We turn to God's Word, to the Epistle of Jude. The Epistle of Jude, and tonight we finish our series. Having begun this series many months ago, but many interruptions in the meantime and many classical appointments besides, tonight we finish our series on the book of Jude by considering verses 24 and 25. Let's read together one last time the entire epistle of Jude. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called, mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise, also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he had disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, the Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not. But what they know naturally as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the heir of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Cor. These are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds. Trees whose fruit withereth without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. Raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame. Wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these saying, behold, the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers. complainers walking after their own lusts, and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's person and admiration because of advantage. But beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts, These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference, and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. And now the final two verses will be our text this evening. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Thus far we read God's holy and inspired word. The text consists of those final two verses, 24 and 25. Beloved saints in the Lord Jesus Christ, the final two verses of the book of Jude constitute what we call a doxology. A doxology is a kind of prayer unto God. It's a prayer of praise and adoration and worship. And it was good for these Christians, the church to whom this was originally written, good for them to hear this doxology at the very end of the epistle. Because remember that this epistle was written to a church that was really not all that healthy from a spiritual point of view because it was written to a church and we would not be wrong to say that this church was in a struggle for her life. This church was being plagued by evil men, men who were governed not by the word of God but by their own ungodly passions and they lived according to every lust and they are presented here in the book of Jude as those who crept into the church and who used and abused and twisted the beautiful doctrines of God's grace and using the doctrines of God's grace as an excuse and even a justification to sin. They turned the grace of God into lasciviousness. And Jude spends a good portion of this epistle describing the judgment that will come upon these men. And in that way sounds also a clear warning to the church not to follow after these men and not to give an audience to their wicked speech and their wicked behavior. And then now this here at the end, verses 24 and 25, focusing our attention on God, that He's able to keep you from falling. to that church that's in spiritual peril, to the church whose footsteps were well nigh slipping, the comfort of the gospel is this, God is able to keep you from falling. God is able to present you faultless before His presence so that you may stand there with exceeding joy And therefore to this God be glory forever and ever. A much needed word of comfort to this church going through a difficult time. And beloved, it can happen nowadays that you and I find ourselves in just as much trouble, maybe more, maybe less, but just as much trouble as the church in Jude's day. because the Church of Jesus Christ, no matter what age you find that church, the church is always assaulted by the forces of darkness, whether that be by false teachers who may creep into the church and lead the members astray, whether it be by the devil who would make us to believe that we may live however we want to live and that We may live that way because God's grace will always forgive our sins. Even if there might not be anybody in the church explicitly teaching that, the devil would plant those seeds in our hearts and minds. And then maybe when we think to ourselves then after giving ear to those false doctrines, it's okay to live how I want to live. It's okay to sin in this way because I know that God will forgive me over and over because he is so gracious. so that in our hearts we would turn the grace of God into lasciviousness. Or perhaps it's the case that the child of God is assaulted by doubt because of a certain besetting sin that plagues him and troubles him so that he feels as if life isn't worth living and he feels as if his life is just hanging on by a thread. The church today can be assaulted like the church was in Jude's day. And now to that church in such distress, then this doxology at the end of Jude becomes a blessed and a sweet word of comfort. We feel ourselves to be falling, but our God is able to keep us from falling. And this isn't the first time that the Holy Spirit tells the church that he's able to keep you from falling. We have that even earlier in the book of Jude. That's how it begins. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ. That's how this epistle begins, by drawing our attention to the preserving power of God our Savior, beginning the epistle that way and now ending the epistle on that very same note. And here at the end it's not simply a statement But now the Holy Spirit takes the church up in this doxology so that the church may be overwhelmed with this assurance and that the church would join Jude in making this doxology and now you and me included now unto him that is able to keep us from falling and to present us faultless To the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. And then the church says it, amen. So let it be. A doxology of praise to God, who is strong and mighty to preserve us and able to do all things. Theme of our sermon, unto him who is able. Three points that God is able to keep you now, that's preservation. Secondly, to present you then, we look ahead to the future, at what will happen in that day when we enter heavenly glory. And finally, to receive glory forever unto him who is able. Now Jude's final doxology here grapples with the danger of falling. And that's why it's such a comfort to know that God will keep us from falling because by ourselves we are always in danger of falling. And that's a very serious matter because to fall here means to fall violently into sin and thereby to become the object of God's punishment. This word used here in the text, to keep us from falling, is a word that's used elsewhere in Greek literature to describe the way that a racehorse might fall. You think of a strong horse. that's running around the track and then that horse takes a wrong step and one of its legs snap. And the whole horse, sometimes in a very violent and gruesome way, falls and stumbles to the ground. And even nowadays, if a horse would survive that kind of a fall, the owner might very well have to put that horse down and euthanize that horse because that horse is all but ruined. That horse is destroyed in its fall. And that's the idea here in the text. The church back then was in danger of falling. The church was being so influenced by these ungodly men, by their ungodly doctrines, that the threat becomes very real of a great and mighty fall. A fall into false doctrine, but then also a fall into ungodly and wicked living. But that's always true for the church of all ages. If left to ourselves, we would fall. Now we understand that the church can't be destroyed. The elect can never fall away entirely because God preserves us. Thanks be to God for his preserving power. But from our point of view, viewed from the point of view of our sinful flesh, the church would certainly fall away if left to herself. Because there are so many false teachers, and the devil is so subtle and so powerful in his temptations, and that old man of sin is, which works in our own hearts and minds besides. But the promise of God is that he is able to keep us from falling. And when the word of God says here that he is able to keep us from falling, it's not simply presenting a hypothetical situation that this is something that God possibly might do and could do, but it presents God as the one who actually is strong and powerful and accomplishes the preservation of his people. Jehovah God preserves his elect so that we are not destroyed. That God is able to keep us from falling, that word to keep us, it emphasizes the powerful protection of God, especially as the forces of darkness would come upon us and attack us. and would rip us apart so that we would be destroyed. But God in his preserving power keeps us and defends us. And the figure is of a king with his army and that that king and his army will do whatever they need to do to protect the citizens of that city. so that the army will surround the city and keep the enemy out. The army will go up into the watchtowers and keep watch so that the enemy stays at bay. But that's the preserving, powerful protection the people of that city experience so that they know that they are safe and that they are secure. And that's the way that God is as he's praised in this doxology. He's able to keep us from falling. And that word able, there's power in that word. There's sovereignty in that word. He who is able, strong and powerful to keep us from falling. It's the power of God keeping his people. It's the kind of power. To use an Old Testament illustration of what we read in 2 Kings 6, that's the history of Elisha. And the king of Syria is assaulting the Israelites. But wherever the king of Syria camps, the Israelites get away from that location because Elisha has told the king of Israel. So the king of Syria surrounds the city where Elisha is. The servant of Elisha says, alas, what shall we do? And Elisha prays to God to open the eyes of the servant. And what did that servant see? There in the hillside, there in the mountain, to see chariots and horses and chariots of fire. What does that mean? It means that God is strong and powerful. to keep his people, to fight for his people, even when we don't see that with the eye of the body, but with the eye of faith, we do and we believe that. We believe that there's no force, that there's no enemy able to pluck us out of our father's hand. The devil is not in control of us. Our flesh does not have the mastery over us. God is in control, strong, powerful, able, sovereign to protect, to keep, to preserve His people. Well, then the question that presents itself whenever we speak of this powerful preservation of God, what about those falls of God's people that we do read about? What about those saints that do fall into sin and sometimes who fall grievously into sin? Is that an exception to the powerful preservation of God? Well, scripture is full of examples, especially two, David and Peter. David, guilty of falling into the sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and not only the sin of adultery, then trying to cover up that sin with another sin by murdering the husband of Bathsheba. That was a great sin. That was a lamentable fall by David. And then consider Peter, who denied Jesus three times in one night, and not with a casual, well, I don't really know him, but who swore, who took God's name upon his lips and said, I swear, I don't know the man. I'm not associated with him. Well, what's going on in these falls? Is God perhaps not able to keep us from falling after all? Well, the Canons of Dort, and I wanna read with you two passages from the Canons of Dort, fifth head of doctrine. Our confessions explain to us what in fact is going on, so that these falls into sin were no mere accident, but that they were under the sovereign control and governing of God in the Canons of Dort, Fifth Head of Doctrine, Article 4. Fifth Head of Doctrine, Article 4. Although the weakness of the flesh cannot prevail against the power of God, who confirms and preserves true believers in a state of grace, yet converts are not always so influenced and actuated by the Spirit of God as not in some particular instances sinfully to deviate from the guidance of divine grace so as to be seduced by and comply with the lusts of the flesh. They must therefore be constant in watching and prayer that they be not led into temptation. When these are neglected, they are not only liable to be drawn into great and heinous sins by Satan, the world, and the flesh, but sometimes by the righteous permission of God, actually fall into these sins. This is the lamentable fall of David, Peter, and other saints described in Holy Scripture demonstrates. So God permits at times his people to fall into these evils, but they are only allowed to fall so far and no further and never to fall to their destruction. Article six, but God who is rich in mercy, according to his unchangeable purpose of election, does not wholly withdraw the Spirit from his own people, even in their melancholy falls, nor suffers them to proceed so far as to lose the grace of adoption and forfeit the state of justification or to commit the sin unto death, nor does he permit them to be totally deserted and to plunge themselves into everlasting destruction. So the saints of God can fall, can sin, But God in his preserving power never allows them to fall to their destruction. And what God is doing in these falls is teaching his people and teaching the church a lesson. Because all these saints of God who had their own falls, David, Peter, you and I, It speaks of a time when we were spiritually careless for a while and by that fall God also teaching us a lesson that we would never forget. David would never forget the lesson that he learned. He wrote Psalm 32 and Psalm 51. expressing in perhaps one of the most deepest ways possible the forgiveness of sins that there is with God for his sinful people and the blessedness of those who are forgiven. Peter learned a lesson too. And it's interesting to compare Peter before the fall, before his fall, and then Peter after his fall. Before his fall, Peter was very emotionally impulsive, always had to be the one to speak, had to be the first one to speak, had to speak on behalf of all of the disciples, always had to be saying something. But after his denial and after his tears and after the Lord appeared unto him and restored him, Peter is a changed man. And now he's humble and steadfast and sober. And God used these falls to teach these men to watch and pray, lest they enter into temptation. And then the whole point of the canons too that we read, it wasn't simply to explain theologically what was going on with these men, but there's a lesson for us to learn as well. And the lesson for us is watch and pray. lest ye be led into temptation. Don't be careless in your spiritual life. And where you know that there is weakness, where you know there is that besetting sin, then let us be on guard and seek God and his grace and his mercy to lift us up and to preserve us. And then also, if we have suffered a lamentable fall, then our conclusion must not be, God has forsaken me, woe is me. But when we are sorry for our sins, then we know that he has not permitted us to fall into destruction. He's preserved us because no one, no one who's fallen into destruction is ever genuinely sorry for the sins that he or she has done. But we look back and we see what God has, that He has kept us and that He is able to keep us from falling into destruction. And so what a word of comfort this must have been to the church in Jude's day. that God is able to keep us from falling. The church back in Jude's day, which found itself in an almost impossible situation, almost unbelievable that they could be rescued, but God's arm was not short towards them. He was able and mighty to keep them from falling. and to save them out of that almost impossible situation from a human point of view. And beloved, also a word of comfort for us. Amidst all of the dangers round about us, theological dangers, yes, and behavioral dangers, that is that we would walk in sinful ways. Well, God's arm is not short. The same stretched out arm and mighty hand that delivered the Israelites out of Egypt and brought them through the Red Sea and into the land of Canaan, that's the same mighty arm of God and mighty hand that keeps us and preserves us and leads us, who holds us and protects us and is able to keep us from falling. God is able. Powerful, strong, and sovereign. And now that makes the church respond. This wonderful knowledge that we are preserved by the grace of God, by his power, it makes the church respond and to burst forth in a doxology of praise unto God. So that in the first place we adore Him as God alone to the only wise God, our Savior. He's God alone. He's the only one who's powerful. He's the only one who's omnipotent. We are preserved and kept from falling. Why? because God is God, faithful to His Word and powerful to keep His people and to protect them. In the second place, we adore God because He is wise, to the only wise God, our Savior. What is that wisdom? Wisdom is the spiritual ability of God to work all things in the best possible way. God is wise so that he's able to rule and govern all things in the best possible way to bring himself the highest glory and to do all things for the salvation of the church besides. But God is wise so that he governs all things so that We are kept from destruction and that we are preserved until the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. And he alone is wise. There's no other wisdom than the wisdom of God. The wisdom of this world is foolishness. And if our wisdom is anything that apart from God's wisdom, anything apart from what God has given us in his word, then that too is folly. And that power of God to keep us, the wisdom of God to arrange all things for the glory of His name and for the salvation of His church, it all comes together in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. God's wisdom in keeping us from falling is to give us to the Lord Jesus Christ. to put our sins upon Him, and that God has chosen us in Him, redeemed us in Him. Through Jesus Christ, we are preserved. That's the wisdom of God. And we see the might and power of our Savior in actually satisfying the wrath of God for our sins, not making a good attempt, not trying to and then to fail, but actually, effectually redeeming us. And that takes, you understand, a divine power and might to protect us and to save us. And Jesus being the Son of God is able to do for you and for me that which no creature can ever do. Jehovah God therefore alone is wise and powerful to keep us from falling. And thanks be to God that we are kept and preserved through our Lord Jesus Christ. And then our doxology to God is not only for his present preservation of us, but now in the second place, we're called to look ahead and to see something that God will do for us in the future. And that's what we have in verse 24, to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. To present you faultless before the presence of his glory. The Spirit speaks here of the day when we will stand in heaven before God and we will be in the presence of His glory. And that's amazing, that's wonderful when we contemplate the glory of God. God's glory is the sum total of all of the individual attributes and virtues that characterize God. So that God is a glorious God in His justice. God is a glorious God in His mercy towards His people. God is a glorious God in His wisdom. God is glorious in His long-suffering and patience with His people and all of the other attributes of God. God is glorious in each one of those attributes. And now you put all of those attributes together and it's blinding the glory of God. in who He is. But that's the glory of Almighty God. And His glory is such that no creature can look at Him and live. His glory is too splendid to behold. And the only way that we ever will behold the glory of God is to behold the glory of God through our Lord Jesus Christ. And we do. And that's how we see the glory of God even now. John chapter six, He that hath seen me, Jesus says, hath seen the Father. So that when we gaze upon the Lord Jesus Christ, then we will be gazing upon all the glory of God. And then Jude says that God is able to present us before the presence of his glory, to present us. And that word present is literally the word to stand. To stand. God will stand us up in heaven when our earthly sojourn is finished so that we are face to face with the presence of his glory. So that we look full into the face of our Lord Jesus Christ. and in the face of our Lord Jesus Christ to see God himself. And that's what happens when our loved ones are taken to glory. Try to put yourself in that loved one's shoes. Imagine what it must be like to go to glory, whether it be an elderly saint or a very little child, or a young man or woman in strong and healthy years to fall asleep in Jesus and to awake the next moment in heavenly glory, to wake up with nothing but glory surrounding you and to behold the face of your Lord and Savior, to see Him, Him who died for you, who gave His life for you, and to be with Him forever and ever, and to stand with Him in the presence of the glory of God. And we say, what will that be like? What will that be like? What will that be like when it's your turn and it's my turn to sleep in the Lord Jesus Christ and to awake in heavenly glory? I can hardly imagine what it is to stand in the presence of God's glory, but what great joy will be ours and of our loved ones who have gone on before us. Because that's what this text is talking about, this doxology. In that day, when we go to heavenly glory and will be presented before God and before His glory. And yet there's something a little unsettling when we contemplate all of that. The presence of God's glory is so brilliant, so pure, and we are sinful. Will it be altogether comfortable for us to look full on into the face of Jesus Christ? And then we think of what happened to the Apostle John in the book of Revelation. We've studied that a little bit in young peoples earlier this season. What did the Apostle John do when he saw Jesus Christ in Revelation 1, when he heard that voice behind him? as of a mighty trumpet, the sound as of a mighty trumpet and he turned around and there he beheld the risen Lord Jesus Christ in all his beauty, in all his splendidness, in all his glory. And the Apostle John, he fell down as a dead man in the glory of Jesus Christ. And then you think of the angels in heaven as they behave themselves in the presence of God. They don't stand there staring at God, but God gives them an extra set of wings, some of them at least, so that they're able to cover their faces because the glory of God is so brilliant that not even the glorious angels themselves are able to stand and behold that glory of God. And so we shrink a little bit at that thought of the glory of God because we're so sinful and because we are creatures. But there's comfort for us even here in the text. And the comfort is when this doxology of praise is that we shall stand faultless in the presence of his glory. And that word faultless means without spot. And it's the contrast of falling. What happens when we fall? We stain ourselves, we dirty ourselves with so much sin and so much corruption and so much pollution, so much to make ourselves the objects of the wrath of God. But there is one who is able to present us faultless. to wash those sins away, to get rid of those spots, to get rid of those blemishes, so that we are pure and holy and without blame before Him in love. And there I'm using the language then of Ephesians 1 verse 4, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. And that will be a wonderful day, that day when that old man of sin will be no more. The guilt of sin will be no more and we will be innocent and holy as Jesus Christ himself is innocent and holy. The brilliance that shines from Jesus Christ in his glory will be reflected in us and we will be faultless. Faultless, no fault at all. How can that possibly be? Not because of anything in you or me, not because of anything that we have done, but faultless, clean and pure because of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ who is able to keep us from falling. Jesus Christ who shed his blood to satisfy for our sins. and that the righteousness of Jesus Christ might be imputed to us, those beautiful robes of righteousness, the garments of salvation. And what a day that will be, and we need not fear, because we have the certain prospect of standing before the presence of God, faultless, without sin, all because of the work of Jesus Christ, our Lord and our Savior. And then finally, we are led to ascribe all glory and power to God. As verse 25 states it there at the end, to the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. And these are words which means the church recognizing this in God, confessing this in God. We're not giving God glory. We're not giving him majesty. We don't give God anything that he doesn't already have. But we are confessing him to be the one who has all glory. We glorify him. We confess him as the one who sits on the throne, majestic in state. We praise him for it. He who has all power. and we praise him both now and forever. But the majesty of God is that splendor and that grandeur that belongs to a king. Because as king, God has dominion, the rule over all things. As king, he has power and might to do what he pleases. And this is the God whom we serve. This is the God who is able to preserve us. This is the God who is strong to present us faultless before the presence of his glory. And can you imagine what a joy that this was for the church in Jude's day? to hear this doxology of praise, this final note of comfort in the midst of her difficult situation in life, drawing attention not to the church's own supposed strength, but drawing the church to the power and might of God, to this church that felt itself hanging on by a thread, all of the burdens, all of the sorrows of life, And in light of who God is, in light of His power and His majesty, well then those words of 2 Corinthians 4 ring true, don't they? That our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Because our God is strong and powerful to keep us But this church militant back then that was all but destroyed is preserved and kept and would soon enter heavenly glory. Now, we don't have to try and imagine what joy it was for the church back then to hear this doxology, because the same joy that was in the hearts of God's people back then is the same joy that's in our hearts tonight. Beloved, do you have burdens and sorrows and hardships? And the answer is yes, we all do. Write them down and make a list. Do we have spiritual dangers that threaten us? We do. Add them to the list and then stand with Jude and look at the horizon to see the glory that God has in store for you. Now, we can only see that glory right now, it's on the horizon, but we see that glory, we see that brilliance by faith. And we have all kinds of questions about what that eternal glorification will be for us and what kind of a doxology we will sing in that day. Will we sing this one here at the end of Jude? Perhaps, we don't know, the book of Revelation also speaks of a new song that is given us to sing, almost as if the doxologies given us here in the Bible are for the saints of God here on earth, but there will be doxologies, as it were, yet to be composed by the church in heavenly glory, we don't know, but whatever that doxology will be, it will have this theme, that unto God and him alone and unto the Lamb, Be glory and honor and power and strength both now and forevermore. And so, beloved, that takes us to the end of Jude. And to the end of this doxology, and in a way you understand we might be finished with Jude tonight, but in a way we are never really finished with Jude. The reality is that we may not be finished because as long as this earthly sojourn lasts for us, There will be difficulties and sorrows. We will be plagued by the oppression of evil men. As long as this earthly sojourn lasts, the church needs the warnings that are given here. But let this doxology warm your hearts and let this doxology ring true in your ears. Now until that day when you will be presented faultless, now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before his presence, the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. To God be all the glory. Amen. Let us pray. Our Father, which art in heaven, we can add nothing to the praise of thy name, but the words that thou hast put in our hearts by thy spirit. And we add our amen to it. The amen of thy words, so be it. All glory be to thee and thee alone. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. We sing psalter number 183. Psalter number 183, we sing in stanza four, all glory, might, and honor ascribe to God on high. His arm protects his people who on his power rely. Forth from thy holy dwelling, thy awful glories shine. Thou strengthenest thy people, unending praise be thine. Let's sing the four stanzas, all the stanzas of 183. ♪ To every man ♪ ♪ Who prayed at Mount Sinai ♪ ♪ Where God made heaven and hell ♪ ♪ As we adore your name ♪ ♪ In our heavenly garden place ♪ salvation, who for his people cares. Our God is here to help us. Our God is strong to save. of the earth. Sing unto God, all people, and praise his precious word. He rises, royal triumph, upon the heavens above. ♪ As stripes to God apply ♪ ♪ His heart protects his people ♪ ♪ Who love his power rely ♪ ♪ Born from thy holy dwelling ♪ ♪ Thy awful glory shine ♪ ♪ The God of Israel ♪ ♪ For he alone has overcome ♪ ♪ And he's in glory let himself ♪ ♪ And blessed be his glorious name ♪ ♪ Long as the angels shout ♪ The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace. Amen.