Every year, there is a ceremony and academy awards gatherings of the artists and actors around the globe like the Caen festival in France and Oscar nomination festival in the United States of America where the red carpet is rolled out to celebrate Satan’s wisdom and beauty as the best actors and actresses of the world are rewarded for their outstanding performances in different categories of music, theatres and films productions from Hollywood and other industry around the world, promoting and advancing the cause of Satan through the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes and the pride of life.                                                These artists and actors are very devoted to their metiers, adaptable and flexible to play any given role by rigorous discipline, exercises, commitment and sleepless night to practice perfection and best performances, making sure that they give their best to excel among many other actors to obtain the trophies of recognition and laurels of excellence and praise for distinctive performance above other colleagues in the same industry for golden globe awards. Somebody may have to keep their beards for months just to fit in to play the role asked to perform. It might be demanded on someone just to lose twenty to thirty kilos to portray someone suffering from malnutrition just to fit in the role given and asked to play etc.                                                                                            Sadly to say, some of these people out of their desperate quest for fame, earthly glory, riches, wealth and influences or power are ignorantly going the extra mile with great sweats and hazards to affiliate and pledges alliance and allegiance to Satan through illuminate, freemasons and other secret-diabolical cults to sell their souls to Satan in pursuit and exchange for earthly fame and filthy lucre for a corruptible and temporal rewards that will soon be timely and eternally forgotten – corrupted by moths and wasted by fire.
 
Ironically, many of the children of the kingdom God that are called to inherit true and incorruptible blessings, lasting and eternal laurels with trophies that shall never fade away are not mindful of their heavenly calling to ponder the paths of their feet and to pay whatever price of self-denial to obtain their eternal rewards. Instead, they are running after the wind and vanities of life to lay up treasures where thieves rob, and moth and rust definitely corrupt and destroys, and allowed themselves to be influenced and seduced by vain glory and prosperity of fools.                                                                                            It was a bargain and holy deed between our eternal Saviour and the Heavenly Father that Jesus, for the joy of the prize to receive from God the Father must pay the ultimate price to deliver us from the hands of Satan and to purchase and bring us back to our spiritual Garden of Eden (sheepfold) where we can have uninterrupted fellowship with God in every cool of the day. The death of the cross was an accursed death, extremely painful, shameful and most humiliated way to die (and he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then said he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. Matthew 26:37-39) and yet Christ delivered his soul unto the Father in death for us. But why should Jesus endure such contradiction of sinners against himself and to despise the shameful death of the cross that he might obtain eternal redemption for us? Firstly, he did this out of pure love and mindfulness of man – God demonstrated his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Secondly, Christ willingness and self-volunteered sacrifice to die in our stead earned him the prize and title of the ‘Son of man’ and the ‘second Adam’ (1 Corinthians 15: 45-49) the life-giving spirit for the cost of his sinless blood and perfect righteous life lived and laid down to give us righteousness and eternal life. Our Lord abased himself, focused to achieve the eternal goals and the glorification he is now enjoying which are (I) being seated at the right hand of God in heaven as our Saviour, advocate, mediator and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God. This position of God’s right hand of power was not the place occupied by Christ from the beginning before the word became flesh to dwell among us: but because of the price he paid, he is honoured by the Father to occupy this place in heaven. At first, he was in the Father because he came out of him as the word living in God: but now he sits at the Father’s right hand in heaven as Lord and Christ until the time he will be given to judge the dead and the living. ‘The Father has committed all judgement unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honours not the Son honours not the Father which hath sent him’. John 5:22-23. (ii) That, as the part of the reward for his sufferings, it is written, ‘I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore, shall the people praise thee forever and ever’. Psalms 45:17. For the promised renown, God the Father has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Is not the name of our Lord phenomenal? Though, not all men believed in him, but have not his lifted-up drawing attentions and enquiries after him? Either way sooner or later, willingly or by force to fulfil the scriptures every knee must bow, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9-11. (iii) And so, as in Adam all die; in Christ shall all be made alive or immortal. Christ becomes the first fruits of all that slept and the head of the body- his blood purchased possession, the church. 1 Corinthians15:20-22. (Iv.) Jesus is presently rejoicing and content in heaven for the satisfaction and accomplishment (the fruits) of the travail which his soul is producing on earth. These are parts of the great price and prizes our Lord has paid and obtained for our eternal redemption…. therefore, will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he borne the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Isaiah 53:11-12. John 14:6.                                                          After the death and the resurrection of Christ, the devil no longer maintains the position of an indisputable adversary who has the whole world in his hand to torment and afflict the sons of men, except in those that are ignorance of his devises or those that are still in darkness. The sole culprit and our closest enemy are the flesh. The flesh and its works must be subdued or bring under control to overcome the devil, lest after doing everything, we should not miss the goal of the highest calling of God in Christ Jesus- eternal rest in heaven. We should know that anything that lusts against the Spirit and the will of God in our lives is against us and such should be guarded against. The flesh profits nothing, but walking in the Spirit will give us life. Christ died to deliver us from our body of sin and death and to give us power to subdue the damnable works of the flesh through the help and power of his abiding Holy-Spirit living in us, that we might live unto God, if we chose to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh – not making provisions for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof. Romans 13:11-14.                                                                                                                                                      
There are prices to pay for our faith in Christ on earth for the prizes to obtain in heaven. Steven was the Lord’s first martyr which paid the price of his faith in Christ unapologetic with his life. What was his prize? The Lord seated on the right hand of God was seen with a standing ovation on his throne to receive his faithful and courageous servant to himself in heaven.  Our labours are not in vain, knowing that we have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. If we pay the price of endurance in persecution for Christ’s sake, we know that the prize or reward is to gain the kingdom of heaven. If we pay the price to despise shame without going back from Christ when men shall revile us, and shall speak all manner of evil against us falsely, for Christ’s sake, great shall be the reward (prize) in heaven. If you pay the price to walk alone with Christ if your earthly father, mother, brethren and friends shall separate you from their companies because you are born again; with time, even here on earth, the Lord shall bless and reward you with hundred-fold godly fathers, mothers, brethren and friends, lands, houses and whatsoever you have forsaken or sacrificed for his name’s sake with eternal life as the greatest prize to crown it all afterward. If you pay the price to exercise yourself in pure conscience, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God and toward man, you shall have the reward to see God –blessed are the pure in heart, they shall see God. If you pay the price to fast and pray consistently, yokes shall be broken in your life, power of God shall manifest in your life and mountains shall skip before you like rams, and the hills, like lambs as the prize and your righteousness shall speak for you.
 
There are many books of record in heaven and one of them is the book of ‘faith record and archive’ for the heroes and heroic of faith for their daring acts and unwavering loyalty to stay the cause and walk with God in their sufferings and distresses on earth for his word and name’s sake. This book consists the names of them that draw back not unto perdition, but of them that believed to the saving of soul – those that faithfully endured to the end. God is not unrighteous to forget the trials and persecutions they had endured for righteousness’s sake – they are all written in his book. This is the book of remembrance, consisting the names of them of old that faithfully endured the trial of cruel mocking and scourging, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Hebrews 11:36-40.                                                                                       
Our faith should not be limited to obtainment of the promises of God, to claim and to enjoy the goodness of God in the land of the living. It must rise higher to stand for Christ in the face of persecution and affliction that may arise because of the gospel of Christ. We should not be apologetic for the truth but to prepare and ready to have our share in the fellowship of Christ suffering and to drink of the vinegar the Lord himself drank off, and to be baptized with the baptism he was baptized with (and James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou should do for us whatsoever we shall desire. And he said unto them, what would you that I should do for you? They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. But Jesus said unto them, you know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? And they said unto him, we can. And Jesus said unto them, ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized: but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared. Mark 11:24-40) and to follow after, if that we may apprehend that for which also, we are apprehended of Christ Jesus – for I reckon that the sufferings of this present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Romans 8:18. Philippians3:1-14.                                                                                                          
 
The first price is the price of self-renouncement (to give up glorying in, and holding on to worldly pride, turning away from lustful pleasure of sin and ungodly pursuits) and denouncement of our participation in any worldly pleasures and attachment to it as a good soldier will not entangle himself with the affairs of the world that he might please him who has chosen him to be a soldier. Because Christ now lives in us, our pleasures, desire and motivation should be found only in those things that promote godliness and Christ centeredness, to be practically crucified to the world and the world crucified to us.                                                                                  
We should draw a good example from the life of Moses when he was a young prince in the land of Egypt, ignored all the blessings with all the privileges and honour attached with his stature at the palace. Moses was in the world of sin and pleasure, but knew he didn’t belong there, but when he got to the age of choosing for himself, he took a very bold and positive step and action of faith to renounce his palace title, position, privileges and honour that he might take his part with the people that had a sure and unending future, though they were at that time treated as slaves and were looked upon as of those of whom the world is not worthy. ‘By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible’.                  Will there be any unwillingness on the part of Christ to count it unto us as righteousness and commendable act of faith if we forsake the foolish and live to walk in the way of understanding by following after righteousness, peace and charity with them that calls on him out of a pure heart? Of course, yes, it shall be counted to us as righteousness! 2 Timothy 2:22. We are to renounce and denounce the world and worldly people if we are to be found in Christ and to reign with him who has delivered us from this present evil world (Galatians 1:4) and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world (James 1:27) to show that we have escaped the corruption that is in it through lusts. If the world is crucified to us and we are indeed crucified to it, we must come out of it even as Moses left Egypt and the Egyptians without fearing the wrath of the king, without conforming to it standards and styles, and without compromising with them: even as the Lord has chosen and called us out of the world to make the difference. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here we have no continue city but we seek one to come. Philippians 3:1-14. Hebrews 11:24-27. Hebrews 13:12-14.                                                                                                                              
 
 
Now, let us come to the second price (self –denial) for the prizes lay up for us in heaven which the bible calls ‘great recompense of reward – a better and enduring substance’. Jesus spoke clearly about the need for complete self-denial to follow him that we might be a disciple indeed. He knew what it meant in the flesh to walk with God having been tempted in all things, yet without sin. The flesh will always rise to oppose God in us but we must ask for grace and strength of the Spirit of God to overcome it. The prices worth the prizes, we should know that our worldly and earthly pride and prestige is at risk if we are to deny ourselves to take up the cross daily to follow after the Lord as required. This means that in all our decisions and actions, the kingdom’s interests and all its righteousness come first as priority in everything to glorify God in exchange for men’s favour or approval and in opposition to the pride of life. Anything that pose to take the place of God’s first love and affection in your life must be fiercely resisted, denied and sacrificed for his love (and, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He said unto him, which? Jesus said thou shall do no murder, thou shall not commit adultery, thou shall not steal, thou shall not bear false witness, honour thy father and thy mother: and, thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself. The young man said unto him, all these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? Jesus said unto him, if thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again, I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Matthew 19:16-24).                                                                                                                                                                      
Is there is any government bureau position to lose because you will not bow down to their ungodly demands and sinful level to compromise, you should not even think twice over it before you sacrifice such position for the Lord’s sake. ‘By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Hebrews 11:24-27.                                                                                       
Is there is any relationship that will sever you from Christ, it should be unsparingly and uncompromising be cut off without the fear or opinion of man. Christ is the only friend closer than any brother. He has been there for you before you realised him as your Lord and Saviour and he will be there for you throughout all eternity, even as he is seated by God’s right hand making intercession for you in heaven. If we suffer with Christ, we shall reign with him; if we denied him by our failure to deny ourselves in separation from sin, or by the approval of men in hypocrisy and ungodliness, he will also deny us. We must joyfully bear his reproach without offence in him and to go out of the worldly systems and ways of life and manners of doing things to live for him in a different way from what is common and plausible by the world. It is given us, not only to believe in Christ, but to suffer for his name’s sake – the Lord has also suffered for us, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.                                                                                                                                     
From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16: 21-26. Philippians 1:29.                                                                                                                                                                 
Is there any ungodly convenience from which we have to deny ourselves in order to promote and advance the cause of Christ in our lives, environment and society? It is worth giving up in the spirit of self-denial. If we failed to do that, it means we are denying Christ before men by our actions and way of life. Daniel and his colleagues have all the right to eat and wine from the king’s meat and liquor as their daily provision and portion that they might be well looking and presentable to stand before the king of Babylon. But Daniel and the other three Hebrew men wisely excused themselves from the food and wine provision provided for the eunuchs, and instead demanded the king’s supervisor to prove them for ten days by allowing them to feed on vegetable and water. After the ten days, they looked better in appearances than the rest of the eunuchs which has drank from the king’s wine and ate meat from his provision; and were blessed with revelation wisdom and knowledge to interpret dreams, gifted with discernments of spirit and favour before all men because of their self-denial to seek God in the place of pleasure. ‘Woe unto them that are ease in Zion’. Note: even when it is evident that we are suddenly risen to a higher economy statute contrary to our expectation (I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11) let us not act or live like parvenue, but to think, live and act soberly to be mindful always to fulfil the purposes of the Rock that begot us, lest we become like Jeshurun. Deuteronomy 32:15.
 
 
The third price is the price of self-discipline. This is meant to enhance our walk with God in holiness if we are careful and diligent to apply the word of God. The flesh and human reasoning will always challenge our allegiance to the word of God. By the grace furnished through the spirit of God, we can be self-disciplined not to give in to our lustful and sinful desires but to think twice on our ways and turn our feet unto his testimonies. Psalms 119:59. Without the spirit of self-discipline, self-denial is impossible to attain. This is where most people fail, when they failed to bring their body under subjection. We can have this power through the practice of consistent fasting and prayer and by developing the habit of an hour midnight night prayer. The lack of self-discipline constitutes to prayer less life which leads to spiritual weakness and probability to fail in the time of temptation. The failure to self-disciplined brought the young prophet into God’s disfavor and was devoured by lion for disobeying the word of God that forbade him not to eat at the place of his assignment – Bethel.                                                                      
The scripture is our direct authoritative guidance and instruction to self-discipline, but it is the Spirit of God that produces the fruit of faith and temperance to effectuate it. When we are called upon to suffer the flesh to cease from sin, (forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.1 Peter 4:1-2) it is a call to self-discipline. When the Lord implored us to cut off the right hand or pluck off our right eye if they will cause us to sin, he is not literally asking us to mutilate any part of our body than to resist the voice of the spirit of the flesh luring us to sin, and to starve and kill or mortify its lusts and works. It’s either we kill the sin that wages against our souls that we may live, or we yield to its demands to destroy our soul- the choice is ours. In this time of grace and ministration of spirit, let us take solace and courage from the boldness of Joseph in Egypt at his master’s house, when his master’s wife lusted after him and offered him free sex; not once or twice. He candidly resisted and refused her sexual demand and sinful obligation put upon him. Let our eyelids look straight before us: and let us ponder the paths of our feet and to establish our ways; not turning to the right hand, nor to the left, but to remove our feet from evil and to keep walking straight in the highway of holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.
 
 
The next price is the price of self- abasement. If any man does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child and remain in it as a little child, he shall not enter into it, neither stays long in it. God resist the proud, but give grace to the lowly. Grace is multiplied to walk with God and to work for him in humbleness of mind if we keep it low to walk in lowliness of mind and Spirit. The kingdom greatness is measured by our lowly services we’re rending and continue to minister to others in love to the glory of Christ. God’s commendation is not in any worldly position we occupied or church titles we answer to. We should learn from the humility and the self-abasement of our Lord Saviour Jesus who put on the form of a servant and humbled himself to obey God till the death on the cross (but Jesus called them to him, and said unto them, you know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great one’s exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Mark 42-45) as he washed his disciples’ feet (though he is their Lord and Master) as an example of what is expected of every one of his children, either the bishop or church members, to serve one another – submitting to one another in the fear of God. There shall be no exaltation or promotion without humility; and there shall be no meaningful and lasting victory over Satan without humbleness of mind. Get my book on the sacrifices of God on Spiritual brokenness.
 
 
Lastly, there is the price of self-determination to pay to possess the kingdom of heaven. Self-determination will motivate, stir up and empower us to get the job done till the end without giving up in the face of defeat, lacking hope and admitting defeat. Self-determination is of basic importance in these last days if we’re not to become faithless and discourage to throw in the towel and turn our back against God because of the multiplication of iniquity and increasing lawlessness and gross wickedness in the world and in the church today, causing the love of many believers and would be believers to wax cold. We are to be self-determined to walk out our salvation with fear and trembling and to avoid the company of evil workers and dogs in the church and in the world. The arms of flesh will fail you. Emulate the good and ignored the evil believers in the church. Don’t rely on anyone to run your race of eternal life; but trust God who has begun the good works in you by looking constantly unto Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith because. Many churches and her leaders are sick and fallen and are out of the way. Let nothing terrified or embarrassed you as you set your face to reach the goal and to get to the end of the journey with the Lord, come what may. ‘According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain’. Philippians 1:20-21.                                                                                                                                         
 
I know what it is to find yourself in a situation where you are alone like Elisha to follow after the Elijah till the end of his translation and you have all the sons of the prophets mocking the departure of your Elijah and your bald head with hope to discourage you from pursuing after your goal of double portion of unction. With your mind and affection set upon the Lord, you shall be helped and delivered from every obstacle to receive the best from the Lord and the mockers shall become your servants. Therefore, encourage yourself in the Lord your God to become father and master over them that are serving under unworthy fathers and masters. 1 Samuel 30:6. 2 Kings 2:1-18.                                                                                                                   
In the spirit and power of self-determination, we’ll become unstoppable in the face of any carnal sentiment and discouragement of the brethren or any other limitations that may impede us (and as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, thus said the Holy Ghost, so shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, what mean ye to weep and to break my heart? For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, the will of the Lord be done. Acts 21:10-14) from getting to the summit of the mountain of God. ‘Then said he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. And he cometh unto the disciples, and finds them asleep, and said unto Peter, what, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. The goal is to re-possess the eternal visible paradise lost by the first parents when God shall make all things new and to have the right to eat from the fruit of the tree of life. These are the prices to pay to get there as the forerunner (Christ) has paved the way by paying the ultimate price for us by his death and resurrection. Matthew 24:1-13. Matthew 26: 38-44.  
 
HYMNS   
 
 
I gave My life for thee, my precious blood I shed, that thou might ransomed be, and quickened from the dead; I gave, I gave My life for thee, what hast thou given for Me?
 
 
My Father’s house of light, my glory circled throne, I left for earthly night, for wanderings sad and lone; I left, I left it all for thee, Hast thou left aught for Me?
 
 
I suffered much for thee, more than thy tongue can tell, of bitterest agony, to rescue thee from hell; I’ve borne, I’ve borne it all for thee, what hast thou borne for Me?
 
 
And I have brought to thee, Down from My home above, Salvation full and free, my pardon and My love; I bring, I bring rich gifts to thee, what hast thou brought to Me?