You don't have to turn in your
Bibles Psalm 91 verse one. He that dwelleth in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the
Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is
my refuge and my fortress, my God, in him shall I dwell. will I trust. Surely, surely,
surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler
and from the noisome pestilence." Our God is faithful. Faithful to all of his covenant
promises. Faith is believing that he's
faithful. Let's stand together. Brother
Burt, you come, please, and lead us in the hymn on the back of
your bulletin. This promise is proclaimed to
all who trust in Christ. Christ Jesus keeps his saints
secure. They cannot be condemned. ? How oft I sin, I know ? And
feel so very low ? Nothing I say or feel or do ? Will change my
God, I know ? His word can never be Broken or changed at all,
this sinner justified by grace from grace can never fall. No sin and justice charged against
my ransomed soul. When Jesus died, he paid my debt,
not part, but paid in whole. You may be seated. Good morning. Our scripture reading
is found in the gospel of Luke chapter 9, verses 28 through
36. Luke 9, 28 through 36. This is kind of the transfiguration
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And it came to pass that about
eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James
and went up into the mountain to pray. He's taking his closest
disciples with him. As he prayed, the fashion of
his countenance was altered. And his raiment was white and
glistening. This was a transfiguration. This was a revealing of his deity
to his closest disciples. And as I read this transfiguration,
it's a picture of what happens to everyone who's elected. The Lord Jesus Christ is transfigured. And behold, there talk with him
two men which were Moses and Elias. Moses, of course, always
represents the law, and Elias is the prophets. That's the sum
total of the scriptures at that time, the Old Testament, Moses
and the prophets, the law and the prophets who appear in glory. And what did they spoke about? They spoke about his disease
which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. This is his death,
his work of salvation. This is what they talked about.
And this is also what they represented. This is what the law and the
prophets is about. So the law being God's requirement
the prophets prophesying that the Lord Jesus Christ will come
and fulfill those requirements, fulfill the law for us. So they're,
they're in that, that is what they're talking about. And I'm
talking about anything else, but what Christ is going to accomplish. And, and again, this, this, this
is like a picture of us when the Lord Jesus Christ reveals
himself to us, he, he, He transfigures from the most important to the
all, because the Lord Jesus Christ is not the most important. He's
all in all. And he is transfigured before us by his grace. But Peter and they that were
with him were heavy with sleep. That's also how we are before
he reveals himself to us. We are spiritually asleep. We
are in slumber. And when they were once awake,
they saw his glory. and the two men that stood with
him. Notice the difference. His glory is referring to Christ.
He's the only one that has the glory. And the two men that stood
with him. And it came to pass that as they depart from him,
Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it's good for us to be here.
Let us make up three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses,
one for Elias. Not knowing what he said, of
course he was not knowing. He was, he was not understanding
what he saw. He was not understanding that
glory that only the Lord Jesus Christ had. He was comparing
and putting them in the same level. This reminds me of men
in religion when, uh, when they do systematic theology and they
talk about, uh, Christology, the, the. equalizing, they're
putting everything the same, not understanding who Christ
is. While does he speak, there came a cloud and overshadowed
them. And they fear as they enter into
the cloud. And there came a voice out of
the cloud saying, this is my beloved son, hear him. We need to hear the Lord Jesus
Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord. The Lord Jesus Christ
is who the prophets were prophesying here. Him. This is the declaration
twice. God, the father did this. And
what did he say? He's the only, he said the same
thing every time he pointed to Jesus and said, listen to him,
not listen to anyone. Listen to him. Moses had his
time, the prophets were useful at that time, but now Christ
is the one that we listen to because Christ has come. So he
says, he's my beloved, in him I'm well pleased, hear him. And
when the voice was passed, Jesus was found alone. And this is
how every believer after the Lord Jesus Christ reveals himself,
we go to him alone. and they kept him close and told
no man in those days any of these things which they have seen.
Father God, we come before you in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. The only way that we know how to come to you and be
able to have fellowship with you through the Lord Jesus Christ.
We thank you for all the spiritual blessings that we have in Christ.
We thank you that we have a place where we can hear the gospel,
hear God's word preached, Father. We are In your great need of
your holy spirit To transfigure christ for us and that we may
see his glory. We may see his glory more and
more and more and more Father god as much as we can in this
side of the grave That we in desperate near your whole spirit
both for us the listeners and for brother greg as he preaches
fill him with the holy spirit that his message might be Christ-glorifying,
Christ-centered, and that you might open our eyes and wake
us up from our slumber. And then when we see Christ,
we pray this the same as all the other churches that preach
Christ, that preach the gospel, we pray for them as well. In
Jesus' name we pray, amen. This next hymn, you may remain
seated. We're going to sing the hymn to Spiral, number nine.
Spiral, number nine, thou must have loved me first. This not did I did choose thee,
for, Lord, that could not be. This heart would still refuse
thee, hast thou not chosen me. Thou from the sin that stained
me hast cleansed and set me free. Of old Thou hast ordained me
that I should live to Thee. Your love had no beginning, no
cause in me was found, that you should choose to save me, a sinner
strongly bound. But grace not earned or sought
for was purpose for my soul. For me salvation wrought, for
Christ paid the dreadful toll. T'was sovereign mercy called
me, and on my opening line The world had else enthralled me,
to heavenly glories blind. My heart owns not before thee,
for thy rich grace I thirst. This knowing if I love thee,
thou must have loved me first. I have loved you with an everlasting
love. That is the first cause of our
salvation. The love of God. Let's open our Bibles back to
Psalm 89. Scripture says that without faith
it is impossible to please God. For they that cometh to him must
believe that he is, and he's the rewarder of them that diligently
seek him. This faith is a gift from God.
What is faith? What is faith? Well, at least
in part, if not in whole, faith is believing everything that
God the Father says about his son. Lots of opinions about Jesus
in the world, but that's all they are is opinions. Doesn't
really matter what my opinion is or what your opinion is or
what some other denominational opinion might be. But what God
says about His Son. This is my beloved Son, in Him
I'm well pleased. Hear ye Him. I want to believe what God believes. about Christ. Don't you? Don't
you? How am I going to do that? Well,
the scripture goes on to say that faith comes by hearing. And hearing comes by the word
of God. The only way you and I are going
to have saving faith is if God unstops our ears and enables
us to hear not some extra biblical vision or revelation, but his
own word. James said, by his own word,
by his own word, begat he us. If we're going to have faith,
it'll come. by hearing what God the Father
has to say about his son. And just bowing, just say, Lord,
amen, amen. And we saw in the first hour
from verse 19 that this revelation comes by the Spirit of God to
the church, to the church. You remember when Peter is, um,
expounding on those whom the Lord Jesus revealed himself after
the resurrection between the resurrection and the Ascension,
the Lord revealed himself to some five hundred brethren brethren. He revealed himself to his apostles
and then he went and revealed himself to 500 brethren. God
only reveals himself to his people. He's never revealed. He did not
reveal himself to anyone outside of the church during that period
of time when he was still here on earth in his resurrected body. And he has not revealed himself
to anyone outside of his church since then. Scripture says that his voice
is not heard in the streets. He's not going around trying
to get men to vote for him. As we said earlier, in this kingdom
of God, there is but one vote and God cast it and whatever
he votes for, he is. And so our God is not going around
trying to convince people to believe on him by reveal when
he reveals himself. When he reveals himself is because
he has saved us. He saved us. And the Lord the Father said
of his son in verse 19, I have laid help upon one that is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out
of the people. I have found David my servant. Now that word found doesn't mean
that he was lost and had to be discovered. It means that God
set his favor on him. That's what it means. The very
first time we hear of this word in the scriptures is in Genesis
chapter 6, when God says of Noah, Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. Now, did God not know where Noah
was? No, but God set his grace, his
favor on Noah. And now the Lord is saying, I
have found David. And we're not talking about King
David of 1000 BC. We're talking about the son of
David, the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the fulfillment of these
prophecies. All the promises of God are yay
and amen in Christ. He God who at sundry times and
in divers manner spake unto our fathers by the prophets. And
David was a prophet half in these last days spoken unto us by his
son, who's the express image of his person. The fullness of
the Godhead bodily is the Lord Jesus Christ. God, give me faith
to believe on Christ. to believe everything that you
say about your darling son. That's what faith is. I have
found, God is speaking. He said, I've found David. I
found my son. I placed my favor on him. He's my elect. I've chosen him. And with my holy oil have I anointed
him. Now the scripture speaking of
the Lord Jesus Christ says that he was anointed with the oil
of gladness above his fellows. Now oil here is a picture of
the spirit of God, the anointing of the spirit of God. And the
only way that you and I are gonna have the eyes of understanding
open, the only way we're going to be given faith is by the spirit
of God. Nicodemus, you must be born of
the spirit. The spirit is like the wind listed
with us, whoever it wills. You can't tell where it's coming
from or where he's going. So is every man that's born of
the spirit. Lord, send your spirit. And if
he does, it will be in measure. It will be in measure. will have
degrees of faith, will have degrees of understanding. But when God
sent his son, he came in the fullness of the power of the
spirit of God, not in measure, not in measure. He was the anointed
one, the Christ, the Messiah, the one sent of the father in
the power of the spirit of God to accomplish successfully accomplish
in the power of God's spirit everything that the father sent
him to do. What did he send him to do? What did he send him to
do? Did he send him to reform the
world? Did he send him to teach us how to live? No. You shall call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sins. That's what
God sent him to do. He sent him to save his people.
Did he do that? When he bowed his mighty head
on Calvary's cross and said, it is finished, was it finished?
Was everything that God sent him to do accomplished? Amen. Yes, it was. Yes, it was. everything that he was sent to
do. Why? Because God said, I found David, my servant, and it is
required of a servant that he be found faithful. And the Lord
Jesus Christ was faithful to the father. He came in the power
of the spirit of God to accomplish faithfully what the father sent
to do, the salvation of his people. God now speaking, the Father
speaking. He said, I found him. I've anointed
him. I've set my approval on him. He's my servant. Look at verse 21. With whom?
With whom? My hand shall be Established. Established. Now what is the hand a picture
of in the scripture? It's a picture of work. It's
a picture of work. Everything that you and I put
our hands to, we defile. God said when you build an altar,
don't try to put your hands to it. Don't, don't try to dress
it up. Anything we put our hands to,
we defile. That's why he was wounded for
our transgressions. He was wounded in his hands.
His hands were sinless without defilement. And God says here
in verse 21, with whom, speaking of David, Christ, with whom my
hand shall be established. And that word established means
successful. My work will be successful through
him. You remember when the Lord was
talking to the woman at the well in John chapter four and the
disciples came up after the Lord had revealed himself to her?
She ran back into Sychar. She'd been trying to avoid all
those people out of embarrassment of being married five times.
And now she goes back and she publicly declares, I found a
man that told me everything I ever did. Is this not the Christ? Is this not the Messiah, the
anointed one, the promised one? And while she's running back
to Sychar, the disciples are having a conversation with the
Lord. And the Lord says, they tried to get him to eat. They
brought food. They were getting lunch while
he was... The whole group of the disciples was down in Sychar.
There's no evidence in scripture that not a single one of them
told anybody in that town that the Messiah was up at the well. You feel like a disciple sometimes?
We do that a lot, don't we? Have an opportunity to talk to
somebody about Christ and keep our mouths shut. She was so glad
to tell folks. But he said to the disciples,
he said, I have meat to eat that you know not of. And the disciples looked at one
another and said, I wonder who brought him something to eat?
Did somebody bring him something to eat? And then the Lord looked at them
and he said, my meat. is to do the work of Him that
sent me. That's my meat. That's my sustenance. That's my life purpose, to do
the work of Him that sent me. And then in John chapter 6 at
verse 28, When they ask the Lord, what
shall we do to work the works of God? What'd the Lord Jesus
say? This is the work of God that
you believe on him whom he has sent. John 9, verse 4, our Lord said,
I must work the work of him that sent me. And then in John chapter
17, when our Lord prays that high priestly prayer to his father
on behalf of his church, he says in verse 4, Father, I have finished
the work which thou hast sent me to do. And then when he bowed his mighty
head on Calvary's cross, what did he say? It's finished. It's
finished. What's finished the work, the
work is finished. And when God finishes the work,
don't put your hand to it. Don't try to fix it. Don't try
to make it. All you're going to do is mess it up. What does God say? What does
the father say about his son? Look again at verse 20. I have
found David my servant with my holy oil. I've anointed him.
I've sent him as the anointed one, the Messiah, the Christ
in the full power of the spirit of God for the purpose of saving
my people with whom my hand shall be successful. My work shall
be established. He's going to succeed in what
I've sent him to do. Don't believe for a minute on
a Jesus who needs you to do something in order for him to be able to
save you. The false gospel says, if you
believe, God will save you. The truth is God says, I will
save you. And you shall believe the false gospel says, if you
repent, God will forgive you. The truth says, I have forgiven
you and you will repent. The false gospel says, if I can
just serve God, he'll bless me. And God says, I blessed you and
you will serve me. You see the difference? God's
not dependent upon us for anything. The father is speaking of his
son, the son of David. And he says, I'm going to send
him. He's my anointed one. I'm going to send him in the
power of the spirit of God. And my hand, God's hand, God's work
is going to be successfully established through him. That's good news. That's good news. That means
there's not anything for you and I to add to it. And we can't
take away from it. They say, well, what, what, what's
the hope of salvation? Believing God, believing God,
faith is the substance of things. Hope for us, the evidence of
things, not saying I have found David, my servant.
With whom, verse 21, my hand shall be established, my arm
also shall strengthen him. Is God's arm sure that he cannot
save? Is it? No. No. He reaches to the uttermost and
brings out of the miry clay and the pit of destruction all those
that he chose in the covenant of grace and all those that the
Lord Jesus Christ successfully saved on Calvary's cross. That's the God we worship. He's all powerful. That's why
we worship him. You see, any other God is not
worthy of worship. And what men feigned to be doing
in religion in worshiping a God that depends upon them for something
is nothing more than just feigned religion. You don't bow in worship
and submission to a God that doesn't have absolute sovereign
control over your soul and over your life. It's just a, it's
just a pretended ceremony is all it is. But when God convinces
us that His Son is the successful, sovereign Savior of sinners,
they come and worship Him, don't they? They come and worship Him. They say, like that Syrophoenician
woman, after the Lord told her that she was a dog, what did
she say? She saw him for who he was. He revealed himself to
her. Truth, Lord, and she worshipped him. You know, being made a sinner
is a work of grace. You know how on your smartphone
I do a lot of talking on my phone. I press the microphone and I
talk my articles into my phone and I send text and different
things. And your phone, when it misspells
a word and you correct it, it's supposed to learn. And so that
the next time you use that same word, it understands your correction. Isn't that the way it's supposed
to work? And I use this word a lot when
I'm talking to my phone. Every single time I use the word
sinner, S-I-N-N-E-R, it types out C-E-N-T-E-R. Every time. And I go in and correct
it, and the next time it types out sinner, C-E-N-T-E-R. It refuses to put the word sinner
in my phone. And you know, I thought, that's
exactly the way people are. It's exactly the way the unbeliever
is. He refuses to believe that he's
a sinner. And he's no more smart than my
smartphone. When it comes to the most important
thing in life, my sarcophagus is pretty dumb. Pretty dumb. And so are sinners. Until God's
pleased to make them a sinner. And then they realize, I'm nothing
like him. Everything about me's got to
be forgiven. I've got nothing to offer God.
I've got no righteousness. I've got no hope of salvation
outside of him. He's the only one successful
to save a center like me. My arm also shall strengthen
him. Look over in verse 13 of Psalm
89. Thou hast a mighty arm strong
as thy hand and high as thy right hand. Oh, my friends and my brethren,
his arm is strong and it's high and it's able to save the worst
of sinners. That's my hope. It's my hope. When God makes you to be a sinner,
you believe yourself to be the worst one, don't you? You cry
with that publican in the temple who beat himself upon his breast
and would not so much as even look up and said, oh God, have
mercy upon me. I'm the sinner, S-I-N-N-E-R. And his arm, his arm is strong. Look at verse 22. Remember, this
is God Almighty telling us about his son. And faith is nothing
more than believing what the Father tells us about his son. It's what it is. No ifs, ands,
or buts about it. Truth, Lord, what you say about
your son is true. The enemy, who is the enemy? Well, the Lord gave a parable
of sowing the seeds of the gospel in a field, and tares grew up
among the crop. And the disciples asked the Lord
to interpret this parable for us, and the Lord said, well,
the seed is the gospel. It's the word of God. And the
tares are that which the enemy hath planted. It's what the enemy
has planted. And tares growing up look a lot
like wheat, don't they? The difference is that when a
tare is mature, there's no fruit to it. No fruit to it. So, and he goes on to tell them
that that's Satan that has put that lie That message of salvation that's,
that uses the word of God and uses the name of God, but perverts
it and makes, and makes God dependent upon man. And he says, that's
the tears and the enemy has planted it. So now what does he tell
us? So the enemy is none other than
than Satan. The enemy shall not exact upon
him. Now what does that mean? The
word exact. He shall not require any tribute from him and he shall
not put him in debt. Does Satan exact tribute from
you? Does he put you in debt? He does
me. He's the accuser of the brethren,
and generally speaking, his accusations are true. Matter of fact, they're
probably a lot more true than what I hear. And the only deliverance
I have is to go to the one who satisfied law and justice. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one who did that. The enemy will not put him in debt. It
will not require tribute from him. Why? Because he is the end of the
law for righteousness and he satisfied divine justice and
God's pleased with him. And so when you are, when you're
put in debt. When you're required to pay tribute
to Satan in some, in some feigned attempt to justify yourself and
put away your sins, run to the one that God says the enemy shall
not put him in debt. And then you will find Romans
chapter eight, verse one to be true. There is now therefore
no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk
not after the flesh, but after the spirit. What hope? What hope? God's telling us about
his son. The enemy will not exact him. The enemy can't put him in debt.
Lots of accusations will be made about him. The Pharisees essentially
were saying to the Lord Jesus Christ every time they opened
their mouth, you owe us an explanation. pilot when he tried to interrogate
the Lord Jesus Christ. You owe me an explanation. Don't
you know that I have power to crucify you or power to deliver
you? And what did the Lord say? You've
got no power at all except for that which is given to you from
heaven. No man can exact any debt from him. No man can put him under the
law. He's fulfilled the law. He satisfied
justice as our surety. He has paid the debt in full. Not his own. But hours. And now the father saying to
me and you, the enemy will not exact him. You get put under you get put
under the law. You get put in debt, you get
accused. You get ashamed, you get guilty,
you get fearful. Because the accuser of the brethren
takes advantage of all the sin and shortcomings in your life
to try to get you to look there. And the Lord says there's only
one, there's only one that the enemy cannot exact a debt from. There's only one that he cannot
require tribute from. There's only one that satisfied
law and justice once and for all. And where he is. There's liberty. And if the Lord make you free,
you free indeed. Free indeed. All brethren, when
you when you get required to pay tribute. And your soul is
troubled because of your sin. The only one, the only one that
cannot be exacted debt from is the Lord Jesus Christ. Flee to
Him. Flee to Him. You're not going
to be able to satisfy that debt. You're not going to be able to
pay that. He already has. Look at the rest of verse 22. The enemy shall not exact upon
him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. Now that word afflict
means to force, to force. Now the Romans and the Jews thought
that they were forcing the Lord Jesus Christ to be crucified.
And he told the disciples, my hour, oftentimes when they try
to arrest him, has not yet come. And then on that night, my hour's
come. And he walked out of the Garden
of Gethsemane knowing that those soldiers are gonna be there waiting
on him. Who do you seek? Jesus of Nazareth, I am. and they all fell backwards.
These stalwart Roman soldiers fell over themselves when the
Lord Jesus Christ, He wasn't under their control. They were
under His control. Those men that drove the spikes
through His hands weren't in control. He was in control of
them. He told them exactly how high
to raise the hammer and exactly where to put the nails. He told
him exactly when to swing that whip on his back. He told him
exactly how to put the thorns together and plait them on his
head. He was in control of every single detail. And that's why
God is saying to you and I, the son of wickedness, he shall not
force him. Oh, no. My son is going to lay
down his life willingly for his friends, willingly in obedience
to me. He's not going to be put in debt
and he's not going to be forced to lay his life down. He's going
to be in control of all the circumstances. Look at verse 23. I will beat
down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him. Second Thessalonians chapter
two, verse eight says then. Then the wicked shall be revealed,
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming. Looks like we're on the losing
team right now, doesn't it? It does. This is a weak illustration,
but the best one I can think of. You've recorded a sporting
event of a team that you're really zealous behind. And before you
watched the game, you knew how it ended. But halfway through
the game, your team is way behind, and you're thinking, it's all
right. It's all right. I know the last
chapter. I know how this thing's going
to end up. Whereas if you had not been,
if you didn't know the end of the game, you'd be sitting there
biting your nails and thinking, oh no, we're gonna lose, we're
gonna lose. Well brethren, the last chapter's
been written, God wrote it, just hasn't been fulfilled yet. And
I'm here to say to you by the authority of God's word, we're
on a winning team. It might seem like we're losing.
It might seem like things are out of control. But if you're
in Christ. You don't know anything. Turn
to Revelation chapter 19. Here's the last chapter. It's
what God says. Revelation chapter 19 verse 11. And I saw heaven opened and behold
a white horse. And he that sat upon him was
called faithful and true. Now that's none other than the
Lord. This is figurative language, but it's describing to you and
I, the spiritual victory that the Lord Jesus Christ and his
church are going to get in the end, in the end. And his name
is faithful. He's faithful to his word. Faith
is believing in his faithfulness. And he's true. And in righteousness
does he judge and make war. He has a standard by which he
will not deviate, a plumb line as the scripture refers to him,
and that's Christ. He's the standard, he's the plumb
line. Everything is judged by this man. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on His head were many crowns. And He had a name written that
no man knew but He Himself. And He was clothed with vesture,
dipped in blood, and His name is called the Word of God. And the Word became flesh and
dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory as the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and full of truth." And now the
Lord is giving us the last chapter. This chapter is going to be fulfilled
sooner than we think. If we can go back to the sporting
illustration, the game's going to be over sooner than we think.
It really is. Young people think, well, yeah,
because you're in the fourth quarter. Yeah, I might be. But
you're further along than you think. Further along than you
think. And the armies which were in
heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen,
white and clean. That's the church. That's the
church. What is this fine linen, white
and clean John asks. That's the righteousness of the
saints who have washed their robes in the blood of the lamb. And out of his mouth goeth a
sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations, and
he shall rule them with a rod of iron. And he treadeth the
winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God. And
he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King
of kings and Lord of lords. And I saw an angel standing in
the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the fowls
that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves together
unto the supper of the great God. that ye may eat the flesh
of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men,
and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and
the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their
armies gathered together to make war against him that sat on the
horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and
with him the false prophets that wrought miracles before him,
with which he deceived them, that had received the mark of
the beast and then that worshiped his image. These both were cast
alive to the lake of fire, burning with brimstone. Here's the last
chapter. What does God say in our text?
This is God the father. Speaking to his church about
his son. And he says I will beat down
his foes before his face and plague them. That. Hate him. But my faithfulness. And my mercy. Shall be with him. And in his
name. I mean, I'm sorry in my name,
shall his horn be exalted. What is his name? Jehovah. The glorious, uncreated, self-sustaining
I am. The one who does everything according
to his will and purpose. And his name The horn of his
strength shall be exalted in my name. King of kings, we just
saw that in Revelation 19. Lord of lords, he's the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. You see, the Lord Jesus Christ
has the same name as the Father. Same name. Isaiah chapter 9,
verse 6, it says, and he shall be called the everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace. And his strength. Is in his name. His name. Is none other than
the name of God? Look at verse 24 and I close. My faithfulness. At my mercy. If you read on in this chapter,
Lord says, I'm going to save them by a covenant. And if they
sin, I'll correct them, but I'm not going to break my covenant,
not going to break my covenant. You see the covenant of God's
grace is an eternal covenant. The Lord's made a provision for
his children for when they sin, bring them back, but he won't
break his covenant. He's faithful, faithful to all
of his promises. Faith is believing that God is
faithful in his word. To reveal Christ as he is. As he is. It's just believing
God. Or I've got no place else to
go but to believe you believe you. Our merciful Heavenly Father.
We do thank you. As feebly as we're able. For
the revelation that you've given to us in your word about thy
dear son. And we pray father that you would.
For Christ's sake and according to his name. Continue thy faithfulness. To forgive us. And find us. In him. For it's in his name
we ask it. Amen. For the bird. 199 let's stand together number 199 Sinners Jesus will receive soundest
word of grace to all who the heavenly pathway lead. ? All who linger, all who fall
? Sing it all and o'er again ? Christ, receive the sinful
man ? Make the message clear and plain ? Christ, receive the
sinful man ? Come and He will give you rest ? Trust Him for
His word is plain ? He will take the sinful rest ? Christ, receive
a sinful man ? Sing it all and or again Christ receive the sinful
man make the message clear and plain Christ receive a sinful
man now my heart condemns me not ? Pure before the law I stand
? He who cleansed me from all spot ? Satisfied its last demand
? Sing it o'er and o'er again ? Christ, receive the tenfold
man ? Make the message clear and plain Christ, receiver, sinful
man. ? Christ, receive the sinful
man ? Even me with all my sin ? Purge from every spot insane
? Heaven within I enter in ? Sing it o'er and o'er again ? Christ,
receive the sinful man Make the message clear and plain, Christ,
receive a sinful man. Thank you.