If you'd open your Bibles, please, to the 11th chapter of the book of Judges. We'll be looking at verses 29 to 40. I'll read the text tonight. Now, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, so that he passed through Gilead and Manasseh. Then he passed through Mizpah of Gilead. From Mizpah of Gilead he went on to the sons of Ammon. Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, if you will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand, then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, it shall be for the Lord's, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering. So Jephthah crossed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them. And the Lord gave them into his hand. He struck them with a very great slaughter from Arar to the entrance of Minneth, 20 cities, as far as Abel, Kiriamim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel. When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child. Besides her, he had no son or daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, Alas, my daughter, you have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me, for I have given my word to the Lord, and I cannot take it back. So she said to him, My father, you've given your word to the Lord. Do to me as you have said, since the Lord has avenged you of your enemies, the sons of Ammon. She said to her father let this thing be done for me let me alone two months That I may go to the mountains and weep because of my virginity I and my companions Then he said go So he sent her away for two months and she left with her companions and wept on the mountains because of her virginity at the end of two months She returned to her father who did to her according to the vow which he had made, and she had no relations with a man. Thus it became a custom in Israel that the daughters of Israel went yearly to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite, four days in the year." May we pray. Our Father, we thank Thee for Thy grace We've all done and said stupid, sinful things in our lifetime, and were it not for grace, we all here tonight would be without any hope. We thank thee for thy word, and it's in the word that we learn about the grace of God. It's in the word that we learn that you are a God of comfort, and we thank you for the comfort and for the peace that only you as God can give. We thank you for that that we've seen tonight. the comfort and peace that you've given to Phil and his family in the home going of Brian. We also want to pray tonight that that same peace will be imparted to the Buccalo family in the home going of Mr. Buccalo. We pray that you would use this text of scripture tonight to minister to our minds and hearts in a very real personal way and we will thank you for that in Jesus name, amen. When you're a Bible expositor and you come to a text like this, you wish you weren't a Bible expositor. This is one of those passages, if you weren't a Bible expositor, you'd just soon jump over. But there can be absolutely no doubt that one of the greatest men of God, one of the greatest theologians ever raised up by God, one of the most impacting men in the history of the church was John Calvin. John Calvin was sovereignly saved by God in 1533 at the age of 24. He broke away from the Catholic Church. He carefully studied every book of the Bible. He wrote his famous Institutes in 1536 when he was 27 years old. He spent much of his life on the run from the Catholic Church who were trying to hunt him down and kill him. He eventually ended up in Geneva, Switzerland in 1541 at the age of 32 where he would spend most of the rest of his life as a key leader of the Protestant Reformation. He wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible and he made the scriptures come to life for people. God's hand was on him. But after Calvin had been so greatly used by God, at age 44, he made a really bad, stupid decision, which ended up haunting him for the final 10 plus years of his life. There was a notorious critic of Calvin, a Spaniard, whose name was Michael Servetus. He came to Geneva, and he opposed Calvin's teachings and doctrines, so Calvin denounced him, and he would play a major part in having him arrested and burned at the stake. In a letter he wrote to his friend, William Farrell, a week after Servetus had been arrested, Calvin said, I hope that sentence of death will at least be passed on him. And Servetus was burned at the stake, and this act haunted Calvin until the day he went home to be with the Lord. For one brief moment in the history of his Christian life, he took his eyes off of some of the important theology of Grace Age instruction, and he was involved in doing something ridiculous. He regretted that involvement for the rest of his life. What a story like that teaches us is that if you take your eyes off the Word of God, even if you're a godly person, you can end up doing some really bad things. Godly men, even men who've been greatly used by God, men who've been empowered by the Holy Spirit of God can do stupid things and never is that more evident than when you come to a text like this one tonight in the book of Judges. What you see when you look at this text is good godly men who've been selected by God, who've been greatly used by God can make some really bad decisions later in life if they carefully stop focusing on God's written word. If they stop focusing on carefully studying the scriptures, they can do dumb things. Now this is a passage that is a warning to every believer. It's a warning to every believer, including those who have known the Lord for years. We need to stay focused on understanding the written word until the end of our lives or we can get sidetracked into doing and believing things that are weird. The truth is some of the greatest problems people have in their lives are due to the fact they've drifted from the word of God or they're ignorant of the scriptures and they make ridiculous decisions. Now last time we were together, we saw that Jephthah was just a brilliant strategist. He tried to diplomatically negotiate a peace settlement with the Ammonites, but it didn't work. They didn't want it. So in verse 29, the text says, the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah and he headed out to go to war. Now, you need to understand, in the Old Testament economy, the Spirit of the Lord coming upon someone, it was for the purpose of, in the Old Testament, giving that person the ability to accomplish some major, usually political, military endeavor for the Lord. When the Old Testament Holy Spirit came upon someone, it didn't come upon everybody, it came upon a certain person, and it wasn't so much to promote holy living and life, like it is with you and me, but it was designed to enable them to get a job done for God. Now, all a leader really needed for victory was that. I mean, if you were a person singled out by God and you were given the Spirit of the Lord and you had the Spirit of the Lord on you, you don't need to be making a bunch of promises to God. You don't need to be making any vows to the Lord. God had given you His Spirit. That's the thing that would give you the power to get the job done. And if you've got God on your side, who can stop you? But Jephthah's theology is just a little warped. And so when you go down through this text, there are about six realities that show us this guy had a little problem. First of all, he makes an unbiblical vow to the Lord. That's what happens in verses 30 to 31. Verse 29 says, the spirit of the Lord was on Jephthah. And what verses 30 and 31 say, that this one who had the spirit of God on him can begin to do some really crazy things. God had his spirit on Jephthah. He put his spirit on Saul. He put his spirit on David. And just like Jephthah, they ended up doing some crazy sinful things. And what Jephthah did with God's Spirit on him is he decided to make a ridiculous vow to the Lord. Frankly, this was a reckless thing for him to do. He didn't think it through at all. He wasn't obviously depending on the Spirit when he made this vow. All Jephthah really has to do is to go out and get the job done for the Lord. He's not obligated to make a vow, but he decides on his own that is what he's going to do. He does not simply trust the Lord. He doesn't trust the Spirit of God. What he wants to do is make some bargain deal with God. Now Moses gave instructions about vows and we need to see them. So go back to Deuteronomy 23. Deuteronomy chapter 23 verse 21. Here's what we read. When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the Lord your God will surely require it of you. However, if you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you, you shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised. The instruction that Moses gave to the children of Israel is there's no person in the family of God who's under any obligation to make any vow. But he says this, if you do make a vow, you all of a sudden come under obligation to keep the vow. This is why you will never hear us at this church asking you to make vows or pledges. This is why you never hear us at this church asking you to make some type of promise. J. Vernon McGee said years ago when he was a young person, he went to a youth conference and they were asking young people to go forward who were gonna promise that they were really gonna serve God with their lives. He said, I didn't go forward. I'm not about to make that promise because he said, I knew me and I wasn't sure I was gonna do it. And God had warned in his word, don't you make a vow rashly. In fact, he said, it's far better for you never to vow anything than to vow something to him and not pay it. So for some oddball reason, Jephthah decides he's gonna make a vow. And why does God take a vow so seriously? Why does he take a person's word so seriously? Because ladies and gentlemen, he's a God of his word. And when he makes a promise to someone, he will never go back on it. He basically vows that if God would give him victory over the Ammonites, he says there in verse 31, whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, it shall be the Lord's and I will offer it up as a burnt offering. He said, here's my vow. Whatever comes out of my house, God, if you'll give me victory, I'll offer it to you as a burnt offering. Now, there's really no other way to view this than to assume he's promising God he's going to offer some form of human sacrifice. I have put an addendum in your notes tonight. I've studied this and analyzed this and I've come up with all the arguments for it being a dedication of a life to the Lord, serving the Lord in the tabernacle. versus a offering of a human sacrifice. And frankly, as I've analyzed this thing, I still come away with the possibility that he is talking here about some form of human sacrifice for three reasons. First of all, he says, I'll offer you the first thing that comes out of my house. And animals, typically, were not kept inside the house. Humans were kept inside the house Although I did find one historian who claimed that if a house had four rooms in it It was possible that one of the rooms could house some animals It would be also a total mockery to offer the first sacrifice of the first animal that comes out of the house when in fact God demands the best sacrifice that you can offer from those animals so you wouldn't just say well, I'll give you the first animal and Thirdly that word burnt offering typically is something that means somebody or something dies So it would appear to me that Jephthah is vowing to God to make some human sacrifice. Now keep in mind where Jephthah lives. He was raised, kicked out of his house in the Ammonite world. And when you spend your life living in the Amorite world, you are living in a world that did sacrifice human beings. He was out of the country for years, and he probably developed these quirky ideas based on the fact that he had lived in that background, in that culture. He knew his God was the true God, and he probably was thinking to himself, well, if these people that are dedicated to these false gods are willing to do it, then so am I. Ladies and gentlemen, Jephthah is probably doing this because he is connected to a world and he just doesn't know any better. And I think there are churches doing things all over this country because they are so connected to the world, they just don't seem to know any better. And so what religion basically says is if it will bring people in, bring it in. We don't care what it is. We don't care how shallow it is. If it's gonna get people in the doors, just bring it on into the church and they're bringing the world right into the church. And if you don't believe that, we just received a mailing this week, just going over it in pre-service prayer tonight. It's called a Darling Christmas Musical. They classify this as a Christmas worship musical. And the name of it is Silent Mice, Holy Mice. And some of the songs in the musical are A Cozy Little Nest, Cat and Mouse, and then of course they sing Silent Night. There will be churches that will bring this into the church thinking this is cute. Probably that's Jeff this problem He's lived out there in a religious world. That's insane and he thinks well I'll just vow what they do and if this be the case He probably assumed the first person who's gonna come out of my door It's probably gonna be one of those sons of Gilead or it's going to be one of the servants that will come out of my house He never dreamed that the first person out of his house was going to be his daughter He didn't understand you're gonna pay a severe price for this vow you're making But ladies and gentlemen, doesn't this teach us a principle? Our doctrine can be distorted by religion. You stay away from religion, you stay in the Word. I'll do my best always to take you straight through these books of the Bible, but you stick with the Word. You don't get sidetracked by religion, and you don't get sidetracked by denominationalism, you stick to the Scriptures. Or else you can get into bizarre thinking, and that's what Jephthah does. Now this is a ridiculous vow that he's making, the Bible over and over again. forbids a person from making human sacrifices. In the famous Ten Commandments, you have the commandment of God that says you shall not kill. In fact, when it comes to human sacrifices, they are actually an abomination to God. He hates it. Go back to Deuteronomy chapter 12 just for a moment and I'll show you that. Deuteronomy chapter 12. Look at verse 30. Deuteronomy 1230. Beware. that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise? You shall not behave thus toward the Lord your God. For every abominable act which the Lord hates, they have done for their gods. For they even burn their sons and daughters in fire to their gods. This is an abomination to the Lord. Why in the world would Jephthah make such a stupid vow in any way? You have to ask yourself that. Why would he do it? And the answer is this. He does not know the scriptures. He does not know the totality of what God's word says. And because he doesn't know the scriptures, neither do those who are around him, he does something ridiculous. Now did Jephthah love the Lord? Yes. But he did not know the word. Jephthah's the kind of guy who has a lot of zeal for religion. He has a lot of sincerity. What he lacks is knowledge of those precious books of the Bible. He lacks knowledge of the Word of God, and that's what's leading him to do something ridiculous. His theology is just goofy. He somehow believes that he can force a deal with God by making a vow. He somehow thinks that he can back God into some type of corner through this vow thing that he's making to God. He's thinking, if I say this, then God is going to have to do this. You can't manipulate God. There's no way. The reason why God was going to give him victory is because he had promised to give him victory. It had nothing to do with this vow. You know, there was a period of history in the Church called the Crusades. There was about a 200 year span, about AD 1095 to 1291, where the Catholic Church sent out Christian Crusaders to the Promised Land to try to forcefully take it and kill Islamic Muslims. In fact, they called it their Holy War. And during the time when they were going through that land, they killed Muslims, they killed Jews. And it's almost like the Crusaders stopped reading the Bible. And you start thinking, where in the world did you get that idea? God said, leave vengeance to me. You don't have to take it into your own hands. Vengeance is mine. I will repay. They were doing something ridiculous because they didn't know the totality of Scripture. And that's why Jephthah makes this ridiculous vow. He's living in a pagan culture where they do these kinds of things, and he's just lost track of the Word. Which brings us to the second reality. God gave him great victory over the Ammonites. Notice verse 32. So Jephthah crossed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them, and the Lord gave them into his hand. God gave him an amazing victory here. I mean, he destroyed 20 Ammonite-controlled cities. He took back major amounts of promised land. In fact, according to Andrew Fawcett, a great scholar, he said that a lot of the land they took back here is known for wheat production, so this would have been very productive land that God had given back to Israel. God gave Jeff the complete victory. He gave him his spirit. He gave him the victory. Jephthah never needed to make any vow to God in order for God to give victory, because that was his plan all along. That's why he raised up Jephthah, so he could go up against the Ammonites and have this victory. That's why he put him in that position. And according to Hebrews 11, 32, Jephthah was a faith hero for going into battle. It was a sweeping victory. God slaughtered the Ammonites through Jephthah and the sons of Israel had back their cities and their lands. And why did God do that? Because He made a promise in His Word, I'll curse those who curse you. Somebody who tampers with this nation is tampering with me. If they tamper with Israel, they're going to pay a severe price. And God is keeping his word. He's doing it through Jephthah. Which brings us to the third reality. He comes back home and the first thing he sees is his daughter. Verse 34. When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child besides her. He had no son or daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, Alas, my daughter, you have brought me very low and you are among those who trouble me, for I have given my word to the Lord and I cannot take it back. Jephthah comes back on the high note of his life. This guy who was kicked out of his home because his mother was a prostitute and nobody wanted him is now coming back a hero. And when he comes back, the people are rejoicing, and the first thing he sees when he comes back home is he sees his own daughter. She's excited about what her dad has done. She's dancing. She's laughing. She's thrilled that he's home. And she came out of her house to meet him and greet him. This was Jephthah's only child and she was a wonderful daughter. In fact, she's an amazing daughter. She's an incredible daughter. As Jephthah saw her, his heart sank because he realized, I have made this promise to God. I made this vow. There should have been joy here. There should have been joy when he saw his daughter. Israel is safe. His family is safe. He's now back home. Jephthah never dreamed for a moment that his daughter would be the first one to come out of that house to meet him. And I know that. The way I know that is in verse 31 there are a series of masculine words that are used there in that promise. You'll notice verse 31, whatever, that's masculine. When you read the words shall be, I shall offer, whatever comes out, those are all masculine words in Hebrew. See, Hebrew is not like Greek. It has masculine-feminine language. It doesn't have neuter, like Greek has or like English has. And therefore, when he's using all of those masculine words, he never dreamed it would be his daughter who came out of that house. He thought it was going to be some male. But when he sees her, he's crushed and he's devastated because, as you'll see in just a few minutes, he doesn't understand grace. He doesn't know the word of God, he doesn't understand grace, and he doesn't think there's any way he could get out of this vow. The reason why he thinks this way is because he doesn't know the scriptures, he knows nothing of grace. And I believe some of us parents have ruined our children for the same reason. I believe some parents have ruined their children because they don't really know the truth of God about the grace of God. So the children grew up in a very rigid, legalistic society. And instead of the parents helping their children to blossom in the grace of God, they zap the joy out of life. When those kids would fail, instead of them saying, now go to the Lord, restore that wonderful relationship with God, confess it, and watch what God's grace will do. They made them feel like losers. And God is a God who doesn't operate that way. If he did, none of us would be here tonight. God is a God of grace. And you know one thing children can teach us when they're not little perfect robots is that we need to deal with them out of a heart of grace. We need to learn to live right with them, and to love right with them, and to demonstrate grace with them. We can't turn back the clock. None of us can. We can't go back and repair what we've done. But from now on, we can purpose to understand the Word of God, and demonstrate the grace of God the best we can. Because the reason why Jephthah is going to do what he's going to do, is he does not understand the Word, he does not understand grace. Which brings us to the fourth reality, Jephthah's daughter asked her father for two months, to which he agrees. Verse 36 says, so she said to him, my father, you've given your word to the Lord, do to me as you have said, since the Lord has avenged you of your enemies, the sons of Ammon. We could write a book on this girl. This girl is amazing. She is the kind of girl who recognized the seriousness of God. She's the kind of girl who recognized the seriousness of the promise that her father had made. She probably lived with the story of Jephthah's life, how he'd been kicked out of the home, and she was proud of her dad. This was a wonderful moment in her father's life. And she wasn't about to let him down. She had great loyalty to her father. She had great loyalty to God. So she took some of her friends, and she said, would you let us go for a couple of months to grieve the fact that I'm never going to have the privilege of having children? That, too, would be another blow to Jephthah, because this would mean that he would not have any grandchildren to leave behind that would, of course, bear his name. Which brings us to the fifth reality. He fulfills his unbiblical vow by sacrificing his daughter. In verse 39 we read, At the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her according to the vow which he had made. And she had no relations with a man, thus it became a custom in Israel. Now, there is a major debate, and I have put that addendum in your notes tonight because of this. There is a major debate as to whether or not Jephthah actually killed his daughter when she came home, offering her as a dead sacrifice, or whether he demanded a lifelong virginity of his daughter when she came home, offering her as a living sacrifice. In verse 31, there is a grammatical uncertainty as to whether or not the Hebrew should be read it shall be the Lord's and I will offer up as a burnt offering or if it should read it shall be the Lord's or I will offer it up as a burnt offering. And the difference would be this. The first way that you would interpret the sentence out of Hebrew would mean it shall be the Lord's whatever it is and I'll offer it up as a burnt offering. The second way would be it shall be the Lord's if it's a human or I will offer it up as a burnt offering if it's an animal. Now some have taken the position that this wasn't a real human sacrifice, but because of the emphasis on her virginity, which is stressed over and over again in this text, they believe it was a sentence where she was going to dedicate herself to tabernacle service for the rest of her life. One problem with that view is the fact that the burnt offering always referred to the death sacrifice, even if it were human. You'll recall when Abraham was told to take Isaac up on the mount, he said, go up and offer him as a burnt offering. And in that very language, Isaac would have been, at that point, a real human offered. Now I've read page after page after page on this. I have studied the Hebrew grammar as best I can. I'm skilled more at Greek than I am Hebrew, but I do know Hebrew. And I agree with Dr. George Bush who said, studying all the labors of the learned, nothing satisfactory has yet been produced which should exclude the idea that a human sacrifice was either intended by the vow or might be its unintended result. In other words, because of this ridiculous vow that Jephthah made, he sacrificed his own daughter. Which brings us to the final reality. Jephthah's daughter was remembered and honored by all the girls in Israel. Verse 40 says that the daughters of Israel went yearly to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite, four days in a year. Jephthah's daughter should be honored. This is an amazing girl. She reverence God. She reverenced God. She was a person who said, I care about the Word. I care about the Word of God and I care about what you promised God. You don't see many boys or girls or women or men reverencing God at that level. You know, there's a very interesting text of scripture that warns us all to be very careful what we say before the Lord. Here's what Jesus said. And I say to you that every careless word that men shall speak, they shall render account for it in that day of judgment. For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned. This warning in this text behooves every one of us to be very, very careful about what we say before God, what we promise God. But ladies and gentlemen, what makes this story even more tragic than it is, is that had he known God's word, he would have known about God's grace that was available in a context just like this. It has been a few years since we went through the book of Leviticus. But you'll recall when we went through that book, that we came to Leviticus 27. And in Leviticus 27, God gave a gracious way out of a vow. If you made a stupid vow about someone, there was a way out. You could get out of it. There was a payment that could be made to God that would be acceptable, that would relieve the burden of the vow. If the vow concerned a daughter who was 20 to 60 years old, the vow was redeemable by a payment of 30 shekels. If the vow concerned a daughter between 5 and 20 years old, she was redeemable by a payment of 20 shekels. Do you understand this point? Had someone in this nation known the scriptures, this whole bizarre situation could have been circumvented. But nobody knew this. They apparently didn't understand there's a text there in Leviticus 27 that offers you the grace of God. Look, if ever there's a passage that says you better know every one of those 66 books, it's this one. We better go to work on understanding every chapter of the word of God or we can end up believing and doing crazy things. And I leave us tonight with four practical lessons. First of all, not knowing all of God's Word is very, very dangerous. I read an account this week of the last time that H.A. Ironside did lectures at Dallas Seminary. He was almost blind. In his final lecture series, he had his wife read the text, and then he would expound the text. He spent his life studying the Bible. He spent his life systematically studying the scriptures. And during the final lecture, someone who's there who wrote about it said he held up his Bible and he said, men, I wish I'd read other books less and this book more. Now here is the great Bible expositor in the world. And he's saying, I wish I would have spent more time reading this book and less time reading other books. Ladies and gentlemen, not knowing the word of God is a dangerous thing. That's why we must always carefully analyze scripture in light of things. Secondly, when we promise God something, we better take it serious. That's why David prayed, and write this down, Psalm 141.3. That's why David prayed, God set a guard before my mouth. Don't you let things come out of my mouth that I'm gonna have to answer to you for. You set a guard before my mouth so that I will guard my speech, because our speech is on full display before the Lord. Thirdly, if we have not followed through on what we promised God, we need to go to Him and appeal to His grace. Maybe you have promised God, I'll never do that again, and then you did it again. Maybe you promised God something and you didn't follow through on it. Well, you need to go to the Lord and take care of this. God is a gracious God. You confess it and you appeal to His grace. And finally, as we age, we need to stay focused on carefully understanding God's words so we don't end up doing and believing crazy stuff. Because when you start picking and choosing parts of the Bible, especially out of the Old Testament, you can end up hurting your own family. You can hurt your own children. You can do something theologically devastating to them. Because you see, there was only one human sacrifice that ever pleased God. And ironically, that sacrifice would come from one who was a virgin. It's the sacrifice that makes it possible for people like us who have thought and said and done sinful things. to find the grace and the mercy and the forgiveness of God. If we had time tonight, we could go around this sanctuary, we could prove every single one of us have been vile sinners. Now you can sit there and play a game if you want, but that's fact. We could prove that. There's no getting out of that. But the amazing grace of God teaches us that God gives us and offers us a way out of our vile sinful state. It's all found in the sacrifice of the God man. And this is serious business what we're studying here. This is serious business what we're doing here. We've heard that tonight. This is not light when you think about, am I going to place my faith in Jesus Christ? As Phil said earlier, you just don't know when that last time is going to be, when the last moment will be. And if you've never believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, you believe on Him tonight. And you will experience His grace, you will experience His life. If you have believed, if you've done something that's made you guilty before the Lord, you go to Him. You go to Him and you get that grace that's found in confession. Because what God does is He offers complete forgiveness and grace. Don't miss out on that or you'll end up as miserable as Jephthah. May we pray. If you're here tonight and you've never trusted Jesus Christ as Savior, the fact of the matter is we are all sinners here tonight. We've all fallen short of the glory of God. The amount of sins that we have collectively committed out of this congregation tonight, if we thought through our whole life, our thinking, our speech, our actions would be just innumerable. but there is a sacrifice that offers us grace and it's Jesus Christ. Believe on him and be saved. Father, we thank you for the scriptures. We agree with Dr. Ironside. We need to spend more time understanding that and less time understanding other stuff. I pray that you would enable us as the people of God to always have a proper perspective of all 66 books I pray that you would keep us, regardless of our age, from doing stupid things that really are of reproach to you. I pray that we would be people who accomplish great things for your glory. And for that, we will thank you. In Jesus' name, amen.