Good evening. Let's start this
evening's service singing from the spiral bound hymnal number
12, So Be Still My Heart. Upon my great and sovereign God,
I cast my soul and rest. My Father's hand controls the
world, and what He does is best. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth
and power combine to make thee blessed. In raging storms and
fiery trials, He keeps me from all harms. He walks with me and
holds me in His everlasting arms. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth,
and power combine to make thee blessed. By God with skill infallible
and great designs of grace, power and love that never fail shall
order all my ways. So be still my heart and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth
and power combine to make thee blessed. My life's most minute
circumstance is ordered by my God. things He will ever do me good. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth,
and power combine to make thee blessed. Be seated, please. Thank you, Adam, Joy. Let's open our Bibles to Psalm
28, Psalm 28. That's such a good hymn we just
sang. Hope the Lord will enable us
to still our hearts, that he'll still our hearts and give us
sweet rest in Christ. Psalm 28, a Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord,
my rock. Be not silent to me, lest thou
be silent to me. I'll become like them that go
down into the pit. Hear the voice of my supplications
when I cry unto thee. When I lift up my hands toward
thy holy oracle, draw me not away with the wicked and with
the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors,
but mischief is in their hearts. Give them according to their
deeds and according to the wickedness of their endeavors. Give them
after the work of their hands, render to them their dessert. Because they regard not the works
of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy
them and not build them up. Blessed be the Lord, because
he hath heard the voice of my supplications. The Lord is my
strength and my shield. My heart trusteth in him. I am
helped. Therefore, my heart greatly rejoiceth,
and with my song will I praise him. The Lord is their strength,
and he is the saving strength of his anointed. Save thy people
and bless thine inheritance. Feed them also and lift them
up forever. I chose this psalm tonight primarily
for the first verse where David is asking
the Lord to be not silent to him. Lord speak, speak to our
hearts. If you don't speak and leave
us to ourselves, we have no hope. We come here Especially we are
listening for and hoping that the Lord will speak. Jeanette
Briggs has been in the hospital since Monday. She's at Waterman,
Advent Waterman up there just north of Hustus on 441. And her
blood pressure has been very high, which she's never experienced
before. She thinks it may be related
to her leukemia. and they can't figure out what's
happening. So they've been running tests
and everything comes back inconclusive. So she just told us this evening
that they were gonna start the test over again tomorrow. So
pray the Lord will give the doctors some understanding and help her
with whatever treatment they have to give her. So let's pray
together. Our Heavenly Father, we come before Thy throne of
grace in the name of Thy dear Son. Lord, what comfort, what
hope, what confidence we have in knowing that He has rent the
veil, that His blood has been placed on the mercy seat, that
you have seen the travail of his soul, that you're satisfied
with the sacrifice that he made on our behalf, and that we can
come into the very presence of thy holiness in the name of thy
dear son and have hope, even as David did, that as we cry
unto thee, that you would hear our supplications Lord, we pray
with David, be not silent to us. We ask that your Holy Spirit
would speak peace and truth and comfort and shed the light of
the gospel in the face of the Lord Jesus in our hearts. We
pray for Jeanette. Thank you, Lord, for the good
hope that you've given her and for the testimony of her trust
in thee. Lord, we pray for the doctors
and ask that you would give them the knowledge that they need
to diagnose and treat her and that your hand of strength and
healing would be upon her. Father, we pray for Jennifer
and ask, Lord, that you would comfort and strengthen her. We
pray it in Christ's name. Amen. Let's stand again. We'll sing
out of the hardback hymn number 228, My Faith Has Found a Resting
Place. My faith has found a resting
place, not in devise nor creed. I trust the Ever-Living One,
His wounds for me shall plead. I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died,
and that He died for me. Enough for me that Jesus saved,
this ends my fear and doubt. A sinful soul, I come to Him,
He'll never cast me out. I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died,
and that He died for me. My heart is leaning on the Word,
the written Word of God. Salvation by my Savior's name,
salvation through His blood. I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died,
and that He died for me. My great Physician heals the
sick, the lost He came to save. For me His precious blood He
shed, for me His life He gave. I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me. Be seated, please. A portion of God's word that
we're going to begin with tonight can be found in 2 Peter, the
first chapter, 2 Peter 1. There are some things that are
always true when God speaks. Things that will assure us that
he has spoken to us. Truly there is nothing more necessary
for you and for me than for God to speak. David feared being
left to himself when he prayed in Psalm 28, Lord be not silent
to me, Lord speak. We know that the most often quoted
passage of scripture from the Old Testament to the New is in
Isaiah chapter 6, when the Lord told Isaiah to speak a word of
comfort to his people. And then he told Isaiah, he said,
they will have ears, but they will not hear. Eyes they will
have, but they will not see. And I don't want that to be me. I don't want to just be hearing
words. I want to hear from God and I
want you to hear from God. Peter is recounting in this second
letter the experience that he had or the experience that he
and James and John had on the Mount of Transfiguration. And
we'll begin reading in verse 16. He says, for we have not
followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the
power and coming of our Lord Jesus, but were eyewitnesses
of his majesty. Now, Matthew, Mark, and Luke
all record this event. And you remember it was when
the Lord took these three disciples up on a mountain and the The veil of our Lord's humanity
was removed for a moment, and the radiance of his glory and
his deity shined forth like the noonday sun. And Peter, James,
and John were brought to the ground, and Moses and Elijah showed up. And the Lord Jesus is talking
with them. and Mark just tell us that he
spoke with Moses and Elijah, but Luke tells us that he spoke
of his decease, which he would accomplish in Jerusalem. So we know the words that our
Lord was having with Moses and Elijah had to do with what he
would suffer at Calvary's cross. And now Peter, He is recounting
that event, and he's saying, we didn't make this up. We didn't bring you cunningly
devised fables, stories that men made up. We handled the word
of God. And verse 17 says, for he, the
Lord Jesus, received from God the Father honor and glory when
there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory And
the voice said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And this voice, which came from
heaven, we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount." I feel certain this is where
the phrase a mountaintop experience must have come from. What a moment
that was. And I'm so thankful that we have
the next few verses. Otherwise, we might feel like,
what's the hope of God speaking to me? I've never had an experience
like that and have no reason to think that I ever would. But under the inspiration of
the Holy Spirit, Peter writes these words. We have also a more
sure, a more sure word of prophecy. where unto you do well that you
take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until
the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts. Knowing this first, that no prophecy
of scripture is of any private interpretation for the prophecy
came not in old time by the will of men, but holy men of God spake
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. The Lord's telling me and you
that there's something better. There's something more sure. There's something less subjective,
we could say, than that experience that Peter, James, and John had.
And it is God's Word. And if God is going to speak
to our hearts, he's gonna speak to us by his word. This phrase, cunningly devised
fables is found one other place in the Bible. If you'll turn
with me to 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy chapter three, Paul is, is encouraging Timothy to remember
the things that he learned as a child. And he says in verse
15 of 2 Timothy 3, and that from a child that has known the Holy
Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise. Now there's the
phrase, able to make thee wise is the same phrase we find in
our text in 2 Peter, cunningly devised fables. And so what Peter's
tell, these scriptures are able to make thee wise unto salvation
through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. Now, what I understand
from that is that a cunningly devised fable is something that men think is gonna
give them wisdom. No, we're not. We're not talking
about the scriptures will, that God will speak to his people
through his word. But how many men think that they
can discern truth and they can know God and they can hear from
God from the wisdom of men? Every religion in the world has
has come up with some cunningly devised fable whereby they think
that they have a word from God. You know, the Pope thinks that
God is, the Catholic Church believes that God is still speaking to
his people through the Pope. And for the last 2,000 years,
the Pope has written decrees pretending to be the Word of
God. Certainly Joseph Smith had cunningly
devised fables when he went into the woods and came out with the
Book of Mormons and Mohammed had cunningly devised fables
when he, you know, believed that God was speaking to him and wrote
the Quran and how many billions, literally billions of people
are being deceived by cunningly devised fables, the wisdom of
men, false prophets who claim to have the Word of God and claim
to have heard God speak. Now, it's not my intention to
convince anybody that the Bible is in fact the Word of God. That's
the Holy Spirit's work, isn't it? We're to declare it for what
it is. But I'm so thankful that we have
a word from God. It wasn't written by one man,
40 penmen, over 1500 years and 66 books and all of God's word. declares the same glorious truth
about who God is and about who we are and about how it is that
God's pleased to save sinners and how we see Christ in every
part of God's Word. Let the world depend upon cunningly devised
fables. We have We have the word of God. And I say that without apology. And I know that if the Lord,
you know, they shall be all taught of God. If God convinces you
that the Bible is God's word, then you're taught of God and
you're convinced of it, aren't you? Turn with me to 1 Corinthians
1. 1 Corinthians 1. Look with me at verse 24. But unto them which are called,
this is the effectual calling of the Holy Spirit that shines
the light of the gospel in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ
in our hearts and makes us believers, makes us to believe God. To them,
which are called both Jews and Greeks, both the religious and
the irreligious, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of
God. Now look over with me at verse
30 of the same chapter. But of him, of God the Father,
Are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption? So the things that men think are
able to make them wise, if they don't point a man to Christ,
there's no wisdom in it. Christ is the power of God. Christ
is the wisdom of God. God made Christ to be our wisdom
and our righteousness and our sanctification and our redemption.
How do we know that God has spoken? Because when God speaks, all
honor and all glory goes to Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ becomes
the message. That's how we know when God has
spoken. Christ Jesus, the Lord, the power
of God, and Christ Jesus, the Lord, the wisdom of God. Look
at, you still have your Bibles open to 1 Corinthians. Look up
with me at verse 19 in chapter one. For as it is written, I
will destroy the wisdom of the wise and I will bring to nothing
the understanding of the prudent. Where's the wise? Where's the
scribe? Where's the disputer of this world? Hath not God made
foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them which believe. For the Jews
require sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ
crucified under the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness,
but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ,
the power of God, and Christ, the wisdom of God. We know, go
back with me to our text in 1 Peter. When
God speaks, he always honors and glorifies Christ, his beloved
son, in whom he is well-pleased. When God speaks, he speaks of
his son. Look with me again at verse 17. For he, the Lord Jesus, received
from God the Father honor and glory when there came such a
voice to him from the excellent glory. And this is what the voice
said, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. We know that God has spoken when
all glory and all honor goes to Christ. Three times in the life of our
Lord, once in John chapter 12, right after the triumphal entry,
the Lord was with the disciples and the father spoke, this is
my beloved son in whom I'm well as pleased. Once at our Lord's
baptism when he came out of the water and the Holy Spirit in
the form of a dove, lighted upon him and the scripture says, God
spoke from heaven, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well
pleased. And now here at the Mount of Transfiguration, this
is my beloved son. When God speaks, he always points
to his son. He points us to Christ. When When the Lord spoke to Isaiah
in Isaiah chapter six, which I've already made reference to,
John speaks of that encounter in John chapter 12. And he says
this, he says, these things spake the prophet Isaiah when he saw
his glory and spake of him. So we know that it was none other
than the Lord Jesus that was sitting upon that throne high
and lifted up, over which the seraphim were crying, holy, holy,
holy is the Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth is filled with
his glory. So the Lord tells us the prophet Isaiah was speaking
of Christ. God always speaks of his son. He If Christ has not gotten all
the glory and all the honor, God hasn't spoken. If God speaks by his word to
our hearts about our duty and his command, it will always be in the context
of not only the Lord Jesus Christ being the end of the law for
righteousness to everyone that believeth, but it'll also be
in the context of it is he that worketh in you, causing you to
will and to do after his good pleasure. So, there's, you know,
every time God speaks, even if it has to do with something relating
to what we ought to be doing and what we ought not to be doing,
it's all, it always has to be to the glory and honor of Christ
or God hasn't spoken. If we think we've heard a word
from God and somehow that command from God is in any way separated
from Christ, we haven't heard from God. Any desire or any obedience in
the life of a believer will be directed to his honor and glory.
God's spoken. When he puts into our hearts
a will to follow Christ, it's to his
glory. Turn with me to 2 John, little
tiny epistle, 2 John. There's only one chapter. but there's a couple of verses
I want to read. If God speaks to us about doctrinal
truth, they have to be heard and believed
in light of who Christ is. Second John verse nine, whosoever
transgresses and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath
not God. He that abideth in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath both the father and the son. If there come any
unto you and bring not this doctrine, what doctrine? The doctrine of
Christ. Receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed. For he that biddeth him God's
speed is partaker of his evil deeds. Oh, whatever the Holy Spirit
teaches us about doctrine, it has to be the doctrine of Christ.
It's the Lord Jesus Christ that brings all these glorious truths
together. We would not know anything about
the doctrine of election or redemption or regeneration or sanctification
or glorification apart from the doctrine of Christ. We know that
God has spoken when he does what he did for Peter, James, and
John on the Mount of Transfiguration He says, this is my beloved son
in whom I'm well-pleased and he gives to him honor and glory. Turn with me to Acts chapter
10. So many people interested in prophecy. The scripture says, To him, the
Lord Jesus Christ gave all the prophets testimony. All prophecy,
it cannot be heard or understood except in Christ. Acts 10, look
with me at verse 43. To him gave all the prophets
witness that through his name, whosoever believes in him shall
receive remission of sins. Turn back with me to Acts chapter
three and look at verse 18. Acts chapter three, verse 18.
Peter's preaching on the day of Pentecost and he says in verse
18, but those things which God before hath showed by the mouth
of all his prophets that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. Christ is a fulfillment of all
these prophecies. That's why he's talking with
Elijah. Elijah is considered the representative of all the Old
Testament prophets. And he's speaking to Elijah about
those things which he should accomplish in Jerusalem. His death is going to accomplish
the fulfillment of all that the prophets declared. Look at verse 21 in that same
chapter. Whom the heavens must receive
until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath
spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world
began. Look at verse 24. Yea, and all
the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many
as have been spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. So Peter's making it clear to
this Jewish audience on the day of Pentecost, all those prophets
we've been studying all our lives, they were talking of Christ.
They were speaking of him. Yes, God was speaking through
them. but we haven't really heard from them unless we've seen the
honor and glory of Christ in fulfilling all that they promised
and all that they prophesied. That's the rebuke that the Lord
gave to the Pharisees. When he told them, he said, you
search the scriptures because you think in them you have eternal
life, but these are they which testify of me. And beginning
with Moses and the Psalms and the prophets, he expounded unto
them those things concerning himself." When God speaks from heaven to the hearts of
his people, he always gives all honor and all glory to his son. He must increase. I must decrease. Turn with me to Luke chapter
18. Look with me in verse 31. Then
he took unto him the 12 and said unto
them, behold, we go up to Jerusalem and all things that are written
by the prophets concerning the son of man shall be accomplished. He spoke with Moses about what
he would accomplish in fulfilling the law. know, oftentimes we
think of our Lord's active obedience and he was, he was without sin.
Every thought he had, every word he spoke, every deed he performed,
he would, he was in perfect obedience to the law of God and We think
of his active obedience as him fulfilling the law. Christ is
the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. That
you and I have never been able to keep any of God's laws, Christ
kept them all. But there's also such a thing
as the passive obedience of Christ. And the passive obedience of
Christ is what the law demanded in his death when he became sin
on Calvary's cross. He was actively obedient throughout
his life in obeying his father perfectly. And he was obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross. And so on Calvary's cross, he
becomes passively obedient in that the penalty of the law for
sin was exercised against him. And he received that. judgment
of the law in order to completely fulfill the law. And so Christ
is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believe it. You know, the prophets and the
New Testament writers I don't hear them saying, look
what the world's coming to. We spend too much time bewailing
the conditions of this world, don't we? We see the decline
of things that, you know, we know we're good and we think,
well, look what the world's coming to. That's not the message of,
the message of the Bible is look who's come to the world. The
world's always been evil. The world's always been anti-Christ
and contrary to things of God. But look who's come to the world,
the Lord Jesus Christ. He spoke with Moses and Elijah
on the Mount of Transfiguration concerning his decease. And this
is how Mark puts it. Concerning his decease, that
he should accomplish in Jerusalem. We don't normally think about
a person's decease as an accomplishment, but that's exactly what his decease
was. It was an accomplishment. Satisfying
what God required. in every aspect of God's law
and fulfilling all the prophecies and promises of God so that all
the promises are yea and amen in Christ. When God speaks, he
always gives honor and glory to the Lord Jesus Christ. When God spoke, to Saul of Tarsus
in Acts chapter 9, as he was going, breathing out threatenings,
the scripture says, arresting believers and having them put
to death. The scripture says that the Lord
spoke and Saul, whose name of course we know was changed to
Paul, heard. and ask, who art thou, Lord?
I am Jesus, whom thou persecuteth. But here's what the scripture
says. The others that were with Saul heard a voice, but they
saw no man. They heard a voice, but they
saw no man. What's my point? My point is
that you and I haven't heard the voice of God until we've
seen the God-man. When God speaks, he always reveals
the glory and honor of the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished in
Jerusalem at the cross. We know that God has spoken when
he's revealed to us the glory and honor of Christ, when he's
shown us that the Lord Jesus Christ, the only one that can
present a righteousness before God Almighty on my behalf, I've
got to have Christ. I've got to have him. If I'm going to enjoy the benefits
and the fulfillment of God's prophecies and God's promises,
I've got to have Christ. Got to have him. Peter says, we receive from God
the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ received from God the Father,
honor and glory. You remember verse 19 in our
text, if you wanna go back there and look with me a moment, we
have also a more sure word of prophecy. We know that God has
spoken to our hearts when it's made sure. When there's
no if, ands or buts on our part, we're not interested in adding
anything to or taking anything away from God's word. We're brought
to know that God has spoken. This is God's word. We're certain of it. We've been
taught of God. We know it's true. We say with
the Syrophoenician woman when we read from God's word and God
speaks truth, Lord, truth. Scripture says the Lord Jesus
Christ spake like no other man. He spoke with authority. when
the Jews sent the police out to have him arrested, they came
back empty-handed. They said, never a man spake
like that before. And when that centurion came
before the Lord and pleaded with the Lord to heal his servant,
the centurion said to our Lord, he said, I know what authority
is. I tell a man to go and he goes,
I tell him to come and he comes. You have all authority. You only
say the word and my servant will be healed. All power has been
given unto me in heaven and in earth. Oh, when you hear from
God, you give to the Lord Jesus Christ all the glory and all
the honor for all of your salvation. And you agree with God. You say truth, Lord, it's a sure
word. It's a sure word. I was talking
to a brother today and he texted me and said, he'd listened to
a message that I'd preached and he texted me and he said, oh,
what a difference it is in being able to hear the gospel and not
question it. I know what you said was true. He was referring back to his
life before the Lord had given him faith. And he said, you know,
I used to question everything. I used to doubt everything. And
now God has spoken. And I know when God speaks, it's
true. The gospel is only a mystery
to those that God has not spoken to. It's hidden from those that
God hasn't spoken to. When God speaks, it's not hidden
anymore. That's why, look with me in our
text again in verse 19. We have also a more sure word
of prophecy where unto you do well that you take heed as unto
a light that shineth in a dark place. Where's that dark place? It's our hearts. That's the dark
place. It's a, Lord, you're gonna have
to shine the light of the gospel in the face of Christ in my heart. As a light that shineth in a
dark place until. Give heed to God's word until
the day dawn and the day star. We know what the day star is.
That's that star that rises in the east and sets in the west
every day. It's called the sun. And Psalm 19 likens the Lord
Jesus Christ to that sun. It gives light to the world. Light has come into the world,
but men love darkness rather than light because their deeds
are evil. You know, the profane, the irreligious,
the man who's indulging himself in the pleasures of the flesh
and the pleasures of this world won't come to Christ because
his deeds are evil. Light is coming to the world.
The religious won't come to Christ because he won't confess that
his that his righteousness is evil. He's still holding on to
something that he's done or something that he's doing for the hope
of his salvation. Light is coming to the world,
but men love darkness rather than light because their deeds
are evil. But I want to tell you one evil deed that all unbelievers,
whether they be religious or irreligious, are holding to,
and that's free will. Free will. Man believes that
he has the power to decide. He has the power to choose his
own destiny. He has the power to accept or
reject God in his life. He believes that. He doesn't
know that he's dead and his deeds are evil. And that same passage
of scripture, turn with me to it for a moment, John chapter
three. Look with me at verse 19. And
this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world
and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds
were evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
He won't come to Christ because the light exposes his deeds for
what they are. But he that doeth truth cometh
to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are
wrought in God. So what is it that the believer confesses when he comes in faith
to Christ? that his faith was wrought in
God. That was his deed. His deed was faith but that faith
came from God and so he confesses that his will is evil. God's grace, God's grace is what
gave him faith. And apart from God's grace, he
wouldn't have any faith. We cannot see the simplicity
of being a sinner. We cannot see the simplicity
of Christ being a successful savior. and be an all in our
salvation, apart from a work of grace, wrought in God, giving
us faith." This word is sure, isn't it?
Child of God, you know you're a sinner, don't you? You know
you have no righteousness. You know you have no hope of
standing in the presence of a holy God apart from the Lord Jesus standing before you and before
God. And you know that the Lord Jesus
Christ accomplished what he came to do. He put away all the sins
of all of God's people once and for all by the sacrifice of him.
You know that. You know that, why? Because you've been given
a sure word. You don't think, well, you know,
well maybe it was this way or that way. No, God has spoken. He's spoken of Christ and he's
given me a sure word and I've been taught of God. That's why Paul said in Philippians
chapter three, verse one, he said to speak The same thing unto you is not
grievous unto me, but to you it's safe." And that
word safe means certain or sure. And so the believer says, you
know, I was sure when God spoke to me the very first time, but I'm so prone to wonder and
I'm so prone to forget and I'm so prone to be distracted by
the the fears and doubts of this world. Tell me again what God
says. Oh, there it is, God spoken.
God has spoken. That's what I need. I need a
word from God, a sure word of prophecy. And when God speaks, it's always,
we're talking about God speaking effectually. God's speaking in
salvation. God's speaking to our hearts.
He's not, God's not trying to get to speak to people. He's
not looking for a following. He's not trying to convince people.
When he speaks, he, and why is that? Because he attends his
voice with faith, with grace to believe. Some believed. passive voice and some believed
not, active voice. A man has to take part in his
unbelief. He makes no contribution to his
belief. It's a work of grace in the heart, isn't it? Turn with me to John chapter
10 and we'll, the hearing ear, Proverbs 20
and the seeing eye, The Lord hath made even both of them. Look at John chapter 10 at verse 25. Jesus answered them,
I told you and you believe not. The works that I do in my father's
name, they bear witness of me, but you believe not. Why? Because you're not of my sheep.
As I said unto you, my sheep hear my voice and I know them
and they follow me and I give unto them eternal life and they
shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. My father which gave them me
is greater than all. No man is able to pluck them
out of my father's hand and I and my father are one. In John chapter eight, verse
43, the Lord said to the Pharisees, why do you not understand my
speech? Because you cannot hear my word. You cannot hear my word, that's
why you don't understand. When God speaks, we believe. We believe on Christ because
he gives all honor and glory to Christ and we're sure We're
sure that it's from God. We know it's true. We bow to
it. What comfort? Have a word from
God, God spoken. I can rest there knowing that
when God speaks, That's my hope. David said, Lord, be not silent
to me. Be not silent to me, lest I go
down in the pit. Lord, speak to me. Here's how
we know he speaks. He gives honor and glory to Christ.
He speaks a sure word of prophecy. He shows us what the Lord Jesus
accomplished in the fulfilling of the law. and the fulfilling
of all the prophecies. And he gives us faith. He gives us faith to believe.
Believe what he said. For this cause came I into the
world, to bear witness unto the truth. They that are of the truth,
they hear my voice and they follow me. Oh, Lord, be not silent. Our Heavenly Father, thank you
for your word. How hopeful and dependent we
are. That you speak. Speak to our
hearts. Give us faith. We ask it in Christ
name. Amen. Adam. 175 let's stand together. Standing on the promises of Christ
my King Through eternal ages let his praises ring Glory in
the highest I will shout and sing Standing on the promises
of God Standing, standing, standing
on the promises of God my Savior. Standing, standing, I'm standing
on the promises of God Standing on the promises that
cannot fail, When the howling storm of dormant fears assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail, Standing on the promises
of God. Standing, standing, standing
on the promises of God, my Savior. Standing, standing, I'm standing
on the promises of God. Standing on the promises of Christ
the Lord, Bound to Him eternally by love's strong cord, Overcoming
daily with the Spirit's sword, Standing on the promises of God. standing on the promises of God
my savior standing standing I'm standing on the promises of Standing on the promises I cannot
fall Listening every moment to the Spirit's call Resting in
my Savior as my all in all Standing on the promises of God Standing, standing, standing
on the promises of God my Savior. Standing, standing, I'm standing
on the promises of