Don Carson | The Greatest Commandment in a Pluralistic Age | Deut 12:1-7 | TGCW18

well it is a great honor to be here with you every time I say to those who organized this conference there's no particular reason why I have to be here but somehow I think they recognized with my advancing years I've only got so many years left and let's plunge in by reading our passage first Deuteronomy 12 1 to 7 Deuteronomy 12 1 to 7 these are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the Lord the God of your ancestors has given you to possess as long as you live in the land destroy completely all the places on the high mountains on the hills and under every spreading tree where the nation's you are dispossessing worship their gods break down their altars smash their sacred stones and burn their Hashanah poles in the fire cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places you must not worship the Lord your God in their way but you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his name there for his dwelling to that place you must go there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices your tithes and special gifts what you have vowed to give and your free will offerings and the firstborn of your herds and flocks there in the presence of the Lord your God you and your family shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to because the Lord your God has blessed you this is the word of the Lord let us pray and now may the words of my mouth and the meditation of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight O Lord our strength and our Redeemer through Jesus amen hear o Israel the Lord your God the Lord is one love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength that passage we've already heard this morning as a way of recap let me make for rapid introductory observations number one this passage chapter 6 verse 4 that I just cited is coherent only under the assumption of monotheism that is the belief that there is but one God the entailment of monotheism is undivided devotion to that one God here o Israel the Lord your God the Lord is one you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and so on in other words it makes no sense to display undivided adoration of and submission to one God if in fact there are lots of gods you ought to parcel out your devotion because these gods have different sectors you might have the God over business operating in your corner but not the God of love operating in your corner or maybe it's a local god but you're traveling elsewhere or maybe it's a God that looks after communication but not safety and travel or whatever whatever whatever in the ancient world the gods were divided into sector domains of one sort or another if there are lots of gods then if you provide all of your devotion to just one God you're risking getting tripped up by another which brings us to the second observation it follows that any failure in observing this command in chapter 6 verse 4 any failure in observing this command which the Lord Jesus himself calls the greatest command and broils us not in mere coldness of heart that is not loving God with all of our being it actually involves us in idolatry not to love God with heart and soul and mind and strength presupposes that there are other things that are pulling our devotion pulling our affection pulling our hearts these idols may be things that are negative in themselves you might be attracted to bitterness porn you might be attracted to greed selfishness lust but in fact these things that can become idols may be things that are intrinsically good comfort freedom from persecution in our age especially a sense of entitlement I'm owed certain things your children but there's nothing intrinsically wicked about being spared a virulent persecution if God in his sovereign Providence leads you into a sector and time where there is relatively little persecution but you read your Bible and you come across texts like this it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in his name but also to suffer for his sake then the Apostles rejoiced because they were counted worthy to suffer for the name you believed texts like that under the sweeping sovereignty of God and the notion that you have the right to escape opposition cruelty persecution even violent death becomes just ridiculous it's a false god it's a it's something that you're attracted to wrongly the problem of a divided heart is in fact a problem of idolatry think of Eve in the garden she sees that the fruit is physically attractive she sees that it is according to the promise of the serpent that it has the potential for making her godlike in her pronouncements and and she is attracted to it but that is already the first step in idolatry at competing God a competing claim you you only see what went wrong in her life if you stop to consider what she sort of should have said when the serpent first approached her has God really said such and such has God actually forbidden that you eat any of the fruit in the garden what she should have said was are you out of your little skull this is eatin God's the Creator he's he's good and he's wise and he's knowledgeable he's he's right and he loves me and he knows what's best and what I need to do is oh and my perfect devotion for you to be holding some temptation in front of me as if I'm attracted to to disobeying God allegedly for my own advantage it clearly is not for my own advantage this is the this is deceit this is live is this is this is idolatry that's what you should have said and if she had said that all of human history would have been different the problem of a divided heart is the problem of idolatry number three it is very important to observe how the first commandment in importance the command to love God with heart and soul and mind and strength and the second the command to love one's neighbor as oneself are anchored very differently the second one is cast again and again as a comparative as for example Leviticus 19 you shall love your neighbor as yourself the first one however is not anchored as a comparative it does not say you shall love God as you love yourself because that would somehow suggest that you and God are on the same par of an attractiveness to being loved no you are to love God with heart and soul and mind and strength you're not to love your neighbor with heart and soul and mind and strength for that would suggest that the neighbor is becoming goddess no indeed in Scripture the second greatest command the command to love your neighbor as yourself is itself grounded in the first command so in Leviticus 19 we read love your neighbor as yourself God says I am the Lord in other words the absolute allegiance to God Himself as the Lord the authority of the second commandment that is why this is the first commandment it's the commandment that reveals our heart that takes us to the heart of what sin and idolatry are but I've been asked to speak especially on the topic the greatest commandment in a pluralistic age every age this side of the fall is in some sense a pluralistic age simply because it's got more gods than God in the Old Testament context the Egyptians had many gods the chief one being ha the Sun God in the land of Canaan there were all the bails and the Asha wrote the goddesses often whose shrine poles were posted at the top of hills so that when Israel took over all of these many sanctuaries is that we were already there and it was easy to become somehow guilty of linking the worship of the One God with these places of worship and and exactly where your allegiance really lay became more and more obscure but in every age this side of the fall there is a kind of pluralism that is antithetical to biblical Christianity in the first century and Paul's day in Jesus day the Greeks had thousands of God's modern Hinduism has millions of God's nobody knows them all and of course in our so-called secular context were encouraged to have lots of gods do not call that but we're encouraged to find our own way to find our own absolutes to find our own identity to define ourselves and thus to cast off any claim that God might have to defining us so here is another reason why the greatest command is so important it's the command that you always break if you commit any sin whatsoever it's a defiance of God and His Word and his way it is the background to why the Bible says all of sin all of us have decoded God we have multiplied gods we've adopted idolatry I have often said that when I do university evangelism which I've been doing for forty five years I've discovered that in the last 15 years or so there are only two things that make students angry with a Christian speaker and both of them are intrinsic to this passage one is any attempt to define sin this world wants sin to be a social construct you've got your sin some other cultures got their sin even within this culture you define sin differently from me but that means that God doesn't have a say and then secondly any exclusive claim to the gospel and this is a passage that talks about completely destroying all the places on the high mountains of all the other gods now that recap then brings us to the passage I've been assigned you will recall that most of Deuteronomy is made up of three large sermons or sermon series by Moses if you have your book with you your field guide take a look at the chart on page 8 this will remind you that the first sermon or sermon series runs from 1 6 to 4 40 it's a kind of historical overview of God's dealings with Israel in the past then the second sermon which now presupposes the covenant relationship that God has with his people the second sermon series runs from 444 to 29 1 it's most of the book I'll say more about that structure in a moment and the last one the call for covenant newel on the basis of everything that precedes runs from 29 to 230 20 it's very helpful to keep those structures in mind as you're reading the book of Deuteronomy so that you remember where you are in the argument now our passage 12 1 to 7 falls in the large second sermon that runs from 444 to 29 1 that large sermon has an introduction if your wall following the chart for 44 to 49 and then an overview of covenant obligations including what we've heard in the last two addresses chapters 5 to 11 and then at last chapter 12 to 26 which is the next big sub block of this second sermon you have a great number of specific details in the covenant obligations a review of the sacrificial system what it means to be clean and unclean and all the rest running right from chapter 12 to the end of chapter 26 so our passage kicks off this section and we hear it in these words these are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land of the Lord the God of your ancestors has given you to possess as long as you live in the land this is sometimes called because of this concatenation of detail stipulations it's sometimes called deuteronomy's law code the preaching up to this point in the first 11 chapters has prepared the way for these detailed stipulations and then afterwards there is an exhortation to decide what is clear is that the command to love God with heart and soul and mind and strength now works out unambiguously in specific obedience the way is being prepared for it in Chapter 11 look at chapter 11 verse 13 so if you faithfully obey the commands I'm giving you today to love the Lord your God just serve him with all your heart and with all your soul picking up chapter six again if you obey then I will send rain on your land in its season both autumn and spring time and so forth or again a little later in the same chapter verse 26 see I am sitting before you today a blessing and a curse the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn away from the command that I command you today by following other gods there is the idolatry which you have not known so we come to our passage then where several of the entailments of loving God are worked out there are five of them number one love for God then as we've just seen entails obedience to God it is doubtless emotional it may even be sentimental but it entails obedience and this was already made clear back in chapter 6 where the command to love God with heart and soul and mind and strength was first articulated in chapter 6 verses 4 to 6 here o Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one and then down in 6 to 8 these commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts impress them on your children talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road when you lie down and when you get up tie them as symbols on your hands in other words it's presupposed that they will be taught understood passed on to the next generation all as a function of loving God with heart and soul and mind and strength so also here in chapter 12 verse 1 these are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow and of course this recurs again and again in Holy Scripture the Lord Jesus on the night that he's betrayed says in John's Gospel if you love me keep my Commandments this must not be interpreted in a narrow mechanistic sort of way do a and B will follow that may be true but it is too narrow a reading the idea is richer and deeper and relational consider the relationship between Jesus and his father we're told that Jesus loves his father and in consequence does everything the father gives him to do does that mean Jesus is saying okay okay if I gotta do it I got to do it it doesn't mean that he's saying well I'll prove that I love him all obey Him after all no it's out of the network of this triune love relationship that Jesus can say even in Gethsemane not what I will but what you will he's come to do his father's way it's not saying I suppose I've got enough love for me to obey Him on this instance rather the obedience is a reflection of the deepness of that love that Jesus has for his father and correspondingly as our love for God grows the obedience is the entailment that doesn't make it less obeying it is still obedience just as Jesus conformity to doing the will of his father is still obedience but it's a an obedience nurtured in grounded in anchored in this triune love the same triune love which is supposed to be manifested in our love for one another in our love for God according to John chapter 17 thus in the ideal God's covenant people love their heavenly father and correspondingly love to do his will this God is a rich covenant 'el multi-generational promise keeping blessing producing God look at verse 1 again these are the decrease in laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the Lord your God has given you to possess it's not just an isolated individual Christian blessing it's the covenant people of God under the terms of the old command and in the land with all the blessings that come with vines that are bursting with fresh grapes and the hills flowing with milk and honey and moreover that the Lord the God of your ancestors has given you as you obey Moses is saying to the people you are worshipping and loving the same God who chose Abraham and Isaac and Jacob who established the Covenant under Moses at Sinai the same God who brought you to the borders of the promised land this is a social multi-generational covenantal promise keeping blessing producing God and the people are there for to have their attention drawn not only to individual blessings that they receive but to the fact that this is the god of their ancestors this is the God who has disclosed himself in historical moments of great power and the giving of the law and the establishment of the Covenant number two love for God entails right worship of God now that's the thrust of all of verses 2 to 7 focus for a moment on verses 5 & 6 you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his name there for his dwelling to that place you must go there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices your tithes and special gifts what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings and the firstborn of your herds and flocks seek the place that the Lord your God will choose the first of specific stipulations in all of Chapter 12 to 26 concerns corporate worship and in particular the place where this foreseen temple is to be built it's worth pausing for a moment to think how many things God is said to choose in this book God chooses his people Israel Deuteronomy 7 verse 6 why does God choose Israel in Deuteronomy 7 and Deuteronomy 10 is it because Israel is bigger or stronger or smarter no God sets his affection on Israel because he loves her he loves her because he loves her you're not going to get farther back in the chain than that that's it it is bound up in God's choice a little farther on God ultimately will choose the king chapter 17 verses 14 and following when you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it and you say let us send a king over us like all the nations around us be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses so God chooses the people God chooses the king in chapter 18 5 he chooses the Levitical priests and here God chooses the place for the temple in other words up to now the meeting place between God and His people at the level of sacrifice and joint coming together at the great feasts that God has himself ordained has been this mobile temple a tabernacle and during the years of wilderness wandering once the tabernacle was erected and the pillar of cloud by day came down upon it then that place was holy and no one could enter the most holy place above the arc where the cheto beam stretched out their wings nobody could enter that most holy place where the blood of the sacrifice was spilt according to the stipulations of Leviticus 16 nobody could enter that except the high priest once a year with the prescribed blood under pain of death but of course once the pillar of cloud lifted up and began to move off the people understood that God wanted the nation to move too so the Levites came along and folded it all up that meant somebody had to take down the veil nobody got killed it was a tent no it was an important tent but wasn't gonna get you killed if you packed it up and carried it on your shoulders and then when God selected the next space they unpacked it and the pillar of glory came and parked over the tent again and then all of the lethal stipulations came into play once more but eventually God predicts he prophesized that there will be one stable place what's so interesting is that the place is not here named he doesn't say it's going to be Jerusalem it's gonna be Mount Moriah it's gonna be Zion it's the fact of God's choice that is underscored rather than where that choice will lead David and Solomon to build the temple God chooses the place in other words there is going to come about a centralization of the worship of Israel there will still be some God sanctioned place for local sacrifices it's a bit complex but the central place when the people come together for the high feasts to offer Passover sacrifice for the high priest to offer the sacrifice of bull and goat on the day of atonement and the rest that will be in the central place that God ordains doing it anywhere else is going to be condemned and associated with idolatry so love for God in this passage entails the right worship of God do you see how important the temple is in the Old Covenant at this juncture or consider what happens in the days of Nehemiah Nehemiah is that book of the Old Testament which preserves the last Old Testament chapter of history of the Old Testament people of God about 400 years BC and you will recall how the Second Temple had been rebuilt some decades earlier under the ministry of Haggai and the others and then under the ministry of nehemiah provision was made to rebuild the wall of the city then a repopulation program took place people began to move back into the city and the regular worship of God was set up and in all of that context there is a renewal of the Covenant that takes place with corporate confession in Nehemiah 9 and the renewal of the Covenant in chapter 10 it's very moving but you know what's striking in the renewal of the Covenant no one has said nothing is said about renewing covenantal vows not to steal renewing covenantal vows not to commit adultery renewing covenantal vows not to commit murder nothing is said there's a general one obey everything that God has said but when it comes to specifics what specific is make sure everything is in place for the right offering of sacrifices in the temple make sure that the great feast days are observed and for those of us in the West who have been taught to make simple distinctions between moral law important eternal goes on forever and ceremonial law which is temporary we start asking wait a minute if you're renewing the covenant why do you put so much stress on the ceremonial law and don't even mention all the moral stuff the good stuff that's easy to preach in our churches while this stuff it's hard to preach about making sure you the right animal but don't you see that's where the covenant people met with God according to God's stipulation of the conditions of their meeting with a sacrificial system the prescribed priests spirituality is not conceived of us something that you merely create for yourself on a nearby hilltop with a stone altar it's according to God's own prescription with the people of God gathered together under the prescribed covenantal stipulations doubtless the stipulations have changed when we come to the new covenant will say more about that but at the same time the point here is abundantly clear love for God and Tails the right worship of God number three love for God and Tails the rejection of false worship verses two to four in our day which has made a god of Tolerance this passage is not easily tolerated destroy completely all the places on the high mountains on the hills and under every spreading tree where the nation's you are dispossessing worship their gods break down their altars smash their sacred stones and burn their ash atop holes in the fire cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places you must not worship the Lord your God in their way this is tied to obedience of course and it is a theme which in one fashion or another keeps showing up in the Old Testament again and again this isn't the only passage sometimes it focuses on the prohibition of worshipping God the way pagans do sometimes it focuses on prohibition of moral inconsistency when you're allegedly worshiping God that's a very common theme in the prophets consider this passage from Jeremiah 7 this is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord stand at the gate of the Lord's house and there proclaim this message hear the word of the Lord all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord this is what the Lord Almighty the God of Israel says reform your ways and your actions and I will let you live in this place do not trust in deceptive words and say this is the temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord if you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly if you do not oppress the foreigner the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm then I will let you live in this place in the land I give your ancestors forever and ever but look you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless so the rest of the chapter is devoted to condemning that kind of worship which actually gets the structures right but the morality wrong the obedience is dissipated and thus even the formally correct structures are worse than useless they're condemning and again in this chapter that is before us Deuteronomy 12 prepares the way for Deuteronomy 13 Deuteronomy 13 and Deuteronomy 18 talk about false prophets who talk about false gods how can you tell a false prophet they're essentially two tests given in Deuteronomy number one if you claim that in the name of a prophet some God or other has said such and such will take place and it doesn't take place then obviously the prophets a liar alternatively even if it does take place if in fact the Prophet is leading you astray from the God who has already disclosed himself then he's still a false prophet just because he's telling the truth doesn't mean he's telling the truth about God or consider that great passage Isaiah 42 45 where the most fundamental difference between God and all the other putative gods is that they're powerless they neither know the future nor control it the real God the God who is they're both knows the future and controls it and can be trusted now this question of smashing other gods is really sensitive in our generation there are one or two things to be borne in mind ancient Israel is not a democracy ancient Israel is a covenant people to demand this degree of discipline is equivalent under the new covenant to demanding corresponding discipline in the church amongst the new covenant people of God don't misunderstand me idolatry is always wrong idolatry still condemns idolatry destroys the nations of this world will one day become the nations of our the Kingdom of our God and and and he will reign upon the earth yet the people of God are not called upon to bring about discipline in the hit hide empire but amongst the Covenant people of God so today the people of God the confessing church is not called to bring about discipline in America as a nation but in the first instance amongst the people of God in the New Testament the most frightening discipline is what we call today excommunication now in the New Testament discipline is imposed of different levels rebuke encouragement instruction and so on but the ultimate discipline is to be excommunicated to be taken out of the communion of the local church that is terrifying far more terrifying than the judgments were depicted here in the New Testament there are three categories of sin which require the church to pronounce excommunication number one Grievous moral persistent unrepented defiance of God as for example in the case of the man who's sleeping with his stepmother in first corinthians that man is to be excommunicated number two persistent god defying unrepented teaching of doctrine that dams genuine heresy it leads men and women astray so a moral test a doctrinal test and third persistent determined lovelessness warned and to visit person once and then twice Paul says and then have nothing to do with him someone who is persistently loveless and hate-filled in the local church even if they can sign off on the tgc statement of faith does not mean that they should not be disciplined because there is a love test in Scripture does not Jesus himself teach us by their fruit you shall know them doesn't the Apostle John insist that there are three tests as well tests of life a truth test and obedience tests of social tests and it's not best two out of three graded on the curve no the communion of God's blood-bought people in the New Testament the church is to uphold a certain kind of discipline that preserves the truth and integrity of relationships and so on in these major classes of sin in short love for God entails the rejection of false worship in the name of loving people we may refuse to love God and refuse to exercise discipline this does not show that our love is superior it shows that our love for human beings is more important to us than our love for God number four love for God entails a vision of worship as social transformation and joy among the Lord's people look at verse 7 they're in the presence of the Lord your God you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to because the Lord your God has blessed you you and your families not just individuals shall eat and rejoice this does not sound like sour-faced miserable I am being faithful to God spite no no this is a party atmosphere your rejoicing before God grateful for all the blessings that goddess pour it out bring on another course let's have dessert this all happens we're told in the chosen place that is where the temple will one day be built before the Lord some translations say err in the presence of the Lord verse 7 that's the highest cause of joy of all it shows up again and again in holy scripture when people come together before God at the temple yes they can't get in yes immediate mediator has to go in and their behalf yes yes that's true but nevertheless to to be so close to to be drawn into proximity to God and in the days of Moses to see the pillar hovering over the tent is to remind us of the immense privilege of being near to God and nearness that can be terrifying as we we saw last night at a nearest that involves a kind of awesome fear that looks for a media to bring us closer but ultimately the hope is that we get there - hence in the vision of the promised new temple in Ezekiel chapter 42 48 in the promise new Jerusalem the ultimate goal in the very last verses is to be in that location where everybody sings the Lord is there the Lord is there and and what is the culminating element in the vision of Revelation 21 and 22 they shall see his face so already these people within the constraints of the Old Testament covenant are not just having an ice-cream sundae a party they're rejoicing self-consciously in the presence of the Lord their God families and individuals alike eating and drinking in fact this goes back to chapter 6 verse 3 as well hear Israel and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey just as the Lord the God of your ancestors promised you do you hear the overflow a blessing that is coming about or in Chapter 12 again verse 12 and there rejoice before the Lord your God you your sons and daughters your male and female servants and the Levites from your towns who have no allotment of inheritance or their own our chapter 14 verse 26 use the silver to buy whatever you like cattle sheep wine or other fermented drink or anything you wish then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice this goes way beyond duty its raw privilege bringing about joy rejoice just as they're commanded to love God and obey Him in consequence they're commanded in this covenantal relationship to have a party in the presence of God over it and rejoice the Lord is in other words here worship is envisaged as a tremendous social event of great pleasure in the very presence of God himself and last love for God recognizes the priority of grace we've seen this already and the way God chooses the people and God chooses the king and God chooses the priest God chooses the place we alluded to it by referencing Deuteronomy 7 and Deuteronomy 10 why did God choose Israel why did he set his affection on Israel he said it's a fiction on Israel because he loved her the same point is made by the Apostle Paul in Romans 9 God chose the younger son over the older son before either of them had been born or had done anything God chose this one he chose that one there's a priority of grace in all of this and here it shows up in the last line of the last verse of our passage verse 7 they're in the presence of the Lord your God you and your family shall eat and shall rejoice and everything you have put your hand to because the Lord your God has blessed you what does God done for Israel oh he took them out of the land of slavery because the Lord their God blessed them he led them through the desert because the Lord their God blessed them he led them into covenantal repentance and obedience because the Lord their God blessed them he makes them secure for centuries in the promised land because the Lord their God blesses them and even when he brings them into chastening exile this too is a function of the fact that God the Lord their God is blessing them by teaching them repentance and obedience and then he restores them to the land because the Lord their God blesses them and when we come to the New Covenant how can we say less we've been blessed not only with the entire tire heritage of God's gracious acts to our spiritual ancestors in the wilderness but not all but but also with all that has come to us in Christ Jesus why do we have forgiveness of sins God in the fullness of time sent his son to bear our sin in his own body on the tree the Lord our God has blessed us why have we come to faith when so many have not because we're clever more gifted than others perhaps intellectually a little more astute no no no God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world he blessed us in heavenly places in Christ Jesus why do we have the spirit as the downpayment of the promised inheritance because the Spirit was bequeathed in the wake of Jesus resurrection and ascension to the Father's right hand the Lord our God has blessed us why do we know something of the communion of the saints the fellowship of brothers and sisters in Christ as imperfect as we are as guilt-ridden as we frequently act nevertheless with a foretaste of the fellowship the Koinonia the communion of saints to be enjoyed an unrestricted love in the new heaven and the new earth and resurrection existence why why because the Lord our God has blessed us why can we have confidence in in God's forbearing continuance with us bringing us at last to the pearly gates bringing us at last to resurrection existence where there is no more sin or death or sorrow or decay well it's because the Lord our God has blessed us here o Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength let us pray open our eyes we beg of you then we may see again and again the glory in which scripture displays you open our eye so that we may see wonderful things out of your most holy word and anticipate the glory yet to come open our eyes increase our faith that an increasing measure we may love you with heart and soul and mind and strength and our neighbors as ourselves and within that holy love to experience rising waves of the joy of the Lord even on occasion in the midst of suffering and death as we anticipate the abolition of death and the abolition of sin the abolition of defeat the abolition of care and a new heaven and a new earth the home of righteousness where all the glory is bound up with him who sits on the throne and the land with this perspective Lord God we call to you with Christians across every century and we to cry yes even so come Lord Jesus in whose name we pray

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