Good evening. Let's open tonight's
service with hymn number 22 from the Spiral Gospel Hymns hymnbook.
For the glory of His grace, let's all stand together. 22. you We were ruined by the fall, Adam's
sin defiles us all. By our deed as by our birth,
we deserve the law's great curse. Helpless, hopeless sinners we,
never can our souls retrieve. But the blessed Son of God Came
as man in flesh and blood He fulfilled the law's demands And
in death stretched out his hands On the cross of Calvary Christ
redeemed and set us free In the time which God had set, the Spirit
came for His elect to regenerate and call from the ruin of the
fall. By His power and by His grace,
we were born for God's own praise. ? Now your purpose we fulfill
? ? Saved according to your will ? ? Sing this song of joyful
praise ? ? For the glory of your grace ? ? Blessed, holy, triune
God ? ? Hear our praise through Christ our Lord ? You open your Bibles with me
to Psalm 42, Psalm 42. What a blessing it's been to
see that all of these Psalms are to be understood first and
foremost as the words of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we hope
and pray that the Lord will put it in our hearts to pant after
him as a heart panted after Waterbrook. The Lord Jesus did that. He did
that. As the heart panted after the
Waterbrook, so panted my soul after thee, oh God. Wish we could
be like that more often than we are. The Lord was like that
all the time. My soul thirsteth for God, for
the living God. When shall I come and appear
before God? My tears have been my meat, day
and night, while they continually say unto me, where is thy God? Spirit of God gives us reason
to weep over our sin. It's a good thing. Our tears
are not sufficient, are they? His were. When I remember these
things, I pour out my soul in me. For I had gone with the multitude. I went with them to the house
of God with the voice of joy and praise of the multitude that
kept holy day. Why art thou cast down on my
soul? And why art thou disquieted within
me? Hope thou in God. I'm sure these are the thoughts
our Lord was having when he was forsaken of his father and cried
from the cross, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? For
I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Oh my
God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore, therefore, oh,
wouldn't it be good When our soul gets cast down before us,
if we could say, therefore, I remember thee from the land of Jordan
and of the Hermonites and from the hill of Mizar. Deep calleth
unto deep at the noise of thy water spouts. All thy waves and
thy billows are gone over me. Yet the Lord will command his
loving kindness. I've told you before that the
word grace is found very few times in the Old Testament, but
the word loving kindness is the same idea. And so the Lord will
command his grace in the daytime and in the night his song shall
be with me. And my prayer unto the God of
my life. I will say unto God my rock.
Why has thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning? Because of
the oppression of the enemy, as with the sword in my bones,
mine enemies reproach me. While they say daily unto me,
where is thy God? Why art thou cast down, O my
soul? And why art thou disquieted within
me? Hope thou in God. There's the
remedy for a disquieted soul, isn't it? Faith and fear. are at opposite ends of the spectrum,
aren't they? And I shall yet praise Him who
is the health of my countenance and my God. Let's pray. Oh, our merciful Heavenly Father,
how encouraged and comforted we are to read these words and
to understand that they were fulfilled perfectly in our savior,
thy dear son, the one who poured out his soul unto death. And
Lord, when you saw the travail of his soul, you were satisfied. We ask that you would send your
spirit in power in this hour, enable us Lord to set our affections
on Christ and to find in him all thy wonderful blessings. Oh, we ask it in his name. Amen. Let's stand together once again.
We'll sing hymn number 296 from the hardback temple 296. All the way my Savior leads me,
what have I to ask beside? Can I doubt His tender mercy,
who through life has been my guide? Heavenly peace, divinest
comfort, hear my faith in Him to dwell. For I know what e'er
befall me, Jesus doeth all things well. For I know what e'er befall
me, Jesus doeth all things well. All the way my Savior leads me,
cheers each winding path I tread, gives me grace for every trial,
feeds me with a living bread. Though my weary steps may falter,
and my soul a thirst may be, Gushing from the rock before
me, lo, a spring of joy I see. Gushing from the rock before
me, lo, a spring of joy I see. All the way my Savior leads me,
O the fullness of His love. Perfect rest to me is promised
in my Father's house above. When my spirit, clothed immortal,
Wings its flight to realms of day, This my song through endless
ages, Jesus led me all the way. This my song through endless
ages, Jesus led me all the way. Please be seated. I am so very hopeful that the
Lord is going to bless us tonight. By that I mean we will leave
this place content. That's what the word blessed
means. Happy. That's what it means. Satisfied. At peace with God. Fulfilled. That's what That's
what the scripture means when it speaks of being blessed. And
our passage tonight, Psalm 41, everybody's looking for that,
isn't it, aren't they? Everybody's looking for peace.
Everybody's looking for happiness. Everybody's looking for contentment.
Everybody's looking for fulfillment. And they look in one of two places.
They either look outside themselves or they look inside themselves.
It's not a mistake that when Paul went to Athens that he met
those philosophers at Mars Hill. And the scripture defines those
philosophers as having two camps, the Epicureans and the Stoics,
remember? The Epicureans believe that happiness,
contentment, fulfillment, blessings, were found in the enjoyment of
things. The Stoics, on the other hand,
believed that true happiness, true contentment, and true fulfillment
and true peace came from finding it within yourself. And those
are the two philosophies of the world. Everybody goes to one
way or the other. Most folks vacillate back and
forth, don't they? And we see it in ourselves, don't
we? We try to find happiness in things.
and doesn't satisfy, so then we become stoic. And becoming
stoic, I mean, trying to find happiness within yourself is
like going down in a well, isn't it? The deeper you go, the darker
it gets. If we could spend half our time
figuring out who the Lord Jesus Christ is, and that we figure
out, that we try to figure out who we are. Everybody's trying
to figure out who they are. and what they should be doing
rather than figuring out who he is and what he's done. That's the secret of life, isn't
it? This message is called the blessed
man. And the self-righteous, the Pharisee,
the one who's attempting to earn his way to heaven by his actions
and by his obedience read these Psalms like Psalm 1. Blessed
is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. Well,
I want to be blessed of God, so I'm going to avoid walking
in the counsel of the ungodly. Now, that man is Christ. He's the one who's blessed. And all the blessings of God.
Ephesians chapter 1. Ephesians chapter 1 says, Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed
us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. Now if you look at that word
places it's actually the word things. It's the word things. So let's read that verse again.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things
in Christ Jesus. Those are the real blessings
Happiness is not to be found in things. That's such a facade,
isn't it? It's such a temporary emotional
feeling. True contentment can only be
found in the heavenly things. And those heavenly things are
established by the man who's seated at the right hand of God,
the heavenly man. And he's the man spoken of. He's
the man spoken of. You see, true happiness is knowing
Him. It's knowing Him. And we're so
tempted to look somewhere else, either outside ourselves or inside
ourselves. And it's just not there. It's not there. That's what the
whole world is looking for. Blessed is the man. The Lord
Jesus Christ is that man that walked on the counsel of the
ungodly. He's that man who never sat in the seat of the scornful.
He's the one, isn't he? He's the blessed man. Oh, how
content, how fulfilled, how at peace and how happy is the Lord
Jesus Christ always was, always shall be. And the only hope that
you and I have is to be found in him and looking to him looking
to him. Now the world takes passages
like this and there's nothing wrong with
a soup kitchen, nothing wrong with a closed closet, nothing
wrong with going down to the rescue mission. But you have
to ask yourself, why do folks do those things? What is their
motivation? And I fear that it's an attempt
to get God's blessings. Read this first verse of Psalm
41. Blessed is he that considereth
the poor. Blessed is he that considereth.
Now we ought to consider the poor. James makes that clear,
doesn't he? He said, if your brother or your
sister is destitute or in need, food or clothing and you say
unto them, go and be warmed and be filled and be blessed of God. And you don't give them those
things that are necessary for their bodily health. And you know, that's what he's
talking about, faith without works. And so we see somebody
in need and we have the ability to meet that need or help them
with that need. And let me say this, you've heard
me say this before, the world says God helps those who help
themselves and uh... we know that's not true not when
it comes to the gospel not when it comes to salvation God only
helps those who cannot help themselves or I can't do anything to pull
myself up by my bootstraps now though that be true of God it's
not true of me and it ought not be true of you we talk about
helping out the poor We're willing to help those who are doing what
they can to help themselves, aren't they? You find somebody
who's not helping themselves and you just said, yep, when
you learn to help yourself, I'll help you out. That's the way
it ought to be. It ought to be that way with
our children. It ought to be that way with whoever we have. But that's
not what this is about. Blessed is he that considereth
the poor. Yes, we should consider the poor, but we don't have all
sorts of ministries for the poor. in order to get God's blessings.
This passage is talking about Christ. And we know this is a
messianic... The theologians, they've identified
10 psalms as the messianic. Some of them four, some of them
10, some of them up to 15. And this is one of those psalms
that they say is a messianic psalm. There is 150 messianic
psalms in the word of God. Every single one of them is speaking
first and foremost of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, they call
this one a messianic psalm because of verse 9. Yea, mine own familiar
friends in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted
up his heel against me. And the Lord Jesus Christ quoted
that verse when he was speaking of Judas in John chapter 13. But that one verse by itself
is not the only thing that relates to the Lord Jesus Christ. It
all relates to him. It all relates to him. And by
the way, when the Lord separated the sheep from the goats and
he said that I was hungry and you fed me and I was naked and
you clothed me and I was a stranger and you took me in and I was
in prison and you visited me, what's he talking about there? Men are naked before God until
they're clothed in the righteousness of Christ. It's our participation in the
gospel. And as a member of the body of Christ, every time the
gospel goes out, every child of God participates in that.
Every child of God is clothing the naked, feeding the hungry,
giving water to the thirsty, visiting those who are in prison.
That's the spiritual application of the gospel, isn't it? And
the Lord said to all of his sheep when he separated the sheep from
the goats, you did it unto the least of these my bread and you've
done it unto me. And one of the sheep said, Lord, when do we
do those things? You see, the believer doesn't take notice
of the fact, well, I've done those things and so therefore
I'm blessed. The fact that we're a part of the body of Christ
every time the gospel clothes a naked sinner, every time a
sinner is fed the bread of life. Every time water is given to
the thirsty, every time a prisoner is set free, the Lord sees that
as part of the ministry of the body of Christ. And he says,
you've done at the least of these my bread and you did it unto
me. So that's our, help those, help those who are willing to
help themselves. If you have the means to help
them. But this is speaking first and
foremost about us, isn't it? We're the poor man. We're the
poor man and he's the blessed man. He's the happy man. He's the content man. He's the
fulfilled man. He's the man that has everything
that we need. And this word poor translated
means weak or sick. And look at, happy is he that
considereth the poor, the destitute, the weak, the sick. Oh, I'm so
thankful. I'm so thankful that the Lord
helps those who can't help themselves. I'm so thankful that he considereth
those who are in need. And whatever blessings and whatever
happiness we're going to ever have in this life and in the
life to come is going to be found in Him, isn't it? We get so tempted
to think, well, if we just had that or just had that, I'd be
happy. Or if I could just change this in my life, if I could just,
you know, happiness is in Christ. That's what this word blessed
means. We saw that Sunday, didn't we? Every man at his very best
state is altogether vanity. That's who we are. That's who
we are. And what are we supposed to be
doing? Everybody's trying to figure out what they're supposed
to be doing. This is the will of God that you believe on him
whom he has sent. This is his commandment, 1 John
chapter 3. that we believe on the Son, Jesus
Christ, and love one another. Oh, what contentment, what peace
in our circumstances and our situation can be in a mess and
we can find peace if we look to the right place. This man
is blessed because he considers the poor. Look at the rest of
verse one. The Lord will deliver him. You see that phrase in the time
of trouble? The literal translation there
is in the day of evil. Now, what is the day of evil? You think about all the horrible
genocides that have taken place in the history of man, 17 million
people murdered here, 10 million people murdered there. You think
about the evil of mass murderers and evil despots, the innocent
victims of the worst psychopathic criminals. There's a lot of evil
in this world, isn't there? A lot of evil. All those things put together,
all those things put together do not compare to the evil when man took his hands and crucified
the Son of God. That's the day of evil. That's
the day of evil. Never has the heart of man been
shown more evil than when he crucified the Son of God. We use the term hell broke loose
as an idiom when things are really bad, but never did hell break
loose more. Never did the fiends of hell
Never did they go into a frenzied convulsion more than when the
Lord Jesus Christ hung on Calvary's cross. That's the day of evil.
Now read this Psalm, read this first verse of me again. Blessed is he that considereth
the poor, the weak, the sick, The Lord will deliver him in the day of evil. The Lord
considered what he was doing and his obedience to the father
and delivered him from that day of evil, didn't he? And that's
what the next two verses are speaking of where the father
delivered his son from the grave. The Lord will preserve him and
keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth, and
thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies." What
was the will of his enemies? To be rid of him forever. God
would not deliver him to the will of his enemies. Oh, no. He was obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross, whereby God gave him a name that is above
every name. that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow and every tongue confess. God rewarded him for
his obedience. He's the man, he's the blessed
man that took consideration for the poor, the sick, the weak,
the needy and went through the most evil day that's ever taken
place in the history of this world. Those six hours that the
Lord Jesus Christ hung on Calvary's cross, well, really beginning
in the garden at His arrest. That's when the evil began. When
He said, Father, if there be any way that He'd sweat drops
of blood. Whom seeketh ye? Jesus of Nazareth.
I am He. I am. And what had the soldiers
fell over? And they arrested Him and flogged
Him and took Him pilot and all that took place that night and
the next day. That was the most evil thing that's ever happened
in the history of the world. All the Holocaust, all the genocides,
all the evil that the most perverted person has ever done does not
compare to that day of evil. And God rewarded him. He said,
I'm not going to allow his enemies to have their way. I'm going
to raise him. Oh, what a blessed man he is. What a blessed man he makes us
to be when we're able, by the grace
of God, to look to him. The Lord will strengthen him
upon the bed of languishing. Thou wilt make all his bed That
word make is the word turn. Turn. And that's exactly what
the father did when the stone was rolled away and the Lord
Jesus Christ came out of that tomb. He turned his bed. He came
out victorious, didn't he? There's our hope. We were talking
about this the other night. Everybody's looking for some
sign. Everybody's looking for some evidence. You know, you
always Listen to people say, well, I know God's on my side
because this happened or that happened. Faith is rooted in
the promise of God right here to raise the Lord Jesus Christ
from the dead. A wicked and perverse generation
is always seeking after a sign. No sign will be given unto it
except for the sign of Jonah, the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's the sign. We're not to
look to any other sign. We can be deceived. Satan is,
he can perform miracles. He can, and he does. Lying wonders, the scripture
calls them. I said, Lord, be merciful unto me. What we see in verses 2 and 3
is that the greatest evil that ever happened in the world resulted
in God's greatest glory and man's greatest need. The Lord turned
his bed. He made everything that man did
as evil as it was. He made it the most beautiful,
glorious, successful work of redemption. Verse 4, I said,
Lord, be merciful unto me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. Now, I think about that publican
who would not so much as even look up. You remember the Lord
compared him to the Pharisee? The Pharisee saying, Father,
I thank thee that I'm not like other men, especially like that
publican over there. And the publican, what did he
say? He would not so much as look up, but smote himself upon
the breast and cried, God have mercy upon me, the sinner. And that's the place the Spirit
of God gives us. But just like feeling sorry for our sins, how
much do you need to cry for mercy in order for God to hear you?
You see, how sincere do you need to be in asking God for mercy? How broken do you have to be?
How desperate do you have to be in order to ask God for mercy?
God gives us grace to ask for mercy and God gives us grace
to be sorry for our sin. But the point I'm making is that
the Lord Jesus Christ is the one who was broken over sin and
asked for mercy from his soul in such a way that God was pleased.
God did see the travail of his soul. And God was satisfied. God doesn't look at the travail
of our soul and is satisfied. He looked at the travail of his
soul. And here we have him, we have him praying. I said, Lord,
be merciful unto me. Heal my soul. For I have sinned
against thee. And I know that's a mystery of
imputation that's far, well all of this is far beyond our ability
to comprehend. But the scripture's clear that
God made him sin. And he owned our sin as if it
was, my sin has gone over my head. I cannot count the numbers
of my hair. Psalm 38, he was overwhelmed
with the sins of his people. God made him sin, who himself
knew no sin, but he was made sin. And here he's praying and
asking for God's mercy. And the Lord's seeing the travail
of his soul. And the Lord said, yes, I forgive
you. I forgive you. My enemies speak
evil of me. When shall he die in his name
perish? Oh, the evil that they spoke
of him. Turn with me to Matthew chapter 26. Matthew chapter 26. They said
that he has a devil. They called him Beelzebub. They
said that he was a deceiver and a liar. They made all sorts of
false accusations about the Lord Jesus Christ. But what was the
one accusation that they made that men are still making today? What is the one accusation that
they made against the Lord Jesus Christ that everyone in religion
outside of Christ is still accusing Him of? Here it is. Matthew 26, look at verse 63,
and Jesus held his peace and the high priest answered and
said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God that you tell
us whether thou be the Christ, the son of God. And Jesus said
unto him, thou hast said. Yep, what you spoke about me,
you're asking me a question, The answer is yes. Hereafter
shall you see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of
power and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest
rent his clothes saying he hath spoken blasphemy. What further need have we of
witness? Behold, now you have heard his
blasphemy. He is guilty of death. Now that's what the Lord is saying
here in Psalm 40, 42, or Psalm 41. They speak, verse five, my enemies
speak evil of me. When's he gonna die and when's
his name gonna perish? The accusation that the religious
and the irreligious make about the Lord Jesus Christ when they
say that He wants to save you but He's subject to your will
in order to get it accomplished is that He is not God. He's not God. They strip Him of His deity when
they speak of inviting Jesus into your heart, when they talk of man's free
will, when they talk of their works and their faith, manipulating
God. God wants to do it, but He just
can't get it done. When they write confessions and
creeds, the words of men, what are they doing? They're saying
the Word of God is not sufficient. The Lord Jesus Christ is not
God and any claim that he makes to be God is blasphemy. You see, they're still accusing
him of blasphemy. They don't say it that way, but
that's what they're doing. When we say that our God is God, When
we say that our God, according to His own will and purpose,
chose a people before the foundation of the world, when we say that
the Lord Jesus Christ came in the full power of the Spirit
of God in order to accomplish the salvation of God's people,
and that He actually did, and when He ascended back into glory,
He took their names with Him and He intercedes for them, Not
one of God's sheep is going to be lost. We're just declaring
God to be God. We're saying, no, the Lord Jesus
Christ is not guilty of blasphemy. He is who he claimed to be. They're accusing him of blasphemy.
It hasn't changed. It hasn't changed. And so when our Lord in Psalm
41 This, another of the Messianic Psalms. Speak prophetically. Mine enemies speak evil of me. What do they say about our God?
That's not my God. They want our God to be shut
up. They want our God to be dead. They want him to be gone. Don't
confront me with your God. Your God exposes my God. And
I love my God and I hate your God. They still speak evil of
Him. The whole world is speaking evil
of the Lord Jesus Christ. God's people are the only people
that don't speak evil of Him. They really are. Listen, look at verse 6. I've
been here. I've been in verse 5. Some of
you have too. And I've been in verse 6. And
if He come to see me, He speaketh vanity, his heart gathereth iniquity
to himself, and when he goeth abroad, he telleth it, he tells
the lies. He traverses land and sea to
make one disciple and turns him into twice the devil of himself.
When he does come to me, he comes to me speaking vanity. He comes
to me telling me what he's gonna do. He comes to me trying to
impress me with his good works and with his free will and with
his faith and then he takes the things of God and he goes away
and he lies on God. That's the lament that the Lord
Jesus Christ, he's identifying religion and it hasn't changed,
there's nothing new under the sun, it's still the same. All that hate me whisper together
against me. Against me do they devise evil against me. And all the religions of the world
will find some common ground. They will. They'll find some
common ground. And God's church and God's people
are the only ones who can't be a part of it. They hate me. They whisper against
me. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him. And now
that he lieth, he shall rise no more. We're finished with it. You see, when the world, when
the free will world, the Armenian world, says that you've got to
make the first step in order for God to be able to save you,
you've got to make a decision, then they are denying the Lord
Jesus Christ as the Alpha, aren't they? And when the Reformers that when they teach progressive
sanctification, they teach looking to your works as the evidence
of your salvation, they're denying Christ as the Omega. He is the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning and the end, the first and the last. He started
it and he's gonna finish it. And he gets all the glory, why?
Because he's God. And everybody else is accusing
him of blasphemy. They are. Oh, they honor him
with their lips. That's what he said, you honor
me with your lips, but your hearts are far from me. You listen to
what they say and their lips will deny them, won't they? Look at verse eight again. This is our Lord praying to his
Father. He's the blessed man. and all
our blessings in heavenly things are in Christ Jesus. An evil
disease say they cleaveth fast unto him and now that he lieth,
he shall rise up no more. That literal interpretation there
is a thing of Belial or Beelzebub. He's got a devil. He's got a
devil. Isn't that what they said? And
that's exactly what they're going to say about our gospel. You
tell them about who God really is and you know what they're
going to say? They're going to say, your God
is my devil. Nothing's changed. Look at verse 9. Yea, mine own
familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eat my bread hath lifted
up his heel against me. You know, he's talking about
Judas there because the Lord in John 13 said, this is not,
this is not for all of you. And he quoted this verse exposing
Judas. Wasn't just Judas that it was
his familiar friend that forsook him that night, was it? The only
one at the cross was John. The rest of the disciples, they
scattered. They ran for their lives and Peter that very night
denied him. Few things in this world are
more difficult than having a friend betray your trust. Someone that
you trust turn on you. Our Lord went to the cross all
by himself. No one was there. all his familiar
friends in whom he trusted, whom did eat his bread. Verse 10, but thou, O Lord, be
merciful unto me. You see, the Lord Jesus Christ
had to cast all his care upon the Father. He couldn't trust
in anyone else. No one else could support him.
No one else could help him. Be merciful unto me and raise
me up that I may requite them. Now this is very sobering because
Scott and I were talking about this yesterday. When the scripture
speaks of hell, the Lord's praying for retribution against his enemies. And when the scripture speaks
of hell, it speaks of a place where there's weeping, and wailing
and gnashing of teeth. And that speaks of three things.
It speaks of sorrow, weeping, pain, wailing, and the gnashing
of teeth, anger. And that's what's in the heart
of every person who's separated from God for all eternity. And the Lord hears saying, Father,
you saved me that I may requite them. But this I know that thou favor'st
me because my enemy doth not triumph over me. And you are
more than conquerors through Christ Jesus. You see, just as
he conquered Satan, he put away sin, he conquered the grave,
and all that were in him are blessed with his blood. These
are the spiritual blessings, aren't they? These are the heavenly
things. They're spiritual blessings.
We ought not to look at physical things or emotional things as
being blessings. Help me to see my real blessings. And as for me, thou upholdest
me in mine integrity. Now, who can say, who can stand
before God and say, as for me, God's going to hold me up in
my own integrity? The Lord Jesus Christ could say
it. And we're held up in him, aren't we? And setteth me before thy face
forever. We have acceptance in the beloved. We come before the throne of
grace boldly, looking to the Lord Jesus Christ, our forerunner
who went before us and took with him the blessings. Look at verse
13. This psalm ends the same way
it starts. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel. He's the happy man. He's the
content man. He's the fulfilled man. He's
the man at peace. And whatever contentment and
happiness and fulfillment and peace that you and I are going
to experience that's real is going to be found in Him. Everything
else is a facade. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting. Never had a beginning, never
gonna have an end. And God's people said, amen,
amen. Let's pray. Our heavenly father,
oh, how we hope and pray that you would send your spirit in
power to make these truths real to our hearts and Lord forgive
us Forgive us for being so epicurean. Forgive us for being so stoic.
Forgive us for looking for any happiness outside of the blessed
man, the Lord Jesus Christ. And give us thy grace to rest
our hope and our soul in him. For we ask it in Christ's name,
amen. Number 452, let's stand together. I stand amazed in the presence
of Jesus the Nazarene, and wonder how he could love me, a sinner
condemned unclean. How marvelous, how wonderful,
And my song shall ever be! How marvelous, how wonderful,
Is my Savior's love for me! For me it was in the garden He
prayed, not my will but Thine He had no tears for his own griefs,
but sweat drops of blood for mine. How marvelous, how wonderful
my song shall ever be! How marvelous, how wonderful
is my Savior's love for me! In pity angels beheld him and
came from the world of light. To comfort him in the sorrows
he bore for my soul that night. How marvelous, how wonderful,
And my song shall ever be! How marvelous, how wonderful,
Is my Savior's love for me! He took my sins and my sorrows,
He made them His very own. He bore the burden to Calvary
And suffered and died alone How marvelous, how wonderful And
my song shall ever be How marvelous, how wonderful Is my Savior's
love for me When with the ransomed in glory His face I at last shall
see. will be my joy through the ages,
to sing of His love for me. How marvelous, how wonderful,
and my song shall ever be. How marvelous, how wonderful,
is my Savior's love for me. Thank you.