I see that a number of young people have arrived. I hope you have not mistaken the youth camp dates, it’s not starting today okay. Alright, we do welcome some of the young people going for the youth camp with us this morning. And this week I was trying to get four sermons ready because of the various places I’ll be going to preach, and I hope this is the right sermon for this morning alright. Alright, we are looking at the Ten Commandments, so please turn with me to Exodus chapter 20.

Exodus chapter 20, so let me just read that particular commandment that we are considering this morning and that is in verse 7 alright- Exodus 20:7. It says here: “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.”. Now, remember we are looking at the subject of worship. The first four commandments is about the worship of God, and we are particularly interested in the subject of true worship. And in the first four commandments, we are taught the four elements of true worship.

The first element of true worship is love. We are told that we are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our strength, with all our soul. When there is no love, there is no worship. This morning if you are here just physically, just going through the motion, if you do not love the Lord your God, you’re not truly worshipping Him. Now the second element of true worship is truth. Now truth means that we must have true knowledge of God. So if you have false knowledge of God, then your worship is false.

Now, this morning we are looking at the third- the third element of true worship. So what is the third element of true worship? So let me point out at the very outset here that the third element of true worship is sincerity. It is sincerity. Now our Lord is against insincere worship. Now listen to Him for example in Matthew chapter 15. Matthew chapter 15 and here in verse 7 through verse 9. Matthew 15:7-9, the Lord said: “Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honour Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me”.

Now the Lord is against insincere worship, and He calls this hypocritical worship. And the Lord warns here that such worship are vain worship. They are useless worship. They are not in other words true worship. Listen also to His condemnation against the scribes and the Pharisees in Matthew 23. Matthew chapter 23, and here He was speaking to the crowd and to His disciples about these worshippers called the Pharisees and the scribes.

He says here in verse 1: “Then Jesus spoke to the crowd and to His disciples, saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees, they sit in Moses’ seat. Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but they do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.”. Verse 5: “For all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments. They love the best places at feasts, and the best seats in (the church or) the synagogues, greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’”.

Verse 14: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.”. Verse 27: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”.

Verse 33: “Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?”. Now from this verse, we can see the indictments of our Lord against those worshippers who are insincere in their worship, and our Lord called them hypocrites. In other words, our Lord is against all kinds of pretence, people who are here to offer their worship to sing their praises to God but it’s all a pretence. It is not true. It is not from their heart, that’s what the Lord said. They draw near with their mouths, but their hearts are far from Me.

And so that is what the third commandment is about. It is about sincerity in worship. Without sincerity, there can be no true worship. And so the commandment said: “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain”. Now to understand this, we shall consider a few things here. Number one, we shall first need to understand what is in the name. And then we shall try to understand what does it mean to take the name of the Lord in vain. And then finally, we shall consider how we do break this commandment. So let us begin.

Now, what is in the name? Because the commandment said: “You shall not take the name of the LORD”. Now names have meanings, and in the Bible, you can see that alright. In fact, today is the same. We know that names have meanings. Now let’s take one name for example in the book of First Samuel. Now you look at First Samuel and chapter 25, there is a name mentioned there. Let’s try to discover what that name means.

First Samuel chapter 25, look at verse 2. First Samuel chapter 25, look at verses 2 and 3. It says here: “There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel, and the man was very rich. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.”. And verse 3: “And the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail.”. Now the name Nabal, what does it mean? Now that is the interest of this chapter, and this chapter is trying to reveal to us alright the meaning of this man’s name.

And so we look down to verse 10 concerning this man called Nabal. Now it says here: “Then Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master.””. Not realizing that David is now kind of ascended to the throne, and here is a man who talks to a king as it were as if the king is a nobody alright he’s nothing.

Then we look down at verse 17: “Now therefore, know and consider what you will do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that one cannot speak to him.”. In other words, he’s such a fool that it is difficult to talk to him alright. And verse 25: “Please”. Here is his wife Abigail pleading on his behalf. “Please, let not my lord regard this fool Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him!”.

You see, this man’s name in a sense reveals his true character. The name Nabal has a meaning, and it means fool alright- it means fool. Now that’s the reason why parents are careful about giving their children names. I hope you all like your names alright. But I can assure you alright at least most parents would be careful to give their children names like Ezra and Eden, or maybe some of your names, Grace or Mei Ling.

Now however very often, the nicknames tell you more about that person than the real name alright. Maybe you know when you’re a baby your parents give you a name and thinking that you know you are such a person. But then when you grow up, realise that your character and your name, they don’t go together. And so along the way, they or some other people gave you a nickname.

And so sometimes you hear people calling people nicknames like Goh Chek, Dai Chek Gong ah alright. Or you know the big mouth (if you don’t understand Cantonese alright), or kat leh ko chek so zai ah alright, the silly guy. Or what that ma lao ceng alright, a monkey alright. Now you see, we hear names like that. Now you know those names have meaning because people know the character of these people and these names or nicknames alright stuck with them. So that is names. Now names have meanings. Now question then is: What is God’s name and what does it mean?

Now to understand the third commandment, now that is the question we need to ask. What is God’s name and what does it mean? Now listen again to this third commandment in verse 7. It says that it states this way. It said: “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain”. Now first of all unlike the other commandments (the other two commandments earlier on), here in this third commandment God refers to Himself in the third person. Now, why?

The reason is to call attention to His special covenant name. The word LORD in verse 7, you shall not take the name of the LORD. And those of you who have been in our Bible study classes by now should be familiar, and that word is a reference to God’s covenant name. So in the Hebrew letters is YHWH- Yahweh alright. In other words, you can read this verse this way: “You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who take His name in vain.”.

So God is calling attention to His special name, this covenant name of His. It is a name that He has revealed to the children of Israel long ago alright before they reached Sinai. Where? Back in Exodus chapter 3. If you just flip over to Exodus chapter 3, and there when God appeared to Moses (remember in the burning bush) and He gave instructions to Moses to deliver His people from Egypt, for God’s people were suffering.

And then Moses asked God. Moses asked God: But I need to tell these people alright who is it that is giving us this instruction. Who is it that will deliver them from the Egyptians? So look at verse 13. Chapter 3 of Exodus and verse 13: “Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’”.

In other words, it is not enough for me just to tell them that this is the God of Abraham. Well, who is this God of Abraham? So I need to tell them exactly who You are. So what should I tell them? That is what verse 13 is about. And then verse 14, God answered Moses and said, now this is what you say to them: “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”. So you tell them this is who is sending you to them. Tell them it is I AM.

Now literally I AM alright here is translated from the same word alright we referred to just now- Yahweh or YHWH, same thing alright- same word. It is Yahweh. Tell them Yahweh is sending you to them. Now you see, the word Yahweh or this covenant name of God or translated here as I AM means what? I say names have meaning, and the name of God has meaning. And the word Yahweh speaks of God’s sovereignty that this is a sovereign God.

It speaks of God’s self-sufficiency. It speaks of God’s eternity. It speaks of God’s immutability that tells them this is the God who is coming to deliver you from the Egyptian masters. This God who is a sovereign God, who is the eternal God, who is the unchanging God, this God is coming. So actually you can translate this word in a number of ways. You can say I AM WHO I AM, or you may tell them I AM WHO I WAS, or I AM WHO I WILL BE, I WAS WHO I WAS.

In other words, this is always the same God, the same faithful God, the same sovereign God, the same powerful, all-powerful God. This is the God who is coming to deliver them. And so the name in that sense reveals God’s true identity. It represents His entire person. So everything is now as it were distilled alright in this name. His name represents His greatness. Now for that reason, a true understanding of His name. If you don’t understand His name, you cannot truly worship Him. A true understanding of His name will stir feelings of admiration.

Why is it that you are not in a state of awe this morning, in a state of admiration as you come and draw near before the throne of this almighty God, this immutable God? Why is it there is no sense of fear in you? Is it perhaps because you do not really know this God? You do not really know who this Yahweh, this God, this LORD really is? Like I said, a true understanding of His name will stir feelings of admiration and sense of awe.

And that is what we see in Psalm chapter 8- in Psalm 8:1. Psalm 8:1, now here listen to the psalmist here. Here is a psalm of David. In verse 1, it says: “O Yahweh, our Adonai (O LORD, our Lord) alright”. “O Yahweh, our God, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, who have set Your glory above the heavens!” Now that is the sense. That is the way we should approach God, a realisation. O Yahweh! “O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your name above all the earth”. A sense that we are coming to a God who is the King of kings, Lord of lords, the Creator of the universe, someone who is high above.

Now you see, the moment we lose sight of that moment, we lose true worship. We are not really worshipping. We are perhaps worshipping some creatures far below us. That’s the reason why people can get angry with God. That’s the reason why people think that they can order God around. That’s why the reason you see where people can say: Now why didn’t He answer my prayer? As if God is our servant. You do not know God. If you do not know Him as who He really is, then you cannot be truly worshipping Him.

And so that is what this commandment is about. It is saying to us that there is meaning in the name, and that name of our God reveals His true identity, tells us about who He really is. Or in Psalm 113. Psalm 113, the first three verses. Again listen to the psalmist here. Psalm 113, the psalmist here again in his phrase to God as he comes into the presence and the realisation of this God who is high and mighty.

He says: “Praise Yahweh! Praise, O servants of Yahweh, Praise the name of Yahweh! Blessed be the name of Yahweh from this time forth and forevermore! From the rising of the Sun to its setting down Yahweh’s name is to be praised.”. Now you see, that is how we should be coming unto the presence of God. His name is high and above. Yes, from the rising of the Sun to its setting down, the name of God deserved to be praised.

If you don’t come with the sense that God deserves everything from you, He deserved honour, all glory and honour belong to God and we’re here to pay our homage, we’re here to do our duties, we’re here to bow before this great and almighty God. If you have got no sense of that, then you’re not truly worshipping this true and almighty God. And so that is what is in a name.

Now that leads to the second question: What does it mean then to take the name of Yahweh in vain? What does it mean to take the name of Yahweh in vain? Now it means this. First of all, you see the word ‘take’ literally means to lift up. You shall not take. You shall not lift up. Now that is what that word literally means. Or you shall not use. Lift up to use it. That is the meaning. So when we come and worship God, what we are doing is that we are lifting up the name of God in praise, lifting His name high. That is what we are doing.

When we take the name of the Lord, we are lifting up His name in prayer. When we come alright and pray to Him, we are also using the name of the Lord. When we proclaim His Word, we are also lifting up the name of the Lord. You see in all our spiritual activity- in all spiritual activity, we are lifting up the name of God either in praise or in prayer or in the proclamation of His Word. We are declaring His truth. We are lifting His name up. Now that is the meaning of take- to use or to take.

Now it is also used (to lift alright or to take the name of God), it’s also used in the taking of an oath. When we take an oath in the name of God, we are also using God’s name or lifting up His name or taking His name or we may swear by God’s name. Now that is the meaning of take. Now, what is the meaning of vain? Say we are to take the name of the Lord, lift up His name. But we are warned here never to take His name or lift up His name in vain.

So what does vain mean? Now the word ‘vain’ here simply means empty, hollow, futile, void. In other words, when you take the name of the Lord in vain, it means that you are using God’s name or livening up as if it is nothing, as if it is useless, it’s empty. There’s no regardless, it’s meaningless. Now that is the meaning of taking the name of the Lord in vain. Therefore to take in vain in worship means that when we come and lift up the name of God either in our singing praise or pray whatever, we do so in a mechanical, meaningless, thoughtless manner.

Now that is the condemnation alright here in Matthew chapter 6 where Jesus in His instructions concerning prayer said this. Matthew 6:7, now listen to what Jesus said here in verse 7. He says: “When you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do.”. Now that is the meaning of vain- vain repetition; when you say something but you do not mean it. But you do not mean it. When you use God’s name without meaning it or you use it thoughtlessly, you are taking the name of the Lord in vain.

And so this is what the third commandment is about. It is a warning against empty worship or insincere worship or when you don’t mean it, that’s what hypocrisy means. That’s the Lord’s condemnation against the scribes and the Pharisees. You’re using God’s name. You mentioned His name, but it’s only a pretence alright. It’s not from the heart. It’s meaningless. This third commandment, therefore, tells us that our hearts and our minds must be completely behind what we say and do in our Christian life. The two things cannot be separated alright.

Whatever we say or whatever we do must come from within. The sincerity is from the heart. That’s what we mean. Sometimes we say this gift is from the heart. It’s sincere alright. It’s not just an outward thing. It’s not just a pretence. Now that is what it means to take the name of the Lord in vain alright when you do things or take His name without meaning it. Now finally, we shall consider some practical examples. In what ways do we break this commandment?

Do you break this commandment? Now we shall consider some practical examples. Now let me show you three ways where people break this commandment. Number one, we break this commandment when we use meaningless words or we use words in a meaningless way, meaning to say when your mouth does not represent your heart. You say something, but the heart is different.

I think that’s exactly what the Lord said earlier on alright in Matthew chapter 15 when He said that you draw near with your lips, but your heart is far from Me. So what you say and what is in your heart are two different things. Now that is firstly alright meaningless words. Now let me now give you some examples of what meaningless words are about. Now the first example is what we sometimes called formal worship. Formal worship. Now formal worship means ritualistic worship you know, very formal.

Sometimes the people’s clothing can also be formal. When everybody wears you know the same, and you come you know there’s a formality alright- there’s a formality or there’s a certain ritual. Now there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with ritual per se, but when it becomes ritualistic, and that is where it becomes a problem. To be ritualistic means you begin to just go through the motions you know. It’s just going through the motions. Every Sunday you come you do the same things, and we finish all our so-called religious duty, and then we are off to do the things that we really want to do alright.

For example, when you sing your hymns thoughtlessly. Do you mean what you sing this morning? Do you even think about what you are singing this morning? When you’re not thinking about what you’re singing this morning; when you say “O Jesus, I love you” but you never mean it in your heart, now that is a sin against this commandment. When you say something, you must mean it alright. When you sing something, you must mean it.

Or in your prayer. Now sometimes people say: Let’s say prayer. We should never say prayers. That is rituals. A lot of rituals. We know that there are printed prayers for people to say. Now some churches you know there are formal worship, there are formal prayers, and everything. It’s just going through the motions. You just read it. You don’t do that alright because if you say prayer you know, you are going through a motion. Or you can even read the Bible without meaning it alright you read the Scriptures.

Now every Sunday we gather as a congregation to read the Psalms together. Now I am constantly moved by the Psalms, and even this morning, how the psalms speak of God is our refuge and how often I can think of myself needing a refuge like Him. And very often it should rightly, it should bring tears to our eyes when we read the words of God and see how moving they are. Or when you sing hymns. How many times- how many times were you moved to tears by some of the wordings of the hymns?

In fact, I can never probably sing hymn number 60- “Can It Be” without the heart being moved, and often you know to the brim of tears by what the Lord had done for me by His sacrifice on the cross. Now you see we should sing, we should pray, we should read, we should worship God, not in a ritualistic manner. Ritualistic worship is one form of breaking this commandment of using the name of the Lord in worship.

Now on the other hand alright, we talked about formal or ritualistic worship. On the other hand, the other problem is what we call casual worship. Casual worship, when we take everything light you know make everything light, carelessly. Now carelessness in worship, making silly jokes, overly casual dress or clothing, turning the church into a pasar malam alright or into a zoo or into the circus or whatever. Everything is just fun in the church. Now that is using the name of the Lord in vain. You’re not being serious. Casual worship. 

In other ways alright, I’m not talking about using meaningless words alright as a manifestation of how people take the name of the Lord in vain. The other one is false oath. I mentioned oath a while ago. False oath. When you take an oath without meaning it, you are using the name of the Lord in vain because you use God’s name to give an impression that you are telling the truth. And that’s the reason why I’m very apprehensive about weddings where people just repeat after me when they take their wedding vows.

I want to ask: Have you read through those vows? Have you read through those vows? I think in the premarital counselling we ought to go through the vow with the couple. This is the vow you’re going to take on that day, don’t just repeat after me. When you say a vow but you don’t mean it, you’re taking the name of the Lord in vain. And also when you use God’s name lightly. Hallelujah Hallelujah, everybody just Hallelujah, PTL alright (Praise the Lord alright). Lord willing, when somebody you know having flu and “ah choo”, oh God bless. Bless what?

You see, we just use God’s name anyhow we like, using it very lightly. Every now and then just mention the name without even thinking, without even knowing what you’re saying. Or using the name of the Lord as a curse word, and that we hear so very often. We will say O my God, O Gee, or whatever it is. It becomes so common until we are so immune. We don’t even feel offended when people use words like that. We ought to.

So what do you mean by that? What do you mean by that? The name of our Lord is precious. How can these people just use the name of the Lord like this? Now you see, these are the ways where people take the name of the Lord in vain, using the word alright in a meaningless, empty, casual way. But there’s a second category of you know second way where we use the name of the Lord in vain, and that is when we have ulterior motives. When we use God’s name with ulterior motives.

Now, what do I mean by that? And that is you use God’s name to advance your own agenda. People use the name of God to advance their own purpose or agenda. Now let me give you some examples. False prophecy is using the name of the Lord in vain. You’re saying something and saying that God is promising that or God is saying that something will happen. They’re using God’s name in vain. The prophet Jeremiah prophesied you know thunder against that you know. The prophets come and say there’s peace, peace when there is no peace, simply using God’s Word alright God’s name.

Or professional preachers, you know what professional preachers? I love a book by John Piper. Brothers, we are not professionals. He was speaking to the pastors. We are not professionals, we are not people with a briefcase. Now you see, professional preachers are using the name of the Lord in vain, meaning to say they are just doing their job alright. They’re not true. Or unfaithful preaching. Now you see when we do all these things, we are using God’s name but we have our own purpose, our own agenda. We just using His name to advance our own agenda.

Or false piety. False piety. Now when people use God’s name to endorse a course or a political party, now that is using the name of the Lord in vain. Or use it to endorse a social program or a sport or a business. Oh, I start a business and I called it “Mission Restaurant”. What mission restaurant? What is the restaurant about alright? Or you know I start another business, I call it John 3:16. Did you see that? I see that a lot.

Everyone thinks that you know they can just use some verses and use God’s branding as it were for their own purpose or here you know for business and for sport and so on. Now it is said that few candidates for public office are able to end their speeches without asking God to bless their audience or to finish their speech “and God bless you”. That is to use the name of the Lord in vain with just anyhow you know invoke the name of God.

Or when the football player managed to score a goal alright and you look up in the heavens and then God you know as it were God was on his side. Now, what about the other side also? There are Christians there. Now you see people are just thoughtless, careless, using God’s name for whatever reasons. Now when they do that, they’re using the name of the Lord in vain.

Now let me give you one more example. When you send chain email or these days is WhatsApp alright, we promise of blessing or threat of curse if they do not send that alright message to their friends or ten friends alright. Now that is to use the name of the Lord in vain. You say that God will curse you if you don’t send to ten of your friend. Who said that? Ulterior motives, now when you have that it is the breaking of this commandment.

The third way alright- words, motives, and thirdly when we live an inconsistent life. When we live an inconsistent life. Now listen to what Jesus said in Luke 6:46. Luke 6:46, now Jesus said: “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do the things which I say?”. Now there is some inconsistency here, the Lord says. He says you proclaimed or you claimed to be My followers, but you don’t do what I tell you to do. So why do you call me Lord, Lord, but you don’t do what I say?

Now, remember that Christians are people who name the name of Christ. When you call yourself a Christian, you are representing Jesus Christ. You must remember that. The trouble with a lot of Christian is that they don’t even know that or they don’t remember that that counts for the way they behave so very often. But remember, we are people who name the name of Christ. Therefore God has a personal stake in our life, in our spiritual life and in our spiritual progress, and in our behaviour, in our conduct.

God has a personal stake in that because we are representing God. Let your life alright your life is to be a shining light in this world. You are to be salt and light of this world because we are representing God. When people see us, they should glorify God. When people see us, they shouldn’t be cursing God. Now so very often people see a life of a Christian or the behaviour of a Christian and say what kind of God are you worshipping or do you believe in. No, you see our life is important. When you live an inconsistent life, you are breaking this commandment.

In fact, the name of Christ is associated with everything we do. Remember, the name of Christ is associated with everything we do. We must always, therefore, ask: Is this consistent with one who named the name of Christ? Is this behaviour consistent with one who named the name of Christ? Now that should always be on our mind because we are representing Christ all the time- what we say, what we do.

And therefore the place you go to is important. Where do you go to? Where were you last night? You see, it’s not of no relevance. The movie you watch is important. What kind of movies have you watched? The jokes that you share. You see, all these things remember we have to ask: Is it consistent with one who named the name of Christ?

Or your behaviour, not just the places you go to. Or your behaviour. When you’re at the restaurant, the way you speak to the waitress and you shout at the waitress. Is it consistent? Is it consistent with one who named the name of Christ? Or the driver when you’re driving and then you’re stuck in the jam or someone cuts into your lane, and then you wind down the window and show your hand. Have you asked: Is it consistent with one who named the name of Christ?

Now that is the meaning of this commandment. Is it consistent? Are you taking the name of the Lord in vain? Very often we expect these of pastors. Oh, how can he just be angry like that? As if other Christians can throw tantrums except the pastor. Or you met the pastor last night at that particular place and you come to church this morning: Eh, pastor! What were you doing at that place? Perhaps the pastor will ask you back: And what were you doing at that place? Now you see where we are is important. We are to be men of good reputation.

Of course, we know that it is non-negotiable for elders and leaders in the church that they are people of good reputation. They must be blameless. But I believe it applies to all Christians. Or your attitude. Your attitude. Are you always grumbling? Person always with discontent? Are you always gloomy and long face? Why? Now here’s the story of Luther. Now Luther you know he had these spells of depressions.

So one time he was so depressed and so discouraged and he was in that state for a long while until one day you know, his wife came to him all dressed in black. And Luther turned to the wife and say you know: Why are you dressed like this? And his wife responded alright that God is dead. You’re living as if there is no God. You’re living your life as if God is dead. You’re not lifting up the name of God and honour Him.

Now you see our attitude alright- be it our attitude, wrong attitude, we also break this commandment. Now that leads us finally to the warning of this commandment: What if we take the name of the Lord in vain? Is it a small matter? What if you take the name of the Lord in vain? Again back to the third commandment. It says: “for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain”.

In other words, God is serious. God is serious about His name. God is serious about His reputation. He is to be honoured. He is to be glorified in our words, in our deeds, in our attitude, in our worship, in our prayer, in the reading of Scripture, in where we go. Everything in our life, God is serious. And God, it says here, will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. Let us pray.

“Our Father in heaven, again we are reminded once again of who You are. Indeed You are the great and almighty God, and we are thankful that You have called us insignificant creatures to Yourself and to give us the blessing and the privilege of coming and drawing near because of Your Son to worship the true and living God, the glorious God.

We pray Lord, help us every time we come that we might be reminded by Your name of who You are, that there might be the sense of awe in us, the feeling O Lord of privilege and blessing as we come and to offer to You the worship and the honour and the glory that is due to Your name, for these we pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.”

This transcript has been lightly edited for readability.