Bibles if you were to. Psalm
103. Psalm 103. Name of the message is Praise
the Lord. Praise the Lord. Psalm 103. Excuse me. Excuse me again, sorry. Now we
who are the redeemed of the Lord, we praise our great God, don't
we? We praise our great God. We praise him for the wondrous
things that he's done for us. We praise Him for His goodness
and His mercy and His grace continuously to us, even when we don't see
it. When we consider the great salvation
that the Lord has wrought out for us on Calvary's cross, when
we consider Him dying as our substitute on the cross, it causes
the redeemed people of God to praise Him. It just flows naturally
out of us. It just flows naturally out of
us. When we consider that we are totally justified before
God, that we can stand in the presence of God, we who are sinners
by birth, nature, and choice, that we who have been redeemed
by the precious blood of Christ, when we consider that we can
stand and in the presence of a holy and righteous God, it
causes our lips to praise God, to praise our great Savior, to
praise the Lord for what He's done, for what He's done, beloved. Brother Roy and I were looking
at that devotion we do each Sunday night, and the text was, He restoreth
my soul. God does that. He does that for us. We're born
dead. And he restores our soul, beloved. We have no ability to restore
our souls. None. And even after we're saved, we
have no ability to keep ourselves, do we? So he restores our soul. We're born again by the Holy
Spirit of God, by his power, And then He keeps us all through
this life. And what does that cause us to
do? Causes us to praise the Lord, doesn't it? Praise Him. Praise Him that He had mercy
on us. Oh my, He's done this. This is what He's done. Salvation's
of the Lord. And we praise Him for it. When
we consider that our great God drew salvation's plan in eternity,
that He drew all that, that He planned and purposed our salvation
in Christ? Would we consider that He chose
us in Christ in that plan? It causes us to rejoice, doesn't
it? It causes us to praise the Lord
for His goodness and His mercy that we were included in that
plan in Christ. Why? When we consider that all our
sins are put away, all of them, or look at that a little more
in depth tonight, all of them, like I mean all of them, put away in Christ for God's
people, when we consider that they're all put away by the sacrifice
of Christ, and when we consider that God's law and justice, which
in our natural state has a rightful claim upon us, has no claim upon
us now. I know we hear that all the time,
but when we really, really consider that fact, that we stand before
the Lord blameless, What does it cause? It causes
us to praise the Lord. It causes us to give glory to
the Lord, doesn't it? To praise His mighty name for
His goodness to us. My, when we consider that He
is ever watchful over us, as Brother Jim prayed, that He's
ever watchful over us, ever watchful over us, caring for us, protecting us,
guiding us, directing us. When we consider this truth,
again, I know we hear it. But it's good to hear again,
isn't it? And again, and again, and again. It never gets old. It should never get old for the
believer to hear these things. Because what does it cause us
to do? Because we get busy. We get busy in the world. We
get busy in our lives. And then when we stop and contemplate
these things, again, remember these things through the week.
They're bringing you great joy. So when we stop and we consider
and we contemplate these marvelous truths, it'll cause your lips,
the lips of the redeemed, to praise the Lord, to praise the
Lord. to give Him all the glory. And our lips will become full
of praise for our wonderful, merciful Redeemer when we think
upon these things. Now David knew what it meant
to praise the Lord. And he, by inspiration of the
Holy Spirit of God, remember these words that we're going
to read are penned by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God. Look at these words here in Psalm
103. Again, inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. Look at these
verses here. Verse 1 of Psalm 103. Bless the Lord, O my soul. That's the words of a redeemed
man. That's the words of a redeemed woman, too, isn't it? Both of
us, we both proclaim that. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
all that is within me. Bless His holy name. He alone is holy. He alone is
holy. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
forget not all His benefits. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities. All. Look at that. That little
word, A-L-L. All, there's not one left out. Who healeth all thy diseases,
all of them, and we'll see that's spiritual diseases, that's sin. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction,
who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies,
who satisfy thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed
like the eagles. The Lord executeth righteousness
and judgment for all that are oppressed. He made known his
ways unto Moses, and he makes known his ways unto all his people,
doesn't he? Through Christ. His acts unto the children of
Israel. The Lord is merciful. What a statement. He is merciful. And what else is he? He is ingracious,
slow to anger. Slow to anger. That's the opposite
of us, isn't it? We can get fired up pretty quick.
But the Lord's slow to anger. Look at that. And praise God,
he is. Oh, look at this. Implenteous
in mercy, abundant, overflowing in mercy. He will not always
chide, neither will he keep his anger forever. He hath not dealt
with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Hallelujah. Oh, praise God. We'll look at
that verse later on. It caused you to rejoice. For
as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy
toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the
west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us. Like
as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that
fear Him. For He knoweth our frame, He
remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass,
as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes
over it and is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no
more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting."
It's eternal. It's eternal, beloved. And remember
what Paul wrote. He said, I've obtained mercy.
That's the mercy of God. And so is every believer. And
that mercy, beloved, is everlasting. It's unchanging. It's unchanging. It's forever towards us. Upon
them that fear him, and again, that's not a slavish fear, that's
a reverent fear of awe of who God is, and his righteousness
unto children's children. To such as keep his covenant,
and to those that remember his commandments to do them, the
Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens, it's a set throne,
and his kingdom ruleth over all. It rules over all, there's not
a maverick molecule, there's nothing out of place. There's
nothing that's not under his dominion, nothing. Nothing, even
that speck of dust you see in the sunshine in the windows.
Nothing. Nothing. Everything is under
His control. Everything. The Lord hath prepared His thrones
in the heavens, and His kingdom ruleth over all. Bless the Lord,
ye His angels, that excel in strength, and do His commandments,
hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord,
all his hosts, ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. Bless
the Lord, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless
the Lord, O my soul. So we see here in this psalm
that this psalm is one continued hymn of praise. One continued
hymn of praise to our great God. And it concludes a comprehensive
view of the goodness of Jehovah in all the great works of creation,
redemption, providence, and grace. He rules over all, beloved. Let's
look at verses one and two. We see it's the Psalm of David.
Bless the Lord, bless Jehovah. O my soul, and all that is within
me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
forget not all his benefits. Now take note at how beautifully
this psalm opens up. It calls the redeemed soul to
praise the Lord, to praise the Lord, to praise God. And remember
that our hearts in our natural state do not praise God. But
in our redeemed hearts, or our regenerated hearts, we praise
God. We give Him all the glory. And
remember, it's with the heart man believeth unto righteousness,
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. So when
we're praising God, it's coming from our heart, beloved. True
worship of God, true praise of God comes from our hearts, comes
from a redeemed redeemed soul who is born again by the Holy
Spirit of God. We see here as Robert Hocker
has brought forth that it was an ancient custom in the church
at the opening of services to call upon the people to lift
up your hearts and let your lips praise the Lord. My, just praise
Him. Praise Him for His goodness.
Worship our great God and King, Worship Him. Worship Him. Now verse 2, I'd like to spend
a little bit of our time on tonight. Look at this. Bless the Lord,
O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. One of the best
ways for us to begin or end a day is by contemplating and remembering
all of God's benefits towards us. Just remember, for that day
even. I remember talking to young Jake
one time in Colorado, and we were talking. He loves coffee. He loves coffee. And I was saying,
well, you know, that coffee's a benefit from the Lord. He's
like, what? I said, yeah, it's a blessing.
I said, somebody picks it or grows it down in Columbia or
wherever they get it from. I said, it's trucked to wherever
it's gonna be processed. It's processed and bought by
truck to the store where you bought it. And I said, and then
you go to the store, you purchase it, you take it home, you brew
it, and you enjoy a really nice cup of coffee. I said, that's
a benefit from the Lord. See, even the food we have that
comes on our table, that's all a benefit from the Lord, beloved,
everything. All from his providential hand,
isn't it? It is. It's wonderful. So every day
we have a reminder of the Lord's provision before us. Every day. Every day we have a reminder
of the Lord's provision. Every day. In this world, we suffer through
trials and tribulations and we're sometimes prone to complain.
It's very easy for us to complain. It really is. It's not hard for
us to do that. And we know that's the flesh
too. Our worst enemy is our flesh. And we know that. We know that.
We are prone to do this. And for natural man, they're
very prone to do that. Very prone. And they don't see
the benefits of the Lord. So one of the things for us when
we get like that, when we start to complain, is to contemplate
the Lord's benefits to us. the Lord's benefits towards us.
Never forget, beloved of God, as we looked at the nine names
of God in this morning's message, that that is who saved us. That's
who watches over us. That's who provides for us. Jehovah. And here, David exhorts believers
by inspirational Holy Spirit to bless the Lord. Praise Him. That's what it means, praise
Him. Praise Him. Praise Him in the morning, praise
Him in the day, and praise Him in the evening. He's so good
to us, beloved. He's so good to us. Oh my. The psalmist brings forth
that we are not to forget the benefits of the Lord towards
us. Look at him. Look there in verse two. Bless
the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Why would
it say that? Because we're prone to forget.
We're prone to go through the day not even thinking about the
blessings that we've received. Do you know that just breathing's
a blessing? Our breath comes from the Lord.
He gives that to us. It's a blessing. It's wonderful. So David here is exhorting us
to not forget all his benefits, to bless the Lord, to praise
his name, to praise his name. And I'm not talking about going
around in public and going, I'm talking about just having a grateful
and thankful heart and praising him. No one else has to know
you're praising the Lord, just praise him in your heart. While
you're at work, while you're at home, And I'll tell you what, if you
have a believing wife and husband, tell them, because they're probably
going to get excited and start praising the Lord too, because that's
how it works. You start talking about the Lord with your spouse,
and next thing you know, you're just rejoicing in your King.
Rejoicing in Him. It's wonderful. It's absolutely
wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. So many
benefits we receive. And he works over to forget not
his benefits. Forget not his benefits. And
we're seeing this psalm that the psalmist goes on to list
some of these benefits. And this is a psalm that we can
go to and rejoice in the benefits that we've received from the
Lord. Again, because it's good to have
these things before us. It's good to have these things
before us. They can be a source of great blessing and joy. And
there's times in every believer's life when we need to be lifted
up by the Lord, when we need strength and grace from the Lord.
More times than not. More times than not. So we'll see some of these benefits
listed. And remember, These can be a
great blessing to God's born-again, blood-washed people. The world
don't see these. They don't know them. They've
not tasted that the Lord is gracious, but we have as believers. Look
at verse three. Right away, the psalmist brings
forth, look what the psalmist brings forth. Right away, he
brings one of the benefits before the people of God. Look at this,
that God has forgiven all our iniquities, all of them, all
of them. Marvel at this, who forgiveth
all thine iniquities, all of them, from when we were just
a little tyke, to when we go home to be with the Lord, when
we breathe our last breath, because we know we're sinners the whole
way through, aren't we? We're safe sinners, but we're
sinners. But look at that, who forgiveth
all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases. Imagine all
our sin in our lifetime, sins of thought. I was thinking about
this. All the sins of our lifetime,
sins of thought, things that we thought no one else knows
about, we thought them, right? Sins of word that come out of
our mouth. Sins of deed that we've done.
Sins of the heart. Sins of affection, recall. Sins
we don't even know that we commit. Right? Because there's some of
them too. All against us. They all stand against us. All
condemning us in the law of God that's been broken, has been broken by every one
of those sins. You ever think of that? It's not a small thing, is it? Every sin that we commit is breaking
the law of God. And God's law demands satisfaction. Can you or I pay for one of these
sins, let alone the billions that we commit in a lifetime?
Augustus Topley sat down and he was good with math and he
tried to figure out how many sins a man would commit from
their birth till their 80s, and I think it was billions. And
Brother Bruce Crabtree got up one time and said, well, I passed
that. But it's true. See, we're not
even conscious of how much we sin in a whole lifetime. So can you or I pay for one of
those sins? No, no. Imagine in your mind
the enormous mass of your sin and its great wickedness and
see God, God, the just judge of the universe, take his seat
to pass judgment upon you and upon me for my sin and for yours. And then hear him say, all is
forgiven. This one's sins and iniquities
I will remember no more. Oh my Lord, praise your name. And that's what happens to the
blood-washed born-again believer. My, marvel, marvel at this truth. Marvel at this wonderful benefit. This wonderful benefit. the benefit
of the finished, complete work of the Lord Jesus Christ in our
place. And the Scriptures declare about that, who forgiveth all
thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases, and that is
only in Christ Jesus our Lord. It says here, who healeth all
thy diseases. John Gill says diseases here
are not bodily ones, though the Lord is the physician of the
bodies as well as the souls of men, and sometimes heals the
diseases of soul and body at once, as in the case of the paraplegic
man in the Gospels. But this speaks of spiritual
diseases or soul sickness. We know that it's tied into our
iniquities because it's in the same verse. And our sins are hereditary,
aren't they? We're born sinners. We're born
with a dead nature. And sin is a mortal disease.
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. And it's incurable by man. It's incurable by man. This can only be cured by God,
and He heals us by His almighty power. We're born again by the
power of God, by the means of the preaching of the Gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And in the preaching of the Gospel
of God's free grace in Christ, peace with God is preached through
Christ alone. Pardon of all our sins is proclaimed
in Christ. All our iniquities forgiven in
Christ. through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our righteousness is preached, which is accepted by God. And
it's proclaimed to be the righteousness of Christ, which it is. And it comes to the believer
because it's given to us by our great God. Wondrous. And this the Lord Jesus does
freely. Freely. Fully. According to his sovereign will,
he bestows his salvation upon those who the Father gave him.
Again, we don't know who they are, so we preach the gospel
to everyone. God does the same. But my, oh
my, what a benefit there. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities,
who healeth all thy diseases. All of them. All of them. Both, it says there, who forgiveth
all thine iniquities and who healeth all thy diseases. Praise
God. There's not one left behind.
Not one. Not one that's not paid for.
That's wonderful. What a benefit. Is it any wonder
then that God's people praise the Lord? that we praise the
Lord, what a wondrous benefit. Another benefit brought forth
in this psalm is that our great God redeems our souls from destruction.
Look at this in verse four. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction,
who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies.
Now you and I know little, very little of what God's wrath is
like. In fact, I suppose only those
in hell know what God's wrath is. We hear about it, and we read
about it, and it makes us tremble in fear, in awe of who our God
is. But there is one other who knows,
and that is the Lord Jesus Christ who bore God's wrath for God's
people. It was poured out upon him in our place, in our place. When he died on Calvary's cross,
And because Christ was forsaken and God's wrath fell upon Him
as our substitute, then we will never experience the wrath of
God. Never. And hence that verse, who redeemeth
thy life from destruction. From the wrath of God. From the
wrath of God. My. Look at the latter part of
Verse four, we see another benefit of our salvation, which had caused
the Lord's people to bless the Lord. It says, who crowneth thee
with loving kindness and tender mercies. Our great Lord crowns us with
his loving kindness and mercy. See the word crowneth there?
It's translated in the Hebrew, it means encircle or surround. Oh my, He surrounds us with loving
kindness and tender mercies. We're surrounded by it. We're encircled by the loving
kindness and tender mercies of God. We're protected. We're protected
from all eternal harm. Again, this magnifies our great
God's sovereignty, doesn't it? It magnifies who our God really
is. He's God. He's Almighty God,
beloved. All of God's blessings to his
people we know flow from his loving kindness and tender mercy
through the Lord Jesus Christ to his people. And think of all
these blessings, all the blessings of the everlasting covenant,
the sure mercies of David, all spiritual blessings, which the
saints are blessed with in Christ, the grace given to us, the mercy
that we receive, all the things pertaining to
life and godliness given to us in regeneration. We are encircled
with the loving kindness and mercy of God, beloved. In crowning
here, crowneth here, brings forth an application and enjoyment
of them. We enjoy these benefits. We enjoy the loving kindness
of God. We enjoy the mercy of God. We who are the people of
God. We enjoy the abundance of them
which has been shown to us. We're surrounded by them. We're
loaded down daily with benefits from the Lord, beloved. Daily. Daily he loaded me down with
benefits, Proverbs says, daily. Now look at verse five, we see
another benefit which will cause the born again, blood-bought
believer in Christ to bless the Lord. Look at this. Who satisfy
thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed like
the eagles. God gives his people full satisfaction. Now the world, the world rushes
after its own, excuse me, its own glories, doesn't it? It rushes
after its own glories. And no matter how much natural
man receives, they're never satisfied. Never satisfied. Always want
more. Always want more. Every believer shall be satisfied
with Christ. And we are satisfied with Christ. And we'll see Christ in glory
one day, but when the worldling dies, he loses all of the earthly
things that he calls blessings. But for the believer in Christ,
to die is gain. To die is gain. Because then
we'll see the one who our soul loveth, who our soul longs to
see. And we'll see him face to face.
And let's read down to verse 10, where we'll see another benefit
of our salvation, which will cause us to rejoice and bless
the Lord. Look at this. My, look at this. He hath not dealt with us after
our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. What a verse. What a verse. He has not dealt
with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
This verse clearly brings forth that we do not get what we deserve. We don't, we get mercy, beloved.
We receive mercy from the Lord. Look at this. He not dealt with
us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
We don't get what we deserve. The people of God don't get what
we deserve because we've been redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ.
And all our sins have been dealt with by the sinless substitute. He took our punishment, beloved. He took it. He bore our sins on Calvary and
He made satisfaction for them before God. So what joy this can bring the
redeemed sinner! Our great God has not rewarded
us according to our iniquities. What a relief! What a relief
this is to the saint of God! If God were to deal with you
and I in justice, where would we be? If every transgression we committed
had received its just reward, then we must have been sent to
hell. The lake burning with fire and
brimstone. That would be in our portion
as the wages of sin is eternal death. The reason God does not
reward His people according to their iniquities, according to
our sins, is because Christ is borum, beloved. He borum. The chastisement of our peace
is upon Him. And with His stripes we are healed.
He made satisfaction to divine justice for all our sins. All of them. So the believer
naturally cries out when he hears that or she hears that, Bless
the Lord, O my soul. Bless the Lord. This is wondrous. Look at verse, marvel at verses
11 and 12. For as the heaven is high above
the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As
far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions
from us. So these benefits are just being
poured out before us, pressed upon each other. Look at this
illustration we're given here. And remember, this is by inspiration
of the Holy Spirit. This great distance, the space between heaven and
earth, where our great God dwells is seemingly infinite. Nothing can more illustrate the
mercy of God, which reaches to the heavens and is in heaven
And this picture here is a representation of the largeness of God's mercy
towards us. The largeness, it's vast. It's
vast. And that's for every single believer. And what a picture. God's mercy
towards us, beloved, is boundless and infinite. Do you see why David said, bless
the Lord, O my soul? Note there, as far as the east
is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgression
for us. They're gone, beloved. They're gone. There's a great
gulf between us and our sins, which can never be bridged. They're
gone. They're gone. In God's eyes. To an infinite distance, the
great scapegoat carried away all the sins of his people, and
they shall never return to be bought against us, to be charged
against us. They're gone. Bless the Lord, oh my soul. That's all we can say. That's all we can say, isn't
it? Oh my. So what mercy we see here
before us in tonight's text. And it fills the believer's heart
with joy. And it stirs us up to bless the
Lord and to be thankful for all His benefits. What a salvation
we have in Christ. And it's all according to the
mercy and grace of God. According to His will. that we
would be receivers of this mercy and grace. Look at verses 13 to 17 now. Like as a father pitieth his
children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth
our frame, he remembereth that we are dust. Dust, that's what
we are. As for a man, his days are as
grass, as a flower of the field, flourishes, for the wind passes
over it and is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no
more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's
children." Marvel at verse 13 there. Our great God pities us. His eye toward us is not full
of wrath as a judge. And this is speaking to his people.
No. His eye toward us is one of pity
and understanding and the compassion of a father. It's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. And
here never lay too heavy a burden upon his people. He'll not demand
too much of us. He'll not give us over to our
enemies. He deals with us tenderly. Why? Because we're weak. Because
we're weak. And sometimes we don't remember
we're but dust, but we're reminded here in scripture that we're
just dust. We're dust. We think we're strong. And you know, I remember when
I was young, I thought, oh man, I was strong, could do anything.
How quickly you learn as you get older that you just can't
do the things you used to do. Our frailty is bought before
us, isn't it? It's bought before us. A natural man, they don't even
consider their frailty. They think they're invincible.
No one's invincible. No one. They don't contemplate that they're
but dust. But note here, the Lord remembereth
that we're dust. He has compassion on us. He has
compassion on us. Look at verse 15 and 16. As for man, his days are as grass,
as a flower of a field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes
over it and is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no
more. Before the mower's blade comes, the hot eastern wind has
dried up the grass and it's gone. and how a little thing can carry
us away, we who are frail. We're here today and gone tomorrow.
Our life's like a vapor. In light of eternity, our life's
like a vapor. We're coming to that season again
where you go, you see that vapor and then it just vanishes. That's
what our life is like in light of eternity. I'm always reminded
of that in the wintertime. Always brought forth to me, and
it's incredible. It's true. That's what our life
is like, just like that little vapor. Look at verse 17. But the mercy
of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, upon them that
fear him, in his righteousness unto children's children. God's
mercy to his people is everlasting, beloved. Let this sink deep in
your soul. God's loving kindness and God's
mercy towards you and towards me is unchanging. It never changes. Now our circumstances
change, don't they? But his love towards us is unchanging. Isn't that wonderful? It makes
you want to bless the Lord, doesn't it? It makes you want to just
be thankful for His goodness and His mercy and His grace towards
us. My! So we see here an endless chain
of grace to God's people in Christ as sin is forgiven, it's power
subdued, it's penalty paid. And we who are the redeemed of
the Lord are supplied in our very nature changed just like
newborn children in the household of God. We're adopted by our
great God. And we have everything provided
for us in Christ. It's amazing. It's amazing. Oh, may we bless the Lord with
our heart and soul and our strength. May we praise His mighty name.
May we think upon these truths this week. And let we who are the redeemed
look upon this world as a place, not as a place for a long stay,
but only as a meadow. only as a medal in which we in
common with other feeble flowers are blooming for our little hour. Just for our little hour and
then we're gone. Now with such blessings as we've
looked at tonight, how can we complain? How can we complain? with such an abundance of blessing
in Christ, how can we ever consider ourselves anything less than
the most blessed people in this world? And we just looked at
a few of the benefits. We are the most blessed people
in the world. We really are. God's people are
the most blessed people in the world. Now we go through things
and we don't always feel that way, but we are. That fact is
unchanging. That fact is unchanging. Just
like our God, he doesn't change. So let us sing with the sweet
psalmist of Israel, David. Let us sing, bless the Lord,
O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. To God be the glory. Amen. Heavenly Father, we thank
you again for your mercy, your grace towards us. As we read
tonight these benefits, these blessed benefits that we have
in thee, O Lord. We know in our hearts that we
are undeserving, but yet you bestowed them upon us. You've
had mercy on us and we know and we rejoice that your loving kindness
and your mercy is unchanging towards us. Despite our sinfulness,
it never changes. Oh Lord, what a wondrous salvation
we have in thee. Oh, we thank you. We who are
your people, we thank you that you included us in salvation's
plan and we bless your holy name, Lord. We bless your name. for your mercy and grace towards
us in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.