I hope you still have your Bibles
open there to Exodus chapter 33. The title of the message
this morning is Show Me Thy Glory. I obviously took my title from
verse 18. And he said, I beseech thee,
show me thy glory. You know, we're looking at a
series of questions that have been asked in the Bible, hoping
the Lord will show us the answer to those questions. Now this
sentence is not written as a question with a question mark at the end
of the sentence, but don't make any mistake, this is a question.
This is a request from Moses. He said, I beseech thee, I beg
thee, show me your glory. That's what the word beseech
means, it means I pray you or I beg of you, show me your glory. You know, creatures never demand
anything from God, do we? We always beg him, we're always
beseeching the Lord, so this is a question. Lord, show me
your glory. And it's the most important question
that a sinner could ask of God. Lord, show me your glory. Let
me see your glory. Lord, let me see your glory.
Show it to me so that I'll believe on you, so that I'll know you
and believe on you. That's what Moses says in verse
13. Now therefore I pray thee, if
I found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know
thee. I want to know you, that I might
find grace in thy sight and consider that this nation is thy people.
Moses wanted to know the Lord. And that's what I want for all
of us to know this morning. I want us to know more than the
right doctrine, although that's vitally important. I want us
to know the right doctrine. I want us to know a whole lot
more than that. I want us to know God, know who he is and
trust him. And I think it should be noted
that Moses asked this question of the Lord. Lord, show me your
glory. Consider what just happened in Moses' life. Moses had fled
Egypt. He was out there on the backside
of the mountain keeping his father-in-law's sheep. And the Lord appeared
to him in a bush that burned but was not consumed. And Moses
said, I've got to see this. Nobody's ever heard such a thing.
And God Almighty spoke to Moses out of that burned bush. He talked
with God out of a bush that burned and was not consumed. Moses saw,
we read about that. Moses saw it, he lived it. Moses
went back to Egypt like God told him to do and went and told Pharaoh,
God said, let my people go. Pharaoh wouldn't do it. And Moses
saw all the plagues that happened in Egypt. Moses saw the water
turn to blood. He saw the frogs and the lice
and the flies. He saw the darkness that came
on the Egyptians while there was still light over here. in
Goshen where the children of Israel live, Moses saw that fiery
hail fall from heaven and run along the ground. He saw all
that. And now, after seeing all that, Moses said, Lord, show
me your glory. Tell you what that tells me.
God's glory is not in the wonders that he performs. And then after
the last plague, the night of the first Passover, the children
of Israel left Egypt. Moses saw the Lord part the Red
Sea. I don't know how long that sea had been there. I'm assuming
a long time that water had been laying there. God parted the
Red Sea and the children of Israel crossed on dry ground. It wasn't
muddy, it wasn't hard. They crossed on dry ground. Moses
saw that. He did, he walked through those
walls of water, went to the other side. And after seeing that,
Moses says, Lord, would you show me your glory? That tells me
God's glory. It's not in the miracles that
he performed. I mean, they're wonderful. They're the power
of God, but that's not God's glory. And he says, Lord, show me your
way. Now I'm with Moses. I don't want to just know about
the Lord. I want you and me to know the
Lord, to know him. And I tell you, the way we'll
know him is to have his presence. I need the Lord with me. That's
one of my constant prayers. One thing I repeat in my prayer
so often, Lord, don't leave me alone now. Don't take your presence
from me now. Look back at verse one, I'm gonna
show you something about the importance of the presence of the Lord with
us. Exodus 33, verse one. And the Lord said unto Moses,
depart and go up hence. Thou and the people which thou
hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which
I swear, unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, unto thy
seed will I give it. The Lord says, I promised them
I'd give this to their seed, now I'm gonna give it to you.
And I'll send an angel before thee, and I will drive out the
Canaanite, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,
and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk
and honey. But I'm sending an angel before thee, because I
will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked
people, lest I consume thee in the way. Now the Lord just told
them, I'm gonna give you the land. I promise, this is a good
land. A land flowing with milk and
honey. I mean, you just can't even imagine how good this land
is. And you're not gonna have to
worry about dying in any battles, trying to take it. I'm gonna
drive out all the enemies that live there. I'm gonna drive them
out and just give you this land. But I'm gonna send an angel before
you, because I won't go with you. And the people considered
that evil tidings. When they heard these evil tidings,
they mourned, and no man did put on him his ornaments. The Lord promised to give them
every physical blessing they could ever want. This is what
they wanted when they were slaves down there in the land of Egypt,
to come into the land God promised them, a land flowing with milk
and honey. But they mourned because the
Lord said, my presence won't go with you. I'll tell you what that tells
me. The stuff. is not all that important. Matter
of fact, the physical blessings are worthless without the presence
of the Lord, without his presence. See, we can't do anything without
the presence of the Lord, and this is another one of my constant
pleas. Every time I go to the pulpit,
what Moses says here in verse 15, and he said unto him, if
thy presence is not gonna go with me, carry us not up hence. Don't send me anywhere if you're
not going with me, if I don't have your presence. So the Lord
told him in verse 14, my presence shall go with thee, and I will
give thee rest. And now Moses asked this great,
great question in verse 18. I beseech thee, show me thy glory. The Lord here is talking to Moses
face to face as a man talks with his friend. And Moses asked the
Lord, Lord, show me. And the Lord says, all right,
Moses, I'm talking to my friend here. I'll show you my glory.
My glory is my name. And the name is God's character.
It's his nature. It's what God is like. And God
says, Moses, I'm gonna show you my glory in four parts. First
is this, God's glory is his goodness. In verse 19, he said, I will
make all my goodness pass before you. and I will proclaim the
name of the Lord before thee. God's glory is his goodness. When Moses asked, Lord show me
your glory, first thing God showed him is his goodness. Now only
God is good, only God. That's why our Lord told that
rich young ruler, why you call me good? There's nothing good
about God. God's the only one who's good
and everything God does is good. Because God is good. Because
that's His nature. He can only do good. You think
about when God spoke in creation. God saw everything He created
was good. He said, let the dry land appear. It appeared. God
saw it was good. He said, let the firmament be
divided from the firmament. It was so. And God saw it was
good. Let the light appear. It appeared. God saw it was good.
And on that sixth day when God was done, He looked at everything
He created. He saw it was very good. because everything God
does is good. And God's goodness continued
even after man fell. Oh, God was so good in creating
a perfect world, creating a perfect garden to put Adam in that provided
everything he and his wife would ever need. And man fell and God's
goodness continued. See, the Lord is good to everyone
in his creation. Psalm 145 verse nine says, the
Lord is good to all. His tender mercies are over all
his works. Now God has mercy everywhere
in his creation, from a people scattered everywhere in his creation,
but physically speaking, the Lord is good to all. That's right. He provides for all flesh. He
provides food to eat, water to drink, air to breathe. He provides
the sun and he provides the rain. He provides day, he provides
night, He provides a time for planting, time for harvest. God
provides it all. And He provides that for believer
and unbeliever alike, doesn't He? He provides that for those
that trust Him and those that don't trust Him. God's good. If man does not believe on God,
not because God's not good, is it? It's because man's not good.
God still provides for him. And whatever God does in the
events of providence, everything that happens in this earth, every
event that happens in this earth, those are the events of providence.
What God purposed to happen before he created anything. And all
those events are good. Now, we usually don't understand
it, but whatever it is God's doing is good. When God sends
rain, it's good. And when he withholds rain, it's
good. When God gives life and when
he takes life, God's good. You know, when a beautiful new
baby's born, it's easy to say God's good, isn't it? It's easy
to say. When God calls one of His dear
ones home, we weep and mourn. God's still good. He's good. Matter of fact, God says if His
people, the day of your death is better than the day of your
birth. Because God's good. When God sends trials, and when
He's pleased to deliver us from trial, God's good. You say, wait
a minute, Frank. I don't know, trials, the cost
of suffering and pain and heartache. Oh yes, God's good. God's good. Listen to what David said, Psalm
119, verse 71. David says, it's good for me
that I've been afflicted. David's friends would say, really,
David? Really, it's good for you that you've been afflicted?
And David says, yes, that I might learn my statutes. that I might
learn your word, that I might learn your promises, that I might
learn who you are. I learned that because I've been
afflicted. God's good, even when he sends trials our way, because
everything God does is good. But oh, God is especially good
to sinners. His goodness is just beyond human
comprehension, but he's good to sinners. Now, I told you already,
we don't understand it. But you can rest assured, every
event of providence, God is the one who's working them all together
for good, for the good of his people. Everything God does works
together for the salvation and the preservation of his people.
God works the events of providence to cross the path of his people
with the gospel. And then he gives them faith
to believe. And he keeps them by that same gospel, feeds them
by that same gospel. David said in Psalm 25 verse
eight, good and upright is the Lord. That's his nature, he's
good and upright. Therefore, because the Lord is
good, he'll teach sinners in the way. Now remember who these
sinners are now. They're sinners who have sinned
against God. They've rebelled against God. And God is so good,
even though they've sinned against God, he's so good, he moves all
the events of his creation to work together like working together
for their salvation to teach them who Christ is and give them
life and faith in Christ so they'll trust him. Oh God's so good. And his goodness has no end. Has no end. Psalm 100 verse five
says, for the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting and
his truth endures to all generations. God's goodness is eternal. It
doesn't have a beginning, and it doesn't have an ending. You know, we older folks, we
worry about the next generation, don't we? You all know I have a new grandson.
In the very first week of his life, I was sitting up with him
at night. We were taking turns, you know, being up with him at
night. That kid wore four grown-up adults completely out, just wore
us down to a nub. But anyway, we didn't mind. I
was sitting there looking at that baby. And I thought, son, what are
we leaving you? What world are you going to grow
up in? When you get to my age, what on earth is this place going
to look like? What are we leaving? I was so
worried. You want me to calm your worries?
I don't know what the world will look like in 50 years. But I'm
telling you this, God's mercy will still be here. His mercy
is forever. His goodness is forever. God's so good, he might just
save that little fella. Because God's good. Because God's
good. And there's coming a day of judgment.
I don't like to think about that, but it's coming, it's a real
day. And God's going to damn unbelievers and send them to
hell for eternity. And it's so awful. I just try
everything I can do not to think about it. I really do. It's just
what an awful, horrible thing. And that will be an awful punishment.
It really will be. But you know what? God's still
good when he does it. He's not going to give anybody
more than what they earned. They want to be left alone. God
gave them what they wanted, left them alone. And he won't give
them any more than what they earned by their unbelief. Now,
I can't fully explain that. I don't understand it. I just,
you know, right now, what we're to do is to pray for the lost.
We're not to hope that they're damned. We're to pray for the
lost. We're to preach the gospel to
the lost and pray God reveal Christ to them. I can't fully
explain how it is that God will be good when he condemns those
rebels, but I do know one way. in which God will be good. In
that day, when God damns every unbeliever, he will have eternally
separated his people from sin and rebellion forever. They won't
touch it anymore. And I give you, I use this as
an example. Suppose a family has a dog, a pet dog, maybe even
a beloved dog. It brings the family a lot of
pleasure. They like watching it do dumb
things that dogs do. Now suppose that dog gets rabies
and the father of that family goes and gets his shotgun and
he shoots and kills that dog and buries it. That was an act of goodness.
The father protected his children from that dog ever attacking
them. That was an act of goodness wasn't it? That's what God's
gonna do for his children someday. He's gonna remove the presence
of sin from them forever. And it's hard to imagine right
now. But in that day, God's people
will rejoice. They'll say, amen. God's good. God is good. And it is God's
goodness that moves him to show mercy to hell deserving sinners. That's my second point. God's
glory is his sovereign mercy to sinners. Look at verse 19
again. And he said, I'll make all my goodness pass before thee.
And I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee. And
will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. And will show mercy
on whom I will show mercy. Now this is not just talking
about God's mercy to sinners that man's religion talks about.
You know, they say God wants to be merciful to everybody.
God just loves you so much. He wants to be merciful to you
so much. If you're just letting, you know, you're just accepting.
That's not mercy. That's not God's mercy. This
is what God says of himself. He says his mercy is sovereign
mercy to sinners. God says, I'm gonna show mercy
to whom I will. I'm gonna choose who I will show
mercy to, to whom I will. God shows mercy to one, and he
passes the other one right next to him by. That's God's sovereign
mercy. And it's good. Neither one of
them deserve mercy, do they? What do they both deserve? They
both deserve damnation. They both deserve eternal separation
from God, but God chose to save some anyway. That's God's sovereign
mercy. He chose to show mercy to them.
Now I know that the natural man thinks this doctrinal truth of
God's sovereign mercy is a mean-spirited teaching. It's not glorious at
all. They say, I just don't see how
God can be glorious and condemn people to hell. Now I can tell
you, you'll only see the glory of God's sovereign mercy to sinners
if the Lord is pleased to reveal Christ to you. If the Lord is
ever pleased to reveal Christ to you, then you'll know you're
a sinner. You know, that's when Job knew how wretched he was. He said, I heard about you, but
now I've seen you. Now I understand. If Spirit's ever pleased to reveal
Christ to us in His glory, in His majesty, oh, it'll be easy
for me. See, I don't deserve anything
from Him. But if He'd show mercy to me, now I see the glory of
God's sovereign mercy. So I know that you can't see
it unless God is pleased to reveal it to you. Let me see if I can't
shed some light on this matter. The glory of God's sovereign
mercy. This is what God said. This is not some man-made, you
know, Calvin didn't make this up. This is what God said. I
love Jacob and I hate Esau. God chose to show mercy to Jacob. God chose to love Jacob. He didn't
love Jacob by nature, did he? No, he chose to love Jacob. And
he chose to leave Esau alone. Now, God hating Esau, that's
not mean. It's just natural. Esau is a
sinner who hates God. It is natural that God hates
him. Oh, but God loving Jacob, even though Jacob is a guilty
sinner, God chose to love him. Now that's glorious. God, according
to what free will doctrine says, God loves every son of Adam and
he wants to save them all. Now that's not glorious at all.
That's shameful. It brings shame on God. That
brings shame on God's love. It brings shame on God's power
to save. This is what they say now. God wants to save everybody,
but people go to hell anyway. Then what that means is God's
not loving enough and he's not powerful enough to save those
he wants to save. It's shameful. It's shameful. Oh, but God choosing to save
a people, even though they never choose Him, even though they
never love Him first, God chose to save them. God chose to love
a people. And He chose to save them. And
then He sent His Son to save them. And His Son came, He got
the job done. He saved those people by His
grace and by His power. And He sends the Holy Spirit
and He calls them to Christ and He saves them against their will,
with their full consent. God saved you, you know exactly
what that means. Brother, that's glorious. That
God would choose to save sinners and save them and ultimately
glorify them. And they can't mess it up. Oh,
that's glorious. God's elect are born just like
every other son of Adam. They're born dead in sin. They
cannot come to Christ. They cannot believe Christ. They
cannot love him. They cannot understand the gospel
because they're dead. They lack the capacity. And more
than that, they will not. They hear the gospel, they refuse
to believe it. They will not come to Christ.
They will not believe on Christ. They will not give up trusting
in their works. They will not. And God calls them by the gospel
anyway. God sends his spirit to them
and he gives them life. They were dead. That's why they
can't do anything. They're dead. So God gives them life. They
will not believe on Christ. So God gives them faith. So they
can't do anything but believe on Christ. He makes them willing
in the day of his power. Now that's glorious. God has
the power to save. And he uses it to save his people.
They'll be saved every last one of them, not one of them be lost
because of the power of God's love, the power of the blood
of Christ, the power of God's grace. The free wheelers tell me that
Christ died for the sins of every son of Adam. But some men will
go to hell anyway. Because in shame, they just would
not decide to accept Jesus as their personal savior. And they
made poor little old Jesus waste his blood and waste his suffering
for their sin because they calmed it up. My friend, that's shameful. That's
shameful to the name, the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's
shameful. That brings shame upon the sacrifice
of Christ. You're telling me Christ alone
is not enough to save. He still needs men to do something
shameful. That teaching brings shame upon
the precious blood of Christ. That tells me the blood of Christ
alone isn't enough to pay for sin. The blood of Christ is not
enough to atone for sin. The blood of Christ is not enough
to cleanse me from all of my sin. That brings shame on the
blood of Christ. But Christ, dying for the sin
of God's elect, and only God's elect, those that the Father
gave Him to save, and He saved them, lock, stock, and barrel,
by His obedience and by His sacrifice. He put their sin away by the
sacrifice of Himself. One sacrifice for sins forever
got the job done. He made them the righteousness
of God in Him. So they must be saved. They will
be glorified. When he prayed, Father, I will,
that all those who now has given me be with me where I am, that
they may behold my glory. They will because of the sacrifice
of Christ. Now that's glorious. I'm telling
you, it gets me excited. Oh, what a sacrifice of Christ. And that's the glory that the
Lord revealed to Moses that day. It's the glory that God reveals
to all of his people. The glory of his sovereign saving
mercy. And that's why God's people all
hang their eternal soul on Christ alone. It's the glory of his
sovereign grace. Then here's the third thing.
God's glory is seen in the satisfaction he made to both justice and mercy. Look over in chapter four. Here's
when the Lord passed by. Verse six of chapter 34 of Exodus. And the Lord passed by before
him and proclaimed the Lord. This is his name, the Lord, the
Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in
goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity
and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
and upon the children's children, and to the third and to the fourth
generation. And the Lord passed by Moses and he proclaimed the
name of the Lord, the character of the Lord. The Lord's merciful
and gracious. Oh, the Lord's mercy is sovereign
mercy. He says it again, I will be gracious
to whom I will be gracious. I'll show mercy to whom I will
show mercy. That's the hope of every sinner,
isn't it? That the Lord is merciful and gracious. His character is
merciful and gracious. And more than that, the Lord
says of himself, he delights to show mercy to sinners. It
makes him happy to show mercy to sinners. He says here, Moses,
I keep mercy for thousands. And that's just a random number
that means an untold number of sinners. I reserve mercy for
thousands. The Lord loves mercy so much.
His character is to be merciful so that he forgives every sin,
every transgression, every iniquity of all of his people. Everyone
who comes begging the Lord for mercy will find it because he
delights in mercy. That's his nature. The Lord's
nature is to be merciful so you can bank on this. He's going
to act on it and show mercy to sinners. That's a sinner's hope,
isn't it? I know again, man by nature is
just going to hate this, this, this matter of sovereign mercy
and sovereign grace. But now listen to the way the
Lord says this. He didn't say here, and never one time says
in his book, I'll be angry with whom I will be angry. Never one
time does God say that. What does he say? I'll be gracious
to whom I will be gracious. I'll show mercy to whom I will
show mercy. God chooses to show mercy and
grace to sinners. God doesn't have to say, I'll
be angry with him. I will be angry. That's just
and right to be angry with sinners. He's angry with the wicked every
day. But the Lord chooses to be merciful and gracious to sinners
who shook their fist in his face. He chooses to do that. That's
glorious. And that's the hope of every
sinner. Lord says he's long suffering. Oh, the Lord's long-suffering
sinners. The Lord's patient with sinners. Instead of quickly damning
them like we would, he's patient with sinners. He gives plenty
of room for repentance, doesn't he? He's so patient. Paul said
that the long-suffering, and he experienced this, the long-suffering
of the Lord is salvation. You and I would have wrote off
solemn tarsus a long time ago. God was just being patient. that
his time came to show mercy. See, you and I are the ones who
are on the mad dash to hell. The Lord's the one who's patient
with sinners. Isn't that glorious? Aren't you
glad the Lord's not suffering with you? I am, oh, I'm so thankful
the Lord's patient. The Lord's merciful and gracious
to everyone who needs mercy and grace. No exceptions. And at the same time, The Lord
is always just. He always punishes sin to the
fullest extent of the law. Always. The Lord forgives sin
and the Lord punishes sin with exact justice every single time. Now how can that be? How can
it be that the Lord will never clear the guilty and punish them,
yet delight in mercy and forgive sin? How can the Lord never clear
the guilty, yet forgive sinning? Brother, you find out the answer
to that question, and you'll see the glory of God. The glory
of God is that he is always just, and he's the justifier of sinners.
Now here's the glory of that. The one and only way God can
forgive sin, yet always punish it. is in the
substitutionary death of Christ. The only way God can be just
and holy and forgive sin is to take the sin of his people and
put it on his son. He transferred the sin of his
people to his son and made his son sin for his people. He took the iniquity, the filth
of the sin of his people and put it on his son. Now Calvary,
the father made his son sin for his people. When that happened,
the son became guilty of the sin of his people. Now he never
committed a sin, he never thought a sin, he never wanted to commit
a sin, but he became guilty of that sin because the father made
him sin for his people. John Gill said it's worse than
saying Christ was made a sinner. He was made sin. He was made
a mass of sin itself. When that happened, the father
did not clear the guilt. Even though it was his own darling
son, the father poured out his fury against sin upon his son
until his justice was satisfied and sin was gone because of the
blood of Christ. Now the father is just when he
justifies his people. Their sin's already been punished
in the person of their substitute, so he's just when he justifies
his people. He gave his people the righteousness,
the innocence, of his son and gave his son their sin, and Christ
put that sin away by his sacrifice. That's God's glory. No idol men
have ever made up have ever found a way to answer both of those
at the same time. How can God be just, never clear
the guilty, yet forgive the guilty? How's that possible? Only by
the sacrifice of Christ our Savior. And that sacrifice is glorious. It's glorious. It's the center
piece of God's creation. The sacrifice of Christ. It's
the centerpiece of our hope in the sacrifice of Christ. But
here's the last thing. God's greatest glory is seen
at Calvary. You want to see God's greatest
glory? Go to Calvary. Send it to put it across. and
see Christ crucified as a sacrifice for the sin of his people. And
we have that in picture beginning in verse 20 of Exodus chapter
33. And he said, thou canst not see
my face for there should no man see me and live. And the Lord
said, behold, there's a place by me and thou shalt stand upon
a rock and it should come to pass while my glory passeth by
that I'll put thee in a cliff to the rock. I will cover thee
with my hand while I pass by And I will take away my hand,
and thou shalt see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen. Now what on earth does that mean?
Let me see if I can shed a little bit of light on it. The one who passed by Moses here
this day was our Lord Jesus Christ. pre-incarnate appearance of Christ.
That's who Moses was talking to face to face. It's Christ
himself, a pre-incarnate appearance. Now, why would the Lord say,
I'm gonna pass by, but you can't see my face, you can only see
my back parts? Well, the Lord showed his back
parts to Moses. He showed him the evidence of
how he's gonna accomplish all this. He showed him the evidence
of how he justified his people He showed it, Moses, here's how
God's gonna be merciful to his people in justice. It's by the
sacrifice of Christ. Now you say, where's that in
here? Well, when the Lord showed Moses his back parts, you know
what you see when you see the back part of somebody? You see
their heel. Don't you see their heel? The
Lord's heel is what Satan bruised when Christ was crucified at
Calvary. When Christ crushed Satan's head, fulfilling the
promise made to Adam and Eve, the Savior's heel was bruised. Bruised by his sacrifice, because
he died as a substitute for his people. The Lord was showing
Moses the evidence of God's greatest glory. His son made flesh and
sacrificed for sin, for the sin of his people. Now I ask you,
this is what God says is his greatest glory. This is not my
opinion or somebody else's opinion. This is what God says is his
greatest glory. Can you think of anything more
glorious than the son of God becoming a man? So he could be made under the
law and do for his people what they can never do for themselves.
Obey God's law perfectly. And then he would willingly take
the sin of his people into his own body upon the tree and sacrifice
himself in untold agony so that he could put their sin away and
bring them to God without sin. If you think, I don't want to
be combative here, but if you can think of something more glorious
than that, you're wrong. You're just flat wrong. That's
all there is to it. The death of Christ as a substitute for
his sinful people is the most glorious story that's ever been
told. And it's not just this great
story that's, you know, a fairy tale. It's not really true, but
it makes a great story. No, it's true. And that's what
makes it even more glorious. And my prayer for you and me
is this morning. Lord, show us your glory. Show us your greatest
glory so we'll believe on you. That's our prayer. Let's bow
together. Our Father, how we thank you But it's time we've
had together to look into your word, and Father, how we thank
you that you've revealed to us in your word, in plain language,
your greatest glory is your sovereign mercy to sinners. That you'd
send your son to die, suffer and die for your people. That
you'd put our sin away forever. Father, the glory and the magnitude
of the Son of God dying in a place of sinful men and women like
us is too great for the human mind to ever comprehend. Father,
we thank you and pray that you'd apply your word to our hearts.
The mind can't understand it, but Lord, would you give us faith
to believe, to believe on Christ and rest in him. Father, we ask
this for your glory. Would you get glory to your name
by revealing yourself to sinners today and calling your people
to yourself today by the preaching of your word. It's in Christ's
name. For his sake we ask this great
blessing. Amen. All right, Chris.