Bible's open there, Exodus chapter
four, that'll be our text this evening. I've titled the message
Three Miracles of Grace. Now you remember how the Lord
in the last chapter had called Moses to go preach in Egypt. The message that the Lord gave
Moses to preach, it's a message of deliverance and freedom. And
it's a message for both believer and unbeliever alike. The message
to Pharaoh was, God said let my people go. And the message
to Israel was, you get ready to go. We're leaving this place
because God said that we're going to leave here. We're leaving
here because God's going to deliver us by his power and by his grace,
by his sovereign distinguishing grace. Look back at chapter three,
when the Lord told Moses that Moses just could not believe
he was the man for this job. In verse 11, Moses said unto
God, who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh, that I should bring
forth the children of Israel? out of Egypt. Moses saying, Lord,
I'm not qualified for this. Who is qualified? Who is qualified
to preach this great message? Moses says, I know I'm not. And Moses, you're right. You're
right. You're nothing. You're not able
to do this job. You're not qualified to do it.
But your qualification for doing this job is the Lord's going
to be with you. The Lord said in verse 12, The
Lord said, certainly I will be with thee. The Lord promised
Moses, I'll be with you. Now, you know, that's all it
should have took for Moses to start walking to Egypt in absolute
confidence, shouldn't it? I mean, if the Lord's gonna be
with us, we cannot fail. But Moses, he's still objecting,
and he's objecting because he's looking at the world around him.
He sees so many difficulties. Moses is looking at his own weakness
instead of looking at the power of God. Moses is looking at the
hardness of the human heart, the hardness of the human heart
of the people he's supposed to preach to. You know they've got
such hard hearts. And he's looking at that hard
heart. He's looking at their unbelief instead of looking at
the power of God to make sinners hear and believe. Now look over
chapter four, verse one. This is what's going through
Moses' mind, why he says what he says. And Moses answered and
said, but behold, they'll not believe me nor hearken unto my
voice for they will say, the Lord has not appeared unto thee.
You know, the Lord might appear to somebody, but he hadn't appeared
to you. Moses is saying, you know, I
kind of see what they're saying. Who in their right mind is going
to listen to me? They're going to think, you know,
they're not going to think I've got anything to say. Well, I know
the answer to that question. The answer is, I'll tell you
who's going to hear you, Moses, the people that God gives ears
to hear. The people that God gives a heart
to believe, they're gonna hear you. Israel, my people, they
will believe when they hear the message of God from Moses. Look
back again at chapter three. In verse 16, the Lord says, He's appeared unto me saying,
I have surely visited you and seen that which is done to you
in Egypt. And I've said, I will bring you
up out of the affliction of Egypt under the land of the Canaanites
and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites
and the Jebusites unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
And they shall hearken to thy voice. The elders of Israel,
my people, they're going to hearken to your voice. And you know,
we wonder the same thing. when we go preach the gospel
of God's grace? Who's gonna listen to us? Who's
gonna hear this and believe this? Well, we already know the answer
to the question, don't we? God's elect are gonna hear. God's
elect are gonna believe. God's elect are gonna be blessed
by it. Sooner or later, they will. Now, it may not be the
very first time they ever hear the gospel preached, but sooner
or later, if they're God's elect, they're gonna believe. God's
gonna see to it. You just keep preaching the gospel
to them. You just keep preaching Christ to them. They're gonna
believe. They're gonna believe because of the power and grace
of God. He's gonna give them ears to hear and a heart that
believes Him. And to give us a demonstration
of His power and His grace, the Lord performed three miracles
for Moses. And these three miracles picture
three miracles of grace that God performs for all of His people.
And the first one is this, the miracle of breaking the power
of the law. In verse two, the Lord said unto
him, what is that in thine hand? And he said, a rod. And he said,
cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground
and it became a serpent. And Moses fled from before it.
And the Lord said unto Moses, put forth thine hand and take
it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and
caught it. And he became a rod in his hand that they may believe. that the Lord God of their fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath
appeared unto thee. Now Moses' rod that he had in
his hand represents the power of God's law to punish. Moses'
rod is what brought all those plagues on Egypt. Moses stretched
that rod over the waters of Egypt and all the waters were turned
to blood. Aaron stretched that rod out over the waters and frogs
came out of the water and just absolutely covered the land of
Egypt. Aaron took that rod and he smoked the ground with it
and lice came up and just covered everything. Man and beast, lice
covered everything in Egypt. Then Moses stretched that rod
out toward heaven and fiery hail fell from heaven, ran across
the ground. Then When they were trapped at
the Red Sea, Moses stretched that rod out over the Red Sea.
And that sea parted, and Israel crossed on dry ground. And when
Israel got all the way over and Pharaoh and his host started
going to the Red Sea to go chase them down and kill them, Moses
stretched out that rod again. And the waters came and drowned
Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea. When the people were crying
for water in the wilderness, Moses smoked the rock in the
wilderness with his rod and out flowed water, life-giving water
for all of Israel. Moses' rod is a picture of the
power of God to punish sin. Now God's law is against us and
God's law would destroy even believers unless the power of
the law is taken away. Now the power of the law is his
power to condemn us because of our sin, because we do not obey
the law. And that power would destroy
us. But the Lord Jesus Christ broke the power of the law over
his people. Christ took the power of the
law, the power of the law to condemn his people by obeying
the law for his people. God's elect obeyed the law in
Christ our representative in the very same way we disobeyed
God's law in Adam. In Adam, we disobeyed God's law
and became sinners. In Christ, we obeyed God's law
and became righteous. In Christ, God's elect have kept
the law. We have kept the law. It's not
like we have, we have. So the law says, go free. The law has no power to hold
you captive if you've obeyed it. And if you're in Christ,
you have. There's no reason for the law
to demand the death of anyone who's in Christ because we've
obeyed the law in him. Then Christ took the power of
the law away when he was condemned as the substitute for his people. Now the law has the power to
demand our death for sin. The law has the power and every
right to do that. The law has the power to condemn
us to hell because of our sin. And that power of the law is
still in The power of the law is in full effect. But Christ
took the power of the law, the power to condemn his people away
from the law when he was made sin for his people. He took the
sin of his people away from them and he made it his. And he suffered
the full penalty of that law as the substitute for his elect.
When Christ was made sin, the law demanded that he die. So Christ died to satisfy the
law's demand. And now that Christ has died,
the law is satisfied. The law says the penalty's been
paid, the debt's been paid, so the law doesn't have any power
to demand your condemnation if Christ died for your sin. And
that's what's pictured in this miracle with Moses' rod. When
Moses cast his rod down, it turned into a snake, a serpent. That's
a picture of Satan who tempted Eve and led Adam into bringing
sin into the world. Now Moses' rod turned into a
real snake. That's why Moses fled from it.
This thing is a deadly poisonous serpent. And if that serpent
had gotten ahold of Moses, it'd have killed him. That's why Moses
ran from it. That's just like the law of God.
If it gets ahold of us, it's gonna kill us. It's gonna demand
our condemnation. But Christ came and he took the
power of the law away. And that's what's pictured here.
The Lord told Moses something very specific. It's a picture
of how Christ had broken the power of the law against his
people. The Lord told Moses, pick up that serpent by its tail,
by its tail. Now I'm going to tell you something
about snakes. Frank in picking up any snakes. I mean under any
circumstance, I'm not picking up no snakes under no circumstances
am I picking up any snakes. But if some weird circumstance
happened that I did try to pick up a snake, even I know you don't
pick up a snake by its tail. You just don't do that. If you
pick up a snake by its tail, it's gonna turn around bite you.
Brother Cody Groover, you know, he lived down in Mexico, and
he and some of the men were going through the jungle one day, and
Cody just felt something underneath his boot, and he looked down,
and he had stepped on one of the most poisonous snakes in
that whole area, and he just, he stood still, and he called
one of the men, Elio, one of the pastors, and he came over,
and Elio took his knife out, and he chopped the snake's head
off, but Cody just so happened to step on that snake, right
behind its head. Cody said, if I stepped on that
snake's tail, I'd be dead today. If you're gonna pick up a snake,
you reach down, you get it behind the head, and you hold it so
it doesn't swing around and bite you. But the Lord told Moses,
you pick it up by the tail, because it can't hurt you anymore. See,
picking that snake up, that serpent up by its tail, shows us how
the obedience of Christ and the death of Christ took the power
of the law away to hurt us. If Christ died for you, the law
can't hurt you. He took the venom out of it.
He's already cut his head off. So now the believer can say,
but David, I'm not afraid of God's law. I love God's law. I love it. Look at Psalm 23. I love the law of God. I love
that rod of God. Now, the only way you could say
that is If Christ has taken away the power of that rod, to smite
you and condemn you. Psalm 23, verse four. Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou
art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort
me. The law of God that was at one
time against us, that would demand our condemnation if we were not
in Christ, The law of God actually comforts God's people. It comforts
us. I love to say this. I love to
think about this. I want to drive this point home
to every one of God's people. Here's how the law comforts us.
God's law demands that we have eternal life if Christ died for
us. God's holy law is a comfort to
God's people. You pick it up by the tail, it's
not gonna bite you. It's not gonna hurt you. And
that's what that miracle, the first miracle there, casting
the rod down, it becoming a serpent, Moses taking it up, become a
rod again. It pictures that Christ took away the power of the law
to condemn anyone of his people. All right, the second miracle.
It's the miracle of the cleansing of sin. In verse six, and the
Lord said furthermore unto him, put now thine hand into thy bosom,
he put his hand into his bosom and when he took it out behold
his hand was leprous as snow and he said put thine hand into
thy bosom again and he put his hand into his bosom again and
he plucked it out of his bosom and behold it was turned again
as his other flesh and it shall come to pass if they will not
believe thee neither hearken to the voice of the first sign
that they'll believe the voice of the latter sign now the lord
told moses put your hand in in your bosom over your heart And
when Moses put his hand on his heart and pulled it out, it was
white with leprosy, completely covered with leprosy. And you
know, leprosy is a picture of the corruption of sin, the disease
of sin. And here's why the Lord told
Moses, put that over your heart and take it out. So it became
leprous. So that we would learn about
the nature of our sin, our sin nature. It's corrupt with sin,
corrupt. We looked at that sin nature
in the Bible lesson last Sunday. Remember when the Lord taught
us, whatever it is you put in your body, that's not gonna defile
you. We're defiled already because our nature's defiled with sin.
We can't put anything in our body to fill up our hearts with
sin. Our hearts are already full of sin. It's not sin from the
outside that's killing us. What's killing us is our nature.
It's that sin nature. It's killing our bodies from
the inside out. Not the outside in. I mean, I
know the world around us is bad. Seems like it's getting worse,
doesn't it? But it's not the world out there that's gonna
kill us. It's the corruption from within. It's gonna rot us
from the inside out. And we've been defiled a long
time. Our nature's been defiled a long time. From the very moment
we were conceived in our mother's womb. Our nature was defiled
with sin. David said, behold, I was shapen
in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me. That's when
I became defiled with sin, the very moment that I was conceived. And Moses' hand became full of
leprosy when he touched his heart. When he touched his nature, his
hand became full of leprosy. So now Moses' nature is defiled
and everything he touches with that hand Now it becomes unclean
too. Whatever a leper touched became
unclean. Tell you what that's a picture
of. It's a picture of our works of the law. The works of our
hands are dead sinful works because we've put our hand to it. Our
hand is defiled because the nature, our nature is defiled. Now look
over a few pages at Exodus chapter 20. Now, since that's true, our
nature is defiled, and that means everything we touch is defiled,
we had better not put our hand to anything we expect to save
us. We better not do it. Exodus chapter 20, verse 22.
And the Lord said unto Moses, thus shalt
thou say unto the children of Israel, you have seen that I
have talked with you from heaven. You should not make me gods of
silver, neither shall you make unto you gods of gold. an altar
of earth shalt thou make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon
thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings, thy sheep and thine
oxen, in all places where I record my name. I will come unto thee,
and I will bless thee. And if thou make me an altar
of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone, stone you've
cut to make fit, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, you've
polluted it. Now God can only be worshiped
at Christ, the sacrifice, who's offered on Christ the altar,
who's offered by Christ our great high priest. It's all Christ. God can only be approached in
Christ. That's why the Lord told Moses,
don't you make an altar of hewn stone. Don't you get these stones
and you cut them and shape them and fix them. So you think, boy,
doesn't that look nice? You use the stones just like
God provided them. Just like you find them. That's how you
do it. Don't you put your hand to it. Because if you put your
hand, your works, and you add that to the sacrifice of Christ,
because you think, oh, God's gonna accept it. No, I know God's
pleased with the sacrifice of Christ. I know God's pleased
with the righteousness of Christ, but let me add this little thing
to it, and I'll garnish it, make it look good, you know. God said,
if you do that, I won't accept your sacrifice. Our works are
corrupt and filthy, and if we put our hands our works to the
sacrifice of Christ, we've corrupted the sacrifice and made that of
no effect to us. That's how serious this thing
is, of putting our hand to anything we think God could save us. Sinners
like you and me can only come to God in Christ. But if we do,
if we come to God in Christ without any of our works added to it,
we will be accepted. We will be, that's God's grace.
So Moses' hand's white with leprosy. I mean, that's a problem. I mean,
you know, if this doesn't change, Moses is gonna die a leper. So
the Lord told Moses, put his hand back in again. Put it over
in your bosom again. And when he pulled it out this
time, his hand was, he was healed. His flesh, just like all the
other flesh of his body, he was healed. Now the Lord told Moses
to do that as a picture of the miracle of grace that took place
when Christ suffered and died as a substitute for his people.
At Calvary, Christ took all of the sin and all of the corruption
of his people away from them and he made it his. Just like
a leper would be thrust out of the camp because he was unclean,
Christ, our substitute, was thrust out of his Father's presence
when he was made sin. He had to suffer outside the
camp to fulfill this picture. He was made sin for his people
and he must go outside the camp. He had to be thrust out of his
father's presence. Christ, the sinner substitute,
was separated from his father. Now try to understand that. I
and the father are one. I am father, he said. We're one. Yet at Calvary, he was separated
from his father. Just like the leper, had to be
separated from the worship of God in the temple. He couldn't
come to the temple. He couldn't come where God is
worshiped. He's unclean. Christ was separated from his
father. That's why he cried, my God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? For the father forsook his son
because the sin of God's elect had become Christ's. And the
Holy Father had to forsake him for it. He had to punish him
for it. And Christ shed his blood on
the tree to pay for the sin that of his people. The blood of Christ
paid the debt in full. The father said, it's enough. The debt's paid. The blood of
Christ atoned for. It covered all of the sin of
God's elect so that God does not see it. Sin's been atoned
for by the blood of Christ. That's why God is at peace with
his people. is because of the blood of Christ.
He removed the sin that would make a holy God angry. Now there's
no reason for him to be angry with his people anymore. God's
at peace because of the blood of Christ. The blood would pay
the debt of God's people. But Christ also shed his blood
to cleanse his people, to cleanse them from all the filthiness
and corruption of their sin. And the blood of Christ is applied
to our hearts. We're cleansed. cleansed from
all of our sin. We're made whole from every spiritual
disease just like Moses' hand was healed. That's why David
said, purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean. And whenever
you find hyssop in the Old Testament, you know what you find it doing?
Being dipped in blood and sprinkling the blood. Applying the blood.
David said, purge me with hyssop. Take that hyssop and dip it in
the blood of Christ and you sprinkle it on me and I'll be whiter than
snow. I'll be clean. Now, when the scriptures talk
about the blood of Christ being applied, it's talking about the
new birth. In the new birth, God causes
a new nature to be born in his people. God the Holy Spirit causes
a new nature to be born in his people, a nature that was not
there before. A nature that is holy, it's righteous,
it cannot sin. It's clean and white and pure,
because it's been born of the Spirit of God. Let me show you
that first in John chapter 13. John chapter 13. Here the Lord is washing the
feet of his disciples. In John 13 verse 6, Then cometh
he to Simon Peter, And Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou
wash my feet? Jesus answered and said unto
him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know
hereafter. Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt
never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash
thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter saith unto him,
Lord, not my feet only, also my hands and my head. Jesus saith
unto him, He that is washed, needeth not, save to wash his
feet. But he's clean every whit, and
you're clean, but not all. For he knew who should betray
him, therefore, said he, you're not all clean. You know why the
Lord knew who was clean there and who was washed and who wasn't
washed? Because he's the one that washed them. He knew that,
he knew Jews were scary, what he was gonna, he wasn't washed,
but the rest of them were washed. And they didn't need to be washed
again. They've been washed, cleansed in the blood of Christ. Look
over at 1 Corinthians 6. Here's another scripture. 1 Corinthians
6. Verse nine. Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? If you're gonna be in
the kingdom of God, you've got to be made righteous. Be not
deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners
shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you,
but you're washed, but you're sanctified. You've been made
holy. You're justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by
the spirit of our God. You're washed because the Holy
Spirit of God has washed you in the blood of Christ, washed
you white as snow. giving you a new heart, a new
nature that can never sin and will never sin. Now, brethren,
that's a miracle. That's a miracle. It's a miracle
the human mind cannot comprehend. You try telling someone that
doesn't know God, that doesn't know anything about the Scriptures,
that doesn't believe Christ, you try telling them that you've
got two natures and you see, just wait and see what their
reaction is, you know. Well, you know, you're saying you're
schizophrenic or you're saying that, you know, that you're a
little God or you're saying you can do something that's holy
and righteous. A believer has two natures, two
completely opposite natures. This nature of sin and corruption
that we've been talking about and the nature born of God that's
holy and righteous and clean. Now that's a miracle. It's a
miracle of God's grace that Job, way back yonder, wondered about.
Job said, who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not
one. Well, there is one. Job, there
is one. Almighty God can bring a clean
thing out of an unclean. That's exactly right. When a
believer lays down on their deathbed and closes their eyes in death,
Almighty God's gonna bring a clean thing out of an unclean. Dead flesh is gonna stay right
there on the deathbed till they come from the funeral home to
get it. The clean thing, God's brought out to go be with Him.
To be with Him forever. God does that by washing His
people in the blood of His Son. Now, if you're washed in the
blood of Christ, you're white as snow. There's no corruption,
no disease of sin left in you at all. That's a miracle of God's
grace, isn't it? right back in our text, Exodus
4. Here's the third miracle. It's the miracle of judgment
of sin in Christ the sinner's substitute. Verse nine. And it
shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs,
neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water
of the river and pour it upon the dry land, and the water which
thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry
land. Now this is a miracle picture
of God's judgment against sin. If they won't believe these first
two miracles of grace, if they won't believe in Christ to take
away the power of the law, if they won't believe that Christ
obeying the law for you makes you righteous, if they won't
believe that the sacrifice of Christ made his people righteous,
if they don't believe that God the Holy Spirit applies the blood
of Christ and gives you a new nature, the nature that God will
accept and love, if they won't believe the gospel, then you
can show them this miracle. It's a miracle of judgment. Judgment
against sin. And this is just a foretaste.
Moses taking that water and dumping it out on the ground, it became
blood. It wasn't just red colored water, it became blood. That's
a picture of God's judgment. And Moses taking that water and
dumping it out is just a small foretaste of things to come for
Egypt, isn't it? Look over a couple pages, Exodus
chapter seven. Exodus 7 verse 19. And the Lord spake unto Moses, say unto
Aaron, take thy rod and stretch out thine hand upon the waters
of Egypt, upon the streams, upon their rivers, and upon their
ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become
blood, and that there may be blood throughout all the land
of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.
And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded. And he lifted
up the rod and smote the waters that were in the river in the
sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants. And all the
waters that were in the river were turned to blood. And the
fish that was in the river died, and the river stank, and the
Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river. And there
was blood throughout all the land of Egypt." Now this plague
of turning the water into blood, it's a picture of God's judgment.
God's judgment against those things that man thinks is his
life and his wealth. Those things that man thinks
give him spiritual life and spiritual wealth. This is God's judgment
against those things. It's God's judgment against trusting
in those things instead of trusting in his son. Now you think what
the River Nile was to Egypt. That river made Egypt a wealthy
nation. You know, that Nile River would
flood every year. And that, like Brother Tom Harding
calls it, flood mud, would come up and get all in on those fields. It gave Egypt the most fertile
fields in the world. They always had plenty to eat,
because they had good crops every year, because they had this fertile,
this fertile river bottom, you know. And that river was also
a form of wealth and strength. They sailed stuff up and down
that river. You know, I've been watching
on the History Channel how they say they sailed all those big
stones that they used to build the pyramid. They sailed them
up the river. The stuff they could do. And they would sail
down that river, go out into other nations and trade with
other nations. They became rich because they could trade like
that because of that river. Other nations didn't have it.
The Nile gave life to the Egyptians. You know, other areas in that
country, deserts, you know, or that area of the world, they
might die of thirst, but not the Egyptians. They always had
plenty of water to drink, didn't they? That river always so full
of water. That Nile River was a real physical blessing to Egypt. It made Egypt mighty and wealthy. But the Lord turned their blessing
into a curse. He turned their life into death. He turned the water into blood,
and when he did that, he turned their fruitfulness into corruption. Now, instead of making the fields
fertile and kill them, it's a picture of God's judgment against our
sin. Those things that we think we've
done that'll make us righteous, or those things we've done that
we think will add to our righteousness that makes us more spiritually
wealthy than somebody else, you know, those very works will damn
us. Those are the works that will
dame us. Now this miracle, the water being turned into blood,
tells us God's just. God must punish every sin with
death. And those who do not believe
the gospel, they will be punished with death. Those things that
they trusted in to save their souls, those things that they
trusted in, that they thought God would be happy with, it's
those very things that God's gonna use to dame them. But this miracle also tells us
God's merciful. By the time we get over into
Exodus chapter seven, Aaron stretches out that rod and all the rivers
and water turn to blood. Egypt was being destroyed, weren't
they? But while Egypt was being destroyed, what was happening
to Israel, there in Goshen? They were being delivered. God
was being merciful to his people. God delivered His elect from
the damning wrath against their sin by punishing Christ, their
substitute, instead of punishing them. He poured out His wrath
on our substitute instead of pouring out upon His people.
The Father punished our substitute with death. This wrath, oh, it
turned into blood. The Father loved the Son. He
was delighted with His Son. Oh, how He loved His Son. Love. I don't know if you can
say it turned to wrath, but wrath was turned upon the son, wasn't
it? Wrath was turned upon the son because God must be just. He must punish sin. But while God was punishing our
substitute, what was happening to his people? His people were
delivered and given life because Christ died the death that we
deserve. Now Christ's death on the cross,
It's just a foretaste of what's to come. Christ's death on the
cross is a foretaste of what's to come, first of all, for everybody
who refuses to believe on him. The scene at Calvary was a horrible,
horrible, horrible scene. And when God started doing business
with God, it was so horrible, God turned the sun off. It's
not something man can even look on. The day of judgment. is gonna be that. What happened
in that darkness, that day of judgment is gonna be a great
day of judgment. But it will also be a great day
of mercy. That day of judgment is gonna be just the start of
eternal punishment for everybody who refused to believe on Christ.
But the day of judgment is also gonna be a day of great mercy
for God's people. And that day, everybody who trusts
Christ is gonna be completely delivered from sin. We're gonna
be delivered from the presence of sin. From the presence of
sin in our bodies, from the presence of sin in our nature, and the
presence of sin in the world around us. Because Christ took
it away for his people. As a songwriter said, what a
day that will be. What a day. I look forward to
it, don't you? And in that day, whew, we think we love to sing
Amazing Grace now. We think we love grace now. Oh,
in that day, we're gonna see what a miracle God's grace really
has been. It's a miracle. All right, let's
bow together. Our Father, how we thank you
for these three miracles of grace, your sovereign, distinguishing
grace, that you perform for all of your people and in the hearts
of all of your people. Father, how we thank you. And
I pray you take your word as it's been preached, Father, that
you would use it to show each of us here the glory of Christ
our Savior. Father, enable us to see these
miracles of grace, to hear these miracles of grace, and cause
us to trust in our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, it's in his name. For his sake, we pray and give
thanks. Amen. Alright, well, I had another
song picked out, but based on that closing, let's stand and
turn to hymn number 236. Let's sing about that grace,
amazing grace.