I'd like you to turn with me to the chapter that we read together, the Acts of the Apostles, and chapter 9, and the text you'll find in verse 6. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

We have in the reading that we have just read the conversion of the Apostle Paul law. or Saul, who was called Paul. And as he was journeying to persecute the Christians, the disciples of the Lord, the Lord met with him and changed his nature. He was born again of the Holy Spirit of God, a light shone from heaven. And the Lord spoke to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?

It shows us something there of the relationship between the Lord Jesus Christ and his people. It shows us that when they are persecuted, when they are hurt, when they are under trial, under difficulty, that Christ, he feels and knows their pain. He understands their weakness. as Saul is persecuting the Christians, Christ says that you're actually persecuting me. Such is the relationship between Christ and his church. They are his body. They are his bride. They are his people, those who he has redeemed for himself. He owns them. They are possessed by him. And he feels their struggles and their sorrows and he sees their afflictions, as we saw the other week, which has really stayed with me.

You know, as the apostles were there on the sea, right in the middle of the sea, the storm takes them and whips up, yet unaware that Christ is watching them. They believe themselves to be abandoned alone in the ocean filled with fear, yet Christ sees them from afar. And here it is again, the love that Christ has to his church, that he sees, he feels the pain that Saul is inflicting upon them as he persecutes his people.

And so we see that the apostle Paul, his nature has completely changed, his character, the way in which he was going, his whole life has completely shifted 180 degrees. And he goes from a man who was bent on the destruction of the church the destruction of the people of the Lord Jesus Christ, to being a preacher of the gospel, to being used by God for the advancement of his kingdom.

And we see that this man is completely changed in a moment. that his conversion experience was over in a matter of seconds as Christ dealt with him upon the road and although it was unclear to him exactly what had taken place for he remained blind for some days until Ananias comes to him and he's able to receive his sight and then he's able to follow the Lord Jesus Christ in being baptised but then he's able to preach Yet his heart is changed almost immediately because he is bent upon his own will first. What he is doing, he is desiring to kill and to imprison Christians. Then at the moment that he is converted, his desire changes, his will changes. He says, what will you have me to do? What do you want me to do? So his will is changed.

Each one of us has a will. That is our ability to make choices and decisions. People say about animals that they are driven by an instinct. Yet humans are not driven by an instinct, but they are given the ability by God to make intelligent choices and decisions, sometimes made very, very quickly, on the spur of the moment, sometimes made thoughtfully and collectively over a period of time. But we've been given that ability by God to to make decisions, and that is called our will. We say that people have a stubborn will. If they are of one mind to do something, who can turn them? They have made up their mind, their will is stubborn. But there are some people whose wills can be manipulated quite easily, and they are softer-natured, and their wills can be guided and directed quite easily.

It seems like Saul had quite a stubborn will. He knew where he was going. He knew what he wanted to do. This is what he felt he should be doing, is persecuting the Christians. Nobody was going to stop him. This was his goal in life. He had made that decision. He had made that choice that this is what he should be doing, persecuting the Christians.

In the Gospel according to John, we read there in verse 13. or from verse 12, but as many as receive him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. As many as receive the Lord Jesus Christ, he gives them power. It is Christ who gives them the power to believe on his name. which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." And so the Apostle John puts this characteristic change not down to the will of the Apostle Paul or the will of any individual person, but will of God.

It is not the will of the flesh. Our natural will, our natural choice will never be towards God or towards the Lord Jesus Christ. It will be at enmity against God. We have an ability to choose and to make decisions, but we will never choose the Lord Jesus Christ. We will never choose to wholly follow God. We have our free will as such, but that free will is only to choose evil. to choose what is opposite to what God wants us to do.

Nobody will wake up naturally in the morning and think, well, yes, I'm going to love God with all of my heart, soul and mind today. I'm going to love my neighbour as myself today. I'm going to love the Lord Jesus Christ and walk in obedience to him today out of their own will. It can't happen because the scripture says, not of the flesh, The flesh won't desire him as we saw on Sunday evening, that the flesh cannot receive the things of God for they are foolishness to him and so the will must be broken, the will must be changed, the will must be renewed for us to come to follow the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are lovers of darkness rather than lovers of God. The Lord Jesus Christ tells us in John chapter 3, in verse 18, he that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation that light is coming to the world and the men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For everyone that doth evil hateth the light.

And so this is our nature. This is the will that we have is to hide away in the darkness, away from God, away from the Lord Jesus Christ, because we don't want our deeds to be exposed. And so our own will, our natural will that we are born with is contrary to what the Lord Jesus Christ or God desires us to have.

Our will by nature is anything that makes us happy. We choose things that benefit ourselves. We choose things that cause us to be uplifted and to be happy. We choose things that bring us satisfaction and self-glory. We're not concerned with the glory of God or the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're not concerned about humility and holiness and godliness. We're not concerned about living a life as a light in a dark place by nature. Our will is for ourself. Our will is to glory in ourself and our sin. We say, what do I want to do? Where do I want to go? What do I want to achieve? What do I want to get out of life? How am I going to be happy? What decision can I make that will satisfy me the most, which will gain me the most? There is no consideration for the guidance of God. or for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ or for the crucifixion or the putting to death of the lusts of the flesh.

It's like the Apostle Paul. We see him prior to his conversion in chapter 8. As Stephen has been martyred, they lay their clothes at the feet of the apostle Paul. And in chapter 8, we read from verse 1, and Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time, there was great persecution against the church, which was at Jerusalem. And they were scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great lamentations over him. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house and hailing men and women, committing them to prison.

Therefore, they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word. And so this was how he was. His will was to do his own will, his own desire, what glorified him, what satisfied him, what he thought was pleasing to God. And he made havoc of the church. These Christians that were not necessarily bad people. They were people who were following the Lord Jesus Christ. committing no physical crime. No doubt there were other criminals in the area, thieves and murderers and such like, but Paul was not after them. He was after the believers of the Lord Jesus Christ and his will was to cause as much havoc and disruption to their lives as possible.

And his will was breathing out threatenings and slaughters against the disciples of the Lord. and he sought to bring other people alongside with him in his destructive thoughts and his destructive will. He desired that legal representation of his will to be able to go and to sort out the Christians. It was all to do with self. Self.

If we take the human will that is dead and unable to choose the Lord Jesus Christ is free in its choices made in darkness yet has no desire to come to the light and submit itself to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is quite happy in the darkness of sin and to make those choices based upon self and self-gratification.

And then we compare that to the will of the Lord Jesus Christ. The will of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ's will, Christ's choices that he made are the perfect example of what God desires in the human race. Adam and Eve as they were created perfect. They had to obey God yet they chose to disobey. They were tempted and they chose to disobey God. They knew what God's will was for them. They knew they had to live in the garden and to tend the garden. They knew they were not to eat of the tree. Yet they made a decision. They chose to rebel against God. And they sinned and they fell. And in doing so they corrupted the whole of the human race and the whole of the human race now fall short of the glory of God. Unable to choose God. but can easily choose evil.

But then we have Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, not under the headship of Adam, but comes as the second Adam, born without sin, is able to live perfect and upright under the law of God. There is the perfect example, the second Adam, who did not fail God. but chose what was right. He says that he delights to do thy will. Oh my Lord. If you look at John chapter 4 we have the Lord Jesus Christ saying there that his meat, his food is to do the will of the Father. John chapter 4 and verse verse 34, and Jesus said unto them, my meat or my food is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work. That was Christ's desire, that's what satisfied and contented the Lord Jesus Christ.

The father was his object, He delighted to do everything that the Father would have him to do. It was his food. It says you and I are satisfied by a lovely meal. So Christ was satisfied in walking in complete obedience to the will of his Father. I wonder if that is our will. as we have been born again of the Spirit of God. And as we walk this pathway of life, is that our delight? Is that what satisfies us to walk in the will of our Maker, to walk in the will of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ?

In John chapter 6 also, Jesus says there in verse 38, Or verse 37, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the will of him which sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing. I should raise it up at the last day and this is the will of him that sent me that everyone which seeth the son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day and so Jesus says that his will his to do the will of the father which sent him he said I didn't come to do my own will the will of him that sent me but Christ's will was to do the will of the father isn't it with every child that truly loves their mother and their father it's their delight to walk in obedience to them. They're so knit together in unity and love one for another that when a request is put forward, the child delights to walk in obedience to their parents. And so it is with Christ, the beloved son of God, that whatever the father wills, it is the joy of the son to walk in obedience to the father. And so it is his food, it is his meat, To do the will of Him that sent Him. This is the will of the Father that sent Him. That all which were given Him, He should lose now.

The will of God. That God, before the foundation of the world, gave to Christ a people. And that Christ would live that perfect life for those people. That he would fulfil the whole law of God for those people. He would be crucified upon the cross and be punished for the sins of those people and that he would lose none of them. That was God's will for the Son. That the Son would walk in complete obedience to the Father. That he would be that perfect Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.

Knit together. father, son and spirit with one mind, one will, one desire to bring about the salvation of their chosen people. There was that time wasn't there when the Lord Jesus Christ as he came face to face with the process, the final process of that redemption as he sees before him the cross and the agony of soul and the way by which he is going to be publicly displayed as a sinner and then punished in the stead of sinful people. He cries out in prayer to his father in Matthew 26. My soul, verse 38, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful even unto death. Tarry ye here and watch with me. And he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed, saying, O my father, If it be possible, let this cut pass from me, nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. as Christ's desire was to do the will of the Father, yet in his humanity as he saw that all that was before him, the holy spotless Lamb of God was going to be publicly displayed upon a cross and that he was going to be made sin for his people, he cries out, if it is possible, if there is another way for this to be done.

Some of the writers have said that Christ, as he is undergoing that pressure, that soul trouble in the Garden of Gethsemane, wondered as though his human body could take the strain in that moment whether it would buckle under the pre-knowledge of what was going to take place, whether his body was going to be crushed to death in the Garden of Gethsemane before even reaching the cross. And so he has to pray to the Father for that sufficient strength to go forward with his will.

If it is possible, let this cut, this wrath, what I'm going to go through, if it is possible, let this cut pass from me nevertheless not my will not as not as my failing human body wills but as thou wilt sometimes in our own lives, I'm sure we've cried this prayer. Although having come nowhere near to the anguish of soul that the Lord Jesus Christ went through, coming nowhere near the depths to which he cried out in agony, if it is possible, yet I'm sure we've come to this point. If it is possible. let there be another way such is the weight such is the pathway that I'm passing through at this moment in time if you can deliver me now please do the cup which I am drinking is so so difficult so hard for me so we've come to the place almost of Gethsemane struggling under the weight of the pathway that we are going in. If it's possible, let it pass. But not as I will, but as thou wilt.

It's the story of the young lady years ago who was arrested for being a Christian. And they put her on the rack. and they stretched her and sought to get her to confess or to deny Christ. And as they stretched her and stretched her, she denied Christ. So they let her off again. And then after they let her off, she says that it was just the flesh. The flesh was weak in the moment of pain. The flesh cried out. And so they put her back on the rack and stretched her again. And the same thing happened. I can't remember the full of the story but that's the gist of how it goes. She says to them that if I cry out it's my flesh but I will never deny my Lord Jesus Christ. Not my will but your will be done.

The Apostle Paul, where was he going? His own will. He was doing his own thing, going his own way. The Lord Jesus Christ was doing the will of the Father. Walking in the will of the Father, but knit together. His will was not contrary to the will of Christ. Christ delighted to do the will of the Father. His walking in obedience was food to Him. It satisfied Him. It sustained Him. It strengthened Him.

One day, We know something of that. Is that our desire, our soul, our soul motive for living? It's to fulfill the will of God. That our will shrivels up completely. We don't want to know anything other than what is your will oh Lord. And for us to experience that, for us to even comprehend sacrificing our will for God's will, we must have been born again. An experience must have taken place in our lives. Otherwise we'll just be like the apostle. Our will will be motivated by self-satisfaction and pride and self-glory. And whether our experience is as the apostles with light shining from heaven, we leave that to the Lord. Everyone's pathway is uniquely different and God is sovereign in the way that he brings people to bow down and to bow down at his feet and to humble themselves before him.

But we see it very clearly in the life of the apostle. That will that was contrary to the will of God is broken and made submissive to cry out, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Ananias is told, behold, he prayeth. His first prayer is, who are you, Lord? Jesus reveals himself to him, makes himself known to him. After the Lord Jesus has made himself known to the apostle, he then prays, what wilt thou have me to do? That is his second prayer.

As we've said before that when a baby is born they seek for that cry to know that everything is okay. The first cry of the Apostle Paul is, who are you Lord? Reveal yourself to me. His second is, what will thou have me to do? And this is how the Lord works in the lives of his people. They want to know more of Christ. Who are you Lord? Show me yourself, show me your glory, reveal yourself to me through your word. Then what can I do? What do you want me to do? Where do you want me to go? How do you want me to react to this situation that I am placed in?

Is changed. His heart is changed. The scripture tells us a new heart will I give you. A heart that desires no longer self, no longer making choices based upon self motives and decisions based upon carnal reason, but decisions and choices guided and governed by the spirit of God coming from a new heart, a new will that has been given. Jesus chose the apostle. Saul was running away from him, but Jesus stopped him and Jesus chose him. But the wonderful thing is, when Jesus chooses you, you always choose him in return. Because he gives you a new desire. He gives you new eyes of faith to view him and a new heart to follow him.

Jesus we read in the Revelation is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. He was the beginning of Paul's new life and he was going to bring him to the end of his new life and he reveals to him what his will is for him. He tells Ananias, go thy way for he is a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name. That was the will of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Apostle Paul. that he had chosen him and ordained him to be a minister of the gospel. He had set him aside to be not only a trophy of grace but a means to carry the gospel to the Gentiles and to the kings and to the people of Israel.

But as we know, his life wasn't going to be easy. And the Lord makes it very, very clear from the outset that he is going to have a difficult pathway. He says, for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my namesake. Now you see, if he still had a carnal will, what would he have said? No thanks. No way. Am I going to do that? But just like the Lord Jesus Christ, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my will but thy will be done. You're going to suffer for my sake. Not my will, but thy will be done.

a new heart, a willingness to walk humbly before the Lord, a willingness to submit to his will, a desire for God's ways and God's will in our lives. And sometimes, you know, that is easy. Sometimes our pathway is an easy pathway. The flesh, we can say, approves of the way. Sometimes the Lord leads us through calm waters, through the tranquil countryside of life. We don't have much problems and walking out the will of God in our lives, it seems quite easy. Nothing contrary against us.

That's not always the case. There are times when we do experience peace. But often when we are seeking to walk out the will of God, whatever that may be, in whatever sphere of life that may be, there is opposition and difficulty.

Even poor Ananias. The Lord says to him, Arise and go into the street which is called Straight and inquire of the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus for behold he prayeth. God revealed to him, this is what I want you to do. This was the Lord's will for Ananias. How does he respond? He's nervous. He says, I've heard of this Paul. I've heard of all the things that he's doing. How much evil he has done to the saints at Jerusalem. And he's come here with authority from the chief priests to put us in prison. He's nervous.

Sometimes we may be nervous. The Lord has prompted us to do something. The Lord's will for us may be, as we look at it, it may bring us into a situation that we are uncomfortable with and we are nervous about it. But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name. And Ananias went his way. He sought that confirmation from the Lord. I'm nervous about this situation. I've heard about him and all that he's going to do. I know it could be very dangerous for me to do this. And the Lord confirms it. Go. Go thy way for he's chosen. I've changed him. He's not the sword that you once heard about. He's completely transformed.

And so Ananias goes. Brother Saul you see. He goes from an enemy, from a fearful foe to a brother because of the transforming work of Christ in his life. He goes from hating believers to loving believers and believers go from being fearful of him to loving him and welcoming him into the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul was afraid when Christ first appeared to him. Who art thou Lord? And he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? You see, sometimes the Lord's will for us does make us afraid. As the apostles, as we read about them, they could not watch with him one hour. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Here is where the trouble lies, in our flesh. The spirit once regenerated and born again has a desire for the will of God but the flesh is where our trouble lies. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak and trembling and astonished. He said, Lord what would thou have me to do? Have you been trembling and astonished? as the Lord made something aware to you that has made you afraid. Your flesh has trembled because of the very thought of what you might have to do or even what you might have to say or confess. You know in your heart of hearts that it's the right thing you have to do. The conscience is pressing you to obey the Lord and your flesh is trembling.

But you know Saul was brought to Ananias Ananias was like the physical hand of Christ Part of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ And as he went to him there was no reason for him to fear To walk out the will of God in his life There was brother Ananias praying over brother Saul and he received his sight and immediately he went out and was baptized. So as we walk our Christian life, as we seek to walk in obedience to the will of God in our lives, we can experience various emotions to that will. We can be at peace. The flesh can approve of the way We cannot experience much opposition and the way is easy. Or we can be nervous. It can put us out of our comfort zone in obeying the Lord Jesus. Maybe you feel prompted to speak to somebody and you become nervous. you have to walk in obedience and experience as Ananias that he didn't need to fear, go thy way and speak. Maybe you're afraid about what the Lord has prompted you to do, you're literally trembling because of the pathway that you're in at this moment in time. It's the flesh trembles, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

Maybe you don't really comprehend what the will of God is for you at this moment in time. Maybe you don't have such great decisions to make as Ananias and Saul. And what is the will of God then for you? In 1 Thessalonians it tells us there in verse 3, for this is the will of God, even your sanctification. That is the will of God for the believers in the Lord Jesus Christ that their life may be a continued process of sanctification and putting to death the lusts of the flesh. There is no rest for the believer. The will of God is made perfectly clear when they're in those times of peace there is still work to do. The saying goes, doesn't it, that the devil makes work for idle thumbs. And so in those times of peace, when we don't have the anxieties and the nervousness and the fears to distract us, then there is those times when we have to overcome sin.

the devil makes work for idle thumbs and so even in our times of peace there is no real rest for the people of God because their rest, their true rest is yet to come for this is the will of God. Even your sanctification that you should abstain from fornication. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour. And this is the Christian pathway. Your vessel. What is your vessel? Your vessel is your body. Your body which is corrupted by sin must be overcome and crucified. We should learn how to possess and take hold of the weaknesses of our flesh. And so it is an ongoing pathway of growth in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus that we must be learning how to possess our bodies that they may shine as lights to the glory of Christ in sanctification and honour, not in the lust of concupiscence.

A concupiscence is a longing for that which is forbidden. The believer has a longing for the Lord Jesus Christ. They long to know and to walk out his will. They are seeking to resist a longing for that which is forbidden. There the conflict lies even as the Gentiles which know not God. The will of God for the believer if you're seeking to know the will of God this is it. even your sanctification, that you may overcome, that you may win the war, that you may put to death the lusts of the flesh and that desire for that which is forbidden. And if we have these desires, if we have this concern, surely this is an evidence that we love the Lord. For our will by nature delights in what is forbidden. Our will by nature delights in what God hates. Yet the new will that has been renewed by the Spirit of God delights in what Christ wants and hates what is forbidden. So we seek out what the will of God is for us in our daily lives and the decisions that we have to make we commit our way unto the Lord. Not my will but thy will be done. I told you before of that harbour which is very very difficult to get into. Either side the harbour are those rocks and only a skilled pilot can be able to get his ship in. And the way in which he gets his ship in is by eyeing up the three lights and if those lights are not in line then his boat is going to crash upon the rocks. But if he can line up the three harbour lights he will sail through the jagged reef and he will enter into the harbour safe.

And those three lights spiritually are the word of God. Does the word of God allow me to do what I desire to do? Am I going contrary to God's revealed will here on the pages of scripture? That's one light. If it goes against scripture then it's not God's will for us. God is not going to tell you to do something that is contrary to his word. He will never go outside of his word. He cannot lie. And so if you feel that God is telling you to do something and what he's telling you to do is not found here then don't do it. Because you'll dash yourself upon the rocks.

If you're a believer then you've had your will renewed and your conscience has been made sensitive. You're able to listen to the still small voice. You know in those cartoons that you see like the Simpsons when they're trying to make a decision they have the devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other and they're fighting against each other. They're trying to depict the reasoning that goes on within the conscience.

The believer's conscience has been made sensitive to sin. sensitive to the ways of God and the Lord uses our conscience to guide us and direct us. And so the thing that you may be wanting to do may be okay with the word, yet it may not be okay with your conscience. You may sin against your own conscience. You may know deep down that what you're doing is wrong.

the Lord doesn't want you to do this thing and you're suppressing the still small voice you're going against your own conscience therefore it's sin sometimes our conscience can convict us and our conscience can make us aware of a certain sin that we have been doing and we may feel that we have to confess that sin Or you can suppress it. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You just keep pushing it down, pushing it down. But you're sinning against your own conscience.

God has made our consciences soft and tender. And we should listen to what our conscience says, especially when making decisions in life, seeking to determine the will of God. That's the second light. If you go against your own conscience, then you will crash upon the rocks.

But then there's providence. You know, the Lord can shut the door completely on a certain thing. You may have seen it in scripture that it's okay. You may have convinced yourself by your conscience that it's okay. But then the Lord comes and shuts the door and says, no way. And it's such a mercy when he does. We can make massive mistakes. But when the Lord comes and shuts the door, the Bible tells us he shuts and nobody opens. He shuts and nobody opens. There are times that the scripture says, I've set before you an open door that no man can shut. And if the Lord has revealed to you, you've got one light, you've got two lights, you've got three lights, then continue going forward. The Lord has made the way plain. you walk in the will of the Lord Jesus Christ you can have peace in your conscience even though the way may be difficult and the way may be a trying that does not necessarily mean that you've walked in the wrong way and often it's very very bad to make a decision after you've already made a decision because of the providential pathway.

And when we came back from Kenya, to us to leave was so clear. And yet because we experienced some difficulties, arriving back here you begin to think, oh, maybe we shouldn't have left. But it was the difficult pathway that we thought, oh, maybe we shouldn't have left. And so the pathway that we are walking can make us doubt that we are in the will of God.

The Apostle Paul, his life was a life of much opposition, yet he walked in the will of God. This was the will of God for him. Go thy way. He is a chosen vessel. unto the Gentiles, that he shall bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. And I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. And we go through the book of Acts and we see the will of God unfolding in the life of the Apostle Paul and how much he had to suffer.

And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will thou have me to do? Well, may that be our prayer. May the Lord give us a tender conscience to be able to commit our way unto the Lord. I delight to do thy will, O my God. May that be our prayer this night as we maybe are seeking guidance for something, to check those three lights, the word, our conscience, and providence. Is the Lord allowing us to go forward, or is he putting a stop in the way? May the Lord add his blessing. Amen.

Our final hymn from Gatsby's is 567 to the 297. 567. Jesus the Lord my Saviour is, my Shepherd and my God, my Light, my Strength, my Joy, my Bliss, and I His Grace record. 567. my bliss, and I His grace recall. O there I live, in Jesus dwells, and there it dwells with treasures rich and free. Mercy and truth and righteousness and peace most richly meet. to myself now

Now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father, with the fellowship and communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you each now and for evermore. Amen.