Good evening. Let's open tonight's
service with hymn number 37 from your hardback hymnal. Hymn number
37, How Great Thou Art. Let's all stand together. O Lord my God, when I in awesome
wonder Consider all the works Thy hands have made, I see the
stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe
displayed. Then sings my soul, my Savior
God, to Thee. How great Thou art! How great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Savior
God, to Thee. How great Thou art! How great thou art! When through the woods and forest
glades I wander And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees
When I look down from lofty mountain brandure And hear the brook and
feel the gentle breeze Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee
How great Thou art, how great Thou art Then sings my soul,
my Saviour God, to Thee How great Thou art How great Thou art! And when I think that God, His
Son not sparing, Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in. That on the cross, my burden
gladly bearing, He bled and died to take away my sin. Then sings my soul, my Savior
God, to Thee, How great Thou art! How great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Saviour
God, to Thee How great Thou art! How great Thou art! When Christ shall come with shout
of acclamation and take me home, what joy shall fill my heart. Then I shall bow in humble adoration
and there proclaim, my God, how great thou art. Then sings my soul, my Savior
God, to thee, how great thou art. How great Thou art. Then sings my soul, my Savior
God to Thee. How great Thou art. How great Thou art. Please be seated. We open your Bibles with me to
John chapter 11. John chapter 11. Good evening.
It's good to have David back from his trip around the world,
literally. And you all haven't met Sarah's
dad, Mark. Mark, it's good to have you here
with us tonight. I want to try to speak on the
subject of the resurrection tonight from Psalm 30. And as we think
about the resurrection, we can't forget the words that the
Lord spoke to Martha here in John chapter 11 at the death
of her brother Lazarus. In verse 22 of John chapter 11,
Martha said to the Lord, but I know that even now whatsoever
thou will ask of God, God will give it to thee. Now Psalm 30
is a prayer of Christ for his church and for his own resurrection. What so I know, whatever you
ask of God, God's gonna give it to you. Jesus said unto her,
thy brother shall rise again. And Martha saith unto him, I
know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last
day, and Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the
life. He that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. Believest thou this? Believest
thou this? Yes, Lord, I believe. That's
my hope. The only hope I have. What else
is there to look forward to? The resurrection. Henry Abala had a sister in California
that passed away this morning. So she was 59 years old, had
leukemia. And Henry's not sure if he's
going to be able to go out. to be with his family or not,
so I want to pray for Henry and the family. Let's pray together. Our merciful Heavenly Father, we thank you for the hope and
for the comfort that you give to the hearts of your children
as we are able to believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ as our resurrection and as our life. And Lord, we
pray in this hour that you would open the eyes of our understanding.
We pray that you would grow us in your faith and increase our desire and love
for Christ. or to open the mystery of the
gospel to us, enable us to peer into heaven and set our affections
on him that is seated at thy right hand. Father, we do pray for Henry
and ask Lord that you would give comfort and peace to his heart
as he grieves the loss of his sister and give him wisdom and
discernment, Lord, and knowing what he should do. opportunity
to speak to his family about you. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Let's stand together once again
and we'll sing hymn number 272, the solid rock 272. My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest
frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ the solid rock
I stand, All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground
is sinking sand. When darkness veils his lovely
face, I rest on his unchanging grace. In every high and stormy
gale, My anchor holds within the veil. On Christ the solid
rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground
is sinking sand. His oath is covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood. When all around my soul gives
way, He then is all my hope and stay. On Christ the solid rock
I stand, All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground
is sinking sand. When he shall come with trumpet
sound, O may I then in him be found, Dressed in his righteousness
alone, Faultless to stand before the throne. ? On Christ the solid
rock I stand ? All other ground is sinking sand ? All other ground
is sinking sand Please be seated. Will you open your Bibles with
me to Psalm 30 please, Psalm 30. I've titled this message, From
Weeping to Rejoicing. From Weeping to Rejoicing. And
it tells the story of the Lord Jesus Christ going from a suffering
servant to a sovereign savior. It tells the story of his journey
from the cross to the crown. and from death to everlasting
life. And it gives us hope in the same
regard, knowing that death for us in this world is inevitable. It is inevitable. But here's
our hope. Martha, I am the resurrection
and the life. He that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live. Oh, the hope of the resurrection.
Every time the apostle Paul preached the gospel, when he got to the
resurrection, they mocked. They mocked. I met some people
this week, actually, that believe in annihilationism. They believe
that when you die, you die, and you're just like an animal. You
just go back into the ground, and there's nothing to hope for. I thought, well, what a sad way
to live. What a sad way to live. And those
same people would call themselves Christians, and they said that,
well, you know, even though this life is all we have, it's good
that we enjoy God while we're here. And it's not what the scripture
says. Scripture says that there's no
life after death. Eat, drink, and be merry. Tomorrow
you're going to die. But people have a lot of different ideas
about life after death, don't they? They either believe in
reincarnation or annihilationism or they believe that somehow
they get absorbed back into the cosmos and just become part of
the soul of whatever. We have a savior whom God raised
from the dead. He would not allow His Holy One
to see corruption. In Psalm 30, we have a wonderful
prayer of hope. It was answered by the Father
to the Lord, and because of that, this prayer is our hope. It's
our hope. This world's not our home. We're
just passing through. We're pilgrims, aren't we? There's no everlasting hope in
this life. I want you to notice in this
psalm, the title of the psalm, and as I've reminded you in our
study of the psalms, these titles are actually part of the text.
And so, Psalm 30 is titled, A Psalm and Song. Now those two words
give reference to musical instruments and voices. And so this was a
song that David wrote and put it to music. David was a musician. And so in his writing of this
psalm, he gave not only words inspired to him by the Holy Spirit,
but he put music to it and gave it to Solomon before his death
and instructed Solomon that after the temple was built remember
the Lord wouldn't allow wouldn't allow David to build the temple
David was a man of war and he had he he was the scripture says
he was a he was a bloody man and so the Lord said no David
you're not gonna be able to build the temple But you're going to
provide all the materials necessary. And David not only provided the
physical materials so that when Solomon, after David's death,
built the temple, Solomon never had to go to the hardware store
for a single thing. Can you imagine? I mean, I've done some construction,
and you spend a lot of time running back and forth to the store to
get stuff, don't you? Everything necessary for the construction
of that temple was on the site. And not only for the construction
of the temple, but the song that was to be sung at the dedication
of that temple. Look what he says, a Psalm and
song at the dedication of the house of David. Now that's a
reference to the temple that David provided for. Now David
in this is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ who provided all
the materials necessary for the building up of the church of
the Lord Jesus Christ. You remember how long it took
Solomon to build the temple? Twelve years. You remember the twelve
baskets of fragments that were left over being a picture of
the eleven of the Herods? That twelve is the number for
the church. The twelve tribes of Israel 12
times 12,000, the 12 foundations of the new Jerusalem that came
down, the 12 gates around the church. That's the house of David.
That's the church of the Lord Jesus Christ gathered together
in glory. And it took Solomon, whose Solomon's
name is a man of peace. And the spirit of God is the
one who is now building the church just like Solomon did. It's the
house of David. And this song is to be sung at
the dedication of that house. And so perhaps this will be the
first song that we'll sing when we get to glory and join our
voices with that heavenly choir. When the whole house of David
is gathered together in the presence of the Lord and this song, this
song will be the song that we'll find ourselves rejoicing in what
the Lord Jesus Christ has done. He's provided everything necessary
by his life by his death and by his resurrection and his ascension
and his intercession. He has provided everything necessary
for the gathering together of all of God's people, the house
of David. And so David's praying prophetically as a type of Christ. And he says,
I will extol the oh Lord for thou has lifted me up and has
not made my foes to rejoice over me the Lord Jesus Christ is glorifying
the father trusting the father to to to to rise him from the
you not allow my foes to rejoice over me this is going to be the
dedication of the temple of God this is the house of David. Now James, James interprets this. Turn with me to, you remember
in Acts chapter 15 when Paul comes back from his first missionary
journey and declares to the elders in Jerusalem, James and Peter,
about what God had done in saving Gentiles. And they, we have in
Acts chapter 15 what's called the Jerusalem Council. Now that
the believers were still trying to understand how this gospel
was going out to the Gentiles because they were just, you know,
Israel was the chosen people of God. And the Lord's teaching
them that spiritual Israel is beyond the limits of physical
Israel. And that's exactly what the Lord
said to Nicodemus when he said that God so loved the world.
that he sent his only begotten son. I mean, Nicodemus, this
gospel is going out into the world. And in Acts chapter 15, James, who is the pastor of the
church in Jerusalem at this time, after Paul and Barnabas speak
and declare to the other apostles what the Lord had done through
their preaching of the gospel, James stands up in verse 13,
and after they had held their peace, James answered saying,
men and brethren, hearken unto me. Simeon, that's Peter, Simon
Peter. And what James is referring to
now is when Peter went and preached the gospel to Cornelius who was
a Gentile. And so James is relating Peter's
experience with Cornelius with what Paul and Barnabas had just
told them about the Gentiles that had believed the gospel.
And so James speaks up and he says, Peter hath declared how
God at first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people
for his name and to this agree the words of the prophets as
it is written. After this I will return and will build again the
tabernacle of David. That's the house of David. which
has fallen down, and I will build again the ruins thereof, and
I will set it up, that the residue of men might seek after the Lord,
and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the
Lord, who doeth all these things." Now turn with me to Amos. Amos chapter 9. verse 11. In that day will I rise up the
tabernacle of David that is fallen and close up the breaches thereof
and I will raise up his ruins and I will build it as in the
days of old. So now that's what this is the
This is the dedication of the temple or the house of David
and this is the fulfillment of the prophecies that were made
all throughout the Old Testament that God was going to send the
gospel out into the Gentile world and that this tabernacle or this
house of David, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ was going
to be made up of Jews and Gentiles. And so the Lord is believing
his father for the fulfillment of that promise, the church being
his house, he being the son of David, he being David's Lord. Remember when the Lord asked
him, he said, who is the Christ? And the Pharisee
says, well, he's the son of David. And then the Lord said, well,
if he be the son of David, then why is it that David said of
him, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou here at my right hand
until I make thine enemies thy footstools. And their mouths
were shut. They didn't know what to say.
So the Lord Jesus Christ is referred to as the son of David, but he's
David's Lord, isn't he? He's David's God. And this is
our Lord praying for the salvation of his people. by his own resurrection. And he says, I will extol the
father because you have not allowed me to be put to shame by my enemies. You've rewarded me for my faithfulness. You would not allow your Holy
one to see corrupt. You've raised me from the dead.
Turn to me to second Corinthians chapter five. 2 Corinthians chapter
5. Now the Lord is contrasting the
tabernacle of this flesh to the house of David. The house of
David is a spiritual house. The house of David is our eternal
home. This flesh that we live in is a temporal tabernacle. It's a decaying body that's got
to be put back in the ground. And look what the Lord says in
verse 1 of 2 Corinthians chapter 5. For we know that if our earthly
house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building
of God. We have the house of David. We
have the tabernacle of the Lord Jesus Christ, a house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan earnestly
desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven."
There's every believer's longing desire to see him as he is and
be made like him, for this corruptible to be made incorruptible, for
this mortal to be made immortal, for us to be rid of sin, rid
of our of our fleshly tabernacle. Verse 3, if so be that being
clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this
tabernacle do groan being burdened not for that we would be unclothed. In other words, we're not looking forward to being ashamed
before God, to being naked before God, we're looking forward to
being clothed. But clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed
up of life. There's our hope. Our mortality
is going to be swallowed up of life. There's one final enemy. There's one final enemy, and
that's death. And the Lord Jesus Christ conquered
that enemy. He conquered it for himself.
He conquered it for the whole house of David, for all of his
people. Oh, might God give us the grace
to look beyond our circumstances and to know that we have an eternal
home and that the Lord Jesus Christ has secured that place
for every one of his people. And he says here, I will extol
thee. This song was written by David, put to music, and was
given to Solomon to be sung at the end of the 12 years when
the tabernacle was completed. And so there, it's a prophetic
song about the Lord Jesus Christ and the completion of the church
that he died for. I will extol the, go back with
me to Psalm 30. I will extol Thee, O Lord, for
Thou hast lifted me up and has not made my foes to rejoice over
me. O Lord, my God, I cried unto
Thee, and Thou hast healed me." Oh, we have very few words recorded
in scripture that the Lord Jesus Christ spoke audibly between
the Garden of Gethsemane and the empty tomb. Nevertheless, we have those seven
sayings of the Lord Jesus from the cross. This day thou shalt
be with me in paradise, he said to the thief next to him. He
said to John, behold thy mother, and to Mary, behold thy son.
He cried prophetically, I thirst, He said, Father, into thy hands
I commend my spirit. He said, it is finished. And he said, my God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? That's a few words, few words. Nevertheless, we know that during
that, you know, I just love thinking about the fact, isn't it, a burden
to you that you're not able to give the Lord the attention in
your heart and mind that you want to give Him. You can't worship
Him like you want to worship Him. You're so easily distracted. You try to pray and one thing or another distracts
you from praying as you ought and as you want and as one day
you will. That experience never happened
to the Lord. He was in constant fellowship
with the Father. And so when he says, oh Lord
my God, I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me, let's don't
forget that the Lord was fellowshipping with his Father and crying out
to God much beyond what we have recorded in the scriptures. How many of the Psalms was he
actually praying? Was he praying Psalm 38 in his
heart to the Father? He was in constant fellowship
with the Father, in perfect fellowship with the Father. Even in those
three hours, from the sixth hour to the ninth hour, when the sky
was blackened, ink black, I mean, it was, the Lord had, the Father
had had forsaken Him, the Lord Jesus Christ bearing the sins
of His people on the tree, the Father's eyes being too pure
to look upon sin, He was forced to forsake His own Son. And even
during that time, I was talking to somebody recently and they
said, oh, it's so hard to pray when you're sick. And it is. When you're just weak and sick,
it's hard. Here's the Lord now. He's praying
more fervently and crying out to the Father
in every thought. You and I have never been capable
of a holy thought. He had nothing but holy thoughts
all the time, all the time. And so in this psalm, when he
speaks of crying out to the Father, Maybe, maybe he's, turn with
me to Psalm 38. Psalm 38. This is a Psalm of David. This
certainly would have been in the mind and heart of the Lord
Jesus Christ during those hours, during that time when, when,
when his soul was grieving and when he was bearing the sins
of his people. Oh Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither
chasten me in thy hot displeasure, for thine arrows stick fast in
me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in
my flesh because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in
my bones because of my sin." He's owning the sins of his people
as his own. And he goes on to say, look at
Look over at verse 17 of that same Psalm. For I am ready to
halt, and my sorrow is continually before me, for I will declare
mine iniquity, and I will be sorry for my sin. You and I have
never been sorry. We've never been sorry. Not the
kind of sorrow that he felt. He experienced true sorrow for
sin. taking our sins on his own. This
is what Psalm 30 is talking about when he's crying out to the Father
and the Father's hearing his cry. He's interceding. He's presenting himself before
the Father. God made him who knew no sin
to be sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
So Psalm 30, go back with me now. He's praying for the dedication
of the temple. One day all the materials that
the Lord Jesus provided for the construction of the house of
David, the tabernacle of God, the church of the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's what Zacharias said, when the spirit of grace
and supplication is poured out on the house of David and on
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, they will mourn after him whom
they have pierced as one mourneth for his only begotten. So here's
our Lord crying out for His church, O Lord my God, I cried unto Thee
and Thou hast healed me. You heard my cry. You rewarded
me. You raised me from the dead.
O Lord, Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave. Thou
hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit. He would
not allow His Holy One to suffer corruption. God was obligated. by the faithfulness of the Lord
Jesus Christ to fulfill his part of the covenant in raising the
Lord from the dead. And the Lord Jesus Christ is
called in the scripture the firstborn among many brethren. Now that
reference to his being the firstborn is not his physical birth, it's
his spiritual resurrection. It's his resurrection, his physical
resurrection. and his ascension into glory.
He's the firstborn among many brethren. O Lord, Thou hast brought
up my soul from the grave and hast kept me alive that I should
not go down to the pit." Revelation is progressive. It
is. It's progressive in the believer's
life and it's progressive in scripture. We see so much more
light of the resurrection in light of the Lord Jesus Christ
than the Old Testament saints ever had. Nevertheless, their
hope, their hope was in the resurrection as well. Turn with me to Psalm
17, Psalm 17. Look what David said in verse
15 of Psalm 17. As for me, I will behold thy
face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied when I awake
with thy likeness. As for me, as for us, we shall
behold his faith in righteousness and we'll be satisfied. when
we see him as he is and be made like him. No more sin, no more
suffering, no more tears, no more sorrow. The Lord Jesus Christ
is experiencing that sorrow here. And this psalm is all about how
God is taking his people from sorrow to glory, from suffering
to rejoicing. Job certainly knew something
about the resurrection, didn't he? Turn with me to Job chapter
19. Verse 25, for I know that my
Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon
the earth. And though after my skin worms
destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God. Whom I shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall behold and not another. Though my reigns
be consumed within me, but ye should say, why persecute we
him seeing the root of the matter is found in me." The root of the matter, that's
Christ. He's the planting of the Lord. He's the tree of righteousness.
He's the one in whom we are grafted in. And Job said, the root of
the matter is in me. This is my hope. though this
body is going to return to the grave. It was Jacob's hope. Jacob instructed Joseph and his
brother, brethren, to take him back to Machpelah and to bury
him in Abraham's tomb. What was that all about? It was
about the resurrection, wasn't it? And even Joseph, 400 years
later, Joseph's body had been embalmed and yet When Moses took the children
of Israel out of Egypt, what did they do? They took Joseph's
bones with him, didn't they? They took his body. David said in Psalm 49 verse
15, God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave for he
shall receive me. There's our hope. We'll be received
into the presence of God because of what the Lord Jesus Christ
accomplished on Calvary's cross. Go back with me to Psalm 30. Verse 4. Sing unto the Lord,
O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of
his holiness. What is the hope that we'll stand
in the presence of God and be accepted? Well, we're accepted
in the beloved, aren't we? This is the mystery of godliness.
Christ, Christ was manifested in the flesh. Received into glory, wasn't he? He, because of his holiness,
because of his holiness, imputed to us. He that sanctifyeth. That's the Lord Jesus Christ. That's holy. and they which are
sanctified shall be all as one whereby he's not ashamed to call
them his brethren. Oh, what hope. We have hope of
standing in the presence of a holy God because we have a holy savior
who has done everything necessary, just like David provided all
the building materials for the house of David. Look at verse
five. For his anger endureth but a
moment, In his favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning. Oh, no one ever wept like the
Lord Jesus Christ. No one ever felt sorrow. No one
ever felt shame. No one ever felt rejection like
the Lord Jesus Christ. Weeping, weeping. Did he not
sweat drops of blood in the garden? And in my prosperity, I said, I shall never be moved. He set his face like a flint
towards Jerusalem. And he was committed to the task
of building the house of David, convinced that the father would
reward him with the resurrection, would not leave him in the pit. Verse 7, Lord, by thy favor thou
hast made my mountain to stand strong. Thou didst hide thy face,
and I was troubled. What does the mountain represent
in the scripture? The Lord said, if you have the
faith of the mustard seed, you can say into this mountain, be
cast into the sea to be removed. The mountain is a barrier, isn't
it? The mountain is what, is what this, the David saying it
was by God's favor. that he caused that barrier to
exist between the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross and
the Father. That's what Isaiah said in Isaiah
chapter 53. It pleased God to bruise him
and to make his soul an offering for sin. And when God saw the
travail of his soul, God was satisfied. That mountain, that
barrier had to remain and it was by God's favor It was by
God's favor to us that the Lord Jesus Christ be rejected so that
we don't have to be rejected. We never have to fear the rejection
of God. There is now therefore now no
condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Why? Because
it pleased God to bruise him and to set that mountain between
the father and the son and to pour out the full fury of his
wrath on our sin bearer to satisfy divine justice once and for all.
We never have to worry about the wrath or fear of God. You hid your face from me. I
was troubled. I cried verse eight, Oh Lord. And unto the Lord I made supplications. Turn with me to Hebrews chapter
5. We've looked at this passage
recently, but I want you to see it again. Hebrews chapter 5. Look at verse 7. Who in the days
of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications
with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save
him from death and was heard in that he feared. You know, sometimes the Lord
breaks our hearts over things, and we do go to Him in tears. But as soon as we start evaluating
the real sincerity of our motives, we find that there's insincerity
there, isn't there? The Lord Jesus Christ, when He
cried out to the Father, there wasn't not a single bit of insincerity. He feared God, and He cried out
with strong Though he were a son, verse 8, yet learned he obedience
by the things which he suffered and being made perfect, he became
the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. All them that obey him. All them
that believe on him. All right, turn back with me
to Psalm 30. Verse 9. What profit is there in my blood
when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall
it declare thy truth?" Now, the Lord makes it clear
in 1 Corinthians chapter. What he's saying here is that
if there's no resurrection, then my death is in vain. My blood
has no power. There's no hope of salvation
if I'm not raised from the dead. And that's exactly what 1 Corinthians
chapter 15 says, turn to me there. Verse 12, now if Christ be preached
that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there
is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection
of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ be not risen,
then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is also in vain.
Yea, and we are all found false witnesses of God, because we
have testified of God, that He raised up Christ, whom He raised
not up, if so be that the dead rise not. And if the dead rise
not, then is not Christ raised? And if Christ be not raised,
your faith is in vain, and you are yet in your sins, then they
also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in
this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most
miserable. But now is Christ risen from
the dead and become the first fruits of them that sleep. For
since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of
the dead. And for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall
all be made alive." Oh, here's our hope, isn't it?
Here's our hope. Yes, there is a resurrection.
Christ was raised from the dead. If there's no resurrection, what
the Lord's saying in Psalm 30 is, my blood is of no value if
God doesn't raise me from the dead. My death is in vain if
I'm not raised from the dead. Go back with me to Psalm 30. Verse 9, for what profit is there
in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise
thee? Shall it declare thy truth? Hear,
O Lord, and have mercy upon me. Lord, be thou my helper. Thou hast turned for me my mourning
into dancing. Thou hast put off my sackcloth
and girded me with gladness. Oh, He mourned on the cross and
He rejoiced in His resurrection. His mourning was turned to gladness,
wasn't it? And so was ours. So was ours. Because of the resurrection,
to the end to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee
and not be silent. Oh Lord, my God, I will give
thanks unto thee forever, forever and ever and ever and ever. We'll never cease to praise him
and thank him for what he accomplished. through his suffering turned
to joy for the building up of the house of David. Oh, every nail, every piece of
wood, everything necessary, every brick. Believers are called living stones
put into this house. And when the last stone is set
in its place, then the dedication of the temple, the house of David,
will be rejoicing over what the Lord Jesus Christ has done together
forever and ever and ever. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we ask that your Holy Spirit would speak Comfort, peace and
hope to our hearts as we wait. Wait for that. Eastern Sky to
split. Wait for the Trump of God to
sound. Wait for the dead in Christ to
be raised and those of us that remain caught up together with
them. And so shall we ever be with
thee. Oh Lord, might we comfort one
another with these words. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. 103, 103, let's stand together. Yeah. One day when heaven was filled
with his praises, one day when sin was as black as could be,
Jesus came forth to be born of a virgin, dwelt among men, my
example is he. Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me. Buried, He carried my sin far
away. Rising, He justified freely forever. One day, He's coming, O glorious
day. One day they led Him up Calvary's
mountain, One day they nailed Him to die on the tree. Suffering anguish, despised and
rejected, Bearing our sins, my Redeemer is He. Living, He loved
me. Dying, He saved me. Buried, He carried my sin far
away. Rising, He justified freely forever. One day, He's coming, O glorious
day. One day they left Him alone in
the garden. One day He rested from suffering
free. Angels came down o'er His tomb
to keep vigil. Hope of the hopeless, my Savior
is He. Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me. Buried he carried my sin far
away Rising he justified freely forever One day he's coming a
glorious day One day the grave could conceal him no longer One
day the stone rolled away from the door Then He arose, over
death He had conquered, Now is ascended, my Lord evermore. Living He loved me, dying He
saved me, Buried He carried my sins far away. Rising He justified, freely forever. One day he's coming, O glorious
day. One day the trumpet will sound
for his coming. One day the skies with his glory
will shine. Wonderful day, His beloved one's
bringing, Glorious Savior, this Jesus is mine. Living He loved me, dying He
saved me, Buried He carried my sins far away. Rising he justified,
freely forever One day he's coming, O glorious day! Okay.