Good evening. Let's open tonight's
service with hymn number 32 from your Spiral Gospel Hymns hymn
book, number 32, In Christ We Are Free. Let's all stand together. Number 32. All children of wrath, in bondage
and sin, we helplessly lay, condemned and unclean. God's law, in its
infinite justice and wrath, demanded we suffer an eternal death. But long before time had ever
begun, One stood in our place, God's glorious Son. He offered Himself to go live
among men, And give His own life to atone for our sin. The great substitute, behold,
he has come. The price has been paid, the
work is all done. Christ took on himself the great
load of our sin. He poured out His blood, and
He put away sin. God's justice and law are now
satisfied, And all who believe have been justified. Please be seated. Good evening. That was such an appropriate
hymn for the message tonight. is titled, No Mercy Without Justice. No Mercy Without Justice. Will
you open your Bibles with me to Psalm 89, please, Psalm 89. And we'll begin reading at verse
18. For the Lord is our defense.
and the Holy One of Israel is our King. Then thou spakest in vision to
thy Holy One and saidest, I have laid help upon one that is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out
of the people. I have found David my servant
with my holy oil have I anointed him. The Lord is not talking
about David. So I'm about the son of David,
isn't he? With whom my hand shall be established,
mine arm also shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not exact
upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And I will beat
down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him. But my faithfulness and my mercy
shall be with him. And in my name shall his horn
be exalted. Let's pray. Our merciful heavenly father,
once again, you've blessed us and brought us to this place. You've promised to meet with
us. Lord, how hopeful we are to experience in our hearts the
fulfillment of that promise. We thank you, Lord, for your
word and for the revelation that you've given us of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the son of David. And, Lord, we would not be able
to see or believe or understand anything apart from the enlightening
power of thy Holy Spirit. And so we pray now that your
spirit would come in power and enable me to speak, enable us
to hear, We pray, Lord, that you would teach us and cause
us to find our hope and our rest and our joy and all our satisfaction
in the Lord Jesus Christ. For it's in his name we ask it.
Amen. Number 235. Number 235 from your
hardbacked hymnal. Let's all stand once again. 235. Pass me not, O gentle Savior,
Hear my humble cry, While on others Thou art calling, Do not
pass me by. Savior, Savior, hear my humble
cry, While on others Thou art calling, do not pass me by. Let me at the throne of mercy
find a sweet relief. Kneeling there in deep contrition,
help my unbelief. Savior, Savior, hear my humble
cry. While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by. Trusting only in thy merit, would
I seek thy face. Heal my wounded, broken spirit. Save me by thy grace. Hear my humble cry. While on others thou art calling,
do not pass me by. Thou the spring of all my comfort,
more than life to me. Whom have I on earth beside Thee? Whom in heaven but Thee? Savior, Savior, hear my humble
cry. While on others Thou art calling,
do not pass me by. Please be seated. Will you open your Bibles with
me to Psalm 17, please. Psalm 18, 17. Psalm 17. I wonder how many of these Psalms
the Lord spoke to the disciples about when After his resurrection,
he met with them in the upper room and he expounded unto them
those things concerning himself from the Psalms, from the prophets
and from Moses and the prophets and the Psalms. And every one
of them speaks so clearly of him. And I hope that he will
be pleased to enable us to see that here again tonight. The
title of this Psalm is a prayer of David. I've titled this message,
No mercy without justice. Now, if you were charged with
a criminal offense, a capital crime, I should say, and the
judge knew you were guilty, the jury all knew you were guilty, and you knew you were guilty,
the prosecuting attorney, everybody knew you were guilty. you might
have an opportunity to speak before sentencing. And in taking
advantage of that opportunity, it would be very wise for you
to plead with the court for mercy, wouldn't it? Just ask for mercy. And hope that maybe somehow in
your humble plea that the judge would have pity on you and might
not give you the full weight of the law when it came to your
crime. Well, our God must exercise the
full weight of the law in order to satisfy his divine justice. And God's people wanted to be
that way. We want the law to be satisfied.
You see, there's no feeling sorry in God's heart for his people
so that he can just sort of overlook his justice and show mercy toward
us because of some soft spot in his heart. No, he has to exercise
justice. And that's what David's calling
for. Notice in this Psalm, you might have it in the margin of
your Bible. I have it in the margin of my Bible. The second
two words of verse one, the right, That word is justice. And so
David is crying out to God and asking God to hear justice. Hear, he's not asking for mercy.
He's asking for justice. Oh Lord, attend unto my cry.
Give ear unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips. Let my sentence come forth from
thy presence. Let thine eyes behold the things
that are equal. I want equity. I want justice. Now, the only one that could
pray that prayer, Job tried to pray that prayer. Job thought that he was being
mistreated. that he wasn't getting justice. And he wanted to bring his case
before God and prove to God that the penalty of what he was receiving
was much greater than whatever sin might be in his life. And
one of Job's friends, I think it's about Job chapter 30 or
so, says to Job, is God not just? Is God not just? And what he
was saying to Job was, Job, you deserve what you're getting.
You've got something you're hiding that you're not coming clean
with. And if you'll just come clean
with God, then he'll remove the hand of his punishment on you.
And that's just the way the world thinks, isn't it? They equate
their circumstances with the justice of God. Truth is, you
and I are not capable of judging our circumstances, whether they
be good or bad. We're just not. We can judge that which is right
or wrong morally, but as far as our circumstances are concerned,
We can't look at our circumstances and think, well, this is coming
as a result of punishment or God's justice. Job's friend was
right when he said, is not God just? The problem is that Job
had a wrong understanding as how the justice of God was to
be carried out. Look at verse three. Thou hast proved mine heart.
Thou hast visited me in the night. Thou hast tried me and shall
find nothing. Now is David guilty of what Job
was guilty of? Or is the Lord speaking himself? Look what he says. Thou hast
find nothing. I am purposed that my mouth shall
not transgress. Turn with me back a few pages
to Job chapter 32. Job chapter 32. I'm sorry, chapter 32 through
chapter 37 is where Elihu is speaking and declaring the righteousness
of God And he begins by, look what he says in verse 1. So these three men ceased to
answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes. Then was kindled
the wrath of Elihu, the son of Baruchel, the Buzite, the kindred
of Ram. Against Job was his wrath kindled
because he justified himself rather than God. Now turn over
with me to chapter 37 of Job. And look at verse 23. Now here's Elihu. He's preaching
the gospel to Job. And in verse 23, he says, touching
the almighty, we cannot find him out. He is excellent in power
and in judgment and in plenty of justice. He will not afflict. Men do therefore fear Him. He
respecteth not any that are wise in heart, that are wise in and
of themselves. So the Lord makes it clear that
He's a just God and He must punish sin. So the question is, how
can God be merciful towards sinners and maintain
his justice towards his law. And that's the answer, the gospel's
the answer to that question, isn't it? Turn with me to Romans
chapter 3. Verse 19, now we know that what
things whoever the law saith that saith to them that are under
the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world
may become guilty before God. That's the purpose of the law
is to leave men guilty. We can't justify ourselves when
it comes to the law. Therefore, by the deeds of the
law shall no flesh be justified in his sight For by the law is
the knowledge of sin. Purpose of the law is to make
sin utterly sinful. The law has never been intended
to save anybody. We didn't go from an Old Testament
method of salvation through the law to the New Testament method
of salvation by grace. The justice of God always had
to be met. And the only way that he can
show mercy towards sinners is to satisfy His divine justice. Now, verse 21, the righteousness
of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets. Now who's the righteousness of
God? He's manifested, the Lord Jesus Christ was manifested without
the law. fullness of the Godhead bodily
came being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness
of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon
all them that believe for there is no difference for all of sin
comes short of the glory of God being justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. So the
Lord Jesus Christ, the fullness of the law, came to fulfill the
law, and then made himself the propitiation for our sins in
order to satisfy God's justice, that mercy might be shown towards
sinners. Look at verse 25, whom God set
forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood to declare
His righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through
the forbearance of God. To declare, I say at this time,
his righteousness, that he might be just and justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus. Where's boasting then? It is
excluded by what law? By what law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith. There's no boasting. We are able to come into the
presence of a Holy God not just begging for mercy, that God might
feel sorry for us and have a soft spot in his heart for us, but
we come before the throne of grace knowing that God's justice
has been satisfied in the sacrifice that the Lord Jesus Christ made.
That's why Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5, that God made him sin. who knew no sin, that we might
be made the righteousness of God in Him. Justice had to be
satisfied in order for God to show mercy. Now the religious
world, they just want mercy without justice, but it can't be, it
can't be. Turn with me to Exodus chapter
34, Exodus chapter 34. Moses is up on the mountain,
and in verse six, the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, the
Lord, the Lord God, yes, merciful and gracious, long-suffering
and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no
means clear the guilty. Every sin, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers unto the children and the children's children upon
the third and fourth generation. God must punish sin. He will not allow one sin to
go unpunished. Go back with me to our text. Just like Job's friends, People
today try to make judgments about God's justice based on their
circumstances. And that's not possible. It's
just not possible. We make righteous judgments about
the justice of God based on what the Lord Jesus Christ did on
Calvary's cross. That's where God, mercy and truth
have kissed each other. They've met each other. Peace
and righteousness have kissed each other. Where did that happen?
It happened at Calvary's cross. God had to maintain his perfect
righteousness in order for us to be able to enjoy his mercy.
The truth of his justice had to be satisfied in order for
us to have peace. So there's no mercy apart from
justice. and that's the glory of the gospel. You remember in Acts chapter
28 when the long story about the Apostle Paul shipwrecking
on the island of Melita and that's where the soldiers wanted to
kill the prisoners and the captain of the ship said no don't do
it let's And Paul told him, he said, don't leave the ship. The
ship ended up crashing and everybody survived. Everybody survived.
And the scripture says that the people that were on that island
were barbarous. They were barbarians. They didn't
know anything about God, but they had made some conclusions
in their mind about how God gets justice because That very night
when they crawled themselves to shore, the scripture says
that the people there entreated them kindly. They received them
and provided for them and they built a fire and Paul reached
into the woodpile to get a piece of wood to throw into the fire
and a venomous snake came out of the woodpile and latched onto
Paul's hand. And immediately, immediately they said, hey, he
escaped the sea. but we know he's guilty because
God's getting his justice now. And Paul shook the serpent off
into the fire and they watched him and they watched him and
they watched him and nothing happened to him and they changed
their minds. He wasn't a guilty criminal,
he was a God. You know, that's just, you know,
people look at their circumstances and they try to conclude the
justice of God based on their circumstances. That's exactly
what Jacob did. That's what Joseph did. I'm sure
that when Joseph was in prison, he was thinking, this is just
not right. When he was in, when his brothers threw him into the
pit, he was thinking, it's just, this isn't right. This is not
justice. And yet when the Lord used Joseph
To save his brothers, what did he say to them? You meant it
for evil. God meant it for good. God meant it for good. This was
all for your salvation. So we can't determine. I'm sure that Paul and Silas
in Philippian jail, even though they were praising God and thanking
God for his mercy and his grace, yet there wasn't any justice
in what had happened to them. Matter of fact, Paul insisted
the next day when they did let him out or when the Lord broke
him out. Remember the Philippian jailer
was saved through that and his family. And Paul, they came to
him privately and they said, just leave town. And Paul said,
no, no, what you did to me is not right. And for the sake of
these believers that I'm leaving behind, you're going to publicly
apologize and take me out of town publicly so that everybody
knows that what you accused me of, I wasn't guilty of. Otherwise,
I'm going to leave these new brethren with having to deal
with your injustice. So when we try to weigh that
which is just and that which is unjust in terms of the hand
of God, David said, David said, hear
justice, hear justice. Lord, you find no fault with
me. I've proved my heart. You visited
me in the night. Look at verse, look at verse
three. Excuse me. Verse three, thou has proved
my heart. Thou has visited me in the night. When did God the Father visit the
Lord Jesus Christ? In the night. He visited him there in the garden,
didn't he? The Father provided for him. Why? Because he was
satisfying justice. And right to our Lord's dying
breath, he trusted his Father, didn't he? Father, into thy hands
I commend my spirit. He was faithful to God and he's
able to say, you've tried me and you found no fault in me.
And now Lord, I pray for justice. I pray that you will credit my
righteousness to all those that I came to live and die for. And I'm calling on you for justice. We cry out for mercy, we are
mercy beggars, but we're not asking for mercy apart from God's
justice. We ask for mercy in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
looking to him as the one who satisfied the demands of God's
justice. Jeremiah put it like this in
Jeremiah chapter 23, he said, and God shall raise up a righteous
branch and he will execute judgment and justice in the earth. And in his day, Judah shall be
saved and Israel shall dwell safely. And his name shall be
called the Lord our righteousness. This Psalm is a prayer of the
Lord Jesus Christ calling to the father for his justice. Lord, reckon my suffering as
being satisfactory to meet the demands of your divine justice
and to provide salvation for my people. Look at, you remember that verse in 1 John
1, verse 9, if we confess our sins, If we agree with God that
we're sinners, He is faithful and just, and just to forgive
us our sins and cleanse us of all of our unrighteousness. We're
not trying to get around the justice of God. We're not a criminal
sentenced to death and thinking, well, Lord, just be merciful
towards me. No, we want the full extent of
God's law to be exercised against the Lord Jesus Christ that justice
can be. We don't want an unjust God.
And we don't want any injustice. The hope of our salvation is grounded in the fact that God's
justice has been satisfied. And that's what the Lord is saying
here. Thou hast proved my heart. Look at verse four, concerning
the works of men, By the word of thy lips, I have kept me from
the paths of the destroyer. The Lord Jesus Christ looked
to the word of God and believed God. to escape the paths of the
destroyer. We see that most clearly in his
temptations in the wilderness, don't we? When Satan came to
him and tempted his physical hunger by saying, if you'd be
the son of God, turn these stones into bread. And what'd the Lord
say? Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God. And then when he took him
up on the pinnacle of the temple and told him to cast himself
off and Satan said, well, I can quote scripture too. The Lord
said he had not allowed thy foot to be dashed against a stone. Well, it was a perversion of
the scriptures, what he was doing, and the Lord said, no, no, thou
shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. And then we took him up
on the high mountain and showed him all the nations and promised
to give him power and authority. He said, thou shalt worship the
Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve. The Lord Jesus Christ,
as the word of God, depended on the Word of God for every
step of his life. And now he's presenting himself
as the faithful son of God to the Father and saying to the
Father, because of my faithfulness, he is our propitiation. We are
saved by his faithfulness and our hope and our faith is in
him. And so we do hope for mercy, but we don't look for mercy apart
from justice. Go back with me to our text.
I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. Hold up my goings and my paths
that my footsteps slip not. What a good prayer for us, is
it not? Hold up my goings, that my feet
slip not. Or don't let me. You know, the
religious person talks about wanting to be a witness for Jesus
and wanting other people to see Jesus in them. And knowing ourselves, we're
just thinking, Lord, don't let me profane the gospel. Don't
let me shame your name. Don't let me do something that's
going to be contrary to everything that I believe. Keep my feet from slipping. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one who had unfeigned lips. He's the only one that speaks
truth in his heart. Turn with me to the book of Amos. Look at Amos chapter 5. Look at verse 12. For I know your manifold transgressions
and your mighty sins. They afflict the just, they take
a bribe, they turn aside the poor in the gate from justice."
From justice. Here we have a picture of exactly
what the Lord Jesus Christ did when he began his public ministry
and when he finished his public ministry. Twice, the Lord went
into the temple and cleansed the temple of the money changers.
And he said, you've taken the house of God, the house of prayer,
and turned it into a den of thieves. And that's what religion does.
So you offer God a bribe. You think you're going to bribe
God by something that you do or a decision that you make.
And in doing so, in doing so, you turn aside the poor. Those who don't have a, you see,
the child of God is the one who's poor and needy. He doesn't have
a bride to offer. So, Lord, if bribing you is the
way to get in your good graces, then you're not a just God. And what that does is it keeps
those who don't have a bribe to give from being able to come
into thy presence. Now look what the Lord says in
Amos chapter 7. They turn aside the poor in the
gate. Here's what God says in Amos chapter 7 at verse 7. Thus he showed me and behold
the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb line with a plumb
line in his hand. And the Lord said unto me, Amos,
what seest thou? And I said, a plumb line. Then
said the Lord, behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst
of my people, Israel, and I will not again pass by them anymore.
Now the Lord Jesus Christ is that plumb line, isn't he? And
everything is judged by him. If we're going to be found justified
in the presence of a holy God, we're going to have to be in
that plumb line. There's no mercy, no mercy apart
from justice. God demands justice. He said,
I'm not going to let one iniquity. And David said, speaking for
Christ, he said, I want that which is equal. I want that which
is equal. And what is that which is not
equal? Iniquity, isn't it? Iniquity,
and that's what God calls everything that we try to bring to God in
order to earn favor with Him, God calls iniquity. It's amazing
to me that, you know, the natural man thinks that he's somehow
balancing the scale when he does something good, and he doesn't
realize that everything that he brings on his own done with
his own hands is only putting more weight on the sin side of
the scale. He's only making things worse
for himself. Davis says, I want justice. I want that which is
equal. I want equity. I want God to
be fair. I want the law to be satisfied. Go back with me. And the child of God says with
David in verse five, hold my goings in the paths of my footsteps
slip not. Lord, don't let me be a reproach
to the gospel. Don't let me dishonor Christ.
Don't let me shame your grace and your name among men. I have
called upon thee, verse six, For thou wilt hear me, O God,
incline thine ear unto me and hear my speech. Our prayers oftentimes are prayed
amiss, aren't they? We are. We don't know what to
pray for. That's why we have to conclude
every prayer with, Lord, it would be thy will, it would be thy
will. But that was never the case with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Every prayer he offered to the father was effectual. Every prayer
was perfect. Every prayer was heard. And in
John 17, he said, father, I pray not for the world, but I pray
for them, which thou hast given me out of the world. And Robert,
the passage you quoted Sunday, when the Lord said, he said,
father, I know that you hear me always. I know that you hear
me always. But I pray this public prayer
for their sake. And I thank the God that thou
art, that thou have hid these things from the wise and the
prudent and revealed them unto babes. The Lord Jesus Christ
is always interceding on behalf of his people. What did he say
to Peter when he told Peter, he said, Peter, before the cock
crows, you're gonna deny me three times. But Peter, I've prayed for you. I've prayed
for you. Your faith is not gonna fail
you. I've prayed for you. And when you are converted, teach
the brethren. Encourage the brethren. I have
called upon thee for thou wilt hear me, O God, incline thine
ear unto me and hear my speech. Show thy marvelous, verse seven
in Psalm 17, show thy marvelous loving kindness, O thou that
savest. by thy right hand, them which
put their trust in thee. There's the only way that God
can be merciful to a sinner. The only way that he can justify
us is to satisfy the demands of his law and righteousness.
And he saves us by his strong right hand. the right hand of
God, the Lord Jesus Christ came in order to fulfill all the demands
of the law and in order to satisfy God's justice. The only payment
that God would take for the sins of His people was the precious
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Your blood's not enough, my blood's
not enough. My commitment, my sacrifices, they're not enough. All but His was. his was. Keep me, look at verse 8, keep
me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
Now I don't know about you but I mean without comparison the
most sensitive part of my body is the pupil of my eye. I mean
don't try to put something in my eye. Byzine hurts my eyes. I mean, it just, you know, I
can't, you can drip water on any other part of your body,
it doesn't bother you, but the eye is so sensitive, isn't it?
It's so sensitive. Why has God made it so sensitive?
Because it's so needful. And it's that sensitivity that
causes the reflexes to close the eye if it's in danger, isn't
it? And the Lord has protected the
eye in so many ways. And now David's saying, keep
me as the apple of your, there's nothing you can protect quicker
than your eye. No reflex you have that's quicker than blinking.
There's no part of your body more protected and provided for
than your eye. And David's saying, Lord, keep
me as the apple of your eye. And put me under the shadow of
thy wings. For the wicked, for the wicked
that oppress me from my deadly enemies who can
pass me about. They are increased in their own
fat and with their mouth, they speak proudly. No prouder words
are spoken by men. Now, we know people can say some
arrogant, proud things, and you hear it all the time among worldly
people in particular. You hear them boasting in themselves
and making arrogant statements, but no prouder words are ever
spoken by men than the feigned humility of religious men who
start out their statements by I. I accepted Jesus. I invited Jesus to come into
my heart. What did we used to sing? I have
decided. I surrender all. And the Lord
says here, their mouths are full of pride. I found a hymn today. I was looking at some of the
old hymns that we used to sing. Listen to the words of this hymn.
The Savior is waiting to enter your heart. Why don't you let
him come in? There's nothing in this world
to keep you apart. What is your answer to him? Time
after time he has waited before and now he is waiting again. to see if you're willing to open
the door, oh, how he wants to come in. You will not hear the words of
the most irreligious, proud, arrogant man that are more blasphemous
than that. They speak proudly. God's people
don't talk like that, do they? Verse 11, they have now come
past us in our steps. They have set their eyes bowing
down to the earth, like as a lion that is greedy of his prey and
as were a young lion lurking in secret places. Arise, O Lord,
disappoint him, cast him down, deliver my soul from the wicked.
Those next two words, are actually by, rather than which is, it'd
be better to translate that by. And what the Lord's saying is,
deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword. How does the Lord
deliver his people from the wicked? By his word, his word. It's a lamp unto our feet, it's
a light unto our path. His Word is what reveals to us
the truth about who He is and what He's done. His Word is our
strength. And here again, you see in verse
14, for men, and again, I don't know
why they put which are because it's the word by, for men, by
thy hand, O Lord, from the men of the world, which have their
portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid
treasure, they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance
to their babes." All they have, all they have is what this world
has to offer. And I know you've heard it before,
but it's so true. problems that the only difficulties
we're ever going to have in all of our existence is now. And the only comfort and peace
that a reprobate has is now. In other words, this is as bad
as it's ever going to be for us and as good as it's ever going
to be for them. And that's what David's saying here. All they've
got is what this world has to offer. Lord, set my affections
on things above. Cause me to desire thee. As for me, and there's a whole message in this
verse, isn't there? As for me, I will behold thy
face in righteousness. If we set our affections on things
above where Christ is seated, we're not looking to a savior
who just had a soft place in his heart for us and showed us
mercy without meeting justice. Show me thy face in righteousness. Lord, show me what you've done
in order to satisfy divine justice so that I might be the recipient
of mercy. As for me, I will behold thy
face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied when I awake
with thy likeness. You know, there's a sense in
which we're, we're satisfied with Christ. Now we're satisfied
with what he's done. We're satisfied with the fact
that he's, that he's satisfied the father and that he's met
divine justice, but there's a dissatisfaction in our hearts too, isn't there?
Because we look through a glass dimly now, it has not yet appeared
what we shall be. We're longing to see Him. And David said, when I awake
in righteousness, then I'll be satisfied. When I see you in
the fullness of your glory, and we're not gonna be satisfied.
We're gonna wanna know more and more about Him, aren't we? We're
not gonna be satisfied. in this world. This world's not
going to meet our needs. It's not going to satisfy our
souls. I will behold thy face in righteousness and I shall
be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness. Oh, there's my
hope. There's my hope. To be rid of
sin, to be done with this body of death, and to be made like
Him. We'll be satisfied then, won't
we? Our Lord prays in Psalm 17 to
the Father, insisting that the Father be merciful to us because
He has met the demands of divine justice. The law's been fulfilled
and the requirement of God's justice for sin has been paid. The ransom price had been paid. Let's pray. Our heavenly Father,
we're thankful for your word. And Lord, we do pray that you
would speak to our hearts as only you are able and show us,
Lord, the ground upon your mercy, the righteousness of thy dear
son, and the sacrifice that he made in order to satisfy your
justice. We ask it in his name, amen. Number 232, let's stand together,
232. We'll sing this acapella. Christ our Redeemer died on the
cross, died for the sinner, paid all his due. Sprinkle your soul
with the blood of the Lamb, and I will pass, will pass over you. When I see the blood, when I
see the blood, when I see the blood, I will pass, I will pass
over you. Chiefest of sinners, Jesus will
save. All he has promised, that he
will do. Wash in the fountain, open for
sin. And I will pass, will pass over
you. When I see the blood, when I
see the blood, when I see the blood, I will pass, I will pass
over you. Judgment is coming, all will
be there, each one receiving justly his due. Hide in the saving, sin-cleansing
blood, and I will pass, will pass over you. When I see the blood When I see
the blood When I see the blood I will pass, I will pass over
you O great compassion, O boundless love, O loving kindness, faithful
and true. Find peace and shelter under
the blood, and I will pass, will pass over you. When I see the
blood, when I see the blood, when I see the blood, I will
pass, I will pass over you. Yeah, just plug it in do that
do this first Yep, and you just turn it on and run run the violin