[00:00:04] As we go to hear the Word of God read, we find it again in Mark chapter 14. Last week John preached on the Lord’s Supper, and now we come to Jesus’s trial before the Sanhedrin.
[00:00:22] In verse 53, Jesus had been telling the disciples to watch and pray. And that had come right after he had said to, the passage that we have been memorizing. I’m sure by now we all have it down perfectly. And, so we don’t need to read it again this morning.
[00:00:47] Mark chapter 14, verse 53. “They took Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests, elders, and teachers of the law came together. Peter followed him at a distance right into the courtyard of the high priest. There he sat with the guards and warmed himself at the fire. The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find any. Many testified falsely against him, but their statements did not agree. Then some stood up and gave this false testimony against him. ‘We heard him say, I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days we’ll build another not made my man.’ Yet even then their testimony did not agree. Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, ‘Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?’ But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer. Again the high priest asked him, ‘Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?’ ‘I am,’ said Jesus, ‘and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One, and coming on the clouds of heaven.’ The high priest tore his clothes. ‘Why do we need any more witnesses?’ He asked. ‘You have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?’ They all condemned him as worthy of death. Then some began to spit at him. They blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, ‘Prophesy!’ And the guards took him and beat him.”
[00:02:34] As we turn to this passage of Scripture, we’re going to be looking at the appearance and the reality of power in this world. When we come here to verse 61, we see “Jesus remained silent and gave no answer.” And that describes everything that’s been happening from verse 53 on. “Jesus is silent and gave no answer.” And then in verse 63, when the priest, the high priest, attacks Jesus almost violently, and then when they condemn him, they physically attack him.
[00:03:16] Here is the Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court and Senate of the people of God of that day. And they spit at him. They blindfolded him. They struck him with their fists and said, prophesy. And the guards took him and beat him. He’s silent. He seems to be the powerless one, because he has so little to say. And I think many people today view Jesus as the one who really doesn’t have much to say. He is the one whose hands are bound and whose hands have no strength in them.
[00:03:50] When John describes this in chapter 18 of his gospel, he says, “They bound Jesus and took him away.” And that’s what I’m going to have Greg now do for me. And, Greg is very good at such things as this, and I may never get out again. So you may have the interesting picture of the preacher never escaping from his, illustration. A little more, Greg, you’re not enthusiastic enough here, I think. You don’t want me to escape too easily, do you? Thank you. Greg.
[00:04:31] That’s the way these people saw Jesus. And I think that’s the way they see him today. If you think about it, how do you hear during the week the name of Jesus most often. How do you hear the name of Jesus most often? Swearing. You’re really cool if you can say the name of Jesus, and people do it all the time. Isn’t that so?
[00:05:01] You hear it on the school ground. You hear it in the office. You hear it in the factory. You hear it at the service station. It’s everywhere. And Jesus doesn’t do that much about it. He seems to be … Jesus remains silent.
[00:05:22] Recently in England, Bishop Jenkins was installed and everyone was kind of shocked, at least those who are believers, because he doesn’t believe, as I recall, in the resurrection of Jesus, the bodily resurrection. He doesn’t believe he’s the Son of God. He certainly wouldn’t see him as the Mighty One or as the, one on the throne coming in the clouds of glory.
[00:05:46] Now, it’s true that the Lord wanted to get the attention of the people in England. So I gathered it was on a clear day, out of the blue. Literally, a lightning bolt struck the Cathedral of York, where he was bishop. Now, sometimes the Lord does get the attention, but he reserves most of that for bishops. The rest of us have the feeling somewhere he’s not around, and we see a culture where the name of Jesus just doesn’t carry any weight.
[00:06:19] I remember here a few years ago that, The Exorcist was playing next door at the Keswick Theater. And, it was just at the beginning of New Life Church. So we quickly made up some tracks, and we just had sort of got the New Life booklet in a rough form. And we came over there and, the people were coming out of the theater, and they were kind of dazed. And we never had so much ease in handing out tracts. In fact, a couple of people were offended when we ran out of them. I mean, when the movie was over, and the thing that were hitting people was that the devil was so powerful. Because if you read the end of the book, The Exorcist, it says there … One of the leading characters is asked, well do you do you believe in God now that you’ve seen what all its happened? And the answer was, “No, not really. He doesn’t have the power.” And here’s, I think exact words used: “The devil is out there selling all the time, but God is silent.”
[00:07:26] And I think that’s what a lot of people feel. That Christ is not very powerful. He’s kind of the silent one. The one you can afford to ignore, that you can kind of come perhaps once a week to church and tip your hat to him, but the rest of the week he really is not a visible power presence. I think this is the central issue of our time.
[00:07:58] Now when we look at the text a little more closely, we find that Peter is deeply involved in this, these goings on. If you look there at verse 54, when Jesus is brought in bound, Peter follows him at a distance right into the courtyard of the high Priest. Peter is not altogether without natural courage. He’s very weak in the spiritual courage department at this time. But he does come in.
[00:08:29] And then when he comes in, he sits down with the guards and warmed himself at the fire. Now, if you go back to the text we have been memorizing, you will find that the last two verses there in chapter 13, verses 36 and 37, say, “If he comes suddenly …” Now, who can finish it? “Do not let him find you …” What?
[00:08:54] Okay, now turn over to chapter 14. And we look down here at verse 37 and we read: “Then he returned to his disciples and found them” … wide awake? Sleeping! Almost an immediate disobedience to what Jesus has said. And when we see Peter’s powerlessness in this situation, this is going to be the key. “Could you not keep” … No … “Watch and pray,” verse 38. “Watch and pray so that you do not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”.
[00:09:36] Now you see Peter there in verse 54. He comes in, he sits down next to the fire, and probably while he’s sitting in the fire, he was shivering a bit. Great shock over what had happened. You know, if you’ve been frightened, you actually get kind of cold all over. At least some of us do. Real chickens like me, we just get real cold.
[00:09:58] Well, Peter, seemed to be getting real cold. He got close to the fire, and what he didn’t realize is the closer he got to the fire, guess what? There’s more light by the fire. And people could see who he was. And when they begin to see who he was. Well, in verse 66 through 72, we have Peter’s disowning Jesus. He had not watched. He had not prayed, and really his were the hands that were bound, not Jesus. And so what do we find in verse 71? “He began to call down curses on himself? And he swore to them, ‘I don’t know this man you’re talking about.'”.
[00:10:41] Now when we think about spiritual powerlessness, and the depths of sinning, if you and I were to say, “What could be the worst sin?” What would be the sin you’d least likely, you’d want to be caught at least likely. Well, most people would say adultery. Right? You’re finished as a pastor. I got news for you. If you’re planning to be a pastor, you commit adultery. And, you’re very likely out. Isn’t that true? I think that usually happens. Not always. There have been some exceptions, but generally just figure it’s over. And the church really will stand up on this particular sin. And it’s a heinous. Its a terrible one.
[00:11:31] But I’m not sure it’s the worst one. And I’m just going to throw it out for you to think about. I think Peter’s powerlessness here, his silence … See, Jesus was silent because he was obeying the will of God. Peter was silent because he was disobeying the will of God. And his were the hands were tied and not really Jesus. Jesus’s hands have the whole wide world. He is upholding every part of it by his power.
[00:12:11] Well, when you see that, just for a moment, see how God speaks in this whole matter of the final trial. You see, the trial we’ve been looking at here is … They said we’ve put you on trial Jesus, you have blasphemed. We’re going to condemn you to death. And they were enraged at what he said. But he says, “I’m going to put you on trial.” And he’d said that in verse 62, “You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One, the Ancient of Days, and coming on the clouds of heaven.” And so I’m going to bring you to the real Supreme Court, to the real Senate of the universe. I am going to be the judge. I’m going to be your jury, and I’m going to pass judgment on all. Well, that’s a bit of a shocker.
[00:13:06] And then when we turn to what this Jesus says in revelation about what he sees as sins of evil. It’s very interesting what he puts at the head of the list. A revelation is organized by the way. It has lists. Lists of those who belong to Christ, lists for those who don’t belong to Christ. It’s inviting you to put your name in whichever list you fit. And so in Revelation 21, in verse 6, here Jesus is speaking: “He said to me, it is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.” The world history is over. It’s done. Creation, it was finished. The cross it was finished. And now history is finished.
[00:13:51] Okay. What’s over? Well, to him who is thirsty, I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes. He who’s a fighter. Notice that language? He who is a fighter, he will inherit all this. And I will be his God. And he will be my son.
[00:14:10] Now look at the list. But the ungodly … No … But the adulterers … No … He doesn’t start off with that. What does he start off with? Someone tell me. Cowardly. Wow. The unbelieving. And then he goes on to the vile, the murderers, the sexual immoral, those who practice magic arts, the adulterers and all liars.
[00:14:40] And you see, Peter had caught the beginning of the list and the end of the list, because he became a liar. When he stood there and says, “I don’t know, Jesus. I’ll swear to it. I’ll be cursed if that is not true. The guy was a liar.
[00:14:56] And so what we see here, and I think this ought to, on one hand, frighten us because we see how powerful and deceptive sin can be. On the other hand, it ought to encourage us—if God took a man who was in his heart of hearts a coward, and made him into the kind of brave man that we see at Pentecost, boy, what he might do for you. Amen. Come on, all you chickens, let’s hear a little more enthusiasm. Okay. Amen. All right. Very good.
[00:15:39] Leave your cowardliness, and your unbelief, and you’re lying behind. This is the reality. And so we see then, this wonderful picture back, in Mark chapter 14, of Jesus standing before us, saying, “I am” said Jesus, “and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”.
[00:16:06] Now here’s a problem. It’s all right to be here. You, Jack, is enthusiastic about Jesus, and, you’re momentarily enthusiastic, too. And we’re both momentarily enthusiastic. But then Monday rolls around and Tuesday rolls around, and you gotta be out there with all those people who are not enthusiastic about Jesus. What are you going to do, then?
[00:16:31] In fact, you may find in the church … Now, obviously at New Life Church, everyone is 100% sanctified, right? Well, there may be just a few slip in that door who are not, starting with the pastors. So you got to live with the rest of these sinners, and it doesn’t look very much like a power meeting, right?
[00:16:59] How does just Jesus bring power to us? Lots of different ways. The Lord’s Supper is one of them. In this, you see, there’s a number of things that are so sweet and beautiful. First, it speaks of sorrow for sin, that my sin did that to Jesus. And there’s always power in a real sorrow. And if you’ve never had the power of a really godly sorrow, get excited.
[00:17:30] I’m going to preach three sermons in September on godly sorrow and it’s power. It has tremendous power. Why? Why did Peter become such a man of flame and self forgetting, and so concerned for the glory of God at Pentecost? Well, the Holy Spirit came, yes. But what had the Holy Spirit done to him? He had convicted Peter of sin, and Peter knew how deep was his sin. And when he saw it, that’s half the battle for getting rid of it, because it’ll break you. And when it breaks you, God just sweeps it away. In fact, the breaking only came because his Spirit convicted you.
[00:18:15] The Lord’s Supper speaks of courage. And there’s a kind of a tie in between contrition, sorrow for sin and courage. You know, we can pretend that we’re brave, but most of us are not. I can remember when I was growing up, I was one of the most foolhardy teenagers you ever saw. You wouldn’t have wanted to known me for anything. You wouldn’t even have wanted me in church. I mean, when we went swimming, I was the guy who dived from the highest point on the rock. And I was a terrible diver. You know? Crazy. I was ready for anything.
[00:18:55] But when somebody witnessed to me about Jesus, and I got a Bible, a little testament, I decided, well, I’d read it, you know? I was a tough atheist, and I took that Bible, a little Bible. I put it in my inner pocket, and I got in the bus going to school, and I noticed … I started reading it, got interested in it. But every time somebody got on the bus that I knew, I popped that little testament right back in my pocket. And for the first time, I knew I was a coward.
[00:19:27] And you see, we need somebody to give us courage. We are not going to have revival in America until American children and young people stop being so influenced and fearful of what their peers think. We must have revival in children. We must have it among young people, and we’ve got to fight back against this tremendous cultural shift in which, in the 40s, when children … They took these polls about children, they found that the great majority of them said the biggest influence on their life was family. Today, if you took that same poll, the biggest influence is peers. And what does that mean simply? That children are being afraid of those around them. They’re not getting out there strong enough, courageous enough to take a stand for Jesus.
[00:20:31] So we need to be sorry for our sins, and that’s what it’s about, and then courage, and then confidence that Jesus is really alive.
[00:20:39] And that brings us really to the third thing … This third thing really brings us to his rule. How does it express itself? Well, we get help in the Lord’s Supper. We are reminded of his saving, separating power in baptism. But then we also need the key. And that’s what Peter had missed. Peter wasn’t even listening to what Jesus said about his sovereign rule, about his coming again, about he was putting them all on trial, that this crucifixion was going to be the great hinge of history, and everything would be changed. All science and all history, everything was now directly subservient to Jesus Christ.
[00:21:19] Well, when this happened, Peter was missing it all. And the reason he was missing it is this. Let’s go back to what we in chapter 13, what we’ve been memorizing. Verse 36, “If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping,” right? What I say to you, I say to everyone … You did better in the memorization. “Watch!” One more: “Watch!” That’s getting a little closer.
[00:22:00] Then go over to the other passage. Chapter 14, where we find them sleeping, doing just the opposite of what Jesus said. And Jesus said in there in verse 37, “Simon, are you asleep? Couldn’t you not keep watch for one hour?” “Watch and” what? “Watch and pray.” Now you know what watching is all about.
[00:22:23] You probably thought that watching as we—you know, we get all kinds of screwy ideas in our heads— meant that every day you woke up and you’d look up to see if Christ was there. Well, that’s okay, because one day that’s going to happen, and, thats going to be all over it—the last page in the last chapter of the book of history, as we know it, is going to be finished. The book is going to be closed.
[00:22:44] And now everything will be brought out into the open. Son of Man will be on the throne. He will be the Father’s executive in judging us. The Father judges all but he uses the Son, as the giver of the Holy Spirit and also as the Supreme Judge.
[00:23:02] Well, now, when that happens, how did you get there? And how did that help you? Well, you had to be praying. And so praying isn’t just simply, we pray for healing for people here on this Lord’s Day. It isn’t simply that we pray for healing on Thursday morning when we meet here at 6:30 through 9:30. It isn’t simply that we pray for daily bread, and we pray for forgiveness and all sorts of things. Really valuable.
[00:23:33] It’s rather we’re watching for the One who has control of the world, and we’re asking him to do things because he has commanded that prayer be the way his will be accomplished in the world.
[00:23:51] Watch and pray not simply to save my soul, which I must do. You see, the book of Revelation says, justification by faith is for sinners, but it’s for sinners who are on the run. It’s for sinners who are fighters. You don’t need justification. If you just wanted to have your sins casually blotted out. They’re not that bad anyway. But if you know you’re in danger of hell and the powers of Satan are behind you, and your own sins are pursuing you, and the world is dragging you down, you’ve got to be a fighter. To him that overcomes. To those who know how to fight justification means something. It doesn’t mean much if you’re just a drifter. Anyone able to say amen to that? All right.
[00:24:37] There is no reason, then, for lying down on the job and dying and saying, “Oh I’m justified.” Oh, brother. That’s worthless. Terrible talk, terrible thinking. No justification assurance grows as you put up your dukes and as you fight back. Right. To him who overcomes opposition, the powers of Satan, the powers of darkness, and your own sin, the power of the world, your peers.
[00:25:09] And you do it by praying. And you pray and you pray and you pray.. Now we talk at New Life that we want to learn to think church, to see church, how it can be built up, how the body can be edified. And that’s great. But you don’t really think church until you learn to pray and pray and pray and pray.
[00:25:29] And so Peter’s weakness was—that’s why his hands were bound. Jesus hands were physically bound, but Peter’s inside hands were bound. Are you bound up inside? And is the spirit using this passage to say, I don’t know how to watch and pray? I really don’t know a thing about it, or I know very little. I know something, but I know enough to know how little I know. Do you see?
[00:26:01] When I told you about The Exorcist, the Lord has a way of weaving things together. And when New Life Church was first formed by the grace of God entirely, and in spite of those of us who led, I’m sure. That we had a student here named David George, who is now a PCA pastor. And, he was helping me. And when, you know, Ron Lutz, I guess maybe had been around, but just barely. And, John Julien wasn’t here yet. John Yenchko was in the ninth grade. You know, you know, some of you were, too. I’m just trying to triumph the virtues of being old. I’m teasing.
[00:26:50] But anyway, Dave George, already I was beginning to feel the hand of age. I couldn’t keep up with this. And, Dave came to me and he said, “Look, there’s this woman who has attempted suicide, and we have a woman who wants you to come and work with her. And so I said, what has she done? What’s going on? He said, well, it’s rather odd. She slashed her arms 200 times, and, she’s in the hospital. She’s … Her whole system is destabilised.”
[00:27:19] And so at this point, I said, “Well, here’s what I usually do with people who attempt suicide. It’s not very difficult.” And so I told him what to do. He went ahead and did it, and he sars, “Well, it helped,” but, it didn’t change her basicly. And he says,” I think you should go.”.
[00:27:35] Well, it began with one of those marvelously miserable evenings that occasionally visit us in Philadelphia. When the rain comes down and it gets cold and Dave George had for the vehicle a, one of these little beetle bugs. You know, VW, it was real close. And the woman came along and he came along and we were all breathing in there. I think that was the problem.
[00:27:59] Anyway, the windows all fogged up and he was rubbing it off, and he’d had a heater on and it was about 210 in there. And I never thought those things ever heated up. I thought they had can wind around. But no, this time it really was hot in there, and you just sort of had the feeling you’re ready to fall asleep. And I thought, man, we’re ready for spiritual warfare.
[00:28:18] But then it dawned on me no. At that time, God was working. As the church had grown, after it got to be 75 or 80 people, we had almost 60 people in prayer meeting. And these people were praying for the ministry. And so I said to Dave, and I don’t remember the woman’s name: “Why don’t we stop?” So we did and rolled the windows down, and started breathing again.
[00:28:46] And I said, “I think we just need to pray.” And God just laid on my heart a cry. And I cried from my heart. I didn’t know how to help this woman. That we didn’t know how. And we went into that house together. And when … I just simply … God just gave me a message out of some Bible study I’d done. I said, “Human problem is because” … “The basic human problem is three veils over the human heart: the veil of Satan’s influence, the veil of unbelief, and the veil of God’s holiness.” And I said, “Christ takes them all away.” And I just told her about Jesus. I said, “he’s so strong.” I just talked about Jesus. I just talked about Jesus.
[00:29:31] And pretty soon these people begin to sort of change right in front of my eyes. The more I talked about Jesus the more they changed. And finally, after we had gone through the veils, how Jesus takes each one away. And we went through the New Life booklet … In the middle of the New Life booklet, the husband, who doesn’t seem to have the problem, he breaks in and he says, “What do I do to get Jesus?”.
[00:30:00] And I said, “Well, you got to wait a minute. This is … this is … We worked on this book and this is the way it works.” So about that time, we had him down in the depths of sin and we got to the cross. And about that time, the woman just cries out. “I want Jesus!”.
[00:30:24] And I said, “Well, this is improper. We Presbyterians have to do it a regular way. But anyway. All right, you can be saved now if you want.”.
[00:30:33] So they were prayed and they were saved. And you should have seen. Now I know God doesn’t always deal instantaneously like that, but he sent them such a deep conviction of sin. He sent them such a sorrow for what she had done, that she was broken. And when she came out of that believing, man alive, she said to the woman with us, “I’m coming to church.”.
[00:30:55] Two years later, over in that Kensington area, Phil Gross was calling from door to door, and he met a couple there and he said, “Are you Christians? Do you go to church?” And they laughed and they said, “You better believe it. We go to church and we are Christians.” They said, “There’s a there’s a fellow over there in Jenkintown that was over here, and he told us about Jesus, and we have been alive ever since.”.
[00:31:19] Now that’s prayer. It wasn’t because we were doing anything special. It was because there were 60 people coming and praying at prayer meeting. Now, I know numbers aren’t everything, but if we’ve got this many people, we shouldn’t have so many people coming Thursday morning at 6:30 that you can hardly get in the room. There ought to be so many men there alone that you couldn’t get in the room. Right? That we couldn’t even let the women in. How’s that for masculine spiritual chauvinism?
[00:32:00] Well, you know the reason I tease that way. Don’t take me literally, please. Everybody’d hate me if I did. But what I mean is this. That if men learn to pray—before I said we’ve got to have revival with children, young people—but we’ve also got to have men who learn to pray.
[00:32:20] I’m going to tell you why, and this may really convince you that I’m chauvinist, but I’m not. Men! God has given you a certain calling of leadership. And when God in the past has revived the Presbyterian Church, it almost always began with men. And what we have done, we have put prayer over as kind of what the women do. No, I’m not against women praying. Please forgive me, ladies. But if we get men praying and men repenting, oh, what that’s going to do for homes, because they’re often the last to do it.
[00:33:07] Now, ladies, I want to extend an invitation to you to. There’s room for you also. We’ll move in here. Won’t we Bill. If so many men come, there’s no room for the women and children, 6:30. We’ll even serve you coffee. For those of you who can’t wake up.
[00:33:29] But seriously, isn’t that where it is? Perhaps not this prayer meeting. You have another one that God’s calling you to. But your home, wherever it may be, God is really richly endowing the church with gifts so that we might have our eyes open to see that Jesus is on the throne. He’s coming, and he’s coming as we pray.
[00:33:56] Now, I’d like to just nail this down to you a little bit more in relationship to the gospel of Mark. If you don’t like this thought, blame it on the late Ned Stonehouse. He was a great scholar at Westminster Seminary, and I got this idea from him. But turn back with me about this coming of Jesus. You know, Jesus is talking here now about the angels, being within the clouds of glory.
[00:34:21] Well, back here in chapter eight, in verse 38, he repeats the same idea: “If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.” And then he speaks again. And he said to them, “I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power.”.
[00:34:51] Now Doctor Stonehouse took the view that there is this great final coming, but the Kingdom of God, the kingdom of Jesus, comes frequently.
[00:35:05] And what the watching and the praying is about isn’t only that we want healing, and that we want strength, and we want cleansing and all the rest, but we want God to be glorified. We’re really praying, “Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come and come now. Overturn every order. Bring men to repentance.”.
[00:35:24] And so this very meeting. Now, if the spirit is working here, is a coming of the Kingdom? There isn’t any glory to any human being for any work of God here today. If God speaks to you—and convicts you of sin, or fills you with faith, or gives you new resolves after holiness, a desire to obey him, a new fervor—well, it is because God was working, not because any human being was involved.
[00:35:55] It’s not your glory. It’s not my glory. It’s not the worship leaders glory. It’s not anyone’s glory, but the King of glory, Jesus Christ. And so he’s coming in the history. And the thing he does is give us hard things and hard things to wake us up until we learn to watch and pray.
[00:36:17] And the watching and praying itself is a movement of the kingdom. It is a meeting together of God in His people when there is faith bringing them together.
[00:36:30] Are you with me on that? Therefore the human side of the kingdom—the expression of it—is praying and praying and praying and praying and praying together. Praying with large groups, praying with small groups, praying everywhere. That’s what it’s all about.
[00:36:53] And when you come to the Lord’s Supper, the heart of praying, you see, begins here. It’s C-O-M-M-U-N-I-O-N, with fellowship with God. Praying is just expressing the communion that he has given you. It’s putting into words, claiming the promisees, resting on the gospel, experiencing the sweetness of grace. All of this love you see, is for you and me.
[00:37:23] And you know, I think that even heals the body. Some of you who here have physical weaknesses. Don’t be surprised … You don’t go away healed, and you didn’t even ask for healing. Do you believe it. Watch and pray. Come, Lord Jesus. Come, King.
[00:37:45] Let us pray. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your Name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen.
