It's sweet, isn't it? What a blessing to be encouraged
with the love of Christ from your brethren. The hymn on the
back of the bulletin, Tom's gonna come lead us in it. To thy temple
we repair. He's not talking about a building.
Talking about a building It's not made with man's hands. This
is the tabernacle of God. This is the Lord Jesus himself
who is our temple. Lord, we love to worship there.
There within the veil we meet thee upon the mercy seat. That's our hope this morning
that the Lord will rend that veil. And that we'll hear the
Lord say, come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden.
My yoke is easy. My burden is light. You find
rest for your souls. Tom, let's stand together. Back of your bulletin. Through thy temple we repair,
Lord, we love to worship there. There within the veil we meet,
Thee upon the mercy seat. While thy glorious name is sung,
Tune our lips, unloose our tongues, Then our joyful soul shall bless
Thee, the Lord, our righteousness. While to Thee our prayers ascend,
Let Thine ear enlighten, ? Hear us when thy spirit pleads
? ? Here for Jesus intercedes ? Please be seated. Will you open your Bibles with me
to John chapter six, please. John chapter six. The book of Hebrews, the Lord
tells us to labor, to enter into his rest. Everything in our flesh
is prone to a works mentality. And it's a spiritual labor to
rest all the hope of our salvation in Christ. And here in John chapter
six, verse 27, Labor not for the meat that perisheth, but
for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which
the Son of God shall give unto you. For him hath God the Father
sealed." We spend so much of our time and energy laboring
for the meat that perishes, don't we? We do. All of us do. May the Lord enable
us this morning to labor for that meat which never perishes. Verse 28, then they said unto
him, what shall we do that we might work the works of God? What can we do so that we can
work the works of God? And Jesus answered and said unto
them, this is the work of God. Not this is what you're going
to do to work the works of God. This is the work of God that
you believe on him whom he has sent. If you believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and you labor to enter into his rest, that's the
work of God. Amen. Our merciful heavenly father,
we pray that you would work the work of God in our hearts. that
You would grow us in Your grace, that You would increase our faith,
that You would cause those, Lord, that remain strangers to Your
grace to flee in faith to Christ. Lord, cause us to believe on
Him whom Thou hast sent. For we ask it in Christ's name,
amen. Number 326 in the hardback tenor,
326. Let's stand together once again. More about Jesus would I know. More of his grace to others show. ? More of His saving fullness
see ? ? More of His love who died for me ? ? More, more about
Jesus ? ? More, more about Jesus ? ? More of His saving fullness
see ? ? More of His love who died for me ? More about Jesus,
let me learn. More of His holy will discern. Spirit of God, my teacher be. Showing the things of Christ
to me. More, more about Jesus. More, more about Jesus. More of his saving coldness see,
More of his love died for me. ? More about Jesus in his word
? ? Holding communion with my Lord ? ? Hearing his voice in
every line ? ? Making each faithful saying mine ? ? More, more about
Jesus ? ? More, more about Jesus ? More of his saving fullness
see, More of his love will shine for me. More about Jesus on his
throne, Riches and glory all his own, More of his kingdom's
? More of his coming, Prince of
Peace ? ? More, more about Jesus ? ? More, more about Jesus ?
? More of his saving fullness see ? ? More of his love to guide
your feet ? Please be seated. Caleb and Lacey are gonna bring
special music now from Psalm 119. If you'd like to follow along,
it's Psalm 119 verses 33 through 40. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes and I
shall keep it unto the end give me understanding and
I shall keep thy law Yet I shall observe it With my whole heart
Make me to grow in the path of Thy commandments For therein
do I devise Incline my heart unto thy testimonies
and not to covetousness. Turn away mine eyes from beholding
vanity. Quicken Thou me in Thy way, Establish
Thy Word unto Thy servant, Who is devoted to Thy feet. turn away my reproach which i
fear for thy judgments are good behold i have longed after thy
precepts Quicken me in Thy righteousness Thank you, Kim, Lacey. Let's
turn in our Bibles to Psalm 119. Psalm 119, I've titled this message,
My Hiding Place. Psalm 119, and we'll be looking
at verse 114. Do you have a need? for a hiding place. Say hide
from what? Well, when Adam disobeyed God, and
ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, God had told him in the day in which you eat of that
fruit, you shall surely die. Adam ate the fruit. And The Lord came into the garden
and said, where art thou Adam? The Lord knew exactly where Adam
was. Adam was like a little child playing hide and seek, thinking
that if I can't see you, you can't see me. But this is no
child's game. Adam was hiding. And Adam said,
I heard thy voice. And I was afraid because I was
naked. And the Lord said, who told you
you were naked? Did you eat of the tree I told you not to eat
from? Why did Adam sew together spig
leaves to try to hide his nakedness from God? Why did he in futility
try to hide among the trees of the garden? Why? Because he knew
that what God said was true. In the day in which you eat of
this fruit, you shall surely die. And when Adam ate of that
fruit, you and I ate of that fruit. And we've been eating
of it ever since. Ever since. And God says the
wages of sin is death. God says all have sinned and
fallen short of the glory of God. We need a hiding place. We need a place that we can hide
from the wrath that is to come. Let the world think wishfully
that God is not angry. The scripture says that God is
angry with the wicked every day, every day. God's justice And
God's holiness and God's righteousness requires the penalty for death,
for sin, which is death. Now, David says, thou art my
hiding place. We cannot sufficiently hide ourselves
from God any more than a small child can hide themselves from
you when they're got something pulled over their face. But God can hide us. He can hide
us. He can do for us what he did
for Moses on Mount Sinai. A lot of people like Elijah,
you remember when Elijah went to Mount Carmel and God rained
fire from heaven. Elijah said, let whichever sacrifice
the fire falls on, God will speak by fire. And the fire fell. And 450 of the prophets of Baal
were killed that day by Elijah. And then one woman by the name
of Jezebel scares Elijah. And where does Elijah go? Where
does he go? The scripture says he goes to
Mount Horeb, which is Mount Sinai. That's the mountain of the law.
You see, that's where most people want to hide. Most people want
to hide from God by going back to the law. They go back to thinking,
well, if I can just be more faithful in keeping the commandments of
God, then somehow I can avoid the judgment of God. And the
Lord said to Elijah, Elijah, What are you doing here? That's
what he said. And the Lord sent a great wind
so that the rocks were rent, but God was not in the wind.
And the Lord sent a great earthquake. And the Lord was not in the earthquake. And God sent a fire and God was
not in the fire. You see, these are the things
that men look for. They look for some mountaintop or life-shaking
experience. So they look for something that
they can do. And they're always there at Mount
Horeb. And then the scripture says,
Elijah was in a cave and the Lord spoke to him. with a still
small voice. The Lord put him in a hiding
place. I wonder if it was the same cave that Moses found himself
in generations earlier when Moses said, show me thy glory. And
the Lord said to him, no man can see my face and live, but
there is a place near unto me. There's a rock over here. It's
got a cleft in it. It's got a cave in it. And I'm
going to put you in that rock. And I'm going to cause my backside
to pass by you. Now, what does that mean? You
and I have no idea what God's going to do tomorrow. We don't
know what he's going to do today. But we know what he has done.
You see, faith is not believing that God's going to do something
for me. If I just believe strong enough, I can be sure that this
is going to happen or that's going to happen. No. No, that's
not faith. Faith is looking back to the
backside of God and believing what God did when the Lord Jesus
Christ became our hiding place. He's that rock. He's the cornerstone,
the stone which the builders rejected, that God made to be
the head of the corner. He's that cave that Elijah was
in. And the Lord spoke to Elijah's
heart with a still small voice. The Lord kept Moses safe in that
rock, didn't he? And Moses saw the glory of God
when he saw his backside and he was able to look back in faith
and see that not only did Christ become my hiding place when he
hung on Calvary's cross and bore all my sins and suffered the
full wrath of God's justice in order to put them away and satisfy
God's righteousness, But in fact, the Lord Jesus Christ justified
me before God when he entered into that covenant of grace and
eternity pass and became the lamb slain before the foundation
of the world. Christ is my hiding place. There's
no sufficient hiding place in the law. Trying to hide in the
law is like trying to hide under a spotlight. Okay? I mean, it's just the law, the
purpose of the law is to make sin utterly sinful. You run to
Horeb or to Sinai in order to try to find a hiding place. You
run to your works in order to try to hide from the wrath that
is to come. And all you're doing is putting
yourself, you're exposing yourself to a spotlight. The Lord is just
revealing more and more of the reason why we deserve his wrath. Men do not believe in the wrath
of God. They don't. They believe that God is some
sort of doting grandfather, just sort of looks over our sins.
And you know, there may be a hell, but if there is, I'm certainly
not worthy of it. That's what most people believe.
Let me ask you a simple question. Do you believe that you're worthy
of hell? Do you believe that? I'm talking about being outside
of Christ. I'm talking about just standing on your own before
God. If God judges you for what you are right now, without a
hiding place, without a substitute, without a sin bearer, without
Christ to stand in your stead and be your righteousness before
God, do you believe that God would be just in sending you
to hell? I do. I do. People don't believe that. They believe hell's made for
the really bad people, not for somebody like me. Adam said in the garden, I was
afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself. That's what Adam said. I was
afraid. I was naked, so I hid myself. You and I cannot hide ourselves
from God. David said, thou art my hiding
place and my shield. I hope in thy word, the only
evidence that I have that Christ would be my hiding place is revealed
to me in the word of God. I have no evidence in my life.
I have no evidence in my conscience. I have no evidence. The evidence
that I have is given to me in God's infallible word. And David said, thou art my hiding
place. Elijah could not find a place
to hide at Mount Sinai. There's only one place that we
can hide. Listen to what Jeremiah chapter
23, verse 24 says. Can any hide himself in secret
places that I shall not see him? Do you think that you're gonna
be able to hide yourself in a secret place so that I'm not gonna be
able to see you? Do not I fill the heavens and
the earth There's only one place that we can be hid sufficiently
from the wrath that is to come. And the wrath of God is going
to come, isn't it? It's going to come against this world. The
Lord's promised it. It's just as He flooded the world
with water in the days of Noah, so shall He destroy the world
with fire in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. That's
just the truth. How do we know that? Because
God said so. God said so. I need a hiding place. Not one
where I hide myself in my own works or in my own good intentions
or in my own free will. I need a place where I can be
hid from God. I need to be found in Christ. I need to be placed in the cleft
of that rock. Isaiah chapter two, verse 10
says, enter into the rock and hide thee in the dust for fear
of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty. Enter into the
rock. That's what the Lord is saying.
Come unto me, come unto me, all ye that labor. Now the religious
world translates our need for God because of all the the labors
that we have to experience in this world. There are labors
in this world for everybody, everybody. There hath no temptation
taken you, but such as is common to all men. God is faithful,
who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you
are able, but will with the temptation provide the way of escape, that
you might be able to bear it. And people take that passage,
they say, well, God won't put more on you than you can bear.
If he ever puts your sin on you, you will not be able to bear
it. When the Lord said, come unto me, all you that labor,
he's not talking about the trials and troubles of this world. He's
talking about the attempt that men make in their own labor to
make up for their sins and they're heavy laden. You see, the truth
is there's a lot of people in this world laboring to put away
their sin, but there are few that are heavy laden. To be heavy
laden means to be crushed by the weight of your sin. That's the labor by which we
come to Christ. Lord, if you come to Christ because
of a trial or trouble that you happen to be experiencing right
now, let me tell you something, that's going to go away. And
when it does, so will you. So will you. You'll have no more
need for God. That's the spirit of today's
religion. He'll come to God and He's going
to help you out with your marriage. He's going to help you out with
your sickness. He's going to help you out with your finances. He's going
to help you out with this and that. The burden that we bear that
makes us to be crushed under is our sin. And if we flee to
Christ for that, you know what? never goes away, does it? We
will find ourselves coming to the Lord Jesus Christ day in
and day out because we can say with David, my sin is ever before
me. It's ever before me. Lord, I
need a hiding place. I need one who is able to take
away my sin lest I suffer the judgment of God in death. And I cannot, like Adam, hide
myself. I can't do it. Turn with me to
Isaiah chapter 28. Isaiah 28. Verse 14. Wherefore, hear the word of the
Lord, ye scornful men that rule this people, which is in Jerusalem.
He's talking about the false prophets. I heard a false prophet
this morning. Well, I didn't hear it, Tricia
heard it. It was on the TV. And she told me, she came and
told me about it. She said, I can't believe what
this guy just said. He said, you can't love yourself until
you let God love you. Your greatest need is that you
need to love yourself. And the only way you can love
yourself is if you let God love you. Now, this is a guy that's
written scores of books in the religious community today. These
are the scornful men that the Lord's talking about. You see,
the only way for you to have peace is for you to hate yourself.
Now, that's the truth. That's just the backwards of
what the world says, isn't it? What did Job said? Job said,
I am vile. Woe is me, Isaiah said. Look
at me. I'm a sinner before God. And
the only way you're ever gonna be free to love God is to hate
yourself. You see, man's problem is not
that he loves himself too much. I mean, it's not that he doesn't
love himself. It is that he loves himself too
much. That's the problem. And this idea of letting God,
Those two words ought never to be put together. Let God. Who do you think you are? God. Yep. That's exactly who that
guy thinks he is. And that's exactly who people
think they are. They think they're God. And in order for God to
be able to do what he wants to do, I've got to let him. Blasphemy. Blasphemy. and they found in
their free will and in their works a hiding place. But here's
what the Lord says of those scornful men. Look at verse 15. Because
you have said, we have made a covenant with death, we're not worried
about death. How many people have you known
that have died? And I'm okay. I'm ready to go eat, go greet,
you know my my loved ones that have gone before me and you know
god's gonna be standing there ready to receive me you know
they don't believe the gospel and with hell we're in agreement
we're not going to hell i'm not worried about hell i don't deserve
to go to hell that's what the lord's saying about these these
who have made for themselves a hiding place And when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, when the fire of God's wrath consumes
this world, it shall not come unto us. Why? Because we've made lies our refuge. What is the lie that they've
made? God has to have my approval before
he can do anything. My will trumps God's will. God has abdicated his throne
of glory, and he's put me on the throne. I'm on the throne
of God. I'm the one that calls the shots. I made a covenant with death.
I prayed that prayer. I made that decision. With hell,
I'm in agreement. I'm okay. I'm good to go. We've
made lies our refuge, and under falsehoods, we have hid ourselves. Here's their hiding place. And
this is speaking of the whole world. The whole world has made
lies their refuge. And they've made for themselves
just as Adam did, sewed together fig leaves, trying to cover their
nakedness to hide themselves. Well, David says, thou art my
hiding place. Where are you, Heidi? Where are
you, Heidi? Therefore, thus saith the Lord,
behold, I lay in Zion a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious
cornerstone, a sure foundation, and he that believeth shall not
make haste. You don't have to run from God.
Not if you believe on Christ. He's that stone that the builders
rejected. He said, upon this rock, I will
build my church. He's the rock that's higher than
we are. He's been tried, tried and tested. And he came out true. And he's a precious stone. You
say a word precious, it means priceless. He's the pearl of
great price. You can't buy him, you don't
have the money. He's got to be given to you. And he's a sure
foundation. Abraham looked for a city which
had foundations, whose builder and maker was God. This is the
new Jerusalem that comes down. And when does the new Jerusalem
come down from heaven? Which have those 12 foundations
of precious stones. It doesn't come down until the
destruction of the world. You see, we need a hiding place
to be found in that place. Look at verse 16. Therefore,
thus sayeth the Lord God. I love that phrase. We don't
stand up here and say, well, you know, it just seems like
to me, or our doctrine says, or our confession says, or our
forefathers said, or Dr. Sounding Brass said. No, we don't
say that. We say, thus saith the Lord. And the great comfort that I
have is knowing that God's people, that's all they need to know.
What does God say? Thus saith the Lord, behold,
I lay in Zion a tried stone, a precious stone, a precious
cornerstone, a sure foundation. He that believeth shall not make
haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness
to the plummet, and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of
lies, and the water shall overflow their hiding place. That's what God says. You say,
well, we've made a covenant with death. With hell, we're in agreement. We've made our decisions. We've
decided to let God have his way. God says, when the overflowing
scourge comes, it's gonna overcome your lies. Overflow all your
lives. Look at the next verse. And your
covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement
with hell shall not stand when the overflowing scourge shall
pass through. Then you shall be trodden down
by it. Brethren, this is not children's
hide and seek. This is eternal life and eternal
death. This is the sure judgment of God. you can be sure that
God's going to keep his word. He's going to keep his word.
And the child of God right now in his heart is fleeing to Christ. Oh, thou art my hiding place. He's the only one that's true.
All men are liars. God alone tells the truth. The
Lord Jesus Christ, the only one who had unfamed lips. He is the truth. And if we're
going to, God says, I'm gonna disannoy your covenant. What
is a covenant? It's a promise. You see, the
whole world is full of this religious idea. Well, if I make a promise
to God, then God will be obligated to do something for me. And it's
a lie. It's a lie. The hope of our salvation is
based on the promise that he made, isn't it? His covenant. David said in Psalm 32 verse
seven, thou art my hiding place. Thou shalt preserve me from trouble. Thou shalt come pass me about
with songs of deliverance. Oh Lord, you've put away my sin.
You've separated them from me as far as the east is from the
west. You've buried them in the depths of the sea. You said I
remember them no more. I've got reason to rejoice. Rejoice
in the Lord. And again, I say, rejoice. In 1 Samuel chapter 19, Saul, the King Saul, was determined
to kill David because David was a threat to Saul's throne. And Jonathan, Saul's son, found
out about the plot. And Jonathan loved David. And
Jonathan went to David and said, hide thyself in the field, and
I will go and intercede with my father for you. And Jonathan
went to his father, Saul, and convinced Saul not to kill David. And it's a picture. You see, our God's not threatened
by the fact that we want to usurp his authority and take over his
throne. He's not threatened by that.
Psalm chapter two says, Why do the heathen rage and the people
imagine I'm vain? Why do you think that you're
going to somehow let us break his bands asunder? We're going
to take control of God. And what's the Lord say? He holds
them in derision and he laughs. He laughs at their threats to
take over his throne. But the truth is that what Saul
was experiencing, wanting to kill David, because David is
the same thing with us. We've shaken our fist at God.
We're not going to have him reign over us. And God says, penalties death,
death. And as Jonathan interceded, by
the way, the end of Psalm chapter two says, kiss the son, lest
he be angry. I mean, turn me to that passage.
Psalm chapter two, the last verse of Psalm chapter two, or the
next to the last verse, not the last verse. Psalm chapter two, verse 12.
Kiss the son lest he be angry and you perish from the way when
his wrath is kindled but a little. Now God's not gonna fly off the
handle with anger. He could destroy this world in
the same way he made it, with just a word. Let there be light
and there was light. God spoke and all things came
into creation. When he's ready to destroy the
world, he's just gonna do it with his voice. Kiss the son, believe on Christ,
lest he be angry. and you perish. This is why we
have to have a hiding place. And you perish when his anger,
his wrath is kindled, but just a little. And look at the last
part of that verse. Blessed are they that put their
trust in him. Thou art my hiding place. You
and I need a hiding place. The ones that men have come up
with, We need Christ to go before the
Father in the same way Jonathan went to his father Saul and pleaded
with his father not to kill David while David was in that hiding
place. Jonathan picked it out. He said,
hide right over there. You hide over there. I'm going to go talk
to my father. And that's what the Lord's saying to me and you.
You hide in me. I'm going to intercede for you. I'm going to plead with my Father
on your behalf. He won't listen to you, but He'll
listen to me. That's why when we pray, we pray
in Jesus' name. Lord, the only reason that you
would hear anything I have to say is I've come to you in Christ. In 1 Samuel chapter 25, David
was with his men in the wilderness fleeing from Saul and they were
in need of provisions. And they had provided protection
for a wealthy landowner by the name of Nabal. Nabal's name means
fool. And so when they were in need
of provisions, David sent some of his men to speak to the shepherds
of Nabal to ask for some help. And the shepherds went to Nabal
to get approval. And Nabal said, no. And David,
the word got back to David that even though we protected these
men, the shepherds even told Nabal, David and his men had
been a wall for us. They've protected us from the
enemy. They haven't taken anything from
us. They haven't abused us in any way. And David got his men together
and was determined to destroy Nabal, his household and all
of his possessions. And David had the power to do
it. And Nabal's wife, Abigail, found out about it. And Abigail
put together a bunch of provisions and she fled to David. And the scripture said, she went
down into the covert. And that word means hiding place
of the field. And she bowed herself into the
dust and she kissed the feet of David and she pleaded with
David not to destroy Nabal's household. And David listened
to her plea because she was in a hiding place. She was in a
covert. See our David, if his wrath is
kindled, but just a little, is capable of destroying this whole
world. Unless we find that hiding place and come to Christ like
Abigail, pleading with Him. Now, you know the end of the
story. Nabal dies by the hand of God,
not by David. That very night, Nabal has a
big drunken party and Nabal the next morning has a stroke and
a week later he dies. And Abigail became the wife of
David. And Abigail's a picture of the
church. We find our hiding place, our
covert. We bow and kiss the feet of our
master, kiss the son lest he be angry. And what happens? What happens? The Lord makes
us to be his wife. Everything that he owns, belongs
to his church, everything. You see, he doesn't just, he
doesn't just provide for us. A husband is to protect and provide
for his wife. No husband's like he is. He protects
and he provides for her. Psalm 27, verse five, for in
the time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion. In the secret of his tabernacle,
he shall hide me. He shall set me up upon a rock. That's where you and I need to
be. We need to be hid, hid in Christ. The wrath of God's coming. But here's the glorious truth,
brother. All of his wrath has already been put away for those
for whom Christ died. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Psalm 61 verse four, I will abide
in thy tabernacle forever. I will trust in the cobert of
thy wings. What are the wings that he's
speaking of? those wings of the cherubim that
were placed over each side of the Ark of the Covenant over
the mercy seat. And remember over the mercy seat
there were golden angelic host called Cherubim, and their wings
extended over the mercy seat. And they touched in the middle
over the mercy seat. And the mercy seat was a golden
plate on the Ark of the Covenant. And that Ark was Christ. And
the high priest would go in once a year and take the blood of
the Lamb and put it on the Day of Atonement that the sins of
the people might be put away. And what does David say now?
I will abide in thy tabernacle forever. I will trust in the
covert or hiding place under thy wings. God said, here, I
will meet with you. Right here, where the shed blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ is placed on the mercy seat. And David
says, that's where I'm gonna hide. I've got no place else
to hide. No place else to hide. Psalm 32 verse two says, and
a man shall be a hiding place from the wind and from the covert
and the tempest. A man shall be a hiding place. The storm of God's wrath comes,
there's gonna be a man. He's the only place. The only
place to hide. Revelation chapter six, scripture
speaks of that day of judgment, when the son kindles his wrath
just a little and comes to destroy this earth. And the scripture
says those who have made false lies and refuges, their hiding
place are gonna run to the mountains. They're gonna run to the mountains.
And they will say to the mountains and to the rocks, fall on us
and hide us from the face of him that sits upon the throne
and from the wrath of the lamb. Fall on us. Now, in another place, the scripture
says, if you had the faith of a mustard seed, you could say
unto this mountain, be thou removed, and it would be cast into the
sea. A mountain is a barrier, and our barrier between us and
God is our sin. It's our sin. And by faith in Christ, we say
to our sin, be thou removed, be thou cast into the sea. But
what to those who believe in a false hiding place? They call
upon their sin to hide them. They call for the rocks and the
mountains to fall on them. But Lord, We've done many wonderful
works in thy name. Depart from me, you workers of
iniquity, I never knew you. You see, in the day of judgment,
men are gonna be calling on their false refuges to hide them from
the wrath of him that's seated upon the throne and from the
wrath of the Lamb. But it's not gonna be sufficient.
Not gonna be sufficient. Where art thou, Adam? Where art thou, Adam? Lord, I heard your voice, and
I was afraid because I was naked. And so I hid myself. Or, Lord, I heard your voice. Have you heard God's voice today? And I was afraid. I fear God. Because I'm naked. And so I fled in faith to that
only hiding place sufficient to cover my nakedness. That's what the Lord's calling
on us to do. Flee to Christ, the Spirit and the Bride. That's
the Spirit of God, which I hope is working in our hearts right
now. And the Bride, that's the church.
of which right now I happen to be the voice for, say unto thee,
come, come, just like you are, come to the hiding place. Come unto me, all you that labor. Our heavenly Father, we thank
you for your word. We thank you for your faithfulness.
We thank you for the accomplished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We ask, Lord, that you would take your word by your spirit
and cause us to come. For it's in Christ's name we
ask it. Amen. Number four in a spiral hymnal.
Let's stand together. Number four. Hail sovereign love that first
began the scheme to rescue fallen men. Hail matchless eternal grace
that gave my soul a hiding place. Against the God who rules the
sky, I fought with hand uplifted high, despised the mention of
His grace, too proud to seek a hiding place. And wrapped in thick Egyptian
night, and fond of darkness more than light manly I ran the sinful
race without a hiding place. But thus the Turtle Council ran,
almighty loved the rest that ran. I felt the arrows of distress
and found my head no hiding To Sinai's fiery mount I flew. Justice cried with crowning grace,
This mountain is my hiding place. There long a heavenly voice I
heard, And mercy's angel form appeared, Who led me on with
gentle pace, To Jesus Christ my hiding place. Unyip the mighty
vengeance spell that must have sunk the world to hell. He bore it for a chosen race
and thus became their hiding place. a few more rolling suns
at most shall land me safe on heaven's coast there I shall
sing the song of grace to Jesus Christ my hiding place I'm