Let's open tonight's service
with hymn number 32 in your Spiral Gospel Hymns hymnal, number 32,
In Christ We Are Free. Let's all stand together. 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. Through faith in the blood of
the Lamb, we are free from sin's condemnation, eternally free. Please be seated. John chapter 5, John chapter
5 and verse 21, 31, I'm sorry. The Lord speaking says if I bear
witness of myself, my witness is not true. According to the
law, you had to have two or more witnesses to swear to anything
and make it right. If I witness of myself, my witness
is not true. There is another that bears witness
of me and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. You sent unto John and he bear
witness under the truth. But I received not testimony
from man. But these things I say that you
might be saved. He was a burning and a shining
light. And you were willing for a season
to rejoice in that light. But I have a greater witness
than that of John. Because the works which your
father have given me to finish the same works that I do bear
witness of me that the father has sent me. And the Father himself
which hath sent me hath borne witness of me. You have neither
heard his voice at any time nor seen his shape. And you have
not his word abiding in you. For whom he hath sent, him you
believe not. Verse 39, ye search the scriptures. Because in them you think you
have eternal life. And they are they which testify
or witness of me. And you will not come to me that
you might have life. Father, we come before you tonight,
Father. seeking a blessing and comfort
father to to see what the scriptures witness what they testify about
christ father we we need to learn more about christ we need to
be comforted father we need to be shown the way We need hope,
father and faith. We'd ask father you'd be with
Greg as he's away in Trish and you strengthen him farther and
give him some rest farther and bring him back to a Sunday that
that he might continue to preach the gospel to us. We ask these
things in Jesus name, Amen. Let's stand together once again.
We'll sing hymn number 17 in the hardbacked hymnal, Come Thou
Fount, number 17. Come thou fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace. Streams of mercy never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon
it, mount of thy redeeming love. Here I raise mine Ebenezer, hither
by thy help I'm come. And I hope by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand'ring from the fold of God, He to rescue me from danger Interposed
His precious blood. O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be! Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel
it. Prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart. Oh, take and
seal it. Seal it for thy courts above. Please be seated. We all know that. The scriptures
point to Christ. That they are witness that he
is who he says he would. That he's able to do the things
he says he can do. And there's another thing beside
a witness that we need to keep in mind. In Matthew 1128, the
Lord Jesus Christ said, Come on to me, all you that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
you and learn of me. For I am meek of heart and lowly
in spirit, and I will give you rest under your souls for my
yoke is easy and my burden is light. Naturally, the burden
is light because the Lord Jesus Christ has taken all of the load
and we don't have anything left to do. He has finished the work
of salvation. It's all done for us. So we need
to keep these two things in mind. We need to see what the scripture
witnesses about Christ and we need to learn of him. Now, any
person that's been born again by the Holy Spirit of God wants
to learn as much as they can about the Lord Jesus Christ,
because he's our only hope. He's the bright morning star.
He's the lily of the valley. He is the one who paid the price
for our sins. He's the most important thing
in our lives is the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn, if you will, to
Matthew chapter 15, beginning in verse 21. Verse 21, Matthew 15, then Jesus
went thence and departed into the coast of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a woman of Canaan
came out of the same coast and cried unto him, saying, Have
mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David. My daughter is grievously
vexed with the devil. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought
him, saying, Send her away, for she crieth after us. But he answered
and said, and he's speaking to the woman now. But he answered
and said, I am not sent but into the lost sheep of the house of
Israel. Then came she and worshiped him
saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said. "'It
is not meat to take the children's bread "'and cast it to dogs.'
"'And she said, truth, Lord, "'yet the puppies eat of the
crumbs "'which fall from their master's table.' "'Then Jesus
answered and said unto her, "'O woman, great is thy faith. "'Be it unto thee even as thou
wilt.' "'And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.'
So what what bears witness in verse 21? What would bear witness
to Christ? Well, for 4000 years, probably
a little over 4000 years. Before this, God made a promise
in the garden. He didn't just promise it to.
Adam and Eve, he promises to each and every one of us to every
child of God. This promise of God is. I will
put enmity. between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed. And it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel." So for 4,000 years until this
occurred, people have looked for the coming of the seed of
the woman. Enoch that walked with God, he
most certainly had to believe in Jesus Christ, the seed for
God to take him up into heaven to translate it. Enoch walked
with God and was not, for God took him. Noah and Shem believed
that there was another coming that was going to save them from
their sin and that the ark that God had them build was a type
of this coming seed. These people were not a bunch
of ignorant cave people. They knew as much or more about
God than we will ever know. David, David knew that there
was one coming that would lead him beside the still waters and
restore his soul. Moses knew that there was a prophet
like unto him that was coming that in him should the Gentiles
trust. All of these things lead up to
the coming of Christ. And there he is. He's walking
to the coast of Tyre and Sidon. He's here. He was right there
at that time, the seed of the woman had come down to this earth. Matthew chapter one in verse
18 says, and the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When,
as his mother, Mary was a spouse to Joseph, before they came together,
she was found with child of the Holy ghost. But Joseph, her husband,
being a just man and not willing to make her a public example,
was minded to put her away privately. But while he thought on these
things, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream
and said, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto
thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is
of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son,
and thou shalt call his name Jesus, because he shall save
his people from their sins. And it's come to pass. All the
promises, all the prophecy that God had made concerning the seed
has come to pass. He's already there. John said
in John chapter one, he was in the world and the world was made
by him and the world knew him not. He came into his own and
his own received him not. But to as many as received him,
to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them
which believe on his name, which were born not of blood or of
the will of the flesh or the will of man, but of God. And the word was made flesh and
dwelt among us. And we saw his glory as of the
glory of the only begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth.
It's already come to pass. The scriptures witness to his
coming and the scriptures witness to him being here. Now all of
them look for the Messiah that was to come. We still do too. I'm waiting for the clouds to
part and the Son of God to appear in the air. I want to rise to
meet him in the air. And so shall I ever be with the
Lord. Scripture says that in the fullness of time. When it was the right time, God
sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law to redeem
them that were under the law. We can't redeem ourselves. There's
no way Greg talks about trying to atone for your own sin. It's
an impossibility. And scripture even gives us a
witness for one reason why he did it. Scripture tells us most
things about Christ that we need to know, and in Hebrews Chapter
2 and verse 14 it says this. For as much as the children were
partakers of flesh and blood. He himself likewise also took
part of the same. That through death, He might
destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil,
and deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage. That's one of the reasons the
Lord came. So we would not be afraid to die. Because we know,
we know to be absent from the body is to be present with the
Lord. That's one of the reasons that
the Lord Jesus Christ came. So there he is. walking toward
the coast of Tyre and Sidon in verse 22. And behold, a woman
of Canaan came out of the same coast and cried unto him, saying,
Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David. My daughter is
grievously vexed with the devil. Now Israel at that time in the
world today is full of mothers with sick children. Sometimes
the doctors can help, sometimes they can't. This lady knew where
to go. She come to the right place,
didn't she? Because scriptures witness that
Christ is the great physician. You're not gonna get healing
from anyone else except the Lord Jesus Christ. Isaiah chapter
53 and verse 5. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was laid upon him and by his stripes we are healed. There
is healing in the atonement. Now I want to make one thing
real clear. That all healing comes from God. I don't care
if you're saved or lost or who you are. If you get hurt and
you heal up, God did it. All healing comes from God. But
there's a problem with that. 71 or maybe 72 years ago. There was an accident and I lost
my left eye. That's traumatic and painful
for a kid that age, but God healed me. And enable me to get over
that's physical healing. If I told you of all the times
that I've been. Hurt and close to death, you'd
think I was lying to you. Cancer eight maybe nine years
ago. God heal me Right after that
about a year and a half blood clots in both lungs. God heal
me Right after that was Noah five or six weeks ago was a heart
attack and God is in the process of healing me right now But the
problem with that is that physical healing is temporary when I die
all that healing is going to the grave with me and The healing
it's talking about in Isaiah chapter 53 is a spiritual healing. It's never, never, never gonna
go away. Ephesians chapter two and verse
four, but God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith
he loved me even when I was dead in sin. Dead in sins has quickened
me together with Christ. For by grace are you saved and
raised me up to sit together with Christ in heavenly places.
That's the kind of healing that the Lord Jesus Christ bought
for us. Even when we were dead in sins,
God still brought us to life. He gave us new eyes, new heart,
new ears, new mouth. We were a new creation in Christ
Jesus. That's the healing that the children
of God have. That's the healing that the Lord
Jesus Christ purchased for us. That's the healing that's never
gonna end. We're not just sick, we're dead. Before God calls us, we are dead
in trespasses and sin. We have no will, no way to save
ourselves, nothing. And yet when God comes and borns
us again and gives us the eyes to see, we're alive. We're healed of our sin. We don't
worry about these things anymore. We're able to fellowship with
other children of God. We're able to enter the throne
of grace with boldness. because Christ has made us holy
and without blame before the foundation of the world. He's
done all of these things for us. By his stripes, we are healed. He is the great physician. Malachi
chapter four says that the son of righteousness, S-U-N, the
son of righteousness, the brightest light that ever was, which is
the Lord Jesus Christ, shall rise with healing in his wings. Whenever the Lord Jesus Christ
comes into your life and opens your eyes to the gospel, you
don't have any more worries. All of this temporary healing
don't amount to nothing because we're interested in the real
healing. We're interested in being with
the Lord Jesus Christ. But this woman came to the right
place, didn't she? But there's a problem here in
this respect. This lady's a Gentile. She is
one of the dogs. She's one that the Jewish people
were not even sure that she had a soul. And yet she's a daughter
of God. It's unmistakable. Unmistakable. The Lord Jesus Christ certainly
knew who she was. He had seen her and written her
name in the book of life before the foundation of the world.
And she knew who he was because she called him Lord. She also called him the son of
David. She went to him for mercy, for
grace to help in time of need. Now we're all well aware of the
fact that the Lord Jesus Christ said that everyone that saith
unto me, Lord, Lord shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.
And he went on to say that there'd be many in that day. That would
say, Lord, have we not preached in your name? Have we not committed
miracles in your name? Have we done done many mighty
and wonderful works in your name? And he said, I'll tell them depart
from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. And yet the
scripture says if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus and believe in thine heart that God has raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved. So what's the difference in how
we call him Lord and how they call him Lord? And have I ever
called the Lord Jesus Christ Lord like I should have? How
do I know that I believe in him the proper way? There are two
things that you have to take into consideration. One is this. Scripture says that no man can
say Jesus is accursed by the power of God. In Corinthians. And it also says no man can call
Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. That means the first thing that
has to happen, you have to know who Jesus is. You have to know
that he's the virgin born son of God. You have to know that
he led this whole life doing the will of the father for my
sake. You have to know that he was
he was bruised for our afflictions. He was beaten and spit on and
nailed to a cross. You have to know these things.
You have to learn of him. And you also have to know that
all of these things were done on our behalf. He has borne our
sins in his own body on the tree. Knowing that we don't have the
ability, the authority, the will, or anything to bear our own sins,
he did this for us. And we need to know that he paid
the ultimate price for my soul. He accepted me before the foundation
of the world, put me in him. I went into union with the Lord
Jesus Christ in the covenant of grace. I was crucified with
Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life that I now live
in the flesh, I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me
and gave himself for me. But I cannot even imagine the
price that he paid for my soul. They took him and nailed him
to a wooden cross and raised him up between heaven and earth
and made fun of him and left him there to die. But that was
not the worst thing. That was not the supreme price. When the Lord Jesus Christ said,
llama, llama, When he said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? That was when God made him to
be sin for me, who knew no sin, that I might be made the righteousness
of God in him. I cannot imagine being separated
from God, but he had to go through that to save my soul. I have
to know who Christ is to be able to call him Lord in the way that
I should. I have to be able to do that. The second thing is this. I have
to know who I am. When you look at the Lord Jesus
Christ through born again eyes, you'll know who we are. Whenever
God opens our minds and our hearts to the fact that we were born
a sinner, we lived a sinner and will die as a sinner. When God
tells us who we really are. Then we'll know who the Lord
is. Will be like Job. Job said, I
have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. But now mine eyes
seeth thee, and I hate myself. If you're a child of God, the
things you want to do, you can't seem to do them. The things you
don't want to do, you catch yourself doing them anyway. And you can
say with Paul, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver
me from the body of this death? Then When you stand there and
smite yourself on the breast and cry, God, be merciful to
me, the sinner, then you'll call him Lord, because you'll know
who you are. Isaiah said, I saw the Lord high
and lifted up. I doubt any of us will ever see
that. The day has passed when that
came and that happened. But what did Isaiah say? I said, woe is me. Can you imagine
standing in the presence of God in this body? Woe is me, for
I am undone. I'm a man of unclean lips, and
I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. When God shows
us that we're a sinner, we will cry out, Lord, help me. Don't let some little two-bit,
short-tailed, free-will preacher ever get away with telling you
that you need to make Jesus the Lord of your life. I haven't
seen a bumper sticker like that in a while, but they used to
be on the back bumper of every Christian's car, big old bumper
sticker. Make Jesus the Lord of your life. We can't make Jesus do nothing. He's either Lord or He's not. He's either the God over all
or he's a liar. We have no control over our lives
anyway. Make Jesus the Lord of your life. The number one preacher in the
world said this, ask me after the service and I'll tell you
his name. He said, God the Father does everything he can to save
you. And God the Son died for your
sins and wants you to believe on Him. And God the Holy Spirit
does everything in His power to draw you. But you have the
last word. We don't have the last word about
nothing. We don't have the last word about
how our children will turn out. We don't have the last word about
whether our wife or husband will stay with us or leave us. We
don't have the last word about going home after work alive. We don't have the last word about
cancer. We don't have the last word about
when we'll die. What makes him think that we'll
have the last word about something as important as eternal life? I would not serve a God that
allowed me to make a decision whether I wanted to be saved
or not. He's either God or He's not. And once God opens our eyes
to that, we'll turn to Christ and we'll call Him Lord. We definitely
will. Now there's another witness here
about the Lord Jesus Christ with this woman because she's a Gentile. Twelve disciples here, eleven
of them are children of God, one of them is not. And this
woman is a child of God. So what does that witness about
Christ? 1 John chapter 2 and verse 2.
He is the propitiation for our sins. And not for our sins only,
but for the sins of the whole world. He's the sin bearer for
11 hard-hearted Jewish disciples. He's also a sin bearer for a
Canaanite woman. He was a sin bearer for a Jewish
zealot named Saul of Tarsus, but he was also a sin bearer
for a Roman centurion called Cornelius. He was a sin bearer
for Mary and Martha and Lazarus, but he was also a sin bearer
for the Ethiopian unit. When that veil was rent in the
temple from the top to the bottom, access was granted into the holy
of holies. You don't have to go in there
once a year anymore with a priest with a rope tied around him in
case God kills him, he can drag the body out. We have grace to
help in time to need because we have total access to the throne
of grace. All of us do. Now this was a
different time than any we can ever imagine. This was a transition
period from the children of Israel into the gospel being given to
the whole world. There were things that happened
here that we can't really account for. There are questions here
we can't really answer. Seven years after the Lord Jesus
Christ was crucified, Peter had a vision. Big sheep let down
from heaven, tied at the four corners, full of animals. And
Peter was absolutely starving to death. And the Lord said,
rise, Peter, kill and eat. And the disciple of the Lord
Jesus Christ said, not so, Lord. No, no, no, no, no. Nothing common
or unclean has ever passed my lips. three times this occurred
and finally the Lord told him what God has called clean, you
don't call unclean. They almost had to take a whip
and drive him down to bring the gospel to the Gentiles. This
is when it's going from the nation of Israel into the world. This
same apostle Whenever he was with Paul at the Gentile church,
he ate with the Gentile boy. They had a good time fellowship
and everything else. But when certain from James came
from Jerusalem, he withdrew himself and wouldn't have anything to
do it. And Paul said, I was stood him to his face because he was
to be blamed. And yet this same Paul took part
in a Jewish ritual. and the Lord caused a riot to
get him out of it. These people, the Jewish people,
were the guardians of the scripture. And because God had chosen them
out of all the world to be this guardian, instead of being thankful
and grateful that God had blessed them with the scriptures, they
got proud and mean. And the disciples told the Lord,
get rid of this woman. She's driving us crazy. She's
driving us up the wall with her with her begging and pleading.
But those days are over forever. Because the Lord Jesus Christ
is the Savior of the world. But at this time. at this time,
Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 12 tells us this about the Gentiles,
that they were without Christ. They were aliens from the commonwealth
of Israel. They were strangers from the
covenants of promise. They had no hope and they were
without God in the world. But, verse 13, Remember what
Greg said about when God says but, something good's gonna happen.
But, by the blood of Jesus Christ, you who sometimes were afar off,
are brought nigh by the blood of Jesus Christ. We're all the
same anymore. No Jew or Gentile, male or female,
bond or free, we're all in the same hole together. We come into
this world lost, and unless God works a miracle in our lives,
we'll stay lost. But there is no more Jew and
no more Gentile. There's only the saved and the
unsaved. It's hard sometimes for us to
read these scriptures and understand them unless we know this. Several
times in a scripture, they've run the Gentiles off. They didn't
want to go there. Jonah didn't want to go to the
Gentiles in Nineveh. He ran away the other way from
God. They had enmity against the Gentiles
that we cannot imagine. And it's here. It's here. But the Lord Jesus Christ never
did anything lightly. And the conversation he has with
this woman is to teach us something, not the lady. We're going to
learn some things here that we would not have learned unless
the Lord had brought us to come to pass. And he answered and
said, I am not sent, but unto the lost sheep of the house of
Israel, speaking to the woman. Now, we have to understand, like
I said, that God had separated these people from the rest of
the world to be guardians of the scripture was one reason.
And they were the oldest son. They're the ones that bore the
heat of the day. They're the ones that took all
the enmity because they had the word of God and they wouldn't
compromise it for a long time. The Gentiles were the prodigal
son. They went off and had a ball
and wasted all their money on wine and women and come dragging
back. The Jewish people were owed an
obligation and a way to get the gospel first. To the Jew first
and also to the Gentiles. But that's all been taken care
of. It's all been put away in 70 AD. That was the end of that. And now we are the circumcision. We're the, we're the Jew. We're
the child of Abraham who worship God in the spirit, who rejoice
in Christ Jesus. and have no confidence in the
flesh, Philippians 3, 3. So there's no Jew and Gentile
left, there's only the saved and the unsaved. So when the
Lord Jesus Christ said, I was not sent, but to the lost sheep
of the house of Israel, that's a witness that that's one more
promise that he kept. He went first to the lost sheep
of the house of Israel. And when the fullness of time
came, he sent the gospel to the Gentiles. He is faithful and
true. The Lord Jesus Christ will do
everything he said he would. Verse 24. But he answered and
said unto her, I'm not sent but to the lost sheep of the house
of Israel. Then came she and worshiped him saying, Lord, help
me. But he answered and said it is
not meat or it's not fit to take the children's bread and to cast
it to dogs. And she said that truth Lord,
yet the puppies eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters
table. That's the answer. That this
whole thing was about right right there. Because the day is gone. Because the Lord Jesus Christ
gave himself up to the cross to die for our sins. The day
is gone when we've got to feed on the crumbs that fall off of
the table of Moses' law. We have a place at the table.
We're going to sit down and eat with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Lord has prepared us a table
in the presence of our enemies. We are in Christ. We're right up there at the head
of the table. We don't have to depend on anybody
giving us anything about the gospel. It's open to all of us. And we don't have to do anything
to get this. Cursed is everyone that hangeth
upon a tree. The Lord Jesus Christ underwent
a curse so we didn't have to. When the Lord Jesus Christ said
on the cross, it is finished, it was finished. And we don't
have to do anything. We don't have to make him the
Lord of our lives. We don't have to worry about
not doing any of the Ten Commandments. All we got to worry about is
praying to God and doing what the scriptures say. If thou shalt
confess with a mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart
that God has raised him from the dead, Thou shalt be saved.
That's not such a big job, is it? Not if you've been born again. Not if you've been given the
will to call him Lord. Not if you've been given the
knowledge that God did raise him from the dead. Not if you
know that he's just the firstborn from the dead we're following
after. We don't have to do anything. Christ did it all. And once you
know these things. Then you are more than willing
to kneel to Christ. You're more than willing to call
him Lord. It's the most wonderful. Feeling in the world. To know
that Christ has compassion on me for my weaknesses. And the
stupid things that I do and say sometimes. That's the most wonderful
thing in the world. I don't have to worry about falling
from grace. Because he paid the price for
me. I'm not my own. I'm bought with
the price. Glorify God therefore in your
body and in your mind which belong to God. I don't have any worries. I can sit here and listen to
Greg preach, and I can say amen to everything I've ever heard
Greg say. I can get up and shake hands
with everybody, give them all a big hug, and I am happy. To me, that's living. To me,
that's what all of this is about, to know the Lord and to rejoice
in our salvation. That's it. That's it. And she said, truth, Lord, yet
the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the master's table.
Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy
faith. Be it unto thee even as thou
wilt. And her daughter was made whole
from that very hour. I don't remember anywhere in
the scripture where the Lord Jesus Christ gave a short answer
to a woman. He was always respectful. He never said anything mean to
him. Never ran him down. It seems
like that women. Women have a special place in
the scriptures. They really do. They really do
read through this. You see some of these women are
spectacular. Abigail was. Mary was Martha
was this woman was. No telling how far she came to
beg Christ to heal her daughter. The woman that saw it in her
inner self, if I can but touch the hem of his garment, I'll
be made whole. Women seemed to have all the
faith and men had all the smart answers. But this lady had faith,
she really did. Oh woman, great is thy faith. And the thing about it is this,
by grace are you saved through faith and not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God. God gives more faith to some
people than he does others. He gives us more faith sometimes
than he does others. The Lord could just as well have
said, Oh, woman, great is your gift from God. For by grace,
are you saved through faith and that not of yourself? It is the
gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. For we
are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus under good works,
which was before ordained that we should walk in them. We don't have a worry in the
world. Our lives were planned out for
us. All of our tribulations were
planned out. All of our, all of our sicknesses,
all of these things, all of these things were foreordained before
the foundation of the world and God will bring our lives to the
right conclusion. Known unto God are all of his
works from the beginning of the world. Don't never think that
Christ didn't know who this lady was. Don't never think that he
didn't know what the disciples were going to say. This is the
Lord of glory that we're talking about here. This is the one that
created the world. This is the one that could have
called 12 ages of angels when he was on the cross and made
this earth into a waste howling wilderness. This is our friend, our elder
brother, our savior. We are in union with him and
nothing can ever fall on us that'll change that. Nothing. Search the scriptures. For in
them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which
testify of me. Take my yoke upon you, and learn
of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart." If we can read the
Scriptures and see the witness to the work of Christ, to the
glory of Christ, to the forgiveness of Christ, and we can learn these
things by the power of the Holy Spirit, then this Word will not
return unto God void. But it will accomplish that for
which he purposed it. Father, we would ask that you'd
increase our faith father you would. You would like he keep
our eyes upon Jesus father that we'd have the grace to cast aside
every weight father in a sin which does so easily beset us.
Give us a grace to run a race that is set before us with patience. Give us a faith and a grace father
to look under Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Tom. Stand together, we'll sing 126. That's not it. Try this again. It's not there yet. Man of sorrows, what a name for
the Son of God who came, ruined sinners to reclaim. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
In my place condemned He stood, Sealed my pardon with His blood. Hallelujah! What a Savior! Guilty, vile, and helpless we,
spotless Lamb of God was He. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah! What a Savior! Lifted up was He to die, It is
finished was His cry, Now in heaven exalted high, Hallelujah,
what a Savior! When He comes, our glorious King,
All His ransomed home to bring, Then anew this song we'll sing,
Hallelujah, what a Savior!