We Wear Authority While the Earth Learns Peace
We Wear Authority While the Earth Learns Peace declares that Christ’s reign in us answers the groaning of the ground with present witness, present peace, and present order. We refuse the lie that cursed appearance has final authority. We speak as those crowned in Christ now, bearing His authority into land, places, and living order as signs of restoration already working among us.
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Chapter 1: We Refuse the Rule of Ruin
The first lie we destroy is the lie that ruined ground still has the highest voice. We do not bow to barren appearance, hostile weather, violent patterns, hardened places, or long histories of disorder as though they carry final authority. Christ dwells in us now, so ruin does not rule where He reigns. We do not treat thorns, waste, dryness, unrest, or creaturely disturbance as permanent kings over the earth. We wear authority in union with Christ, and that authority reaches farther than private inward language. Our confession begins here: the condition of the ground does not define the reach of the Christ who lives in us.
The curse touched the ground, and scripture does not hide that wound. Genesis says, “cursed is the ground for thy sake” (Genesis 3:17, KJV). We do not deny that history, but we also do not stop our doctrine there. We read the wound through the victory of Christ, not the victory of Christ through the wound. We do not call the ground ultimate when the cross is greater. We do not call disorder stronger when the risen Christ is Lord. The earth may show the marks of ruin, yet marks are not mastery. What Christ has borne is not what creation must eternally obey in every present witness.
The crown of thorns matters because it speaks directly to the curse-thread that touched the ground. Christ did not bear random suffering. He bore the sign of cursed earth upon His own head, and we refuse to treat that as a small detail. We wear authority now because our Lord wore the curse-sign first. He entered the place of disorder and judged it in His own body. That means our reign with Him is not limited to inward reassurance or private devotion. His triumph addresses land, fruitfulness, peace, and visible order. We do not claim full consummation now, but we do declare present witnesses, present signs, and present foretastes under His reign.
Creation groans, but groaning is not the same as abandonment. Romans says creation waits for “the manifestation of the sons of God” (Romans 8:19, KJV). We do not read that as silence. We read it as present relevance. The earth is not ignored by Christ, and the ground is not outside the voice of His body. We carry His life where groaning has spoken for generations. We stand in fields, homes, cities, regions, and damaged places knowing that Christ in us is not disconnected from what surrounds us. Our authority is not imaginary, and our peace is not abstract. The created order is not beyond the reach of reigning union.
We reject the claim that visible disorder has the right to tutor our doctrine. We do not let drought preach to us. We do not let barrenness write our theology. We do not let animal violence, regional unrest, poisoned ground, or repeated failure declare what Christ can express through us now. Appearance is real, but appearance is not Lord. Resistance may be visible, but visibility is not sovereignty. We do not kneel before patterns and call that wisdom. We do not study ruin until ruin sounds normal. We behold Christ, and from that union we judge every cursed appearance as answerable, limited, and unable to silence the reign we wear.
Because Christ is present in us now, we speak from answer rather than from surrender to conditions. We do not ask whether the land has permission to remain broken forever. We ask whether anything broken holds final authority against the One who fills us now. The answer is no. We carry peace that touches atmosphere, order that confronts confusion, and blessing that addresses barrenness. We are not inventing power, and we are not pretending conditions do not exist. We are declaring that Christ’s indwelling presence is greater than what appears fixed. What looks entrenched to sight is still beneath the reign of the crowned Christ expressed through us.
So we begin this book with a settled refusal. We refuse to call cursed appearance final. We refuse to call ruined places untouchable. We refuse to speak as though Christ rules heaven while disorder rules earth without interruption. We wear authority now, and the earth learns peace under that authority because Christ is alive in us now. We bring His reign into contact with groaning places. We bless what was treated as hopeless. We stand over fields, homes, creatures, regions, and troubled ground with the confession of sons: Christ bore the curse, Christ reigns now, and creation is not beyond His present witness through us.
Chapter 2: We Reject Small Expectations Over the Earth
Religion often trained us to expect less from Christ than Christ revealed of Himself. It taught us to reduce the cross to private comfort while leaving the wider testimony of creation untouched in our thinking. It let us speak of forgiveness while remaining timid about the ground, the land, the atmosphere of places, and the order of living things. It treated peace in creation as a distant subject with no present witness. We reject that reduced expectation. We do not magnify future fulfillment in a way that silences present manifestation. Christ’s reign is not inactive now, and His authority in us is not confined to inward language alone.
Fear also narrowed expectation. It warned us not to speak boldly over land, homes, regions, or places because visible resistance looked too established. It told us that barrenness was safer to explain than to confront. It made us cautious around created disorder as though peace had no right to appear before the end of all things. We reject that fear because fear never carried the crown. Christ carried the crown, and He reigns in us now. Fear trained many voices to speak only where outcomes seemed manageable, but we do not inherit that smallness. We inherit the reign of Christ, and His authority is not edited by frightened expectation.
Tradition often separated the cross from the curse on the ground. It preached salvation to souls while speaking little about the wider witness of restoration under Christ’s authority. It rarely connected the thorns upon His head with the wound that entered the earth through the curse. It left many of us with a gospel discussed in rooms but not spoken over places. We reject that split. We do not preach a Christ who saves inwardly yet leaves His present witness absent from the environments we inhabit. Scripture says, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13, KJV). We speak from that redemption boldly.
Reduced expectation also came from treating groaning as the end of the sentence. We heard of a groaning creation, but many voices stopped there and acted as though no present answer could be manifested through the sons of God. Yet scripture does not present groaning without direction. It says creation waits with earnest expectation for manifestation. That means our doctrine must not agree with hopelessness. Romans speaks of the creature being delivered from bondage into glorious liberty (Romans 8:21, KJV). We do not claim the final fullness is already completed in all visible measure, but we do reject the thought that no real witness of restoration may appear now.
Small expectation weakens speech. When expectation is reduced, blessing sounds unnecessary, peace sounds symbolic, and authority sounds exaggerated. But Christ did not join us to Himself so we would whisper only within accepted limits. He joined us to Himself so His reign would be expressed through us now. We do not stand over land and speak like observers. We speak like those crowned in Him. We do not speak to homes, fields, troubled regions, or living order as though our words are detached from union. We bless in His name because He lives in us now. We declare peace because peace is not absent from the One who indwells us.
Reduced expectation also made visible damage sound more stable than Christ’s indwelling life. Dry ground, aggressive conditions, failing places, disturbed animals, poisoned patterns, and recurring disorder were allowed to shape theology instead of being judged by the reign of Christ. We reject that training. We do not learn limitation from appearances. We learn authority from union. We do not let disorder instruct us in what is possible. We let Christ reveal what is answerable. The earth is not our master, and cursed appearance is not our teacher. Christ is our life now, and what He bore at the cross gives us grounds to speak with holy certainty into groaning environments.
So we renounce the church habit of expecting lesser outcomes than Christ deserves. We reject the timid language that leaves peace trapped in theory and restoration locked in future discussion alone. We refuse to handle the crown of thorns as a detail without doctrine. We refuse to speak as though land, atmosphere, places, and living order are beneath the present witness of Christ in us. We wear authority now, and we do not apologize for expecting signs of peace, order, and restoration where groaning once dominated the story. Christ does not teach us reduction. Christ teaches us reign, and we answer the earth from that reign together.
Chapter 3: We Carry the Reign That Answers Groaning
We do not approach groaning creation as people separated from the answer. Christ in us is the answer now. We are not standing beside the solution, waiting for distance to close. We are joined to the One through whom all things were made, and His indwelling life is not passive. That means we do not face cursed conditions as mere observers of decay. We face them in union with the reigning Christ. The same Lord who wears all authority in heaven and in earth lives in us now. Our message to groaning places begins here: the answer is not absent, because Christ is not absent from us.
Union changes how we understand authority. We do not borrow a distant power for a moment and then return to weakness. We live in abiding union with Christ, so authority is not an occasional event but a present reality. Jesus says, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Matthew 28:18, KJV). We do not quote that as spectators. We speak it as those sent in Him, filled by Him, and expressive of His reign now. The earth does not wait for us to become something else. The earth encounters Christ through us now. His authority is not symbolic in us. His authority is living, reigning, and speaking.
Because Christ is in us, we do not interpret groaning as proof of His distance. Groaning is proof that disorder is not the native language of creation, and it is also proof that creation awaits witness. We do not meet unrest with philosophical distance. We meet it with the reign of Christ expressed through our words, our blessing, our presence, and our obedience. Colossians declares that by Him all things consist (Colossians 1:17, KJV). We do not divide that sustaining authority from His indwelling life in us. The One who holds creation together is not far away from His body. He is present in us now, and we speak from that presence.
Christ in us also means peace is not external to our message. We do not beg for peace as though peace were missing from the One who fills us. Christ is our peace now, so the authority we carry is not harsh, chaotic, or reactionary. His reign establishes order. His authority answers violence with dominion, barrenness with blessing, and disordered places with kingdom witness. We do not carry tension as our doctrine. We carry peace because Christ does not rule in confusion. When we step into troubled ground, disturbed homes, damaged regions, or agitated living order, we do not arrive empty. We arrive with the present reign of Christ already active in us.
The ground may still display curse-scars, but scars are not sovereign. Christ in us addresses those scars with a higher rule. We do not deny damage, but we do deny its throne. We do not deny resistance, but we do deny its supremacy. Union teaches us to interpret every visible condition through Christ, not Christ through every visible condition. That is why we do not speak timidly over barren places. We do not surrender whole categories of creation to hopeless language. Where Christ dwells, we have grounds to bless, speak peace, declare order, and expect witness. Groaning is real, but our union with Christ is more real and more determinative.
We also reject the idea that Christ’s authority in us is limited to church gatherings or private spiritual moments. His reign accompanies us into fields, properties, neighborhoods, regions, waters, animals, and atmospheres shaped by long disorder. We do not become less joined to Christ when we step into visible ruin. We become the place where His answer is expressed. We are not inventing meaning for the earth; we are revealing the reign of the Creator who indwells us now. Groaning places are not beyond contact with kingdom peace. We are sent into the earth as witnesses that Christ’s life is present, governing, and able to manifest signs of restoration now.
So we stand together in settled doctrine: Christ in us is the present answer to groaning creation. We do not separate our union from the created order around us. We do not reduce our calling to inward speech alone. We wear authority because Christ reigns in us now, and that authority reaches troubled environments with present peace. We are not waiting to become channels of His reign. We are His body now. Therefore we bless without hesitation, speak peace without apology, and stand in places of disorder without surrender. The earth does not only hear our voices. The earth encounters the reigning Christ through us now.
Chapter 4: We Receive Peace Before Sight Agrees
Believing reception is essential because Christ taught us to receive before sight confirms. We do not wait for the land to look peaceful before we receive peace in Christ. We do not wait for the atmosphere of a place to calm before we stand as those carrying the reign of peace. We receive because Christ is present now, not because conditions have already yielded. Faith is not a reaction to visible agreement. Faith is agreement with Christ before visible change appears. That is why we do not let the ground, the region, the weather of a place, or the unrest of living order tell us what we may receive in Him now.
Jesus gives us the pattern plainly: “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24, KJV). We do not rearrange that order. We do not postpone receiving until after evidence. We believe that we receive while appearance still argues. That applies to peace in the earth as surely as it applies to any other manifestation under Christ’s reign. We receive fruitfulness before barrenness loosens. We receive order before confusion settles. We receive peace before the land shows the full witness. Christ in us gives us the right to receive before sight agrees, because His presence is greater than visible contradiction.
Many were taught to wait for a feeling, a sign, or a shift in atmosphere before speaking with authority. We reject that false sequence. We do not feel first and receive later. We receive because Christ is true now. We do not read acceptance from sensation. We read it from union. The authority we wear is not powered by emotional confirmation. It is powered by the finished work of Christ alive in us now. That means we can stand in troubled places without borrowing confidence from appearances. We can receive peace in the middle of unrest and remain unmoved. The witness begins in believing reception, not in the approval of the visible scene.
Believing reception also destroys the lie that manifestation must be earned. We do not achieve peace by becoming worthy enough to speak it. We do not qualify ourselves to bless the ground through intense effort or extended waiting. Christ qualifies the witness because Christ is present in us now. James says we ask in faith, nothing wavering (James 1:6, KJV). We take that seriously, not as pressure, but as settled union. Wavering treats appearance like a second lord. Faith refuses that split. We do not stand between Christ and conditions as divided people. We stand in Him, receiving what He authorizes now, and we speak from that settled reception.
For creation restoration, believing reception means we receive kingdom order before the visible scene is fully reordered. We receive peace over homes before strife visibly dissolves. We receive fruitfulness over land before harvest appears. We receive rest over disturbed living order before every sign has settled. We do not deny what we see, but we do deny its final word. Reception is not pretending. Reception is agreement with Christ’s present reign. We are not fantasizing over the earth. We are receiving from the One who wore the curse-sign and reigns now. His authority in us authorizes us to stand in advance of visible settlement without retreating into doubt.
This also guards us from passive language. We do not say we are waiting to see whether peace will come. We say we receive peace now because Christ is peace in us now. We do not say we hope the ground someday answers. We say the ground is not beyond the reign we carry now. Believing reception gives backbone to blessing. It gives firmness to speech. It gives constancy to presence. Without reception, speech becomes uncertain and authority becomes hesitant. But with reception settled, we stand as crowned witnesses. We bless with clarity, speak with rest, and continue without collapse when the first visible moment has not yet matched what Christ has already authorized.
So we receive before sight agrees. We receive peace before the earth displays it fully. We receive order before disorder yields visibly. We receive fruitfulness before barren history changes its report. We do not call this presumption. We call this agreement with Jesus. We do not wait for the land to authorize our faith. Christ authorizes our faith now. Therefore we pray, receive, bless, and stand. We wear authority because Christ reigns in us now, and receiving is part of that reign. The earth learns peace not because we worship appearances, but because we receive the peace of Christ first and then speak from that union boldly.
Chapter 5: We Speak Blessing Where Disorder Once Ruled
Authority in Christ is not silent. We do not carry the crown of His reign and then speak like those with no jurisdiction. Because Christ lives in us now, we ask, bless, declare, command, and stand from union. Our words are not detached from Him. Our speech is part of His present witness through us. That means we do not address land, homes, properties, regions, or disturbed living order with uncertainty. We speak peace because Christ is peace in us now. We speak order because Christ reigns in us now. We do not wait for the ground to improve before blessing it. We bless because the crowned Christ already indwells us.
Blessing the ground is not poetic religion. It is kingdom speech flowing from the finished work. When we bless the land, we are not flattering creation or performing ritual. We are declaring that the reign of Christ touches what the curse once marked. Scripture says, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof” (Psalm 24:1, KJV). We speak from that ownership. We do not surrender places to ruin as though Christ has no present answer for them. We bless fields, homes, waters, neighborhoods, and regions because they are not outside the domain of the One who lives in us now. Authority speaks because authority knows whose earth this is.
We also speak peace into atmospheres of disorder. We do not treat unrest as too normal to challenge. We do not accept confusion in a home, agitation in a place, or recurring disturbance in a region as though those patterns deserve to remain unquestioned. Christ’s authority in us is not abstract. It confronts what opposes His order. Jesus rebuked the wind and said unto the sea, “Peace, be still” (Mark 4:39, KJV). We do not isolate that moment from our union with Him. We do not claim independent control over creation, but we do declare that His reigning peace is present in us now, and we speak from that peace with confidence.
Speaking blessing also means refusing the vocabulary of permanence over cursed appearances. We do not call barrenness final. We do not call disturbance natural law in an ultimate sense. We do not say that troubled places must remain troubled because they have been troubled for a long time. We do not let history sit on the throne. Christ sits there. Therefore our speech must agree with Him. We declare fruitfulness where lack has spoken. We declare rest where agitation has repeated itself. We declare order where patterns of confusion once seemed rooted. We do not invent those declarations out of optimism. We speak them because Christ in us is the present source of kingdom order.
Authority-filled speech is joined to standing. We do not speak one bold moment and then retreat into contradiction. We stand in what Christ authorizes. We keep blessing where our former language would have surrendered. We keep speaking peace where the environment once tutored us in anxiety. We keep declaring fruitfulness where memory once taught us to expect less. Our standing is not stubborn human will. Our standing is agreement with the reigning Christ. That is why our words do not depend on instant visible applause. We speak, stand, bless, and continue because the One who reigns in us is not changing. His authority remains, so our confession remains under His crown.
For creation restoration, asking and declaring work together. We ask in faith because Christ taught us to ask, and we declare in authority because Christ taught us to reign. We do not divide prayer from command as though union with Christ must choose one or the other. We ask from dependence and speak from dominion, both in Him. We bless the land, call peace into the atmosphere, and declare fruitfulness over places because Christ is alive in us now. We do not fear sounding too bold when our words remain rooted in Him. Boldness is not excess when Christ is the source. Boldness is the natural speech of crowned union with the reigning Lord.
So we reject passive silence over disordered places. We bless what religion ignored. We speak peace where confusion once ruled. We declare order where patterns of unrest once seemed fixed. We call barren places to answer Christ, not because final consummation is already complete in all visible measure, but because signs, witnesses, and foretastes of His restoration belong in our present doctrine. We wear authority now, and the earth learns peace under the voice of Christ expressed through us. Therefore we ask, bless, declare, command, and stand together. The crowned Christ is not voiceless in us, and disordered creation is not beyond the reach of His present speech through our mouths.
Chapter 6: We Witness Creation Answer the Christ We Bear
We do not build this doctrine on imagination. We build it on the witness of Jesus and on the pattern of authority expressed in His name. Christ did not treat creation as disconnected from His reign. He spoke to winds, seas, trees, fish, bread, and conditions as Lord, and all of it revealed that creation is answerable to Him. Because He lives in us now, we do not separate His present life from His present witness. We do not say that the earth must remain unreachable until the final day before it can show any sign of His reign. We say instead that creation may answer the Christ we bear now in present foretastes.
The ministry of Jesus includes visible examples that teach us not to fear the created order. He rebuked storms. He multiplied bread in a barren place. He directed creation with calm authority because the world He made was never above His voice. The fig tree also became a witness that created order is not beyond the government of His word. Scripture says, “Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22, KJV). We do not read that apart from the context of creation answering His speech. Faith in God is not detached from visible effect. We believe that the One who reigns over all things still expresses His authority through His body now.
This does not mean we become reckless, theatrical, or inflated. We do not turn creation restoration into spectacle. We do not speak to impress crowds. We do not pretend that every sentence must produce a public display on command. We remain rooted in Christ and grounded in His peace. Yet we also refuse the opposite error, which is to explain away the possibility of present witness altogether. The earth may answer Christ through us now with signs of peace, order, fruitfulness, and restored harmony. Those signs are not the final renewal in its fullness, but they are real witnesses that the crowned Christ has not ceased to reign through His body.
The prophets also give us language for creation peace that we do not treat as irrelevant to present witness. Isaiah declares, “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb” (Isaiah 11:6, KJV). We do not misuse that promise as though all final fulfillment is already complete everywhere, yet we do let it shape our expectation of kingdom peace. Christ’s reign does not produce fear as its final fruit. Christ’s reign produces order, peace, and harmony in keeping with His kingdom. Therefore we do not speak over places as though unrest is the only realistic outcome. We expect signs that agree with the peace of His reign because His authority is present in us now.
We also recognize that blessing land, homes, regions, and living environments is not empty language. Many places carry long memories of conflict, barrenness, fear, or repeated disorder. We do not deny those histories, but we do deny their right to dictate all present expectation. Where Christ is expressed through us, history is not lord. We bring blessing into damaged spaces and expect witness. We speak peace over troubled environments and expect witness. We stand over land and declare fruitfulness in Christ and expect witness. Sometimes that witness appears in atmosphere, sometimes in order, sometimes in restored pattern, and sometimes in settled peace where unrest had learned to dominate the environment.
Creation answering Christ through us also teaches us that manifestation is relational to union, not to hype. The witness does not come because we exaggerate. It comes because Christ is alive in us now. We are not separate operators attempting to manipulate the world. We are the body of the reigning Lord, and His peace reaches outward through our presence, our words, our blessing, and our obedience. That is why we do not let unbelief wear the disguise of caution. Refusing expectancy is not humility. Humility agrees with Christ. Humility says that the earth is answerable to the Lord we carry now, and therefore no groaning place is beneath His present witness through us.
So we declare this chapter with clarity: creation may answer the Christ we bear now. We may witness peace where agitation ruled, order where confusion repeated itself, and fruitfulness where barrenness spoke for years. We do not force finality into the present, but we do refuse a theology that leaves the present empty of restoration witness. The crowned Christ lives in us now. Therefore signs, foretastes, and manifestations of kingdom peace belong within our expectation. We wear authority while the earth learns peace, and what the earth answers is not human confidence alone. The earth answers the reigning Christ expressed through us now in present witness and holy order.
Chapter 7: We Go Crowned and Command Peace in the Earth
Now we speak as those commissioned in present union. We do not remain in discussion when Christ has already given us His reign to express. We go crowned because Christ reigns in us now. We do not ask the earth for permission to speak peace. We do not ask disorder whether it agrees with restoration. We go into homes, lands, neighborhoods, fields, properties, waters, regions, and troubled environments carrying the authority of the crowned Christ. This chapter is not reflection. This chapter is sending. We are not practicing a future identity. We are walking as the body of the reigning Lord now, and creation is not beyond the reach of His present witness through us.
Ask in faith. Do not ask from distance. Ask from union. Ask because Christ is present in us now and His reign is not withheld. Ask over land, over homes, over regions, over disturbed places, and over every environment where peace has been contradicted. Jesus says, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them” (Mark 11:24, KJV). Therefore believe that we receive. Do not postpone reception until visible agreement arrives. Receive peace now. Receive order now. Receive fruitfulness now. Receive kingdom witness now. The earth does not teach us what to receive. Christ teaches us what to receive, and we agree with Him boldly.
Speak peace into the land. Bless the ground. Declare fruitfulness. Speak Christ’s order into disorder. Call barren places to answer Christ. Refuse the permanence of the curse. Walk as sons in the earth. Reveal the reign of Christ in places, regions, and living things. Do not use timid language over troubled environments. Do not call irreversible what Christ has addressed. Do not speak as though history is the highest throne in a place. Christ is Lord there now, and we are His body now. Therefore we speak with peace, with rest, with authority, and with clean certainty. We do not imitate dominion. We express the dominion of the crowned Christ alive in us.
Walk as Christ in the earth. Do not reduce our calling to inward agreement only. Our union with Christ moves through our mouths, our blessing, our presence, and our obedience in real places. We are not assigned merely to observe decay. We are sent to manifest witness. We are not sent to normalize unrest. We are sent to confront it with peace. We are not sent to admire barrenness and explain it well. We are sent to bless the ground and declare fruitfulness in Christ. Scripture says, “The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God” (Romans 8:19, KJV). Therefore manifest. Do not hide under reduced expectation.
Refuse the permanence of cursed appearance. Refuse to let thorns preach louder than the crown Christ now wears in victory. Refuse to let disorder tutor our doctrine. Refuse to let repeated conflict in a place become the story we submit to. Refuse to let barren ground define our speech. Refuse to let visible agitation in living order become our accepted horizon. Christ bore the curse-sign, Christ reigns now, and Christ lives in us now. Therefore we do not kneel before what looks entrenched. We stand crowned in Him. We do not agree with the permanence of ruin. We declare present witness, present peace, and present order as those joined to the reigning Lord.
Lay hands where Christ directs. Bless with intention. Speak with clarity. Stand without wavering. Continue where older language would have surrendered. Return to the field, the property, the home, the region, the disturbed place, and the groaning environment with the confession of crowned union. The earth is the Lord’s, and the authority of Christ in us is not symbolic. We do not manipulate creation. We minister the reign of Christ into creation. We do not chase spectacle. We reveal peace. We do not serve panic. We serve the kingdom. We do not retreat into abstraction. We go into real places and speak as those who carry the living reign of Christ now.
So go. Ask in faith. Believe that we receive. Walk as Christ. Do not call impossible what Christ indwells. Speak peace into the land. Bless the ground. Declare fruitfulness. Speak Christ’s order into disorder. Call barren places to answer Christ. Refuse the permanence of the curse. Walk as sons in the earth. Reveal the reign of Christ in places, regions, and living things. We are commissioned now, not later. We are crowned now, not later. We are sent now, not later. The earth learns peace under the reign of Christ expressed through us now, and we do not hold back the witness of His crown from the world He made.