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Dear Family,

What is God’s surname?
There’s not really an answer to the question, but one of the people that I’m preparing for marriage at the moment has a double-barrel surname. If the couple joined their names once more, they’d have a triple-barrel surname. That’d be a bit awkward, but we don’t seem to think about our surnames until we need to change them or join them. They are however, the link to our moms and dads, grandparents and through the history of our families.
In Ephesians, there is this prayer in which it says that we “derive our name” from God. That means that you’ve got God’s surname. If you were a Jew living in the time of Jesus, you’d have been given the prefix “Ben” (son of) or “Bath” (daughter of) to your Father’s name as a surname. So I’d be Tony Ben-Richard.
What the letter to the Ephesians is saying is that we’re all “Ben” or “Bath” The LORD. So we’ve become a part of a new family with new surname.
I see this most at BPC when the family is hurting. Right now the Burger family, the Van der Merwes, the Newhams and the Kennedys are in sorrow. But they all belong to one family. Our family: and it shows. It is a privilege to see the family gathering around each other to care and you guys care so well.
When you worship this morning remember all of those with your surname, The LORD’s Name.
I love my family.
Tony
 

Go, labour on: spend and be spent,

Thy joy to do the Father’s will;

It is the way the Master went;

Should’ not the servant tread it still?

Go, labour on while it is day:

The world’s ‘dark night is hastening on;

Speed, speed thy work; cast sloth away;

It is not thus that souls are won.

Men die in darkness at thy side,

Without a hope to cheer the tomb’;

Take up the torch and wave it wide,

The torch that lights time’s thickest gloom.

Toil on, faint not, keep watch, and pray;

Be wise the erring soul to win;

Go forth into the world’s highway,

Compel the wanderer to come in.

Toil on, and in ‘thy toil rejoice;

For toil comes rest, for exile home;

Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom’s voice

The midnight peal, ‘Behold, I come!’

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