Let us commence our service by singing hymn 171. The tune is Marian, 365. Join all who love the Saviour's name to sing his everlasting fame. Great God, prepare each heart and voice in him forever to rejoice. Hymn 171, tune Marian, 365. Lord God of the Saviour's name, To sleep is in the lost in pain Wait for reparage of the night ♪ In Him forever to rejoice ♪ ♪ Up in the bounteous heaven above ♪ In him, on no rest I'll be found, For him I'm happy, whom may fail me? In Him my soul forever clinging, In Him my treasures I'll contain, By Him my feeble soul shall stay, Of Him I only know its fate. ♪ Forever, so shall heaven live ♪ ♪ And be my day to love them all ♪ of him my soul delighteth to. On him I cast my every fear, I care a bit I shall appear Let's pick a song from day to day How sweet they bring thee on thy way. Give not, O weak, simple heart, give it forever, never part. Take me, O strength and righteousness, Take me, O power and beauty expressed. Thou, O God, nature, Thou giver of everything that I, ♪ O my lips praise Thee at last ♪ ♪ Make me a man as You have made me ♪ ♪ And give mercy forevermore to me ♪ Let us read together from the Holy Word of God in Psalm 72. Psalm 72. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment, The mountain shall bring peace to the people and the hills by righteousness. He shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressor. They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust. The kings of Tarshish and of the Isles shall bring presents. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him. For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight. And he shall live, and to him shall be given the gold of Sheba. Prayer also shall be made for him continually, and daily shall he be praised. There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains. The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. His name shall endure forever. His name shall be continued as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in him, and all nations shall call him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name forever. And that the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen. And amen. The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. May the Lord bless the reading of his own precious word. grant unto us a spirit of real prayer. Almighty, most merciful and eternal God of heaven, the creator of the heavens and the earth, the sustainer of the universe, in whom we live and move and have our being, We desire to approach unto thy holy and glorious majesty. We desire to worship thee. We would humble ourselves, O Lord, as we come before thee, being very conscious that we are sinners and that we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. that we go forth from the womb speaking lies and hypocrisy. That is our state and condition by nature. But Lord, we do thank Thee that there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave his life of ransom for all to be testified in due time We thank thee for those beautiful words of grace and pray that as we come to thee, we would come in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have nothing to plead of our own. We are all fallen sinners and we desire to confess our sins. And thou hast said in thy word that if you confess your sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We pray that it may be so this day as we come to bow before thy glorious majesty that thou would speak the word into our hearts, breathe the word into our souls, open our blind eyes and stop our deaf ears and give us a heart to receive thee. and to receive thy word and thy grace. Give us, Lord, we pray, the real repentance and godly sorrow for our sin. Give us faith in Jesus Christ, for without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh unto God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Lord, we do thank thee for that eternal covenant, ordered in all things and sure, that covenant of grace, that covenant of mercy, that covenant of peace, that covenant of salvation. Lord, this is our only hope for eternal glory and everlasting happiness is in that glorious covenant that has been sealed by the blood of Jesus Christ, which thou has called the blood of the everlasting covenant. We thank thee for that precious blood. We thank thee for that glorious person, the Son of God manifest in the flesh, Jesus Christ, the only true Messiah, the only Saviour of sinners. We thank Thee, most gracious Lord, for that profound mystery of godliness of God manifest in the flesh. He was made of a woman, made under the law, that He might redeem them that are under the law. And we do thank Thee for that wonderful truth of our Lord Jesus Christ, He said himself, I am the light of the world. We thank thee for that holy life that he lived as a man here upon earth, and thereby bringing in everlasting righteousness for his people. We thank thee, most gracious God, for that glorious everlasting robe of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. This, Lord, is all our hope and all our desire. We thank thee for those wonderful words of grace. He laid upon him the iniquity of us all, that holy, sinless, spotless person was made sin for us. He who knew no sin was made sin. What wonderful glories there are in this eternal covenant. And that holy sacrifice of Calvary has redeemed the church from sin and Satan's power. Oh, we do thank thee for that glorious sacrifice of Calvary, that precious blood shed the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, that cleanses from all sin. We thank the most gracious Lord that he died. He poured out his soul unto death. He died for our sins and rose again for our justification and swallowed up death in victory and brought life and immortality to light in the gospel. Oh, we do thank thee, most gracious Lord, for that glorious person of our Lord Jesus Christ, who now has ascended up on high, has made a new and living way into the holy place. Those everlasting gates have lifted their heads, and the King of glory has entered in. We desire, Lord, to lift a note of thanksgiving, adoration, and praise unto thee for the wonderful glory of his name. for the fullness of His grace. For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and He is full of grace and truth. And Lord, we do thank Thee that it is so. We do thank Thee, most gracious Lord, that He's coming again to receive His redeemed church unto Himself. We thank Thee for that wonderful gift of the Holy Ghost was given because of the sin atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We thank thee for his heavenly power and his divine unction. We thank thee Lord there are those of us here that can testify how he came and dwelt in our hearts and convicted and convinced us of our sin and showed us the Lord Jesus as the way the truth and the life. Blessed Holy Divine Spirit, we pray that there was work among us as a church and congregation. We pray that it may be with us as it was with the dear Apostle, for our Gospel came unto you not in word only, but in power, in the Holy Ghost, and with much assurance. Lord, do hear us. We humbly pray thee for thy great namesake. Lord, We thank Thee that Jesus is coming again. And unto them that look for him shall he appear without sin unto salvation. We thank Thee, O Lord, for every mercy of Thy kind providence. We thank Thee for all Thy goodness that has passed before us in the way. We thank Thee that those mercies are new every morning and great is Thy faithfulness. We thank Thee for those wonderful promises in Thy Word and all the promises of God are yea and amen in Christ Jesus. We thank Thee that Thou hast said, I will never leave Thee nor forsake Thee. Lo, I am with Thee always, even unto the end of the world. Lord, we do thank Thee for these wonderful promises in Thy Word. And we do thank The Most Gracious Lord for our little house of prayer. We thank Thee for the Word of God, the open Bible. We thank Thee for well over 200 years that this Bible has been before us here in this little house of prayer. And Thou hast been with us, O Lord, and blessed us. O Thou truly faithful, Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it. We thank thee for thy covenant faithfulness. And we thank thee that in our Lord Jesus Christ, we have a heavenly father, the father of all mercies. We think of those wonderful words of grace, God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should be saved. Oh, we do. We do bless thee, most gracious Lord, for the wonderful glory of the gospel and of the glorious person of our Lord Jesus Christ. We do pray thy blessing upon us as a church and as a congregation, that thou wouldst work mightily, work powerfully, that thou wouldst unstop the deaf ears, that thou wouldst open the blind eyes, that thou wouldst take away the heart of stone and give a heart of flesh, that thou wouldst deliver us from legal bondage, deliver us from the power and dominion of sin, and bring us into the glorious liberty of the people of God. And that there may yet be those that shall come and tell to sinners round what a dear Saviour they have found, and point to thy redeeming blood and say, Behold the way to God, Hear us, O Lord, we humbly beseech thee. Pour forth thy blessed spirit among us. Quicken souls and make them cry, give me Christ or else I die. Send out the glory, light, and power of gospel truth into this village and the surrounding villages and hamlets. Fulfill those wonderful gospel promises or bring thy sons from far and thy daughters from the ends of the earth. and they shall come from the North and from the South and from the East and from the West. Fulfill that wonderful word, for I am returned unto Jerusalem with mercies. O send out thy light and thy truth, O Lord, we do beseech thee. We think of that beautiful prayer of the sweet Psalmist of Israel, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, God on thy sword, O most mighty and ride prosperously. Let thine arrows be sharp in the heart of the king's enemies, that the people may fall under thee. O let us see thy power. We read of our Lord Jesus in the book of the Revelation. He shall go forth conquering and to conquer. May we see that wonderful power of divine grace in the day in which we live. Precious souls gathered unto Christ, We live in very dark days, Lord, when iniquity abounds on every hand, and the powers of Antichrist are so prevalent. Lord, we pray that thou wouldst arise, arise, arise, O God of grace, into thy rest descend thou in the ark of thy strength, and let thy priests be clothed with salvation, and thy saints shall shout aloud for joy, Oh abundantly bless the provision of thy house and satisfy her poor with bread. We think of all the little hills of Zion, up and down the nation. We look back, O Lord, and see how many have closed and no longer in use. And we pray that thou wouldst arise and turn our captivity as the streams in the south. Pour forth thy blessing, O Lord, we beseech thee. and rebuild and renew and replenish thy church and thy people. Revive thy work in our hearts, in our souls, that we may live more closely to thee. While our days on earth are lengthened, may we give the Lord to thee. We do humbly beseech thee. We pray for grace to present our bodies a living sacrifice. holy and acceptable unto thee, which is our reasonable service, and that we be not conformed to this world, but may we be transformed by the renewing of our mind, that we might know what that good and perfect and acceptable will of the Lord is. Oh, do hear us, Lord, we humbly beseech thee, and preserve and keep us from the temptations of Satan, and from the power and dominion of sin, Help us, O Lord, to forsake all other and to follow Thee. Help us to lay aside every weight and the sin that does so easily beset us, and that we might run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame thereof. And he now sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, May we view the crown through the cross and in all life's journey, in the pitfalls, in the failures, in the felt sinfulness, corruption of our hearts, we have to say, Lord, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me? But help us to cleave to Jesus. Help us to look to him alone. Help us to cast all our care upon him. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord. O gracious God, renew that fervency and zeal in our hearts. We do humbly pray thee. Guide us, O thou great Jehovah, pilgrims in a barren land. We are weak, but thou art mighty. Hold us with thy powerful hand. Bread of heaven, feed us now. Evermore we do humbly beseech thee for thy great namesake. Bless the little ones and the children that gather with us. Put the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, into their hearts. Bless the dear young friends with faith in Jesus Christ, that they may become followers of thee and of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Fulfill that wonderful promise, Lord, Instead of thy father shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. O Lord, do remember them and guide them and direct them. Raise up a generation that shall call thee the Redeemer blessed. Lord, remember parents and give grace, wisdom and help to them. Remember all in the midst of the journey of life and graciously Deliver us each from temptation. Deliver us from the enemy of souls, whether he comes as a roaring lion to devour, or whether he comes as an angel of light to deceive. We pray to be delivered from his power. And oh Lord, we do pray that thou would remember the prodigals that have wandered away, and stretch out thy almighty arm, and cause them to be in want, and cause them to return, I will return unto my father's house. Lord, grant that it may be so, but for thy great name's sake. Lord, we pray that thou will remember each one of us that is now in the evening time of life's journey. And Lord, our days are very numbered here upon earth. We pray to be prepared. And now, my God, prepare my soul for that great day. wash me in thy precious blood, take all my sins away. Lord, help us to look to that heavenly kingdom and to the glory of heaven and to the wonders of redeeming love through our Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, we do pray that thou wouldst now be with us as we turn to thy holy word. and come and open thy word to our heart and to our understanding also, and come and touch one's lips with a live coal from of the heavenly altar. We ask for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. Let us now sing together hymn number 558. The tune is Carlisle Street 451. Sweet the name of Christ must be, from and to eternity, for it pleased the Father well. Fullness all in Christ should dwell. Hymn 558, tune Carlyle Street, 451. Amen. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. God Bless. ♪ Come, child, set his face on heaven above ♪ ♪ Be your glory's gleam from his brow above ♪ I love you. ♪ Hail, all hail ♪ ♪ Hail, all hail ♪ ♪ Hail, all hail ♪ He shall take that which he has, Out of heaven's white ravine, ♪ Ever, ever, evermore ♪ ♪ Ever, ever, evermore ♪ ♪ Ever, ever, evermore ♪ ♪ Every song my heart is singing ♪ ♪ Every voice my heart is singing ♪ ¶¶ ¶¶ Greatly feeling to need the Lord's gracious help, I would direct your attention to the Psalm 72, and we'll read verses 17, 18, and 19. Psalm 72, verses 17, 18, and 19. His name shall endure forever. His name shall be continued as long as the sun. and men shall be blessed in him, and all nations shall call him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things, and blessed be his glorious name forever, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen. we notice here the last verse it says the prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. It's very fitting that this psalm is a concluding one to David the king of Israel the man after God's own heart and at the heading of the psalm it says a psalm for Solomon and there's no doubt that these blessings contained here in this psalm were the desire of David for his son Solomon when he should reign as king over Israel. But you know friends though in some little measure these prayers were fulfilled in Solomon but there's a far greater than Solomon here because these beautiful words relate to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the King of Israel. We read in Psalm Number two, yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. And this is the king that is spoken of here. It's the same in Psalm 45. When the psalmist, he said, my heart is indicted in good matter. I speak of the things that I've made touching the king. My tongue is a pen of a ready writer. And then he goes on to beautifully speak of and speak to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. The pen of a ready writer. So he starts this by saying, give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. One of the glorious names that is given to Jesus Christ in Holy Scripture is King of Righteousness. King of Righteousness. The Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God that was manifest in the flesh. The Lord Jesus Christ is that person that is spoken of in Galatians chapter 4 and verse 4. when it says made of a woman, made under the law, that he might redeem them that are under the law. And in that, when he lived that holy life as a man here upon earth, and in that holy life that he lived, in that holy law that he fulfilled, when he lived that holy life, is the righteousness of the Lord's people. It's the righteousness of Jesus Christ that by faith becomes the believers. Abraham believed God and it was accounted unto him for righteousness. He received that glorious everlasting robe of the righteousness of God when he believed. And so every believer receives that glorious everlasting robe of His righteousness. It becomes theirs by faith. They are taught by the Spirit that they have no unrighteousness. They are taught by the Spirit, each one of the Lord's living family, that they're sinners. And that they're taught by the Spirit and as they go on in life's journey, They realize more and more that they're sinners. That they have a corrupt sinful heart. They have the old man of sin. They have that conflict within them. The new man of grace desires holiness and righteousness. Desires to please the Lord and to follow the Lord. But the old man of sin desires the world. It does. And the things of the world. That's his element. But the new man of grace Desires Christ. Desires to see him, to behold him. To behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. That's the new man of grace. That's what he longs for. Now, we read then here of this glorious person of Jesus, the Son of God, that was manifest in the flesh. He says in verse two, he shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment. Judge thy people with righteousness and the poor with judgment. He makes no mistakes. You know, it says in verse 4 as well, He shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressor. Who? Jesus Christ. We read in Isaiah chapter 41 when the poor and needy seek water and there is none and their tongue faileth for thirst. I the Lord will hear them. Isaiah 41 verse 17. I the Lord will hear them. I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places. These rivers of the everlasting love of God in Christ. I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness pools of water and the dry land springs of water. So where there was a wilderness, there'll be a verdant pasture. And what does it mean in the spiritual sense? He'll pour forth the Holy Ghost and those rivers of the everlasting love of God By the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost is likened again and again unto living water. He says, I will plant in the wilderness. That's in this world. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shitter, and the myrtle in the oil tree. I will set in the desert the fir tree and the pine and the box tree together that they may see and know. So the Lord will gather his people. He will water them. in the wilderness of this world that they may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. You see these are the things that Jesus Christ will do. We live in a day of grace. We live in a day of grace. We read again and again in the Old Testament in that day In that day, some of the prophecies, you read it again and again, in that day. What day? The day of grace, the day in which we live. The day of grace stretches from the first coming to the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And it's during that day of grace that the Lord will gather his children unto himself. And his children because of the divine work of the spirit in their heart. It doesn't matter whether they're rich or whether they're poor in earthly things, they will all become poor in themselves. They will all become empty in themselves. And when the spirit is poured upon them from on high, that's what we read of in Isaiah, then the wilderness will become a fruitful field, the desert shall blossom as the rose. We read here in verse six, he shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish and the abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. This is the glorious person of Jesus Christ in his days. You see, the righteous, the Lord's people. We spoke quite extensively this morning upon those that are ungodly and those that are unrighteous and the solemn end of the ungodly and the unrighteous. But here it speaks of the righteous. It's those people that have been born again of the Holy Ghost and have been brought to repent of their sins and to believe in Jesus Christ and to follow Jesus Christ and to let go of everything for Jesus Christ's sake. It's the wonderful power of divine love that does that. He shall come down like rain upon the mung grass and as showers that water the earth Who were? Christ were. He came down from heaven to earth. He lived here as a man, but ever since that day, and the outpouring of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, he comes down constantly by the Spirit into the hearts, into the assemblies of his people, where he gives them a spirit of worship, he gives them a spirit of repentance, he gives them a spirit of faith to believe, and their souls are fed and watered in the church of God, among the people of God, under the ministry of the word. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass. You know, when you cut grass and it rains on it, there's a beautiful smell. There's a beautiful smell. This is speaking of Christ. His name shall be His ointment poured forth. beautiful savour, an unction that rests on the spirit of the Lord's people. In his days, verse 7, in his days shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the moon enduring. The peace of God that passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ our Lord. The peace of God. Where does that come from? It comes from our Lord Jesus Christ. It comes from the cross of Christ. The peace Jesus said unto his disciples, my peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto you. My mind It just goes to those beautiful prophecies in Ezekiel. And in Ezekiel 37, we have the vision of the valley of dry bones. And he says, this is the whole house of Israel. And he said to Ezekiel, can these dry bones live? And Ezekiel said, O Lord God, thou knowest. Again, he said unto me, prophesy upon these bones and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, behold, I will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live. I will lay sinews upon you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin. This is speaking of the Lord's people who were dead in trespasses and in sins. And when the Lord comes and when the Spirit enters their heart, And when the Holy Ghost teaches them their lost condition, and then leads them by faith unto Jesus Christ, and they become followers of him. So I prophesied, says Ezekiel, as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. You see, and he goes on, and he says, so I prophesied, And as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood upon their feet an exceeding great army. This is the whole church of God. Then he said unto me, son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say our bones are dried, our hope is lost. We are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and so unto them, thus saith the Lord God. Behold, O my people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel, into that land that floweth with milk and honey, into the land of the everlasting love of God in Christ. And you shall know that I am the Lord when I have opened your graves, when I have quickened your souls. And verse 14, he says, and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land. Then shall ye know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it, saith the Lord. It goes on in that same chapter in verse 24. And David, my servant, that's not David himself. Ezekiel prophesied long after David. This is the Lord Jesus Christ, who was born of the seed of David. And David, my servant, shall be king over them. And they all shall have one shepherd. They shall also walk in my judgments and observe my statutes and do them. And they shall dwell in the land that is in the land of grace. And that I have given unto Jacob, my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt. And they shall dwell therein, even they and their children, their children's children forever. and my servant David shall be their prince forever. Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore. These wonderful promises of God are being fulfilled in the day in which we live. and they will be fulfilled all the way through this New Testament day. We read in Revelation chapter six, and he, that's Christ, shall go forth conquering and to conquer. That's what David means in Psalm 45. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty. He's praying to Christ. Let thine arrow be sharp in the heart of the king's enemies, and the people shall be subdued under them. That's the Lord's people. They'll be brought into subjection to Christ, to own him as King of kings and Lord of lords. In verse eight, here in Psalm 72, he shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth. Christ will have dominion. will have dominion forever and ever. My mind it just goes to the Lord's servant Daniel and in the book of Daniel we read there in chapter 7 and it says in verses 13 and 14 I saw in night visions and behold one like the son of man that of course is Christ came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days, and they brought him near unto him, and there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve him. And his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." And then it goes on to say, In verse 27, and the kingdom and dominion and greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. All dominions shall serve and obey him. It says in verse 11, all kings shall fall down before him all nations shall serve him all kings shall fall down unto him. In Revelation chapter 19 we see Christ come in a second time to judge the world in righteousness and it says he hath on his vesture a name written king of kings and lord of lords. Never forget that my beloved friend that Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords. Verse 12, he says, for he shall deliver the needy when he cryeth and the poor also in him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence and precious shall their blood be in his sight, he shall spare the poor and needy. You know, when the Holy Spirit begins to work in the heart, when the Holy Spirit convicts and convinces of sin, when the Holy Spirit gives spiritual life and light, you begin to feel your poverty. You begin to feel your sinfulness. You begin to feel the corruption of your nature. You're poor. David says in one of his Psalms, as for me, I am poor and needy. How many in this chapel this afternoon, you have to confess, I am poor and needy. This is not speaking of earthly wealth. No, this is speaking of an inward poverty. Jesus said, blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are the poor in spirit. He shall save the poor and needy and shall save the souls of the needy. Jesus will. Jesus is the way to God. Jesus is the way to bliss. In this way, the saints have trod down from Adam's day to this. Verse 15, and he says, and he shall live, and he shall live. And to him shall be given the gold of Sheba. Prayer all shall be made for him. I believe that that really should read, prayer all shall be made to him, because he's the great high priest of the church, and he sits in heaven, our great high priest. And as the apostle says, that as he sits there at the right hand of the Father, let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. How can we come boldly? We're poor, wretched sinners. By faith in Jesus Christ, by faith in his precious blood, by faith in his glorious righteousness, by faith in his almighty power, the only potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, that's Jesus Christ. And with God, nothing shall be impossible. You may have things in your life, things in your circumstances, things in your inner spiritual life, in your soul, and they seem impossible, but with the Lord Jesus Christ, nothing shall be. Impossible. He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth, seeing he ever liveth. This is our great high priest. You know, it says in verse 14, he shall redeem their souls from deceit and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight, and he shall live. What is this point to do in Christ? It is pointing to Jesus who suffered and bled and died for our sins but rose again for our justification. He had destroyed death and him that had the power of death but is the devil. He's destroyed the devil. He's destroyed the power of the devil. He's destroyed death. He's destroyed the power of death. Christ has done it. When he suffered and bled and died and rose again and then ascended into glory. You know, when man fell, when man fell, heaven was shot. We read in the book of Genesis how the Lord put that fiery flaming sword of divine justice in the way of the tree of life so no man could approach unto it. Heaven was closed against man because man had sinned. And nothing sinful shall ever enter into heaven. But lo, the second Adam comes. Lo, the second Adam comes. Who is the second Adam? The Lord from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ. Just as Adam is the federal head of the human race, so Jesus Christ is the great king and head of the church. And whatever he did, he did for his church and for his people. And when he died, he died for the sins of his people. And when he rose again, he destroyed death. You know, it says, he rose again for our justification. What does that mean? Justification. He rose again for our justification. What the literal meaning of the word justification is to be declared to be without sin. That's the meaning of the word. So when it says he rose again for our justification, what does it mean? It means my beloved friends, that when he rose again, he left all the sins of the church in the grave, never to be seen. We read in prophecy, do we not? As far as the East is from the West so far, have I removed thy sins from thee, O Israel? Forever removed. Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. And he shall live. Oh, a wonderful thing is the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. It's a declaration that the sins for which he died for, the payment has been made good. Therefore their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Justified, forever justified. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. and he shall live, and to him shall be given the gold of Sheba. Prayer also shall be made for him or to him continually, and daily shall he be praised. His name shall endure forever. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever. That's a wonderful paraphrase of the name Jehovah. Jesus Christ is saying yesterday, that's yesterday eternal, and today, and forever. From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. His name, the name of Jesus, his name shall endure forever. His name shall be continued as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in Him, and all nations shall call Him blessed. Why will they? Because from every nation, kindred, tongue, and tribe, and people, there will be a people that have been redeemed and that have been brought to living faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. And men shall be blessed in Him. and all nations shall call him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. Think of that prophecy in Isaiah chapter nine, and his name shall be called Wonderful. It's wonderful. His name is called Wonderful because He is God manifest in the flesh. Says in that prophecy in Isaiah 9, a virgin shall be with child. A virgin shall be with child. Or as it says in Jeremiah, a woman shall encompass a man. Who has seen such a thing? Who has heard such a thing? But that is what we see in the birth of Jesus Christ. We see God manifest in the flesh. God manifest in the flesh. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. We see a holy child, the only holy child ever born into this world. He was born without sin, and he did no sin. Neither was guile found in his mouth. The perfect, as I always point out to you, In Psalm 37 verse 37, mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace. That's Christ, the perfect man. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, his name. And blessed be his glorious name forever. He sitteth king forever. who the apostle speaks of when he relates to the Timothy is called by grace and he says now unto the King eternal, immortal and invisible, the only true God, be honor and glory everlasting and blessed be his glorious name forever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen. May the Lord Add his blessing. Let us now sing together hymn 174 and the tune is Duke Street 326. Jesus is precious, says the word. What comfort does this truth afford? And those who in his name believe, with joy this precious truth, receive. Hymn 174, tune Duke Street, 326. And through the years, ♪ The glory of Jesus Christ the Lord. ♪ ♪ Through the years of precious time, ♪ And I have known it from foretime, O precious hand that made me clean, ♪ O precious Heav'nly God! ♪ ♪ No health, no wealth, no standing vain, ♪ Lord God's disciple empty came With all his love and all his care ♪ And with the precious Christ on earth. ♪ ♪ Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Lord, ♪ Love, a figure so empty now, Each treasured seed, each crying child's pet, but in the past in heaviness. In every office we shall stay, In ev'ry victory he came, In ev'ry council of his fame, Each precious spirit becomes still. As they draw near, pleasure lives within. How precious is Thy heavenly presence, And that Thou didst make all the heavens Be treasured forever in them. In glory, Lord, may I think them. And with thy precious blood she hath ♪ Join the grand song and hymn of joy ♪ ♪ The gracious Christ, glory be to Thee ♪ Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, the sacred fellowship of the Holy Spirit, rest and abide with us each both now and for evermore. Amen.