Good evening. Good to have Joy
back. So let's all stand together.
Will's going to open with, we're going to open with number 53
from the hardback temple. 53, how sweet the name of Jesus
sounds. How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
in a believer's ear. It soothes his sorrows, heals
his wounds, and drives away his fear. Dear name the rock on which
I build my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury
filled with boundless stores of grace. Jesus, my shepherd, brother,
friend, my prophet and my king. My Lord, my life, my way, my
end, accept the praise I bring. Weak is the effort of my heart,
and cold my warmest heart. But when I see thee as thou art,
I'll praise thee as I ought. Till then I would thy love proclaim
with every fleeting breath. And may the music of thy name
refresh my soul in death. Please be seated. Let's open our Bibles to Psalm
130. Psalm 130. Patricia was cleaning out some
cabinets recently and found some old cassette tapes. And one of
them was from one of the very first services that we had at
Petals when Todd and Henry came down and preached for us just
a few weeks after we'd gotten started 27 years ago. And Todd
preached a message from Psalm 130. and I was encouraged to
listen to it again. Let's read it together. Out of
the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Only time we ever cry is out
of the depths. Lord, hear my voice. Let thine
ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou,
Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? God
takes notice of one's sin will not be able to stand in his presence.
But there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared. Notice the connection between forgiveness
and fearing God. It's not the threat of judgment
that causes us to fear God. It's the truth of forgiveness
that causes true fear. I wait for the Lord. My soul
doth wait. And in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord
more than they which watch for the morning. I say more than
they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the Lord,
for with him there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. Where sin abounds, grace doth
much more abound. And he shall redeem Israel from
all his inequities. Michael's mother, Joyce, passed
away yesterday. Michael's brother, Matt, is very
close to his mom and he's not a believer. Pray for Matt. Michael's doing
fine. Let's pray together. Our Heavenly
Father, thank you for the plenteous redemption
that there is for sinners. For Lord, we come into thy holy
presence, dependent upon your mercy and your grace, dependent
upon the shed blood of thy dear son, Dependent Lord that you
would draw us to thyself and reveal your grace and your glory
to us. Lord, we pray for Matthew and
ask Lord that you would cause him to look to Christ and to
find his hope in him. Lord, we thank you for this hour
of worship. We pray that you would meet with
us and that you would open our hearts and open your word and
draw us to thyself. And we pass it in Christ's name,
amen. Number 23, 23 from the Spiral
Gospel Hymns Hymnal. Let's stand together again. Pass me not, O gracious Father,
sinful, wretched though I be. Though you might in truth condemn
me, let your mercy fall on me. ? Love of God so everlasting
? Blood of Christ so rich and free ? Grace of God so strong
and saving ? Magnify them all in me Pass me not, O blessed
Savior, let me hear your gracious call. I'm a guilty, helpless
sinner, Savior, at your feet I fall. ? Love of God so everlasting
? Blood of Christ so rich and free ? Grace of God so strong
and saving ? Magnify them all in me Cast me not, O mighty spirit. You can cause the dead to live. Speak the word of saving power. Give me faith and make me live. ? Above God so everlasting ?
Blood of Christ so rich and free ? Grace of God so strong and
saving ? Magnify them all in me Pass me not a poor lost sinner. If you will, you can save me. Reach down with your hand of
mercy. Please be seated. Let's open our Bibles together
to 1 Samuel chapter 16. 1 Samuel chapter 16. There's a
phrase in verse 12 that stood out to me. And I hope that the
Lord will be pleased tonight to reveal himself to us. That's always our hope when we
come together. when Samuel was sent of God to
Jesse's house in Bethlehem to anoint one of his sons as the
successor of Saul. And the Lord said, no, no, no
on each one of the boys that were brought before Samuel. And
then David was brought in and the Lord spoke to Samuel
in the latter part of verse 12 and said, Arise, anoint him,
for this is he. This is he. That's the title of this message.
This is he. If the Lord did not reveal himself
as he revealed David to Samuel, we would have no way of knowing
him. We could and we logically would
conclude from what we see in nature that there is a God. There's a all-powerful God. None of this came about on its
own. If we were If we were rational
about it, we might even conclude that this God must be eternal. He must be self-existent because
you can't bring something out of nothing. And so there must
be a God who always has been, who has created what we see out
of himself. We might also conclude if the
Lord did not reveal himself in his word to us, that we've got
a problem with God. We're not like he is. And there's
a sin problem between us and him and that sin must be atoned
for. And we would conclude, like men
have done all down through the ages and in every culture and
every generation, some type of sacrificial system of man-made
religion where we could try to appease the God that we imagine
exists. We would think, as the Lord said
we would, that he's sort of like us. And so if I was God, what
would I require in order for these sinners to atone for their
sins? And we would set about doing
what we thought would please us if we were God. And that's as far as we could
get. We would know there's a God. And we would be practicing our
works religion, trying to atone for our sins and trying to be
reconciled to that God. And that's where the whole world
is. And then God does for his people
what he did for Samuel and he reveals His glory in the person
of Christ. And He shows us who He is. Not who we might think He is,
but who He actually is. And how it is that we can be
right with Him. And so, the Lord, in His Spirit,
by His Spirit and in His Word, says to His people, this is He. This is He. When John the Baptist
came as the forerunner of Christ, he preached the gospel of repentance
and said, behold, when the Lord Jesus came to the Jordan, John
looked and saw and pointed to him and said, behold, the Lamb
of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. This is He
that I've been telling you about. That's what John said, he said,
this is he. The one that I said, after me
cometh a man that was preferred before me. He must increase and
I must decrease. This is he. When Stephen in Acts chapter
seven, before he was martyred said in verse 37, Moses told
you, when he was preaching the gospel to those Jews, he said,
Moses told you that God was going to raise up another prophet like
unto him. And then Stephen said, this is
he, the one that you crucified was he. And this is he that was
with our fathers in the wilderness, Stephen went on to say. And they
were so enraged at being accused of killing the Son of God that
they added to their crimes by putting Stephen to death, as
we know. This is he. Turn with me to 1 John chapter
5. 1 John chapter 5, I want you to see something here. You know, men, apart from the revelation
that God makes of himself to the hearts of his people, have
a works religion. It crossed the board, without
exception. Men will do what they think they
need to do in order to reconcile themselves to the God that they
perceive to exist. And in many forms of what the
world would call Christianity, there is the doctrine of purgatory. It's very clearly spelled out
in Roman Catholicism. If you haven't done enough in
this life to atone for your sins, you get to go to this waiting
room and experience some very difficult things until you've
paid your price and then you can enter into heaven after that. The freewill Baptist who would
scoff at such a doctrine because it's certainly not in the scriptures
anywhere, they have their own form of purgatory. when they preach a pre-tribulation
rapture. What they say is that the Spirit
of God's gonna rapture the church out of the world and then there's
going to be seven years of horrible tribulation and if you weren't
saved at the time of the rapture, you can earn your salvation by
dying for Jesus during the tribulation. That's purgatory. And then the
reform people. have progressive sanctification
which is nothing more than living purgatory, that's what it is. Progressive sanctification is
just purgatory. We know from the scriptures that
salvation is of grace but we've got to have works in there somewhere
and so we're going to monitor and measure one's salvation by
their sanctification. I want you to see in this scripture
that we're about to look at that sanctification, being set apart,
is before justification in this scripture. It's not an afterthought,
it's not something that we have to work on after we've been justified. The very first thing that God
does, he sanctifies his people. He sets them apart in Christ
in the covenant of grace. And the water in the Bible is
a picture of sanctification. It's the cleansing. And the blood
is a picture of justification. So when the Roman soldier put
the spear into our Lord's side, what came out first? Water and
then blood. Look at 1 John 5 at verse 6. This is He. That's what drew me to this verse.
This is He. That's what the Lord said to
Samuel, this is He. This is He that came by water
and blood, even Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water
and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth
witness because the Spirit is truth. The Lord Jesus Christ. And there's
several things referred to in here, but the point of it is,
you know, in the physical birth, there's water. There's the breaking
of water in the physical birth, as there was with Christ in his
incarnation. And then in his death, there's
a shedding of blood, which is the birth by water and by blood. He came by water and by blood.
As I already mentioned, the spear in his side. But the point of
all of this is that sanctification, the Lord reveals here, our holiness,
our being set apart, our being righteous in the sight of God
is in Christ before the foundation of the world, he has set apart
his people. This matter of sanctification is not living
purgatory. It is what God has done in the life of Christ, setting apart
an elect people and then justifying them with the shed blood of Christ. This is He, John said, this is
He. We cannot consider our text,
and go back with me if you will, to 1 Samuel 16, without thinking
for just a moment about David, whose name means beloved, beloved. David, a man after God's own
heart, beloved of God. What a picture of Christ. Is
there any Old Testament character that pictures the Lord Jesus
any more than David does? The sweet psalmist of Israel. The man of war, the bloody man
of war that conquered the enemies of Israel and established Israel
as the ruling nation, established the throne of David as the sovereign
throne of the world. The king, the shepherd, the good shepherd,
it was David that wrote, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall
not be in want of anything else. He provides everything I need.
Everything I need, the Lord Jesus provides it as my shepherd. So when Samuel is pointing out
David and saying to him, this is he, let us not think that
this is just a story of history about a king in Israel. This
is about the Son of David. This is about the Lord Jesus
Christ and our hope is that God will take his word and speak
to our hearts and say to us, this is he. This is he. Before we consider what the Lord
tells us about David that pictures Christ, let's not lose sight
of Where all of this is happening? It's happening in Bethlehem. Bethlehem translated means the
house of bread. Bethlehem, the city of David. Bethlehem, the birthplace of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Bethlehem, the place where Naomi's
husband, Elimelech, was going through some difficult times
in Bethlehem. The scripture says there was
a famine, there was a recession. And so what did Elimelech do? He packed up his family and went
to greener pastures and died in Moab with his sons. How many
times we see people who have, maybe there's a period of trouble or famine or conflict
in Bethlehem. You know this is Bethlehem. The
house of bread is a church. And what do people do? They leave
and they, oh, let's wait out the recession. This is a place
where the Lord has promised to make Hisself known and what a
blessing it is to have the house of bread to come to, to be fed
with the bread of life. You know, I actually, in preparation
for this message, looked up the population of Bethlehem in Israel
because I knew it was a small village at the time of Christ. You know, it's never really grown.
It's still a small village. The overall population for the
entire area of Bethlehem is 30,000 people. You know, it's a small
town compared to the cities of Israel. Haifa and Jerusalem and whatever
other big cities there are, Bethlehem. And isn't that the way the Lord
does? He places his church in Fairmount, West Virginia, in
Apopka, Florida, Crossville, Tennessee. You know, just obscure,
small villages where the Lord is pleased to feed his sheep
the bread of life, the Lord Jesus Christ, the manna that came down
from heaven. I hope that he will do that for
us every time we come together, that he'll say to our hearts,
this is he, this is he. Now what did the Holy Spirit
record in God's word about David that pictures the Lord Jesus. Four things. Look at verse 12. And he sent and brought him in. Samuel said, are you having any
more? Youngest out in the yard taking care of the sheep. And
he sent for him and brought him in. Now he was ready. That's the first thing. And with
all of a beautiful countenance, that's the second thing. And
goodly to look to, that's the third thing. And the Lord said,
arise and anoint him. And so Samuel took the horn of
oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren and the spirit
of the Lord came upon him from that day forward. This is he. God is revealing
something, some things about the Lord Jesus in this passage
of scripture. The first thing is that he's
ready. Find that word several times in scriptures. Turn with
me to Lamentations. Jeremiah and then a little book
of Lamentations after Jeremiah before we get to Ezekiel. Lamentations
chapter four. Ready. Verse 7. Her Nazarites. We know who that is. The Lord
Jesus Christ. Jesus of Nazareth, the Nazarite,
the one set apart. and a bow and a covenant promise
with God and all the things that apply to that Nazarite vow were
fulfilled spiritually in Christ. Her Nazarites were purer than
snow. They were whiter than milk. We
know what that's a reference to. That's a reference to the
righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were more ruddy in body
than rubies. What color are rubies? Red. And
that's exactly what the word ruddy translated means. It means
red. It's the same word Adam that
your name comes from. The name Adam given to us of
the first man. Translated means red and it's
a reference to the red earth that Adam was formed from. And
so we find in the book of the Song of Solomon, when the bride
of Christ is looking for her husband and she goes out into
the city and she commands the daughters of Israel, of Jerusalem
to help her look. And they said to her, what is
thy beloved more than our beloved? What makes your husband so special? And the first thing she says
about him, he's ready. He's ruddy. He's red all over. Red, the color of life. You know, when someone's very
sick or on their deathbed, we say, You know, your color's not too
good. A person becomes pale, they lose their color. That's the picture here. It's
a reference to physical life. Red, life is in the blood. It's
a picture of the blood that gives to our body's life. And so, it
is a reference to the Lord Jesus Christ being life itself. But it's also a picture of his
incarnation being made in the fashion as of a sinful man. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 says,
for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of the same that through
death he might destroy him who had the power over death, that
is the devil. So the Lord Jesus, wait, he's
ruddy. He's red, he's alive. And his
life will be sacrificed in death and the shedding of his blood.
order that the works of the devil might be destroyed and the people
of God might be delivered from the bondage of their sin, the
penalty of their sin. We see this in Numbers chapter
19 when the Lord instructs Moses to take a red heifer a red heifer. It had to be red and it couldn't
have any, it had to be spotlessly red. If they had any, there was
a hair on it that wasn't red, it wasn't acceptable. It had
to be red all over. A red heifer. And it was a very
rare thing to find. And that red heifer was to be
sacrificed in whole. The whole animal, the whole cow
was to be made a burnt sacrifice. And it was to be taken outside
of the camp. And we see in that red heifer a picture of the life
of Christ suffering the wrath of God's
justice and being taken outside the camp. And we're instructed
in the book of Hebrews to go outside the camp and to follow
Christ. What does that mean? It means
to come out from among them and be separate. If we're going to
follow Christ, we're not going to be a part of any sort of of
works religion, we're going to have to be looking to that ruddy
man, the red man who is able by his life to give us life. Let me show you that in Isaiah
63. Look at this, Isaiah 63. Verse one, this is such a beautiful
prophecy of Christ. Who is this that cometh from
Edom with dyed garments from Basra? Now, Edom is the same
word, it's the word red. It's the same word from which
we get our name. Adam is the same word from which
we get the word ruddy. Edom is red. And who is this
that cometh from Edom, with thine garments from Basra, this that
is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save, wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and
thy garments like him that treadeth the wine-fat? I have trodden,
the winepress alone, and of the people there was none with me,
for I will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my
fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and
I will stain all my raiment." Well, we know who this is that
came out of Eden. What is this bloody stain all
over you? I went into the winepress of
the wrath of God and I, as the ruddy man, as the man of life
and the man of blood, I shed my blood for the life of my people. Come, let us reason together,
Isaiah said in Isaiah chapter one. Though your sins be as scarlet,
they should be made white as snow. God looks through the The
red blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the ruddy blood of Christ. He
sees our sin having been made white as snow. The second thing that the Lord
tells us about our David The one who this is he in our text,
if you want to go back with me there, is not only that he was
ruddy in life and in death, he was the man who trampled the
wrath of God in the wine press by himself. He couldn't have
any help. He had to do it by himself. The father couldn't
help him. People of God couldn't help him.
He had to bear in his ruddy body all the sins of all of God's
people all by himself. And Adam, I mentioned that ruddy
is the name from Adam and the Lord Jesus is called what? The
last Adam. The last Adam, what the first
Adam could not do, the last Adam did in saving the people of God. He's the man who's ruddy, he's
the man who's red. Secondly, notice that not only
was he ruddy, but with all, everything about him was of a beautiful
countenance, was of a beautiful countenance. Now I looked up
this word countenance and it's most often translated eyes. Eyes. Now what do we say about
the eyes? That the eyes are the window
to the soul. You can look at a person's eyes
and they can look in your eyes and tell whether you're happy,
whether you're sad, whether you're angry. We can't hide those things from
our eyes, can we? Whether we're confused or if
we have eyes that are gentle and compassionate and concerned
for the needs of others. You see that in a person's eyes. Here, with all, he had a beautiful
eyes. Oh. Think about when the Lord
Jesus took that man that was blind and he made the mud of
spittle and put it on his eyes. And then after washing it off,
he said, what do you see? He said, well, I'm looking and
I see men as trees. I've got a faint view of things
now. And the scripture says that the
Lord took the man and I could just see him. The picture is
that he took him with his hands and had him look up, put his
hands on his head and had him look into the eyes of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And then everything became clear.
He saw everything perfectly clear once he looked in to the beautiful
countenance of the Lord Jesus. When our Lord looked at Peter,
that night of his crucifixion, before his crucifixion. The scripture says, and the Lord
set his eyes on Peter. Their eyes met and Peter wept
bitterly. Our Lord didn't look at Peter
with condescending, angry eyes. Oh, his eyes were so full of
compassion. They were so gentle. With everything
about him, he has a beautiful countenance. And when we look
into his eyes, we see nothing but his love for his people. He doesn't look at his children
any other way. In Genesis chapter 3, when Eve
was being tempted to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, he tempted her by saying, God knows in the day in which
you eat of that fruit, your eyes will be opened and you will be,
as gods, able to discern good from evil. You know, right now
you're just You're just a robot. You don't have a free will right
now. You're just doing what you do
and you can't tell the difference between right and wrong. And if your eyes are opened,
then you'll be able to see the difference between right and
wrong. And of course, you'll be like God. You'll always choose
that which is right. You're not only with this discerning
eye that you're gonna have after eating of this fruit, but you're
also going to begin to be in a virtuous spirit so that you
can always choose what's right. Well, we know the lie in all
of that. The Lord Jesus Christ discerns
good from evil and he's the only one, he's the
only one who was able by his own will to do good always, always. Beautiful countenance. With all,
everything about him was a beautiful countenance. He always did what's
right. Why callest thou me good? The Lord said to that rich young
ruler when he said, good master, what must I do to inherit the
kingdom of God? Why callest thou me good? There's
none good but God. The Lord Jesus Christ, the only
one with a beautiful countenance with all. Our eyes give us away. When we're not, we're not paying
attention, we're not sincere, we're not, you know, we're angry
or we're sad or we're confused or we're whatever. His eyes are
a beautiful countenance with all. The Lord told Moses, I'm
gonna cause my goodness to pass before you. So this is he, this
is he. David was ready and David was
of, he had beautiful eyes. But his eyes were nothing compared
to the beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, we have no reason
to turn our eyes away from him. not when we see how compassionately
he looks on us. Thirdly, he was goodly to look
to. He was goodly to look to. The first time this word goodly
is found in the scripture is in the fourth verse of the first
chapter of Genesis. And the scripture says, and God
saw the light that he created. It was darkness upon the face
of the deep and there was no order at all to the earth. A picture of our lives outside
of Christ and God said, let there be light. We know it wasn't until
the fourth day that the sun and the moon were created. The stars,
so that light that God made at the very first, the very first
thing he did, let there be light. That light's Christ. And God
saw the light, that it was good. And God called the light day
and he called the darkness night. And we see in this a picture
of that which is goodly to look to. The Lord Jesus Christ is
the one who's goodly to look to. He is the light of the world. He's the day star. Turn with
me to 2 Peter 2. 2 Peter 2. Psalm 19, the Lord Jesus is likened
to that sun that rises in the east every day and makes its
circuit across the sky and every man in the world sees it. And
the Lord Jesus is likened unto that who rises, who raised from
the dead and is giving light to the world and one day will
bring darkness to this world. God saw the light, that it was
good. and God called the light day
and God called the night, the darkness night. And it's a spiritual
picture that the light that Christ brings into this world. Second
Peter chapter one at verse 17, for he received from God the
Father honor and glory When there came such a voice to him from
the excellent glory, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well
pleased. God saw the light that it was
good. David was goodly to look to. We look to the Lord Jesus Christ,
we see nothing but light. In him was life and the life
was the light of men and the light came into the world but
men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were
evil. Men won't come to the light, they don't want anything to do
with the light. But the light is goodly to look to. The light
is the truth of who God is and how it is that he's pleased to
save his people. And this voice which came from
heaven we heard when we were with him in the holy mount. 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
until the day dawn and the day star rise in your hearts. Say,
well, I feel sometimes I'm in a dark place. Sometimes I feel
like I'm in the fog. What is the Lord saying? Keep
looking, keep looking to the goodly, to the ruddy man, the
ruddy man who's of a beautiful countenance. Keep looking to
him because he's goodly to look to. And you look to him and the
light, the day star, and we know what the day star is, the sun. The sun's the star, goes back
to Psalm 19, that sun that rises in the east. Look, keep looking to the day
star until he rises in your heart. Where do we look? Well, he tells
us, look at the next verse. Knowing this first, that no prophecy
of the scripture is of any private interpretation for the prophecy
came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Here's where we go. Where
do we look for the day star until it rises in our hearts? The word
of God. The written word of God is what we're doing right now.
This is he. This is the ruddy man who's of
beautiful countenance, who's goodly to look to. This is who
the Spirit of God directs our hearts to and says to us, this
is the anointed one. And that's the fourth point of
this message. that Samuel was to take the horn
of David. Now you know the horn in the
Bible is a picture of strength. The animal uses its horn as a
weapon. And the horn was taken and it
was filled with oil. And the Lord Jesus Christ, he's
called the horn of David in Psalm 132 verse 17. And Zacharias, In Luke chapter 1, said when
he saw the Lord Jesus as the babe that he was about to circumcise,
he said, the Lord has raised up a horn of salvation in the
house of Israel. So the Lord Jesus is that horn. He's that strength. And when
we were yet without strength, Christ died for the ungodly and
his strength is made perfect in our weakness. So all power
has been given unto me in heaven and in earth. Isn't what the
Lord said? He's the only one that has strength. We have to have, we have to have
his strength. We don't have any strength in
ourselves. When I was weak, Paul said, then
I was strong, for his strength was made perfect in my weakness.
Lord, I don't have any ability to save myself. I don't have
any ability to present a righteousness to you that would make me acceptable.
I don't have the ability to atone for my sins. I'm dependent upon
the anointed one, the one that was anointed with the horn of
David, the strength of God to save me. I have no strength in
and of myself. Psalm 75, verse 10 says, all
the horns of the wicked shall be cut off. But the horns of the righteous
shall flourish. shall flourish. The Lord is my strength and my
song and has become my salvation. That's what David said. Oh, what
a beautiful picture. This is he. This is he, the ruddy
man, the man with tender, compassionate, beautiful eyes, beautiful countenance. The one who is goodly to look
to, the light of the world. And he's the anointed one. He
was anointed before his brethren, you see that in our text? He
was anointed before his brethren. This thing was not done in a
corner. The Lord Jesus Christ was anointed by God. He even
said to his enemies, he said, if you don't believe me for what
I say, at least believe me for my works sake. Say what you want,
but you blaspheme against the Holy Ghost and that's not pardonable. What is that? It's saying that
what the Lord Jesus Christ did was not by the power of God. They called him Beelzebub. They
said he's got a devil. And what the Lord said, you are
blaspheming the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, the anointing
of the Holy Spirit, the oil that's been poured out on me, the fact
that I am the Christ, the Messiah, is evident by my works. And if you ascribe my works to
anyone other than God. There's no hope of forgiveness.
You are denying that I am the Christ. You're denying that I'm
the Messiah. You're denying that God sent
me to accomplish the salvation of my people. This is He. This is He. The one that was
anointed with the horn of David and the oil of gladness. to accomplish
the salvation of God's people, the ruddy man, the red man, the
one of a beautiful countenance, the one goodly to look to, this
is he. This is he. Oh, may God give
us the grace to look in faith to him. Tom. 296. Let's stand together. 296, Joy. ? All the way my Savior leads me
? What have I to ask beside ? Can I doubt His tender mercy ? Who
through life has been my guide ? Heavenly peace, divinest comfort
? Here by faith in Him to dwell For I know what e'er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well. For I know what e'er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well. ? All the way my Savior leads
me ? Tears each winding path I tread ? Gives me grace for
every trial ? Feeds me with the living bread ? Though my weary
steps may falter ? And my soul a thirst may be Gushing from
the rock before me, lo, a spring of joy I see. Gushing from the rock before
me, lo, a spring of joy I see. All the way my Savior leads me,
O the fullness of His love. Perfect rest to me is promised
in my Father's house above. ? When my spirit clothed immortal
? Wings its flight to realms of day ? This my song through
endless ages ? Jesus led me all the way ? This my song through
endless ages ? Jesus led me all the way