The Attributes of God & The Agenda to Feminize the Almighty

So the title of the message tonight is the attributes of God, okay.

That's what we're gonna be looking at the attributes of God.

The Bible teaches that God.

He has many attributes more than we're gonna get to tonight, but just a few of the main attributes.

God is omnipotent.

He is all -powerful.

That's what that means.

He is omnipresent so he's Everywhere all at once.

God is omniscient.

He knows everything there is to know.

God is also immutable.

So in his character, he does not change.

Of course, the Bible says that God is love.

So that's the attribute that people seem to elevate as if love is his number

one attribute today.

Historically, I think it's been understood that God's primary attribute is not actually

love.

His primary attribute is what?

Holiness right and I'll show you why that is later on.

So we'll talk about those things, but you see the question on the screen.

It's becoming unfortunately, it's becoming normal in the mainline Protestant

denominations to refer to God as She or her.

I could show you video.

I'm not going to because it's painful to watch but I could show you videos of Lutheran

and Episcopalian and Methodist Preachers praying to God using female

pronouns and we've even had several of our church members

approached by people asking if they would like to join this Bible study where God is

regarded as a Woman or as a female now, here's why this matters.

Okay.

This is an assault number one.

It's an assault against the Word of God because the Bible everybody knows the Bible refers

to God as God the Father right now.

God himself doesn't really have a gender.

Jesus is the God man, and he has a gender.

Jesus was a man, but all the references to God it's the father he

him.

So to say that God is a man I mean you could say that about Jesus and

even in the Old Testament Exodus 153 it says the Lord is a man

of war.

But we understand that God certainly God the Father doesn't really have a gender like a human being we everyone understands

that.

But there's this agenda today to make God out to be either non -binary.

Or that God is is a woman.

So if you've never heard of this, you're fortunate but it's actually spreading

like I said, it's already in the mainline Protestant denominations and It's starting to trickle

down into some Evangelical churches.

I fear so it's an attack number one against the Word of God and Number two,

it's really an attack against the God man Jesus Christ because if you say God is

feminine or God is a woman.

I mean, what does that mean about Jesus, right?

So this this does matter.

So let's turn to Matthew chapter 1.

But as for this idea that God is female I almost don't want to dignify this with

a response.

That's that was sort of my Initial reaction like I'm not gonna talk about this.

It's just so foolish.

Why even bother but I'm just hearing it more and more and more as

Time goes on and I still thought no, I don't I don't want to do this.

I don't want to talk about it, but on my drive into church last Sunday I heard a preacher on a

look on the local Evangelical radio station now granted it was a missionary.

So it wasn't one of the local pastors.

But he said as far as man bearing the image of God.

He defined that as we bear the image of God in that we were made male

and female.

The way he phrased it made it sound like God like half of God is female or feminine

attributes.

Maybe it was a slip of the tongue, but it didn't sound like that either way.

That's not how you define, you know man bearing the image of God.

Also, I heard a sermon four years ago about Well from Max Lucado

and he was preaching at the National Cathedral in Washington DC and he

called the Holy Spirit the mother spirit of God.

So this I fear this is starting to trickle down into evangelical churches.

So when something like this comes around, I think it's important you know for somebody to

Address it or deal with it.

So that's why I wanted to do that.

Okay, Matthew 1 18 through 23 It says now the

birth of Jesus Christ was as follows.

After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together.

She was found with child of the Holy Spirit.

But then Joseph her husband being a just man and not wanting to make her a public example

was minded to put her away.

Secretly, but while he thought about these things behold an angel the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying

Joseph son of David.

Do not be afraid to take to you.

Mary your wife for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy

Spirit and She will bring forth a son and you shall call his name Jesus

for he will save his people from their sins.

So all of this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet saying behold

The Virgin shall be with child and bear a son and they shall call his name

Emmanuel which is translated God with us so

Mary gives birth to Jesus.

Jesus is the Son of God.

Meaning he is He is God.

He is God in the flesh and notice it says that Jesus is What

he is God with us.

So again, God doesn't really have a gender.

But if God does have any gender when God became incarnate in this

world He came as a man like that's all we have to go on.

That's the only thing you could point to.

Jesus was a man and he was God with us.

So really there's no Possible way you can spin the scripture to say that no God is actually,

you know Feminine or God God is female.

So what do you think?

This is?

Where do you think this is coming from?

I'll let you have your comment first.

He said let us make man in our image.

And who was created?

Adam, a man.

A woman was not created then, so I don't know how you pushed that

to be...

Right.

Yeah.

Adam was created first because you know the story Eve was made after when Adam was

put to sleep in the rib.

So if Adam is the image of God originally Adam

was a man.

Right.

The Godhead would be Male if anything if right.

So again, how they get this female.

So like where do you think this is coming from?

What's the motivation?

Clearly, I think it's safe to say they're not actually seeing this in the text of scripture.

So what's behind it?

I mean, I guess this is a matter of an opinion.

But yeah, I First heard.

At Amherst College where I work, everything's going.

Yeah.

All the latest and the greatest is at Amherst College.

Okay the.

The feminist movement started up big -time.

When I was there.

Yeah, and Mother Earth all of a sudden came into being.

Yeah, and mother nature, right?

Yeah, and.

God is a sheep.

Right.

I came in along with the package, right?

So the feminist movement.

That clearly there's connections.

I mean they want a woman president, right?

They're working on that right now.

If you can get a woman president, like how how can you go higher than that?

Well, you can't.

Unless you make God into a woman like that's of course you can't actually do that.

But that's I think part of the thinking.

Right.

That goes way back.

This is very similar to pagan religion.

Pagan religion is about either Worshipping the earth, you know mother nature that type

of thing or it's worshiping multiple gods usually some sort of goddess

even with Roman Catholicism, which I believe is a blending of Christianity yes, but

blending it with paganism.

What do they do.

They elevate a woman if you look at a lot of Roman Catholic cathedrals in Europe.

They elevate Mary even above God sometimes.

So this is very common within pagan religion to elevate You know some sort of

divine feminine Figure or some sort of goddess.

So it's actually very very common.

It's nothing new.

So let's talk about some of the attributes of God.

I think we have to start out with saying this that God is one.

All right, Deuteronomy 6 4 says here.

Oh Israel the Lord our God is.

One.

Lord, okay.

We know there's one God and in the New Testament revelation of Jesus Christ We see that God

is revealed in three persons father son and spirit.

So one God in Three persons that's not a contradiction.

It would be a contradiction if you said there's one God and three gods.

That would be a contradiction or if you said there's one person and three persons in the same.

At the same time and in the same relationship, but that's not what we're saying.

There's one God in three persons father son and Spirit.

And again when the second person became incarnate the only member of the Godhead who actually

took on Human form he was in fact a man,.

I Saw a hand.

Yeah, and.

We should never.

This.

Understand that Men are more important than women.

And if ever there was a woman on earth.

That.

That should be at least admired.

Is the Virgin Mary when God saw that sent the sending of

prophets and.

Everything else was not working and and decided of course.

He decided Before time began.

Oh in fact time never did begin didn't know.

Because before time was there's no such thing as before.

I'm sorry.

I think it's okay to say time when he decided That he was going to

have to enter.

It was a woman that he chose to do it and in 27 years of police work I just

want to tell you that women are a lot nicer than men.

Yeah.

So when God took on human flesh He was a man, but

at the same time we have to be careful about this.

Don't say well, you know the pastor says that God is a man.

Well in that one sense with Jesus.

Yes, but God is not a man.

Matter of fact numbers 2319 says God is not a man that he should lie

nor a son of a man that he should repent.

Of course what that saying is God is not a human being and Human beings are the

ones and animals have genders, but God is he.

Transcends all of that also in John 4 24 Says God is

spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

So God is not a human being he is he is spirit.

So I think we all we all understand that so God is not a man.

But Jesus was a man.

It says in Colossians 1 15 that Jesus is the image of the Invisible God

and then Hebrews 1 3 says that Jesus some translations put it this way.

Jesus is the exact representation of God's image or

God's nature.

But this is not Mormonism.

Mormonism.

Understand some of these verses that Jesus was a man because God was also a human being.

Who had a gender male?

That's not what these verses are saying.

It's that Jesus is like The father in every way with his attributes.

Not the human part right.

Because God the Father is not a human.

Okay.

I know all of you know that but just for the sake of maybe one person who watches who?

Who doesn't.

This is all pretty basic stuff the attributes of God don't do you know all this.

God is omnipotent omnipresent

omniscient.

I Is a pretty basic study.

But because it's so basic a lot of churches don't really bring it up much or teach on it.

So we just need to kind of lay that Foundation either way.

There's zero justification for this idea that God Is female.

Let's go to Genesis 35 11 and like Marcus said it's nothing

against.

Women.

Not at all Genesis 35 11

This is another attribute of God, I think though one one reason people do this.

They're trying this is my opinion.

I think they're trying to feminize God and it sort of goes hand in hand with this other

idea that God's primary Attribute is love because men like Marcus said women

are much nicer than men.

I mean some women would debate that I think but.

But men can be aggressive right men fight men are more likely

to fight physically that verse that I mentioned Exodus 15 3 the

Lord is a man of War see people are uncomfortable with that it goes against modern

sensibilities.

But if you can feminize God and make God into this softer more gentle

deity.

Who's just all about love?

I mean, that's a God that people are comfortable with.

Now maybe it's unfair to women to say that's feminizing God, but I think that's kind of all this stuff I think is

connected to Some degree even the pictures of Jesus being this, you know guy with

long hair like that doesn't help.

Okay, it doesn't help and I don't think it's true based on first Corinthians 11 but all of this

is sort of part of the narrative to replace the true God of the Bible with

this.

This idol this God people have imagined who is just all loving all kind

all Gentle and soft and you really don't have to worry about God because he's you know he's

how many of you grew up where you know, your dad was the one who Made the rules in the house and the mom

was kind of the one who was more lenient and if dad said no you went to the mother to try to.

Sometimes it's the opposite I get it.

But generally that's that's typically the way it is and I think people are trying to do that with

with God.

Maybe I'm wrong.

All right, so Genesis 35 10 through 11 It

says and God said to him so this is Jacob.

Your name is Jacob.

Your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name.

So he called his name Israel verse 11.

Also God said to him.

I am God what?

Almighty.

I am God Almighty be fruitful and multiply a nation and a company

of nations shall proceed from you in kings Shall come from your body.

So Genesis 35 11 gives us one of God's.

Not his primary attribute, but one of his primary attributes the Lord is

identified in Hebrew.

Does anyone know the Hebrew term for God Almighty?

L.

El Shaddai.

Right, you probably know the song right the song El Shaddai.

So El Shaddai is Translated here God Almighty.

Okay, that's what the word omnipotent means.

God is all Powerful.

All right, let's turn to Psalm 139.

So God is all powerful, but you know, there are some people trying to redefine

even this.

For example.

Some trying to feminize this attribute Joyce Meyer and Bishop

TD Jake's.

These are some of the most popular Ministers in the nation they teach

that El Shaddai does not actually mean God Almighty.

Even though it's been in the Bible for you know centuries and everyone of course God is omnipotent God

Almighty.

They say no, that's not what it means doesn't mean God Almighty.

According to Joyce Meyer El Shaddai means that God is the quote all

Breasty one.

I don't even think breasty is a word.

But is there Joyce Meyer's words.

TD Jake's actually the way TD Jake's puts it.

I'm not even comfortable saying that but.

But doesn't this seem odd like El Shaddai like everyone it's it's in the Bible God Almighty,

but according to Joyce Meyer God is the all breasty one.

So You know people want to tamper with these attributes of God I think

again to make.

To make themselves more comfortable with who God is.

Psalm 139 7 and 8 this speaks of God being omnipresent.

Says David speaking says where can I go from your spirit or where can I flee from your presence?

If I ascend into heaven you are there if I make my bed in Hell or

she'll behold you are there.

So God is.

He's omnipotent all -powerful, but he is also omni present so God is everywhere all.

At once remember when Jonah was called to go to preach to the city of Nineveh and he got on the boat.

And he headed in the opposite direction to flee from the presence of the Lord.

Okay, he apparently he never read Psalm 139.

Maybe this was Written afterwards.

I'm not sure What he thought.

I guess in his mind God is at the temple God is in Israel.

So if I can just get as far away from Israel as I can I'm getting away from God.

Well, is there anywhere you can go to get away from God?

No.

If you go to heaven, he's there.

David says if I make my bed in hell, he's he's there too.

So God is Everywhere all at once he is omnipresent and because he is

omnipresent God also sees everything.

Proverbs 15 verse 3 says the eyes of the Lord are in every place keeping

watch on the evil and the good also.

1st John 3 20 says that Flat out says God knows all things.

So God is omnipotent all -powerful omnipresent everywhere all at once and

he is omniscient.

God knows Everything there is to know right.

Any questions on these attributes?

So that's a God that I think when people hear of this Deity because again

with paganism their gods are different.

The the gods of paganism don't know everything.

They are confined to one location.

When you hear about this God this God, I think scares people.

You can't go anywhere now.

He should this should comfort us because we love God and we believe he loves us.

But if you're not on good terms with this God This is scary stuff

to people and they're not comfortable with it.

So God is omnipotent omnipresent omniscient.

Malachi 3 6 tells us that God is immutable.

The Lord speaks here.

He says I am the Lord I change.

Not.

Hebrews 13 8 says that Jesus Christ is the same both.

Yesterday, or it's not both.

Yeah both yesterday today and forever.

So we could talk about many other things.

Let's turn to Romans 3.

Can anyone think of any other attributes?

That we haven't mentioned yet.

Okay.

Righteous.

Yep.

God is righteous.

God is just right.

God is eternal.

Deuteronomy 3327 talks about the eternal God.

So God has no beginning.

He has no end.

And even that we can't really fathom what that even means.

I mean we can sort of.

Imagine.

There being no end to something.

We can't imagine not having a beginning that just doesn't doesn't compute with us.

So We want to look at God's righteous character and his judge.

Or highlight this for a moment.

God's righteous character his just character.

Because if God is righteous and if he is Just then when people

rebel against him when man Rebels when man sins, what does God have to do?

Because God is righteous and he loves the right thing so much.

What does that mean?

The opposite would be.

He hates Evil, he hates sin.

See the problem with with human beings.

Even though we're Christians and we say we hate sin.

And I think we we do we don't hate it as much as we should.

But God hates sin so much.

He.

He is so righteous.

He must punish sin and this is the whole purpose of why Jesus came to die in the

first place because God must Deal with sin once and for all.

Yes.

Truth.

He cannot lie.

There's several things that God cannot do.

On this line Lenny had something to say.

Yep, Lenny.

Good God is sovereign.

Absolutely.

Yes He's perfect.

Patient and you would be the most perfect version of anything.

So if women or men are trying to strive to be God then our attributes should.

Yeah, good good.

Anyone else.

The fruit of the Spirit.

That is supposed to you know come to affect in us.

Our is.

Or.

Well, just so much in Scripture as you started to listen.

I want to say whatsoever things are true.

Whatsoever things are honest.

Just whatsoever things are pure.

Lovely, if there be any virtue that there be any praise he's

praiseworthy.

But even good you say God is good, okay, this is that's that is an attribute.

All right, so we're highlighting his righteousness because he is righteous and because he is just he must

punish sin.

So when let's take a courtroom, there's a judge sitting up there and Criminal comes

beforehand and this person committed this crime if that judge is

Just if that judge is righteous.

What are they going to do with that crime or that criminal?

There has to be some punishment for a jet now today we live in a culture where

You know people just get let go and we have laws now that people can steal up to a thousand dollars.

And there's no charges and in our country.

We are an unrighteous nation where we are not punishing Crime and even

violent crime sometimes but God is just so look at Romans 3 starting in verse 21

but now the righteousness of God apart from the law is Revealed being witnessed by the law and the

prophets even the righteousness of God Through faith in Jesus Christ to all

and on all who believe for there is no difference.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God being justified freely by his grace

through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God set forth as a propitiation

by his blood through faith to demonstrate his righteousness because in his

Forbearance God has passed over the sins that were previously committed to demonstrate at the

present time his Righteousness that he might be the just and the justifier

of the one who has faith in Jesus so we see in this passage.

God is both mentioned as righteous and Just you see that.

Mark if we confess our sins he is faithful and just he's faithful and we mentioned gracious

merciful.

Yeah.

Yeah tonight is not an exhaustive list of God's.

Yep, but here in verse 25 the word propitiation it means an appeasement or

Satisfaction so some translations actually put it atoning sacrifice.

So mankind has offended God and to cover that offense Jesus came

to shed his blood as an Atonement.

Okay.

So the only other time that that Greek word that's translated here propitiation.

The only other time it's mentioned in the New Testament is Hebrews chapter 9 verse 5 where it's translated

as mercy seat.

So when you hear mercy seat You should automatically think of the Ark of the Covenant right and the

tabernacle.

And if you remember what was inside of the Ark the law right the Ten Commandments

which man violated above the Ark between the cherubim angels.

The Lord dwelt between the cherubim.

So in the Ark who had the violated law here you have God up here.

So God is going to see the violated law.

He must punish sin but instead Christ comes in and He atones for sin.

He covers sin with his own blood.

He is the one who Cleanses us he covers us.

He takes away all of our Sin, that is how a person can be

saved that Christ Atones because God we we have all as we read in that

passage We have all sinned and we have all fallen short.

God has to punish sin.

But Jesus made the atonement so he has all of that covered.

So let's turn to 1st John 4.

1st John chapter 4 so on the cross

Jesus took all of our sin the word being imputation

so all of our sin was imputed to his account and The

transaction is Jesus takes all of our sin and In exchange if we will have faith in

him, he gives us all of his what?

Righteousness.

So that when God looks at us, he doesn't see us as the sinners who have violated his law.

He sees us as Righteous because we are we are covered by the blood of Christ.

And when we are in covenant with Christ we are actually in Christ so when God looks at us he he

sees his son.

So it's not just that we're we're innocent or that we're not guilty.

We're actually seen as righteous in the eyes of God.

Through what happened on the cross?

This is why and you know me and Marcus we go back and forth about this right about you know.

Are you a sinner or are you a saint?

Well in the New Testament Christians are called.

Saints.

Now are we sent?

Well, yes everyone sins but what has been imputed to our

account.

God sees us.

If we're saved he sees us as as Saints.

Right.

His own body on the tree, I don't know how that happened.

Well for that matter, I mean somehow the sins of Israel were placed on

Unblemished lamb.

Somehow God has taken the penalty that are taken the Crime

and and placed it on him.

Yeah, so yeah, there was punishment for our sin, but he punished his son instead of punishing

us.

And if you read Romans, I think it's Romans 5 or 6.

I mean it all you said.

Well, how does that happen?

Well God works in Covenants, so the covenant that we're all in initially we're

in Adam, right?

Adam is our federal head, right?

This is the theological language.

So our representative is Adam.

It's like with our country.

We have representatives, right?

We don't have a voice.

In Boston, we don't have a voice.

We don't have a voice in Washington DC.

We have a system of Representatives.

They represent us.

Supposedly, okay.

Some of them do.

But that's how it works with the Lord, right?

So we have a representative Adam Adam failed so we are in Adam

all who are in Adam die.

So if you have faith and you are in the new covenant the new Adam or the second Adam Jesus Christ all who are in

Christ are made alive.

So you are either in the covenant in Adam or in Christ.

This is how God operates in covenants.

So we're almost out of time.

We're just gonna look at these two final attributes.

We're gonna look at God's attribute of love.

I mean God is love.

That's what the Bible says 1st.

John 4 8 This is this is the verse says he who does not love

does not know God for God is Love.

Okay, so that's one of the attributes of God and I'm I'm thankful for this right because we

could talk about God.

I don't know that wrath is an attribute but God has wrath because he's righteous and he has to punish sin.

We talked about that.

But God is love and God demonstrates that love and that he sent Christ.

Romans 5 8 God demonstrates his own love toward us and that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

So the love here is not the emotion of love.

It's not that well if you feel love That's God.

That's that's not the point.

It's that love is an essential part of God's character.

That's why he sent Jesus in the first place because God loves

people.

God is Merciful so once you receive Christ We

live that out.

John 14 15 Jesus said you love me keep my commandments.

And then the Apostle John here He's talking about if we're walking for a Christian.

We should also love one another because fellow brothers and sisters are also in Christ.

Look at 1st.

John 4 20 and 21 if someone says I love God and hates his brother

He is a liar for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen.

How can he love God whom he has not seen in this commandment?

We have from him that he who loves loves.

God must also love his.

Brother.

So love is clearly one of God's attributes.

Is it.

I don't know.

This is this is just my take based on what I'm hearing.

This is the Attribute of God that gets talked about the most today.

I think that's a pretty fair statement to me.

It's obvious.

It's far and above all the others.

It's God is love.

God is love.

God is love unfortunately that gets redefined where love.

Instead of being backed up by actions as it was by the Lord and sending Christ

and for us to love one another.

And to help one another love often gets redefined as.

You know acceptance where you just you must accept this person and everything that they're doing and

that's true love and that's not really how It's it's defined.

So love is elevated as God's primary attribute, but it's not.

Let's look at God's primary attribute.

Turn to Isaiah 6 and we'll close Isaiah chapter 6.

Any study.

And again a lot I think a lot of churches don't cover this because it's just so basic so elementary.

But we should cover it.

But any study about the attributes of God any study worth its salt is going to mention this that God's

primary attribute is His holiness.

Why is that because we read in Isaiah 6?

Yes, the Bible does say that God is love but in Isaiah 6 we see that God is

holy, holy, holy.

Like the Bible never says that God is love love love if it did you could probably say that was the

primary Attribute, but we see in Isaiah 6 that God's Primary

attribute is his holiness.

Isaiah 6 1 in the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high

and lifted up and the train of his robe Filled the temple above it stood seraphim.

So these are angels each one had six wings with two he covered his face and with two he

covered his feet and with two he flew and One cried to another and said holy, holy,

holy is the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory and The

posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out and the house was filled with smoke.

So I said here's Isaiah's reaction once he realizes Sees

that God is holy.

Holy.

Holy.

He says woe is me for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips

and I dwell in the midst of the people of unclean lips for my eyes have seen the king

the Lord of Hosts so based on this and based on just

all throughout the Old Testament Constantly talking about God's holiness.

So what is holiness?

Holy means set apart.

So God is we could say God is absolutely pure.

He is he is excellent.

He is he is uncommon.

See everything else is in a sense is common.

God is totally set apart from Anything out everything and everything else a God is

is.

Is.

Different than ever.

He is so much higher than everything else.

He is set apart.

He's holy and once Isaiah realizes that then he knows how unholy he

is, right?

So Isaiah Safe to say was probably one of the most godly men on the face of the

earth.

But once he sees the Lord You know, whatever self -righteousness he may have had if he did

have any it all just Falls away.

He says I you know, woe is me.

For I am undone.

So, you know in conclusion the best way to understand the gospel and the best way to understand

Who God is is?

To look at God's attributes to really get a sense of of the Lord and his character

because once we understand God If we understand him then we'll better understand

ourselves.

We can go through life and do the normal thing and compare ourselves with others.

And you know, you can start thinking pretty highly of yourself after a while.

But once you understand the person and character of God There's no

room at all for self -righteousness.

So once a person understands that Then the gospel should be apparent of

why why we need God's grace and I just think going back to this thing about God.

These ministers saying that God is a woman.

I mean this just totally Exemplifies the rebellion

in the world today.

I think The number one thing behind all this whatever the Bible says, they're just gonna say the opposite

that's all that's all it is.

So if the Bible says up they're gonna say down if the Bible calls God the Father.

Well, we're gonna call Her God the mother that that's what it is.

It's just mankind's ongoing Rebellion and as we get closer and closer

to the end of days the rebellion is just becoming more obvious.

And apparent so the people saying that the people buying into that what they need is a good study

on God's attributes to understand who the true God is and not this

idol that they've fashioned in their own mind.

Let's pray Lord, we thank you for who you are.

We thank you for your love.

We thank you For your mercy your grace.

We thank you for sending Jesus Into the world to die for all of our sin

Lord, we thank you for that.

We thank you for saving us and we praise you because you are a God of love.

But we praise you because you truly are Holy holy holy and Lord if there's

someone Listening or watching right now who is never trusted in Jesus as their Lord and

Savior.

I pray that they would realize that God Lord you are Perfectly

righteous and just That they would finally come to that place where they have to admit to you that

they are not and Lord we are Very thankful that you are

willing to forgive us of all of our sin based on the blood of Jesus.

And it's in his name.

We pray.

Amen.