Good evening. I think we've done
this once before. We're going to sing tonight.
Number 18 in your hardback hymnal. Now, thank we all our God. Let's
all stand together. Number 18. Now thank we all our God. with hearts and hands and voices,
who wondrous things hath done, in whom his world rejoices. who from our mother's arms hath
blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love and still is ours
today. Oh, may this bounteous God through
all our life be near us, with ever joyful hearts and blessed
peace to cheer. us, and keep us when His grace,
and guide us when perplexed, and free us from all ills in
this world and the next. ? All praise and thanks to God
? The Father now be given ? The Son and Him who reigns ? With
them in highest heaven ? The one eternal God whom earth and
heaven adore, for thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore. Please be seated. Be ye therefore thankful in all
things, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus, Concerning
you, may God remind us that all the things that we experience
are given to us by the will of God, and that we're to be thankful
for His mercies, for His grace, and especially for the work of
His Son, for the forgiveness of our sin. We open your Bibles with me this
evening to Psalm 60, please. Psalm 60. Now, oftentimes the soul of the
believer feels estranged from the Lord. It's because of our
sin. The Lord said, your sin has separated
you from your God, and that estrangement is what the Lord uses in order
to put this prayer in our hearts. Oh God, thou hast cast us off,
thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased, oh, turn
thyself to us again. Lord, don't leave us to ourselves. Turn thyself to us again, and
again, And again, never end of this prayer is there. Thou has
made the earth to tremble. Thou has broken it. Heal the
breaches thereof for it shaketh. Thou has showed thy people hard
things. Thou has made us to drink the
wine of astonishment. Lord, thou hast stirred the seas
of our circumstances and troubled us, causing us to realize that
the things in this world are not stable, and they're certainly
not eternal. Thou hast given a banner. The Lord Jesus Christ is called
the banner of his people. Thou hast given a banner to them
that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. That's our hope, that the banner
will fly high tonight, that Christ will be lifted up. Our hearts
will be drawn to him. If he does that, then he will
have turned himself to us again. That thy beloved may be delivered,
save with thy right hand and hear me, God hath spoken. in his holiness and I will rejoice. I will divide Shechem and meet
out the valley of Sukkoth. The nations are a drop in the
bucket to him, a speck of dust on the scale. Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also
is the strength of my head. Judah is my lawgiver, Moab is
my washpot, over Edom, while I cast out my shoe, Phylicia,
triumph thou because of me. The Lord is over all the inhabitants
of the earth. He's the Lord of hosts. What
comfort the child of God has in being able to rest in the
sovereign work of our good God, who does all things for the blessing
of his people. Who will bring me into the strong
city? Who will lead me into Edom? Wilt
not thou, O God, which hast cast us off, and thou, O God, which
didst not go out with our armies, give us help from trouble, for
vain And that word help there in that verse is the word salvation.
For vain is the salvation of men. What men do to try to save
themselves. Heard a preacher say recently,
he said, he said, Christmas is all about God giving man an opportunity
for redemption. If we'll just take advantage
of it. And, uh, Vain, empty is the salvation
of man. Through God, we will do valiantly
for he it is that shall tread down our enemies. Let's pray. Our merciful heavenly
father, oh, how needful we are for you to tread down our enemies. Lord, we confess to you that
our greatest enemy is our own sin. Lord, we pray that you would,
once again, through the preaching of thy dear son, the lifting
up of the banner, the exaltation of Christ, that you would bring
our hearts to that place where we're able to rest in him and
believe upon him for the redemption of our souls. that you would
cause us to have the confidence of knowing that that sin has
been put away, that victory has been won, death has been conquered,
Satan has been defeated. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Let's all stand together once
again and we'll sing hymn number 17 in your hardback timbrel.
17. ? Come thou fount of every blessing
? ? Tune my heart to sing thy grace ? ? Streams of mercy never
ceasing ? ? Call for songs of loudest praise ? ? Teach me some
melodious sonnet ? ? Sung by framing tongues above ? Praise
the mount, I'm fixed upon it, mount of thy redeeming love. ? Here I raise mine Ebenezer
? ? Hither by thy help I'm come ? ? And I hope by thy good pleasure
? ? Safely to arrive at home ? ? Jesus sought me when a stranger
? ? Wandering off from the fold of God ? He to rescue me from
danger interposed his O to grace, how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel
it. Prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart. Oh, take and
seal it. Seal it for thy courts above. Please be seated. We open your Bibles again to
Psalm 59, Psalm 59. Scripture tells us that this
Psalm was a Psalm that David wrote when he was in his house
trying to find out how he was going to escape the murderous
plans of Saul. And this was the night that Saul's
daughter, Michael, told David that she knew that her father
had planned to kill him first thing in the morning and that
if he did not escape this night that he would not live tomorrow
and she let him out a window in the house and I got to thinking
about all the different windows that there are in the scriptures
and what they represent and So I've titled this message, A Window
of Escape, A Window of Escape. And of course, this psalm is
not really about David, it's about Christ. And the Lord Jesus
Christ is pouring his heart out to the Father, knowing that there's
got to be a place of escape. Otherwise, there's no hope, there's
no hope. Now for the Lord Jesus Christ,
the window of escape was the resurrection. It's the resurrection. Because the Lord Jesus Christ
was killed by his enemies, and yet he escaped eternal separation
from the Father by the resurrection. The window of escape that you
and I have is the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. There
is no other escape. That's our hope. We're in this world and we're
going to, if the Lord tarries, we're going to die in this world. And the hope that we have is
to know that the victory that the Lord Jesus Christ won for
us in Psalm 59, that His hope is our hope. that his window
of escape was the resurrection. You remember in 2 Kings chapter
6 when Ben-Hadad who was the king of Syria besieged Samaria
and cut off their supply of everything. until the people in Samaria had
eaten up all their food, they'd eaten their animals. And the
king of Samaria is walking along the wall and a woman comes to
him and begs for his help. And he said, what do you need?
And she said, well, me and my friend made a pact. We made a covenant. We made a
promise that we would eat her child yesterday And we would
eat my child yesterday and we did. And today we were to eat
her child and she's hid it. What do I do? And the king rent his clothes
and blamed the circumstances on Elisha and brought Elisha
in and said, this is all because of you. And Elisha said, no,
it's not because of me. He said, tomorrow, tomorrow a,
I forget what it was, an ophar of manna will sell for a shekel. And the servant of the king made
this statement. He said, if God were to open
the windows of heaven, such a thing could be. But if he doesn't open
the windows of heaven, it's not going to happen. And that very
night, you remember, that's the story where the four lepers were
at the gate and they said, if we go in this city, we're gonna
die. If we stay here, we're gonna die. Let's go throw ourselves
on the mercy of the Syrians and maybe they'll feed us and we'll
live. If they kill us, well, we're
gonna die anyway. And they went to the Syrians
and the Lord had already routed the Syrians. They had left. and left all their supplies and
sure enough the next day the food was plentiful. And Elisha
made this statement to that man who said the only way this is
going to happen is if God opens a window from heaven. And that's
exactly what the Lord did. He opened a window from heaven,
didn't he? And the Lord prophesied through
Elisha. He said, Because you don't believe
the prophecy of God, because you don't believe what God's,
you're gonna see the fulfillment of this prophecy, but you're
not going to benefit of it. You're gonna die. And the next
day, it was the king's servant that opened the gate and was
trampled to death by the people. And he died because he didn't
believe. He didn't believe what God had
said he was gonna do. The point of the story is that
God has opened the windows of heaven and He has poured out
for His people all that they need to supply them in this life
and in the next. And faith in His promises is
the window that the Lord enables us to escape our sin from. That's what What Christ was bearing in his
body on the cross was the sins of his people and the suffering
that he was feeling. Now I mentioned this past Sunday
the physical wounds of Christ, but those physical wounds were
only there to show us where our sin manifests itself. The physical
wounds that the Lord Jesus Christ suffered on Calvary's cross weren't
the wounds that he's bewailing and crying out for mercy to God
for, it's the spiritual burden of the sin that he's owned as
his own. That's the cup that he drank
from. The real agony that the Lord
Jesus Christ suffered on Calvary's cross was separation from the
Father. My God, my God, why'st thou forsaken
me? Father, if there be any way this cup can pass from me, let
it be. that was the agony and that's
the agony he's expressing in Psalm 59. Father, is there any
hope? Is there any window of escape
that's going to enable me to be reunited with you though I'm
dying this sin-bearing death? And the hope is found, look at
verses 16 and 17 in Psalm 59. But I will sing of thy power,
yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy. In the morning thou hast
been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble. Unto thee,
O my strength, will I sing, for God is my defense and the God
of my mercy. There's the end of the Psalm.
There's the window of escape. David's being led out of the
house through a window and the Lord opens the window of heaven
and he provides for his people a way of escape, a way of escape. So the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ and his faithfulness to the Father to bear the sins
of his people and to suffer the wrath and to separate himself
from God, That's the, you know, we really have no understanding
of what the Lord Jesus Christ suffered. We can relate a little
bit to what it means to have a wound, to be maybe hit in the
mouth or maybe have something stuck in our head or have a little
prick in our hand or our feet or we can experience, we've all
experienced physical pain and we know something about what
that means. But the spiritual agony that the Lord Jesus Christ
suffered on Calvary's cross, we have no understanding of what
that means. And yet we believe that he did
it in order to satisfy. That was the wound. It was the
wound that the father had given him, the spiritual wound of burying
the sins of his people that enabled the window of heaven to be opened
that he might escape through the resurrection, and that we
would have the hope of knowing that he is the firstborn among
many brethren. We have the hope of the resurrection,
brethren. And it's that hope that enables
us to trust him, and we We open this service with be thankful
in all things for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning
you. It's the hope of the resurrection.
It gives us the ability to be thankful even in the midst of
our trials, in the midst of our troubles. Genesis chapter six, you don't
have to turn there. The scripture tells us about
the dimensions of the ark. And the scripture says that the
ark is 450 feet long and 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. And there's one door going into
the ark. And God shut that door once Noah and his family were
in the ark. And before the deluge came and
the destruction of the world came and the ark, which is a
picture of Christ, thus being in Christ. And after the rain
was over, after the floods began to abate, Noah went up to the
top of the ark, and the scripture says that there was a window
in the top of the ark, a cubit by a cubit. Now a cubit's 18
inches. An 18-inch window would be difficult
for any of us to get through. That's a small space. And Noah,
after the rain quits, goes up and opens this little 18 inch
window and lets out a raven. And the raven doesn't return
because there's plenty carry on for the raven to feed on.
But then he lets out a dove and the dove comes back. And the
scripture says that she found no place for the sole of her
feet. And so Noah with his head sticking
out of this window reaches forth his hand and puts forth his hand
and took her and pulled her in unto him in the ark. Through
the window, Noah pulls this dove unto him into the ark, the ark
of safety. And here's what the Lord's done.
He's given us a window of escape. He's provided for us the hope
of the resurrection. And he reaches forth his hand
and those doves, what a picture of the elect and the reprobate.
The reprobate can go out and feed on the dead carcasses of
this world all they want, but the dove finds no place to rest
her feet in this world. She can't get satisfied with
anything that the world has to offer. And so the Lord Jesus
Christ reaches forth his hand out through that window and he
pulls her into himself and brings him into the ark. A window of
escape. That's what David is dealing
with here in Psalm 59. And of course, how could we not
think of Rahab when we think about a window? Joshua chapter
two, God, Joshua sends the spies into Jericho to spy out the land. And Rahab, the harlot, takes them
in and hides them. And then she lets them out on
a scarlet thread, the scripture says, a cord, a rope, a red rope
she had in her house. And they escaped through the
window. And that's where we're going to escape. We're going
to escape through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ through
the window that he's provided through his death and resurrection. And that window was not only
a symbol of escape for them, but it was a symbol of hope for
her. For the spies told her, you leave
that cord hanging out the window because we're coming back and
we're going to destroy this whole city. And that will be the sign. that you believed us and we'll
spare you and your family as long as you're behind that scarlet
rope and that window. And Rahab and her family are
the only ones that escaped the destruction of Jericho through
the window. Joash, 2 Kings chapter 13, is
king of Israel and he's being attacked and spoiled by the Syrians. And so, Elisha is down in Judah
and Joash gets word that the prophet is on his deathbed. And
Joash goes down to Elisha's house to ask him for his blessings
for Israel against the onslaught of abuse and attacks that Israel's
getting from the Syrians. And Elisha on his deathbed tells
the king of Israel, he says, get your bow and arrow and open
that window. And he said, put the bow in your
hand And the king of Israel pulls the arrow in the bow and Elisha
comes along. I can just see old Elisha sitting
up on his deathbed and puts his hand on the hand of the king's
hand and puts his other hand on the arrow hand of the king. So Elisha's behind the king and
he says, now release it. And he releases the arrow. And
he said, that's the, and through the window, And he said, that's
the symbol, that's the prophecy of your destruction against Syria. And then Elisha said, now take
your arrows, the rest of the arrows that are in the quiver
and strike the ground. And so Joash strikes the ground
three times. And the scripture says that Elisha
gets angry at Joash. He said, why did you strike the
ground three times? You should have struck the ground
five or six times. He said, now you're only going
to defeat the Syrians three times. Now what is that a symbol of?
Well, the arrow that God pierces the hearts of His people with
is His Word. The revelation of the Lord Jesus
Christ given to us in the Word of God. And the Lord takes His
Word and He says, that's your hope of defeating your enemy.
Your hope of defeating sin is through that window, the window
of escape. And you should have struck the
ground, you should still be striking the ground with those arrows.
What happens? You see, there's a direct relationship. There's a direct relationship
with the spiritual strength and victory
that believers have with sin and their exposure to scripture. There is. A little scripture,
a little power. A lot of scripture, a lot of
power. Faith comes, faith is what we
need, isn't it? And faith comes by hearing, and
hearing comes by the word. You see, the truth is, if most
of us ate physically as often as we eat spiritually, I've made
this statement to some folks recently. I said, well, you know,
we are what we eat. And I'm becoming more and more convinced that
what we take into our bodies has more effect on our health
than anything else that we do. But that's true not only physically,
but spiritually. If we ate spiritually like we
eat physically, as often as we eat, we might find ourselves
a little more healthy spiritually. So the Lord defeats the enemy
with the arrows of his word through the window of escape. It's because
all of his word is pointing to the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's the proof of the gospel. The proof of the
gospel is the victorious resurrection, the defeat that the Lord Jesus
Christ had over death, over Satan, over hell. That's the end. No other sign
is going to be given unto this generation except for the sign
of Jonah who spent three days and three nights in the belly
of the whale. Here's our hope. You know, most religion is all
focused on, well, how am I going to escape my circumstances? How
am I going to be a better person? How am I going to get through
this world and this life? Well, the only way you're going
to get through this world alive is by the resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ. In Daniel chapter 6, when the counselors of the king of
Babylon tried to have Daniel arrested and killed. They wrote
a decree, no man is to ask of anything from anyone, any other
God than you. And they knew that Daniel would
go to his window and open it up. And that window faced Jerusalem,
the holy city. And he prayed three times a day.
And they caught him clearly. I mean, he wasn't trying to hide.
Look, brought him before the king. The king happened to throw
him into the lion's den as a result of it. But what a picture. The child of God with their face
towards Jerusalem, praying through the window of escape, the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then there's a passage in
Malachi chapter three, where God says, and hear me through
on this, because this is important. "'Will a man rob God?' And then
the man says, "'Well, where have we robbed God?' And the Lord
said, "'With your tithes and your offerings, "'bring them
into the storehouse "'and see and trust God and see if I will
not open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that
you cannot receive. And I will rebuke the devourer. And you say, well, preacher,
are you preaching tithes and offerings? Well, tithe was the
Old Testament legal obligation to bring a 10th of everything
that you had. Here's what I'm convinced of,
brethren. If we trust God for the salvation of our souls, we
trust Him for the forgiveness. I mean, we really do. We're not
just saying we do. We really trust Him. We'll trust Him for
everything else. What's the most valuable thing
that you have? It's your soul. You trust someone
with your most valued possessions and you'll trust them with something
lesser also. Will you not? You trust somebody for your children,
you'll trust them with everything else you've got. No, I'm not preaching on tithes
and offerings. I'm preaching on believing God,
trusting the Lord. You trust him for your soul.
You won't have any trouble trusting him. It's an odd thing that, Men will
say, well, I'm trusting God for my salvation and then I'll go
to some sort of therapist or counselor for my emotional needs. You know, it just, trust God,
if you really trust him. Will a man rob God? Where have
you robbed me? Where have we robbed you, Lord,
with tithes and offerings? Bring them into the storehouse
and see if I won't open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing
that you will not be able to receive. Acts chapter 20. Well, let's skip that one. In
2 Corinthians chapter 11, Paul tells us about his experience
after his conversion in Damascus. And when the governor of Damascus
found out about Paul's conversion and his preaching, he was going
to have him arrested and put to death. Paul had been sent
there to arrest the Christians and now he's joined them. And
Paul tells us that they had to let him out a window. in order
for him, the brethren, had to lower him through a rope out
of a window in order for him to escape. And the blessings
that the church has received as a result of the ministry of
the Apostle Paul, he escaped through a window. While David
escapes through a window, you and I are going to escape this
world through the window that he's provided in the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Psalm 59 verse 1, deliver me
from my enemies, oh my God, deliver me from them that rise up against
me. Deliver me from the workers of
iniquity and save me from bloody men. For lo, they lie in wait
for my soul. The mighty are gathered against
me. Not for my transgressions, nor for my sin, O Lord, they
run and prepare themselves without my fault, awake to help me, and
behold." David wasn't guilty. Saul was trying to kill David
because he was jealous and he was afraid that David was going
to overtake him. David had never done anything.
David was innocent. David's a type of Christ. They
hated me without a cause. The cows of Bashan have surrounded
about me, the bulls of Bashan. These are the enemies of Christ
surrounding him and now he's crying out to the Father, Father
save me, save me from there. They've accused me falsely, they're
saying that you being a man have made yourself out to be God,
that you're guilty of blasphemy. Father, you know this is not
my charge. Help me. Verse five. Thou therefore, O Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen. Be not merciful
to any wicked transgressors or deliver me. They return at evening. They make a noise like a dog
and go about the city. Behold, they belch out with their
mouths. Swords are in their lips. For who say they doth hear? What
a description of the, of the unbeliever who has his fist reared
against God will not have this man reign over us. But thou, O Lord, shall laugh
at them. Thou shall have them all, the
heathen and derision. The Lord's not threatened by
this unbelieving world. And the child of God who's looking
through the window of escape and looking to Christ is not
threatened by the accusations of this world. Verse nine, because of his strength,
while I wait upon thee. For God is my defense. In all of my troubles, in all
my fears, in all my circumstances, Lord, I need a place of escape.
David's crying out, Lord, how am I going to get away from Saul? He escapes through a window. The God of my mercy, verse 10,
shall prevent me. God shall let me see my desire
upon mine enemies. The Lord's going to give me,
you could just hear the Lord Jesus Christ. And I think the
Lord, all those three hours that he's on the cross, we have just
a few words that he spoke audibly, but you know, he's communing
with the Father in his heart the whole time he's there. And
every word that he speaks is the word of God. And so, can't
you just hear the Lord reciting these Psalms in his heart to
the Father as he's on the cross crying out for God to deliver
him? Lord, I'm trusting you that even though I'm being surrounded
by my enemies and I'm being falsely accused, and even though I'm
dying and will die, let me see my hope. My hope is in my resurrection. You're not going to allow your
Holy One to see corruption. You're going to bring him forth
from the grave. Verse 11, slay them not, lest my people
forget. Scatter them by thy power and
bring them down, O Lord, our shield. for the sin of their
mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken
in their pride and for cursing and lying which they speak. Consume them in wrath, consume
them that they may not be and let them know that God ruleth
in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Here's what we know. God's ruling. He's ruling this
world. All these people who think they
have so much power and influence and they're just pawns. And at evening, let them return
and let them make a noise like a dog and go about the city.
Let them wander up and down for meat and grunge it as if they'd
be not satisfied. Oh, the wicked, Isaiah said,
are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters
cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God,
to the wicked. They're like a dog that's ravaging the trash
cans at night, looking for some morsel of food. What is the hope
of our peace? We can lay down our head and
rest. Why? Because we know there's
a resurrection. We know that the very thing that
the Lord Jesus Christ prayed to his father for here in this
psalm, the father gave it to him. He gave it to him. He raised
him from the dead. But I, Verse 16, but I will sing. I will sing of thy power. Yea,
I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning. Oh, that resurrection
morning. The sun came up, the angel rolled
away the stone, the Lord Jesus came out of the grave victorious,
and the hope of the disciples was he's risen. He's risen. I will sing aloud of thy mercy
in the morning for thou has been my defense and refuge in the
day of my trouble. Now, unless somebody be listening
or watching that thinks that we're just simply rejoicing in
the historical event of the resurrection like the religious do, we're
rejoicing in the victory of the resurrection. the evidence that
the resurrection gives us which says that everything that the
Lord Jesus Christ did on Calvary's cross was successful. He didn't make, he didn't provide
an opportunity for redemption. He didn't make it possible for
us to have, just have Jesus if, you know, if we wanted him. No,
he actually, he actually saved his people. And the father raised
him from the dead as the proof to his children that everything
necessary has been done. Yea, I will sing aloud of the
mercy in the morning. Thou has been my defense and
my refuge in the day of my trouble unto thee. Oh, my strength while
I sing from God is my defense and the God of my mercy. Now, here's the warning, brethren. The Lord speaks of this in Hebrews
chapter 4 when he warns us not to be like those Old Testament
Israelites who did not mix faith with the promises of God. They
didn't believe God. They heard about it. They saw
it. They said, yeah, I acknowledge
that. There are at least two windows in scripture that represent
the windows of destruction rather than the windows of escape. And
one of them is when Michael saw David dancing through a window. She looked down, maybe it was
the same window that she had let him out to escape her father. It was their home. And now she's
looking out the window and she sees David dancing. And the scripture
says, and she despised him in her heart. And so here Michael
represents that person who is united to Christ in some way,
but the scripture says that she never provided him any children,
any children. So here she's a, I say united
to Christ in some way, what I meant to say was that Michael represents
the tares that are in the church, the tares that are in the church,
that's who she represents. Oh Lord, I don't want to be a
tear. I don't want to be a tear. I don't want to look through
the window of the resurrection and despise in my heart the Lord
Jesus Christ. I want to love Him. I want to
trust Him. I want to believe Him. And then Jehu, who was the king
of Israel, went to Jezreel and He looked up the wall and saw
that there was a woman with a painted face looking out a window. And her name was Jezebel. And
she had been an enemy of God, though a member of Israel, she
was an enemy of the gospel. And Jehu hollered and he said,
is there anyone up there that's on my side? And three eunuchs
stuck their heads out the window. And Jehu said, throw her down,
throw her down. And the scripture says when she
hit the ground that her blood splattered up on the wall. And
Jehu went into the city. And after he finished, while
he was eating dinner, he said to his servants, he said, go
get the body of Jezebel. She's a daughter of a king and
we need to bury her properly. And they went out to get her,
and there was nothing left of Jezebel other than the palms
of her hands, her feet, and her skull, in fulfillment of the
prophecy that the dogs would eat her flesh. And she was looking
out a window, and became cast out that window. It's a window
of escape, window of escape for Christ through his resurrection
and for his elect. And there's a window of destruction
for those who won't believe the gospel, that won't believe God,
that won't trust Christ. They got all the information
and no faith. Lord, give us the grace to have
faith to mix with the revelation of the gospel that you've given
us in your word. And Lord, enable us to Strike
those arrows time and time and time again. Put your hand on
my hand. Shoot those arrows in my heart.
Reveal to me the glory of Christ. Our heavenly Father, we're thankful
for your word and we pray now that you would just continue
to reveal to us the glory of thy son. For it's in his name we pray,
amen. 226. Let's stand together. I am not skilled to understand
what God hath willed, what God hath planned. I only know at
His right hand is one who is my Savior. I take him at his word indeed. Christ died for sinners, this
I read. For in my heart I find a need
of him to be my Savior. That he should leave his place
on high, And come for sinful men to die. You count it strange,
so once did I, Before I knew my Savior. And, O that he fulfilled, may
see, The travail of his soul in me, And with his work contented
be, As I with my dear Saviour. Yea, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring That he who lives to be
my King Once died to be my Savior