Arrival in Rome

God, we thank you so much for the opportunity to gather here today and to worship you together with those that are here with with us in the building and those that are watching online. We thank you for the encouragement that we can be to each other as we read your word together and just are reminded of how through you we are one and through you we can have a unity that will further the gospel and bring bring others to know your hope that you are one. that you that you have for us. We thank you so much for Jesus and for his grace and mercy. Be with our service today and allow it to glorify you in Jesus name. Amen. All right, we're going to get started today with Christ the Lord is risen today.

Hallelujah. Earth and heaven in chorus say, Hallelujah. Raise your joys and triumphs high. Hallelujah. Sing ye hands and earth reply. Hallelujah. It's again our glorious King. Hallelujah. Where all death is now thy sting. Hallelujah. Where's thy victory boasting grave. Hallelujah. The fight, the battle won. Hallelujah. Death in vain forbids him rise. Hallelujah. Christ has opened paradise. Hallelujah. All right. What we're going to be doing next is moving into our prayer and share time, and so if you're watching online, there'll be a phone number up on the screen for you to text. If you have any prayer requests or anything you'd like to share with us, just text that number, and we'll share that here together, and then we'll be muted here during that time, so just give us a few minutes to have that time here together, and then we'll be back and move on into our time of communion. All right, so we're going to be singing Blessed Assurance.

Blessed Assurance. Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine. Heir of salvation, Purchase of God. Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. A face of mission, all is at rest. I, my Savior, am happy and blessed. Watching, waiting, looking above. Filled with His goodness, lost in His love. Praising my Savior all the day long. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. I'll see you next time. Let's pray. Let's pray. Let's pray.

All right, we're going to be moving into our time of communion, and we'll be singing Your Great Name. Love stars say, find their way, at the sound of Your Great Name. Every fear has no place, at the sound of Your Great Name. The enemy, he has to believe, at the sound of Your Great Name. Jesus, worthy is the Lamb that was slain for us. Son of God and man, You are high and lifted up. Let all the world will praise Your Great Name. Jesus said, "Follow me, find their strength at the sound of Your Great Name. Hungry souls, receive praise at the sound of Your Great Name. The Fatherless, they find their rest. At the sound of Your Great Name. Take a hill, and the dead are raised. At the sound of Your Great Name. Jesus, worthy is the Lamb that was saved for us.

The sound of God and man, who are high and lifted up, then all the world will praise Your Great Name. Redeemer, my Header, Lord Almighty. My Savior, Defeater, You are my King. Jesus, worthy is the Lamb that was slain for us. Son of God and man, You are high and lifted up. That all the world will praise Your Great Name. Your Great Name. Your Great Name. Beginnings can be a delicate time. There is frequently misunderstanding. There can be some confusion. I was thinking about that this week as we were puppy sitting and introducing this puppy who if you looked at him, he's bigger than any of our dogs, almost taller than both of them combined. I don't know. He's going to be a big boy. We were introducing him to our neighbor's dog so they could socialize and get together. It's always a little bit nerve wracking because it's a lot of unknowns what's going to happen from different backgrounds, different kinds of training. You're kind of a little nervous and on edge. The church in its early days, and I think even still to today, faces some

something similar because God takes people from various backgrounds and various places, different upbringings, different levels of education, different standards, and he puts them all together. And you see that conflict so clearly in the New Testament church as you have the Jewish people and the Gentile people being brought together into one church. And you have different ways of living, different backgrounds, different ways that they walk through life. And one of the ways that you see conflicting sort of easily in the early church was that of things about food. Because the Jewish strict dietary laws, no pork, you can't cook milk and meat together in the same dish. Then you have Gentiles that just kind of will eat anything. And so you can imagine even something as like a church fellowship meal can be a place where conflict can arise. And we see all of these differences and we might be tempted to look at this divide and say, "I don't know how God could ever bring

these people together." In Ephesians, the second chapter, what Paul will say to the church, speaking to the Gentiles about the Jews, and also to the Jews about the Gentiles, will say, "But now in Christ Jesus, you who are once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ, for he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances that he might create in himself one new man in the place of two, and so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing hostility." And I love this picture, because you have two groups of people who normally would not have gotten along, and God reconciles them both to himself, and then he reconciles them to each other.

In this meal, we remembered that God has reconciled us to himself through the cross, but he's also reconciled us toward one another, that this, for the church, is our family dinner. These are our brothers and sisters in Christ, the ones for whom Christ has died, and it's a call for us to be reminded that we are not alone, that we are surrounded by a Christian family. So let's go ahead and pray, and then we'll partake together. for grace. Thank you that you have taken people from all different backgrounds, and all different places, and all different walks of life, all different ages, and you have brought us together into your church, that you have saved us, and you have made us a family. We thank you for the reconciliation that is in the gospel, and as we break this bread, and as we drink this cup, just remind us of Paul's words, that we are reconciled through the flesh of your Son. Help us to be reminded of that, and how we act

and how we live. We thank you for Jesus and grace. It's in his name we pray. Amen. So as Jesus takes the bread, he will remind us that this is for us, and that we are to eat it in remembrance of him. Let's partake together. And Jesus will say of the cup as well, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me." After three months, we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island, a ship of Alexandria, with the twin gods as the figureheads. Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days, and from there we made a circuit and arrived at Regium. The south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Putilio. I'm just not going to be able to say that one. There we found brothers, and we were invited to stay with them for seven days, and so we came to Rome. And the brothers there, when they heard about us, came as far

as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul thanked God and took courage. And when we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him. This is the word of the Lord. Father in heaven, we thank you for the pen of Luke. We just ask that they would encourage us. As we consider what it means this morning to walk together, especially as we walk into trials, we just ask that you would help us to see the power of your Spirit to bring us together. May we be a church, like the church in Rome, who when one is struggling, we walk out to meet them and walk with them into the midst of trial. We thank you for Jesus. It's in his name we pray. Amen. So there is an interesting thing that I think probably most of us have experienced. When we are looking forward to something and we want something to happen, it seems like it takes forever for it to happen. I remember, you know, sitting in school, and you're sitting there, and there's a couple particular classes toward the end of the day, and I'd be sitting there and sitting there and be like, "Man, it's got to

be almost time to leave." You look up the clock, and it's gone, you know, exactly three minutes. So there was a time I was driving from Missouri back to Vermont, and it was driving across this really, really long section of New York State on the throughway, and I'm driving, and I'm driving, and I find myself doing this thing where I'm looking at how many miles are kind of ticking over on the sort of the little trip odometer because I knew how many miles I had to go, and finally I was like, "I can't do that because I'm just making this trip take longer." So I took a piece of paper and put it over the odometer, and I said, "I'm not going to look at the clock," and I'm driving, and I'm driving, and finally said, "I'm going to look at the clock, and I'm going to see how many miles have gone by," and it was like two minutes and like a mile and a half. It was the worst, right? And so there's times where we really want something to happen, and it just seems as if time just sort of inches along. Then there's times where we don't want something to happen. Maybe there is something ahead of us that we don't want to experience, we don't want to go to, we don't want to do, but we have a time limit.

And so what happens to time? All of a sudden, it seems as if it just speeds along, and before we know it, the thing that we're dreading is staring us in the face. And so there's this kind of weird experience that we go through where we experience something that we want, it takes forever. When there's something we don't, it seems like it happens almost instantly. So Paul here is on his way to Rome. He's completed the first stage of the journey that has been filled with difficulty, and if you read Acts chapter 27, you find those words over and over, difficulty, difficulty. We struggled against the wind. They finally, you know, make a little bit of progress. They're shipwrecked on an island, and so Acts chapter 27 is just filled with difficulty. So after having spent three months on the island of Malta, they set off for Rome, and the way that Luke writes it, it's like everything goes right, right? The wind is with them. They have a ship that works. They go from here to there. They stop for a couple days. They go from there to the next place.

Let's pronounce it. Then we go a little further, and all of a sudden, here we are at Rome, and you have to maybe imagine that Paul, at this point, is feeling a little uncertain that it's gone so quickly, right? Well, the first part of the journey on the way to Rome was met with much struggle, took many months. The next part of the journey, as he approaches literally the unknown, right? Am I going to die? Am I going to be in prison? Am I going to be tortured? What's going to happen to me? And all of a sudden, it just sort of happens. So, very, very quickly, right? Now, Paul knows this is God's will for him. He's heard God speak to him. I'm going to send a witness to me in Rome. Paul has actually asked for this. In one of his last trials, he said, "I appeal to Caesar," knowing this is the result. But even knowing that this is God's will, and even wanting this to happen, Paul still has some uncertainty, right? What's going to happen as

we face the ruler of the Roman world? And it seems from the fact that Paul, in verse 15, takes courage, likely means that Paul was probably struggling a little bit as he walks those last few miles to Rome. And what's so wonderful, I think, about these texts, and it's one of my sort of favorite scenes, I think, in the book of Acts, is that you see the unity of the church coming out and standing with one of their own. Before we take a look at this picture, I want to talk just a little bit about biblical unity, right? I want to talk a little bit about how the church sort of gets along. I want to start by sort of giving you three pictures from starting in the Old Testament, going to the words of Jesus, and then going to the testimony of the Apostle Paul, sort of pictures of unity.

And the first one is in the 133rd Psalm, and it says this, "Behold, how pleasant it is when brothers dwell together in unity. It is like the precious oil on the head, running down onto the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down onto the collar of his robes. It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore." And so we hear this, and we hear that first line, how blessed it is when brothers dwell together in unity. And then this picture, sort of for us, several thousand years later, gets a little weird. He says that this unity is like oil being poured onto the head of Aaron that runs down his face, over his beard, and onto the collar of his robes.

So if I go home and Rachel pours olive oil on my head, right, we're probably going to have a problem, right? This is not a picture that I relate to very well. But the picture here is one that I think, upon closer inspection, is a picture of the unity that he is talking about. And so the oil, first of all, that's being poured is not just like an olive oil or a vegetable oil, but it would be a combination of oil. So it would be fragrant, and it would be smelling. And in fact, this oil in and of itself is a picture of unity. All of these ingredients together to make this special anointing oil that was used by the Jews in their worship. But also, you're anointing Aaron, the brother of Moses, to be a high priest of Israel. And as he would have stood likely in his high priestly garb, one of the things he would be wearing would be this chest piece that has a gemstone for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

And so as he's being anointed, he's not just being anointed the priest for Judah, or for Manasseh, he would be anointed the priest for all of the twelve tribes. And as this anointing oil sort of pours down over his face, onto his collar, and across these precious stones of his chest piece, the picture here is one of a unity of people. But more than that, it's a picture of the unity between God and his people. And so the description here is not, this is not the picture of the blessing. This is a picture of the unity that God brings all of these people together, and then he has this picture that shows how refreshing this unity is. It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion. So I'm at the age now, and I didn't ever think that I would be like this,

where you walk outside and you look at the grass and you go, "Man, we really could use some rain." I always thought that was for people who were way older than me to talk about. But there is a picture there where you walk out and the grass is kind of dry and crunchy and everything's drying up, and then the rain comes and the moisture comes and everything turns green and looks good again. And the picture here is that the unity from God, this blessing that brings us all together, is one that refreshes our souls. Jesus, as He prays, and listen to how He prays, "I do not ask for these only, speaking about the apostles, but also for those who will believe through their word." Which means, if you are a Christian today, Jesus, in this prayer, is praying for you and for me. "That they all may be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you,

that they also may be in us, so the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory you have given me, I have given to them, so they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, you in me, so that they may become perfectly one, so the world may know that you have sent me, and love them even as you love me." This passage, I think, is one of those that lends the greatest weight to the unity of God's people. Because as Jesus prays these words, it's not just sort of a random thought or a random prayer. This is at the end of the Last Supper, right? Jesus has eaten the Passover meal with His disciples, He's instituted the Lord's Supper, He's taught them, and now He has this prayer, and when He prays for the church now, right, He's prayed for Himself, He's prayed for the disciples,

and now He prays for those who would believe through the testimony of the disciples. That's us. And as He prays for us, what is His one prayer the night before He dies? He prays that the church would be one, and one in such a way, He compares it to how He and the Father are one. And for the last 2,000 years, Christians have tried to describe the wonder of the unity of God, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. He says, "I pray that the church would be like that with each other and with God." And so there is this picture and this wonder of unity. Paul will say this: In 1 Corinthians 12, "For just as the one body is one and has many members, and all the members are one body, and through many, though many are one body, it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,

Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, and were all made to drink of the same Spirit." And so the Corinthian church was one who had struggled with unity. In chapter 3, Paul is talking to them because they have these divisions based on who their favorite teacher or favorite preacher was. And so some of the church were saying, "Well, I'm on Team Paul." And some were over here going, "Well, Paul, I mean, he has some good ideas, but he's kind of weird-looking and he's short, and Apollos here is far more articulate, better-looking guy. We're Team Apollos." And some people are saying, "Well, how do I beat Paul and Apollos?" They'll say, "Well, you know what? I'm Team Peter." And then you have the guys who have to sort of trump everybody. They go, "Well, I follow Christ."

Now, they're not really following Christ. It's like when you're a kid, and it's like you're fighting with a sibling, and it's like, "Well, I don't like you." "Well, I don't like you times two." "Well, I don't like you times ten." "Well, I don't like you times infinity." "Well, I don't like you times infinity," right? And you kind of go through this thing where you try to outdo each other. When they say, "I follow Christ," they're not saying, "Hey, literally, I'm following Christ." They're saying, "Time's infinity," right? "I'm so much better than you because you're just following Paul or Apollos or Peter, but I follow Jesus," right? And so there's a problem there. The problem isn't that they're following Jesus. The problem is that they're all following their own desires and preferences in one direction or another, and as a result, none of them are following Christ.

And so Paul spends a lot of time in 1 Corinthians seeking to bring that church to unity, right? And so there is this picture sort of ongoing through Scripture. You see it in the Old Testament. We just looked at one, where unity is pictured as something that is close together and is wonderful. We have Jesus praying for the unity of the church. We have Paul correcting the church when they seek to stop walking in unity. The reality is we as Christians throughout the history of the church have struggled with unity. Sometimes we have struggled by maybe making unity too shallow. And what I mean by that, as long as we're not fighting, we think that we're unified. It's like with the kids. It's like, "Man, the kids have gotten really quiet. What are they up to right now?"

And one of them's reading, one of them's playing with Legos, one's building a transformer army in the other room. And it's like they're not fighting, but they're definitely not together. And so one of the ways that we have sort of addressed unity in the church, we think, "As long as I'm not actively fighting with somebody in the church, I'm unified," that's not the biblical picture of unity. That's far too shallow, right? We've limited the depth of unity. But then sometimes there have been others who have taken unity too deep, and I don't mean in a good way. What I mean by that is that the church has often mistaken unity for uniformity, right? Where everybody looks the same, talks the same, have the same interest, walks the same, drives the same car. Like, at that point, right, we try to make everybody, if we can make them look the same, talk the same, act the same, then we're unified, and the reality is that's not unity either.

Unity in Scripture is never simply conformity. In fact, Paul has just said in 1 Corinthians 12 that there's one body, but there's many different roles within that body, right? We all have different backgrounds and different gifts. And then on top of our misunderstandings of unity, we seek to bring about unity in the church in the wrong way. And so sometimes we say, maybe we can compromise our way to unity. And one of the things that I found so true in life is that they say about a compromise, you know how you can tell it's a really good compromise? Everybody's mad at the end of it, right? And we try to sometimes compromise. Well, if I give here and you give there, then we can all be unified, and that's just simply prolonging the conflict till another time.

Sometimes we try to argue our way to unity, right? If I can just win the debate, right? If I can out-shout you, right? Then eventually we'll have unity, right? If I can shout you down and make you shut up, then we'll have unity. That's not unity. Sometimes we try to achieve unity by disunity, right? You know, if I can just get rid of the people I don't like. Now, there are good times for Christians to separate from other Christians, but that's not what I'm talking about here, right? There was a time during the big church growth movement in the 1990s where it was like they tried to take churches and fit them to one sort of social group. Like this is going to be a church for the boomers, this is going to be a church for the single people, and we're going to go after the older people, right?

That's not unity, right? That's just simply trying to get all the people who look the same and put them under one roof. Biblically, the church has always been young and old, men and women from different backgrounds, different jobs, different places, all of these different things. And then sometimes we think we can just force people to be unified, right? You can get a strong leader in there who can round everybody up, make them toe the line, we'll have unity. And that may work for a while, but eventually it collapses. And so biblical unity, I think, at its heart is following Jesus. When I say following Jesus, I mean in truth, right? In the truth that he has proclaimed to us, in the direction that he is going, in the purposes that he shares, and doing so not as an individual,

but conscious the fact that I'm doing this with other people. And the remarkable thing is when we start following Jesus, unity often is the result, right? Because if you take somebody who's over here, and somebody who's over here, and somebody who's over here, and somebody who's over here, and say, "Start following Jesus," what happens? All of those people are drawn closer together because they're drawing closer to Jesus. And so I want to take a look at this picture of unity in Acts chapter 28, starting in verse 14. They've landed the ship. There we found the brothers, and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome. So first of all, you see, first of all, the grace of God in the life of the Apostle Paul. Remember, he's a prisoner.

And prisoners don't just generally get to say, "Hey, there's some friends in town. You think we can stop off and see them for a few days?" It'd be like if you're being a prisoner, and you're being transported here, and you're going from one facility to another, and you drive through your hometown, and it goes, "Oh, hey, Mom and Dad are here. Mind if I stay with them for a week before you finish the transport?" We would say, "That's unheard of." And it was in the Roman day as well that Paul, being escorted by this Roman legionnaire and his soldiers, along with other prisoners, the guy says, "Hey, it's fine. Spend a week with the Christians." And they encourage, and they strengthen Paul. But it's bigger than simply hospitality. Listen to what happens from the church in Rome.

And so he came to Rome, and the brothers there, that's in Rome, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Apius and three taverns to meet us, and on seeing them, Paul thanked God and took courage." So the Forum of Apius is thirty-nine and a half miles from Rome, almost forty miles from Rome. Three taverns is thirty-one miles from Rome, and likely a Christian from this church they stayed at for a week has run ahead to Rome and told them, "Paul is coming." And when the church, you know what they do? They head out the city to meet Paul. Some of them make it forty miles before they meet Paul. Some of them make it thirty-one before they meet Paul. And this is a remarkable thing, because here is a guy who is walking into a situation where he knows nothing about.

When is his hearing going to be? I don't know. How is it going to go? I don't know. Am I going to be imprisoned in a jail, or am I going to be under house arrest? I don't know. Am I going to be tortured? I don't know. Am I going to be fed to the lions? I don't know. Am I going to be crucified? I don't know. And here he is walking into the unknown. And you know what the church in Rome does? They walk forty miles out of the city, and they walk with Paul into the unknown. It's a remarkable and wonderful picture. And for the church in Rome, this is incredibly sacrificial. Remember, most people in this time period don't have a savings account, aren't salaried, so that if you miss a day of work,

oftentimes you aren't able to buy food for the day that you just missed work for. And these people missed several days to walk out and walk back with Paul, right? It's sacrificial. But more than that, it's risky. So in our country, right, we're innocent until proven guilty, right? So we can talk to somebody who's been accused of a crime or go visit somebody in jail who's been punished for a crime, and most people won't associate us with them. However, under the Roman justice, under the Roman justice system, oftentimes the accused is punished, as well as his associates. And so these church members, by walking to meet Paul and walking with him while he's in chains, under guard by a Roman soldier, they're declaring, "We're with Paul. We believe what Paul believes." And in the Roman eyes, they could be liable to be punished with the punishment that Paul was about to be punished with.

Right? It's not just sacrificial in terms of taking their time and the distance they had to walk. It's risky in terms of the political landscape. And it's a wonderful picture of Christian unity. You see, none of these people know Paul, right? They don't know him other than his letter, and through those who have met him and journeyed to the church and told him about. And here is the beautiful picture of Christian unity. Regardless of whether you know your brother and sister in Christ, the picture here is one of love and togetherness, even in the face of uncertainty, and in the face of struggle, and in the face of sacrifice. And I love that as Paul walks into an uncertain future, he does not walk alone. And in fact, I think that's God's call on the life of the church.

That we do not walk alone. We don't walk into good. We don't walk into bad. We don't walk alone. Which requires us, first of all, to be willing to walk with our brothers and sisters in Christ so they don't walk alone. But it's also, we really like to do things, and who don't want any help, and who can figure it out on our own, to realize that we're part of a body. And when a brother or sister in Christ says, "I'll walk with you," to say, "Thank you." Right? Not to say, "Thanks, I've got it. I can do it on my own." Right? There is a picture here that I think is encouraging and convicting for the church in 2022. And what I would like you to see is that, first of all, unity does not happen by accident. Right?

Nobody wakes up and stumbles into unity. Right? That it has to be an intention. It has to be a purpose of the church to say, "This is how I will live. That I will love my brothers and sisters in Christ. That I will forgive where I need to forgive. I will ask for forgiveness where I need to ask for forgiveness. I will sacrifice where I need to sacrifice. I will risk where I need to risk for my brothers and sisters in Christ." This has to be an intentional thought for God's people. The second thing that I think we need to be sure of is that this does not happen in our own strength. Right? In my own strength, I am not strong enough. In your strength, you are not strong enough. We might be able to do it for a little while, right? Be able to hold it all together for a while.

But unity doesn't happen in our strength. As we read a few moments ago from Ephesians, it happens because Jesus has brought us together in unity. He has broken down the dividing wall of hostility that He has brought us together, right? Those words that we are familiar with, right? One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all over all and through all. That ultimately the strength for God's people to be unified has to come because we're trusting Him for that strength. Let's pray. Father, help us. Help us to see our brothers and sisters in Christ, to see their needs and their joys and to share in those with them. That when they walk in struggle, that we would not allow them to walk alone. Forgive us for the times where we have allowed that to happen. Help us with our pride, where we like to try to do things on our own.

Help us to realize that you have strengthened us and that you have put us among your people, so that we don't have to walk alone. Help this to be our intention, to follow you with our whole hearts, to love our brothers and sisters in Christ, and to walk with them. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. We're going to stand and sing, focusing on the goodness and the greatness of God.

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee. Holy, Holy, Holy, merciful and mighty, God in three Persons, Blessed Trinity.

Holy, Holy, Holy, All the saints adore Thee. Casting down their golden crowns around the glossy sea. Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee. Who was then lost, and evermore shall be. Holy, Holy, Holy, Though the darkness hide Thee. Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see. Only Thou art holy. There is none beside Thee. Perfect in power, in love and purity. Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty. All Thy works shall praise Thy name in earth and sky and sea. Holy, holy, holy Merciful and mighty God in three persons Blessed Trinity. We want to thank you all for being with us this morning. We are glad you're here. We'll be back Wednesday night at 7 p.m. for Bible study. Are you having ladies' class on Thursday at 1 p.m. We'll go ahead and have a word of prayer, and then I'll read just two verses from Ephesians chapter 5. Father, thank you for allowing us to gather this morning.

Thank you for your word that encourages us and strengthens us. Be with us as we walk through this week. May you help us to see the opportunities to love and encourage our brothers and sisters in Christ. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. In Ephesians chapter 5, Paul begins like this, "Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God."

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him, above ye heavenly hosts. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.