The Blood, the Call, the Promise — David Smith

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Lord, what can we do but say You are good and Your mercy endures forever. Lord, You have been merciful to each one of us. God, thank You for Your mercy that You have withheld Your wrath from us, Lord, in our stubborn rebellion, Lord.

Father, in my heart, oh, my heart rejoices, Lord, in this gospel, this saving gospel, Lord, that has saved me. God, this is the gospel that I love. Father, in my heart's prayer tonight is for those that are holding out, God, that are where Wayne was four months ago.

Father, have mercy again. Father, only Your Spirit, Lord, can shake a dead man to life, Father. Father, my heart's prayer is that You would reveal Your glory tonight, Lord, that You would make Your Word plain, Father, that You would present eternity before each one of us, Lord.

Father, let me be faithful with this hour that You're giving me. God, just set me aside, I pray, that You might receive glory and that You might be all in all. For truly, You are Lord and I exalt Your name right now.

Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Need to Understand God's Word

I give glory and I ascribe strength and beauty to You, Lord. Glorify Your name, Lord Jesus. I had marked in my Bible here a passage in Nehemiah chapter 8 that as our brother Wayne was sharing, he expressed to me one concern that I have, a desire that I have for many.

Even as we were singing that song, I'd never heard it before. I can't remember what it was, but it spoke about taking the gospel to the uttermost parts or to those that were out in the uttermost parts.

And I just had to think that while we have people sitting under preaching and teaching in a language they don't understand, they're unreached. And I had to think of the exiles that came back again in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah and they assembled the people together as one man in the street and they stood up and read the book of the law in the presence of the people, it says, and those that could understand and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

And again, it's a picture of the people that have come back from their captivity. They've seen the judgment of God. They've seen their idolatry judged. They've seen the mercy of God in bringing them back.

You know, after a good hard spanking, our ears are a little more attentive, aren't they sometimes? And Ezra stood up on a pulpit and with the help of the Levites, then he read from the book of the law in the sight of all the people.

And when he read, all the people answered, lifting up their hands and they bowed their heads and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground. And it says, they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and gave the sense, so they could understand.

This is meaningless to those that can't understand. It's a lie. It's a spirit. It's a bondage to convince people that there's something holy about listening to this message in a language they can't understand.

It's a deception. It's a deception. It's a bondage. And it says, they wept when they finally understood what this was about. What had to be there in place though for this to come together the way it did?

There had to be a yielded heart. There had to be their willing. There had to be a brokenness there. Their heart was prepared. Just let the Word of God come with understanding into a prepared heart though.

To a yielded heart. Oh, and that's my prayer tonight. That by the Spirit of God, that I might find grace to give the simple Gospel clearly with understanding to a prepared heart. John 7 .17 says that if any man will do his will.

Jesus said if any man, if there's a willingness, a readiness to do the will of God, he'll know the doctrine. He'll know the teaching. Whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself. The condition for spiritual understanding.

You know, there's a condition to spiritual understanding. It's a yielded heart. It's a will that's bound. Just show me what the will of God is and I'll do it. The person that's heart is steeled in their own selfishness, their own determination to live life for themselves, their pride, the Word of God can flow right over them.

And they won't even know it. They'll be sitting there in their blindness willingly. The saying goes, there's no one blinder than he who will not see. But my prayer is for those that just have never heard, never really understood.

Up till now, you've been consumed with your own life. But God has been softening you and breaking you and breaking down your resistance. And maybe now, maybe tonight, you just need to understand. Jesus said in Matthew 11, as He rejoiced before God, He said, I thank Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes.

If any of us are sitting here tonight and we can say we know God, it's because He has chosen to reveal Himself to us. You know, if God hides something, who among us can find something that God is hiding?

If you and I are here tonight stiffened against all this, this new belief or whatever we want to call it, God will just let you there. But if He sees a heart, just a simple heart, a willing heart, He says, All things are delivered unto Me of My Father.

No man knoweth the Son, but the Father. Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son. And He, to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him. There's a couple of needs I would just say here. There is a need for a clear presentation of the Gospel.

And a brother came to me yesterday and that was his encouragement. Just make it clear. And that's my heart's desire is that I would do that. That I would be faithful. The other need is for the saints of God, the saints of God to pray tonight.

Can I plead with the saints of God here tonight to pray that the darkness would be driven back, that's hiding those that believe not from the glorious light that our brother Wayne found. Brethren, we must pray.

Can we pray tonight in Jesus' name that this glorious Gospel would shine in the hearts of those who have been darkened up till now. And every one of us here if we can say the light has shone on us and we've seen God's truth.

The Father has been revealed to us. Oh! We realize that this is not just for us. It's for all men. The blood of Christ is the propitiation for our sins and not just for our sins, but also for the sins of the whole world.

The Blood of Christ and the Finished Work of Salvation

By God's grace, we're going to consider three primary points tonight. The blood, the call, and the promise. The blood. The blood. You can line any false religion, any cult, you can line them all up and they'll all have one thing in common.

They do not understand the blood of Christ. You don't have to study all the errors of Jehovah's Witnesses. You don't have to study all the errors of Mormonism or all the ways of Islam. Though they might help in being articulate and clearly communicating, understand their thinking, but they do not understand the blood.

Any religion that is laying on men a responsibility of works and of self, of performance, and of merit, whereby we are responsible for our own justification, for our own righteousness, does not understand the blood.

Oh, may God give us boldness and joy in declaring the wonder and the beauty of that gory cross. The blood is at the core of the Christian faith. When I speak about the blood, I'm speaking about not just in the very specific sense of the physical blood that flowed from Jesus' body, of the blood that was placed on the heavenly mercy seat.

I'm including in the primary sense the blood, but it includes all of His finished work. All of what's done in the cross. It includes His death, His burial, and the resurrection, and His exaltation. But the blood is meaningless to a person who thinks he's got to do it on his own.

What is the whole point of the blood? Ask any religious person who's trying to get there on their own. Well, if God had left it up to you and me to make it on our own, what was the whole point of the life and death of Jesus Christ?

It's pointless. It's foolish. Utterly foolish. The death of Christ, the blood of Christ implies explicitly God's holiness and His righteous judgment against sin. Hebrews 9 says, without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

The blood of Christ. Turn to Romans 10 .3. Christ's death reveals the ineffectiveness, the powerlessness of law or any system of works to retire the debt of sin that we owe. If there was ever a system built on works or a law, a holy law, that could affect salvation in fallen mankind, it was the law of Moses, wasn't it?

How foolish that we think we can add other man-made commandments and ordinances to affect salvation and righteousness. What an offense to God! In Jesus' name, repent of that. If that's where your trust is tonight.

If you're defending that kind of a system, repent in view of God's righteousness. For it says in Romans 10, we'll read verses 1 -4, Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved.

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness. And going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Ignorant of God's righteousness. They do not understand whether willingly and knowingly they're hardening their hearts in their own pride, in their own hypocrisy, or they just don't know. They don't understand that the blood of Christ is the righteousness of God displayed.

It's the judgment of God on sin and through the resurrection, it's the justification of the Lamb. It's the justification of the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law. He's the end of the law of Moses.

He's the end of any system of human works for righteousness to everyone that what? Believes. Believes. The death of Christ indicates our state of alienation from God. It had to be His death to bring reconciliation to a people that had turned from their God.

Our guilt, our separation, and our hostility, and our independence, our pursuit of life, lives for our selfish pleasure, is seen in the death of Christ. The need for the death of a substitute. The holy and righteous Lamb of God must of necessity have died.

But not like the priests of the old covenant who had to offer blood for their own sins before they offered blood for the sins of the people, He offered His own blood, not for His own sins. Amen? Amen.

But for ours. That righteousness qualifies Him to plead the case of that sinner in that courtroom. Amen? You know, the devil, when he brings those accusations out, every one of them would be true, wouldn't it?

But God. Amen? Glorious words. But God. The blood, the cross of Christ spells death to any hope of man's own goodness. Tonight. Amen. This is glorious truth, brethren. Men throughout the whole world are under the delusion that there's some goodness in them.

Be gone! Lie in the name of Jesus. There is no goodness in man. Christ's death and the blood of Christ is living proof. Eternal proof. Let me say tonight, brethren and sisters, we're either trusting tonight in our life or Jesus' death.

It's one or the other. What is it going to be? Are you going to come to God with your life? Or are you going to come to God with Jesus' death? One or the other. If it's anything less than the blood of Christ, it will not satisfy God.

Oh, the glorious truth of the blood, it has satisfied God. Anything less will be short of meeting that requirement of righteousness. The death of Christ reveals God's mercy. The bad news is our need...

Sin, Grace, and Redemption Through Christ's Blood

Let's look at Ephesians 2. You know, brother Wayne, those cigarettes and any other sin, we can just say, until we acknowledge and call those things sin, there's no hope for deliverance from them. If we are living and our behavior is anything other than sin, then there's no forgiveness, there's no remission, and what are you going to repent of?

But until we call unbelief a sin, until we call the fear of man sin, until we call our lust sin, while it's just a vice or a habit or anything less, there's no forgiveness and there's no salvation. You're a righteous person in your own eyes.

And Jesus didn't come and die for you. Oh, it's so hard on the flesh to actually admit who we are. Ephesians 2. And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all.

Among whom also we all. Who does that leave out? Does that leave anybody out? The Pharisee of Pharisees was Paul. It threw him in there. The most righteous man that has ever walked the face of the earth is here among this whom we all had our conversation or our behavior, our life in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

You know, until we see ourselves in that all, we don't need a Savior. Jesus came for others. Oh, have you ever shared the Gospel with somebody who became offended when you dared suggest that they were a bad person?

There's the problem. We don't need a Savior if we're not a sinner. But God who is rich in mercy for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins. Even when we were dead in sins.

And that's where we have to see ourselves. If we are not born again, if the Spirit of God has not made you alive, if you have not repented toward God and put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you're dead in trespasses and sins.

That's just the condition, whether you want to admit it or not. You know, the person falling from a high-rise building, they can convince themselves that they're flying, but they're really falling to their death.

The law of gravity will convince them otherwise if they're doing anything other than falling to their death. The blood of Christ. Colossians 1, verses 12 -14. Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son, in His Son in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.

Glory to God. Redemption. Redemption. Oh, what a beautiful word this picture is here in the word redemption. There's a couple of different words that are translated to redeem or redemption in the New Testament.

It means to be set free by the payment of ransom. To be bought, or to be bought out from as a slave on the slave market needs to be bought out of that slave market in whom we have redemption through His blood.

In whom we have the opportunity, the liberty to be set free. The ransom price has been paid. Now, what was it that was holding us in captivity? What was it that was holding you and me in slavery? Sin.

Sin. Does a slave shackled have any means wherewith to affect his own freedom? He's a slave. He has no rights. He's bound. And there he is. And he's full of anger, and he's full of bitterness and hatred for the condition of his life, but he's powerless to do anything about it.

He must be set free. The blood of Christ in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins. In Colossians 1, verse 20, it says, and having made peace through the blood of His cross.

Having made peace. Have you ever talked to somebody or suggested to somebody, have you made your peace with God yet? And in my mind, I'm sure there are people who have referred to themselves or that situation in the proper sense, but just imagine with me what I'm thinking of here.

When the typical person might say that, what they're saying is, well, they've settled down. Like one brother said, they've settled down, but they've never settled up. Amen? They've just kind of let go of the bigger, most gross, outward things in their life.

And in their heart, they've got a sentimental fondness or something towards God, or they've accepted some level of religion. They've made their peace with God. Now, I'm just going to suggest that there's no way you can make your peace with God on your own.

There has been One who has made peace with God. Jesus made peace through the blood of His cross. Jesus alone in His death satisfied the righteousness of God. He alone satisfied the wrath of God. Jesus alone brought an end to the hostility that existed between God and men.

That's what reconciliation is. It's the bringing to an end of hostility between two opposing people. It's a bringing together. To join together that which has been separated. That is what peace is. That's only capable through the blood of Christ.

Having made peace through the blood of His cross. Romans 5 -1 says, Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. I just want to say that the blood of Christ isn't magical.

There's nothing mystical about the blood of Christ. The blood of Christ was literal blood that satisfied the absolute requirements of righteousness and justice before a holy God. The blood of Christ gives us access into the grace of God.

I give credit to Watchman Nee in some of these points here. He asks the question, how has the blood of Christ made peace? In Isaiah 53, it says, that He shall see, meaning God shall see the travail of His soul and be satisfied.

The blood has satisfied God. God's holiness and righteousness demands that a sinless life should be given for man. When I see the blood, God said, I will pass over you. God is satisfied with the blood.

And if the blood satisfies God, then the blood is acceptable. It must satisfy us as well that the blood is sufficient. Is the blood sufficient enough for you and me tonight? Amen. What other hope do we have?

If we have any other hope, it's a vain hope. It's a broken cistern that'll hold no water. It's taking refuge in a lie. How arrogant of us to think that we would come before God with anything other than His blood and our faith in it.

God, have mercy. God, open our eyes. I'll read a few passages here from the book of Hebrews. Speaking of Jesus, who needeth not daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifice first for His own sins, and then for the people's.

For this He did once when He offered up Himself. Hebrews 9 .26. For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world, but now, once, in the end of the world, He hath appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Hebrews 10 .10. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God.

For by one offering, He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. What more could man add to that? It was one sacrifice for all. Hebrews 10 .19 -20. He says, having therefore, brethren, boldness, confidence.

This isn't a boldness of arrogance and brashness, recklessness and foolishness. It's a confidence. It's an internal security that says I have a right to this. This is My Father. I can come. The way has been opened.

I have confidence, boldness, and confidence to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus. What a grand statement it was to the Jews when Jesus cried, It is finished. And He gave up the ghost. And that temple veil, that thick, heavy curtain, woven together, ripped from the top to the bottom.

Oh, glory to God! The way to the Holiest was now opened not just to that trembling high priest who had to make sure that he had all his sins covered and that the blood was applied just exactly right and washed all the right way and all those things.

And history says they tied a rope around him because if he did go in there improperly, not properly cleansed, that he would die in the presence of God. And you couldn't go in there and get him because you'd die too.

So they had to tie a rope around him and pull him out if he were to die. It's a fearful thing to go into the presence of God for the sinner. Isn't it, brother Elmer? Boldness to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus.

By a new and living way which He has consecrated, listen to these words, for us. He has done it for us. Through the veil, that is to say, His flesh. The blood of Christ is our forgiveness. It's for atonement.

It's to cover our sins. It's to satisfy the righteousness of God and the justice of God. Why in 1 John 1 .9? Have you ever wondered? I don't know, maybe you never have, but this is a beautiful truth. That God is faithful.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful. And He's what? He is just. Why does it say He is just? To forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness? Because the blood has satisfied His wrath.

His justice against our sin has been satisfied in Christ. Romans 5. Our access to God is through the blood. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die. Yet, perventure for a good man, some would even dare to die.

But God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, His enemies, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. Being much more then, justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. What's the basis for our salvation? In its fullest sense, it's the death of Christ in forgiveness.

It's salvation that's delivered through His life. Much more if we can admit that the blood of Christ paid the price for our past sins. It says even much more now, we shall be saved from wrath through His life.

We're going to consider the significance of the resurrection in a moment here. But verse 11 of Romans 5, and not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

The atonement. I wish we would have more time to develop what is all wrapped up in this concept of atonement. But we're just not going to be able to. The facts are though that God's righteousness demanded death for sin.

The question is to all of us now, are we really approaching God by means of the blood of Christ or by some other way? Now, how can this affect even the believer? By this. Listen. Obviously, we can see very clearly.

God has said that there's no other access into God by the blood of His Son. The unbeliever, we can clearly see, we had no right to go to the presence of God. We had no access to the unsearchable riches of Christ because of our sin.

But there's a subtle tendency now as believers. We start thinking, well, I've been praying faithfully. I've been learning. I've been studying. I've had my devotions regularly. I've been witnessing. I've been going to church.

Where does now the confidence start shifting? On us. The blood of Christ is still. If we are trusting in anything else, it's a false hope. It's a broken tooth and a foot out of joint. When we ever think we've got some basis by which to be justified before God, whether it's in our first approach or whether it's in our daily approach as believers, we are in pride and God is resisting us.

He is faithful and He resists the proud wherever He finds them. So, the peace has been won. That is the good news. Let's look at 2 Corinthians 5. God on His own, apart from anything you and I did, has brought peace between us and God.

The question is, are we going to enter into it? The hostility that exists between God and men, you know, it's one-sided today. It's on the part of men towards God. Men are stubbornly refusing to accept the peace that God has accomplished for them.

The wrath of God has been settled and judged against sin. In 2 Corinthians 5, we'll just read a couple of verses here. We'll read verses 17 -20. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.

Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God. All things are of God. God has done it all. Who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

To wit, the ministry. What has God given to us that have been reconciled? The Word of Reconciliation. That God... this is it. To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.

Who did He impute their trespasses unto? Unto Christ. He laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Do we really believe this? And hath committed unto us the Word of Reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us.

We pray you in Christ's stead. Here's what it comes down to. You be reconciled to God. Stop running from God. The war is over from God's point of view. Be reconciled to God. For He hath made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

The Resurrection and Christ's Exaltation

A couple of thoughts here now. As we finish up the first point here on the cross, the blood of Christ. Wrapped up in the whole event of the cross is the resurrection and His exaltation. The resurrection.

I think there's much need for understanding concerning the resurrection. The resurrection was at the heart of the first church's Gospel messages. They just preached this Jesus raised from the dead. What is wrapped up?

What's the beauty and the truth wrapped up in the resurrection of Christ? You know, in Romans 10, 9, and 10, it's probably in more Gospel tracts than maybe any other verses. Or at least as many. It says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

That's Romans 10, 9. You know, I've been guilty in my early days, in my naive zeal of virtually tricking people into saying Jesus is Lord. Can you believe that? It's happening all over the place today.

Believe it. A Gospel message that doesn't call the sinner to repentance. That's what I was guilty of. You just get people to say these words. Now, I was confused. I had the real thing. But I was in my ignorance and in my zeal, my desire.

I wasn't calling people to the same thing that God had called me to. But what's the significance? Why does Paul say, believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead? Now, most religious people would say, well, I believe Jesus was raised from the dead.

And they could even say, I believe it in my heart. But what's missing? Why do you come away from a conversation like that many times feeling we've not connected? It's not there. It's because they do not understand the blood, all of what we just read about.

The hopeless condition of man. The absolute requirement of God's righteousness to be satisfied in the blood. They're still hoping in themselves that there's some goodness. And you can say, I believe Jesus was raised from the dead.

What's the significance though? In Romans 1, verse 4, it says that Jesus was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection of the dead. There was a declaration made by God in the resurrection that this was no sinner who died for himself.

This was My Son. And to document Jesus' righteousness and His holiness, God raised Him from the dead. And He's alive today. It wasn't a resurrection like Lazarus or like others that Jesus raised from the dead who would then die again.

This was a resurrection whereby He lives forevermore as an ongoing, permanent testimony of the righteousness of the Lamb of God. Amen. That's what you need to know and understand when you say, Jesus, You are Lord, and I believe You were raised from the dead.

It implies that I am dead and I am hopeless. And that You died for me. And to prove to all the world, to the principalities and powers throughout eternity, and to any man, that You are alive forevermore.

And He's interceding. He ever lives, making intercession for those that would just trust in Him. Romans 4, 24 and 25. Well, we can read v. 23. Well, let's go back up to v. 22. Speaking of Abraham, it says, and there's so much misunderstanding out in Christendom about the blessing of Abraham.

Oh, we're going to touch on that just for a brief moment. A little bit later. Oh, but what a glorious truth this is. It says,. And therefore it was imputed to him, to Abraham for righteousness, because he had believed, it says.

And now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that it raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for whose justification?

Ours. So not only was Jesus raised as a statement of His own justification, but He was raised for yours and mine if we would believe on Him. Do we grasp that? They say we can't grasp the glory of the resurrection until we see the absolute necessity for the death of Christ.

And we see ourselves in light of that. His exaltation. The resurrection and exaltation go together. The exaltation. This is Jesus' present place of authority. Oh, I think of the man-centered gospel being preached so often, in which, you know what?

It's not an easy thing in the flesh to declare the righteousness of God and the demands of God on sinners. Our flesh recoils against that. You know that. It does. It's much easier to say, God bless you, than it is to say, repent before Jesus.

You're lost. But Jesus Christ is Lord. So often we place the sinner in the center of this whole matter, don't we? You need to choose Jesus. You need to do all this stuff. And there is a choice. I'm not taking anything away from our need to choose.

But it's as though the sinner, as one man back home draws this picture, the sinner is there, the big shot at his mahogany desk, and there's this feeble knock on the door and in comes Jesus, kind of shuffling, meekly begging for a hearing, a meeting with this sinner.

And our appeal comes to sinners. Well, you need to accept Jesus into your heart. As though Jesus is begging us to just give Him a little place. It's not that way. Tonight, Jesus the Christ, the Son of the living God, has been exalted.

And He reigns in unchallenged authority and dominion at the right hand of the Father, exalted forever, before Whom every knee shall bow. This is our Lord. This is what Romans 10 -9 is talking about. Jesus has been exalted, raised from the dead, justified, and reigning tonight over heaven and earth.

It's reality whether anyone here wants to admit it or not. It is reality. The Christian is the person who has simply conformed his life with reality and has bowed his knee to the Lord Jesus Christ. That's our appeal tonight.

That's my appeal tonight. Just yield to reality. Jesus is the Christ. It says in Matthew 28 -18, Jesus said, All authority in heaven and earth has been given unto Me. Acts 2 -36 Peter says,. Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Philippians 2 -9 -11. This is the present position of Jesus Christ. He is the Lord. Wherefore, God, because Jesus humbled Himself, it says,. Wherefore, God also hath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and in things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.