Open tonight's service with hymn
number 58 in your hardbacked hymnal, number 58. Jesus, the
very thought of thee. And let's all stand together.
Number 58. With sweetness fills my breast,
But sweeter are thy face to see, And in thy presence Your voice can sing Your heart
can pray Nor can the memory hide A sweeter sound than thy blessed
name O Savior of mankind Oh joy of all the league, to
those who fall how kind thou art. The love of Jesus Christ is his. None but his loved ones know. Jesus, our only joy, be thou,
as thou our prize wilt be. Jesus, be thou our glory now,
and through each Please be seated. Let's open our Bibles together
to Psalm 123. Psalm 123. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes. O thou that dwellest in the heavens,
Behold, as the eyes of the servant look under the hand of their
master, and as the eyes of a maiden under the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God until that he have mercy
upon us. Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have
mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. Our soul
is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at
ease and with the contempt of the proud. Let's pray. Our merciful heavenly father,
we take great hope and comfort in knowing that you delight in
showing mercy, that your mercies are renewed every day, that your grace is sufficient
to take away the proud look and the contemptuous heart that we
live with every day with our sin. We ask Lord that you would
enable us in this hour to set our eyes on Christ, to set our
affections on him. Lord, if that is to be, you have
to turn us We find ourselves so easily distracted and attracted
to the things of this world. Send your spirit in power. Open
that which no man can shut. Reveal to us the glory of Christ. Enable us to set our affections
on things above where Christ is seated at thy right hand.
Might we leave this place tonight with a renewed hope forgiveness,
grace, and mercy. Have mercy upon us, oh God. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. Number 355 from the hardback
terminal, 355. Let's all stand together again. From every stormy wind that blows,
from every swelling tide of woes, there is a calm, a sure retreat,
it's found beneath the mercy seat. There is a place where
Jesus shed the oil of gladness on our heads, a place that, oh,
besides more sweet, it is the blood of mercy. See? There is a scene where spirits
clap, where friend holds fellowship with friend, or how? Maybe around
a common mercy seat. Ah, where could we flee for aid,
When tempted, desolate, dismayed, From all the hosts of hell we
flee, And suff'ring saints no mercy see? On air, on eagle wings we soar,
and sin and sense call us no more. And heaven comes down,
our souls to reap, while glory crowns the mercy seat. Please
be seated. Will you open your Bibles with
me to Psalm 119. Psalm 119. Scripture says that the children
of God have the mind of Christ. When the Lord gives us a new
nature. He causes us to hunger and thirst
after righteousness. He causes us to love those things
that he loves and hates those things that he hates. He causes
us to be as David was a man after God's own heart. I've titled
this message, What Does God Hate? What Does God Hate? We use that
word hate most often as a negative, sinful emotion. We teach our
children not to use it. But the scriptures are filled
with examples of the things that God hates. And my hope tonight
is that the Lord will increase our hatred for the things that
he hates. And in doing so that we will
find ourselves loving the things that he loves. You have your
Bibles open to Psalm 119. Look with me at verse 128. Therefore, I esteem all my precepts
concerning all things to be right. And I hate every false way. In short, every false way is
that way of salvation that denies Christ his glory. The Lord Jesus
said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man can come
to the fault but my way. And God hates the way that man
has devised. There is a way, there is a way,
that seems right unto man. The way of free will, the way
of good works, the way of personal opinion, the way of religion,
the way of morality, all of these things seem right unto man, but
in the end, they lead to death. And the Lord's saying here, I
hate every false way, every false way. I don't want to be guilty of
spending all of my time fighting or preaching against the false
ways. And yet, if we're faithful to
preach Christ unapologetically and boldly, we cannot do it without
exposing the false ways. The light of the gospel sheds
light on man's false ways. In Ecclesiastes chapter three,
verse eight, the Lord said, there is a time for love and there
is a time for hate. There are things that God hates
and there are things that God's people hate. First and foremost,
they hate the sin in their own hearts. Paul said in Romans chapter
seven, he said, that which I hate, that thing I do. And, uh, And
we hate the proud look. We hate the contempt that's in
our own heart and in our own unbelief and our own rebellion.
I guess God hates it. And he causes us to hate it. We have a holy hatred for those
things. The Lord said in Psalm 31 verse
six, he said, I have hated them that regard lying vanities. Those who promote a salvation
that is not honoring to Christ. It doesn't make Christ everything
in salvation. The Lord said they are lying
vanities and I hate them. I hate them. Of course, we're all familiar with
what the Lord said about Jacob and Esau. Jacob I've loved. He loved him with an everlasting
love. He was one of God's elect. He represents all of God's elect.
Jacob with all of his sinful problems, of course, that I place
my love on him. And Esau, Esau I've hated. Now that's a truth that the religious
world in particular, well, no man outside of Christ can really
believe that. You know, everybody has made
God to be altogether such a one as themselves. And they, they
think that, you know, if I was God, I'd love everybody. You
don't love everybody now. Why would you love everybody
then? You know? But you know, that's what man does. They've,
they, they fashioned in their imagination a lying vanity about
God. And the Lord said, I hate lying
vanities. And I hate every false way. We hate the false ways in our
own hearts. We just read from that Psalm 123. Look with me, turn over a page
to Psalm 123. Our soul is exceedingly filled
with the scorning, those that are at ease. How at ease we are
in Zion. How little passion we have for
Christ, how cold our hearts can be, how distracted and caught
up in the things of this world we find ourselves. And we hate
that about ourselves. And he goes on to say, and with
the contempt of the proud. That's really our problem. Pride
is our problem. We're so focused on ourselves,
so consumed with ourselves, and we hate that about ourselves.
Turn with me to Proverbs chapter six. You're familiar with this
passage. The Lord said, there are six
things that I hate, yea, seven. Seven things that God hates.
might the Lord put into our hearts a holy hatred. Like I said, we think of hatred
as some sort of sinful emotion and usually it is, but there's
a holy hatred. When God hates, he hates perfectly. And the nature that he's given
us is in agreement with that hatred. Proverbs chapter six. Look at verse 16. These six things doth the Lord
hate. Yea, seven are abomination to
him. Perfect hatred. The number seven
is the number for perfection. And what the Lord's telling us
here is I have a perfect hatred, a holy hatred for these things.
And notice what it begins with, a proud look. A proud look. We know what that is, that contemptuous,
condescending look that we can give people if they don't agree
with us or if they're not on our side. And then the Lord convicts us
and Lord make me humble, make me gentle, make me kind. And we hate that in ourselves and
the Lord hates that, but he's put it away. He's put that away
through the sacrifice of his son on Calvary's cross. That's
our hope. Our hope is that that sin's been
paid for fully, fully. Here's the, here's the real proud
look, the look that, uh, that claims to have done something
to earn favor with God, something to make a contribution to the
work of Christ. That's the proud look, the look
that looks contemptuously to the finished work and glorious
person of the Lord Jesus Christ and robs from him his glory and
takes it to man. And God says, I hate it. I hate
lying vanities. I hate every false way. Every false way. Notice what
else he says. I hate not only a proud look,
but a lying tongue. A lying tongue. Lord, make me
to be honest. Make me to be sincere. Make me
to be truthful. And when we, when we gloss things
over or fix things to make ourselves look better. And we hate that
thing about ourselves. And yet again, the lying tongue,
the lying tongue is that tongue which tells lies about God. They'll
say one thing about God and then they'll define it as something
else. The lying tongue is the tongue that denies the sovereignty
of God. denies the work of Christ in
salvation. It denies man's depravity. It lies about man's ability to
do something for himself in order to be saved. That's the lying
tongue. These are the false ways, all
the false ways. What is a false way? It's every
way that denies Christ his glory in salvation. Every way that
denies that Jesus Christ is all and he is in all. And God says,
I hate it. I hate it. Don't you hate it?
Don't you hate when you hear a false preacher deceiving people? You hate it, number one, because
it robs God of his glory. You hate it, number two, because
if what he's saying is true, it robs you of your hope. If
there's any truth to what he's saying, I've got no hope in my
salvation. And number three, you hate it because of how it
robs man of his salvation. And we do. I'm sorry for the
people that sit and listen to false prophets in their lying
vanities and in their proud, false ways. Notice what the Lord hates thirdly
in this passage. hands that shed innocent blood. Hebrews chapter 6 verse 6 says
they've crucified Christ afresh and put him to open shame. They
by their hands are shedding innocent blood. Every time they promote
Christ as somebody who needs your approval, they have shed
his blood fresh again. And they're denying the the effectiveness
and the completion of his shed blood the once and for all when
he put away our sins by the shedding of his blood and putting that
blood on the mercy seat. You see, he's got to do it over
and over and over. It's not just the Catholics that
are having a mass and doing it. It's everybody that denies the
finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. By their hands, they
are crucifying Christ afresh, denying him. his glory in salvation. Notice the fourth thing that
he says, a heart that devises wicked imaginations. There it
is. Man, and we know, I mean, here
again, we hate the things that God hates and we hate the imaginations
of our minds and how far from God our thoughts can be. And
how worldly and fleshly our minds can be. And then, you know, the
fact that God has already said every imagination of the heart
is only evil and that continually, and Lord, I'm not capable of
having a holy thought. I want to, and I long for that
day when I'll be shed of this fleshly mind and this fleshly
body, and there'll be no more vain imaginations. But the real
vain imagination, again, as it is, it comes to the gospel, is
man imagining. that he can do something to help
God out in saving him, or imagining that God is going to be impressed
with something he does, that he's going to earn merit and
favor with God by any of his works. That's the thing that
God hates more than anything. Look, the heart that deviseth,
and they do, they devise them. I mean, how many religions, how
many opinions, how many ideas have men come up with about God
and about man and about salvation. They devise wicked imaginations,
feet that are swift in running to mischief. The word there,
mischief is evil. And we can be swift to turn our
attention to the things of this world, the evil things and evil
imaginations. And we hate that about ourselves. One of the things we long for
And being with Christ is being without sin. Being without sin,
no more vain imagining and no more feet swift to shed innocent
blood. Yet again, the world sheds the
blood of Christ over and over and over again when they deny
his finished work in salvation. They deny that that blood was
put on the mercy seat and that all the sins that it was purposed
to put away were put away once and for all. Man don't believe
that. God says, I hate feet that are
swift to shed innocent blood and feet that are swift in running
to evil and to mischief. Look at verse 19. a false witness that speaks lies. That's all these vain ways are. The ways that God hates, they're
false witnesses. They're false prophets. And they're
spreading lies and telling lies. And you know, I used to think
that people were smarter than they are, but yeah. Well, I tell
you, the lies that people swallow and the things that they believe,
It's unbelievable, it's amazing how easily deceived we can be. The world is full of false prophets
and false speakers and liars. And look at verse 19, and he
that soweth discord among brethren, oh brethren, let us be careful
to encourage one another and to hold one another up. And God
says, I hate it. You know, the fellowship of God's
people is so fragile and, but for the grace of God, we, you
know, we divide ourselves and we've got such unity in Christ
and such hope. And yet we'll major on the minors
and we'll get offended with one another and say things about
one another to each other. And God says, I hate that. I
hate that. Lord, spare us from such speech. The tongue is James, James tells
us about what that tongue is. It's a fire of iniquity and no
man can tame it. We can't tame our own tongues,
but God can tame it. If we'll just go before him and
say, Lord, I hate that about myself. I can't, I've said things
I shouldn't have said. Lord, forgive me, restrain me. God says, I hate brethren. That, that, that sow discord
among the brethren. Turn with me to Proverbs chapter
11. We're looking at things that God hates. We're hoping that
the Lord will make us to hate the things that He hates and
to love the things that He loves. Proverbs chapter 11. This has
to do with the message that we preach Sunday on Christ, our
surety. And look here what the Lord says
he hates in Proverbs chapter 11 at verse 15. He that is surety for a stranger
shall smart for it. and he that hateth suretyship
is sure." Now that's not talking about the suretyship of Christ.
We love that suretyship. He's talking about what happens
among religious people when they become surety for each other,
convincing one another that they're Christians. And the Lord said,
You become surety for a stranger. You try to convince another man
that he's a believer. Only God can convince him of
that. You go smart for it. And those who are sure in Christ,
hate that kind of surety ship. Don't you hate it when men are
always going around trying to get you call them brethren and
get you to agree with them that y'all worship the same God. You
know, and then they'll say things like, well, you know, I know
I'm saved and we're all brethren together. No. And as soon as
we begin, if we agree with them, we have become surety for a stranger. And the Lord says, hate that
kind of suretyship. Don't give them up. Don't give
them a place. Don't become their surety. That's something only God can
give them. And if He's going to give it to them, He'll give
it to them through the preaching of the gospel, won't He? Turn with me to Isaiah
chapter 61. Isaiah chapter 61. Our text is, I hate every false
way. What does God hate? And here
in Isaiah chapter 61, at verse eight, for I the Lord love judgment. When was judgment executed? When
was justice satisfied? When the Holy One of Israel laid
down his life for the sins of his people, and satisfied God's
holy justice once and for all. And God says, I love judgment.
There's no judgment in anything that anybody else can do. The
only judgment of God was satisfied on Calvary's cross. And God says,
I love judgment. And anything, any suggestion
that God's judgment was not fulfilled, Through the finished work of
Christ on Calvary's cross, God says, I hate it. Look what he
says in the next part. I hate robbery for burnt offerings.
I hate it when men rob Christ of his glory and salvation. I
hate it when they rob God of his holiness and of his truth
and of his justice and of his judgment and of his deity. They
robbed him of that. They honor him with their lips,
but you listen, words are only as good as the definitions attached
to them, aren't they? And people say, well, Jesus is
God, and then they turn right around and deny the very essence
of God. They deny the very essence of
deity by suggesting that election, that can't be true, that's not
fair. God's like me, he's got to give everybody a chance. You
know, I've got a free will, I can make a decision. Christ, you know, wants everybody
to be saved and he's doing all he can to save everybody, but
he can't get it done without my approval. What are they doing?
They're setting themselves up on the throne of God. And God
says, I hate, I love judgment. And I hate robbery. for burnt offerings. Look at the rest of that verse.
I will direct their work in truth. How do we know the truth? Only as the Lord directs us through
the scriptures and speaks to our hearts and reveals to us
who Christ is and what he's accomplished. Then we know the truth. And the
Lord says, if you know the truth, the truth will set you free.
The Lord said, I am the truth. I am the truth. You remember
what Pilate said, are you the king of the Jews? And what did
the Lord say? For this cause, for this cause came I into the
world. For this reason was I born, to bear witness unto the truth. And they that are of the truth
hear my voice and they follow me. And Pilate said, truth? Is
that what this is all about? You know there's no such thing
as truth. Relativism, brethren, didn't just start with our generation.
Men have always, always been relative. And that affords them
the power to be God. I can decide for myself what's
right and what's true, what's not true, what's right and what's
not. God said, I will direct them through my truth. Lord,
direct me through your truth. Don't lead me to myself. Don't
lead me to my own opinions. Look at the rest of that verse.
I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting
covenant with him. I remind you for the hundredth
time, everlasting doesn't mean it starts now and it lasts forever.
The word everlasting means it never had a beginning and never
has an end. It's everlasting from both ends. That's the covenant of grace.
We talk about God establishing the covenant of grace in eternity
past. And that's just language that
we have to use because we can't enter into what it means to be
eternal. And we have a hard enough time
grasping eternity in the future. But to try to comprehend eternity
past, something that never had a beginning, well, that's the
covenant of grace. That's what the Lord said, I'm
established for them, an everlasting covenant. This covenant can't
be changed. This is the covenant that the
Lord Jesus Christ entered into with his father in agreeing to
be our surety. And there's our hope. There's
our hope. We don't rob him by trying to
purchase from God his grace by a burnt offering. And we love
his judgment. Turn with me to Jeremiah chapter
44. A lot of things in the Bible
God says He hates. We don't... Again, this is not human hatred. This is not mean-spirited, intolerant,
confrontational human hatred. This is the kind of hatred that
just agrees with God. This is the hatred of the heart
against the things that deny God the truth and his glory. And look what, look what the
Lord says in Jeremiah chapter, chapter 44, beginning at verse
two, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, you have seen
all the evil that I brought upon Jerusalem, upon all the cities
of Judah, And behold, this day they are desolation and no man
dwelleth therein." And what a picture of Christianity in the world
today. I've brought complete desolation. There's no spirit there. There's no life there. Why? Why did God do that? Look at
verse three. Because of their wickedness,
which they have committed to provoke me to anger. Now don't
just stop right there. God's given them over to their
evil passions. and their fleshly ways. Now look what he says. In that
they went to burn incense, that's prayer, and to serve other gods
whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers. Howbeit,
I sent unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and
sending them, saying, oh, do not this abominable thing that
I hate. The prophets say unto the people
of God, don't do this. God hates it. What are they doing? They're engaged in false worship.
They're engaged in false religion, lying vanities, the way of man. And look at verse five. but they hearken not, nor incline
their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no more incense
unto other gods." They would not quit praying unto other gods,
false gods. They would not quit preaching
about a false god. Wherefore, verse six, my fury
and my anger was poured forth and was kindled in the cities
of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, and they are washed and desolate
as at this day. Therefore, now thus saith the
Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, wherefore commit ye
this great evil against your own souls. That's what men are
doing. Yeah, it's an evil against God,
but it's an evil against themselves. That's why we hate these lying
manatees. That's why we hate every false
way. because it destroys our soul.
To cut off from you, man and woman, child, and suckling out
of Judah, to leave you none to remain, and that you provoke
me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense
unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whether you be gone to
dwell, that you might cut yourself off, that you might be a curse
and a reproach among all the nations of the earth. Have you
forgotten the wickedness of your fathers? Didn't you know? That's
what they did. That's what they did. The Lord
says, I hate it. Isaiah chapter one. Turn with
me there. Isaiah chapter one. I hate every false way. Every way. scheme of man, every
imagination of man, every proud look that denies Christ his glory
and salvation. God says, I hate it. Isaiah chapter one, look at verse
four. Oh, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. Now you,
you just get the idea that God's going to, you know, uh, start
listing all these fleshly, passionate sins that they're engaged in.
Look what he says. a sinful nation of people laden with iniquity,
a seed of evil doers, children that are corruptors. They have
forsaken the Lord. They have provoked the Holy One
unto anger. They have gone away backwards. Why should you be stricken anymore?
You revolt more and more. The whole head is sick. The whole
heart is faint. He said, look over to verse 14.
Your new moons and your appointed feast, my soul hateth. They are a trouble unto me, I
am weary to bear them. Now that's what God's saying
about false worship. Man-made religion, God says,
I'm weary of it, I hate it. And the child of God is saying
right now, oh Lord, I can be so distant in my attempts to
worship you. My heart can be so cold. Lord,
I hate the fact that I'm not able to worship you as I ought.
And that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly,
those who are unable to worship God. And we're not able to worship
him as we ought. One day we will. One day, we
long for that day. We'll be able to worship him
without any distractions. With all our heart and all our
mind and all our soul, We can't give God one minute of all our
mind, all our heart and all of our soul, can we? We just so,
we hate that about ourselves. Twice in the book of Revelation
chapter two, once for the church of Ephesus and once for the church
of Pergamos, God says, you have the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Which I hate. Which I hate. That's just priestcraft is what
that is. And every false religion practices priestcraft. When they
put a man up as someone that you've got to go through in order
to get to God. And God says, I hate it. I hate it. Why? Because it's
a lying vanity. It's a false way. It's the way
of man. And it denies Christ's glory.
denies men the hope of their salvation. Oh, there's so many
things the Lord talks about hating. And yet men continue going about. Turn with me to Joshua chapter
24. Joshua chapter 24. I want you to see this. Verse 14. Now, therefore, Joshua
was calling on the children of Israel to put away their false
gods and to worship the Lord. And look what he says. Now, therefore,
fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth. According to the truth of God's
revealed word, according to the truth of the gospel, revealing
the glory of Christ and the work of Christ. Worship God there,
bow down to him. Put away the gods which your
father served on the other side of the flood and in Egypt and
serve you the Lord. Put away all those false gods.
And if it seemed evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you
this day, whom you will serve, whether the gods which your father
served, which were on the other side of the flood or the gods
of the Amorites and whose land you dwell. But as for me and
my house, we will serve the Lord." Now, most people read that and
they think, you know, God's saying you choose between God and the
false gods. That's not what he's saying.
Not what he's saying at all. He said, if you're going to worship
a false god, you need to choose which one you're going to worship.
That's what he's saying. In other words, you need to believe
what you say you believe. Instead of being like the Athenians,
which were just trying to pacify all the gods, you need to have
some convictions about what you say you believe. There's a difference
between believing something and thinking something. If you believe
something, you know, there's three guys on the radio here
in Orlando. I guess they're local. One is
a Jewish rabbi. One is a Muslim Imam. And the other is a Baptist preacher. And they have this panel where
they're discussing religion and the things of God. And they just agree to disagree
about their doctrinal differences, but they're all brothers together.
They call themselves the three wise men. I mean, it's ridiculous. But it's the same thing you see
happening in ecumenicalism where, you know, where the Catholics
and the Baptists and the Methodists and all these different false
gods and false religion, they're all, you know, cooperating together.
And what Joshua was saying, if you believe what your church
believes, then you, by believing that, you have cut yourself off.
Choose you this day which one you're going to believe. You
can't be that way. You see, believers believe. And in believing the truth, we
hate the lie. But they see their tolerance
as being virtuous and being spiritual and being loving, but it's foolishness. All they have is opinions and
points of views. Well, we could be wrong about
that. Well, if you could be wrong about that, then you don't believe
it. It's like the preacher who says, well, I believe in election.
I believe in limited atonement, but he doesn't preach it. He
doesn't believe it. He just doesn't believe it. That's
what Joshua was saying. As for me and my house, we're
gonna serve God. And in serving God, we can't
serve anybody else. But you need to decide which
false god you're gonna serve. Whether it be the gods on the
other side of the Amorite, on the other side of the flood,
or the gods of the Amorites, or the gods of Egypt. You need to
make a choice. And I want to say to these religious
who pride themselves in being open-minded and tolerant, you
know, what exactly do you believe? And the truth is, the reason
why they're able to cooperate is because in essence, they all
believe the same thing. They all believe in a works gospel,
a freewill works gospel. They all believe in a God who
needs them to do something in order for Him to be able to save
them. And the only difference between the Muslims and the Jews
and the Catholics and the Baptists and the Presbyterians, the Methodists
is what their particular set of rules and regulations are
for that group. But they all believe the same
thing. And God says, I hate, I hate every lying way. I hate every vain vanity. Every
every every lying vanity. I hate the false Gospels that
men have brought. In their imaginations. It's a. First Kings Chapter 18. Who won't
turn there? You familiar with this passage?
Elijah. said to the children of Israel,
how long halt ye between two opinions? How long halt you between
two opinions? James called it being double-minded,
being double-minded, unstable in all your ways. How long halt
you between two opinions? If the Lord be God, if Jehovah
be God, then serve him. If Baal be God, then serve him.
See, Elijah's just saying, The same thing that Joshua said. You can't serve two gods. You
can't do it. That's the beauty of the gospel.
We're not being hateful. We're not being intolerant. People
can believe anything they want to believe. But what we're saying
is that we believe what we believe. And in believing what we believe,
we can't believe anything that's not true. We can't believe anything
outside of Christ. And that's the offense of the
gospel. You see, everybody else wants to, well, let's just, you
know, let's agree to disagree. And we say, no, I can't do that.
I can't agree to disagree. We've got no point of agreement.
I'm sorry. The Lord hates every false way. He hates every lie and vanity.
He hates every message of salvation that denies man, denies Christ,
his glory and salvation and gives man some credit. And I do too. I do too. Let's pray. Our heavenly father,
thank you for your word. Lord, increase our faith. Deepen
our convictions, our love for Christ, our love for the truth,
our hatred for the lying, evil ways that we devise in our own
hearts and that the world has devised against you. Give us a sure hope in Christ,
for it's in his name we pray. Number 35, let's stand together.
35 in this row. ? That I might grow ? ? In faith
and love and every grace ? ? I tore up his salvation heart ? ? And seek more earnestly his face
? ? T'was he who taught me ? ? My trust has answered prayer
? ? But it has ran in such a way ? ? As almost broke me to despair
? ? I hope that it's unflavored hour ? At once He answered my request,
And by His love's constraining power Subdued my sins and gave
me rest. instead of this he made me feel
the hidden evils of my heart and let the angry powers of hell
assault my soul in every For with his own hand he seemed
Intent to aggravate my woe, Also the fair designs I schemed, Blasted
my courts and laid me low. ? Lord, why is this I trembling
kind? ? ? Wilt thou pursue thy worm
to death? ? ? Tis in this way the Lord
replied. ? ? I answer prayer for grace and
way. ? These inward trials I employ,
From self and pride to set thee free, And break thy schemes of
earthly law, That thou mayst find thy hope in me. Yeah.