Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord,
O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, and then it lists
the benefits, who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth
all thy disease, who redeemeth thy life from destruction, who
crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies, who satisfy
my mouth with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like
the eagle's. The Lord executeth righteousness
and judgment for all that are oppressed. He made known his
ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. The Lord
is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide, neither
will he keep his anger forever. He hath not dealt with us after
our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the
heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward
them that fear him. As far as the east is from the
west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like
as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that
fear him. For he knoweth our frame. He
remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are grass. As a flower of the field, so
he flourish. For the wind passes over it,
and it is gone. and the place thereof shall know
it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is
from everlasting to everlasting, excuse me, from everlasting to
everlasting upon them that fear him and his righteousness unto
his children's children. Let's stop there. Let's go to
the Lord in prayer. O Lord God, our Father, we praise
Thee, O Lord, for who Thou art. We thank You for Your mercy and
Your grace that You have shown toward us. O Lord, we are so
undeserving of that mercy and that grace, but by definition
that's what mercy and grace is. We praise Thee for it. Father,
we have come together this morning, together, together, to worship
you and to praise your name. Father, we pray that our worship
is acceptable unto thee. Father, that it would be from
the heart. Father, we pray that you would be with our pastor
Greg as he opens the word, that you would give him the words
to speak. Father, that He might point us to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Father, we pray that you would give us ears to hear. We so much
need to hear from you this morning. Father, we ask these things in
Christ's precious name. Amen. Let's stand together once again.
We'll sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin. No more, my God, I boast no more
Of all the duties I have done I drop the hopes I held before
To trust the merits of the Son Now for the love, I bear His
name. What was my gain, I coiled but
loss. My former pride, I call my shame. And nail my glory to His cross. Lord, now I must and will esteem
all things but loss for Jesus' sake. O may my soul be found
in Him, and of His righteousness partake. The best obedience of
my hands dares not appear before thy throne, but faith can answer
thy demands by pleading what my Lord has done. Please be seated. We open your Bibles with me to
John chapter 4. John chapter 4. Last Sunday we sort of did an
overview of this conversation that our Lord had with the woman
at the well and saw what a contrast she is to Nicodemus in John chapter
3 and yet they were both in the same condition. They didn't know
God. They were lost. The Lord had
not revealed himself to either one of them and though their
lives outwardly were extremely different, their condition before
God and their ultimate destiny was the same. If the Lord did
not show them mercy, they needed to know who he was. If you and I are to know God,
we're dependent upon him to reveal himself. He reveals himself in
the preaching of his word. And so every time we come together,
I hope that the Lord will put on our hearts, Lord, reveal yourself
to me. Cause your word to be effectual,
alive. Cause it to be a double-edged
sword Lord, we're not looking for an audible voice. We're looking
for God to take his word and give us faith to believe what
he has said. One statement I want us to focus
our attention on this morning in this conversation that our
Lord has with the woman at the well is found in verse 10. John chapter four, verse 10. The Lord initiated the conversation
by asking her for a drink. And she's amazed that a Jew would
have anything to do with a Samaritan. They hated the Samaritans. Oh,
if she only knew, if she only knew how much this Jew loved
her, loved her. Oh, there was not a shred of
animosity or prejudice or hatred in his heart whatsoever. He had
nothing for her but perfect love. And so he says to her, and Jesus answered and said unto
her, if thou knewest the gift of God and who it is For the
who is the gift of God. The Lord Jesus himself is the
gift of God. And who it is that saith unto
thee, give me to drink, thou wouldest ask him and he would
give you living water. If you knew who you would ask,
and He would give. You see, it begins with knowing,
doesn't it? It begins with knowing. Lord, open my heart. Open the
eyes of my understanding. Open Your Word. Open the windows
of heaven. Open what no man can shut. Lord,
reveal Yourself. And the evidence that He has
revealed Himself is that I'm asking. I'm asking. That's the evidence. And the hope is that anyone who
asks, he gives. He gives. The Lord tells us in Romans chapter
10, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved. That's a promise. Whosoever shall call. But how
shall they call upon him in whom they've not believed? You're
not gonna call on anyone that you don't believe in. And you're
not gonna believe in him until he reveals himself. You see,
calling on him to save you is the evidence of faith, not the
cause of it. How shall they call upon him
in whom they've not believed? That's very simple. You have
to believe before you can call. But if you believe, you will
call. And if he reveals himself, you'll call. And how shall they
believe on him in whom they've not heard? You're not gonna believe
until you hear. And how shall they hear without
a preacher? If God's word is not declared, we're not gonna
look out in nature. We're not gonna look at creation.
We're not gonna look at our hearts. We're not going to look at any
other Nothing other than God uses his words of his own will. Begat he us with the word of
truth. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
comes by the word of God. How shall they hear without a
preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? A man cannot take this task on
himself. God has to send him. And you have to send him with
the message. The message has to come from God's word. And
we have to hear, and in hearing we believe, and in believing
we call. And in calling. Whosoever would the Lord say
in John 4, if thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that
saith unto thee, give me to drink, thou wouldest ask him, and he
would. have given thee living water. And the Spirit, the Holy Spirit,
and the Bride, the Church, and right at this moment, I happen
to be the audible voice of the Church, but we're all the Church. But the bride and the church
saith, come, come. And drink from the water of life
freely. Let him who is a thirst come. God calls us to come. Now, I have three simple points
I want to make about what the Lord has told us about the gift
of God. If you knew the gift of God and who it is that saith unto
thee, give me to drink, you would ask him and he would give you
living water. Three simple points. The gift
of God is freer than I can imagine. The gift of God is more valuable
than I can know. And the gift of God is more costly
than I can possibly comprehend. It's freer than I can imagine.
It's more valuable than I can know. And it's more costly than
I can comprehend. 2 Corinthians 9, verse 15, Paul
speaks of this gift as unspeakable. He says, thanks be unto God for
his unspeakable gift. It's indescribable, it's incomprehensible. There's no words adequate to
express it fully. I always know that when I stand
up here to try to speak about the gift of God, I'm gonna fall
so far short. There's no way to be successful
if the Holy Spirit doesn't take these words and apply them effectually
to our hearts. They're indescribable, they're
unspeakable. He uses that, Paul uses that
word again in chapter 12 of 2 Corinthians when he's talking about being
caught up into the third heaven. And he says that he heard unspeakable
words. The Lord, he says, whether in
body or out of body, I know not. All I know is that, was it a
vision or did God bodily take me into heaven? I don't know.
But I heard things that you can't express. There's no language
in the world that's adequate to express the gift of God. It's unspeakable. The only language we have that
anywhere comes close is God's Word. I don't know if I said that right,
but I think you know what I meant by it. I had someone call me this week
and wanted to know what I thought about the Heidelberg Catechism,
that their church was teaching the Heidelberg Catechism. And
I said, you know, I've been 30 years since I looked at that
thing. I said, but number one, we don't need catechisms. We
don't need creeds and we don't need confessions. We have God's
word. Those are the words of men. And
I know this. Every church that has catechisms,
creeds, and confessions ends up testing the Word of God by
the words of men. Always. They always do it. Oh, they say, oh, no, no, we
don't do that. Yes, you do. You come across a scripture,
and you don't understand it, and you see what the catechism,
what the confession says about it, and you try God's Word, not
by God's Word. We try the spiritual by the spiritual.
We try God's word by, God's word is how God speaks. The other thing about confessions
and creeds, the best communication, and I know I'm not a very good
communicator because it takes me a lot of words to say stuff,
but the best communication is when we can make our point in
the fewest words. You know, Abraham Lincoln's address
at Gettysburg was 272 words long. That's the most famous speech
in the history of America, 272 words. I think there were 9 sentences
or 10 sentences in that whole speech. There was an orator that
got up before him and spoke for an hour and a half, and nobody
knows what he said. Lincoln got up and spoke 272
words, and by the time the press realized that it was the president
up there speaking, he was finished. And we have those words etched
in stone on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Powerful speech. Why? Because he condensed in
that brief amount of time the American spirit, the American
dream. Now, if that's true, if the best
communication is done with the fewer words, then let us ask
ourselves this question. How many words did it take God
to communicate to me and you the gospel? 66 books written over a period of 1500
years. by over 40 authors. And for us
to think that we can take the message of God and condense it
in fewer words than what God said about it, than what God
was able to do, is blasphemy. Oh, I can communicate the message
of the gospel better than God can. Who do you think you are? That's why we don't have, you
say, well, how do you know what, listen, You listen to a man preach
a few times, you're gonna figure out what he believes. Not only
by what he says, but by what he doesn't say. And if I had
to take from God's word, one verse of scripture that summarizes
everything, here it is. Christ is all and in all. He's all in election, He's all
in redemption, He's all in regeneration, He's all in sanctification, He's
all in glorification. It's like I said the first hour,
if the gospel of God's free grace in the glorious person and finished
work of the Lord Jesus Christ doesn't fix the problem, it ain't
gonna get fixed. Anything else we do is just a
band-aid. Christ is all. He must increase. I decrease. Know what John said? So, these words that we have in our
Bibles is God's word. And God has communicated to us
in his perfect, infallible, inspired, inerrant scriptures, the message
of the gospel. And faith just believes God.
Faith just says truth, Lord. Revelation chapter 10, John,
the apostle John was also caught up into heaven. and was given
a vision, a revelation of God, of Christ. And at one point when
the Lord is showing him something, the Lord says to John, John,
put your pen down. Write not these things. We're not gonna be speaking English
in heaven. We're not gonna be speaking Spanish in heaven. We're
not gonna be speaking any language that we know here in this world. There's too many vain words,
there's too many ugly words, there's too many bad words, there's
too many words that are insufficient. We're going to be speaking a
new language and we're all going to speak the same language and
the language that God's going to give us and we're going to
know it instantly. We'll be able to express for the first time
the gift of God. We're going to be able to offer
God in words a worship that will express his glory in a way that
we can't do it now. We can't do it. The closest we
can come is to just say, God, what have
you said? And what he said about this unspeakable
gift, if you knew, if you knew the gift of God, if you knew
how free it was, if you knew that it could not be bought There's
no strings attached to it. The wages of sin is death, but
the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. For by grace are you saved through
faith and that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of works. If you knew how free this gift
was, that God's not looking to you for anything to buy it. It's free. If you knew how free
it was, you would ask for it. The only reason we don't ask
for is because we think God requires something from us to buy it.
Maybe I don't have it. Maybe I don't have what it takes
to purchase eternal life. This can't be bought with money.
Turn with me to Isaiah chapter 55. Verse one, ho, I love the
way the word ho, stop, listen. everyone that thirsteth. Come
ye to the waters, ye that have no money. You don't have the
commitment. You don't have the history. You
don't have whatever you think you need to pay for this. Buy and eat. Yea, come. Buy wine, that's the Spirit of
God and milk, the Word of God. The joy, the wine represents
joy and the milk represents nourishment. You're looking for joy and nourishment,
sustenance for your soul? Buy wine and milk without money
and without price. That word price is the word barter.
Don't try to barter with God. Some of us, all of us probably
at some point or another, we barter with people. Yeah, I'll
do this for you, you do that for me. I'll scratch your back,
you scratch mine. Don't barter with God. Don't say, well God,
if you'll save me, I'll do such and such. No, come without money. If you knew how free it was,
you come in like that, it's not free. It's not free. The gospel's free. If you knew
the gift of God and who it is that saith unto, if you knew
how free the gift was, wherefore do you spend money for that which
is not bread and you labor for that which satisfieth not, hearken
diligently unto me and eat ye that which is good and let your
soul delight itself in fatness. Oh, and climb thine ear. You see, we eat the gospel not
with our mouths, we eat the gospel with our ears. Incline thine
ear, hear. Let him who has an ear hear what
the Spirit saith unto the church. What does the Spirit say? Come.
How do I come? Just like you are. Just like
you are. Well, I need to fix this or that.
I need clean this. I need to, I need to, I need.
No. You're buying it. It's free. You're bartering with God. You're
offering to God something. You're robbing from Christ His
glory and salvation, thinking that you can add something to
what He's done. No. You come like Barnabas, the blind
beggar. Jesus, thou Son of David, have
mercy upon me. Mercy is what I need. You come
like the woman with the issue of blood who had spent all that
she had on positions and was worse off now than she was to
begin with. Isn't that what we do? We spend money for that, we satisfy
it or not. We go to religion, we go to our
works, we go to our intentions, we go to all the things we do
trying to buy that which is free. You can't buy it, it's free. If you knew how free it was,
you'd ask for it. The only reason you're not asking is because
you think that God requires some payment that you don't have.
But if you knew how free it was, you'd ask for it. Saul of Tarsus. Oh, he thought
he was buying God's favor until the Lord struck him blind, knocked
him off his high horse. And Saul realized that that which
he thought was gain was loss. For he now counted all things
but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
The Lord Jesus Christ, the only one that can buy our salvation,
and he has. To you and me, it's free. If you knew that, if you believed
that, you'd ask for it. You'd ask for it. The only thing
that keeps us from asking is we think that we got to come
up with something that we don't have. In Acts chapter 8, Peter
said to Simon the sorcerer who saw the gifts of the, now the
apostles had spiritual gifts that don't exist today. God gave
to the 12 apostles gifts of healing and tongues. God was doing the
same thing for them that he did for the Old Testament prophets.
He was authenticating them as spokesmen of God because the
scriptures had not yet been fully written. Now we have their testimony
given to us in print and we don't need those gifts anymore. Simon
the sorcerer saw the manifestation of the gifts of God in Acts chapter
8 and he went to Peter and tried to buy them. He tried to buy. He tried to
give him money. Give me those gifts so that I
can demonstrate and bestow them on others. Peter said, thy money perish
with thee because thou thoughtest that the gift of God could be
bought with money. If we come to God thinking that
we can do something to buy our salvation, That thought will
perish with us. Tom, maybe we can finish with
Rock of Ages. We're not ready to quite yet,
but Augustus' top lady wrote in the hymn Rock of Ages, In thy hand I bring only, only
to the cross I cling. Galatians chapter four says the
Jerusalem that is from above is free, free. And then he goes on to say, we
are not children of the bond woman, Hagar and Ishmael. You remember the story? God had
promised Abraham and Sarah a child. They were up and up, 90 years
old, 100 years old, the child had not come. And Abraham thought,
God needs some help. We're gonna have to help him
out. So, So Sarah comes up with the idea,
we'll just take my handmaiden and have a child by her and that'll
be the fulfillment of God's promise. That was Ishmael. And what you
see going on in the Middle East right now is still Isaac and
Ishmael. People wanna take it back to
the 1964 war or 1958 or 19 whatever. No, no, no, no. No, it goes back
a lot further than that. It's Ishmael and Isaac. And God
said right then they were going to ever fight. Galatians chapter
4 makes that clear. And then the Lord says this is
an allegory in Galatians chapter 4. This is an allegory. Don't
think about it as just two nations over there in the Middle East
fighting against each other. This is the allegory of the bondwoman
Hagar who produced a seed by the flesh in an attempt to add
to what God would provide, and Isaac, the child of promise.
And we are not of the bondwoman, we are of the free woman, the
free woman, Isaac. Oh, if you knew how free it was. If you knew how absolutely, completely
free it was, you'd ask. And might I say to the child
of God, is this not the issue that causes us hesitancy in asking
even in our walk of faith? When we sin, when we take our
eyes off of Christ, what is the thought that we have? I gotta prove I'm sincere, I
gotta fix this, I gotta make up for this, I've gotta prove
to God. Oh no, it's always free. It's always free. And if you
knew how free it was, you would never hesitate to ask, ever. If you knew how valuable it is, you wouldn't hesitate to ask. Oh. You ever have someone give
you a gift and you think, your first thought, I mean you might
even say to them, I can't take that from you, that's too expensive,
you can't afford that. That's too valuable. That's never a problem with God. Never a problem. I met a multi-billionaire one
time and he gave me a gift. He gave me and Tricia both a
gift. He reached in his pocket, he
pulled out a gift card for a free sandwich. And I was thankful
for it. I wasn't expecting anything from
him. Wasn't expecting a thing. But I knew as soon as he handed
it to me, that didn't diminish his wealth in the least. Matter of fact, he signed it,
so I'm not gonna use it. But if I ever did use it, he
would profit from me using it. Not the way it is. God, I mean,
his wealth is, oh no. It doesn't diminish his wealth
to give us the gift. Oh and it's so much more valuable
than a gift card for a free sandwich, oh no. It's the gift of life, eternal life. The wages of sin
is death and the gift of God's eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord. If you knew how short this life
was, how few years you have here, how few days, just a few more
sunrises and it's over. and how long eternity is. The
consequences of this gift are infinite, they're eternal. And
if you knew how eternal it was, you would ask. The Lord tells us wherever the
tree falls, there it lies. You're not gonna
move it. It falls to the north, falls
to the south, falls to the east, falls to the west, wherever the
tree falls. And whatever direction you and I fall in is where we're
going to lie for all eternity. No changing that. No changing
that. That's why the Lord says, come,
come, come unto me. You don't have... This gift is the only thing that
will make the difference between heaven and hell. Nothing else
will matter. There are but two eternal destinies
that every soul must face. And these two destinies could
not be more extreme. And this gift is the only gift
that makes the difference. And I don't say this by way of,
you know, trying to scare people. Let's just look at what God says
about it. Let's look at what God says. Turn with me to Revelation
21. This is God's word. I'm not, this isn't a fire and
brimstone scare tactic to get you to make a decision. You're
not going to make a decision anyway. You've got to be shut
up to Christ. But if you knew If you knew how free it was,
if you knew how valuable it was to your immortal soul, you would
ask. It wouldn't be any hesitancy.
You'd ask, oh Lord, I've got to have Christ. Lord, give me
that gift. Revelation 21, and I saw a new
heaven, verse one. and a new earth and the first
heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no
more sea. We close our eyes in death and
draw our last breath. This earth is passed away. It's
gone. It's gone. And I, John, saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem. This is what Paul talks about
in Galatians chapter four. The Jerusalem that is from above
is free, the New Jerusalem. Coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great
voice out of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men. That's the Lord Jesus. He's the tabernacle of God. The
word was made flesh and the Bible, our Bible say, and he dwelt among
us. And that word dwelt is the word tabernacled the word. was
made flesh, and he tabernacled among us, and we beheld his glory
as the glory of the Only Begotten, full of grace and full of truth.
And now the bride of Christ is rejoicing that the tabernacle
of God is with men. and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with
them, and be their God, and God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes, and there should be no more death, neither sorrow
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former
things are passed away." This is God telling us how valuable
this gift is. It's the eternal destiny of our
immortal soul. After the quick blip of this
life is over, this is the value of this gift. And he that sat upon the throne
said, behold, I make all things new. Everything's new. And he said unto me, write, for
these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, it is Done. Free. Finished. It's done. I am the Alpha. That's the first
letter of the Greek alphabet. You know that. And the Omega,
the last letter of the Greek alphabet. I'm the A to Z and
everything in between. I'm your election and I'm your
glorification and I'm everything in between. Christ is all. I'm
the Alpha and I am the Omega. I am the beginning and the end
and I will give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of
the river the fountain of water of life freely, freely. He that overcometh, what does
it mean to overcome? You're resting in Christ to the
bitter end, you're resting in Christ. That's faith that God
gives, the gifts and Promises of God are without repentance. He doesn't take them back. When
he gives the gift of eternal life, it's eternal. Shall inherit all things and
I will be his God and he shall be my people, or by son, I'm
sorry. Now here's where the Lord, the
fearful, the unbelieving, The unbelieving. The one who didn't
ask because he's afraid. He's afraid that he didn't have
what it takes. The one who did not rest in the
glorious person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ
for all of their salvation. What does the Lord do? The Lord
is contrasting the destiny of men's souls. And it's all determined
by the one gift. And the fearful, and the unbelieving,
and the abominable, and the murderer, and the whoremonger, and the
sorcerer, and the adulterer, and the liar shall have their
part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which
is the second death. Now that's just God speaking.
And if you knew how valuable and what the eternal consequences
were Oh, you would ask. You would not presume to have
tomorrow. You would not presume on God
and say, well, you know, I'll take care of that later. Oh,
you'd ask right now. And if you ask, He'd give. You see, that's the problem.
We don't really know, do we? We don't think about the eternal
consequences of our salvation as we ought. The children of
God think about it, they think about it all the time, but even
they, not as they ought, not as they ought. The unbeliever's
costly putting out his mind. They don't even think about it,
they just, all they have is this world. If you knew how valuable this
gift was, and not only is it valuable infinitely and eternally
valuable for your soul, It is valuable right now for your life. If you knew how valuable it was,
if you knew how empty and vain the pursuits of this world were
to give to you what you're really looking for, peace and joy and
rest and comfort and hope and life. and how the waters of this
world can never satisfy. The Lord says to this woman at
the well, you drink of the water that I will give to you and you'll
never have to come to this well again. You come to the wells
of the world and they will always leave you thirsty. They will
always leave you unsatisfied. But the value of this gift was
that you'll be satisfied. You'll be satisfied. You'll be
satisfied with Christ as all of your salvation. You'll be
satisfied with where He has you and what He's given you. You'll
be content. You'll rest. Love, purpose, understanding,
freedom and liberty. You've taken away your fear.
All the things that men look to in this world to try to satisfy
their soul, the Lord said, if you knew, if you knew the gift
of God and who it is to say, you knew how free it was, and
if you knew how valuable it was, and oh, if you knew how costly
it was. This gift cost me and you nothing. Cost him everything. If you knew
how costly it was, if you knew, we can't comprehend the price that
our Lord paid. Truly it's unspeakable, it's
inexpressible, it's incomprehensible. If you knew the price that was
paid for it and that that price could only be paid by God, You know, I've used this example
before. If any one of us individually presented to God the best thing
that we've ever done as the hope of our salvation, the best prayer,
the best intention, the best deed that we've ever performed,
the best word of encouragement we've ever spoken, if any of
us presented the best thing that we ever did to God, we'd go to
hell for it. But I thought about this thing
at another level. If all of humanity that ever lived from the beginning
of time to the end of time, if you took every individual, trillions
of people, I suppose, over the history of time, and you took
the best deed of every person, the one single best deed that
every person ever did, and you combined them all together and
offered them up to God for the salvation of one soul, it wouldn't
be sufficient. it wouldn't be sufficient. God
would not be satisfied. There's only one price. The perfect righteousness and
the substitutionary death, the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
is the only thing that God will be satisfied with. Perfect life and perfect death
of a sinless Savior. The price that was paid is that
God would have to leave the glories of heaven. God would have to
be made in the likeness of sinful flesh. God would have to live
a sinless life in thought, in word, and in deed. God would
have to bear the full shame and sorrow of all the sins of all
of his elect people. God the son would have to be
forsaken of his father. He'd have to be put to death
by the sword of God's own justice. God would have to be forsaken
by God. No other gift. would be sufficient
to pay for the salvation of one soul. The gifts and callings of God
are without repentance. When we fail to appreciate the
gift as we ought, He doesn't threaten to take it away. He
simply reminds us, many of us, The Lord has revealed
himself and we have asked and we have received of the water
of life freely. But how little we appreciate
it as we ought, how often we abuse it. And when that happens, child
of God, the Lord doesn't threaten to take it away. He just simply
reminds us, once again, how free it is, how
valuable it is, and how costly it was. And when we know, we
ask. And when we ask, we receive. Our Heavenly Father, Thank you
for this unspeakable gift. Forgive us, Lord, for not asking
as we ought. Lord, put into our hearts a spirit of grace that would
cause us to ask right now, believing that you are faithful
to your promise to give living water. We ask it in Christ's
name, amen. Rock of ages? 126, let's stand
together, 126. you of ages, clap for me. Let me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from
thy wounded side which flowed be of sin the double cure. Save from wrath and make me pure. ? Could my tears forever flow
? Could my zeal no longer know ? These for sin could not atone
? Thou must save and Thou alone ? In my hand no price I bring
? Simply to Thy cross I cling While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyes shall close in death, When I rise to worlds unknown,
And behold beyond thy throne, Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let
me hide myself in thee. Please be seated. For baptism
today, we're going to sing hymn number 190. 190 and your heart
back. Just remain seated.