If there is a wicked witch in the Bible, her name is Jezebel.
And we just read of her demise and when she died,
I think you can hear the cheer and the clap go up throughout the scriptures,
rejoicing at the death of this evil woman.
The clash between her evil empire and the kingdom of God
is one of the gripping and colossal stories in the Old Testament.
Isn't it?
When we read what we called the children's picture Bible to my kids,
as young kids, so 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, we raised them on this Bible.
I think it's out there, it's the Action Bible
and it's got quite a lot of detail from the Old Testament in it
and you learn the names of kings and queens as you go along.
You're not trying to teach them all that sort of stuff, but they just pick it up.
And my kids would ask for the Jezebel story over and over again
because her end comes so violently, she goes out the windows,
the dog eats her up and there's nothing left on the ground hardly.
And they thought it was fantastic.
Ding dong, the witch is dead.
Now she first gets a mention in 1 Kings 16.
I hope you hear what Steve said last week.
He said about bogs in our hands and flicking through and following where we are.
Go to 1 Kings 16 and 17 and keep up with me, I'll bounce around.
She's first mentioned there because Ahab, the king of Israel, marries her.
And you go, so what?
Well, verse 31 of chapter 16 tells us the so what.
As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam,
the son of Nebat,
he took for his wife Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal,
the king of the Sidonians,
and he went and served Baal and worshipped him.
She captured his heart.
He deserted his God,
even more than he'd already been deserting his God.
And Jezebel is actually an escalation in the sin of God's people
because she brings the fertility gods,
Baal and Baal's female consort,
Ashtaroth.
They go together, Baal and Ashtaroth.
They have sex together to bring fertility.
He brings the worship of these gods to their marriage and to the nation.
Gods that had been thrown out by the Lord
when his people conquered the land,
they're worshipped again.
They bring them back.
God threw them out and they bring them back.
And so it's as though ideas from the outside threaten God's people.
People are beginning to tolerate again what God was completely intolerant of.
Now the word tolerance is going to pop up a few times tonight
and I think we think of tolerant as a really good word
and it is a good and it's a respectful word
in terms of how we conduct relationships with one another.
But I just want to say at the outset tonight
that when we talk about tolerance here,
I want you to see very clearly
that there are certain things
that God is completely intolerant of
and for him in some circumstances
tolerance is not a virtue.
And what you've got here is sex
and false worship going together,
hand in hand.
Ahab takes this sexy bride Jezebel,
she brings sexy worship to Israel
by bringing her fertility gods with her.
You want to break a drought?
Stop the famine.
Make it rain.
We'll have sex with the temple prostitutes.
That's the sort of religion
that she has just brought back into Israel.
When you go down the path of idolatry,
it is always a path which takes you further away from the Lord.
It doesn't take you towards him.
It takes you away from him.
The king and his bride,
as they take on these new gods,
they're effectively turning their back on the Lord
and walking away from him.
And they make this, it's ridiculous,
but they make this huge investment
in gods that aren't really even gods.
They participate in the very carnal pleasures
that go with them.
That's the nature of idolatry.
You think something, you're in it for good.
You're in it for what you think is something better
and God is displaced from his rightful place
and he is no longer seen as gloriously special
and he becomes one option amongst many
that we worship and he will not tolerate it.
So God provokes this enormous confrontation
here in the Old Testament in 1 Kings chapter 18.
Calls his prophet Elijah onto the stage
and he says,
to Elijah,
go therefore and gather all of Israel to me at Mount Carmel,
the 450 prophets of Baal,
the 400 prophets of Asherah
who eat at Jezebel's table,
bring them all.
And it's really interesting
because Elijah doesn't confront Jezebel directly,
he's got nothing to say to her,
but he speaks to God's people
who are in great danger
from being harmed by her teaching
and he lets rip.
Chapter 18, verse 21.
Elijah came near to all the people
and he said,
how long will you go limping
between two different opinions?
If the Lord is God, follow him.
And if Baal is God, follow him.
And I heard a sermon once
where the preacher finished like that
and he said,
if Baal is God, follow him and go to hell.
Well, that's how he finished his sermon.
But it's full on confrontation
and he follows it up
by putting his life on the line
with this contest at Mount Carmel.
He does something that could get him killed.
Let's see who the real God is.
850 of you guys,
do a sacrifice,
call out to Baal,
see if he can do anything.
I'll pray to the Lord,
the one who answers with fire,
he's real.
And the prophets,
they go,
prophets of Baal,
they go first,
they dance,
they prance all day
and Elijah's just sitting there
with his hat on in the shade
while these guys are getting
tighter and tighter
and calling out to their God
and he's sitting on the sidelines
and he's mocking them
and he said,
maybe he's on the loo,
maybe he hasn't heard.
Maybe you need to dance harder,
call louder,
do more,
get his attention,
he's asleep,
wake him up.
And they finish the day
exhausted and collapsed
in a heap
and nothing's happened.
And Elijah steps forward
and he prays
a really simple prayer to God
after soaking the altar
in all sorts of water
and the Lord answers with fire
and consumes the light
and Elijah then goes
and has 850 of Jezebel's prophets
slaughtered.
Kills a lot of them.
Huge faith,
an emphatic victory
and if you've been reading around
what's been going on,
you go,
yes,
there is only one true God
and we had better follow him.
Next day,
Jezebel's in a rage.
I'm going to get you Elijah
by the end of the day
if I'm just going to get you
and he hears what she says
and guess what he does?
He runs for his life
in crippling fear and depression.
She's going to get me.
He's human.
Probably very empty.
But God is God
and he just proved it
and Jezebel's religion
has just been exposed
as a complete
and utter fraud.
Faith.
There are 850 empty seats
at her dinner table.
The prophets are dead.
She's not dead.
She still has influence.
Her bitter cruelty
to God's people
is seen in 1 Kings 21.
A bloke called Naboth
had a field
next to Ahab's palace
and Ahab,
the king,
offers to buy it
and Naboth replies,
the Lord forbid
that I should give you
the inheritance
of my fathers.
He loves the Lord.
He loves what the Lord
has given him.
It's part of the Lord's
gracious gift of salvation
of having been brought
into the promised land
and receiving the inheritance.
But for Ahab,
it's business.
He just put the real estate
leaflet in his letterbox
with an offer.
I like your place,
I'd like to buy it
and I'll pay you
what it's worth.
Locker ground,
fair price.
But for Naboth,
it's much more than that.
This is cash for faith.
The Lord forbid
that I do such a thing.
I won't trade my future
for a handful of cash.
Naboth doesn't care
how good the property market is
and the prices are
and how they're going up
and up and up.
He won't cash in,
he won't be bought.
And Ahab,
the king,
he doesn't understand,
he just goes home
sulking.
I'm the king.
I made a fair offer.
Life for him's business.
He's got power,
he's king,
he's generous enough
but he can't seal the deal.
He doesn't get what he wants.
He's frustrated
by Naboth's stubborn faith.
He's a religious nutter.
Fancy letting religion
get in the way of life.
That's the Ahab attitude.
You know,
it's alright to have faith
as long as it doesn't interfere
in the practical realities of life.
You know,
a young person can do
year 13.
It's a great thing
for them to do.
There's lots of parents
that will be happy
for their kids
to do year 13.
You know,
it's safe,
it's not sex and drugs
and rock and roll
and a gap year.
You know,
but don't you dare
not go to uni.
Don't you dare
go and do any more
theological training
or go overseas
and serve on some mission.
Don't you dare do that.
Or if you're working,
you know,
your boss tolerates
your faith at work,
even commends you.
Oh, yeah,
Christian,
good value,
all that sort of stuff,
but then you refuse
to fudge the book
or do something
that's illegal
that gets in the way
of the business plans.
You won't write
the report
in the way
that she wants
because it distorts
the truth.
Well,
Jezebel takes care
of Abraham's depression.
Go to bed, honey.
Cheer up.
I'll get you
your field.
And she goes
to the elders
and the leaders
of the city
and easily corrupts them.
They should have
thrown her out the window
then and there.
If they'd done that,
that would have solved
a lot of problems.
But they get a couple
of liars
to come to court
and tell the court
that Naboth
has spoken against God
and he's spoken
against the king.
It's a malicious lie.
It's the complete
opposite of the truth.
It's exactly
the same thing
that was said
to Jesus
at his trial
before he was executed.
And so Naboth
is stoned to death.
He loses his life
for no other reason
than faithfulness
to the Lord.
He refuses
to be compromised
and Ahab,
the king,
gets his field.
Jezebel never
was one of God's people.
Ahab is,
but he is clueless
about what it means
to be in a real relationship
with Yahweh.
He's in the family,
she's outside the family,
but both of them
are deals
as far as understanding faith.
They have no regard
for the Lord's power
and his authority.
God to them
is nothing.
You can be at church
and not know Jesus.
And being at church
does not mean
that you treasure Jesus.
Might be that you're here
finding out about Jesus,
that's a good thing
and that's a good reason
to be here.
Jezebel
exercises
a corrupting influence
over God's people.
She's godless.
She doesn't believe
in the Lord.
She'd rather have
her own gods.
She still has no fear
of the Lord
despite Elijah's
huge victory
over her prophet.
She won't acknowledge
what's happened.
The nobles
and elders
of the city
should never have lied
and carried out
the execution
of a righteous man.
They were enticed
into doing evil.
They allowed themselves
to be enticed
into doing evil.
And you can probably imagine
it's very tough
living in a scenario
where wicked people
bring ideas
and actions
that harm
the people of God.
That pressure us
to do what is wrong.
To be in a church
where the ways
of the world
are impacting
the congregation
and its leadership.
where ideas
from outside
threaten God's people.
Went to the Oxygen
conference the other week
with a couple
of thousand pastors.
It was a great time
of refreshment
and Don Carson
who's a great Bible teacher
spoke to us
on leadership
and one of the things
he said
which was
such a wonderful thing
for me to hear
was he said
that when we're
choosing leaders
we want people
with character
before we want
people with capability.
We want people
with character
before we want
people with capability.
We want capability
but it doesn't matter
how capable
and how honoured
you are
in the workplace
or in your school
or in your place
of endeavour
whatever it is
if you do not
have Christian character
to go with it
you have no place
as a leader
in God's church.
Ideas
from the outside
can do
huge harm
to the people
of God.
And you get
to this point
in the message
and you think
is this an Old Testament
sermon
or is this a New Testament
sermon?
And so I want to turn
to Revelation
chapter 2
because something
verse 19
something pretty nasty
is impacting
the church
at Thyatira
and the Lord
Jesus says
I know your works
your love
and faith
and service
and patient endurance
and that your latter works
exceed the first
but I have this
against you
that you tolerate
that woman Jezebel
who calls herself
a prophetess
and is teaching
and seducing
my servants
to practice
sexual immorality
and eat food
sacrificed to idols.
they get a huge
trap
I know your works
I know your faith
your love
your service
your patient endurance
and that the latter
exceeds the first
you're a great
loving church
what a great thing
to hear about
our own church
in terms of this
commendation
for the Lord Jesus
to say things
about 5pm
your love
your faith
your steadfastness
your standing firm
even when really
difficult things
are going on
around about you
these guys
are not like
the church in Ephesus
that have lost
their first love
they are continuing
to grow in their
fruitfulness
or it appears so
and their latter works
are even more fruitful
than their initial ones
and so you scratch
your head and say
but what's wrong
well they're not as
healthy as they appear
and they get this
very weighty warning
from Jesus himself
I have this against you
that you tolerate
that woman Jezebel
who calls herself
a prophetess
and is teaching
and seducing
my servants
to practice
sexual immorality
and to eat food
sacrificed to idols
now Jezebel
is an outsider
who is impacting
some of God's people
she's having
an impact
on the insiders
she's teaching
and seducing
my servants
and the wider church
is putting up
with her
in a way
that they really
shouldn't be
putting up with her
there is a time
and a place
for naming
evil amongst us
Paul did it
when he rebuked
the Corinthian church
in 1 Corinthians
chapter 5
he says
it is actually
reported
that there is
sexual immorality
among you
and of a kind
that is not
tolerated
even among pagans
he rebukes
insiders
he rebukes us
and he says
wake up
and it's really
interesting
he doesn't go
on a moral
crusade
against the
rotten state
of the world
and all the
terrible things
that people
do out there
he strongly
rebukes the
church
for what
they are
putting up
with
what they
tolerate
in here
did it in a
different way
in Galatians
chapter 1
he said
I'm astonished
that you are
so quickly
deserting him
who called you
in the grace
of Christ
and are
turning to
a different
gospel
and not
that there
is another
one
but there
are some
who trouble
you and
want to
distort the
gospel of
Christ
but even
if we
or an
angel from
heaven
should
preach to
you a
gospel
contrary
to the
one we
preach to
you
let him
be accursed
a pox
on false
gospels
that's
what he's
saying
and I
am even
more astonished
that you
so quickly
listen to
them
what is
it with
you guys
that you
put up
with this
stuff
that's
what I
wrote
Jezebel's
a loaded
nickname
she's
somebody
who is
known in
the city
she's a
real person
she has
a view
of herself
she sees
herself as
a prophetess
she sees
herself as
bringing
teaching
and a
word that
is from
god
himself
and
tragically
the outcome
of her
teaching
is to
lead
god's
people
into
two
activities
that
are
expressly
forbidden
us
sexual
immorality
and
participation
in the
worship
of other
deities
are never
alright
for christian
believers
we draw
the line
somewhere
and this
is where
the line
is drawn
i had
a church
warden
once
a leader
who said
that he
felt like
we get
too hung
up on
sexual
teaching
and he
got under
my skin
and his
view was
that sexual
immorality
goes on
in the
world
all the
time
and we
ought to
get over
it
and at
that level
well he's
right
it does
that is
how the
world is
don't expect
any better
of the
world
but it's
never okay
in the
church
in any
form
adultery
homosexual
practice
feeding on
pornography
sleeping
around with
men or
women outside
of marriage
and this
is not
just
you know
this is
not
hypocritical
nitpicking
or hypocritical
moralists
with one
another
we know
that Jesus
knows
what's in
our hearts
and not
just what
goes on
in outward
action
so Jesus
is talking
more than
just about
outward
action
he's talking
about what
our hearts
are like
but it's
not the
unforgivable
sin
but it does
need to be
repented of
and at
its heart
sexual
immorality
porneia
is the
word in
the scriptures
is a
powerful form
of idolatry
that drives
Jesus and
his love
from our
hearts
it reduces
Jesus
it takes
us away
from him
it impacts
how we
treasure him
together
but there
is a way
back
and the
only way
back from
it is to
give God
his rightful
place again
to repent
and to
seek his
joy
and his
filling
it's not
unforgivable
we don't
tell the
world
how to
live
but God
tells us
how to
live a
joyous
and full
life
as his
redeemed
people
Steve's
been calling
the different
cities
I forget
it was
Canberra
last week
and Sydney
one week
I've lost
track now
but
Thyatira
was a
Wollongong
or a
Geelong
type of
city
working
class
lots of
industry
and we
don't know
heaps about
the city
or its
circumstances
it's buried
under a
modern city
these days
so there's
even very
little
archaeology
because you
can't get
to it
through the
current city
that's there
Lydia was a
trader in
purple
that was a
very important
colour for
regal and
royal robes
and she gets
a mention
in Acts
chapter 16
she came
from Thyatira
seems like
the people
who worked
in Thyatira
were workers
in bronze
they knew
how brilliantly
shiny
molten
bronze
was
and bronze
mirrors
that could
be created
by the
tradecraft
of the
area
to do
business
in a city
like that
you'd need
to belong
to a
craft guild
it was the
ancient
equivalent
of a
union
a trade
union
and I
guess
no card
no work
nothing wrong
with that
except that
membership
would sometimes
mean going
to the union
Christmas parties
eating food
which had been
sacrificed
and offered
to the local
sun god
with his image
made of bronze
demonstrating
your commitment
to the cause
with the cultic
prostitutes
and so
immediately
there are
several dilemmas
if you're in
Christ
have a Christian
friend
he went to
an industry
conference
like that
in Sydney
what would
you do
when your
roommate
brought back
to your
room
your roommate
for the
conference
brought back
to your
room
one of the
conference
provided
and paid
for
prostitutes
the ancient
world isn't
so ancient
and to
participate
or not
could have
a huge
effect
economically
how I'm
seen by
my peers
whether I'm
going to
rat them
out
am I
trustworthy
I'm not
corrupted by
this sort
of behaviour
you're in
or you are
out
do you
bow to
the local
deity
and you
know we
know as
Christians
that we
can rationalise
any other
god away
because we
know that
none of
them are
real
we know
that there
is only
one real
god
so every
other god
is a
nonsense
at one
level
these so
called
gods
aren't
really
gods
at all
but you
want business
to go
well
we have
people in
our church
family
we've had
people in
our church
family who
came to
Australia
from Penang
in Malaysia
and they
made a new
life here
because as
Christians
and as
Chinese
they can
only rise
to a
middle level
in Malaysian
society
and to
go higher
to be
more successful
they would
need to
convert to
Islam
do you
rationalise
it away
and do
you say
if you're
feeling the
pressure of
Islam
do you
say things
like well
we all
believe in
one god
don't we
or
Islam
and Jesus
both believe
that Jesus
is a prophet
which is
true
but we
make
compromises
which deny
the uniqueness
of Christ
and so
we reduce
Jesus to
something
that he
is not
we've
been
looking a
number of
times in
this series
to our
northern
Iraq
and talking
about
Christians
in northern
Iraq
and the
mark of
the
Nazarene
lives on
the line
and livelihoods
and everything
you own and
possess on the
line over
a confession
of Jesus
Christ
crucified
and risen
again
lose your
life
or convert
to Islam
and pay
the tax
say something
that would
get me
killed in
many places
it's a
nonsense
it's an
invention
of one
man's
mind
written
six
centuries
after
Jesus
it is
a
nonsense
when you
move to
a position
of
toleration
you
minimize
the
Lord
you
make
him
less
in our
society
we have
huge
pressure
that comes
from a
secular
world's
value
highest
value
of
toleration
I think
the
Newcastle
Herald
you probably
wouldn't
read it
but
it's
done
award winning
journalism
exposing the
appalling
sexual abuse
of children
in the
Newcastle
area
and the
journalism
and the
journalism
which
led to the
world's
sexual abuse
and that
paper has
done the
whole of
Australia
an enormous
favour in
bringing those
issues out into
the fore and
making us
consider the
evil stuff
that's been
going on
even in
churches
they've done
wonderful work
really wonderful
work
something to be
proud of
but that
same paper
has also
run stories
for years
against the
Anglican
Church's
intolerance
of
homosexual
clergy
practising
homosexual
clergy
and through
their campaign
the paper's
campaign
they have
made it
very hard
for the
Christians
in that
church
to drive
a very
small
number
of
immoral
men
from
positions
of
trust
and
leadership
within
the
church
see
being
in
Christ
automatically
brings
us
into
conflict
with
the
world
Jesus
says
to us
if the
world
hates
you
bear
in
mind
that
it
hated
me
first
John
15
Revelation
chapter 2
verse 20
I have
this against
you
that you
tolerate
that woman
Jezebel
who calls
herself a
prophetess
and is
teaching
and seducing
my
servants
to
practice
sexual
immorality
and to
eat
food
sacrificed
to
idols
the
antidote
to the
power
of
idolatry
is a
true
picture
of
God
himself
and
it's
here
in
this
passage
God
and
verse
23
this
nothing
less
than
God
Jesus
himself
will
strike
her
children
dead
and all
the
churches
will
know
that I
am
he
who
searches
mind
and
heart
God
will
unashamedly
judge
he
he is
to be
feared
by those
who
reject
him
Jezebel
is
doomed
and because
she refuses
to repent
and those
who have
followed her
evil are
implored to
repent
or they
are dead
too
but it's
not just
judgment
because when
you read
this really
carefully
you see
it's
full of
grace
Jezebel
could have
repented
but she
chose not
to
her
followers
haven't been
judged yet
they're offered
a way to
safety
they still
have opportunity
to repent
to turn
back to
Christ
and to
ask for
mercy
and forgiveness
the mercy
of God
is strongly
on view
here
if we're
struggling
in any
of these
ways
that we've
talked about
already
it's just
saying to
us repent
come back
turn around
admit failure
throw yourself
on the safety
of Christ
there's hope
full of hope
in the face
of great evil
in verse 23
Jesus says
I am he
the big picture
of Jesus
I am he
who searches
hearts
and minds
his eyes
see and
penetrate
everything
including
deeply
inside us
and he
isn't
filled
by outward
appearance
he knows
our hearts
and minds
there's no
deceiving him
we are
totally exposed
before him
and he has
acted with
extraordinary
love to
redeem us
despite us
he knows
what we're
like and he
still loves us
and has acted
to preserve us
amazing
he's a
wonderful
lord
and his
feet
aren't
like clay
fragile
like yours
and mine
they're
burnished
bronze
in this
passage
he's
powerful
he's
more
brilliant
than any
bronze
the workers
in Thyatira
have ever
worked with
he's strong
and he's
powerful
and he's
brilliantly
glorious
and so
John uses
pictures
that are
deeply
encouraging
to anybody
who's doing
it tough
in the world
which is
urging them
to compromise
a world
which is
intolerant
of true
faith in
Jesus
the Jesus
we worship
is mightier
than anyone
in the
commercial
world
with any
power
they bring
to bear
he's
stronger
than the
toughest
person
who gives
you grief
at school
who shames
you at
university
you know
when we
we can
feel very
isolated
and very
fearful
under the
pressure of
evil
vastly
outnumbered
nobody
believes
what we
do
or is
doing it
as tough
as I am
that's how
we feel
and Elijah
the next
day after
this magnificent
victory
on Mount
Carmel
against
Jezebel's
prophets
after standing
strong and
staring down
evil
he runs
away the
next day
and he says
to God
I'm the only
one
and God
said
actually
I've got
7,000 people
who haven't
bowed their
knee to
bale yet
you're not
alone
I have
many people
standing firm
and you see
that here
in Thyatira
so these
words of
warning are
not to the
whole church
there's a
bunch of
people here
who
verse 24
to the
rest of
you
a whole
bunch of
them haven't
caved in
under pressure
the rest of
you in
Thyatira
who do
not hold
this teaching
who have
not learned
what some
call the
deep things
of Satan
I say to
you I do
not lay on
you any
other burden
hold fast
what you have
until I come
they aren't
called to
repent like
some people
in other
churches
they're called
to stand
firm
hang on
keep on
keeping on
don't compromise
what you know
to be true
don't tolerate
evil
don't yield
to sexual
immorality
don't bring
the values
of the world
into church
don't make
compromises
to protect
your job
or to secure
a future
advancement
in your
career
seek your
security
in Christ
not in
idols
and Jesus
makes the
most glorious
promises
we won't
miss out
we might
feel weak
we might
feel powerless
people might
think we're
insignificant
right now
in the face
of great
evil
but we
have a
guaranteed
future
with extraordinary
privilege
verse 26
the one who
conquers
and keeps
my works
until the
end
to him
I will
give
authority
over the
nations
and he
will rule
them with
a rod
of iron
as when
earthland
pots are
broken
to pieces
even as
I myself
have received
authority
from my
father
and I
will give
him the
morning star
quote
psalm 2
it's full
of old
testament
this passage
great song
of God's
kingship
over all
the nations
the song
that looks
ahead into
the future
the son
of God
that God
would raise
up to
rule the
nations
the one
who would
receive
universal
authority
and power
and right
here in
revelation
2 he
tells
believers
that we
will share
in his
rule
and in
his
authority
and I
read that
and I
just cannot
get my
head around
it that
God would
share such
rule and
authority
with me
we will
be authorised
by God
himself
to exercise
his good
rule
over
nations
one
important
job
that's
an
important
job
God
will
entrust
us
to rule
for good
for him
take us
back to the
very beginning
of the
Bible
in
Genesis
2
and we
won't get
it wrong
next time
with Genesis
3
pretty amazing
promise
but you
know there's
an even
better promise
here
I will
give him
the
morning
star
it's a
picture
of a
king
that's
promised
in
Numbers
24
and this
king gets
a mention
again in
the last
couple of
sentences
of the
whole of
the Bible
at the
end of
Revelation
chapter 22
verse 16
I Jesus
have sent
my angel
to testify
to you
about these
things for
the churches
I am the
root and
the descendant
of David
the bright
morning
star
I will
give him
the morning
star
I will
give him
Jesus
the one
who overcomes
I will
give him
Jesus
said this
morning
to somebody
who's not a
believer
this is
foolishness
I reckon
only an
insider can
understand
this
what could
be better
than power
and influence
what could
be better
than being
loved and
respected
what could
be better
than being
a mover
and a
shaker
what could
be better
than being
independently
wealthy
what could
be better
than having
a revered
name
or coming
from an
esteemed
family
what could
be better
than a
strong moral
code
what could
be better
than finding
Mr or
Miss
right
what could
be better
than having
the right
look
tells us
Jesus
far higher
than all
the other
idols and
gods of
this world
the one
to whom
every knee
will bow
and every
tongue
confess
to know
Jesus
to be
known by
Jesus
to be
safe in
the presence
of Jesus
I will
give him
Jesus
and he
could well
have written
and he
didn't write
but Jesus
is indeed
our greatest
treasure
thou
know
every
way
to
him
he
and
he
but