Let's stand together again. We'll
sing hymn number 225 and your hardback timbrel 225. This is
a different tune than you see written here. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
come unto me and rest. Lay down, thou weary one, lay
down. thy head upon my breast. I came to Jesus as I was, weary
and worn and sad. I found in him a resting place,
and he has made me glad. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
Behold, I freely give the living water, thirsty one, stoop down
and drink and live. I came to Jesus and I drank of
that life-giving stream. My thirst was quenched, my soul
revived, and now I live in Him. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
I am this dark world's light. Look unto me, thy morn shall
rise, and all thy day be bright. Please be seated. I'd like to sing a hymn that
was written by Don Porter. And I think he had in mind the
message we heard the first hour. I'm thinking 1 Peter 1, 25. ? Your word, O God, I love to read
? ? Or hear the Bible read to me ? ? Earth's greatest privilege
indeed ? ? To have the book declared to me ? The word is like a fire
to melt my heart so cold and make me groan. Its power is like a hammer felt
and breaks this stubborn heart of stone. ? God speaks again,
his word reveals ? ? The substitute for sinners slain ? ? Forgiveness
by his blood it tells ? ? A balm to heal my heart's great pain
? ? Spirit of God, my teacher be ? ? Give eyes of faith always
to see ? ? The Word's great truth and mystery ? ? In every line
show Christ to me ? ? Dear Lord, my thanks I give to you ? ? For
your inspired and holy word ? ? My reverence and allegiance to ?
? It claims the mighty word of God ? Thank you, Tom. And this is the word which by
the gospel is preached unto you. In the volume of the book, it
is written of me. We miss Christ. We've missed
everything. For Christ is all. I remember,
I'm reminded of how the Lord rebuked those self-righteous
Pharisees when he said to them, you search the scriptures because
you think in them you have eternal life, but these are they which
testify of me. All of God's word points us to
the Lord Jesus Christ, who himself is our life. Certainly we've
seen that in our study of the book of Ruth. We've been looking
at the book of Ruth. If you'd like to turn with me
and your Bibles there, we're gonna be in Ruth chapter four
this morning. Several months now, we've gone
verse by verse through this wonderful story, which is a picture of
salvation. It is a picture of Christ and
his church. Boaz, The Kinsman Redeemer, the
man of mighty wealth and strength and swiftness and power, is going
to restore what Naomi lost when her husband Elimelech left Bethlehem
and went to Moab. And what a beautiful picture
we see ourselves in Ruth. Ruth, the Moabitess. The pagan,
which is where we all begin, is brought to the house of bread. She's brought to Bethlehem. She's
brought to the place where the bread of life is broken, where
the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed. That's where we are right now.
We're in the house of bread. pray that the Spirit of God will
be pleased to do for us what... You remember in Luke chapter
24 when those disciples were coming to Emmaus after the crucifixion. Well, it was after the resurrection.
They just didn't know the Lord had risen from the dead and the
Lord walks with them and they didn't know it was the Lord.
And when they got to their house, the scripture says, and in the
breaking of bread, in the breaking of bread, their eyes were opened
and they beheld Him. That's always our hope, isn't
it? That in the breaking of bread... that our eyes will be open and
the Lord by His Spirit and by His grace will enable us to behold
Him, to behold Christ, to rest all the hope of our salvation
in His glorious person and in the accomplished work of His
redemption. We see that in Ruth. We see that in Boaz. We see that
as Boaz reckoned, do you remember he reckoned with the law, and
he settled things with the law, and that's what the Lord Jesus
Christ did in his life. The scripture says that he is
the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Men by nature, Romans chapter
10, go about trying to establish their own righteousness, not
knowing the righteousness of God, ignorant of the righteousness
of God, not knowing that Christ satisfied all the demands of
God's holy law. And the only hope of us standing
in the presence of a holy God without being judged by the law
of God is to be found in Him, to be found in Christ. Not having our own righteousness
which is of the law, but that righteousness which is by the
faithfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now that's the Gospel. And that's what this story of
Ruth and Boaz and Naomi has been reinforcing and telling us over
and over again. And we see the same message declared
again in the last part of chapter 4. When Boaz The scripture says, look with
me, look with me at verse 13. So Boaz took Ruth and she was
his wife. And when he went unto her, the
Lord gave her conception and she bare a son. And the women
said unto Naomi, blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee
this day without a kinsman, without a redeemer. That's the word there.
that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer
of life. That's the title of the message
this morning. A Restorer of Life. Now the women are speaking of
the child that Ruth gives birth to. His name is Obed. Obed. And the scriptures are clear,
even here in this chapter, and particularly in Matthew chapter
1, where Obed and his wife have a child by the name of Jesse,
and Jesse and his wife have a son by the name of David. And David
being the type of Christ, and in the lineage of the Lord Jesus
Christ, our Lord himself is called the son of David. So here we
have the gospel being declared in the lineage of the Lord Jesus
Christ. This is our hope. Elimelech, Naomi's husband, when
he left Bethlehem and went to Moab, lost everything. He sold
it all. You and I sold our souls in our
father Adam when he sinned against God in the garden. And the scriptures
make it very clear, we died. We spiritually died. We were
separated from God. We are in need of a restorer
of life. We're in need of one who's able
to bring to us the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Naomi lost all her attachment
to Israel, which is a picture of the loss of salvation. And
she was in need of a kinsman to buy back what she had lost.
You and I are in need of a redeemer, one who's able to present to
God a sufficient price. that will purchase
us back into fellowship with God. And the scriptures are clear
that God is not satisfied with anything less than the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. His precious blood shed on Calvary's
cross is the only payment that God will accept for the sins
of his people. The Lord said, when I see the
blood, I'll pass by you. And so, here's the message this
morning. If you have a sin problem, because
you're a child of Adam, because you died in the fall, and you,
like Naomi, are in need of a restorer of
life. One who's able to buy back for
you what you lost. One who's able to purchase you
and to present you faultless before the Heavenly Father. and that can be none other. We've seen Boaz as a type of
Christ in this story, but this morning I want you to see Obed
as a type of Christ in this story. We've seen Ruth as a type of
ourselves, the Moabitist who had no hope of salvation, Apart
from her union with Boaz, this morning I want you to see Naomi
as a representative type of yourself and of myself. So here's the
blessing that's being declared to Naomi by her friends. You
remember when Naomi came back from Moab, she said, don't call
me Naomi, call me Mara for the Lord. And that word Mara means
bitter. Naomi came back a broken woman. And she said, for the Lord has
dealt bitterly with me. Now Boaz and Ruth have come together. Ruth has given birth to a son
and this boy's name is Obed. Now there's hope of being restored. And so these women come to Naomi
and they say to her, God has not left thee without a redeemer.
That's the first blessing. And he's going to be a restorer
of you in your old age. Our natural state. This is how
we come into the world. We come into this world fallen,
sinful, and separated from God. Worse than that, we come into
this world spiritually dead. Unable to do anything. to save
ourselves. A dead man is incapable of having
any feelings. A dead man is incapable of praying
a prayer, expressing sorrow or repentance or faith. That's our
spiritual condition. By virtue of the fact that we're
born after the similitude of Adam, we are children of Adam,
We come into this world dead. Romans chapter 5 verse 12 says,
As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin,
so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned. Now that's
all the proof of that I need. God just said it. By one man. sin into the world. When Adam
disobeyed God and was put out of paradise, all of his progeny,
all of his children, all of his descendants were put out of fellowship
with God. Death entered into the world
and we died. And we came into this world spiritually
dead. In Ephesians chapter two, verse
one, scripture speaking of the new birth, he says, and you hath
he quickened or made alive who were dead in your trespasses
and sins. So there's our natural condition,
spiritually dead. We have no capacity whatsoever
to save ourselves. We are completely dependent upon
the Lord to do a work of grace for us. The condition of creation
that we read about in Genesis chapter one, when the scripture
says, and the world was without form and void, the world was
without order and empty. And darkness was upon the face
of the deep. There's our spiritual condition
before God. And the Spirit of God blew upon
it. And God said, let there be light. You see, that's what we are.
Nicodemus came to the Lord Jesus Christ by night. Representative
of his spiritual condition before God. We are in darkness. And the Lord said to Nicodemus,
Nicodemus, except you be born of the Spirit, except the Spirit
of God blow upon you, you cannot see the kingdom of God. You cannot
begin to perceive of it. You can't understand it. And
Nicodemus, a very, a very astute student of the Bible said, How can I go back into my mother's
womb and be born again? And the Lord told Nicodemus,
Oh no, Nicodemus, you don't understand. That which is of the flesh is
flesh, and the flesh profiteth nothing. You've got to be born
of the Spirit, and the Spirit's like the wind. He listeth with
us wherever He wills. God has to do for you and I what
He did for Saul of Tarsus. He has to shine a light from
heaven. He has to cause the Spirit of God to blow upon that which
is void and dark and without form, that which is empty, that
which is dead. If we're going to have life restored,
we must give up on any hope of restoring it ourselves. The lie from the accuser of the
brethren is not that you have violated and transgressed God's
law. That's not the lie. The lie is
that you can fix it. The lie is not that you've sinned.
Fact is, he doesn't make the sin bad enough, does he? He makes
the sin just enough so that he is able to convince us, well,
I can fix that. No, you can't. That's the problem. We need a restorer of life. We
need one who's able to shine the light from heaven. We need
one who's able to do for us what he did for Saul of Tarsus and
stop us on our road to destruction and knock us off our dead horse
and put us in the ground. We need the spirit of God to
blow upon us. Except you be born of the Spirit,
you cannot see the kingdom of God. We need a restorer of life. Now this word life actually in
our text is the word soul also. It's translated soul in the Bible.
There's the problem. The problem is not with our behavior.
The problem is with our heart. The problem is with our soul.
You know, what does religion do? Religion says, oh, just clean
up the outside. And the Lord said, yeah, you
do that, and you'll be a whitewashed tomb full of dead man's bones. What's religion say? Just clean
the outside of the cup up. Yeah, you do that, the inside's
full of corruption. What do you want? You see, that's
all we can do. All you and I can do is try to
reform the outside. We must have a restorer of life. We must have one who's able to
breathe life into our dead souls. That's what Obed's going to do
now. That's the blessing that these
women are professing to Naomi. God has not left thee without
a Redeemer. He's not left thee to thyself. The Lord Jesus Christ said, I
did not come into this world to condemn the world, but that
the world through me might have life. Why did he say I did not come
into the world to condemn the world? Because the world's already
condemned. That's why. All God has to do for you and
for me, for us to go to hell, is leave us alone. Just leave
us alone. That's all he has to do. Just
leave us to ourselves. Leave us to our own devices. Leave us to our own religious
activity and our own imagination. Leave us to trying to restore
our lives ourselves by cleaning up the outside and the corruption
still in the soul. The Lord doesn't have to do anything
else. There must be the birth of a
son. The Lord Jesus Christ is called
Emmanuel, God with us. God Almighty, born of a woman,
born under the law to redeem those who are cursed by the law.
You and I are cursed by the law of God. That's our natural condition.
Because we are sons of Adam, that's our condition. There must
be the birth of a child, and that child must be a man-child.
It's got to be the Christ. When the Lord told Eve, or told
Adam in the garden, the seed of the woman will crush the head
of the serpent, Adam knew that he had to have a restore of life.
Adam walked with God in the cool of the day in paradise, and now
Adam's put out of paradise. There's the picture. Naomi left
Bethlehem. She lost everything. She needed
a restorer of life. And so the Lord made Adam a promise.
He said, your wife's gonna have a child. Adam thought that Cain
was the fulfillment of that promise, didn't he? That's why he called
him Cain. God has given to me a man. Cain turned out to be a murderer.
Cain wasn't the promise. No, the fulfillment of that promise
wasn't made till thousands of years later when Mary was conceived
of the Holy Spirit and brought forth the Lord Jesus Christ,
God with us, Emmanuel, God born of a woman, God made in the likeness
of sinful flesh. And yet, himself without sin.
Without sin. Men looked at the Lord Jesus
Christ, they thought He was just another man. His own brothers
who lived, can you imagine? Living in the same home with
the Son of God? The holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners and higher than the heavens, Son of God?
You're living in the same home with Him. For 30 years and you
don't know that He's God. It wasn't because He wasn't different.
It was because they couldn't see. They couldn't see. And you and I can't see. Why? Because they too were spiritually
dead. They had no ability to see God. Here's what, look at our text.
Verse 13, so Boaz took Ruth and she was his wife. And when he
went in under her, the Lord gave her conception and she bare a
son. Oh, the angels on that night that
our Lord was born in Bethlehem, in Bethlehem, that's what this
is a picture of. What did those angels, a multitude
of heavenly hosts, came to those shepherds tending the flock by
night? And they said unto them, unto
you a child is born, unto you a son is given. This day in the
city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. That's what
we have to have, a restorer of life, a Savior. And the Lord
said in Isaiah 9, verse 6, he says, unto you a son is given. Unto you. And his name shall
be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, the Everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace. The government shall be upon
his shoulder. That's what we're in need of.
The blessing that fallen sinful men need is a Restorer of Life. A Restorer of Life. And the Restorer
of Life God came in the likeness of sinful
flesh and for sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh that
we might have the righteousness of God in Him. That's what we have to have. We have to have the God-man. the Lord Jesus Christ to bear
our sins in his body upon that tree and satisfy by the sacrifice
of himself, satisfy the justice of God and put those sins away
once and for all. That's the restore of life. He
is the restore of life. This is his name. And as Mary, a virgin, conceived
the seed of the woman, the Lord Jesus is that seed. He's the
seed of Abraham. And as she was passive in that
conception, and as our text expresses, Ruth was passive in her conception. Notice that Boaz went into her
and she conceived. God gave her a child and she
gave birth. So it is for you and I, the conception
of the seed of God, the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ in us,
which is our only hope. Scripture says that Christ in
you is your hope of glory. And just as miraculous was the
conception of Mary, so is the conception of the Lord Jesus
Christ in the heart of God's people, in the heart of the sinner.
We have to have Him do something for us. And we're passive in
that. We're passive. It's done to us. It's not something that we, well,
you know, you hear men talk about, you know, if you just pray this
prayer, do this or do that. And the list of things that men
in religion give you to do, no, no. The work of redemption has
been done because we are dead in our trespasses and sins. We
can't make any contribution. We're dependent upon the Lord
to do something to us. And that's what the new birth
is. The Lord has not left you to
yourselves. You see that? Look with me at our text. The
women said unto Naomi, blessed to be the Lord, which hath not
left thee this day without a kinsman. The Lord must stop us. in our
self-destructive path of sin and death. He must shine a light
from heaven. He must breathe life into our
hearts. You know, thinking about the
birth of a child, I know I brought this up before. Let me just remind
you one more time. A child, when it's born, breathes
because it is alive. It doesn't become alive because
it breathes. And so it is in the new birth.
We breathe faith. Breathing involves two things,
inhaling and exhaling. And we inhale the life of Christ,
and we exhale the poisonous gases of our sin. But that breathing
process is the result of life. It's not the cause of our life.
The cause of our life is the new birth. It's a work that's done to us. Who make it thee to differ? The
two thieves on the cross are given to us in God's Word as
an example of God's saving grace. One, He just left them to themselves. They both, they both cursed Him. And yet one, after listening
to the things that the Lord Jesus said on the cross about Himself
and about His Father and about His people, The Spirit of God
took those words from the lips of the Lord Jesus and did a work
of grace in one of those thieves' hearts. Who made the difference? I mean, they were both dying
men. They knew they only had a short
time to live. You would think that they would
both have cried out to be saved, but one did and one didn't. I hear sometimes men talk about
finding God. God ain't lost. He ain't lost. We are. You don't find God. No man seeketh
after God at any time. He's going to have to find us. We're the ones that are dead.
We're the ones that are lost. We're the ones that are dependent
upon God doing a work of grace for us. God has not left thee to thyself,
Naomi. This day, he has provided for
you a redeemer. A restorer of life. Why does God save some and leave
others to themselves? Well, the scriptures are clear.
He does it for His namesake. He does it for His namesake.
He doesn't do it because He finds in some virtue that He doesn't
find in others. The Lord Jesus Christ put his
name on a covenant contract in the eternal covenant of grace
when he agreed to become the surety of the ones whom God the
Father chose to make his own. And the Lord Jesus Christ is
obligated by that agreement that he made with his heavenly father
to be the surety of his people. In other words, to to provide
everything necessary for the salvation of God's elect. That's
why he does it. You see, yeah, salvation is a
choice. It's God's choice. It's God's
choice. That's how that's how dependent
we are. That's how dead we are. We need
him to make us willing in the day of his power. We need him
to do work. The Lord has not left thee to
thyself, Naomi. What a blessing. What a mercy. What great hope you have that
he's not left you to yourself. He's given you a restorer of
life in the child of Ruth. Obed is his name. And then notice,
notice, notice in verse 16, and Naomi
took the child and laid it in her bosom and became nurse under
her, under it. And the women, her neighbors,
gave it a name, saying, there's a son born to Naomi. And they
called his name Obed. And he is the father of Jesse
and the father of David. The Lord Jesus Christ. Notice
there's a, oh, I wanted you to see the end of verse 14. And
the women said unto Naomi, blessed be the Lord, which hath not left
thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in
Israel. His name is famous. God has given
him a name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus,
every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. There is
no other name given among men under heaven whereby we must
be saved. You shall, the Lord, the angel told Joseph, you shall
call his name Jesus. Translated means Jehovah saves,
for he shall save his people from their sins. He's not going
to make an offer of salvation for men to receive or reject
based on their free will. He's going to actually accomplish
the salvation of his people. The first words that the Lord
Jesus spoke that are recorded in the Bible was when he was
12 years old. And remember he was left in Jerusalem
and his Joseph and mother spent three days, Mary spent three
days looking for him and they finally found him in the temple.
And he looked at her and he said, did you not know this is where
I would be? Did you not know that I would
be about my father's business? And then in John chapter 17,
the Lord in praying to His Father said, Father, I have finished
the work which Thou hast given me to do. And then His last recorded
words as He bowed His mighty head on Calvary's cross is, It
is finished. It's finished. The work that
the Father gave me to do, I completed it. There's nothing left to be
done. It's all finished. And that's
what Obed, Obed's name translated means servant. It means servant. Turn with me to Philippians chapter
three, or chapter two, Philippians chapter
two. Verse five, let this mind be
in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form
of God, fought it not robbery to be equal with God. When men
accused the Lord Jesus Christ of blasphemy, For what good works
do you stone me? Our Lord said to those Pharisees,
not for your good works, but because you being a man make
yourself out to be God. Now, if the Lord Jesus Christ
was not God, he would have corrected things right there on the spot.
He would have said, oh no, you misunderstood. I'm not claiming
equality with the father. Oh yes, he is. Yes, he is. You've seen me, you've seen my
father, for I and the father are one. He thought it not robbery to
be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men. And being found in fashion as
a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross." Here we see Obed. Here we see the
one who came to serve his father. And to serve His people as a
sacrifice for their sins, He made of Himself of no reputation
and became a servant. In Isaiah chapter 42, the Father
speaking when He said, Behold, mine elect, my servant, and whom
my soul delighteth. He's speaking of His Son. Look
at my Son. Look at verse 9, Wherefore God
hath also highly exalted him and given him a name that is
above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should
bow, of things in heaven and things of earth and things under
the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Oh, there's the blessing
that these friends of Naomi are giving to her. God has not left
thee without a kinsman. He has provided for thee, and
thy daughter, thy daughter-in-law, Ruth, is better to you than seven
sons, because she has brought into your home a Redeemer, Obed,
who's going to serve you and provide for you everything that
you need. Remember, Naomi was destitute,
and now she has a restorer of life. a restorer of life. The Lord Jesus Christ said, my
meat, and this happened in John chapter four, that the woman
at the well that we looked at in the previous hour, when the
disciples came and they said, has he already eaten? Cause he's
not wanting to eat. And what'd the Lord say? My meat,
I have meat to eat that you not known of for my meat is to do
the will of him that sent me. The Lord Jesus Christ came into
this world for one purpose, one purpose. He didn't come into
this world to provide for me and you an opportunity to be
saved. He didn't come into this world
to give us an example of sacrifice and service and humility. He came into this world for one
purpose, to save God's people, and that he accomplished. For
you shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people
from their sins. Oh, what a savior. He's got a
famous name. He's got a name that is above
every name. That at the name of Jesus, every
knee shall bow. What a servant. And a restorer of life. and a nourisher in thine old
age." You know, I've noticed the older we get, the less calories
we have to consume to sustain our flesh. We're not as active
as we used to be. Young people, you say, well,
that's a long way. No, not as far off as you think it is. The outer man perisheth. but
the inward man is renewed day by day. Now these women, you
see what I'm trying to say to you is that in the spiritual
realm, it's just the opposite. It's just the opposite. The spirit
of Christ consumes more calories the older we get than he did
the younger we were. The more we grow in grace and
the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, the more of him we have
to have. The more hungry we become for
the bread of life, the more dependent we are upon the Lord Jesus Christ. And so now, Naomi, the more aware
we are of our sinfulness before God. Isn't that true, Mark? Isn't that the way it is, Tom? We've got to have him more and
more. So we're eating less physical food. We're consuming more spiritual
food. The outer man perishes. The inner
man is renewed day by day. And here's the blessing. These
friends of Naomi said to her, God has not left you to yourself. He has given to you a restorer
of life and a nourisher. And that word nourish means to
feed or to eat. a nourisher in your old age. My elder brethren, God has promised
to sustain his people to the very end, and Christ will be
your bread of life, and he'll be sweeter and more sufficient,
and you'll become more dependent upon him, and he will be your
nourisher. in your old age. What a glorious gospel. What
a great God. What hope. And she took Him to
her bosom. You see that? You think after all that Naomi
had been through? She lost her husband. She lost
her two sons. She was reduced to begging. She was destitute and dependent
upon someone to care for her. And now the Lord has restored
everything back to her. And He's given her a child. And
Naomi has taken this child. And now she's going to be nurse
to this child. I can just see this grandmother
now holding this baby. You think she'd let anybody take
that child from her? No. No. Child of God, nothing can take Christ from
you, can you? I love what John said. John,
when speaking of himself, the Apostle John, he referred to
himself as the one who leaned on Jesus' breast. You know, what
intimacy, what dependence the Lord Jesus had and John had on
the Lord Jesus. He held that child who was gonna
let him go. She held him to her breast. The bride of Christ says this
in the Song of Solomon, my beloved is mine and I am his. I am his. This love never fails. Scripture says that God has loved
His people with an everlasting love. And I love what the Lord
Jesus said when He was praying to His Father. He said, Father,
I would love them to the end. Nothing can separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus. We don't crack the whip of the
law in order to try to get men to obey God. It is the love of
Christ that constraineth us, isn't it? What a picture of the
believer and their Lord. Here we have with Naomi and Obed,
her servant, her restorer of life, her Savior, all her hope
of salvation. And she rejoices in Him and loves
Him and won't let go of Him. Our Heavenly Father, We ask, Lord, that your Holy
Spirit would make these words effectual to our hearts. Lord,
if all we hear are the words of a man, we'll remain left ourselves. We are dependent upon your spirit
to speak truth and peace to our hearts and to cause us to find
our hope and our life in the restorer of life, the nourisher
in our old age, thy dear son, your servant, the Lord Jesus. For it's in his name we pray,
amen. 168, let's stand together, number
168. ? Lord, I hear of showers of blessing
? ? Thou art scattering full and free ? ? Showers the thirsty
land refreshing ? ? Let some drops now fall on me ? Even me,
even me, let thy blessing fall on me. ? Pass me not, O tender
Savior ? ? Let me love and cling to Thee ? ? I am longing for
Thy favor ? ? Whilst Thou art calling, O call me ? ? Even me,
even me ? ? Let Thy blessing fall on me ? ? Pass me not, O
mighty Spirit ? ? Thou canst make the blind to see ? ? Witnesser
of Jesus' merit ? ? Speak the word of power to me ? ? Even
me, even me ? ? Let thy blessing fall on me ? ? Love of God so
pure and changeless ? ? Blood of Christ so rich and free ?
? Grace of God so strong and boundless ? ? Magnify them all
in me ? ? Even me, even me ? ? Let thy blessing fall on me ? ? Pass
me not thy lost one bringing ? ? Bind my heart, O Lord, to
thee ? ? While the streams of life are springing ? ? Blessing
others, O bless me ? ? Even me, even me, even me ? Let thy blessing
fall on me.