Good morning again. Let's take
our hymnals and open them together to number 452. Number 452. Our Lord has promised. To. Make himself known. His grace and his glory when
his people gather together for worship. This is a very special
time, a very special place. And it's our prayer that he would
make himself known to our hearts, that he'd speak to our hearts. And if he does, we will be able
to sing, by experience, I Stand Amazed in the presence of Jesus
the Nazarene. and wonder how he could love
me, how he could love me, a sinner, condemned, unclean, where we
would be without his love, we'd be condemned and unclean. And the rest of that hymn tells
us the answer to that question, how he could love us and why
he loves us. Let's stand together. Tom, you
come please. Number 452. I stand amazed in the presence
of Jesus the Nazarene, and wonder how He could love me, a sinner
condemned unclean. ? How marvelous, how wonderful
? And my song shall ever be ? How marvelous, how wonderful ? Is
my Savior's love for me ? For me it was in the garden ? He
prayed not my will but thine He had no tears for His own griefs,
But sweat drops of blood for mine. How marvelous, how wonderful,
And my song shall ever be! How marvelous, how wonderful,
Is my Savior's love for me! In pity angels beheld him and
came from the world of light. To comfort him in the sorrows
he bore for my soul and I. ? How marvelous, how wonderful
? And my song shall ever be ? How marvelous, how wonderful ? Is
my Savior's love for me ? He took my sins and my sorrows ?
He made them His very own ? He bore the burden to carry ? And
suffered and died alone ? How marvelous, how wonderful ? And
my song shall ever be ? How marvelous, how wonderful ? Is my Savior's
love for me When with the ransomed in glory His face I at last shall
see, T'will be my joy through the ages To sing of His love
for me. ? How marvelous, how wonderful
? And my song shall ever be ? How marvelous, how wonderful ? Is
my Savior's love for me Please be seated. Good morning. I'd like to read
Psalm 100, if you'd like to turn with me. Make a joyful noise unto the
Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness,
come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord,
he is God. It is he that made us and not
we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep
of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving
and into his courts with praise. Be thankful unto him and bless
his name. For the Lord is good, his mercy
is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you
for your everlasting mercy. Thank you for bringing us into
this place to praise and worship you. Thank you for calling a
man to deliver your word to your sheep. We ask that you remove
our distractions, that we might be able to hear the message that
you have given him today. If it be according to your will
and purpose, place your hand of healing on the people who
are sick and afflicted, strengthen their body and spirit. And in
your point of time, we ask that if it's your will to reveal yourself
to our children, that they might know your truth, the truth. In Christ's name we pray, amen. Let's stand together again. We'll
sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin. Fixed Jesus and the chosen race,
Subsist upon of sovereign grace, That hell, with its infernal
train, Shall ne'er dissolve nor rend in twain. ? This sacred bond shall never
break ? ? Though earth should to her center shake ? ? Rest,
doubting saint, assured of this ? ? For God has pledged his whole
holiness to thee ? Hail sacred union, firm and strong How great
the grace, how sweet the song That worms of earth should ever
be One with incarnate King ? This sacred time forbids their
fears ? ? For all He is or has is theirs ? ? With Him their
head they stand or fall ? ? Their life, their surety, their life
is theirs ? ? Blessed be the wisdom and the
grace ? ? The eternal love and faithfulness ? ? That in the
word of God revealed ? ? And is by God the spirit sealed ?
Please be seated. Love the last two lines of that
hymn. Revealed by God's word and sealed
to our hearts by his spirit. That's our hope. The Lord will
reveal Christ to our hearts through his word. And that spirit of
God will seal him to our hearts. Make him to be our all. Make him to be our life. If you'd like to open your Bibles
with me to 1 Samuel chapter 16. 1 Samuel chapter 16. How many times have you said
in conversation with another man, well, that's not how I see
it. That's how I understand it. And
when it comes to the opinions that we have among ourselves,
that may be okay from time to time to say, well, I see it a
little different than you see it. But when it comes to how
we see things compared to how God sees things, we can never
say, well, that's how I see it. No, how God sees it is always
the way it is. And yet, we don't really see
anything like God sees it. We're so full of unbelief, doubts, fears, My hope this morning
is that the Lord will enable us by his grace and by his spirit
and by the revelation of his word to see things a little bit
more like God sees them. It's called growing in grace
and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. God has sent the prophet Samuel
to Jesse's house to anoint one of Jesse's sons as the successor
for Saul's failed kingdom, failed leadership. And so Jesse brings
his oldest son out and parades him before the prophet And the
prophet's impressed, Samuel's impressed. Samuel said, well,
this looks like maybe this would be a good candidate for being
the king of Israel. And the Lord speaks to Samuel's
heart and says, no, not that one. So Jesse brings his next
eldest son out. And one by one, each one of Jesse's
sons are so stately and so kingly looking and so stalwart in their
outward appearances. And the Lord keeps saying, no,
no, no. And then the Lord says to Samuel,
he says, don't look at the outward appearance. He says, for God seeth not as
man seeth. That's the title of this message.
God seeth not as man seeth. For man looks at the outward
appearance. but God looks at the heart. Now the immediate context of
that statement, which we find in verse seven of chapter 16,
let's just read it together. But the Lord said unto Samuel,
look not on his countenance nor on the height of his statue,
because I have refused him. For the Lord seeth not as man
seeth. For man looketh on the outward
appearance, but the Lord looketh. on the heart. Last Sunday we
looked at young David as a man after God's own heart and we
saw that the heart of faith that God gives to his people, the
new man, the hidden man of the heart as Paul describes it in
the book of Colossians, the hidden man of the heart, is the new
nature and in that regard The Lord sees this new man created
in Christ Jesus as perfect. He sees him as sinless. And though
we look at the outward appearances all the time, God's looking at
the heart and he accepts us in the beloved, in Christ. We can come before the throne
of grace with boldness, with confidence, knowing that in Christ,
We have access into the holies of holies. The Lord Jesus himself
taking his blood and rending the veil of his flesh and sprinkling
his blood on the mercy seat. Not that mercy seat which was
made by the hands of men, but the mercy seat in heaven. And
the Lord now says, come, come. The way is, the forerunner has
come. He's paved the way, he's provided
the way in order for us to come into the presence of God. And
so we are able to come in Christ before a holy God and find love
and acceptance in Christ. David now is the one that's going
to be chosen. Samuel says to Eli, he says,
you got any more sons? You've paraded seven of them
before me." And the Lord said, no, on all of them, is there
any more? And Eli said, well, he said, you know, the youngest
son is out in the backyard taking care of the sheep, but surely
Jesse. I said, Eli, Jesse, you knew
what I meant. And Samuel said, bring him in. And it was David. the most unlikely
of all the sons, the youngest, the least impressive, the one
that was least strong, and that is the man. Now that having been the context of this statement,
I want us to Consider this question. What
does the Lord see different than what we see? And the short answer is everything,
everything. But I wanna concentrate on a
few things that I hope will be honoring and glorifying the Christ
and be an encouragement to God's people. How it is that the Lord
seeth not as man seeth. Our perception of things at best
is distorted. It's distorted by our old man,
that flesh, that old nature that we bear in our body distorts our ability to see things as
God sees them. For the unbeliever, for the unbeliever,
the unregenerate, everything he sees, spiritually speaking,
is not just distorted, it is the complete opposite of the
truth. So in asking this question, what
does God see different than we see, I hope that the Lord will
enable us to walk in the light of the way he sees things, because
the way he sees it is the way it is. It's just that plain and
simple. You would agree with me, right?
The way God sees something is the way it is. It doesn't matter
what we think. It doesn't matter, well, that's
not the way I see it. Well, so what? It's the way God
sees it. And faith is believing that the
way God sees something is the way it is. And so faith is just
agreeing with God. Faith is bowing before Him and
saying, truth, Lord, whatever you say and however you see it,
even though it seems contrary to my experience. Faith is not
based on experience. Faith is based on believing what
God says and believing that God sees it the way He says He sees
it. And John put it like this, he said, if we walk in the light,
as he is in the light, we have fellowship, one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ,
his son, cleanses us of all sin. What is it to walk in the light
as he is in the light? It's to believe that the way
God sees something is the way it is. And to bow to what God
says. And to say, truth Lord, truth
Lord, help me to see it more clearly as you see it. And forgive me, forgive me for
distorting the truth because that's all I've done. To whatever degree we don't see
things as God sees them, To that degree, we are walking in unbelief. And that's why every believer
says, Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. Lord,
I've got so much distortion when it comes to seeing things as
they really are. Help me. Help me. The first thing that I want us
to consider that God sees different than we see it is love. It's love. Our love is so distorted. Our love is so filled with selfishness, indifference. Our love is mixed
with sin, is it not? We do love him because he first
loved us, but God's love is not like our love. Herein is love. Here's the definition of love,
not that we love God, but that he loved us and gave his son
to be the propitiation of our sins. Oh, if we could, if we
could believe and see more clearly, just a little more clearly of
how much God loves us, Oh, how many? We would not hesitate
to run to Him. We would not in the least bit
hesitate to pour out our souls before Him, to believe Him in
every instance. If we just had a little better
understanding. One day we will glory in His
love. Now abideth faith. Hope and charity,
but the greatest of these is charity. Why? Because in heaven,
there will be no need for faith. Faith will be our sight. There
will be no need for hope in heaven. Why? Because hope will be our
experience. What are we gonna glory in heaven
for all eternity? Pure, perfect love of God. And here's what the Lord Jesus
said in John chapter 17. Thou, speaking to his father,
he's praying to his father on behalf of us and he's saying,
Thou hast loved them even as Thou hast loved me. God doesn't
know measures of love. You know, we love our dog, and
we love, you know, strawberries, and we love our wives, and we
love God. We use that word so loosely, don't we? And all those
loves are so different, and all of them are mixed with self-serving. God's love, the way He sees His
love for us, is perfect. It's pure. It's unmixed. It's holy. It's
holy. Lord, show us more of your love
for us. It is the reason that we hold
back. It's the reason that we are presumptuous. David said, Lord, forgive me
of my presumptuous sins. We presume upon God because we
fail to see what He sees. For God seeth not as man seeth.
Man looks at the outward appearance. God's looking at the heart of
the matter. Yes, he's talking about the heart of David, but
he's looking at, I want us to consider that word heart in the
broader context of God's looking at the heart of the matter. And
the heart of the matter is his love. Behold, what manner of
love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called
the children of God. Oh. We err when we think that God's
love is like ours. That's what the Lord said when
he said, you thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. I'm not like you. I'm not like
you. My love is perfect. My love is
pure. My love is holy. His love covers a multitude of
sin. And love is the meat of the gospel. It is the meat of
the gospel. You know, I've heard people say,
well, you know, Election, predestination, those are high doctrines. Particular redemption? That Christ
died only for the elect? Well, that's just for the spiritually
mature to debate. No, it's not. That's the milk
of the gospel. Every babe in Christ knows that
had God not chosen them, that they never would have chosen
God. Every babe in Christ knows that what Christ did on the cross
was effectual. It was perfect. He accomplished
what he came to do. And if he came to die for everybody,
everybody would be saved. Loves the meat of the gospel. To grow in grace and in the knowledge
of Christ is to see more of his love for us. And that love, of course, is
demonstrated most perfectly and most fully at Calvary's Cross,
when the Lord Jesus Christ, out of love, laid down his life for
his sheep. out of love for his father in
fulfilling the covenant promises that we sang about earlier, and
out of love for his people to redeem them, he laid down his
life. God seeth not as man seeth. Lord,
show us, show us a little more clearly of your perfect holy
love for us. Fixes everything. It's the love
of Christ that constraineth us. It'll constrain our sin, it will
motivate us to come before Him, it will cause us to love one
another, to love His Word, to love Him, His love for us. For God seeth not as man seeth. Man looks at the outward appearance,
God's looking at the heart of the matter. The second thing
that God sees differently than we see is sin. Sin. We're so accustomed to it. Doesn't
bother us much, does it? Really. I heard this statement
made years ago, and there's so much truth to it. It's kind of
a clever statement, but it's true. It's true. When a preacher
said, you know, the thing that bothers me most about my sin
is how little it bothers me. Seems like an oxymoron, but it's
nothing. Our sin just doesn't bother us
much. We're so anesthetized to it. We're just so used to it.
We're so accustomed to it. It's just, we're numb to it. Not so with God. Not so with God. I suppose there's
no clear evidence between the difference between us and God
than when it comes to our view of sin. The Lord said, the heavens are
not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and
filthy is man which drinketh iniquity like water? The heavens, They don't have a conscience,
they don't have a will, they don't have a, they don't sin. The scripture said when God looks
at the heavens, they're not pure in his sight. How much more abominable
is man born of a woman who drinks iniquity every day as if it's
water? The scripture says we come into
this world speaking lies from the womb. If we could see our sin a little bit more
clearly as God sees it, what a deterrent it would be to see the, we wouldn't be so
quick about it, would we? We wouldn't be so indifferent
about it, would we? And again, where do we see most
clearly? how God sees sin at the cross. When God saw sin on his darling
son, he had no choice but to put him to death, to slay him. The scripture says that it pleased
God to bruise him. Don't let anybody get you caught
up in a debate about who killed Jesus. It was the father that
put him to death. It was the sins of his people
that he bore in his body upon that tree. And when God saw sin
on his perfect, sinless son, he had no choice but to slay
him, to draw the sword of justice and to sheath it into the heart
of his own son, to put him to death. We don't see sin like we ought
to. But here's the other side to that, brethren. Here's the
other side to that. In one sense, we need to be more serious about
the evil of our sin. But in another sense, It is the
shame and the guilt and the fear that sin causes that the accuser
of the brethren uses to keep us from coming before the throne
of grace and finding help in our time of need. And so in one
sense, God sees sin much more evil than we do. In another sense,
for those who have been redeemed, for those for whom Christ has
bore their sins and put them away by the sacrifice of himself,
God says, I don't see your sin. Turn with me to Hebrews chapter
10. This is a glorious paradox. This
is something that you can only believe by just bowing to what
God says, because you're not going to understand it. You're
not going to understand it. You're not going to be able to
put yourself on the throne of God and say, well, I got that
figured out. This is God we're talking about. and how offended a holy God is
by our sin and what sacrifice God made in order to atone for
our sins. And yet, in light of that atonement,
how God could say, Hebrews chapter 10, look at verse 17. And their sins and iniquity will
I remember no more. Whoo, that's glorious. There's my hope. This is my hope
in the day of judgment, as he is, so are we. That we are without
sin, that we're perfect, sinless in Christ. Look at the next verse. Now where remission of these
sins is, there is no more offering for sin. How much we do to try
to atone for our sins? What do we do to try to balance
the scales, try to offer God something that's going to make
up for our sin? We do it all the time. We do
it in our thoughts, we do it in our attitudes, And in doing so, we deny Christ
His glory in our salvation. That's what we do. Having therefore, brethren, boldness. Having therefore, brethren, boldness.
What is our boldness in the day of judgment? That I don't have
any sin. I can come into the very presence
of a holy God and be accepted. now and for all eternity." Why? Because Christ Jesus the Lord,
the sinless one, bore my sins in his body upon that tree and
he put them away. He buried them in the depths
of the sea. The scripture says he sewed them
up in a bag, he put them away, and here he tells us he's He
separated them from us as far as the east is from the west,
who remembers them no more, having therefore, verse 19, boldness,
brethren, to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. When I
see the blood, I will pass by you. The blood of Christ is the
covering of our sin. God sees the blood. He doesn't
see our sin. by a new and living way, which
he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say his
flesh and having a pie priest over the house of God, let us
draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies
washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession
of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised.
What is the profession of our faith? Christ, what is the profession
of our faith? It is finished. Now don't err in one extreme, one side or the,
both are true. You see, if we err one way, then
we will be lackadaisical and indifferent about our sin. If we err the other way, we'll
be so overwhelmed with the guilt and shame of our sin that we
won't be able to come into the presence of God. Both are true. Both are true. Lord, help me
to see things as you see them. For God seeth not as man seeth. Man looks at the outward appearance
God's looking at the heart of the matter. Here's a big one. Our circumstances. Our circumstances. Every event in our lives, God sees them different than
we do. And if we could see them a little
bit more clearly as God sees them, we would not be so derailed
by them. We would not be so overwhelmed
by them. We would not be so fearful by
them. If we could believe, and you
know that all things work together for good, for them that love
God, those that are called according to his purpose, you know that
all these things are ordained of God. Listen to what David
said in Psalm 139 verse 17, how precious also are all thy thoughts
toward me, O God, how great is the sum of them. Now there's
an expression of faith. And then the Lord said, I know
the thoughts that I think toward you. Thoughts of peace, not of evil. to bring you to your expected
end. The Lord's ordained all these
events in our lives in order to get us to glory. Everything
is necessary, all purposed of God. For God seeth not as man
seeth. My thoughts, the Lord said, are
not your thoughts. My ways are not your ways. As
the heavens are high above the earth, so are my thoughts above
your thoughts." Oh, what a glorious God we have. What a glorious
God, brethren. If we could see the circumstances
of our lives as God sees them, we would know that it's all according
to his providence. You know, sometimes I hear people
say, don't we all say it? We've all said it at one time
or another. You know, well, that was providential. Everything
is providential. I've told you where that word
providential comes from. Providence, pro, before. And
the second part of that word is the word from which we get
our word video. Pro video. Here's the point. The movie's
already in the can. God, what's happening in time
is just the fulfilling of what God has purposed in eternity.
It's all happening according to his purpose, according to his providence. Oh, man seeth
not as God seeth. Man looks at the outward appearance.
Another one that's similar to this is time itself. Time itself. Here's what God
says about time. God says a day is as a thousand
years and a thousand years is as a day. And we think about
our our small children and how slow time passes for them. Put
them in a corner for quiet, for what do you call it? Whatever
you do, I've been a long time. Time out, put them in a corner
for time out and within two minutes, they think the world has passed
by. There's two minutes that they're
in that corner, why? And the older we get, and some
of you elder brethren can relate to this, the more you realize
life is a vapor. God said it right. A days of
a thousand years, a thousand years is a day. Why do we get
so caught up in time? God makes everything beautiful,
the scripture says, in his time. Turn with me to Psalm 39, Psalm
39. Look at verse 4. Lord, make me to know mine end. I'll be like a little child stuck
in the corner thinking that the whole world's passing by when
it's only been a few minutes. I'm so immature when it comes
to time. I'm so caught up in the temporal
events of this world and I And time passes so slow for me. Lord, make me to know mine end
and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how frail
I am. And in the margin of my Bible,
it says how little time I have. Behold, thou hast made my days
as a hand breath, and my ages as nothing before thee. Verily,
every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every
man walketh in a vain show. Surely they are disquieted in
vain. He heapeth up riches and knoweth
not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee. Oh, brethren,
if we could have a little bit better understanding of what
time really is from God's perspective, we wouldn't be so afraid. We
wouldn't be anxious. We wouldn't be disquieted and
worried. And we wouldn't put so much investment
into the things of this world. put down roots and think that
we're, you know, we're, we're, we're, we're making a life for
ourselves in this world. Oh, we would live responsible
lives, but we would always live them in light of the fact that
what God says, the end of all things is at hand. Therefore
be sober and watch under prayer. If we had a better understanding,
If we saw time more like God sees it, we'd be more quick to forgive, we'd be more quick to love, more
quick to believe God. We wouldn't be angry, wouldn't
have time for it. I don't have time to be angry.
I don't have time to worry. Time's too short. Isn't it so true, brethren? God
seeth not as man seeth. I wanna show you a verse of scripture.
1 Thessalonians chapter one. We looked at this recently. when
we were in the beginning of our study of Thessalonians. But look
with me to 1 Thessalonians chapter 1. When a believer out of faith
and love, though that faith is mixed with unbelief and though
that love is mixed with selfishness, when a believer looking to Christ and not looking to what the right
hand might think about the left hand, but just doing it as unto
the Lord. They see it with all of its imperfections
and all of its sin, and they can't glory in it. And they can't
say, well, you know, I'm, well, they must say, I'm but an unprofitable
servant. I hope the Lord will be honored
in it. but I can't take any glory in it. Look how God sees it. First Thessalonians
chapter 1 verse 3. Verse 2, we give thanks to God
always for you all making mention of you all in our prayers remembering
without ceasing your work of faith and your labor of love
and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of
God our Father. We can't do it for our own glory. If we do, it's not a good work.
It's a dead work. But what I want you to see, brethren,
is that when you do a good work and you think no one noticed
and no one appreciates it, Do it as unto the Lord. He doesn't
miss any of it. Inside of him, it's glorious
and it's good. God seeth not as man seeth. For
man looketh at the outward appearance, God's looking at the heart. What about God's word? What about his word? I wish, I pray that I could read
God's word both privately and publicly as it ought to be read. I've heard brethren read God's
Word before and it just took me right in the presence of God.
That's the way I want to read. I want to bow before God's Word.
I want to rejoice in God's Word. I want to believe God's Word.
We've got the very Word of God. And God sees it that way. This
book that we hold and we're so lax about it, aren't we? Oh,
if we could see God's Word as God sees it, we'd meditate on
it a lot more than we do. We'd go to bed thinking about
it, we'd wake up thinking about it. And I don't want to use this
as an opportunity to shame anybody or to rebuke anybody, but this
is the place where God's Word is read and preached and opened
and where God promises to meet with his people and manifest
his grace and his glory by his word. You know, I'm getting to
that stage in my life, not quite yet as far as, but I've seen
in my little bit elder brethren that You ask them if they can
do something, the first thing they have to do is check their
calendar to see when the next doctor's appointment is. And their whole lives are revolved
around their doctor's appointments. Why is that so important to them?
Because those doctor's appointments are keeping them alive. If we could see God's Word, like
God sees it. We would order our lives around
public worship because there's no place where God's word is
more manifested than when his children come together and his
word is open and preached. Why? Because that's what's keeping
us alive. Amen. I wanna close with one thing
in Isaiah chapter 66. Isaiah 66. Child of God, you are offended
by what you used to believe. You're ashamed of it. That you thought that God needed
you to do something in order for him to be able to save you.
He needed you to perform a certain amount of works or he needed
you to pray a prayer, he needs you to make a decision, he needed
you to learn some things before he was able to save you. And
you're ashamed of the fact that you robbed Christ of his glory
and salvation and set yourself up on the throne of God, aren't
you? And you're offended by that freewill works religion that
is so prevalent in the world. And you understand that when
God said, come ye out from among them and be ye separate, you
can't have any part of that. But I want you to see, in case
there's somebody here that might still be thinking that God needs
them to do something in order for him to be able to save them,
I want you to see what God says about that and how God sees it. Isaiah chapter 66. Look with me at verse three.
He that killeth an ox, now an ox was a sacrificial animal. It was made in the worship of
Jehovah in the Old Testament. He that killeth an ox is as if
he slew a man. He that sacrifices the lamb as
if he cut off a dog's neck. He that offereth an oblation,
his prayers, his decisions, as if he offered swine's blood. He that burneth incense as if
he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own
ways and their souls delight in their abominations. That's what God thinks about
a religion that offers to God things that
they think are going to obligate God to save them and to bless
them. We come to God as a leper. We come to him saying, Lord,
you can save me if you will. It's all dependent upon your
will. We come to him as that Syrophoenician woman, a dog,
truth Lord. Would you allow me to have a
few crumbs from the master's table? It's all I need, all I
need. Where do we look in order to
see things as God sees them? And I close with this, the cross. Love? Greater love hath no man
than this. They lay down his life for his
friends. Time? Everything in eternity
past to eternity future culminates at Mount Calvary 2,000 years
ago. Everything in time and in eternity
was all purposed by God. for that moment in time. Sin? Oh, if we could understand,
if we could understand what God said when he cried from the cross
and said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? If we
knew the answer to that question, we would have some understanding
of our sin. The father forsook the son because
sin was that evil to him. And the father forsook the son
in order to put away our sin, that we might come into the very
presence of God. Samuel, don't look at the outward
appearance. For God seeth not as man seeth. Man look at the outward appearance.
God's looking at the heart of the matter. Lord give us a better
view. My perception is so distorted. Give me a little better understanding
of how you see things in Providence, in time that I might bow, walk in the
light as you were in the light, have fellowship with God, and
have the hope of the blood of Christ cleansing me of all my
sin. Amen. Amen. Let's stand together, Psalm
273, number 273. Walk in the light, so shall thou
know That fellowship of love His spirit only can bestow Who
reigns in light of day walk in the light and thou shalt
find thy heart made truly his who dwells in cloudless light
and shrine in whom no darkness Walk in the light and thou shalt
own thy darkness passed away, because that light hath on thee
shown in which is perfect day. Walk in the light and in the
tomb, no fearful shade shall wear. Glory shall chase away
its gloom, for Christ hath conquered all. Walk in the light, thy path shall
be a path of thorny pride. For God, by grace, shall dwell
with thee, and God himself is life.