Praise ye the Lord, the Almighty,
the King of creation. O my soul, praise Him, for He
is the help and salvation. All ye who hear, bow to His temple
dronear. Join me in glad adoration. Praise ye the Lord, who o'er
all things so wondrously greatness Shelters thee under his wings,
yea, so gently sustaineth. Hath thou not seen how thy desires
e'er have been Granted in what he ordaineth? Praise ye the Lord, who with
marvelous wisdom hath made thee, decked thee with health and with
loving, and guided and stayed thee. How oft in grief Hath not
he brought thee relief, Spreading his wings for to shade thee? Praise ye the Lord, O let all
that is in me adore Him. All that hath life and breath,
come now with praises before Him. Let the amen sound from
his people again, gladly, for we adore him. Be seated, please. Let's open our Bibles together
to Micah chapter 6. Micah chapter 6. The purpose of this scripture
reading, every time we gather together in prayer, is it's a
call to worship. We all come to this place from
so many different distractions, and this is an opportunity for
us to be reminded as to why we're here. And this passage is so
wonderful in that regard. Micah chapter 6, we begin reading
in verse 6, Wherewith shall I come before the Lord? How am I gonna
come before God and bow myself before the high God? Shall I
come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will
the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with 10,000s of rivers
of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for
my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? How am I going to come before
God? What can I bring Him that will satisfy Him? My dedication? Sacrifice of my children? He has showed thee, O man, what
is good. And what doth the Lord require
of thee? To do justly. Now how am I going to do justly? If I'm found in Christ, I'm justified
before God. I have done justly in the perfect
obedience of my Savior. To love mercy. Oh, we do. Lovers of grace are lovers of
mercy. Lovers of Christ are lovers of
mercy. Oh, Lord, I'm a mercy beggar.
And to walk humbly with thy God. That's what God requires. He
requires us to do justly. To live our lives in such a way
as to satisfy the demands of the law of God. To love mercy. And to walk humbly. With thy God. Our Heavenly Father, We're so very thankful in reading
this passage of scripture that you've given to us an understanding.
And you've given to us an eye of faith to look to thy dear
son and to place our hope and our faith in him for our justification
before thee. Lord, we thank you that you've
made us to be sinners, and as sinners we can do nothing but
beg for mercy. And Lord, you caused us to see
that the only way that we can walk with thee is to walk humbly,
confessing our complete and total dependence upon you for everything. everything in this life and most
especially in the life to come. We ask that you would send your
spirit in power that you would cause us Lord to to do that which
you have declared here in your word to be good and that we would
find ourselves looking to Christ for all the hope of our salvation.
For it's in his name we ask it. Amen. With that, I'd like to sing to
him number 11 on your gospel hymn. Will you remain seated?
We're going to sing this a cappella number 11. Oh God, be merciful
to me. ? With broken heart and contrite
side ? A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry ? Thy pardoning grace is
rich and free ? O God, be merciful to me ? I smite upon my troubled
breast ? With deep and conscious guilt oppressed ? Christ and
his cross my only plea ? O God be merciful to me No works nor
deeds that I have done can for a single sin atone. To Christ the Lord alone I flee. ? O God be merciful to me ? ?
And when redeemed from sin and hell ? ? With all the ransomed
throng I dwell ? ? My raptured song shall ever be ? God has
been merciful to me. Let's open our Bibles together
to Isaiah chapter 31. Isaiah chapter 31. I had first titled this message,
Don't Go Back to Egypt. Woe to them that go down to Egypt
for help. And then in looking in my own
heart, I realized that there's very little difference between
those children of Israel when they were wandering in the wilderness
and constantly murmuring and always casting a wishful eye
back towards Egypt, thinking about the garlics and the leeks
and the onions and the melons, all those things that came from
the earth that they enjoyed back in Egypt, and complaining that
all they had in the wilderness was manna. And I realize that we do oftentimes
go back to Egypt. But this is a precious promise
and a faithful warning to God's people to acknowledge those times
that we go back to Egypt for what they are. And for us to
find ourselves once again asking the Lord for mercy. And so I've
changed the title to this message, Lord, Increase Our Faith. Increase Our Faith. In Luke chapter
7, the Lord is teaching the disciples about forgiveness and he says
to them, if you have a brother that sins against you seven times
in a day and seven times in a day he repents and asks you to forgive
him, you are to forgive him. And the disciples said, Lord,
increase our faith. How are we going to do that?
And I got to thinking about, would God It's foolish to even ask such
a question, but I'm going to put it in the form of a question.
Would it be possible for our God to require something of us
that he wouldn't be willing to do himself? He says, if your
brother sins against you seven times in a day, you forgive him
seven times. He asked you to forgive him. And the disciples
said, Lord, increase our faith. How many times we sin against
God in a day? And every time, he sends his
spirit to show us the vanity of Egypt. And the sweetness of
that manna, and Numbers chapter 11, the scripture says, and they
feasted on the manna that was sweet like honey, it was white
like coriander seed, it sustained them in everything they needed.
It's the gospel. The Lord Jesus Christ is that
banner. He's the bread that comes down
from heaven. And how sweet He is when the
Spirit of God shows us the vanity of Egypt and brings us back again
and again and again and again to look to Christ. and to rest
and rejoice in Him. And we say with those disciples,
Lord, increase our faith. I hate it when I look back to
Egypt. I hate it when I try to find the hope and comfort of
my life in anything other than Christ. And Lord, I need your
mercy. I need your Holy Spirit to continue
to remind me that man cannot save me. Lord, forgive me. Forgive me for casting a wishful
eye back towards Egypt and lusting after the things that come from
the earth. And cause me to feast on the
bread of life. Cause me to be satisfied with
Christ. Woe to them that go down to Egypt. I'm reminded of Isaiah chapter
2 verse 22. You'll remember this verse when
we looked at it a couple of months ago. Cease ye from man whose
breath is in his nostrils wherein is he to be accounted of. Cease ye from man Don't lean
upon man. Don't lean upon your own works. Don't lean upon your own dedication.
Don't lean upon anything other than Christ. Don't lean upon
whatever comforts that the Lord has given you in this world.
Don't look to your bank account. Don't look anywhere for your
comforts. Cease ye from man. Wherein is he to be accounted
of? His breath is in his nostrils. They say you can live 30 days
without food, and three days without water, and three minutes
without air. And that's all God's got to do,
is pinch your nostrils. And you get about three minutes,
and your life's snuffed out. His life is in his nostrils.
Lord, I'm so vain, I'm so weak, I'm so dependent. And here the
Lord graciously and mercifully reminds his children, look what
he says, woe to them that go down to Egypt for help. Now,
Egypt is known for bondage, isn't it? And if we look to anything
for the help of our salvation or of our life outside of Christ,
we put ourselves in bondage. We're going back to the taskmasters.
And the Lord says, don't do that. Now the warning here for the
unbeliever is that his hope is in Egypt. Now, historically the
picture here in the book of Isaiah is that Assyria had mastered
the war tactics of besiegement. It was the first time in the
history of man that a nation had really mastered that so well,
and Assyria had done it. And that's what they did. They
would surround their army around a city and just choke them out. Cut off all their supply. And
so the Israelites were tempted to go make an alliance with Egypt
to get them to come and fight against the Assyrians. And the
Lord says, don't go down to Egypt. You feel like you're being hemmed
in on all sides? You feel like, you remember in
the Kings when the prophet Elisha, I think it's 2 Kings chapter
6, when the prophet Elisha is in Dothan and he's surrounded
by the army of Assyria and The prophet's servant goes out and
sees this army surrounding them and comes back in and says, Master,
what shall we do? And what did he say? He said,
don't worry about it. They that are with us are more
than they that are with them. We don't have to make an alliance
with Egypt. We don't have to look for a way out. Elisha had
already looked up. And then Elisha prays for the
young man and says, Lord, open his eyes that he might see. And
the young man went back out and he saw fiery chariots. The fiery
chariots of God. You know, there's the spiritual
picture. We get besieged, don't we? We get besieged with our
sin. We get besieged with our circumstances. Assyria seems like it's got us
trapped. It cuts off our supply line.
We're hungry. We're thirsty. We turn into turning
on one another. That's exactly what happened
in 2 Kings chapter 7 when when they surrounded Samaria and they
became so desperate that that's the story where the woman went
to the king of Samaria and brought her case before the king and
said, I had made an agreement with this other woman that we
were going to eat her child one day and that we would eat my
child one day and the next day eat hers and it was so horrible. And there were at the same time
lepers at the gate of the city of Samaria, and the lepers reasoned
among themselves, there were four lepers, and the lepers reasoned
among themselves and they said, why are we sitting here? If we
go into the city we're going to die. Because those people
in there are dying. If we sit out here at the gate,
we're going to die. Let's go and cast ourselves on
the Assyrians. And if they save us, we'll live.
And if they don't, well, we're going to die anyway. And so they
did, they went to the Assyrian camp, and the Lord had already
sent a spirit of confusion among the Assyrians, and they all fled.
And the camp was vacant, the horses were there, the provisions
were there, the tents were all set up, and all the soldiers
were gone. And these four lepers started
just feasting on the provisions that were in the Assyrian camp.
And then they said, this is not good, we've got to go tell the
Prophet and the people in Samaria about what God has done. And
so they did. And you remember the man that
didn't believe the message of God was trampled by the crowd
that came out of the city to go into the Assyrian camp. Those
stories are given to us to show us what our spiritual condition
is. We get besieged by so many things. And Satan has mastered
the war strategy of besiegement. And we're like those lepers,
aren't we? Lord, what are we going to do?
We can't go in the city. We can't stay here. We're lepers. We'll just go cast ourselves
on the mercy of God. We're not going to go down to
Egypt. We're not going to go back to the law. We're not gonna go
look to our works. We're not going to step up our
commitment and think that somehow God's gonna reward us for that.
We're just gonna look up and cry out to Christ, for man can't
save us, and I can't save myself. And so the Lord's saying to his
children, woe to them that go down to Egypt. Now that's all
religion is. Religion is Egypt. It's ceremony,
it's denomination, it's works, it's free will, it's all the
things that hold men in bondage in Egypt. And God's saying to
the unbeliever, woe to him, and that word woe is a word of judgment.
You go down to Egypt for your help to try to protect yourself
against the besiegement of sin. And well, what happened was historically
in the days of Isaiah is the Egyptians were wiped out by the
Assyrians too. And the Babylonians were the
next nation to take over the world. So the Egyptians ended
up being of no help to those Israelites that went down to
Egypt. And your works and your will
and all the bondage of the taskmasters of Egypt cannot deliver you from
the besiegement of the Assyrians." You know, I find it, you remember
Nineveh? Well, you see in the news today
that the city Mosul and ISIS in Mosul, that's Nineveh. That's
Nineveh. And that's where the prophet
was sent, Jonah, to Nineveh. And Jonah hated the Ninevites. They were the Assyrians. We can't
take the gospel. Jonah knew that God was a God
of mercy. And he said, I can't take the
gospel to the Ninevites, to the Assyrians. God will have mercy
upon them if I do. And we hate them. So, you know,
I get a little amused at some of the short-sightedness of our
modern-day historians that are looking back to what happened
back in the 60s and 70s and 80s in that part of the world to
explain the condition that it's in today. But in fact, you can
go back 2,600 years and nothing's changed. It's exactly the same
today as it was then. But the spiritual picture, that's
what the Lord, he's speaking to my heart. I hope he's speaking
to your heart. Don't go down to Egypt. You got a problem? You see the horrors of what's
going on in that part of the world right now in Mosul, and
you can relate to that, can't you? That's the same war that
goes on in my heart. That's my propensity and temptations
to look towards Egypt and to find some help for my struggles
outside of Christ. And what does the Lord say? Woe
to them that go down to Egypt for help and that stay on horses
and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen
because they are very strong. but they look not to the Holy
One of Israel, neither seek the Lord. Oh Lord, make us quick
to seek you. Don't let us stay on horses.
Don't let us lean on the strength of a man's arm. Cease ye from
man. His breath is in his nostrils.
How is he to be accounted of anything? He can't help you. Look at verse 3. Now the Egyptians are men and
not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit. You were men
of flesh, and we operate in the flesh so often, don't we? And
the purpose of preaching the gospel is to remind us that that
which is of the flesh is flesh, and the flesh profiteth nothing. It's not by power nor by might,
saith the Lord, it's by my spirit. Lord, give me a spiritual eye.
Enable me to look to the Holy One of Israel. I love that title that the Lord
has given of Himself. And Isaiah uses it a lot. The
Holy One of Israel. He's holy. He's holy, separate,
undefiled, separate from sinners. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
God of hosts. Heaven and earth is filled with
His glory. Where did Isaiah seem in Isaiah
chapter 6? Seated upon a throne. With the seraphim hovering over
him, crying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts. The
post of the door shook. His train filled the temple.
And what did Isaiah say? Woe is me. I am undone. There is my God. There is my Savior. My Savior
is not in my bank account. My Savior is not in my works.
My Savior is not in my will. My Savior is not in my spouse. It's not in my friends. It's
not in my preacher. It's not in my church. My Savior
is seated on the highest throne in all the universe. He hath
done whatsoever He wills. He reigns sovereign over all
the affairs of men and I can seek Him. I can seek Him. Why would I go anywhere else?
Why do I go everywhere else? Why do I do it, Lord? Seek the Lord. Verse 2, Yet He
also is wise and will bring evil and will not call back His words.
I'm so thankful for that. Our God is all wise. And when
we don't seek Him, and we stay upon horses, and we cast a wishful
eye back towards Egypt, He turns it into evil, doesn't He? He
thwarts our efforts. He frustrates our unbelief. And his word doesn't change. He says, I'm wise, I know what
you need, and I'm not gonna lose you. You murmur and you wanna go back
to the fleshly things of Egypt, I'm not gonna let it happen.
I'm gonna turn your devices into evil. And you're gonna suffer the consequences
of your unbelief, and that's going to be my chastisement of
you. And I'm not gonna call back my
words. My word's gonna stand. I'm so thankful that we have
a God that doesn't change. We've got a revelation. of a
God who doesn't change. The God of Gods, the Lord of
Lords, the King of Kings, He said, I change not. I am the
Lord and I change not, and therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Oh, the immutability of our God. And His Word doesn't change.
We don't try to make God's Word relevant to today. It stands
on its own and it speaks to the hearts of God's people in every
generation. And he says, I'm wise. I'm going
to bring your devices against you. My words are not going to
change, but I will arise against the house of the evildoers and
against the help of them that work in equity. Oh, the Lord say, you go back to Egypt. You're
going to be fighting God and you're going to lose. And that's
a good thing. That's a good thing. Because
God's people are brought to loss every day. Every day. Is that your experience? Does
the all-wise God, in His mercy, bring you to loss every time
you go back to Egypt? Every time you try to find any
hope or any satisfaction or any happiness anywhere other than
Christ, you find yourself fighting against God? And you lose that
fight right away, don't you? And that's a good thing. That's
a good thing. You see, those who fight against
God all their lives and take their dying breath with a clenched
fist against God have no hope. They have no hope. We're tempted to do the same
thing in our flesh, but our merciful God corrects us every day, every
day, all the time. Can't get away from him, can
you? And you don't want to, do you? Now, the Egyptians are men and
not God, and their horses are flesh and not spirit. Oh, Lord, if I'm going to see
things like they are... You see, that Elisha's servant
needed the Spirit of God to open the eyes of his understanding
to realize that there were angels out there. You know, God sends
ministering angels to minister. What we see physically in the
surface is just, hey, that's just the outward appearance.
Lord, bless me with your spirit and enable me to see that there's
a realm of truth and reality that the natural man can't see. He can't see. And I won't be
able to see it if you don't send me your spirit. The natural man
cannot receive the things of the Spirit. Neither can he know
them, for they're spiritually discerned. Lord, give me your
Spirit. And how often do you find yourself
asking God for His Holy Spirit? Oh, I hope you do it a lot. That's
the proof. That's the proof that you're
a child of God. Lord, give me your Spirit. Help me to see the
truth. Don't let me be intimidated by
the besiegement of the Assyrians, and don't allow me to go back
to Egypt to find my help. There's no help there. When the
Lord, look at the second part of verse three. When the Lord
shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and
he that is hopin' shall fall down, and they all shall fail
together. And that's a good thing. It's a good thing that it happens
every day to the child of God. That our attempts to fix our
problems apart from looking to Christ will fail. They'll fail. Now, eternally, those who go
back to Egypt for all the hope of their salvation, are going
to find themselves standing against God on the Day of Judgment, and
all their attempts are going to fail. Lord, cause me to fail every
day. I don't want to fail on that
day. I don't want to fail on that day. Cause me to fail right
now. For thus, verse four, hath the
Lord spoken unto me." Has He spoken unto you? Has He revealed
this glorious truth to you about the Holy One of Israel and who
He is and what He's done? He's satisfied the demands of
God's law. He's worked out a righteousness,
a perfect righteousness on behalf of His people. Seek Him. Look to Him. Look to His life
as your life. Look to His death as your death.
Look to His burial as your burial, buried with Christ in baptism,
and raised to walk a new life in Christ Jesus. And look to
Him right now. The Scripture says that we are
in the heavenlies, in Christ, right now. We have an Advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One. Seek Him. Look to Him. And here's what
he says. The Lord's spoken to me. He's
revealed this to me. He's caused me to see the sin
of my heart. He's caused me to acknowledge
my hope in Christ. Like as the lion and the young
lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called
forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice. Now
here's the analogy the Lord's given. Here's a roaring lion,
the king of the jungle, and he's after his prey. And a few little
shepherds are trying to stand up against the lion. Now David's
the only shepherd I know of that ever killed a lion. And that
wasn't by David's strength, that was the strength of the Lord,
and that's a picture of Christ. David is a type of Christ, and
David killed that lion. But otherwise, a normal shepherd
can't kill a lion. He'll have to sacrifice a sheep
to a lion to save his own life. And the Lord's liking in himself
to a lion here. He's the lion of the tribe of
Judah. And he says, when I come, I'm not gonna be afraid. Nor
abase himself for the noise of them. So shall the Lord of hosts
come down to fight for Mount Zion and for the hill thereof. Now what the Lord's saying is,
I'm gonna fight this fight for you. It's not your battle. It's
the Lord's. Yeah, you're besieged by the
Assyrians. Yeah, you're tempted to go back
to Egypt. Yeah, you live in Egypt. You live in Babylon. And all
the Babylonians are telling you, you know, just trust this and
trust that. And you know you can't. And so
the Lord said, I'm the roaring lion. I'm gonna fight this fight
for you. And I'm not gonna be afraid.
I know you're afraid. I know you're afraid. You are
afraid, aren't you? You have fears. that grip your
heart every day. The Lord says, I'm not afraid. I'm not. And I'm gonna fight
for Zion. Look at the next analogy he gives
in verse five. As birds flying, so will the
Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem. Defending also, he will deliver
it. And passing over, he will preserve
it. He's got a bird's-eye view That's
what he's saying. I'm flying over Jerusalem. I
see everything I See every one of my children. I see every circumstance
they're in I see the besiegement of the Assyrians around every
one of them and I'm gonna preserve them I'm gonna protect them. I'm going to defend them. I'm
going to deliver them I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna get the glory
and And God's people said, Oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. I've been trying to do it myself.
Forgive me. Forgive me for staying on horses. Forgive me for trusting in the
arm of flesh. Turn ye unto Him from whom the
children of Israel have deeply revolted. For in that day, every
man shall cast away his idol of silver and his idols of gold,
which your own hands have made unto you for a sin, when the
Lord delivers you. And this happens in the child
of God every day, every day. multiple times a day. You find
yourself not rejoicing in Christ. You find yourself getting out
of sorts over your circumstances. You find yourself staying on
the strength of flesh. And the Spirit of God comes. The Holy One of Israel. He's
like a roaring lion. He's not afraid. He's soaring
overhead. He's able to deliver you, and
He will. He's going to. And the Holy Spirit
gets you to say, oh, thank you, Lord. And you cry out to Him,
and what do you do? What's the first thing you do?
You cast away your idols of silver and gold. You turn your heart
away from Egypt. You've been turned. Turn me,
O Lord, and I shall be turned." Isn't that what Jeremiah said? Lord, I made these things with
my own hands, and you let me fall, you let me fail, in order
to show me the weakness of my flesh. and to cause me to depend
upon you. Then, verse 8, then shall the
Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man, and the
sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him. But he shall flee
from the sword, and his young men shall be discomforted. Now that's exactly what happened
in 2nd Kings chapter 6 when those lepers went into the Assyrian
camp. You read that story. There was
no other army. The Assyrians heard an army and
they said the Israelites have gotten the Egyptians and they
thought the Egyptians were coming against them. And they ran. They just took off. It was the
Lord. It was the Lord. You don't need
the Egyptians, you've got the Lord. What are the Egyptians going to offer
you? And he shall pass over to his
stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the
ensign. The ensign is Christ. He's the
banner. That's what that ensign is. It's
a banner of victory. And the enemy, the Assyrian,
is going to be afraid of him. You're afraid of the Assyrians.
The Assyrians are afraid of Christ. The Assyrians aren't afraid of
you. They know what you are. They know you're weak. They know
your Temptations they they they know
how to They're afraid of Christ They're afraid of the incense
saith the Lord whose fire is in Zion and his furnace in Jerusalem
Now that's the gospel The fire that fell from heaven The fire
of God's holy wrath that put the Lord Jesus Christ
to death on Calvary's cross, satisfying the demands of his
justice once and for all. When the gospels preached, oh,
isn't that what we pray for? Lord, cause the fire of God to
fall, to consume my Egyptians, to show me that I have a savior
who has put away all my sins, You see, you don't get redeemed for your
sins every day because you confess them. You are redeemed once and
for all. And when God does this work of
grace in your heart, then the fire just falls from heaven again.
and causes you to look back, not to what you did today, but
what Christ did for you 2,000 years ago. That's where you're
looking. Now you're casting a wishful eye toward Him, not towards Egypt. And you're putting your stay,
your trust, your hope in a successful Savior. And look at verse 1 of
chapter 32. Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. A man, a king. Here's the God-man. Here's the
one who has King of Kings and Lord of Lords written upon his
thigh. When he comes riding on that
ensign horse in Revelation, showing the victory that he got for his
people, and he reigns, he reigns. People talk about making Jesus
Lord. No, too late. God's already done it. He reigns. He reigns in righteousness. We
have a righteous Savior. And in Him, staying in Him and
resting in Him, trusting Him, we have a righteousness before
God. So that as He is, so are we. So are we. Perfect before
God. My little children, I write these
things unto you that you sin not, but if any man sin, we have
an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. A king shall reign in righteousness. This king is not, he's not threatened
by our unbelief. He's not threatened by our disobedience. You know, as parents, we look
Sunday, you know, about from Isaiah chapter 30, not one child
left behind. And as parents, we lose sleep,
we grieve, we become so anxious over the circumstances of our
children sometimes, particularly when they are bent on a life
that we know is destructive. And rightfully so. We cry out
to God for them. But our Heavenly Father has never
felt that way. He's never lost a minute's sleep
over us. He slumbers not. He doesn't sleep.
But you don't understand what I'm saying. He's never been anxious. He's never thought, oh no, what
am I going to do with my child? He's going to bring you back
from the brink every time you get close to it. And He'll do it multiple times
in a day. And you say, thank you, Lord.
Thank you. It's what I need. I need a Savior
that will never give up on me. A King who reigns in righteousness. Sovereign and omnipotent and
able to save to the uttermost. And princes, now who's that?
That's us. That's the people of God. So
with this king are princes that rule in judgment. Now what that
means is that we judge righteous judgments. We make discernments
about the truth. We discern the truth about ourselves.
Lord, I'm a sinner. I can't do anything but sin.
I can't produce any righteousness. I can't manufacture anything
that would make me acceptable in thy sight. We make righteous
judgments about Christ. we know that he is God's perfect
man. And that he's the God-man. There's one God and one mediator
between God and man, the man, Jesus Christ. And he's the only
man that's able to touch God without being destroyed and able
to touch us without being defiled. He's the mediator. And we make
righteous judgments, knowing that the only hope that I have
to be right with God is to be found in Him. Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. Are you making righteous judgments? Has the Spirit of God caused
you to see that the Egyptians are men and not God? And that every time you stay
on the horses of Egypt, the Lord lets you fall off that horse.
That's what He does. You get on an Egyptian horse
and the Lord will make sure that that horse bucks you. Our Heavenly Father, we're so
very thankful for your word and for the promises that you've
made to your children. We pray that you would send your
spirit and power to give us faith, to believe what you've said,
and to cause us, Lord, to seek Christ, the Holy One of Israel,
to have Him to be our all and in all. For it's in His name
we pray, amen. 258, number 258. you A wonderful Savior is Jesus my
Lord, a wonderful Savior to me. He hideth my soul in the cleft
of the rock where rivers of pleasure I see. He hideth my soul in the
cleft of the rock That shadows a dry, dirty land. He hideth my life in the depth
of His love, And covers me there with His hand. And covers me there with His
hand. A wonderful Savior is Jesus my
Lord, He taketh my burden away. He holdeth me up, and I shall
not be moved. He giveth me strength as my day. He hideth my soul in the cleft
of the rock that shadows a dry, thirsty land. He hideth my life in the depths
of His love, And covers me there with His hand. And covers me there with His
hand. With numberless blessings each
moment He crowns, And filled with His fullness divine. I sing in my rapture, O glory
to God, For such a Redeemer as mine. He hideth my soul in the
cleft of the rock that shadows a dry, thirsty land. He hideth my life in the depth
of His love, And covers me there with His hand. And covers me there with His
hand. When clothed in His brightness
transported, I rise to meet Him in clouds of the sky. His perfect salvation, His wonderful
love, I'll shout with the millions on high. He hideth my soul in
the cleft of the rock that shadows a dry, thirsty land. He hideth my life in the depth
of His love, And covers me there with His hand. And covers me there with His
hand. Thank you.