I'd like to read from Matthew
chapter six, and we're gonna start in verse
25. Therefore I say unto you, take
no thought for your life, what you shall eat or what you shall
drink, nor yet for your body what you shall put on. Is not
life more than meat and the body more than raiment? Behold, the
fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feedeth
them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you, by taking
thought, can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye
thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow. They toil not, neither do they
spin. And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon, in all his
glory, was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so
clotheth the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow
is cast in the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye
of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying,
what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall
we be clothed? For all these things do the Gentiles
seek. For your heavenly Father knoweth
that ye have a need of all these things. but seek ye first the
kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for
the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof. Dear Heavenly Father, we are
so thankful that you know our every need, and according to
your perfect purpose, you've provided and satisfied every
need that we have. Please meet with us this morning.
We need to hear your word. Be with those who are sick and
unable to be with us today. And we ask for traveling mercies
for those that are away from home or going to be away from
home during this holiday. Bless our time together with
our families as we take a moment to Be together and rest. In Christ's name we pray, amen. Let's stand once again, we'll
sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin. When I look in my wretched heart,
and there my nature seem, this is my hope. ? This is my joy
that Jesus lived for me ? When I behold God's holy law ? And
there my sentence see ? This is my hope, this is my joy
? That Jesus died for me ? When I see how my days are mixed with
joy and misery This is my hope, this is my joy,
that Jesus rules for me. And when I ponder on my life,
how swift its end must be, ? This is my hope ? This is my
joy ? That Jesus lives for me ? When I look out upon this world
? And there God's judgment seat This is my hope, this is my joy,
that Jesus comes for me. And when I stand before God's
throne to hear His just ? This still my hope and joy shall
be ? ? Jesus is there for me ? Please be seated. If you'd like to open your Bibles
with me to Psalm 59. Psalm 59. We've been, by God's grace, seeing the glory
of Christ in 1 Samuel. And We saw at the beginning of
chapter 19 last Sunday how Jonathan interceded with his father Saul
on behalf of David and how David's relationship with Saul was restored
as a result of what Jonathan did. And what a glorious picture
of the Lord Jesus Christ interceding before his heavenly father, a
God who is by nature jealous for his glory and for his justice
and how as a result of that intercession our fellowship with God has been
completely restored as it was before. Right on the heels of
that experience Saul turns on David again and tries to have
him killed. He sends his men out to David's
house and instructs them to put him to death. Michael, David's
wife, Saul's daughter, gets word of it and warns David. And she
lets him out of a window and he escapes. And he leaves and
goes and meets with Samuel. and worships God in Ramah. And then when Saul's soldiers
come to Ramah to find David, Samuel is leading the people
there in worship and they are prophesying. And the soldiers
end up prophesying. and David's life is spared in his flight from Saul. Saul, at the beginning of this
experience, tries to pin David to the wall with a javelin and
David barely escapes. So I tell you that story so we
don't have to read it, you can read it another time. It's chapter
19 of 1 Samuel. But the scriptures tell us David
as you know wrote much of the Psalms and David introduces Psalm
59 as a prayer that he prayed in this very experience that's
recorded in 1 Samuel 19. The introductions to the Psalms,
most of our Bibles have them in small print at the beginning
of the Psalm. That's part of the text. That's
part of the inspired word of God. And so when we read in Psalm
59 at the beginning, at the introduction, to the chief musician, Altachiff
and Mictom, of David when Saul sent and they watched the house
to kill him. So this is David's prayer to
God to be delivered from his enemy. I've titled this message,
A Sinner's Prayer. A Sinner's Prayer. Saul as we've seen in the descriptions
that God gave to him, a specimen of physical beauty and strength. His very name means one to be
desired. The enemies that you and I have
are not men. They're the the beauty of strength
and fleshly glory that we see in this world and in our own
sin. There is a part of us that lusteth
after the things of the flesh. That's our enemy. Saul tries to put David to death. The scripture says the wages
of sin is death. He tried to have David pinned
to the wall with a javelin, a picture of the fiery darts
of the devil that he cast at us to try to pin us to the wall. Michael warns David, and helps him to escape. And
that's what I hope this morning is. I hope that this morning
is a word of warning and a window of escape. Because the Lord Jesus
Christ himself is that window. The first time a window is mentioned
in the Bible is that 18 inch by 18 inch, one cubit by one
cubit window that was in the top of
Noah's Ark. And after 40 days of flooding,
Noah opens the window and light comes in. And it was through
that window that the dove returned and gave the message of hope
and life with the olive branch. It was one window in that huge
ship, one window. There's one window that opens
up into heaven through which the light of God's glory and
God's grace shines and speaks peace and hope and comfort to
our hearts. And that window is none other
than the Lord Jesus himself. Another reference in the Bible
that we have to a window is when Joshua sent the spies to Jericho
to spy out the land and Rahab the harlot lets the spies escape out of
a window. And then she puts out that window
a scarlet thread. Well, we know what that's a picture
of. They escaped certain judgment. They escaped death. through a
window. And it was that window with that
scarlet thread that gave Rahab, the harlot, the hope of being
spared when Joshua came and destroyed the entire city of Jericho. That
window is a picture of Christ. Brethren, there's hope against
our enemy. The apostle Paul, after having
been converted on the road to Damascus, then while in Damascus
has the police sent out after him to have him arrested and
he has to escape in a basket out a window. And here's what God says to you
and me, there hath no temptation taken you. but such as is common
to all men." God is faithful. He will not suffer you to be
tempted above that which you are able. A lot of people stop right there
and say, God won't put more on you than you can bear. You better
hope he does. If he doesn't put more on you
than you can bear, you'll never need him. That's not what that
verse says. There hath no temptation taken
you, but such is common. God is faithful who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able, but
will with the temptation provide the way of escape that you might
be able to bear it." There's the window, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the way of escape. In the Song of Solomon, The bride of Christ, the church,
sees the Lord Jesus, her beloved, and she says of him, my beloved
looketh out the window and he showeth himself through the lattice. So partially obscured through
the lattice and yet the beloved showeth himself out the window. Every time we open God's Word,
our hope is, oh Lord, show yourself. Yes, we see in part and we know
in part. And we look through a glass darkly
and we only get glimpses of his glory, but that's enough. That's
enough to help us in our time of need and to enable us to be
delivered, to be delivered from our enemy. at the end of chapter 19 in 1st
Samuel, David flees to Ramah. Ramah translated means a hill,
a hill. And the Bible describes the church
in many cases as hills. The Lord skipping upon the hills
and revealing himself on mountaintops. Oh, is that not why we're here
this morning? Are we not seeking to flee our
enemy and to come to this little hill where we might meet with
God and where he might prophesy a word of hope and truth and
salvation and deliverance to our hearts? This is a faithful
saying. and worthy of all acceptation,
Christ Jesus came to save sinners." We've met the enemy and it is
us. It is us. Our sin, our unbelief,
our doubts and our fears, there is the enemy. Ramah, the scripture says in
1 Samuel 19, which is where David wrote this Psalm from, was in a country called Naoth. And Naoth translated means habitation. And in Ephesians chapter two,
the church is described as the habitation of God. This is the place where he's
pleased to make himself known. to open the window of heaven
and to shine the light of grace in our hearts. This is his habitation. Zechariah says, be silent before
the Lord for he has raised himself up out of his holy habitation. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians
chapter 14. 1 Corinthians chapter 14. When David got to Ramah in Naoth,
the hill country in the place of habitation, Samuel was there
and Samuel was prophesying. And when David got there, the
Spirit of God came upon David and he began to prophesy and
they're all worshiping together. And when the soldiers of Saul
showed up, the soldiers started prophesying. And then when the
last verse of chapter 19 of 1 Samuel, when Saul showed up, Saul began
prophesying. They all were brought into this
spirit of worship at the place of God's habitation. And here's
what the New Testament says about that. 1 Corinthians chapter 14
at verse 23, if therefore the whole church come together into
one place and all speak with tongues, now tongues were a gift
that God gave to the early church to communicate the gospel. It's
not some sort of ecstatic utterance of gibberish. Tongues in the Bible were known
languages. That's where a man was able to
speak a language that he had not before learned in order for
the purpose of communicating the gospel. It started on the
day of Pentecost, when people from all over the world heard
the gospel in their own tongue, in their own language. And God
gave these tongues And so the church at Corinth was proud of
the fact that many of them had been gifted with languages that
other people didn't know. And they were boasting in their
gifts and oftentimes they would come together and just start
speaking an unknown language to impress somebody. My gifts
are better than your gifts. How evil. Yeah, we not compete
in the same way. with one another. So here's,
that's the context of what the Lord is saying in 1 Corinthians
chapter 14. Verse 23, wherefore tongues are a sign. Verse 22, wherefore tongues are
for a sign, not to them that believe. Don't use your language
of tongues among believers. They're for the purpose of going
out and sharing the gospel. But to them that believe not.
But prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for
them which believe. If therefore the whole church
be come together into one place and all speak with tongues, and
there come in some of those that are unlearned or unbelievers,
will they not say that you're mad? An unbeliever comes in,
you're all speaking in different language, they're going to say,
these people are crazy. But if all prophesy, and there came
in the one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced
of all and he is judged of all. And thus are the secrets of his
heart made manifest. And so falling down on his face,
he will worship God and report that God is here among you in
truth. Is that not our hope? Now, I know I'm the one doing
the speaking right now, but I trust that every believer here is prophesying. Prophesying here is not foretelling
some future event. It's foretelling the gospel.
And that's what we're doing right now. We're prophesying. We're
declaring God's truth and God's word. And in your heart, you
are amening what God has said and joining me in the declaration.
This matter of prophesying is not for one man to do. We do
it together. We do it together. Speaking has
to be heard and hearing has to be believed. And so we are prophesying
together and if an unbeliever comes in among us, oh our hope
is that he'll be convicted of his sin and see that God is here
among us. And that's what happened in 1
Samuel chapter 19. When the soldiers and even Saul
himself came to where Samuel was leading David in worship,
they all believed. It's a gospel story. Our enemy is not people. Really,
not really. If another person does something
to make me angry or afraid or act inappropriate in any way,
has not that person just brought something out that was already
in my heart? If my circumstances cause me
to be afraid or to doubt or to get angry or to act inappropriate.
Have not those circumstances simply brought out what was already
in my heart? If we believed God as we ought,
your enemy is not your ex, he's not your boss. It's our sin. It's our unbelief. It's our own
doubts. It's our own fears. Sin and Satan. Too strong for
us. We have an enemy and we need
desperately for God to open up the window of heaven. and provide
for us a way of escape. The lust of the flesh, the lust
of the eyes, the pride of life, inordinate affections, as the
scripture calls it, attractions to the things of this world,
the weaknesses of the flesh, my cold, unbelieving heart, my
doubts, my fears. It's a strong enemy. And like Saul, this enemy is
very deceitful and very irrational. This enemy can turn on you quicker
than you can know it. You know that, don't you? You've
experienced that plenty of times. Is that not why we're here? Sinners
in need of a savior. Like the woman with the issue
of blood, we've spent all that we have on physicians trying
to get better. And we find ourselves only worse
off now than we were before. Oh, if I could but touch the
hem of his garment, I could be made whole. That's where we are. Here's the enemy. like blind Bartimaeus, crying,
O Son of David, have mercy upon me. Bartimaeus, be of good cheer. The Master calleth thee. What
would you have me to do for you, Bartimaeus? O Lord, that I might
see. I need to see. I need to see
my Savior looking out the window through the lattice. I need to
see that He was successful in putting away my sin. I need to
see that I have hope in Him, in His grace. Lord, give me but
a glimpse of Your glory. Lord, give me hope. Give me faith. Give me love. Like the manslayer, we've slain
our brother and the avenger of blood is hot on our heels pursuing
us. What are we looking for? What
are we looking for? Why are you here right now? What
are you looking for? Do you not need the city of refuge?
Do you not need a place where you can find an escape from your
enemy? A place of safety, a place of
rest, a place of hope, a place of forgiveness, a place of grace? That's the story here. Do we not need to flee to Naof,
a place of habitation, to Ramah, a little hill, and compared to Mount Sinai,
which was a great big mountain. You remember when Elijah, after
the story of what happened on Mount Carmel when the fire of
God fell and consumed that altar, and Jezebel got after Elijah. Elijah was afraid. Elijah thought
Jezebel was his enemy. And where did Elijah go? He went to Horeb. He ran to Mount
Horeb, which is Mount Sinai. It's the mountain of the law.
And he hid himself in a cave. And the only reason he survived
that experience on Mount Horeb is because he was in that cave.
I suspect that that cave may have been the same exact cave
that the Lord put Moses in many years before to protect him. And the Lord
said to Elijah, Elijah, why are you here? Why are you here? Why did you run to the mountain
of the law? What is that a picture of? It's you and I trying to
escape our enemy by doing something that will, that will, atone for
our sins or make things better. We go to the law, don't we? We
go to Sinai. We need to run to a hill. It's called Mount Calvary and
it's a very small hill compared to that great big mountain of
Mount Sinai or Mount Horeb. That's where we find our help
in our time of need. Looking on to Jesus, who himself
is the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy
that was set before him endured the cross and despised its shame. Oh, here's where we find our
hope. Here's the window. run to the law and think, well,
I can step up my religious activity and I can start doing better
and I can make up for this and for that and I can beat this
enemy. The more you grow in grace and
in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, the more you see
of that enemy, don't you? And the more you see of your
need for grace, your need for faith, your need for Christ. You become more poor and more
needy and more dependent. Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, I'll give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. I'm meek and lowly of heart.
My labor is light. My burden is light. Learn of
me. Learn of me. Oh Lord, that's
what I need. The avenger of blood has been
pursuing me. I need Christ. My enemy is here,
not out there, right here. It's my sin. It's my unbelief. The sin that doth so easily beset
me has beset me many times this week, many times, causing me
not to believe God as I ought, causing me to be tempted to think
that I can go to Sinai and fix this. No, you can't. David is recording a sinner's
prayer. We're just going to read the
Psalm, make a few very brief comments about it. But this is
a sinner's prayer. One who needs to be delivered. Lord, I've been bitten by venomous
vipers this week. What's the Lord say? You need
to get after those snakes. You need to figure out a better
way to control them. You need to figure out how to kill them.
You need to figure out how to take the poison out of them.
No. He said, look, look at that brazen
serpent that I've put upon a pole. And as Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. And
the Lord Jesus Christ was suspended between heaven and earth. He's
the only one. We have one mediator between
us and God. He's the only one that's able
to take one hand and touch God without being destroyed and take
another hand and touch man without being defiled and intercede between
us and God. The Lord Jesus Christ. He's that
window out from which we escape certain death. Certain death,
certain pinning to the wall. This is our enemy. Deliver me. Oh, the world talks about us.
They've got this prayer, you can recite it, read it, you know,
repeat after me. They come on TV, the false prophets
come on TV and they say, just pray this prayer and mean it
with all your heart. And you can obligate God to save
you by praying this prayer. This is a prayer of a sinner
who knows that there's nothing he can do to obligate God. He's
completely dependent upon God's mercy. He's completely dependent
upon God's grace. He's got no place to go. But
to that way of escape, This is one who knows that their real
problem is not their circumstances, it's not other people, it's not
the world. You go home and shut yourself
up in a closet and get away from everything and everybody and
you're gonna have your problem right in there with the closet,
with you in the closet, aren't you? It's in your heart. It's in my heart. That's where
my problem is. That's my enemy. Deliver me from my enemies. Oh
my God. Defend me. And this word defend
means set me up on high. Put me up on that hill. Oh Lord,
raise me up in Christ. Defend me from them that rise
up against me. how often does your enemy rise
up against you? We fall many times in a day,
don't we? Many times. By God's grace, he
picks us up, puts us back on the path and we fall again. Oh,
but how faithful he is to keep us from falling headlong into
destruction that final fall of death and destruction He has
delivered us from. Here's the sinner's prayer, Lord
deliver me, defend me, deliver me from the workers of iniquity
and save me from bloody men. David's writing this in response
to his experience with Saul. That's the historical setting. But I hope the Lord can Will,
I know he can, I hope the Lord will show us who our enemy is. For lo, they lie in wait for
me, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty are gathered against
me, not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord. They run and prepare themselves
without my fault, awake to help me and behold. Thou therefore
Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the
heathen, be not merciful to any wicked transgressions. Oh Lord,
search my heart and see if there'd be any wicked way in me and lead
me in the way of everlasting. Now David was innocent. Saul
was completely at fault in his pursuit of David. And so when
David's praying and he's saying, these enemies are coming against
me not for my fault, turn with me to Romans chapter
7. Verse 15, for that which I do, that which I would do, what would
you do, believer? You'd never sin again, would
you? If you could, you'd believe God
perfectly. You wouldn't be. wouldn't be
distracted by the things of this world, you wouldn't be allowed
to fear and to doubt God and to question God and to act inappropriate
when things didn't go the way you thought they should go. You
would do it exactly as you want to do it. A man says, if I believed
what you believed, I'd live any way I wanted. And the child of
God says, oh, I wish I could live the way I want. I wish I
could live the way I want. You see, the person who's looking
to their works for the hope of their salvation is putting their
hope in what they're doing to earn favor with God. The believer
knows we can't earn favor with God. We would never sin again. If we could, that's what Paul's
talking about here. Look what he says. He says, for
that which I do, I allow not. And that which I would, that
do I not. But what I hate, that do I. I can't resist this. He's always
there. He's always pursuing me. He's
always throwing fiery darts. He's always tempting me. Everything I do, I find that
he's there with me. Well, he goes on to say that.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto law that
it's good. The law is holy, just, and good.
We would obey God's law perfectly if we could. But the Lord Jesus
Christ is the only one that kept the law. And he himself is the
end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. We can't achieve our holiness
by law keeping. We can't become justified before
God by running to Mount Sinai, Mount Horeb. And keeping the law is not going
to make us any better than we are. In me, Paul goes on to say,
that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. This sin nature
I have has never gotten any better. Oh, I pray the Lord will restrain
us as we grow in grace and that we will not act out in ways that
perhaps we once did. That'll be to his glory. We'll
be what we are by the grace of God. But does that change the
nature of our sin? Does that change the problem
that's in our heart? If the Lord restrains our behavior,
has it changed? Has it changed our nature? The
new birth doesn't change the old nature. That's what Paul's
saying here. My sin nature is the same as
it's always. Matter of fact, as I grow in
grace, I see him worse than he's ever been before. The enemy's gotten more numerous. He's creeping out of holes that
I never knew he was in before. Verse 17, this is very important
to understanding what David said in Psalm 59. When David says,
I'm not guilty for what Saul's trying to do to me. Listen to
what Paul's saying. Now then, it is no more I that
do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. This is not who I am. Oh don't
misunderstand me, we bear full responsibility for all our sin
and our old man is all on us. But what Paul said in Romans
chapter 7 is, this is not who I am. This is not me, this is sin. Look, for I know that in me that
is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing, for to will is present
with me. Oh, I'd be without sin, I'd be
perfect if I could. But how to perform that which
is good, I find not. For the good that I would, I
do not, and the evil that which I would not, that I do. Now,
if I do that, which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but
sin that dwelleth in me. Paul's saying in Christ, this
is not who I am. This is not me. I'd be perfect in Christ if I
could. This is my sin nature. I find then a law that when I
would do good, evil is ever present with me. It's always there. Can't get rid of it. I got this
dead corpse on my back. I'm carrying him around everywhere
I go. He stinks. For I delight in the law of God
after the inward man. It's the new man. Peter refers to it as the hidden
man of the heart, the new man in Christ. That's who I am. That's my nature. That's my hope. But I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity
to the law of sin, which is in my members. Oh, wretched man
that I am. Who shall deliver me from the
body of this death? How am I going to escape? The
enemy's ever with me. My sin is ever before me. What am I gonna do? I thank God. Through Jesus Christ,
our Lord, so then with the mind, I serve the law of God, and with
the flesh, the law of sin. This old fleshly nature doesn't
do anything but sin. There is now therefore no condemnation
to them that are in Christ Jesus. So when David says, I'm being
pursued by my enemy, let's go back to our text, Psalm 59. For lo, they lay it. You see, this
is exactly what Paul's saying in Romans 7. They lay and wait
for me. They're always there, they're
sneaking around. They're like Saul, deceitful
and lying and pursuing me relentlessly. Not for my transgressions, verse
three, nor for my sin, O Lord. They run and prepare themselves
without my fault, awake to help me, and behold, thou therefore,
O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all
the heathen. Be not merciful to any wicked
transgressors. Lord, put them away. Slay them,
stop them, kill them. And in Romans chapter 6, that's
why God says, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but
alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. That old man
got put to death on the cross. That's what David's saying. This
is not me. That's what Paul's saying in Romans chapter 6. This
is not me. He's dead. He's been put to death. I have a perfection in Christ
Jesus that's without sin. And all this old man is doing
is driving me to Christ. And David's going to say that
in the psalm. Read on with me. This is glorious. Verse six,
they return at evening. They make a noise like a dog.
They go about the city. Behold, they belch out with their
mouths. Swords are in their lips. And
who say they doth hear? Oh, how deceitful our fleshly
hearts can be in thinking that we're hiding something from God. You've had that thought, haven't
you? You know it's not true, but you thought, well, nobody
knows. But thou Lord shalt laugh at
them thou shalt have all the heathen in derision because his
strength will wait upon thee for God is my defense the God
of my mercy shall prevent me or go before me he will go before
me and that's exactly what the Lord Jesus did when he went into
glory and Rent the veil of the holies of holies and put his
blood on the mercy seat in heaven. He prevented us, he went before
us. And his blood is a covering for all that sin, brethren. All
the enemy, the enemy is defeated. Let's make sure that we don't
misidentify the enemy. We do. Oh, we're real good at
the blame game, aren't we? Goes all the way back to the
garden. The woman that thou gavest me, she did give to me and eat
and I did eat. God, it's your fault. No, we
can revert back to that just like that. Why? Because of that
old man looking to blame somebody. The enemy is me. It's my own nature. It's my sin. There's no excuse for him, there's
no justification for him. Verse 10, the God of my mercy
shall prevent me, God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. Oh, only when God gives me grace
to flee to Christ do I find them quieted, do I find them fleeing. Then and only then I have moments
of rest, moments of hope, moments of life. And then I'm back in
the world and the enemy comes and rears his ugly head again
and I find myself back in the same place, praying the sinner's
prayer. Look at verse 11. Slay them not, lest thy people
forget." In order for this enemy that
you and I deal with every day to be put to death or to be eliminated, you have to leave your body. Then and only then will this
enemy be slain once and for all. So David says, Lord, don't slay
them lest I forget. Lord, it's the old man of my
sinful nature that reminds me of my need for a Savior. He's
the one that's driving me to Christ. He's the older brother. who serves the younger brother.
He's the one who causes me. Lord, if I'll completely forget
my need. If you don't allow this man of
sin to keep pursuing me, I'll forget my need for a savior. Slay them not, lest my people
forget. Scatter them by thy power and bring them down, O Lord,
our shield. Lord, scatter them, weaken them. For the sin of their mouth and
the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride,
I'm sorry, and for cursing and lying which they speak. Oh, what
such pride? You know, we look for humility
and we find pride, don't we? Consume them in thy wrath, consume
them that they may not be and let them know that God ruleth
in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. And at evening, let them
return and let them make a noise like a dog and go around about
the city. Let them wander up and down for meat and grunge
if they be not satisfied. But I, I will sing of thy power. Yea, I will sing aloud of thy
mercy in the morning, for thou hast been my defense and refuge
in the day of trouble." Every day for a sinner, A blood-bought
child of God struggling every day with that old man is a day
of trouble. We flee to the throne of grace
to find help in our time of need. Unto thee, O God, my strength
will I sing, for God is my defense, and the God of my mercy, the
accomplished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, having conquered sin, our ability to come before the
throne of grace and say to God Almighty, Lord,
that's not who I am. I'm a child of the King. Lord,
help me. Our Heavenly Father, thank you
for your word. Thank you for an open window. Peer through
the lattice and let that scarlet thread be a marker upon your
Rahabs. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. 27 in the spiral hymn of Let's
Stand Together. Free from the law's great curse,
in Jesus we are free. For Christ became a curse for
us and died upon the tree. The rituals of the law and all
the law's commands have been fulfilled in Christ the Lord,
established by His hands. No covenant with the law can
now with us exist. Complete in Christ we stand by
grace, both free and ever blessed. No more the dread of wrath. No more constrained by fear. ? We worship and we serve our
God ? With gratitude and cheer ? In Jesus we are free In Jesus
we are free Free from all sin and from all guilt We live in
liberty We'll join the happy song ? With all the blood brought
thon' ? And sing the praises of the Lamb ? Whose grace makes
us His own Thank you.