our earthly senses, especially our eyes, but also our sense of touch. This is how we experience love. This is how we show love. With our eyes and hands with our physical senses. We express love by giving gifts. We express love with a kiss. We express love with a warm gesture, a warm handshake. You can see love reflected in someone's eyes. So physical, something so you can see and touch. That's what we think about with love. How do you show that love to God? How do you do that? And now the text says, if you cannot even show love to somebody that you can see, how will you ever show love to God whom you cannot see? That's the test. You have opportunities to show love You have opportunities to give of yourself. You have opportunities to help each other, to demonstrate the love that God has put in your hearts for each other. You have those opportunities. If you refuse to take those opportunities and demonstrate love among yourselves, then how can you say, oh, but I do love God. I do love him. John says, no, no, you don't, you don't have love then. You don't have the love of God in your hearts. Add to that, don't forget, this is the love for a brother. It isn't merely a love for a neighbor, but a love for the brother, a child of God, someone eternally chosen by God, someone who has been redeemed in the blood of Jesus Christ and whose sins are forgiven just as yours are. Someone who has been given the life of Jesus Christ, recreated in his image. And this is how we must view each other. The canons say that to those who make a confession of faith and live ordinary Christian lives, we are to view them in the most favorable manner. So we don't go around doubting whether or not this is really a Christian, whether that person is really a Christian. No, we are to judge them with a judgment of charity. These are God's people. This is how we view them. And then when we see that, when we see the work of Jesus Christ in them, if we do not love someone who's been recreated in the image of Jesus Christ, when we see that work of Jesus Christ, we don't love that person, how can we say we love God? It doesn't work. It's impossible. That's the point he's making. Now, who would say this? Who would say they love God and then not love the brother? Well, obviously a hypocrite in the church would say this. A hypocrite who makes a great noise about his devotion to God and his love for God and love for the truth of God, but he doesn't love the brother, such is a liar. He's a liar. But what about us? Isn't it also possible that we can be guilty of this, that we can go to church faithfully, sit under the preaching of the gospel, nod our heads in agreement to the doctrine, stand fast for that doctrine, but it becomes merely a matter of the head. It becomes what is called dead orthodoxy. There's no warmth in the heart. We're not living out the truth. that we are giving such affirmative actions to in our heads. James says pure religion and undefiled is this pure religion that is living out what you believe is this to visit the fatherless and the afflicted in there and the widows in their affliction to visit the widows and their children and their affliction. That's love, isn't it? That's demonstrating love. Visiting them, taking care of them, making sure that they're not lacking anything, that's love. That's how religion, true religion, is manifest. A love for the brother must be demonstrated. It may not merely be spoken by the lips. It's something God absolutely requires. Chapter 3, 17, brings that out. Chapter 3 of this epistle, 17, But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brothers have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? Again, that question. If you have what you need and you see someone that is lacking and you shut up the bowels of your compassion, you don't give, how can you say the love of God is in you? And Jesus said the same thing in Matthew 25, that parable of the judgment day. And he looks at the wicked and says, you, you didn't feed me. You didn't give me a drink. You didn't clothe me. You didn't visit me in prison. And they said, Lord, when? And he said, because you didn't do it to my brethren. You didn't do it to my brethren. And to the people of God, he says, and you did. You gave me to drink. You gave me to eat. You clothed me. You visited me in my affliction. And they said, when? And he said, inasmuch as you have done it to my brethren, you have done it unto me. Love is not something we can merely talk about. It's something that is evident in our lives. Because the love of God is a power. It's a power that works in us. It's a power that makes us to love as the mercy of God makes us want to forgive. So the love of God in us makes us want to love. And we do. We do. That's the point. You show your love for God, whom you cannot see, by loving each other. That's how you will demonstrate your love for God, very concretely, by loving each other. That fits with all the instruction of the commandments of Scripture. If you love God, you will keep His commandments, that's what we read in John 15 this morning, and one of the main commandments is love your neighbor. Love your neighbor. If you're not loving your neighbor, you're not keeping his commandments, you're not loving God. It's very clear. Besides, look at the next chapter, verse 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God, And everyone that loveth him that beget, which is God now, God beget us, loveth also him that is begotten of him. If you love the one who begets us, you will love all those who are also begotten of him. That simply has to go together. Love for the brother. I do not preach this today because I think there is a sincere deficiency in this congregation. Let that be clear. Quite the opposite. But I preach it because I need this, because we all need this. We need to hear the admonition, love. You love God, love the brother also. We need to hear it. And we need the reassurance. Do you love God? If you do not love the brother, this will come out in your life. It will be a very self-centered life. It's all about me. Then you do not love God. Though you may claim to and be very zealous, You have no right to be called the child of God if you do not love the brother, the sister in the church. And then you have no right to come to the table of the Lord. You have no right. You will come to the table with malice and envy in your heart, with bitterness against fellow believers, or you will come pretending to love and you will still profane the table of the Lord. You will. Do you love the brother? Do you love your sister? Can you see it in your life? That's what self-examination is all about. All right. Do you see it? Now this starts in the home. There's our closest brother or sister in the Lord. It's your wife. It's your husband. Do you love your own spouse? Do you demonstrate that? Do you love your parents? Do you love your children? Do you demonstrate that? Examine yourself. You have a week to look at yourself and say, am I loving the rest of God's children? My brothers and sisters, am I showing that love? And that extends outside of the home, whereas we are the closest together, extends to Our schools, covenant children, do you love your teachers? Teachers, do you love your students? Do you love them? Do you love the poor in the congregation so that benevolence is something you love to give to because you love the poor? Do you love the older saints and those who are in difficulty? Have you visited anyone lately? That demonstrates love. You cannot and I cannot keep this commandment as we ought. If there's anybody here who's saying, well, everything that you've said so far today is exactly what I do. I demonstrate love. Well, then you are lying because we do not, not as we ought. There's only one whoever loved perfectly, love the brother perfectly. That's our elder brother, Jesus Christ. He loved the brethren perfectly. He willed to love them. He saw their good, even though these brothers would spit on him and would revile him and would nail him to the cross and howl for his death. He loved them. And He was willing to give of Himself, even lay down His life for the sake of His brothers, for you and me. In love, He gave Himself to the bitter death of the cross. In love, He gave Himself to the horror of hell and the wrath of God. Therein is love. God was, in Jesus Christ, commending His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. But Jesus said, as we read this morning in John 15, greater love hath no man than this, than that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, He says. He laid down his life for us. There is the love that he has for us. That sovereign love works in us. It works upon us and makes it possible for us to love others. It sovereignly changes us so that we can love truly, love truly. And when we fail, There is the cross and we run to that cross and we beg for forgiveness and we plead once again, fill my heart with love so that I will be able by the power of the cross to go out and love the brother. That's our only hope. So you understand if you do love the brother to the extent that you demonstrate that in your life, it's because of the love of Christ in your hearts. That's the only reason. And then when you see that, you have a blessed assurance. The only way that you can love someone else is because God loves you. That's a confirmation of God's tremendous love for you. And God calls you to his table. He calls you to his table. He calls you in love. He delights. Think about that. Amazing. He delights to have us come to His table. I wish, in a sense, we didn't pass out the elements, but that we would come to the table because then we are reminded we're coming together to a table where Christ is present. He delights in that, to have His people come to fellowship with Him. at his table. And when God calls, you must come. Come. After you have examined your own conscience and seeing in your heart the bitter hatred that is there. It's there. It's in all our hearts. Bitter hatred. It has to be rutted out. It has to be repented of. Come after you have done that. Come after you have laid aside unfaintedly all envy and malice. You've laid it aside. Come when you have determined in your conscience, I will live in true love with my neighbor and especially with the brother. Those who do not feel this testimony in their hearts, the form says, will even drink judgment to themselves. but those who do feel this testimony in their heart must come. God will certainly receive us in mercy and count us worthy partakers of the blood and body of Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us pray. Father in heaven, we thank thee for thy word and for the instruction of thy word and the admonition that is given. Lord, Make us to love as thou hast loved us. We have a small beginning. Make it to grow that thy love in us may be reflected 200 fold in this congregation from every heart toward each other and toward thee that thy name is glorified. that a people who are sinful and prone to hatred and only self-love are demonstrating the power of thy love. This is our earnest desire for Jesus' sake. Amen. Psalter number 27. Psalter number 27. Stanza two, I love thy saints to fear thy name and walk as in thy sight. They are the excellent of earth. In them is my delight. One through four, stanzas one through four of number 27. ♪ Serving your heavenly host ♪ They are the excellence of earth, in them is my delight. Their sorrows shall be multiplied, who worship but the King. The fullness of thy compass, O Lord, my heart retains. who in his praise he died. Like all his creatures, let his name be honored and adored. Let all that breathe in praise unite to glorify The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.