Good evening, everyone. Let's
open tonight's service with hymn number 199, 199 from the hardback
hymnal, Christ Receiveth Sinful Men. Let's all stand together.
? Sinners Jesus will receive ?
Sound this word of grace to all ? Who the heavenly pathway leave
? All who linger, all who fall ? Sing it o'er and o'er again
? Christ receiveth sinful man ? Make the message clear and
plain ? Christ receiveth sinful men ? Come and he will give you
rest ? Trust him for his word is plain ? He will take the sinful
last Christ, receive the sinful man. Sing it o'er and o'er again. Christ, receive the sinful man. Make the message clear and plain. Christ, receive the sinful man. ? Now my heart condemns me not
? ? Pure before the law I stand ? ? He who cleansed me from all
spot ? ? Satisfied its last demand ? ? Sing it o'er and o'er again
? ? Christ receive the sinful man ? ? Make the message clear
and plain ? Christ receiveth sinful men ? Christ receiveth
sinful men ? Even me with all my sin ? Purged from every spot
and taint ? Heaven with him I enter in Sing it o'er and o'er again. Christ, receive a sinful man. Make the message clear and plain. Christ, receive a sinful man. Please be seated. Good evening. How thankful we
are that our Lord is pleased to save sinners. Let's open our
Bibles to Hebrews chapter two, Hebrews chapter two. And we'll begin reading at verse
14, Hebrews 2, 14. For as much then as the children
are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took
part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them
who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage For verily, he took not on him the nature of angels,
but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore, in all things
it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might
be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to
God and make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in
that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to
succor them that are tempted. Let's pray together. Jeanette,
as you know, has been started last week, I think, on chemotherapy,
and she had a reaction today. and had to stay at the clinic
all day actually. She's home now and she said she's
feeling better, but they're going to postpone her next treatment
until next week and give her a chance to recover from today.
So I told her that we would certainly be remembering her tonight. So
let's pray together. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
what hope we have as sinners in knowing that you delight in
showing mercy, in knowing, Lord, that you are pleased to save
sinners, and in knowing that the Lord Jesus was successful
in putting away our sin so that he who knew no sin was made sin,
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Lord, we pray that you would
turn our hearts in faith and in hope to rejoice and to rest
in thy dear son. Lord, we Pray for our sister,
Jeanette. We ask, Lord, for your hand of
strength and healing and encouragement and grace to be upon her, that
you would help her in this time of need. And remind us, Lord,
to lift her up in our prayers and, Lord, that we would just
be comforted and encouraged with your mercy and your grace. Lord, open your word, open our
hearts. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. Number 29 from the Spiral Hymn
Book. Let's all stand together again,
29. I was lost and did not know it,
rushing madly to my end. ? But my God who's rich in mercy
? Would not let me die in sin ? Hallelujah, God has saved me
Saved me by His sovereign grace. Jesus died, the Spirit called
me. I am saved by sovereign grace. Chosen by my Heavenly Father
and redeemed by Jesus' blood, I am justified, forgiven, and
accepted by my God. Hallelujah, God has saved me,
Saved me by His sovereign grace. Jesus died, the Spirit called
me, I am saved by sovereign grace. God the Spirit came in power,
gave me life and set me free. He revealed my blessed Savior
and created faith in me. ? Hallelujah, God has saved me
? Saved me by his sovereign grace ? Jesus died, the Spirit called
me ? I am saved by sovereign grace God has saved me and will
keep me by the power of His grace. He will guide, guard, and protect
me till I see my Savior's face. Hallelujah, God has saved me,
saved me by His sovereign grace. Jesus died, the Spirit called
me. I am saved by sovereign grace. Please be seated. Only kind of grace there is,
isn't it? If it's not sovereign, it's not grace. So thankful. Let's open our Bibles to John
chapter 11. John chapter 11. We've been several months now
looking at the miracles of our Lord on Wednesday nights and
we got to the miracle of the resurrection of Lazarus in John
11 and the more I look at this chapter the more I think we're
going to be here a while. We may just go one verse at a
time for the next several months on Wednesday night. There's so
much here. Last Wednesday night you remember
we looked at the city of Bethany where Mary Martha and Lazarus
lived and saw that as a beautiful picture of the church as compared
to the structure of man-made religion in the city of Jerusalem,
Mount of Olives being between those two. The Sunday, the Wednesday
night before that, we looked at what those messengers came
to the Lord from Bethany and told the Lord, the one whom thou
lovest is sick. They made no claim on the Lord,
just Lazarus, you love him, he's in your hand. He needs sovereign
grace, sovereign grace. What a hope and comfort we have
in laying our need before our God and trusting him to do what's
right. Lord willing, next Wednesday
night, I want us to look at verse five. Now, Jesus loved Martha
and her sister, Mary and Lazarus. There's so much in that one simple
statement about our Lord's love for his people. Tonight, I'd
like for us to look at verse four. When Jesus heard the report
that the one whom he loved was sick. Mary and Martha sending
this message. The previous chapter tells us
where the Lord is. He's in the same place where
John had baptized at the River Jordan, which is about a day's
journey from Bethany. So these messengers now have
taken a day to get to where the Lord is and report to him that
Lazarus is sick. And the Lord responds to them
in verse 4, when Jesus heard, notice the word that is in italics,
he knew exactly what, when Jesus heard, he said, this sickness is not
unto Now, the scripture tells us that
the Lord tarried two more days where He was. And then it's another
day traveled back to Bethany. And it's taken these messengers
a day to get to where the Lord was. So when the Lord said to
these messengers, the one whom thou lovest is sick, when they
said that to the Lord and he said to them this sickness is
not unto death, Lazarus was already dead. Lazarus died as soon as
these messengers left Bethany because this story also clearly
tells us that when the Lord did get to Bethany and raised Lazarus
from the dead that Lazarus had been in the grave for four days. So what did the Lord mean when
he said, this sickness is not unto death? Before we answer
that question, I want us to spend just a moment thinking about the readiness
of our Lord to hear the cries of his children. What parent
would not drop everything that they're doing when a child of
theirs not cries with a manipulative cry, a feigned cry just trying
to get the attention of a parent. A parent knows the difference,
knows the difference. We know the difference of the
cries of our children when they're in trouble and they cry. we drop
everything. And if we being evil, if we being
evil know how to give good gifts unto our children, how much more
our heavenly father will give good gifts unto his children?
Oh, we cannot compare our love to his, can we? And yet we know
a little bit about love, we know a little bit about affection,
we know a little bit about concern, and yet his is infinitely more
than ours. When the Lord heard. When he hears the cries of his
children. Oh, is there any possible way
that the Lord was not going to call Bartimaeus when the Lord
was there and Bartimaeus was crying, Jesus,
thou son of David, have mercy upon me, and everybody else was
trying to get him to shut up. And what'd they finally say?
Lazarus, be of good cheer, he calleth thee. Any possible way
he wasn't gonna hear Bartimaeus' cry. Look with me, if you will,
back to Psalm 18. Let's turn to Psalm 18. Verse six, in my distress, I
called upon the Lord and cried unto my God. He heard my voice
out of his temple. When we cry to our heavenly father,
we always come to him in the person of his son. our Redeemer,
our advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous one.
We pray in his name. And he is that temple, the one
who tabernacled among us, the one who said, destroy this temple,
and in three days, I'll rise it up again. So here's a beautiful
Old Testament prophecy of how we come before God. crying out
unto him and he hears our voice out of his temple. And my cry came before him into
his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the hills
moved and were shaken because he was wroth. that went up a
smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it. He
bowed the heavens also and came down and darkness was under his
feet." Oh, we know from the rest of this psalm that this is particularly
in reference to the Lord Jesus crying to his father from the
cross. But just as the father was swift
and merciful to hear the cries of his son, so it is when we
come before him in his son. There's no difference. He hears
our cries, brethren. He heard the cry of Mary and Martha. In Galatians chapter four, verse
six, the Lord tells us that he sent forth his spirit into our
hearts, which causes us to cry, Abba, Father. Now this is a term of affection and dependence
that a child would use in coming before their father in need. And it's the Holy Spirit that
gives us that childlike spirit. When we are brought in need to
bow before our Heavenly Father, and as a small child, unable
to manage the needs of our lives and the problems that we face,
our Heavenly Father hears us, Abba, Abba, Father. Is there any possible way that
the Lord Jesus would not hear the cries of that thief on the
cross when he said to him, Lord, remember me when thou comest
into thy kingdom. He heard, this day thou shall
be with me in paradise. Oh, brethren, let us not doubt.
Let us be encouraged. Let us come before the throne
of grace with boldness and spread our need before Him because He
is far more willing to help than we are to ask for it. When Peter was drowning and he
cried out to the Lord, Lord, save me. Is there any possible
way that anything else could have happened other than immediately
the Lord reached forth his hand and lifted him up? When his children
cry, he hears their cry, whatever the sickness might be. This word
sickness means infirmity. It's translated infirmity in
other places of the scriptures. It means to be without strength. It means to be powerless, powerless. That's how we come. We come before
our heavenly father with no power, with no strength. And we believe
that when we were yet without strength in due time, Christ
died for the ungodly. We hear the world say, and I
heard this growing up, All my life, Lord helps those who help
themselves. Oh, the truth is the Lord helps
those who can't help themselves. Lord, I can't do this. I am completely dependent upon
you. Turn with me to Matthew chapter
eight. Matthew chapter eight. Look at verse 16. When the even was come, they
brought unto him many that were possessed with devils, and he
cast out the spirits with his word and healed all that were
sick. that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying himself took our infirmities
and bear our sicknesses. Now that's a quote from Isaiah
chapter 53 you know and he goes on to tell us that by his stripes
we are healed. That's what our Lord's telling
us. This sickness, it's not unto death. No, the death that I suffered
on Calvary's cross satisfied all that is required for sin.
Sickness, sin, all a result of our fallen state. And the Lord
Jesus suffered death. in order to meet that. He says to Martha later on in
this same chapter, he said, Martha, I am the resurrection and the
life. He that believeth in me, though
he be dead, yet shall he live. And he that liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. When the Lord says this sickness
is not unto death, he's talking about separation from God. And
that's why the Lord Jesus went to Calvary's cross. That's why
he cried from the cross, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? The father forsook his son. When the Lord Jesus bore our
sins in his body upon the tree and became the sacrifice for
sin, He was suffering for our sicknesses. He was bearing our
guilt and our shame and our separation from God so that he can say to
us, whatever our sicknesses are in this world, this sickness
is not unto death. The end result of this will not
be eternal separation from God. The bodies that you and I live
in are mortal bodies, they're dying bodies. They started dying
the moment we were born. We could say the moment we were
conceived, our bodies began to die. And the Lord tells us that
our life here in this world is but a vapor. James puts it like this, what
is your life? It is even a vapor which appeareth
for a little while and then fadeth away." The Lord's not saying
that we're not going to die. Lazarus, in just a few years
after this experience, got sick again and he died. And you're going to get sick
and I'm going to get sick and we're going to die if the Lord
tarries. These bodies will depart this
world, some sooner, some later, but death is inevitable, physical
death. But the Lord Jesus Christ, he
conquered that death. That's why I wanted to read from
Hebrews chapter two. Let's go back to Hebrews chapter
two again and look at that verse. Verse 14 of Hebrews chapter two,
for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of the same that through
death, he might destroy him that had the power over death, that
is the devil. The last enemy the scripture
says that you and I face is death. First Corinthians chapter 15.
And then the Lord tells us, oh death, oh death, where is thy
victory? The sting of death is sin, the
strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God through Christ
Jesus. We have the victory over this.
He got the victory by his death so that so that we now look at
verse 15. "...and deliver them who through
fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage."
You know I'm convinced that the Lord puts into the hearts of
his elect a fear of death that's different. I'm talking about
before their new birth, before their their regeneration. God's elect
have an awareness of death that the reprobate, those who will
never, the scripture says there's no bands in their death, they
have no fear of death, they've made a covenant with death, Isaiah
chapter 28. They say with death we're in
agreement and they think all is going to be well. And the
Lord says, when the overcoming scourge comes, I'm gonna disannul
the covenant that you've made. But the world goes about making
a covenant with death and they don't fear it until that last
moment of truth. I've seen them fear it then,
but it's just for a moment when they realize. God's people, this
is talking about the Lord's people, deliver them. who had some God-given
fear of death, had some God-given understanding of the eternal
consequences of death and the mortality of their own lives.
And now, because of what the Lord has done, he has removed
that fear from them and shown them that death no longer is
anything to be feared. It's been conquered. These are words of great comfort. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians
chapter 15. Affliction without strength powerless,
that's what sickness is. Whether it be physical sickness
of the body, spiritual sickness of sin, this sickness, brethren,
is not unto death. It is not unto death. Look at
verse 13. We often quote from the latter
part of this chapter, but I want us to back up to quote, to look
at verse 13 and following. But if there be no resurrection
of the dead, then Christ is not risen. If there's no hope of
us being raised from the dead, some people will go around and
say, well, there is no resurrection. If there's no resurrection from
the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ be not risen,
then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.
That's what I was trying to say Sunday when David was lamenting
the death of Absalom and Joab had to rebuke him. There's a
picture of what happens when we just lament the sin and sorrow
and separation of our guilt without the resurrection. Yes, Paul said,
I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and,
and I looked that verse up and the little conjunction and is
definitely in the text. So we say that we preach Christ
and him crucified. Yes, the fullness of his work
was accomplished on the cross. and all that he came to do in
putting away our sin and satisfying justice and getting victory over
death was all accomplished on the cross, but apart from the
resurrection. That's what Paul's saying here.
If Christ be not risen, then our preaching is in vain and
your faith is also in vain. If the cross is all there is,
if there's no hope, then we sang that hymn at the beginning of
the service. It's singing about how the Lord came to save sinners. And then there's a couple of
lines in that hymn that speak of how we are now without sin
before God. You see, both are true, isn't
it? Left to ourselves, we're nothing
but sin, and in Christ, we're perfectly sinless. Verse 15, yea, and we are found
false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that
he raised up Christ whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead
rise not. If there's no resurrection, then
we've been lying to you. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised? Here's what the Lord's telling
us, brethren. This sickness is not unto death. Yes, your body's
gonna die. Yes, you're gonna suffer the
death of many things in this world as a result of sin. Yes,
you're gonna suffer the death of your intimacy with God when
you sin, and that's gonna have to be revived, revive us again. Oh God, how often we need to
be revived. Lord, raise us from this cold,
dead heart that we're in. We're gonna suffer the consequences
of lost relationships as a result of sin. Things are gonna die
in this world because of sin. But none of this sickness is
unto death. Why? Because of the resurrection. He that believeth in me shall
never, ever die. There's no more reason to fear
death. Who lived in fear of death, in bondage of this fear all their
lives, he has delivered them, showing them that he destroyed him who has power
over death. That is the devil. And if Christ, verse 17, if Christ
be not raised, your faith is in vain and you're still in your
sins. If Christ wasn't raised from
the dead, if he didn't come alive, if all he did was die, if all
we have is the death of Absalom, then we have reason like David
just to lament the king's son's death. Oh, but what rejoicing
we have. What rejoicing we have, he's
raised from the dead. This sickness is not unto death. Then they also which are fallen
asleep in Christ are perished. Those who have died, they've
gone. And look at verse 19. If in this
life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. If there's no resurrection from
the dead, eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you shall
die. What hope is there? What is there to look forward
to? I've heard people say, well, you know, if there was no life
after death, I'd want to live my life for Jesus because it's
such a more happy life. If there's no life after death,
then it's all in vain. And God tells us what to do if
there's no life after death. Just eat, drink, and be married.
Just indulge yourself in the pleasures of this world because
that's all you got. All you got. This sickness is not unto death. Not unto death. Lazarus had already
died. The Lord's speaking. What great hope. The Lord Jesus put away our sin
by his death. Not only are these words of great
comfort to those who are sick, but these words also require
great faith. They require great faith. The
Lord tarried for two more days. The messengers left immediately
with that message, this sickness is not unto death. And when they
got back to Bethany, Lazarus had been dead two days. What do you think Mary and Martha
were thinking when the messengers returned and said, This sickness
is not unto death." Those words were not what they were experiencing. Their brother died. Have we misunderstood him? Surely, surely he didn't speak
something that wasn't true. But how can this be? Brethren, here's the truth. The
Lord gives to us words of comfort, but those words of comfort also
are spoken in such a way that they require us to continue walking
by faith and depending upon him. The Lord Jesus very easily could
have said to those messengers, go back and tell Mary and Martha
that I know your brother's dead, but that I'll be there in a couple
of days and I'll raise him from the dead. It's what happened. He could
have told them that, but he didn't. Oh, how we want to know what's
going to happen tomorrow, don't we? And we often are, we're often brought down from
the lofty position of faith to grovel in the attempts to manipulate
our circumstances so that we can create something in the future. You understand what I'm saying?
We take things into our own hands because we think, well, if we
do this now, this will produce that later. Turn with me to Matthew
chapter 6. verse 32. The Lord's telling
us not to fret, not to live our lives worried about what we're
gonna eat or what we're gonna drink or what we're gonna sleep
or what we're gonna do, how we're gonna work these things out. The lilies of the field, Solomon
in all of his glory was not arrayed as one of them. The birds of
the air, they The Lord provides for them. He's telling us to
walk by faith and trust our heavenly father. And then he says in verse
32, for after these things do the Gentiles seek. The unbelievers
live their lives like that. For your heavenly father knoweth
that you have need of these things, but you seek first. the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
the rule and the reign of the Lord Jesus Christ. Where is he? He's on his throne. You seek him and all these other
things in his time will be added unto you. Take therefore no thought
for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for itself,
things of itself, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. The message that these messengers
brought back to Mary and Martha was, as far as Mary and Martha
could tell, contrary to what they were experiencing. And yet
they knew that they had to be true. And they were confused. When the Lord does come two days
later, they said, Lord, had you been here? Our brother had not
died. We know that he's going to be
raised in the resurrection. Is that what you meant when you
said this sickness is not unto death? Lord, what did you mean? He gave them just enough to encourage
them and to give them words of hope to hang their faith on. But he didn't give them the full
picture. Turn with me to Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes chapter three. Look at verse 11. He hath made everything beautiful
in his time. Also, he hath set the world in
their hearts so that no man can find out the work that God maketh
from the beginning to the end. As I said, the Lord could have
said, To those messengers, by the way, Lazarus died as soon
as you left. He's already dead. But go tell
Mary and Martha that I'll be there in a few days and I'm gonna
raise him from the dead. He didn't tell them that. He set them in a world where
they could not know the beginning to the end. We walk by faith,
not by sight. And we know that our God works
all things together for good for them that love him and those
that are called according to his purpose. Here's where the Lord gives us
enough truth revealed to cause us to have reason to hope. But with all the truth that has
been revealed, He also hides things from us. We wanna know, how's this gonna
turn out? How's this gonna turn out? And here's what our Heavenly
Fathers saying to us when we want to know. Well, if I do this
and maybe I can make this happen. You're not ready yet to know
how this is gonna turn out. There are some things in the
process of time that you have to learn before you can get to
that place where you're gonna know how it's gonna turn out. Whether it turns out hard or easy, There are some
things that have to be learned along the way. And as those things are made
known and as those things, as we grow in grace and in the knowledge
of the Lord Jesus Christ, then we'll come to the place of being
able to bear that fruit. How wise our Heavenly Father
is. You know, we have, fruit trees in our yard and I always
trying to plant a new one now and then and those things will
start producing fruit when they're just that tall and they'll just
be overburdened with fruit. Lemons, oranges, whatever they
are. And if I left all that, if I left that fruit on that
tree, that tree would never grow. All the energy that that fruit
needed was being robbed from the tree. And I've learned over
the years for the first two or three years of that fruit tree's
life, I've got to pull all the fruit off of it when it first
shows up so that the tree can strengthen. The roots can go
down and the branches can go up and the tree can become strong
enough to be able to support that fruit. Now, you know, the interesting thing,
too, when you think about the timetable of these events, Lazarus
was literally on his deathbed when the messengers were sent.
Mary and Martha knew where the Lord was long before he had gotten
to that critical state in his sickness. They could have sent
messengers days before, but the messengers had just left when
Lazarus died. Isn't that the way we are? Long as we've got any strength
in us to try to fix something, we're gonna try to fix it. And
crying out to the Lord and sending him word for help is always a
last resort. It's always the last thing we
do. The Lord lets us try to fix it. What do you think about getting
sick? I'll just take some over-the-counter
medicine. I get through this. I'm going to push through it.
I can get it. And then finally you get so sick
and you're like the woman with the issue of blood. You spent
everything that you've had on physicians and you're no better
off now. You're worse off now than you were before. And you're
brought to the place of such weakness that you're crawling
on the ground through a crowd to touch the hem of his garment.
Who touched me? Oh Lord, all these people are
touching you. No, no, no. One person touched me who was
desperate. I was their last resort. They
have finally given up on trying to help themselves. They've finally
given up on trying to fix their own problems and I was the last
resort for them. Virtue has gone out from me.
That's when virtue goes out from the Lord, when he's all we've
got, all we've got. And surely that's true in our
salvation. A sinner will not come to Christ
to be saved until they've used all their resources and hopes
of trying to save themselves some other way. And they're brought
by the grace of God to that place where Christ is all they've got.
Salvation, coming to Christ is not a choice. We had choices
and every time we had a choice, we chose something else. But
finally, we ran out of choices and God shut us up to Christ
and we had no place else to go. And that's when God saves. That's when virtue goes out from
him. And the same thing's true in our walk of faith. Mary and
Martha were believers, but they waited till the last minute before
they sent to the Lord for help. This sickness is not unto death."
We're just like the alcoholic who says, you know, I quit drinking
anytime I want. And AA's got a couple things
right. One of the things they got right
was man's not going to quit drinking until he admits that he's powerless,
powerless. And then to add another level
of faith. Not only did the Lord
not give to them all the information that he could have given them
about what he was going to do, he required that they take those
words and walk by faith even though their experience was inconsistent
with what he was saying. but now he's gonna add another
level to it and he's gonna say to them, this sickness is to
the glory of God that the son might be glorified. In other
words, the Lord Jesus is sending word back to Martha and Mary
saying to them the exact same thing that he said to the disciples
in John chapter nine with the blind man in the In the temple, you remember, when the disciples asked the
Lord, is that man blind because of his parents' sin or because
of his sin? Surely somebody's done something
wrong for him to be this way. And what'd the Lord say? Neither. Neither. But that God might be
glorified. This man's lived 38 years. He was born that way and he's
lived 38 years in total darkness and God gave him that blindness. God brought him into this world
blind and God has kept him blind for 38 years that the Lord Jesus
might come now and give him sight and be glorified by his blindness. Lord, these afflictions, these
sicknesses that I'm experiencing, ultimately
were sent of you? You're the first cause of these
things? Now the unbeliever will respond
to something like that with resentment, Anger? Defiance? What's faith
do? What does faith do? It bows. Lord, whatever you've done and
whatever you're doing and whatever you're going to do, I know it's
right. I know it's right. When God sends a word of encouragement
and comfort and hope, With that comes a need for faith. This sickness is not unto death.
You're gonna have to believe God on that one because what
you see is different from what God's saying. This sickness is for the glory
of God. God did this. And God's glory, God's glory,
is your greatest need. You see, our greatest need is
not that we live a life of ease, that we not get sick, that we
have health, wealth and prosperity in this world. That's not our
greatest need. We think that's our greatest
need. Our greatest need is the glory of God. And so it's a mercy. It's a mercy that God would afflict
us with whatever is required that he might show forth his
glory. Only faith can embrace that.
Only faith can believe that. Only faith can rejoice in that. This sickness, brethren, is not
unto death. It is to the glory of God that
the Son of God might be glorified in our sight. Alright, Tom. 37. 37? Yes. In the hardbacked
hymnal, number 37. Let's stand together. O Lord my God, when I in awesome
wonder Consider all the works Thy hands have made, I see the
stars, I hear the rolling thunder, ? Thy power throughout the universe
displayed ? Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee ? How
great Thou art, how great Thou art ? Then sings my soul, my
Savior God, to Thee how great thou art, how great thou art. Verse three. ? And when I think
that God his Son not sparing ? Sent him to die, I scarce can
take it in ? That on the cross my burden gladly bearing ? He
bled and died to take away my sin ? Then sings my soul, my
Savior God, to Thee ? How great Thou art, how great Thou art
? Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee How great thou art,
how great thou art. When Christ shall come with shout
of acclamation and take me home, what joy shall fill my heart. ? Then I shall bow in humble
adoration ? And there proclaim, my God, how great thou art ?
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee How great Thou art. How great Thou art. Then sings my soul, my Savior
God, to Thee. How great Thou art. How great Thou art. We're going to sing happy birthday
to Meili.