All right, good evening everyone
All right, so we're there look down in the Bible Proverbs 23 look down to verse 29
It says who has woe who has sorrow who has contentions who has babblings who has wounds without cause who has redness of eyes
They that tarry long at the wine they they go to seek mixed wine
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it get the giveth its color in the cup when it move with itself a right
At the last, it bighteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Thine eye shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieeth down in the midst of the sea,
or as he that lieeth upon the top of a mast.
They have stricken me shalt thou say and I was not sick. They have beaten me and I felt it not
When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. And so here we have
Actually before I get into the sermon actually
I just want to thank Pastor me here for allowing me to have the opportunity to preach and
This is a topic that is way near and dear in my heart
and so
This is this I'll talk about it a little bit, but
the events that transpired over the weekend
just kind of stirred this up for me
to maybe preach this sermon.
And so obviously, thank you Pastor Mia
for giving me the opportunity to preach.
And so let's get into the text.
And so here we see that the Bible is talking about wine,
talking about alcohol.
And the Bible doesn't stumble,
doesn't, the Bible tells us clearly
on what
Wine is and how detrimental it is to your health and the Bible doesn't glamorize
Alcohol the Bible doesn't the the Bible doesn't say make it seem as though
It's just a cool thing to do the Bible actually exposes it for what it is
Which is sin and so what does the Bible say it brings it brings sorrow brings contentions babelins wounds without cause
Redness of eyes a serpent's bite poison of a snake
So we see there's corruption and stumbling and and bondage when it comes to
alcohol when it comes to wine and obviously there's two wines in the Bible and I'm not going to develop the topic the point here
But there's there's the fermented wine and there's non fermented wine and when the Bible talks about the positive mentions of wine
It's referring to juice and when the Bible is talking about the negative mentions of wine is talking about alcohol and alcoholic beverage
and so
We see that the world dresses up alcohol
The world bottles it up, it brands it, it sells it,
like it's some kind of blessing.
It's a great thing that we all have,
that we can consume, but what is it?
The Bible says that it's sin.
The Bible says that it's shame.
The Bible says that it's slavery.
And this passage paints that drunkard's,
it paints the fact that drunkard's,
or drunken is a sin.
Paints the fact that drinking is not something that God has permitted from the beginning to the end
It looks it looks good in the cup, but when it leaves you it bites you like a snake
bread is the seat
Bread of the seat is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel
I feel like I'm getting a little bit of echo. Is there if brother Hernandez is there so away?
You can just turn it down a little bit. Thank you
Bread of deceit a bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel
What does it do? What does alcohol do?
alcohol promises fun
alcohol
The reality of what alcohol actually gives you is destruction. It says come on just one more
But it ends in bondage it ends in being beaten it ends with
Being bloodied crying out. I will see you yet again
will seek it yet again. The Bible teaches that alcohol is not harmless and
don't tell me it's cultural, don't tell me that Jesus turned water into booze and
he was just getting all these people at this party drunk. Don't tell me that
because ultimately the Bible says that Jesus wouldn't do that. The Bible says
that Jesus follows the law of God. The Bible says that Jesus obviously lived the
Wine is a marker strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise
Now if you I'm sorry if you need a crack a can of beer to enjoy yourself
I'm sorry if that's what you need to do to feel like you're alive and obviously I'm not talking to you guys
It's just this is what this is the world's perspective that they have for them to enjoy themselves
They have to drink alcohol for them to enjoy how they their miserable lives
Ultimately, they what do they do? They think that they have that they find pleasure in the bottom of a bottle
The Bible says my flesh and my heart faileth, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever Psalm 73
This is why tonight. I'm gonna rip off the mask on this so-called social drink and show and
Express exactly what the Bible says is hate what the Bible says it alcohol is this is not a blessing from Genesis the revelation
We see a crystal clear picture
That alcohol is a deceiver. It's a destroyer. It's a corruptor of men's lives
It's a corruptor of souls tonight. The sermon title is the wickedness of alcohol. Turn your body was the Proverbs chapter 20
Proverbs chapter 20
Proverbs chapter 20 this brings me to my first point my first point
Why is the wickedness of alcohol? Why is alcohol wicked?
The reason why alcohol is wicked is because alcohol deceives.
Alcohol deceives.
Look down to verse one, it says,
wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging,
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
What does wine do?
What does alcohol do?
The Bible says that it mocks you.
Ha!
Look at you!
Puking on, puking at night.
As you're drinking alcohol, as you find yourself in this position, you end up seeing that it's not all what it cracked up to be.
It deceives you, it laughs at your ruin.
Strong drink is written, it stirs up tempers, arguments, violence.
Proverbs 14 verse 12 says,
There is a way which semeneth right unto a man, but the ender of, but the ender of are the ways of death.
And so we see the end result of alcohol is death.
Turn your Bible to Proverbs 23.
And as you're turning there,
alcohol always looks appealing at first.
The shine in the glass, the laughter at the bar,
hanging out with your friends.
You see the people with the six packs
and the flat stomachs,
and they're just enjoying life at the beach,
and they're just drinking alcohol,
and they're just living it up,
and there's nothing wrong that happens with them, you know?
But that is not the reality of alcohol.
Look down at verse 31 it says look not thou upon wine when it is red when it giveth itself and when it giveth
His color in the cup when he moveeth in when he moveeth himself right at the last a bite of like a serpent and stingeth like an
Adder
So what we see here is that the Bible actually makes it clear that sometimes it looks it looks kind of glamorous and
John just give me James chapter 1 verse 14 and 15
It says but every man is tempted when he has drawn away of his own lusts and enticed
Then when lusts have conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death
Re-editing the fact that at the end of the day, what is what does alcohol bring it brings death?
And so this verse right here in Proverbs where it says
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red. What is God saying? He's saying,
don't look at it. Right? Don't stare at it. Don't think about it. What happened to
Eve? She looked at it and she thought it was good. Don't look at it. God knows how
deceptive alcohol can be. Looks red and sparkling, but at the bottom is a
bite of a snake. Turn your body to Genesis chapter 9.
Genesis chapter 9 as you're turning there alcohol doesn't just deceive the wicked obviously could deceive the righteous right?
Those that are saved those that put their trust on the Lord Jesus Christ
And and the reason why we know this is because this is one of the reasons why someone can get kicked out of church
If you're being a drunkard if you can't give it up if you just you just have to have another bottle
You have to have another drink. Hey, you know what if you don't want to get it right then you're gonna get kicked out
That's what the Bible says
Alcohol doesn't just deceive the righteous.
Excuse me, it doesn't just deceive the wicked,
it also deceives the righteous.
1 Corinthians chapter 12, 10 verse 12,
it says, wherefore let him thinketh that he standeth,
take he, lest he fall.
Look down at verse 21, excuse me, 20,
and Noah began to be in husband men,
and he planted a vineyard,
and he drank the wine and was drunken.
And he was uncovered within his tent Noah the friend of God the preacher of righteousness. What happened?
He was mocked by wine
No was deceived by wine
Why because he he thought he he thought he was good. I'm the friend of God
You know, I don't know if he knew that or not right, but I'm the friend of God
You know, I'm a preacher of righteousness, you know, but what happened?
He was stripped. He was stripped of his dignity
and this is that that's the result of wine what's the application here wine
mox today and there's many various areas how we can see in the movies you know
it all works out in the end everything is good for the person who gets drunk
they you know they're able to drink and they're able to be my they're able to
do it in moderation but here's the thing the reality is that the Bible
actually makes it clear that this is that this destroys someone's life
If if if left unfettered
What is it other ways that wine mocks right my mind excuse me wine mocks on the highways where there's drivers out there that kill innocent people
There's drivers that kill innocent people just serving the serving God
Living their lives and there's some idiot that wants to come out and drink alcohol get drunk and kill a man of God
And that's the reason this is the whole purpose of the sermon just to say this. I
Hate wine. I hate alcohol for that exact reason. There's one less soul winner out there because somebody died
Brother Kevin from faithful word about this church, excuse me from first word faithful words
I faith faithful word about this church was killed on Saturday night
That man who that man who is drinking wine
Wine mock them
Drinking alcohol it mocked them. Oh, you can you don't worry. You're not gonna take anybody's life
It mocked them. Oh, you're fine to drive. Don't worry about it
Another area where wine, excuse me, I keep saying that.
Another area where wine also moxes on college campuses.
We have people, young people that go to school,
they go to college, and you know,
they're just trying to get an education,
and they end up putting themselves in a situation
that makes them vulnerable.
and more specifically ladies obviously it's getting kind of weird so even dudes
you know it happens to dudes too you know but there's 97,000 sexual assaults
happen annually with within the realm of alcohol and ladies it's like yeah
this is this is the ad that they put on on social media for going to college
yeah come to college and you'll get raped absolutely not absolutely not
You got to protect yourself and understand that wine is not your friend. I don't care if your friends tell you this is cool
Because this isn't cool. You know what's cool? This is cool
This is this right here is cool. It's a King James Version Bible
Just just have to fill that in there not the NIV or the STD or the HIV or the NIT and or the MLE or whatever the SUV
You got to protect yourselves because this isn't safe
alcohol deceives but it doesn't just stop there once it deceives it begins to
destroy it destroys someone's life that brings me to my second point alcohol
destroys turn your Bible's the proper or go back to Proverbs 23 Proverbs 23 and
while you're turning there you know the Bible doesn't flatter alcohol
It lays out the damage plain as day it lays out you can see exactly there's the result
Let's just say there are no verses in the Bible that spoke negative Proverbs 23 didn't exist Proverbs 20 didn't exist
Let's just look at the first example in the Bible
I mean wrote Noah got drunk and his son took advantage of them. Wow. That's it. That's that's great
Look down to verse 29
It's plain as day of what the Bible says about alcohol and I'm tired of Christians. Sorry
I'm tired of Christians justifying it. I'm tired of Christians saying oh, it's okay. Just a little bit here and there you in moderation
It's okay. I'm tired of it
Look down at verse 29
Says who has well who at sorrow who has contentions who have babblings who has wounds without cause who has redness of eyes
They that are long at the wine they that go to seek mixed wine
Wow, you know, I didn't I've missed that part in the Budweiser ad
Right, did you guys I don't know if you did you guys catch that mad the whoa and the sorrow and and the
Contensions and the babblings and the wounds without call man. I didn't I didn't see that in the Budweiser ad
Why because they're selling you a bill of goods and it's it's worthless
All they want is your money.
That's the reason why they're not going to show you the reality of it.
They're not going to sit here and tell you, hey, it's going to destroy your life.
It's going to destroy your marriage.
It's going to destroy everything that you love if you allow it to do that.
Weth woe, sorrow, fighting, shameful speech, needless wounds.
What do we see?
The Bible doesn't build.
Excuse me.
Alcohol doesn't build.
The Bible builds.
Alcohol doesn't build. It breaks someone's life down, breaks it apart. Turn your Bible to Hosea chapter 4.
Hosea chapter 4.
Sin always has multiple ways to attack us.
Whenever we're in the depth of sin, when it comes to alcohol or whatever the various sin is,
it can attack our heart, it can attack our mind, attack our conscience, our will.
And that's exactly what alcohol goes after too.
Look down to verse 11 it says Hortam and wine and new wine take away the heart. What does it do?
It robs the far of our discernment
It robs us of our discernment Isaiah chapter 28 verse 7 it says
the priests and the prophets
Air through wine even spiritual leaders fall into ruin because of alcohol and there's pastors out there that
Have been deceived by the world and they've adopted the principles that the world has and they're saying like oh
It's okay in moderation a little wine for thy stomach's sake
Jesus turned water into wine and they're just destroying their congregation by telling them that they can do that because what they
What the pastor does maybe in moderation his congregants are going to do in excess
It rods robbers of our discernment turn your bubbles to Genesis chapter 19
Oh, keep a place in Proverbs if you're there just because we're going to keep going back there
Genesis chapter 19
You know after lot escaped Sodom
You know what we see here is that alcohol end up destroying his family
alcohol ended up destroying his family
Look down to verse 32 it says come this is his daughter's talking here come
Let us make our father drink wine and we will lie with him
that we may preserve seed of our Father."
Wow, that's so loving.
That's so loving.
Let's keep reading.
He says,
And they made their Father drink wine that night,
and he started serving God.
Oh, is that something?
And they made their Father drink wine that night,
and the firstborn went in and lay with her Father,
and he perceives not when she lay nor when she rolls.
This happens with both daughters.
Lot was deceived into drunkenness
What happened? It destroyed his family. He ended up having two children
Moab and Ammon who came out that night who came out those nights and
Who are those people when we look in the Bible?
Those are some of the some of the enemies that continually attack the children of Israel
He destroyed the family. What does that what does wine do? What does alcohol do? It destroys the family
Turn your Bibles the first Samuel 29 to 25 first Samuel 25
Proverbs 23 verse 21 it says for the drunkard in the glutton shall come to poverty
And we see that this is the passage that we're gonna go to is talking about Nabal and just
How alcohol affected him look down at verse 36 it says an Abigail came to Nabal and
Behold he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king
and Nabal's heart was merry with him.
Four, he was very drunken.
Where four, she told him nothing more or less
until the morning light.
And it came to pass in the morning
when the wine was gone out of Nabal
and his wife had told him these things
that his heart died within him
and he became as a stone.
And it came to pass about 10 days after
that the Lord smote Nabal that he died.
The Bible says that Nabal
He drank like a king.
He drank alcohol like a king, but what happened?
He died like a fool.
Nabal died like a fool because of this right here.
Obviously, other reasons as well.
But this is one of the reasons why he died like a fool.
Alcohol destroys homes.
Alcohol destroys families.
Alcohol destroys bodies.
Alcohol destroys finances.
What are we talking about tonight?
We're talking about the wickedness of alcohol, and we see that alcohol deceives
alcohol destroys
But then it does something else it takes over it dominates someone's life
Bridge bring you to my third point alcohol dominates
Turn your Bible to Proverbs 23
Proverbs 23
So what we see is that sin always enslave
John chapter 8 verse 34 says whosoever committed sin is the servant of sin
What we see here is that alcohol is in our companion
Alcohol isn't our friend alcohol isn't something that we should man
We should just buddy up with alcohol. What happens with alcohol when you when you allow to consume your life
Alcohol becomes your master. You tell me what to do. You tell me what to do. How should I live my life?
Yeah, I'm not gonna I know I'm a Christian. I know I read the Bible, but how should I live my life?
Because I love this right here
Look down to verse 34
Yay
Thou should be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea or as he that lies upon the top of a mast
They have stricken me
Shout out say and I was not sick. They have beaten me and I felt it not
When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. That doesn't sound like liberty
That doesn't sound like fun. That doesn't sound like the ads. That doesn't sound like the movies
That doesn't sound like oh man. Look this guy there just get
Look when you're in college and your young days and you just go out and you just have a good time
You just you know
You just do you and you live your life and you be a good person and you get drunk but here but hey
It doesn't really matter
What that is is bondage that it what that is is domination
it's chains and
What do we see the drunkard say the drunkard admit that it that it hurts?
I mean don't when you talk to people who are alcoholism that can't don't they all say yeah, it's bad for you
But I just can't give it up
The drunkard admits that it hurts, but what does he do the next day gonna go on and pop the
Romans chapter 6 verse 16 it says no you not
That to whom you yield yourself servants to obey his servants you are to whom you obey
Whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness
What what are you gonna serve? What are you gonna yield yourself to you yield yourself to the Bible?
You'll yield yourself to the word of God or you're gonna give yourself to the alcohol
Yielding yourself to alcohol. What does that result in?
Domination this is my master
First Corinthians 6 verse 12 it says all things a lawful unto me
But all things are not expedient all things a lawful for me, but I would not be brought under the power of any
What is what is Paul saying? Nothing's gonna bring me under
Nothing's gonna rule me right? I'm not gonna let alcohol rule me. I'm not gonna let lust rule me
And so we need to make sure that hey, this is not something that we need to rule our lives because this
Utterly would destroy us and there's Christians out there that say hey, it's okay. I
Came from a church that that taught that Cody you did
But I came from a church I went to a John MacArthur light
church I went to a church called
Faith Bible Church and it was very conservative, but they were fine on drinking alcohol
And there was just like all on moderation, you know
But whenever we go to people's houses like they don't want to let people go in the fridge
Why like I used to house it for this family they and I yeah
I used to house it for this family and they they're just like oh just don't look at the back of the fridge
You know what I mean, and it's just like what's back there, you know, I didn't look I obviously I listened
a little bit don't be ruled don't be ruled by alcohol and young people this
can really affect your life this can literally change your life forever right
I mean this make drinking alcohol get it letting this take over your life this
can literally destroy your life don't allow alcohol to rule someone to rule
over your life
alcohol rules men and nations. Turn your Bible to Daniel chapter 5. Daniel chapter 5. Daniel
chapter 5. Proverbs 16 verse 18 it says, pride go before destruction in the
hotty spirit before it fall. What does pride do? He blinds a man. Drinking
alcohol, you're blinded. You can't see. You can't think straight. Just drinking
alcohol is not, it's not like you're more godly when you drink this.
It's not like when you drink this, it's just like, man, I just really feel like reading my Bible.
I just want to memorize scripture. I just want to pray unto the Lord.
I mean, they babble, but it's not to the Lord.
Hotty Spirit always sets the stage for an inevitable fall.
Look down at verse 1 in Daniel 5. It says,
and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar, whilst he tasted the wine,
commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels,
which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple,
which was in Jerusalem.
And the king and his princes and his wives
and his concubines might drink therein,
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God,
which was at Jerusalem, and the king and his princes and his wives and his concubines drank in them.
They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of stone.
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand and rolled over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall.
of the king's palace and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote and I'm going to skip to 30
says in that night after what was written there in that night was Bail Shazzard the king of the
Caldees slain what happened at this at this event wine ruled the feast just talk about all the
he was drinking and he brought people he's like bring the gold the cups and what did that end up
Worshiping other gods various things alcohol dominated about Shazard's life
And obviously I'm not saying that he was saved. I'm just saying like we just see the destruction of alcohol
We see the destruction of wine and and what did he lose he lost his life lost his kingdom
We're talking about the wickedness of alcohol we see that alcohol deceives
alcohol destroys, alcohol dominates, you know and obviously I'm gonna this is my
last point here but my last point is kind of like you know when you give the
bad news in the gospel when you're like okay you're a sinner you deserve to go
to hell and then but here's the good news although alcohol deceives and it
destroys and it dominates we get deliverance with Christ we get deliverance
in Christ. Turn your Bible to the first Corinthians chapter 6
First Corinthians chapter 6
The Bible says that God never leaves us in despair
Where sin abounds grace does much more abound says the Bible
First Corinthians chapter 6 looked down at verse 9 it says no ye
Not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be not deceived
Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adult nor adulterers nor feminine nor abuses of themselves of mankind
Nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God and such were some of you
But she are washed but you're sanctified, but you're justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God
Realize what it says list all these bad sins, but it says in such were some of you and
So obviously there's people out there that do that do struggle with drinking alcohol
And obviously I can't just sit here and say oh well
It's easy for me to not drink alcohol that doesn't mean it's gonna be easy for you
But the Bible says in such were some of you what does that mean past tense and such were some of you
But what we see is that Jesus saves that he washes he sanctifies he justifies
John chapter 8 verse 36 if the sun therefore shall make you free
You shall be free indeed. Amen
So the grips the the the the the deception that you get from alcohol the Bible says Jesus can set you free
And obviously there's ways to do it.
I'm not trying to sit here and make it seem like by being a Christian,
you're all your sins are just going to go away.
You believe on the Lord and you're good to go.
Obviously there's ways to cut alcohol, stop alcohol outside of the Bible.
But how much better is it when you have the Lord on your side?
You know, it's a 12-step program.
Yeah, they could do it.
What is it?
Alcohol.
Yeah, I knew you knew that.
No.
You said alcohol is anonymous, anonymous, that's what it is, A, A, yeah.
And that's a program that helps people overcome their addiction.
First John chapter four verse four says, you're of God, little children, and have overcome
them because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
Although alcohol is wicked, although alcohol is bad,
you can overcome alcohol with, who?
Jesus, right?
So you can overcome alcohol with Jesus.
Why?
Because Jesus is where the power is.
Jesus is where the strength is.
Jesus is our Lord and Savior.
And if God is for us, who can be against us?
Only Jesus can make us free indeed.
So for the grace of God that bring salvation has appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts
We should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world
So what do we see we see grace?
not only saves us, but it continues to instruct us, right?
It doesn't just mean that at the moment we're saved,
obviously we're just, we just don't have any more sins, right?
We're sinless perfection,
where it's just, you just, you believe in Jesus
and that's it.
Obviously salvation is a, excuse me, woo,
let me take that back.
Sanctification is a process.
And so we have to continually work day by day
and we have to continually fight the battle,
fight the good fight.
And so we see that because of Jesus, God gives us the power to say no to sin, right?
And it's our choice.
Are you going to say, are you going to drink the bottle?
Are you going to pick it up?
Or are you going to put it down?
Teaching us, the Bible says he's teaching us.
He's guiding us.
He gave us a spirit.
Why?
So that we can obviously serve him and so that we can get sent out of our life to be perfect as our Heavenly Father in heaven is perfect
And we get this victory obviously through conclude through Jesus Christ
So in conclusion, what do we see?
alcohol deceives oh
You don't you know you don't know that that's Noah
Right alcohol destroys lives
No, you don't know that that's not true. You didn't short my mom's life
That's what
It dominates as about she has all right. He's in hell. I'm actually I'm not I actually don't really know if he's actually in hell
I'm pretty sure he is
But Christ delivers and we can ask the Corinthians for that and the Bible says in such were some of you and so alcohol
Never, never build a marriage, right? We don't ever see, you know, by you drinking this right here
This is going to cause you to have a really good marriage. This is going to cause you to have great children
This is going to cause you to
Live just a godly lifestyle
And we have Christians today we have people today
Excuseing alcohol
Defending alcohol. I mean, Pastor Muriel obviously went with uninspiring philosophies for, you know, so many videos or whatever, where he's like, oh, it's like saying that it is okay to drink alcohol as he's drinking alcohol.
Not Pastor Muriel. Wine is a more strong drinker's region, whosoever the seed thereby is not wise.
Where alcohol destroys
Jesus creates where alcohol dominates
Jesus brings liberty
Last verse John chapter 10 verse 10
The thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy I
Am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly
What does alcohol do? It steals
It's it kills it destroys and obviously this is in the context of obviously
Salvation and there's only one way through Jesus Christ and you can't go through another door
But I'm just making a principle here is that what we do see is alcohol does steal from you
alcohol does kill alcohol does destroy lives
But it says I but Jesus said I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly
And that's the difference alcohol leaves you empty Jesus leaves you full
Alcohol leaves you broken and Jesus makes you whole
alcohol leaves you bound and Jesus set you free.
Let's bow our head into the water prayer.
Dear Lord, thank you for just giving us another day.
And Lord, I just pray for the sermon.
I pray that people were able to get the main points.
And Lord, I just pray that I was able to state those things
that were on my heart.
And Lord, I just pray for Miss Lola and her daughter.
And just Lord, I just pray that you're able
to work in their hearts.
And we love you Lord.
And we just pray that we just pray that
We can just, Christians can just wake up
and just kind of see the fact that the wickedness of alcohol,
stop defending alcohol, stop defending people
who want to get drunk and understand what the Bible,
as she says, because it's clear as day.
It's, you can see it easily if you just read the Bible
and you have spiritual eyes to see.
Lord, pray this heavenly name, amen.