Be Thou exalted, O Spirit of power, dwelling within our hearts to keep us from sin. God of the ages and Lord of salvation, Ruler of heaven and earth, thy praises we sing. Be thou exalted, my seraphs and angels. Be thou exalted with harp and with song. Saints in their anthems of rapture adore thee. Thine be all glory forever. Amen. Yeah, there's a little spider coming down from the ceiling. I remember the first communion service that we had. Do you remember that? First Lord's Supper? We set the table up here and I don't know, just as we were getting started, it's like this big spider, not a little spider, came down, straight down onto the table. And yeah, so yeah, it just happens that way sometimes. All right, Acts chapter nine in your Bible. I gotta open my Bible back up to it as well. Actually, I'm denying it. This comes from my Bible reading this past week. And it was something that struck me that actually, now that I've you know, meditated on it a little bit, thought about it, studied it a bit. It stands out to me even more, and I'm praying that'll be something that the Lord really uses in my life as I think about it and consider it, because it's something that's very important to us. And the question I'd ask as we get started this morning, because this has to do with the name of Jesus, how important is the name of Jesus to you? But you just stop and think about it. I mean, how much does the name of Christ really impact your life or change your life? Lydia Baxter wrote the hymn, Take the Name of Jesus With You. And when we conclude this morning, we'll actually sing this in conclusion. But think about the words of this hymn. Take the name of Jesus with you, child of sorrow and of woe. It will joy and comfort give you. Take it then, where'er you go. And the chorus or the refrain, His precious name, oh, how sweet, hope of earth and joy of heaven. Precious name, oh, how sweet, hope of earth and joy of heaven. The second verse, take the name of Jesus ever as a shield from every snare. If temptations round you gather, breathe that holy name in prayer. Verse three, oh, the precious name of Jesus. How it thrills our souls with joy. When his loving arms receive us and his songs our tongues employ. Verse four, at the name of Jesus bowing, falling prostrate at his feet, king of kings in heaven will crown him when our journey is complete. And you start to think about the name of Christ and another question this morning is would anything in your life change if we didn't have the name of Christ? Or as far as our Even our Christianity, understandably, I mean, the name of Christ is central to everything that we have to do with our relationship with God. And so, again, reading Acts chapter nine, what struck me is not the name Jesus, it's the name, the name. Just that phrase, the name, and it's over and over and over again in the book of Acts. As the early church got started doing the work of God, taking Christ to a Christless world, it's central to everything, again, that has to do with Christianity. So may God bless to our hearts this morning this idea of the importance of the name of Christ in his name. What do we do? And let's pray about it, and then we'll get into the message this morning. Savior, thank you that you have a name that's above all names, that someday every knee is gonna bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God, the Father. They're gonna bow at the name of Jesus. Father, we don't begin to understand the power that is possessed in that precious name, that precious person. Father, this ain't gonna be a deep message this morning. It's certainly not gonna be a comprehensive message that covers every time in the Word of God that this idea is there. It's all over the New Testament. And so I pray that the Spirit of God would take the precious truth to our hearts this morning. Give us grace to understand it, acknowledge it, obey it, believe it, receive it. Father, it's possible somebody today, again, isn't saved. They don't have the name of Christ. And Father, we pray today that they would identify with the God who loved them so much that he died on the cross for them. And so I pray, Spirit of God, help me as I preach, help us as we listen, and I pray that you draw us close to you today. It's in Christ's name I pray. All right, what do we do in his name? All right, just five points this morning from this passage. And again, I can go outside this passage and we can preach on this for a month, we can preach on it for a year. I really believe you can preach on it for a lifetime. There's so much here in the word of God regarding obviously the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. But just from Acts chapter nine, what do we do in his name? First of all, in his name we pray. In his name, Jesus, in the name of Jesus, we pray. Acts 9 verse 14, the story, again, I introduced it as we read the scripture about it, but the story is Paul's been on his way to Damascus. He's got letters from the chief priest. Those letters say that Paul can come into Damascus and he finds anybody praying in the name of Jesus. He can arrest them, he can take them away from their families, he can imprison them, and far worse things than that, Paul was the witness in chapter seven, as Stephen preached that great message, and as Stephen was martyred, the people laid their clothes, their garments at the feet of Saul in this scripture, as we look at the apostle Paul, but it's named Saul at this point. as they went to stone Stephen. So that's the context. Paul, Saul, has been on his way to Danascus. God has confronted him. Jesus confronted him with the brightness of his presence and speaking to him and saying, Saul, Saul, it's hard for thee to kick against the prick. See, I mean, you go in the wrong direction, Saul. It's like an oxen that's kicking at that. The prick was what the farmer used to goad the oxen. When the oxen wouldn't go the right way, they'd stick him. With that thing and ox if they kicked against it, I mean that made it worse and so Saul's been kicking against that goad The Lord Jesus has been reaching out to him reaching out to him reaching out to him. He's been rejecting him he's been resisting him and finally it's confrontation time and Saul gets saved he says who art thou Lord and I believe that's a conversion of Saul. But then he's blinded because the glory of God was so intense, he's blinded, he's taken back to this house in Damascus on this street called Straight that we read about. And Ananias is told, go to Saul so that he can receive his sight, and we read that. But notice what it says again, Acts 9 verse 14. And here in Damascus, he hath authority from the chief priest, to bind all that call upon thy name." Remember Daniel, when Daniel prayed, Daniel, the sentence with Alan said, you can't call upon anybody other than the king. If you've got a need, the only person you can ask is the king. And Daniel got in his window and he prayed as he had at other times, but he prayed to God. And now as these people are praying, it's something new. It's not Old Testament anymore, it's Christianity. It's a New Testament thing. It's a new door that God has opened to us as New Testament believers to go to God and to pray to him in the name of his son, Jesus Christ. You know, we get done praying a lot of times and we say that, don't we? We kind of tack it on and we're kind of used to it. It's kind of like a period at the end of a sentence. It's not something you really think about. You just put it on the paper. And we kind of tack it on at the end, in Jesus' name I pray, amen. But why do we do that? Why do we say, in Jesus' name I pray? Well, you know, we could say it is a simple reason, and that's that Jesus taught us to. Jesus taught his disciples before he went up into heaven as he gave him kind of his last commands. He told them about the Holy Spirit and that person of power that's gonna come and that he's gonna be just like Jesus to them. Another comforter just like me is gonna come. He's telling them about him. But in that same passage in John chapter 14 through 16, he says over and over and over again to them, pray in my name. Here it is, John 14, 13. Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. John 14, 14, if you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. John 15, 16. You have not chosen me, but I've chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain. And whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. John 16, 23. And in that day, you shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say unto you, whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. John 16, 24. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. John 16, 26, at that day ye shall ask in my name. Now, if Christ said it once, it's important. If he said it twice, it's really important. If he said it three times, it gets more and more important. He says it six times. Six times in that one message to his disciples as he gets ready to go up into glory, he says, look, pray in my name. If you were back in the day, a common peasant, you know, living in the king's domain and as a peasant, you approach the Open this gate. There's going to be no thunder of feet. There's going to be no anxious shout. There's going to be no urgent command from the guard saying, open the door. The king commands that it be open. No, because a peasant demanded it. And so as a peasant, there's no authority, but if that peasant were commissioned by the king and told to go to the gate, I'm coming, and to command my men to open the gate in my name, and that peasant, as he knocks, he says, in the name of the king, open this gate. There would be a thunder of feet, there would be that anxious shout, and the doors would be thrown open. Why? Because that peasant no longer represents himself, he represents the king. You know, that's what the Lord's giving us the opportunity to do as we come to God in prayer. He said, go in my name. You don't have to come timidly and think, you know, I don't deserve it. You don't have to come with fear, thinking that, oh, there's no way they're gonna listen to me. No, because when you come, you come in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's power. That's authority. That is exactly what Jesus Christ can be. But are there any other conditions to that? And I would say this morning, certainly there is. There's conditions to answer to prayer. We can't say this morning, well, I asked in his name and God didn't answer. There's some basic conditions to answer prayer. Let's just think about them quickly. The first is, should I expect an answer if I misuse his name? No, if I just, in the name of Jesus, you know, God grant this, and I'm not praying as Jesus Christ desires me to pray, then I can't use that. James 4 verse 3 says, he asked and received not because he asked amiss that you may consume it upon your lusts. Or you consume it upon your desires. And so, God, give me this, and I ask in Jesus' name, but it's not something that we're asking for God's glory, it's not something that we're asking, that's according to the will of God, but asking just for our own needs, or our own lives. We could go this morning, and you could say it this way, God meets needs, but does he meet just once? The word of God says in Philippians 4.19, but my God shall supply all your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. And Paul said in the passage, the context is, you have met my needs, you've given generously, my God's gonna meet your needs. You know, as we put God first, we talked in Sunday school about honoring God with our finances and pleasing God. As we put God first, God has promised to meet our needs. Matthew 6.33, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. As we put God first in our finances, in our family, and we go to God, God is faithful, isn't he, to meet our needs. And certainly we can come in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and say, Father, I come in Jesus' name. I've got a need. I've honored you with my resources. I put you first with my resources. And I'm trusting in you to meet my needs. And that honors God. If I am not right with God, if I have sin in my life, should I go in Jesus' name and say, in Jesus' name, Father, meet my needs when I haven't put those things right with God? And Psalm 66, 18 says, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. And so we talked this morning, light and darkness have no fellowship together. There's no communion that's there. For us to fellowship with God, we've gotta get the sin out of our life so that we can rightly go to God. And then we can go to God and say, Father, in Jesus' name, please, would you meet my need as we're right with him. Should we expect an answer? Again, we're not praying according to his will. 1 John 5.14 says, and this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us. And so somebody that's gonna ask in Jesus' name has to be very close with Jesus and know the mind of God, know the heart of God, know the desire of God so that when they come, they're praying according to his will as they say, in Jesus' name I pray, amen. As they come in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because if we know that he hear us, the Bible goes on to say in 1 chapter 5 and verse 15, If we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desire to fill. But those things being accomplished, we're right with God, we got the sin out of our life, we're praying according to the will of God, we're not seeking our own benefit, we're praying for the glory of God. You know what, we've got power when we come to God and we say, God, in Jesus' name, I'm asking this. God, we're asking this for your glory, we're asking this in the name of your son. You might go to God maybe for the first time in your life, but you can go with confidence. Why? Because he called in Jesus' name and what he did and his finished work on the cross. So in his name we pray. But secondly, in his name we go. In his name we go, Acts 9.15. But the Lord said unto him, go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. He's a chosen vessel, why? He's gonna carry the name of Christ, Saul, in this case Saul that hated Christ and had everything to do against Christ, he's gonna carry the name of Christ as he goes. I bought a polo shirt yesterday. I'll tell you where it's a good sale after church. We got a polo shirt yesterday and it's, the colors are, it's red and it's got green on the sleeves, it's got green on the collar. And as I looked at it more as I got it home, I thought, you know, that could be a club shirt. And it might be because I don't follow football that closely to know what the different colors are, whatever, and it might have something to do with football. I might be walking around representing what? A football club, because I've got their colors on. And that's what Saul's saying. Saul's saying, I'm carrying around, he's gonna bear my name. He's gonna carry Christ. He's gonna wear the colors, you could say, of Christ. You know, back in the day, when they would go into battle, they would go into battle under their colors, wouldn't they? That flag didn't just represent a piece of cloth, it represented a nation. The picture on it represented why they were fighting, right? The covenanters, as they went into battle, they carried a banner. And on that banner, you can see it at the National Museum, it says Jehovah Nissi. And it means God is my banner. They were fighting for God. They were fighting for religious liberty. They were fighting to worship God as they pleased, and they weren't just fighting, they were defending themselves in their fighting. But the banner that they were under was the banner of Christ. You know, Paul was not a secret Christian, was he? He flew his colors, you could say, openly and clearly as he stood for the Lord. You know, this morning, do you fly the flag of Jesus? Neighbors, friends, acquaintances, as they see you, do they understand that you don't just represent yourself, you represent Christ? I was at a meeting, a public meeting recently, and somebody said, great God almighty, and I said, he is. That person was saying the name of God and being, but I was identifying with Christ unashamedly saying, he is almighty. You know, we ought to be unashamed today to stand for Jesus Christ. Think about the Lord Jesus Christ died as a criminal on a cross of shame because of our sin. He did that for us. I mean, the least we could do is to carry him wherever we go. And that's what Paul did. As Paul got saved, God said, I have chosen him. Remember, this is what we do in his name. In his name we go. And so he went and he carried the name of Christ as he went. We've got stories about Paul all through the book of Acts. And so we see Paul before Felix in Acts chapter 23 and verses 14 and 15. And the word of God says, with this I confess unto thee Paul's testifying before Felix. That after the way, now remember, Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. After the way, which they call heresy, so worship I, the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets. And have hope towards God that they themselves also allow that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. And so Paul identifies with Christ and gives that message of the death and the resurrection before King Agrippa, Acts 26, 22, and 23. Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both the small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come, that Christ should suffer, that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should show light unto the people and to the Gentiles. And so again, Paul, he's on trial, he's carrying the name of Christ. I've mentioned James Stewart several times, but James Stewart, as a young man, he got saved, and he started to preach as a kid. 15 to 19 years old, he preached on the streets, 14 to 19, I think, in Scotland. But one such time as he started to preach, there were these two girls that were with him, and he said, here, you stand here and hold the hymnals or something, and I'll stand here and I'll preach. As he started to preach, they were ashamed and they ran home. They got home and their mom said, they came in kind of crying and stuff, and their mom said, what's the matter? And they said to their mom, they said, Jimmy's preaching down there, and we were too ashamed, so we ran home. You know what the mom did? She took the hymnals and she went back and stood with Jimmy as he preached. You know, that's what we need to think about today. Am I running and hiding when I've got an opportunity to stand for the Lord? It's not easy, is it? Somebody says something, somebody laughs, somebody thinks critically, and very quickly, if we're not gonna stand for God, we're not gonna carry his name, we go into hiding. we are to bear the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. If we do that, then we'll find this next point true. In his name we go, but in his name we suffer. In his name we suffer. Acts 9.16, God says again to Ananias, for I will show him how great things he must suffer. Why? Do you see it in the text? For my namesake. for my namesake. I will show him how great things he must suffer for my namesake. Why was Paul on trial? Why was Paul beaten? Why was Paul shipwrecked? Why was Paul facing all the persecution that he faced? You know why? Because he identified with Christ. And as he identified with Christ, all those things came into play because he carried the name of Christ and in his name he suffered. Peter, before the cross and the crucifixion of Christ. Peter escaped suffering, didn't he? How did he do it? By denying, guess what? The name of Christ. Isn't that interesting? In his name we suffer, but Peter got out of it, why? By denying the name of Christ. Luke 22, verse 60. Peter said, man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew And the Lord turned and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out and he wept bitterly. That's an interesting verse that says, and the Lord turned and he looked upon Peter. Have you ever had a parent or a friend or somebody look at you with a look of disappointment? Wow, does that, it cuts to the heart, doesn't it? I mean, that convicts you to the very core of your being, and here the Lord Jesus Christ, he turns and he looks at Peter. Peter loved Jesus, but Peter denied the name of Christ and got out of suffering and went out and he wept bitterly. You know, we'll either identify with Jesus or we're gonna deny him like Peter. The great thing about Peter is Peter later identified with the name of Christ. He was in prison, he was beaten, and he died a martyr's death. But it's because at that point he didn't reject the name of Jesus Christ. You know, are your colors clear this morning? Are you willing to take suffering for the Lord? I mean, if we carry the name of Christ, the Bible says we will suffer. I've asked people at different times, you know, are you Christian? I don't ask them too much anymore. I generally ask, are you born again? But I asked one young man in Edinburgh, I said, are you a Christian? He said, I am. He said, I've been a Christian all my life. And you know what's interesting about that young man, he didn't go to church, he didn't really believe in God, yet he called himself a Christian. And that's really what the world's done, isn't it? I mean, they've kind of changed Christian to mean a general belief that there is a God, a tolerance of all these faiths, and the tolerances that we talked in Sunday school this morning, the chief Christian virtue, not really, but that's what the world says. And there's all this, it's a very shallow thing, isn't it? And it's something the world pats you on the back with and says, I'm so glad you're a Christian. But to be a Christian in Jesus' day, meant something far different, didn't it? It meant suffering if you stood with Jesus. Think about it. Early Christians did not live for themselves. Matthew 16, 24, Jesus said unto his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. So in the early Christians, as their followers of Christ, the Lord says, if you're gonna follow me, deny yourself. Then we think about this past week and think, you know, what if I deny myself so that I can follow Christ? Did I get up earlier? Did I go out of my way to tell somebody about Christ? Did I read my Bible when I wanted to do something else? Did I take the time to pray and say, you know, that's more important? Did I pray? Did I set aside sin? If any man will come after me, let him deny himself. Early Christians didn't live unto themselves and neither should we. Early Christians were expected to live godly lives. 2 Timothy 3.12 says, yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer, what? Persecution. We talked about it in Sunday school. If we identify with Christ, there's suffering associated with obeying and living a life that is right with Christ. And early Christians didn't expect the world to congratulate their faith, Matthew 10, 23 through 25. It says, but when they persecute you in this city, flee you into another for verily I say unto you, you shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of Man become. The disciple is not above his master nor the servant above his Lord. It's enough for the disciple that he be as his master and the servant as his Lord. If they've called the master of the house, Satan, Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? You look at Christ, how he's treated. Christ was hated, he was despised, and they lied about him, and they called him Satan. So as we identify with Christ, should we expect anything more? And the answer is no. If we'll identify with the name of Christ, in his name we'll suffer. But then we find as well, in his name we preach. In his name we preach. Acts 9 verse 20 and 21. It says, in a straight way, Paul preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the son of God. But all that heard him were amazed and said, is not this he that destroyed them, which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests? In verses 27 through 29. But Barnabas took him, brought him to the apostles and declared unto them how he'd seen the Lord in the way that he had spoken to him and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem and he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputed against the Grecians, but they went about to slay him." What was Paul's message? Paul would go into these different areas and he would begin to preach. What did he preach? He preached, Christ. It's pretty simple, isn't it? Even at Mars Hill, I was reading last night, I think it was in my Bible, so I'm continuing in my reading. On Mars Hill, Paul looks and he sees and alters the unknown God, whom ye ignorantly worship. Him declare I unto you, and he began at that place to preach unto them Jesus. It's interesting. A lot of times I think Satan gets us off track, and apologetics are good. We need to say there is a God, there has to be a creator. We need to stand for the truth and the authority of the word of God, but you know what we need to get to as we witness? We need to get to Christ. You read again in the New Testament, the book of Acts, they preached Jesus, they preached Jesus, they preached Jesus. Here's some examples. Acts 4, verse 2, they were grieved that they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Acts 5, 42, and daily in the temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ. Acts 8, 35, then Philip opened his mouth, began at the same scripture and preached unto him Jesus. Acts 17, 18, it says, because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection. 2 Corinthians 1.19, the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who is preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus. What our church ought to be identified with more than anything, even the kids that came to Holiday Bible Club this past week, is that as they came, they heard about Jesus. As we witness, as we tell people about anything to do with our church, what they ought to hear more than anything is about Jesus, about Christ. And so in his name we preach. And then lastly this morning, in his name we triumph. In his name we triumph. Acts 9, verses 32 through 35. It says, and it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints, which dwelt at Lydda. And there he found a certain man named Anais, which had kept his bed eight years and was sick of the palsy. And Peter said to him, Anais, Jesus Christ, make it be whole, arise and make thy bed. And he arose immediately, and all that dwelt and lit up, and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. Jesus Christ maketh thee whole. Isn't that interesting? When you see the disciples healing, they say very clearly, in the name of Jesus Christ, The miracles done by them were in the power of the Savior. The lame man at the temple, Acts 3, 6, the Peter said, silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And so, again, he looks down. I don't have any money, but in the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk. You know, there's a power that is in the name of Christ. As we seek to do the work for the Lord, we can claim, Lord, I'm doing this in your name. And as we seek to pray or to minister, God, in your name, we can do this. You know, you might look at it and say, I can't do that in my strength, and we can't, but in God's name, we can. Remember when David, Went out to fight Goliath, and Goliath had been mocking the people, and David stands up to fight against him. What does he say? 1 Samuel 17.45, and it's not the name of Christ. Obviously, the name of Jesus wasn't given. But in the name of God, then said David to the Philistine, thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield, but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defined. In thy name. Remember the seven sons of Seba? They were the guys that saw the power in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and so they thought, oh, we'll cast out this demon in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And they sought to do that, and they said, and his name come out, and the demon said, I know the name of Jesus, and I know the name of Paul, but I don't know your name. And he basically, they stripped him of their clothes and sent them running, fleeing from the house, right? We have to have Christ to claim his name, but when we have Christ, we have power. And as we stand for the Lord, again, as we're standing for Jesus Christ within this community, there is something to the fact that we stand in the name of Jesus. That in his name, this morning, we try. Lydia Baxter had a good idea. with that hymn, again it says, take the name of Jesus with you, child of sorrow and of woe. It will joy and comfort give you, take it then, wherever you go. If we're praying right, okay, setting those other things aside, we've got sin out of our life, we're praying according to the will of God, we're praying for God's glory. There's power in prayer if we go to God, God, we're asking this in Jesus' name. There's power when we go as we seek to bear the name of Christ. We go in His name. We're not secret Christians, we're identifying with Christ. There's power to suffer because we all suffer in His name. There's power to preach because we preach in Jesus' name as we declare truth. It's not our truth, it's the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ. In his name we triumph, there's power as well to overcome. And may God just encourage us. It's interesting to me, it has stood out to me as I continue to read through the book of Acts, how many times it just says, in his name. This is his church, this is his ministry, this is his work, this is what he's doing, and it's for him. And so we're even gathered together this morning in his name, so we can thank the Lord for that. And I hope that's an encouragement and challenge to you this morning, let's pray. Father, I praise you for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Father, the power is not us. The power is you. Father, confidence is not in us this morning. It's in the power of God to speak to hearts. Lord, in your name. So I pray this morning with the spirit of God to convict, I pray the spirit of God to work in hearts. Give us grace to identify with Jesus Christ. Lord, to understand as we go and do ministry, that we do that ministry in the name of Jesus, I pray. Father, you help us to try it, and that's power. As those men said, in the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk. In the name of Jesus, to be healed. In his name, Father, as we even have a service this morning, it's in his name, and I pray that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ would triumph in this place this morning. Father, what we are is just vessels of clay, but I pray by the grace and the power of God that you take and use us for your glory because we stand in your name. Thank you, Father, for your help this morning. May the Spirit of God apply the truth to our hearts. It's in Christ and we pray, amen. Take the name of Jesus with you, hymn 300, 300.