scripture reading for today is from Psalm 119 verses 9 through 11 wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according to thy word with my whole heart have I sought thee oh let me not wonder from thy commandments thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee let's pray Heavenly Father God again it's so wonderful to be in your house with like-minded believers dear God we thank you for the truth of your scripture Lord we just pray that you will Speak to our hearts, dear God, that it will pierce our hearts and make us change, dear God. Help us to be more like Jesus, Lord. Please be with Pastor Dellinger. I just bless his words, dear God. Speak through him today, dear God. For in Christ's name we pray, amen. Psalms 119, if you will turn there, looking at verses nine through 16 today. Most men, young men, and women as well, as you grow up, go from that teenage years to the young adult years, you are often asked the question, especially in this time of year when graduations are happening, people ask you, so what are you gonna do with your life? What's your goal, what's the path you're taking, and what career are you pursuing? That's a typical question, especially if you're graduating. How are you gonna make your way? Especially here in America, you can expect that question as you grow closer to becoming an adult. In fact, they even ask that even before you graduate. How are you gonna make your way in the world as you go out? Now, think about that just for a minute, because that's an important question, especially for young people, to consider. It's important to a degree. What are you gonna do with your life? What are you gonna be when you grow up type of question? Well, there's actually a more important question that we're gonna look at today. It's a question the author of Psalms 119 wrote in verse nine. This is the longest chapter in the Bible. And the author is, it's debated who it is. It could be David, Ezra, or Daniel. But whoever it is, ask this question in verse nine. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? How many graduates do you think are gonna be asked that question this month? To the class of 2015, how are you gonna keep your way pure and clean? How will you stay clean as you go along your way in this filthy world? That's more of an important question than what are you gonna do or what are you gonna be when you grow up. How are you gonna go through this life and stay pure? That is the greater question because God does not, he does not call us to be famous or popular or wealthy. or any of these things that the world may label as great or success. He desires for us to be a pure, clean vessel, ready to be used by Him. Create in me a clean heart, oh God. So how do we do that? As adults, as young people, as children, how do we make our life clean or pure, especially in this kind of world that we live in, there's so much wickedness and ungodliness and filthiness. How do we make it our life clean? Because it does not come naturally. It does not happen accidentally. There must be a way to make our life clean. And that's the question that's being asked here in verse 9 in Psalms 119. How shall a young man cleanse his way? How can he be clean as he goes on his way? It's a very practical question in the physical and spiritual sense. How do we stay pure in a world that's filled with filth? And it's everywhere. How do you do that? And I don't doubt that some of you here today had a hard struggle this past week. You were probably bombarded with the wickedness of this world at some level. Even in your best efforts, it flies in your face. I mean, you can go home and throw away your computer and your TV and your iPhone and try to get rid of all the things that you think may cause that, and yet you still walk outside. If you go to the store, if you go to a place of work, I mean, it's still there. So how do you keep yourself clean in a world that is so filthy? Because we can't escape the world. We have to live here. But how do we keep ourselves clean as we live here? How do we keep ourselves pure as we live here? That is the greater question. And the question actually leads to all the answers as we look in the next eight verses here. Now the way Psalms 119 was written, it's probably this way in your Bible. It's broken down into little sections of Psalms 119. Eight verses each. And the format there of Psalms 119 in the Hebrew language is an alphabetic acrostic. And what that means is, is the first letters of each section begins with the Next letter of the Hebrew alphabet so sections Verses 1 through 8 that begins with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and then verses 9 through 16 It begins with the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet And so that's how it was written in a lot of the children as they grew up would would learn these psalms And they would sing them to help them remember not only their alphabet, but they could also remember truths of God's Word just much like today we we tend to sing our alphabet when we're quoting them, quoting the letters. And so here we have 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, eight verses in each one, so there we get 176 verses, the longest chapter in the Bible. But we go back to this question here, it's the title of the sermon, how do we stay pure in this filthy world? How do we keep our way clean as we walk among the filth of all that is sinful and ungodly around us? Young men, which is who the author addresses here, how do you keep yourselves pure? Which really applies to all of us today. How do we win that everyday battle of being pure and clean before the Lord instead of yielding to sin and to self? And that should be the cry of every believer. How can I stay pure? Is there a way that I can be finished with sin and follow Jesus with my whole heart? Is there a way to abandon sin and not be a repeat offender? Is there a way to really, I mean, really walk pure before God? Even in our thought life where no one knows what that is except you and God. How can we think pure thoughts? Well, here's our answer. Look at verse nine again. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word. So how do we stay pure? That's the million dollar question. And the big answer is in the second part of that verse, by observing and keeping God's word. That's sort of the big, broad brush answer, by observing and keeping God's Word. And that phrase there in King James, taking heed, it means to observe, it means to keep, it means to guard. And as we'll see in our text today, it's more than just reading the Scriptures. It's beyond that. So in addition to the broad answer that we observe and keep God's Word, we even have a more detailed and some practical ways that we are to do that according to Psalms 119 and these eight verses here. Now we should read the Scriptures. That's sort of the bare minimum. reading the scriptures, but we're to go beyond that and to heed the Word of God, to observe it, keep it, obey what we read. So in the next seven verses we're going to look at, verses 10 through 16, the author of this chapter goes into more detail about how we do that, how we observe and how we keep God's Word. So the short answer to how we stay pure is to observe and keep God's Word. And now we're going to go into how we do that. What does it look like? What does it mean? And there's several ways that we're going to see that we are to be engaged with the scriptures that actually lead to maturity in the Word. And the first one is found in verse 10. So the first way to observe and heed God's Word is to wholeheartedly seek God through His Word. And to when I say seek him we are going after Wholeheartedly, our desire is to seek the Lord in his word. You cannot stay pure if you have an apathetic approach to the scriptures if you really don't care about the Bible if you think you probably really don't need it to read it and You cannot stay pure. Staying pure is not about willpower. Instead, it's about diving in with your whole heart and seeking to know God desperately. You so much want to know God and to seek Him out that you guard your heart and you dive into the scriptures. You strive to not wander by going to the scriptures. You do that by staying in the word, not just by getting more in your life and trying your best. It means going to the scriptures. This isn't about a willpower. or your self-discipline, in a sense, to see how good you can do it. This is about diving into the scriptures. In fact, Abe Lincoln once said, if I have six hours ahead of cutting trees, I'm gonna spend my first hour sharpening my axe. Because he knew that he would be ineffective in the woods if he had not sharpened his axe, preparing for the day ahead. You see there is a filthy world that we're going to every time you step out of your door And sometimes even before you step out of your door you experience the filth of this world But if you're not seeking out God in his word if you're not striving to say stay saturated in the scriptures You will not stay pure it is impossible You must spend time each day wholeheartedly seeking God and His Word. Even as we learn back in Ephesians, you can't go into spiritual battle unarmed. you gotta put your spiritual armor on. To not do so is foolish. So for the believer, you need to be completely heeding God's word in order to stay pure. You can build up all the fences, you can do all the safe things you can do to get a software that blocks your computer, you can get rid of your cable, or do all these other things you wanna do, and those are fences. Those things don't keep you from sinning. They're just fences to say, hey, you're heading that way. But the ultimate problem is our heart. And so we need to put our heart and dive into the scriptures and soak up the scriptures because you can build up all the fences you want to build up, but that will not ultimately keep you out of sin. It's only found in the word of God. And it's amazing how many Christians or professing Christians try to live their Christian life without ever reading the Scriptures or going to the Scriptures. Because it's completely impossible to live the Christian life in a pure way apart from the Scriptures. God tells us that the only way to remain pure is to be grounded, to observe and to keep His Word, to observe His ways, His commandments, His precepts. There is no other way. There's no plan B here for purity. When it comes to walking a life of purity, there is no plan B, no backup plan. It's always the Scriptures. Now look at verses 11 and 12, and we're going to see a second way to heed God's Word, to observe it, to keep it. He says, Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord, teach me thy statutes. So in addition to wholeheartedly seeking the Lord, we also are to memorize the word of God. And here we have one of the most, I would say one of the most unique and practical ways to fight off sin. And that is to memorize God's word. If you are in sin, let's say there's a specific sin that you struggle with, something that you're struggling with. Memorize verses that address that sin. I mean, if you find yourself always worrying about things and you know that's not right, then go to Philippians 4, 6, and 7 and memorize, be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Let your requests be made only to God and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your minds and hearts through Christ Jesus. If you struggle with worry, memorize that verse because it addresses that specific sin of being anxious and not taking things to the Lord in prayer and not being thankful. See, here's what we fail to remember. Because God's word plainly says, thy word, right here in verse 11, thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee. How is that possible? You think, was that the formula? If I just memorize the scriptures, I'm gonna quit sinning? Is it my memorization that does that? Here's what I want you to understand. Hiding God's word in your heart keeps you from sin because of this one reason. God's word, unlike any other book that's ever been written or will be written, is alive. It is alive. God's word is alive. All other books are dead. God's word is the only book that is alive. And because it is the living word, it is able to keep us from sin. All other books have no life. Even books that talk about the things of God, they themselves are dead. The only thing that is alive is God's Word. The scriptures are alive. Turn to Hebrews chapter four for a minute. Hebrews chapter four. I want you to see this because I think sometimes people read that verse and they think they found some kind of magic formula. If I just memorize God's Word, I'll quit sinning. But what they're not understanding is the Word of God is alive. It is not their memorization that is doing it. In Hebrews 4.12, For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and the joints and marrow. It is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. We're talking about the scriptures here, the word of God. It's all those things. Now I want you to notice the word quick, for the word of God is quick. In the Greek, that means to live, and to breathe and to be among the living, not dead. That is what that word means. And that Greek word is used 143 times in the New Testament. And except when it's used as the word quick, all other times it's translated as alive or live or dead. Matthew 16, 16, Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. That word living is the same Greek word as the word quick here in Hebrews 4. For the word of God is living and powerful. When Peter calls Jesus the son of the living God, it's the same words that We read where the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. Because the Bible is alive, because it is living, it can keep you from sin. Dead books cannot do that. Only the Holy Scriptures because they are alive. So why would you invest so much of your time in self-help books or motivational CDs or even your own reasoning which is tainted with sin and flesh? Because you see the Bible, the Word of God is alive and it is just as much alive as Jesus is alive. I don't think we realize that. The Word of God has as much life in it as Jesus has life in Him. Do you see how powerful the Word of God is? It is able to keep you from sin. And when you hide the living word of God in your heart, it keeps you from sin. Now some of you have tried every other possible way to rid yourself of sin except for doing this, except for hiding God's word in your heart. That's how foolish we are. We try to figure things out or make things happen or plan it out or work our way out of it. But only the living word can keep you from sin. So if you wanna keep yourself pure in this filthy world, if you wanna make your way clean, You need to hide the living word of God in your heart. Memorize it, read it over and over. And that word hide means to treasure and to store. That's what's valuable to us. We really cannot live pure without it. And memorizing is one of the best ways to keep yourself pure because the living word is hidden in your heart. I even encourage you to memorize Psalms 119.11. That's a short verse. My word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee. Just a great reminder of the power of the living word. And there in verse 11, the author also blesses the Lord and then desires continually to be taught the statutes of God. He says in verse 11, the second half there, blessed art thou, O Lord, teach me thy statutes. In verse 12, how ridiculous it is for us to have the living word of God before us and then not desire the truths that are being taught in the word. It's like having the answer book right here in our hands, and yet we're still struggling with all the questions. We just need to open the book, saturate ourselves, wholeheartedly seek the Lord, hide His Word in our heart. It will keep us from sin. But often we treat the Word of God like we do instructions when we get them, when we buy something we have to put together. We'll try to look at it and fix it first, and then when we think we got it all together, we're like, oh wow, there's still three screws sitting out. And then we'll go back and then read through and say, okay, what did we mess up? We can't treat the scriptures that way. We cannot afford to live the Christian life that way. Just kind of going the best we can, and then when things start to get a little rocky or we're not sure what's going on, then we go to the Scriptures. No, we should be constantly saturating our life with the Scriptures. Hiding the Word of God in our hearts daily. And one way to do that is to memorize the Scriptures. The third way to keep ourselves pure is by speaking the truths of the Scriptures. Look at verse 13. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. Now, there is something powerful about speaking the word of God, even in your own life, if you're the only one to hear it. to actually, out loud, hear the Word of God spoken from your lips. There's something powerful about that. And so many of us believe the Word of God, and we read the Word of God, and we think about the verses in the Scriptures, but when was the last time, if you think about it for a minute, when was the last time you actually spoke the Word of God? Either from memory or reading it out loud. I mean, I've shared before how my brother has memorized so many of the Proverbs, and I don't know that his way has been so much to intentionally memorize them as if he has just read them so many times he can just quote them. And if you're around him for any length of time, you'll hear him quote a proverb at some point. And here's what doing that does. It brings the living word of God right to your ears. It causes you to deal with the truth of God's word. And in doing so, whether there's a battle that you're having, or whether you need to be encouraged, or whatever your issue is, it's not with a person that's saying it, it is with the word of God. It is being spoken out loud. Even in your own life, speaking the word of God will cause yourself to come under its hearing and its power. That's why so many people even hate to hear the name of Jesus spoken. There's people that are okay with you believing in Jesus and following Jesus, but they don't want to hear you speak his name. They don't want to hear the word of God. The psalmist says, with my own lips, which is an audible understanding here, with my own lips, I will declare all the judgments of thy mouth, to actually speak it out loud. And this is a call, when you do that, you are putting your own selves in submission to God's word. And when it comes from our own lips, it's a weapon of sin, it's a weapon against sin in our own life. I mean, think about this, let's go back to the, as I used earlier, the sin of worry. If you're worried, you can quote Philippians 4, 6, and 7 out loud. Bring yourself, declare from your own lips the truth of God's Word. So if I'm struggling with something and I just find myself consumed with worry about it over and over and over, I can say out loud, be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. To hear myself say that when I am struggling with worry brings my ears, my heart, my mind under the hearing of God's word. It's valuable for other people to hear it as well. Do you realize how much more aware of your sin, much more aware of the scriptures, much more aware of the power and the presence of God in your life, how much more all this would bring to you the awareness of what is really going on in this world. If you want to walk clean in a filthy world, to bring the scriptures to the hearing of your ears, to speak it out loud. with your own lips, as the psalmist says, to quote the Bible out loud, to read the Bible out loud, to your family, to declare with your own lips the truth of God's Word. It will be your weapon in fighting sin in your life so that you may walk pure in this world. And here's the fourth way to keep pure. Look at verse 14. And that is to love the Bible more than money. He says, I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies as much as in all riches. And this verse is really convicting because the writer states that he has rejoiced in the word of God as if he would have rejoiced in having all the riches. Think about your thought life. How much time do you spend thinking about money compared to time you spend thinking about the scriptures? I mean, there's no sin in having money. Jesus taught a great deal about money. But where many believers find themselves, maybe especially as you start to get older, they care a lot more about their finances or getting money than they do the great treasure of God's Word. And I've heard similar stories like this, where a pastor one time challenged believers to memorize a Bible verse a day. And then he said, well we can't do that, I can't do that, I'm just not good at memory. And all these excuses started to flow. And then he said, well I'll give you a thousand dollars a verse. Oh wow, now we're all interested. I could probably do two a day, come to think of it. to which he said, see, I just found that you love money more than scripture, so that's all I'm revealing to you. And I've heard the same with witnessing. Would you witness? No, that's just not me. How about I give you $1,000 to go spend five minutes with that guy and tell him about Jesus. Okay, now I'm motivated. You see the heart, how easily that just exposes what really is your love? And so the psalmist here says, love the Bible more than money. Here in Psalms 19, if you're wanting to keep yourself clean in this filthy world, don't have a love for money. Instead, see the eternal treasure of hiding God's Word in your heart, rejoicing in God's Word. Be happy about the truths that we find in the living Word of God. That's what we're reading about here in verse 14. The author rejoices in a life filled with God's testimonies, just as if he had stumbled upon a bunch of great riches. All that God has promised, all that he has done, all the testimonies of his faithfulness should bring us to rejoicing like we have found great riches. In the deepest part of many hearts, if we were honest, some of us would just rather have the riches instead of the living word. And how tragic and foolish that is to value money over the scriptures. What do we teach our children when they see us more diligent in seeking out more income than we are seeking out the truths of God's Word. I think all of us desire to have faithful children who follow Jesus, but what if all they see from us is a hunger for more money? Their tendency is to follow our path. We need believers who value the Word of God and treasure it above all the riches of the world. Because a million years from now, money will not be here. but the word of the Lord will stand forever. Consider your investments. The fifth way to keep ourself clean and pure before the world is to meditate on God's word. Verse 15, I will meditate in thy precepts and have respect unto thy ways. Now, you've all heard the word meditate before, but I don't know if we all know what it really means. But I'll tell you this, one of the best ways to meditate on the scriptures is to meditate on verses that you have already memorized. Now you can meditate on scriptures themselves just through reading them, but memorization tends to take it a step further because it's already in your heart. It's written on your heart. Now the word meditate means to ponder or to study or to muse, whether you're just going over and over the truths of God's Word. So to cleanse our way as we walk in this filthy world, what we need to do is meditate on the Word of God, to go over the truths of God's Word over and over and over again. throughout our daily life, to work it through your minds, from what it says to how you will apply it, to examining your life regarding what needs to be changed. Meditating on God's word, it really means to hash it out in your mind in light of how your life is going. Now if you think about that for a minute, if you go back to our example of worrying, if I were meditating on Philippians 4, I would keep examining the truths of those scriptures regarding worry. Am I worried about physical things? Am I worried about physical things the Lord has already said He would take care of, like clothing? Do I worry about the future? Do I worry about superficial things that don't matter? Do I worry even about spiritual things? Am I taking any of this to the Lord in prayer? Is my heart thankful when I'm going to Him in prayer? Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. Am I doing that? Do I even pray with a thankful heart? You see, when you ponder or consider a specific passage or verse, and just kind of chew on it over and over and over, you will be amazed at what the Holy Spirit can teach you. So often we just read and move on. But as believers who are growing in Christ, there must be these times, and often, where we just meditate on the truths of God's Word. And you can really do that anywhere. It's not a classroom setting we're talking about. It's not even sitting down with a Bible in your lap. You can meditate on the truth of Scripture, especially if you have it memorized. I find that if I'm ever mowing the grass, just the hum of the mower and everything else kind of zoned out, it kind of clears my head in a way and I can just, Lord and I can have a lot of conversations, and we have, on the mower as I just meditate on the scriptures. Everything else is just kind of comes out of focus. But the important thing is not really where, but that you do that. That you have a time that you meditate on God's Word, the truth that He is teaching you. And in the second half of that verse there, the psalmist says, have respect unto thy ways. And what that means is to pay attention to the ways of God. Do not be an ignorant believer know the truth of God's word, know his promises, know his commands, his precepts, his ways. There are so many baby Christians who have been baby Christians forever. And one of the common denominators of those who seem to never mature in the faith is that they do not saturate their life with the Word of God. And they may listen to Christian radio all day, and they may go to church, and they may even pray before every meal. But there's no diving into the Scriptures, no studying, memorizing, or meditating on the truths of God. They just tend to kind of just keep their life a little moral and do all the external things, but there's no really studying and looking at the Scriptures. And what you end up with is a full-grown baby Christian who flounders in the faith, who is tossed to and fro because they are ignorant in God's Word. And something else that person will also struggle with based on this teaching is that they have a hard time keeping pure. Think about your life, just for a minute, your sin life. the sins that you have done this past week. I imagine that some of you, if we knew what you did or thought this past week, we would just be floored. But if you think about that, we all have that level. But if you find yourself and you look at your life and you go, you know what, I can't remember the last time that I actually sat down and read and just focused on the scriptures and chewed on the scriptures. You will always have a hard time keeping pure, staying clean in this filthy world. You will always have a hard time walking rightly with God apart from the scriptures. How can you stay away from sin if you have not hidden God's word in your heart? How can you grow in Christ if you do not meditate on the truth of scripture? You can't, you can't do that. Here's the last way we can walk pure before God. Look at verse 16. I will delight myself in thy statutes, I will not forget thy word. Number six there in your outline is delight yourself in the truth of God's word. There's really two things here that the author speaks of regarding our approach to the word of God. First of all, he says he delights in it. Going to the scriptures is not a chore, it's not out of duty, it is a delight. But how do you get there? How do you get to the point to where it is a delight? Well, you know what always goes hand in hand with delight? It's love. If you love something or someone, you delight in them. If you are in love with Jesus, you delight in his word. You cannot separate the two. And that's with so many other things in this life. I mean, some of you love your job and you delight in it. Some of you love sports and you delight in them. And some of you love reading and you delight in reading. Some of you love sin and you delight in your sin. Some of you love Jesus and you delight in his word. Love and delight are inseparable. So I challenge you to examine yourself. Do you really delight in the word of God? Which really is asking, do you really love the Lord? The psalmist next says, I will not forget thy word. Now there's two things here about this. There seems to be a purpose here that he's saying, I'm not going to forget the scriptures. Now obviously we should purpose to try to remember those things we have studied. I'm like some of you, the older I get, the memory just tends to be a little harder to retrieve. I remember when I was young, I could memorize anything, and it was mostly stupid things. But I could memorize a lot of things. And the older I got, I was like, this is hard. And so we have to review. There are things that we read in the scriptures over and over and over again. Sometimes we don't really get it until the 10th or 20th time we've read them. So obviously we purpose in our hearts not to forget Thy Word. All the things that we have learned, that we are striving to remember, keep reviewing those things, going over and over those things. I will not forget Thy Word. We are prone to forget. So we must keep striving to remember, to keep going over the truths of God's word, to keep reminding ourselves of all the teachings and the promises and the warnings that we read in the scriptures. But here's the other perspective on this word, forget. And it's much more dangerous than what I just shared with you. It's also one of the meanings of the Hebrew word itself. It means to ignore. The writer says, I will not forget, I will not ignore. leave out the Word of God from my life. Do you see the difference? You should not forget God's Word. You should not leave it out or ignore it. As if, I'm just going to forget that. But some try to approach their Christian life as if they don't need God's Word. And what they have done is they have forgotten it. They have ignored it. You cannot walk with purity in this life when you forget and leave out the Word of God in your daily life. And of the two definitions here, forget, one is far more dangerous than the other. This level of forgetting, the first one is not being able to recall things that you have learned. The second one, which is more dangerous, is failing to go to the word of God in the first place. Do not be the one who ignores the Word of God in your life. You cannot walk purely in this filthy world if you forget or ignore God's Word. I think all of us are aware of how much evil and wickedness there is around us. With our technology today, it's just always in your face. You can discover all kinds of evils all over the world. But there is a way for us to walk pure even when the entire world is filled with filth. And if you're here today and want to walk in purity before God, it can only come one way and one way only. It comes with guarding and keeping and observing the Word of God and hiding it in your heart. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for Psalms 119 and these eight verses we looked at today. I thank you that whoever wrote that psalm, Lord gave us practical ways to walk godly and righteously. And Lord, put it in a way so that we understand there is no other option to walk in a way that is holy. And Lord, that you would do a work in our hearts. For those who have struggled with their Bible reading, Father, I just ask that you would help, your spirit would help them, that they would have a great love for you and delight in your word. or that they would not use as an excuse that they're just in a dry season. But Lord, we don't do that with other things in our life. If things are maybe difficult or boring at work, we don't just quit work. And if we have food before us that is not very tasteful, we tend to still continue to eat. nourish our own bodies. Father, there are times that there does seem to be a disconnect, even when we're trying to read the Scriptures. Father, most often, though, there's something in our life that has come in the way. I pray that you would reveal that to us, whatever that is and when that happens. Father, help us to understand that there's no other way to walk clean way in this world apart from the scriptures. Lord, thank you for your love for us. Thank you for the truth of your word. Father, thank you most of all for Jesus, in his name, amen.