When darkness thick as beamless
night hides the loved Savior from my sight, nothing but this
my ardent plea, Jesus, reveal Thyself to me. ? Tis He dispels the dismal gloom
? ? Gives light and gladness in its room ? ? Then have I joy
and liberty ? ? As Christ reveals Himself to me ? Please be seated. Tom and I were talking before
we began just now, and he said we're going to sing the hymn
on the back of the bulletin, and it's a good hymn. It's a
very good hymn. Very good hymn, and an appropriate
hymn for us to sing in light of the passage of Scripture I'd
like for us to look at this morning. If you would turn with me in
your Bibles to Luke, I'm sorry, Ruth chapter 3. Ruth chapter
3. Like all the Bible, the book
of Ruth is a gospel story. All of God's elect identify with
this as a message of redemption. They rejoice in knowing that
they have a Kinsman Redeemer pictured in Boaz. Like Ruth, they come to Christ
poor, destitute, widowed Moabites outside of the Commonwealth of
Israel. in need of redemption. In God's sovereign purpose and
in his perfect providence, he brought Ruth back from Moab to
Bethlehem, the house of bread. a picture of where we're sitting
right now. This is Bethlehem. This is the
place where the bread of life is broken, where Christ is revealed
and pleased to reveal himself, as we just sang. I heard someone say recently
that Jesus came into the world And the way they said it was
to try to change the world or that he believed he could change
the world. That is not why the Lord Jesus
Christ came into this world. If he came into this world to
change the world, he was a miserable failure. The world still hates
God. The world still is sinful and
condemned and dark as it ever has been. The Lord Jesus Christ
did not come because he thought he could change the world. This
is a faithful saying. And worthy of all acceptation,
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. That's why he
came into the world. He came into this world to redeem
his people. Those whom God elected in the
covenant of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ successfully accomplished
their redemption. That's why He came into the world.
That's the one and only reason He came into the world, to glorify
His Father, to save His people, to redeem them from their sins. Ruth is brought to Moab to meet
Boaz. Ruth's name, if you remember,
translated means friendship. And here we have a picture of
one who is by nature, just like me and you, at enmity with God,
being brought into a friendship with God. Oh, what a... What a blessing. That's redemption.
That's redemption. She's brought to meet Boaz. Boaz's name means strong or mighty
and swift. And what a picture of the work
that the Lord Jesus Christ did as our mighty man of wealth.
accomplishing our salvation swiftly, doing a quick work on Calvary's
cross in order to redeem his people. After the consummation of her
marriage with Boaz, she would bring forth a child by the name
of Obed. Obed would eventually be married
And he and his wife would bring forth a child by the name of
Jesse. And Jesse and his wife would eventually get married.
And they would bring forth a child by the name of David. And Ruth,
this Moabitess, who has now been redeemed, finds herself in the
very lineage of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where you and
I need to be found. In Christ. In His family. In His lineage. We need to be adopted into the
family of God. We'll begin reading in verse
13. Terry, this night, Ruth has gone
down to the threshing floor, the very place where the grain
is separated from the wheat, from the chaff. The wind of the
Spirit blows. This is where we are. This is
the threshing floor. This is where God does work in
separating the wheat from the chaff. She meets Boaz. She uncovers
his feet. She asked him to cover her with
his skirt. And here's a picture of salvation
as the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ, as brass in a fire, different
from our feet, and as his skirt covers our nakedness. And Boaz says to her in verse
13, tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, If he
will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well, Boaz, as
you remember, has told Ruth that yes, he was her kinsman and he
was able to redeem her, but there was another kinsman that was
nearer to her than him. And he had to reckon with that
kinsman first. And now he's saying to her, if
he is able to redeem you, then let him redeem you. But if he's
not able, then I will redeem you. We're going to see as we
get into chapter four, that kinsman clearly is a picture of the law
and how the law is not able to redeem us. Not able to perform
that which is necessary. That's what he said. If he's
able to perform, And notice over in verse six of the next chapter,
at the very end of that verse, when Boaz confronts him with
the need to redeem this Moabitess into his family, he says at the
end of verse six, I cannot redeem it. Now there's the law saying,
I can't redeem you. I'm not able to redeem you. All
I can do is curse you. All I can do is judge you. I
cannot redeem you. And so Boaz says to her, if he's
able to redeem you, if he can perform the work necessary, then
let him do it. But, verse 13, If he will not
do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a
kinsman to thee as the Lord liveth lie down until the morning. That's the title of this message.
Lie down until the morning. Notice back up in verse 11, And
now, my daughter, fear not. I will do to thee what thou requirest. If we're going to be saved, which
is what's required, a price of redemption has to be paid. The
only price sufficient is the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our kinsman, Redeemer, must perform for us what we require. Notice
that Boaz does not say to Ruth, I will do for you what you requested,
as if to respond to her request. He said, I will do to you what
you require. If we're going to be saved, God's
going to have to do a work to us. And now he tells her, lie down
until the morning. Verse 14, and she laid his feet
until the morning and she rose up before one could
know another. And he said, let it not be known
that a woman came into the floor. Also he said, bring the veil
that thou hast upon thee and hold it. And when she held it,
he measured six measures of barley and laid it on her, and she went
into the city. And when she came to her mother-in-law,
her mother-in-law said unto her, who art thou my daughter? And
Ruth told her all that the man had done to her. And Ruth said to Naomi, verse
17, these six measures of barley gave he me. And he said to me,
go not empty unto thy mother-in-law. Then said she, sit still my daughter
until I know how the matter will fall. For the man will not rest
until he have finished the thing. this day. Lie down until morning. She goes down to the threshing
floor and Boaz speaks a precious promise to her. And she believed it. She believed
it. And she was able to find hope.
and rest in the promise that Boaz had made to her. In Acts chapter 28, when Paul
finally ended up in Rome, they put him on house arrest and the
soldiers allowed people to come hear him as he preached the gospel.
And the scripture says in chapter 28, and some believed the things
that they heard. and some believed not." Now, if you look at that verb,
believed, you'll find that the first, believed, is in the passive
voice. And the second, believed not,
is in the active voice. And so it is always with the
gospel. When the promises of God are
spoken, some will passively believe because a work of grace will
be done to them. If something's done to you, you
didn't participate in that. And some believe not. They actively
resisted the promises of God and bear the responsibility of
not having believed. So here's the point. Does man
have a will? Yeah, he does. And his will will
participate in his unbelief. I will do to thee what thou requirest. Now, as I said at the very beginning,
this is a picture of our redemption. This is a type of the salvation
of every one of God's elect. And when the Lord says, lie down
until morning. It's a promise of the final redemption
of our souls. The Bible speaks of our redemption
in five tenses. When were we redeemed? When is
a man saved? When is a man saved? And the Bible clearly states
that we were redeemed by the blood that was shed by the Lord
Jesus Christ, the lamb slain before the foundation of the
world. So in the covenant of grace, when the Lord Jesus Christ
agreed to be our surety before time ever began, before any man
was ever created, in the promise and purpose and ordained will
of God, all God's elect chosen by the Father were redeemed in
the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything that happens in time
is a fulfillment of what God purposed in eternity. Second,
we were redeemed when the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled in time
what he promised he would do in eternity. When he became our
sin bearer, our substitute, the satisfaction of God's justice
and wrath, When He shed His precious blood on Calvary's cross, and
He bowed His mighty head, and He said, it is finished. Redemption
was successfully accomplished. Redemption was made. The price that God required.
The precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thirdly, we are
redeemed. God, by His Holy Spirit, does
work to us. He gives us faith and He causes
us to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. It wasn't a decision
you made. It was a work done to you. You
discovered one day, I believe this. I just believe it. I can't
not believe it. And your redemption was experienced
in your new birth. Fourthly, fourthly, we are being
redeemed. Oh, every day, the same spirit
of God that breathed new life into our dead souls points us
again and again and again to the Lord Jesus Christ and to
his shed blood. We are all a bunch of recovering
Pharisees and we're all prone to look to something other than
Christ for the hope of our salvation. And the spirit of God reminds
us again and again and again, through the preaching of the
gospel, through the conviction of the spirit of God, through
our prayers and through by his word, that our redemption is
only in Christ. And so to whom coming, we keep
coming. And here's the message for this
morning. All of those redemptions being so glorious and so true
and so hopeful in our salvation. The redemption I want to speak
to you about this morning has to do with the final redemption. The final redemption. The Lord
is saying to you and me, Lie down until morning. And Naomi, a picture of the church,
Ruth's mother-in-law, says to her, stand still, my daughter. Don't lift a hand. The man will
not rest until he has finished the work. Yes, the work of redemption
was finished on Calvary's cross. but the full redemption of our
experience has not yet been accomplished. Romans 8, verse 23 says, we groan
within ourselves waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption
of our bodies. Lie still, child of God, until
morning. The Holy Spirit has been given
as the earnest, the scripture says in Ephesians 1, verse 14,
the down payment of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession. The purchased possession is the
church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And she has not yet been fully
redeemed. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30
says, in whom we have been sealed until the day of redemption. So redemption is spoken of in
the scriptures as a future event. And our Boaz is saying to us,
we've come to Bethlehem, we've come as a As a desperate Moabitess
widow in need of a redeemer. We've come to the threshing floor
and he has said to us, lie down until morning. When your redemption draweth
nigh. When the Lord spoke in Luke chapter
21 of the destruction of Jerusalem, which would happen in the lifetime
of the disciples. He said, when these things begin
to come to pass, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh. He wasn't talking about the redemptive
work that He was going to accomplish on Calvary's cross. He wasn't
talking about the redemptive work that He accomplished in
the covenant of grace as the Lamb slain before the foundation
of the world. He's talking about our going
up into glory. Your redemption draweth nigh. Turn with me to Philippians chapter
three. Philippians chapter three. Look
at verse 20. For our conversation. What a glorious word that is.
How many conversations we have in this life that are just empty,
vain words? Our conversation, our conversation
with God, our life, our conversation is in heaven. From whence also
we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change
our vile bodies that we may be fashioned into his glorious body
according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all
things unto himself. John says in 1 John 3, Behold, what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the
sons of God. And then he goes on to say, it
doth not yet appear what we shall be. But we know that when he
shall appear, we shall be made like him, for we shall see him
as he is. That's the redemption. The message
this morning Lie still, my daughter, until morning. Until morning. Psalm 130 verse six says, my
soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the
morning. I say more than they that watch for the morning. That's
where we are, is it not? We live in a dry and thirsty
land. We live in a dark world. The
greatest darkness of which is our own sin, our own mortal flesh,
our own corruptible bodies. And this corruptible must be
made incorruptible, and this mortal must be made immortal.
And the final enemy is death, but here's the hope. Lie still,
my daughter, until morning. Let Israel hope in the Lord for
with him is plenteous redemption. He's talking about the full redemption
of our salvation, which will only be experienced when he takes us to be with him. He is the bright and morning
star. When the scripture speaks of
His resurrection, it says that the women went down to the tomb
very early in the morning. Very early in the morning. And
as the sun was just peeking above the horizon, they saw that the
tomb was empty. The Son of God had risen. And that's our hope. That's our
hope. buried with him in baptism, raised
with him to the newness of life. Our hope is in the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus Christ. God is saying to us, lie down until morning. Turn with me to the book of Daniel,
Daniel chapter six. A decree has been made by the
king. And the decree was that if anyone,
he was tricked into signing this decree, but nevertheless he did. And the decree was that if anyone
was caught, praying to any god other than to him that he was
to be put into the lion's den. And they did that in order to,
when they brought Daniel the prophet to the king, this is
the king of Babylon, they brought Daniel to the prophet, to the
king. The king was grieved and he tried
to figure out a way to get around this decree and he said, no there's
no way around it. The decrees of the king cannot
be changed. And it's a picture of the eternal
decree of God. When the Lord Jesus Christ was
in the garden of Gethsemane and He cried out to His Father and
sweat great drops of blood and said, Father, if there be any
way, if there be any way this cup can pass from me, let it
be. I said, no, it's been decreed. It's been purposed of God. And this king is a picture of
God the Father. And so the king, the scripture
says in Daniel chapter 6, stayed up all night. They brought musicians
to him. They brought entertainers. Nothing
would comfort him. He stayed up all night grieving
over the fact that Daniel was now thrown into the lion's den
and fearful that he was going to be consumed by the lions. And the next morning, Look at
verse 19. And the king arose very early
in the morning and went in haste unto the den of lions. And when
he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto
Daniel. And the king spake and said to
Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom
thou service continually able to deliver thee from the lions? Then said Daniel unto the king,
O king, live forever. My God has sent his angel and
has shut the lion's mouths. They have not hurt me, for as
much as before him, innocency was found in me, and also before
thee, O king, have I done no hurt. Then the king was exceedingly
glad for him. and commanded that they should
take Daniel out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of
the den and no manner of hurt was found upon him because he
believed in his God." Can you see the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus in that story? The father not being able to
find any other way other than the fulfillment of the decree
that he made? That Christ must be, and very
early in the morning, as the stone is rolled away by the angel
of God, the Lord Jesus Christ comes out unhurt. Unhurt. Why? Because innocency was found in
him. Lie still, my daughter, until
the morning. There are beams of light that
flood our souls with truth and hope and joy when the day spring rises in
our hearts in this world. But the truth is we look through
a glass darkly We know in part, we see in part. But when that
which is perfect is come, that which is in part will be done
away. We'll see him in the fullness of his glory and be made like
him. This is the morning. This world in which you and I
live is spiritually dark. Spiritually, it is dark. There's
no light, no truth, none. Oh, there's lots of things that
the world has to offer that might satisfy the pleasures of the
flesh. There's information and knowledge
that is offered in the world that would satisfy the mind,
but for the soul, The soul that needs to have hope
for eternal life. There is no light. Lie down until
morning. You're going to live this life
in a dark world. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only light. He said, I am the light of the
world. Light has come into the world, but men love darkness
rather than light because their deeds are evil. You will not come unto me that
you might have life. Know what the Lord said? I am
the way, the truth, and the life. No man can come to the Father
but by me. And here are Boaz. Ruth is able to lie down. She's able to be at peace and
at comfort in hopes that Boaz was going to consummate the promise
that he made. Turn with me to Psalm 120. Psalm
120. Verse five. Woe is me, I sojourn
in Mesuch, and I dwell in the tents of Kedar. The word Kedar
means dark. That's what we are. We live in
a dark land. The only light that there is
is the light that comes from the Son of God. My soul hath long dwelt with
him that hateth peace. This world hates Christ. We live in the world. I am for peace. But when I speak,
they are for war. Psalm 121, I will lift up my
eyes unto the hills. From whence cometh my help? My
help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will
not suffer thy foot to be moved. He that keepeth thee will not
slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber
nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper. The Lord
is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee
by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee
from all evil. He shall preserve thy soul. The
Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this
time forth and even forevermore. There's our hope. Our kinsman redeemer says to
us, lie down. I know it's dark and the darkest,
um, experience for the child of God is not the wickedness
of this world, it's the sin of their own flesh. That's the problem,
isn't it? The Lord doesn't call us to come
out of the world and create some sort of confined or some sort
of, you know, insulate ourselves from the world, lock yourself
up in a closet, and you're just going to take the worst part
of the world with you. That's the darkest experience
that we have, is our own sin. And here's what the Lord's saying.
I know it's dark. And yeah, the darkest hour might
be just before dawn. But morning's coming. The sun's
gonna rise. And I wanna consummate my marriage
with you. And the fullness of my glory
is gonna be known. But right now you're just catching
little glimpses of it. Little light here, little light
there. And you're resting all of your hope in that. One day
the sun's gonna shine. Notice that he says to her, tell
no man. Tell no man. The Lord told the
disciples at the well, when he met that woman at the well at
Sychar, you remember they came back and they tried to get him
to eat and he said, oh, I have bread to eat that you know not
of. When God speaks peace to the
heart, you have bread to eat that other, you can't express
this to other men. The grace, grace in the heart
is inexpressible. It is. David, when he was contemplating
the glory of God in Psalm 139, he said, these things are too
wonderful for me. I cannot comprehend them. When
Paul was speaking of seeking the Lord Jesus Christ, he said,
I've not yet apprehended that which has apprehended me. Every
time I think I have a little more understanding, he just grows
more glorious and more... Tell no man. You can't explain
these things to another man. We would love to be able to take
our faith and give it to someone who's an unbeliever that we love
and care for, but we can't do it. The Lord has to do that,
just like He did it for you. When Paul, in 2 Corinthians 12,
speaks of being caught up into the third heaven, And when the
Bible speaks of heaven, it speaks of it in three levels. The atmosphere
around the earth is called the first heaven. The outer space
where we see the stars and the planets, that's the second heaven.
And heaven itself was the third heaven. And Paul was caught up
into the third heaven. And here's what he said. I heard unspeakable words that
were unlawful for a man to utter. I couldn't express these things. Eye is not seen, nor is ear heard,
nor is it entered into the imagination of man. The things that he's
prepared for us lie down until morning. Yeah, it's dark. In Revelation chapter 10, When
John had that vision of heaven, the scripture says that there
were seven thunders. Now, seven is a picture of perfection. And this thunderous noise was
so glorious. And the scripture says he heard
a voice and he took up his pen to write the things that he was
gonna hear. And the voice said to him, put
the pen down. There are no words in any language
given among men that can express what you're going to see. John,
don't write these things. You can't write them. You see,
when we get to heaven, we're gonna speak a new language. We're
not gonna be speaking English or Spanish or French or any other
language that's being spoken here on the earth. None of those
languages are sufficient to express the glory that we will see and
experience. The Lord's gonna give us a new
language. And in heaven, there will be
no time. There'll be no time. Everything will be present tense.
And in your present tense experience, there'll be no memory of the
past, no anticipation of the future. You see, we live the
present with past and future, don't we? But heaven will be
all present tense, which is what's gonna make it so glorious. And
the Lord's glory is so infinite that all eternity will not be
sufficient to declare the fullness of it. And every moment will
be a new vista of His glory. She was at the threshing floor,
and that's where we are in Bethlehem. And her kinsman redeemer said
to her, lie down until morning. And she rose before anyone could
know another. We know in part now and we prophesy
in part, but then we'll know him even as we are known. Oh,
here's the hope of that. You see, the false gospel is presented
by the false prophet. as something that's going to
enrich your life here on earth. It's all about now and here. How are you going to be a better
person and live a better life and have better this and better
that? No. The older we get, child of God,
the more this glorious truth becomes the hope of our salvation,
is it not? This is the redemption of the
body. This is the full redemption of our souls. This is the hope
of our salvation. Nothing in this world that will
satisfy the need for that outside of Christ. Notice he gave her six measures. Now you know what the number
six is in the Bible. Man was created on the sixth
day and the number of man is 666. You see there's only so much
that we can carry right now. We couldn't stand the fullness
of his glory as long as we're in this body. In the body of
our flesh, He gave her six measures of barley in her veil. I can
see her walking home to Naomi and the barley that she was picking
up when she first started gleaning is now overflowing in this veil. I understand that six measures
of barley was about 50 pounds of barley. So this little woman
was carrying a veil full of 50 pounds, dragging it along, and
barley's leaking out of it. But it's all she could carry.
It's all she could carry. And God has given to you, child
of God, all that you can carry right now. He will not put more
on you than you can bear. And He will provide with everything
that He puts on you sufficient grace to bear it. My grace is
sufficient for thee. And you'll be able to say with
Ruth, when she got to Naomi, look, my cup runneth over. My cup runneth over. It's all I can bear right now.
I want to see more of him. But he knows my ability and he
gives to every one of us grace according to the measure of the
gift of Christ. Christ has dealt with every man
the measure of faith. Some believers' veils are bigger
than other believers' veils, but God fills up every veil,
every veil with the measure of faith in Christ. She was given this barley as
a token of what she would know when her union with Boaz was
consummated after the dealing of the of the law and after the
redemption of her body, she would become joint heir with Boaz and
she wouldn't be just carrying around 50 pounds of barley, she'd
be, she'd own everything he owns. The Lord Jesus Christ The scripture
says, has been given the spirit of God without measure. He's
been anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows, thus
the Christ, the anointed one. He came in the full power of
the spirit of God to accomplish the purpose of God and the saving
of his people. And when he saves them, he doesn't
give to us a full measure of his spirit. He gives us a token. He fills our veil with what we
can carry until the corruptible is made
incorruptible and the mortal is made immortal and death is
swallowed up in victory. The veil. It's another glorious picture.
Hebrews chapter 10 says that we have boldness to enter into
the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which
he hath consecrated for us through the veil that is his body. Now
in Leviticus chapter 10, God instructed Moses that when he
took the ark and put it in the holiest of holies, he was to
separate that ark with a veil. And that veil was, it was blue
on the top and it was red on the bottom and it was purple
in the middle. a picture of the deity and the
humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ as the God-man, His royalty,
reigning for us. And when He bowed His head on
Calvary's cross and He said, it is finished, the veil, the
scripture says, was miraculously rent by the very hand of God
from top to bottom. And whereas in the Old Testament,
the priests were always warning the people Stay away, stay away. Now the spirit of the bride say,
come, your forerunner has entered in before you. He has put his
blood on the mercy seat. And he has said, come through
his veil. That is to say his flesh, which
is offered up for you. We have access into the very throne
of God, the very presence of God. through the offering of
the body of the Lord Jesus Christ once and for all. And in 2 Corinthians 3, Paul
speaks of the veil that Moses had to put on his face. In closing,
let's turn to that passage. 2 Corinthians 3. 2 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 12, seeing then that we
have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. Seeing then that we have such
hope, I'm sorry, verse 13, and not as Moses, which put a veil
over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly
look to the end of that which is abolished. What was abolished? The requirements of the law were
fulfilled in Christ. You see, and the man who's depending
upon something other than the sacrifice that Christ made in
his body on Calvary's cross doesn't know. So he's looking to the
works of his own flesh, the accomplishments of his own law keeping. for the
hope of his salvation. But their minds were blinded,
verse 14, for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken
away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done
away in Christ. Here's the veil. She's carrying
this barley in a veil. dropping it as she goes along,
back to Naomi, saying to her, this is the token that he's given
me, that he fulfilled his promise to be my redeemer. He's gonna
consummate this union with me, and I'm gonna see the fullness
of his glory when I'm brought into the very family of God. This veil is only done away in
Christ. Verse 15, but even unto this
day, when Moses is read, the veil is still upon their hearts.
Why? Because they're not looking in
faith to what Christ did in his body. In the body of his life
as their righteousness, the body of his death as their justification. the body of his resurrection,
the body of his ascension as their glory. They're not looking
to Christ. And so the veil is a picture
of the flesh. The veil's been rent. The holies
of holies has been opened. The spirit and the bride no longer
say, stay away. They say, come, come, but they
can't. Why? Because the veil is still
upon them. is still looking to their flesh
for the hope of their salvation. Nevertheless, verse 16, nevertheless,
when it, that is the heart, turned to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. when the heart is turned to Christ. Lie here until morning. I'm going to my Father to prepare
a place for you. And I will come again, and I'll
receive you unto myself. so that where I am, there you
may be also. Let not your heart be troubled.
You believe in God, believe also in me. For in my Father's house
are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have
told you. I've given you a promise. You
rest here until morning. Our Heavenly Father, thank you
for this precious promise from your infallible word. We pray
that you would give us faith to believe all that you have
said. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. 509, let's stand together, number
509. Okay. The sands of time are sinking,
the dawn of heaven breaks. The summer morn I've sighed for,
the fair sweet morn awakes. Dark, dark hath been the midnight,
? But day spring is at hand ? And glory, glory dwelleth ? In Emmanuel's
land ? O Christ, he is the fountain ? The deep sweet well of life
The streams on earth I've tasted, more deep I'll drink above. There to an ocean fullness His
mercy doth And glory, glory dwelleth in
Emmanuel's land. Oh, I am my Beloved's, and my
Beloved's mine. He brings a poor vile sinner
into his house of wine. I stand upon His merit, I know
no other stand, Not in where glory dwelleth, In Emmanuel's
land. The bride eyes not her garment,
but her dear bridegroom's face. I will not gaze at glory, but
on my king of grace. Not at the crown he giveth, ?
On his pierced hand ? ? The Lamb is all the glory of Emmanuel's
land ?