Good evening. Let's open tonight's
service with hymn number 62, your hardback hymn number 62. Let's all stand together. crowns the Lamb upon His throne. Hark how the heavenly anthem
drowns all music but its own. Awake, my soul, and sing Of Him
who died for thee, And hail Him as thy matchless King Through
all eternity. Crown Him the Lord of love, Behold
His hands and side, rich in beauty glorified no angel in the sky
can fully bear that sight but downward bends his wandering
eye and mysteries crowned him Lord of life, who
triumphed for the great, who rose victorious to the strife
for those he came to save. His glories now we sing, who
died at Boson ? Who died eternal life to bring
? ? And lives that death may die ? ? Crown him Lord of heaven
? ? One with the Father known ? ? One with the Spirit through
him heaven thrown ? ? Yonder glorious throne ? ? To thee be
endless praise ? ? For thou for us hast died ? ? Be thou, O Lord,
through endless days ? ? Adored and magnified ? Please be seated. Amen. Let's open our Bibles together
to Romans 5. Romans 5. And we'll begin reading
at verse 17. Romans 5, verse 17. For if by
one man's offense, death reigned by one, you know that's a reference
to Adam's sin, and that when Adam sinned as our federal head
and as our seminal head, we died in him. And so by the offense
of one, death reigned by one, much more, they which receive
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign
in life by one Jesus Christ. Therefore, as by the offense
of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so
by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men
unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience,
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many
be made righteous. Moreover, the law entered that
the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound. That as sin hath reigned unto
death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal
life, by Jesus Christ, our Lord. Let's pray. Our glorious and merciful Heavenly
Father, what great hope we have in knowing that the Lord Jesus
Christ is our righteousness before Thee. and that we have full acceptance
in the beloved, knowing Lord that you are pleased with him
and that you are pleased with all those who are in him. Lord,
we ask that you would reveal more of his accomplished work
to our hearts through faith tonight. We pray, Lord, that your word
will be alive and effectual and that, Lord, that it would reveal
more of Christ and cause us, Lord, to see more of his glory
and to rest more fully in his person and in the accomplished
work of redemption. Thank you for his righteousness. Lord, we confess to you that
we have no righteousness of our own. And we ask that you would
give us rest in Christ. Lord, so many things in this
life and in this world, particularly in our flesh and in our sin and
in our unbelief, causes such conflict and such turmoil and
unrest. Lord, what hope we have in knowing
that all those things are ordained of you and that you've given
us a place near unto thee, where we can rest our souls. Lord,
give us that, that grace tonight. Thank you that where sin abounds,
grace does much more abound. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. Number 224, 224 in the hardback
timbrel. Let's stand together again. 224. Though not my God's wondrous
grace to me hath made known, Nor my unworthy Christ in love
redeem me for His own. But I know whom I have believed,
And am persuaded that He is able, To keep that which I've committed
Unto Him against that grave. I know not how this saving grave
To me He did imply, for how believing in his word brought peace within
my heart. But I know whom I am believing
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I committed
unto him against that day. I know not how the Spirit moves,
convincing man of sin. Revealing Jesus through the Word,
creating faith in Him. But I know whom I have believed
with And am persuaded that he is able To keep that which I've
committed Unto him against that day I know not what a good or
ill May be reserved for me The weary ways o'er golden days before
his face I see But I know whom I have believed and am persuaded
that he is able to keep that which I committed unto him against
that day. my lord may come at night or
noonday fair nor if I walk the vale with him or meet him in
the air but I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that
he is able to keep that which I committed unto him against
that day. Please be seated. I love that hymn. I know whom
I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able. Abraham believed
God and it was counted to him for righteousness. Faith is believing
God, not believing about God, not believing in God, not believing
the doctrines of God, believing God, just believing what he says. And when God makes you to be
a believer, you believe God. You can't not believe him. That's
what Paul was saying when he wrote that passage. I know whom
I have believed. And I'm persuaded that he is
able to keep that which I've entrusted. That's what the word
committed there means. It means to entrust. And he said,
I've entrusted everything to him. And I believe that he is
able. Let's open our Bibles together
to Psalm 119. I want you to look with me to
verses 142 through 144, and I've titled this message Everlasting
Righteousness. Everlasting Righteousness. Satan, the scripture says, has
transformed himself into an angel of light and his ministers as
ministers of righteousness. The false gospel promotes righteousness
as something that man does. And I want us to understand what
the Lord teaches us in his word about everlasting righteousness. Now you remember what the word
everlasting means. It means it never had a beginning
and it never has an end. And that's the kind of righteousness
that we need. And that's the kind of righteousness
that Abraham was imputed with when the scripture says he believed
God. And it was counted to him or
credited to him for righteousness. Look at verse 142, thy righteousness
is an everlasting righteousness and thy law is the truth. Trouble
and anguish have taken hold on me. Yet thy commandments are
my delight. Lord's given us faith to believe
everything that he said. We understand that these words
are prophetic first, as we've always seen, particularly in
the Psalms, that these are the words of Christ. And he suffered
anguish like we know nothing of, but in our troubles and in
our anguish, We believe God. We believe that his word is true. We believe that he's true. Look
at verse 144. The righteousness of my testimonies
is everlasting. Give me understanding and I shall
live. I hope we can leave here tonight
with just a little bit better understanding about what everlasting
righteousness is. I want to try to address two
questions. What is righteousness? What is
everlasting righteousness? And how can I have everlasting
righteousness? Now, oftentimes we think of righteousness
as the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it is, but
it's more than that. It's more than that. It's so
much more. It's kind of like, Holiness is
more than the perfection of Christ. It's his nature. It's who he
is. It's the essence of his being. He is righteous, perfectly righteous. And the Lord said, unless your
righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees,
you shall not enter into the kingdom of God. So these ministers
of righteousness would have us to think that righteousness is
something that we do. And that's what the Pharisees
thought. But this is the neverlasting
righteousness. This is God's righteousness.
And this righteousness is all of grace. Paul said in Galatians,
he said, I do not frustrate the grace of God. For if righteousness
come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. So it's not
only a misrepresentation of righteousness, but it's a frustration of the
grace of God. If we make righteousness to be
by the law, in other words, by our law keeping, righteousness
is who the Lord Jesus Christ is. David said, I will speak
of thy righteousness even of thine only. The Lord's name is
Jehovah Sidkenu, the Lord our righteousness. And by virtue
of our union with Christ, she shall be called the Lord our
righteousness. So he gives us his name. The Lord went on to say the kingdom
of God is not meat and drink. It's not what you do. but it
is righteousness and peace and joy of the Holy Ghost. That's
the kingdom of God. If we don't have the righteousness,
the everlasting righteousness of Christ, we have no part in
the kingdom of God. We have no peace with God. That's
what the Lord's saying there. Kingdom of God is not what you
eat or what you drink or what you do. It's righteousness and
it's peace. And it's the joy of the Holy
Ghost. If we have peace with God, we have the joy of the Holy
Ghost, regardless of what lack of peace we might have in our
circumstances. If we have peace with God, we
have the righteousness of God in Christ. And we have the joy of the Holy
Ghost. Scripture refers to the Lord
as the righteous judge and the righteous savior. And the scripture
says that we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven
and a new earth where in dwelleth righteousness. There's no sin
in heaven, only righteousness. There's no sun, there's no moon,
for Christ is light thereof. What a great hope we have for
our sister Peggy, knowing that she is experiencing the fullness
of righteousness in her experience. And we haven't gotten there yet.
We haven't experienced that. But that doesn't mean that we
don't believe it. Without faith, it's impossible
to please God. They that come to Him must believe
that He is, and that He's the rewarder of them that diligently
seek Him. And we just believe God. We believe
God. Paul said, there is laid up for
me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
judge, shall give me. And not me only, all they, all
they that rejoice in his appearing. So here's our hope. Our hope
is that through faith, by promise, we have the full righteousness
of God in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, who was made sin
for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. And that one day, one day we'll
see him as he is and be made like him. For this new heaven
and new earth dwelleth nothing but righteousness, everlasting
righteousness. Galatians chapter five, verse
five says, we wait through the spirit for the hope of righteousness
by faith. That's our hope. Our hope is
the full righteousness of God. We have a hope now. We have a hope and that hope
is that one day, one day, we'll receive that crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge shall give to us. And then the Lord goes on to
say, put on the new man, put on the new man, which after God
is created in righteousness and true holiness. It's the new man. You see, we've got two natures,
don't we? Somebody asked me recently, You know, if we're in Christ
and we have the righteousness of God, then why would we ever
need to be comforted? You know, why can't we? Well,
you know the answer to that. We have two natures. This old
man is, well, he's the dead flesh that we're dragging around, aren't
we? Or should I put on the new man?
Put on the new man. In other words, look to Christ
and believe what he has said about who we are in him. The new man created in righteousness
and true holiness. Here's what the father says about
the son. Unto the son he saith, thy throne Oh, God is forever
and ever. A scepter of righteousness is
the scepter of my kingdom. For the Lord, here's the father
speaking to the son, for thou hast loved righteousness and
hated iniquity. Therefore, God, even by God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness of both thy fellows.
Now, being anointed with the oil, that's the joy of the Holy
Spirit. That's who we have, who teaches us to look to Christ
for all our righteousness and rest in Christ for all the hope
of our salvation before God. The Lord Jesus Christ was anointed
with the oil of gladness. That's who he is. He's the anointed one. He's the
Christ. He's the Messiah. He came in the full power of
the Spirit of God. establishing righteousness for
his people. And our text says, thy righteousness
is an everlasting righteousness. We have no righteousness of our
own. Isaiah chapter 64 verse five
says, and we have sinned. And in those is continuance,
yet we shall be saved. And then the next verse goes
on to say, we are all as an unclean thing. All our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags, and we do all fade as a leaf. And our iniquity, like the wind,
has taken us away. Here's the Lord likens us to
this leaf that falls from a tree and is just blown away by the
wind. That's our righteousness. That's
our righteousness. We have no righteousness. If
all our righteousness is not found in the Lord Jesus Christ,
we have no righteousness whatsoever. So we're either perfectly righteous
in Him, or we have no righteousness at all. And it is true. It is true that the truly righteous,
those who find their righteousness in Christ, and all their righteousness
in Christ, believe themselves to be unrighteous. And all the unrighteous, who
are not looking to Christ for their righteousness, believe
themselves to be righteous. It's a terrible thing, isn't
it? It's a wonderful thing for the believer, but it's a terrible
thing that men would believe themselves to be righteous based
on something that they've done. The Lord said in Ezekiel chapter
33, verse 13, when I say to the righteous that he shall surely
live if he trusts in his own righteousness and commit iniquity,
all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered, if he trusts
in his own righteousness. Daniel chapter nine, verse 18
says, not for our own righteousnesses, but for thy great mercy, He made
him to be sin for us who knew no sin. Turn me to that passage
in Daniel. Daniel chapter nine, I want to
read. Daniel chapter nine. Verse 18, oh my God, incline
thine ear and hear, open thine eyes and behold our desolations
and the city which is called by thy name. For we do not present
our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but
for thy great mercies. Lord, we're coming to you, not
because we have something to offer you, not because we have
something to persuade you with, and not because we're looking
for a reward for something that we've done, but for your mercy's
sake, Lord, we need the righteousness of Christ. Paul said, touching the righteousness,
which is of the law, I was blameless. No, he went about trying to establish
his own righteousness, having a great zeal for God, but being
ignorant of the righteousness of God, not knowing that Christ
was the end of the law for righteousness. And he says concerning the law,
I was blameless until the law came. And I understood for the
first time what it meant, thou shalt not covet. The law came
and sin revived and I died. For the first time I knew I had
no righteousness whatsoever. I was completely dependent upon
another for all my righteousness before God. We can't mix our
righteousness with the righteousness of Christ. Christ is all our
righteousness or we have no righteousness. Scripture makes it clear. There's
none that doeth good. None that doeth good. No, not
one. As we've already seen in Isaiah 64, all we like sheep
have gone astray. All our righteousnesses, all
of them are as filthy rags before God. The heart is deceitful above
all things and desperately weak. God sees that every imagination
of our hearts are only evil and not continually. Christ has to
be all our righteousness. That's what the Lord's saying
in our text. Go back with me to Psalm 119. Verse 142, thy righteousness,
thy righteousness. This is the essence of His holy
nature. He's righteous. And He loves
righteousness and He hates iniquity. His eyes are too pure to look
upon sin. We've got to be completely righteous
before God. We've got to be perfect. What
did Paul say in Philippians? He said, all that I could be
found in Christ, in Christ, not having my own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that righteousness, which is by the
faith and faithfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so he
says, thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and
thy law is the truth. Trouble and anguish have taken
hold on me. Whatever troubles we might have
in this life, whatever God has ordained for us to have to go
through in this life. Our real trouble and anguish
is our own sin, isn't it? It's our own belief. It's our
own belief. You remember when John was taken
up into heaven and he saw these who were dressed in white robes
and he asked the angel, he said, who are these? Oh, these are
the saints. The white linen, that's the righteousness
of the saints. These are the ones who have washed
their robes in the blood of the lamb. The full righteousness
of God. That's what we have through faith.
Through faith. Let me show you a passage. Turn
with me to Deuteronomy chapter six. Deuteronomy chapter six. I want to compare Deuteronomy
6 to Luke chapter 10. Deuteronomy chapter 6. This was
the John 3.16 of the Old Testament Israelites.
It's called the Shema. It was the one passage in all
the Old Testament that summarized everything. Here, verse four,
here, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with
all thy might. That was the summary of the law.
Now turn with me to Luke chapter 10. Oh, let's go down to verse
24 in that same passage. Verse 24 in Deuteronomy chapter
six. Look at the last two verses of
this chapter. And the Lord commanded us to
do all these statutes to fear the Lord, our God, for our good
always, that he might preserve us alive. And as it is at this
day, and it shall be our righteousness if We observe to do all these
commandments before the Lord, our God, as he hath commanded
us. This will be our righteousness.
We're able to love the Lord, our God, with all of our heart
and with all of our mind and with all of our soul, all of
the time. That'll be our righteousness.
Now turn with me to Luke chapter 10. Luke chapter 10. Verse 25. And behold, a certain
lawyer, a lawyer, a man who, this is
not civil law, this is the religious law of Israel. This was a man
very familiar with the scriptures. And a certain lawyer stood up
and tempted him, saying, Master, What shall I do to inherit eternal
life? And the Lord said unto him, What
is written in the law? How readest thou? You know the
scriptures. What's the law say? And he answered
and said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all
thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. He was going back to
Deuteronomy chapter 6. He said, that's what the law
said. And if we do that, that'll be our righteousness. And look
what the Lord said. And he, the Lord said unto him,
thou hast answered right. This do and thou shalt live. If you can love the Lord with
all of your heart and all of your mind and all of your soul
all the time, you'll live. That'll be your righteousness. What do we know? That God gave
the law that sin might be utterly sinful. That law was never intended
to save anybody or to establish anyone's righteousness. It was
to show us of our inability to have a righteousness by our obedience. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one that loved God with all of his heart and all of his
mind and all of his soul all the time. He's our righteousness. Right after that, the Lord gives
the parable of the good Samaritan. Remember the man that was beaten
and left for dead on the side of the road and the, and the,
and the Pharisee came and couldn't help him. And the priest came
and couldn't help him. And, and, uh, the Levi came and
couldn't help him because he could not be given life by the
law. By the laws, the knowledge of
sin, all the law can do is slay us. Cause us to see that we can't
do this and you shall live. But Lord, I can't. I can't give you all my heart,
all my mind and all my soul for a minute, much less all the time.
What am I gonna do? And so the Lord, likens himself to
that Samaritan who comes and takes this wounded man and binds
him up with oil and wine and takes him to the end and provides
everything he needs for him. And speaking to this lawyer who
was looking for some way to have eternal life, what must I do
that I might inherit eternal life? Yeah, we were in Deuteronomy.
Let's go back to Deuteronomy chapter 9. I want to show you
another passage of scripture here in Deuteronomy chapter 9.
Look with me at verse 4. Verse 4 of Deuteronomy chapter
9. Speak not thou in thine heart after that the Lord thy God hath
cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness
the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land, and for the
wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from
before thee. The Lord said, I'm gonna give
you a land. I'm gonna give you houses you
didn't build. I'm gonna give you crops you didn't plant. I'm
gonna give you cities you didn't build. I'm gonna drive the inhabitants
of those cities out and I'm gonna give them to you. And when I
do, don't say that I got them by my righteousness. That's what self-righteous, free
will, man-made works religion is. Well, you know, I did this
and I did that and I repented and I accepted Jesus and I changed
my life and I'm not doing this anymore. I'm doing that now.
Don't say that you got these things by your righteousness
is what the Lord say to the children of Israel. Look at verse five,
not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness of thine
heart doth thou go to possess this land. You know, the land
is a picture of salvation. That's heaven. That's glory. And he said, not for thy righteousness
or for thy uprightness of heart doth thou go to possess their
land, but for the wickedness of these nations, the Lord thy
God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may
perform the word which the Lord swore unto thy father, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. In other words, God's saying,
the reason I'm gonna give that to you is because I'm gonna fulfill
my covenant promise. And that's the only, not because
of our righteousness, but because he's faithful to keep his promise. The covenant promise that the
father made to give the son a bride and the covenant promise that
the son made to redeem that bride and the covenant promise that
the Holy Spirit made to regenerate that bride. And the Lord said,
that's the reason I'm saving you. because I'm going to remember
my covenant promise. Understand therefore, look at
verse six, understand therefore that the Lord thy God giveth
thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness, for
thou art a stiff necked people. Can you relate to that? Lord, if I've got to earn your
favor in order to get your blessings, You know, forgiveness of my sin.
Lord, I'm a stiff necked person. You're so hard. I'm slow to learn. Slow of heart at what the Lord
said to the disciples. I'm not giving you this because
of your righteousness. In Genesis, the first time the
word righteousness is used in the Bible is in Genesis chapter
15. When God appeared to Abraham and made that covenant promise
to Abraham to give him descendants after his seed, which was a reference
to Christ. He was going to bring in the
Messiah and save his people through Abraham. And Abraham responded
by saying, but Lord, I don't have a seed. I don't have a descendant.
All I've got is this, this Eleazar from Damascus. He was my, it
was, it was Abraham's slave. Am I going to give everything
to him? And the Lord took Abraham out
and he said, look up into the sky. He said, can you count the
stars? No. Your descendants will be
as the stars of the sky. And here's what the scripture
says. And Abraham believed God. He just believed God. God said
it, that settled it. Abraham believed it. Faith is believing God. It's
just believing God. That's all it is. It's not even
more complicated than that. It's not being able to not believe
him. It's like when God gives you
faith, you just believe him. Everything he said. Did Christ
do everything necessary for the salvation of our souls? Did he
satisfy the justice of God? Did he establish an everlasting
righteousness? Did he? Does the Bible teach
that? Yeah. Matter of fact, the scriptures
is called the word of righteousness. The word of righteousness. I'll show you another passage.
Acts chapter 27. You'll be encouraged to see this.
Acts chapter 27. Paul is being taken to Rome. And the ship is in a storm. There's
276 souls, the scripture says, on this ship. And they're caught
in the Aegean Sea in a storm and the ship is about to sink. And so some of the sailors acted
like they were going to put down anchors, but really they were
cutting loose the lifeboats and they were going to escape for
their lives. And the Lord spoke to Paul. The Lord told Paul,
you make sure that all 276 souls stay on the ship. Now that ship's
a picture of the church. You know, we go through some
storms and the way of the Lord is through the seas. And he's
ordained some difficult times in our lives, some stormy trials. And yet he says, I'll never leave
you nor forsake you. Believe me, believe me. And so Paul tells the captain
of the ship, don't let them leave. The Lord has told me that if
we stick with the ship, we'll all live. All every one of us,
not one soul will be lost. And you know what happened. They
landed in a place called Fair Haven in Melita, which is now
Malta. And they, every one of them lived. But look what Paul says in Acts
chapter 27 at verse 24. Fear not Paul, this is God speaking
to Paul. Fear not Paul. Thou must be brought
before Caesar, and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail
with thee. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer,
for I believe God." Period. Now, the ship broke up. Some
of them had to go to land on, you know, holding on to a piece
of wood. And when he got there, it was cold and raining, and
they built a fire and a serpent came out and bit Paul on the
hand. And all the people in Melita
thought, well, God's getting him. And then when he didn't
die, they said, oh, he must be a god. I mean, there was just
a lot of stuff going on. But Paul said, God said. Not one of us would be lost.
And I believe God, I believe God. That it shall, look at the last
part of verse 25. That it shall be even as it was
told me. Now brethren, that's just what
faith is. I'm persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I've committed unto him. I just believe God. I can't not believe him. And
I believe him based on everything that he has said, everything
he said. Abraham against hope believed
God. He was a hundred years old. Sarah
was 90 years old. How are they going to have a
seed? You know, I told you that was the first time righteousness
is mentioned in Genesis chapter 15. And then in Genesis chapter
16, that's when Abraham takes Hagar and has Ishmael. And then
14 years later, Ishmael's 14 years old. And the Lord says
to Abraham, put out the bond woman and her son. And here's
a man that raised a boy for 14 years. And God told him to put
him out. And the Lord gave him Isaac,
the child of promise. Why? Because he believed God. In spite of everything, he believed
God. And God counted it to him for
righteousness. You see the means by which this
everlasting righteousness is who God is. And the means by
which we have this righteousness is to believe God. With the heart, man believeth
unto righteousness. That's what the gospel, that's
what God says to you and me all the time. You're going through some stormy
trials, believe God, just believe God, just trust Christ, rest
in Him. What is it that we believe? Everything
God has said, everything He said. Hebrews chapter five, verse 13
says, the Bible is the word of righteousness. And there's a
passage in Timothy that I often quote, that all scripture is
given by inspiration of God and all scripture is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction in righteousness. We're always having to have our bearings reset, aren't we?
We do. I mean, we lose focus. We lose
sight. That's why we're here right now.
That's why we're here tonight. You know, you had a feed on the
bread of life, but we've been so distracted by the things of
this world. And Lord, I need to believe you. I just need to believe you, regardless
of what happens, regardless of what you do. You're on the throne. You set up kings, you take down
kings. Part of the king's in the hand
of the Lord as the watercourse. You know, he directs it whithersoever
he wills. You know, whatever's happening
Lord, in the world, whatever's happening in my life, I believe
God. And without faith, it is impossible
to please God. For they that come to him must
believe that he is. Abraham believed God and it was
counted to him for righteousness. Let's go back to our text in
our close. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.
Hasn't changed. It's an immutable righteousness.
It's a holy righteousness. It's the very nature of God that
he gives us in the new man. The new man is created, the scripture
said, in righteousness and in true holiness. He's a righteous
man. He's found in Christ. He's perfect. He's without sin. He's loved
even as God loves his son. That's what it's been to be found
in Christ. An everlasting righteousness. God has always viewed his people
in Christ. That's why he's been able to
love them with an everlasting love. He loves righteousness.
He hates iniquity. What is iniquity? Everything
that falls short of the glory of God is iniquity. Thy law is truth. Lord, Your
word is all I have. I don't have hope in anything
else. Health may be failing. Marriage
may be failing. Country may be failing. Economy
may be failing. I don't know. Whatever. But Lord,
Your word is truth. Your word is truth. That's where
I rest. It's all my hope. Trouble and anguish have taken
hold on me. Yet, yet thy commandments are
my delights. What has the Lord commanded us
to do? What must I do to have eternal life? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rest your hope in Him for all your righteousness before God.
Believe that He did everything necessary to satisfy the justice
of God. That His shed blood is sufficient
covering for your sin. And believe that if God be for
you, who can be against you? Who can be against you? Verse 144. The righteousness
of thy testimonies is everlasting. Give me understanding. Lord,
give me understanding. Give me understanding. And I
shall live. I shall live. I'll live on Christ. I'll live
in Christ. and I'll live, I mean, I'll really
live. This is life eternal that they
believe on him whom he has sent. To believe God is life eternal. Our heavenly father, thank you
for your word. Forgive us for our unbelief. Lord, you said that faith comes
by hearing and hearing comes by the word of God. Take your
word now and bless our hearts with the grace to believe. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. 296, let's stand together, 296. All the way my Savior leads me,
what have I to ask beside? Can I doubt His tender mercy,
who through life has been my guide? Heavenly peace, divine
as comfort, hear my faith in him to dwell. For I know whate'er
befall me, Jesus doeth all things well. For I know whate'er befall
me, Jesus doeth all things well. All the way my Savior leads me,
Tears each winding path I tread, Gives me grace for every trial,
Feeds me with a living bread. Though my weary steps may falter,
And my soul a thirst may be, Gushing from the rock before
me, O, a spring of joy I see! Gushing from the rock before
me, O, a spring of joy I see! All the way my Savior leads me,
O the fullness of His love. Perfect rest to me is promised
in my Father's house above. Then my spirit, lone immortal,
Wings its flight to realms of day. This my song through endless
ages, Jesus, lead me all the way. This my song through endless
ages, Jesus, lead me all the way. Bye!