Thank you. I, John, who also am your brother
and companion in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience
of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos for the
word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the
spirit on the Lord's day. That's today. That's our only
hope, is to be in the Spirit today, here in this place. And
I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am
Alpha and Omega, the first and the last. And what thou seest,
write in a book and send it unto the seven churches. Let's pray together. Our Heavenly
Father, we're thankful For the revelation that you've
given us of thy dear son, and oh, how we pray that you would
give sight to our hearts to set our affections on him. Oh, we
ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Brother Burt's gonna lead
us in number 37. How great thou art, number 37. Let's stand together. It's the gray, the gray spot. Approach my soul the throne of
grace in every time of need. There's mercy for the needy one
who Jesus' name shall please. Though I'm a weak and sinful
wretch, I will approach the throne. I'll lean upon Christ's mighty
arm and bleed His blood alone. The blood, the precious blood
of Christ has opened up the way by which I can draw near to God
and to my Father pray. Though Satan tempts my heart
to sin, I'll call upon my God And if I fall, He'll lift me
up and cleanse me in the blood. The way is open, God will hear
my groans and cries of grief. Nothing can keep me from His
throne but my unbelief. Oh Lord, my unbelief removed
and turn my heart by grace, compel me to approach your throne and
there spread out my gaze. For our Scripture reading, would
you turn to the book of 1 Peter. 1 Peter. We're going to begin in verse
18. 1 Peter 1, 18. This is being spoken to a child
of God, a sinner saved by grace. This is to a believer. Verse
18. For as much as you know that
you were not redeemed with corruptible things, a silver and gold from
your vain conversation received by the tradition from your fathers. We come into this world as idolatries,
we were raised as idolatries, we have learned and spoke the
language of idolatry. But look at verse 19. But with
the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation
of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
who by him do believe in God that raised them up from the
dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be
in God. Seeing you purified your souls
and obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love
of the brethren. See that you love one another
with a pure heart, fervently being born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth
and abideth forever. For all flesh is as grass, and
all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth,
and the flower thereof falleth away. And this is the verse,
trust the Lord will bless through our hearts, but the word of the
Lord endureth forever. And this is the word. This is
the living word which by the gospel is preached unto you. May the Lord enable us to hear
his gospel this morning. And may he bless you, brother,
to preach this gospel, that we might be saved. Let's pray. Lord, that is our heart's desire
this morning. That's why you brought us here.
You brought us here to hear and to see and to believe that you
are the son of God. Oh, Lord, we need you to make
that happen by the power of your spirit and by the truth of your
word. We know that if you bless your
word, Lord, then we would be able to see you and hear you.
Oh, would you do that for us this morning? Lord, we come with nothing but
sin and ask that you would forgive us of our sins and cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. How we want to see Jesus, the
author and finisher of our faith. Truly, Lord, how precious is
his blood? For it's God's blood. And Lord, it was my sin. That
caused him to shed for me. Lord, give me assurance this
morning Speak to my heart. Lord, I want to hear that thou
lovest me and Bless your word again be with
our brother. Oh lord give him ability and strength to lift
up christ And be with todd again lord. Oh strengthen his body
this morning and be with lynn encourage their hearts For we
ask it in christ's name. Amen We're going to sing to him now
in the back of the bulletin. If you all could please stand.
To him in the back of the bulletin. How gracious is the Lord, how
merciful and kind. My heart is filled with thankfulness
and gladness fills my mind. Oh, what amazing grace that saves
a soul like mine. Christ Jesus died and rose again
by covenant design. Hear peace and righteousness,
and truth and mercy meet. God gave His Son my soul to save,
in Him I am complete. Who can condemn my soul since
Jesus for me died? Justice, my Lord, hath satisfied,
and I am justified. Christ is my confidence. His precious name I bless. My sins were drowned in Jesus'
blood. He is my righteousness. You may be seated, please. My sins were drowned in Jesus'
blood. He is my righteousness. All my righteousness. That's
the only rest I find for my soul. Ever heard someone say there's
no rest for the weary? Usually we say that, meaning
that a person who's always working never gets a chance to stop working.
And that's true spiritually. There's no rest for the weary. There's no rest for those who
are always trying to earn their righteousness with God. The only
rest to be had is to be found in Christ. And that's what the
word Sabbath means. The word Sabbath translated means
rest. Christ Himself is our Sabbath. And until He reveals Himself
in us and causes us to have the faith to trust Him, we're going
to be weary. We're going to be trying to find
rest somewhere else, and it's nowhere to be found. I mentioned
in the first hour why we come to worship, why we're here today. We're here to worship our Lord.
He's worthy of all worship and honor and glory. And in worshiping
Him, we find rest for our sin-sick souls, don't we? Now, I've been
preaching through the book of Isaiah, and as most of you will
know, that we're beginning Isaiah chapter 42 this morning. And what a glorious passage. Behold my servant. Behold my servant. God the Father
is speaking and He's calling on His people to look to Christ. To look to Christ. Now I'm preparing
this message from Isaiah 42. I've changed places in the Bible. We're going to go to Matthew
chapter 12. Anytime an Old Testament passage is quoted in the New
Testament, it's good to understand how that passage is given to us by the Holy Spirit, explaining the gospel from the
New Testament. And that's what I want us to
do this morning. So if you'll turn with me in your Bibles to
Matthew chapter 12, and you'll notice with me in verse 18, Behold
my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved,
in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him,
and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles. Now the word judgment
there is not, he's not going to execute his justice against
the Gentiles, he's going to show how God is satisfied with the
sacrifice that Christ made for the judgment of the Gentile sins. They're going to rest in him.
He shall not strive nor cry, neither shall any man hear his
voice in the streets, a bruised reed shall he not break, and
a smoking flack shall he not quench." Has sin left you feeling
like a bruised reed? A reed is a staff. It's something that you lean
upon for support. And a bruised reed is a staff
that won't hold you up. So you try to lean on it and
it's bruised, it's bent. And if you put too much weight
on it, it'll break. And the Lord says a bruised reed,
he'll not break it. And a smoking flax, now flax
was used for wick material in oil candles. And when the oil
lamp got low of oil, the wick would become just an ember. And
the flame is going out. And normally you would just wet
your fingers and go ahead and put it out. And the Lord said,
no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm
going to blow the wind of my spirit upon that wick. I'm going
to put the oil of my spirit in that lamp and I'm going to rekindle
the fire. I'm not going to break a bruised
reed. I'm not going to snuff out a
smoking flax. Why? Because that's my children.
I love them. Sin has caused this in their
life. But I've come to give them rest
in spite of their sin. Can you relate? Do you need the
Lord to fulfill this promise in your heart? Look at the last part of verse
20. till he send forth judgment to victory. Oh, Lord, I need
you to get the victory in my heart. Sin has got such a way
with me. My flesh is so weak. The world in which I live is
so contrary to everything I believe. I need you to get the victory
in my heart. Now how is He going to get the
victory? How is He going to... is He going to remove us out
of this world? Well, one day He will. One day
He will. It does not yet appear what we
shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we shall see
Him as He is and be made like Him. What a glorious day that's
going to be. And the trump of God sounds and
the dead in Christ are raised and those of us which remain
to be caught up together with them in the air to ever be with
the Lord. One of the things I found out
in my life about unbelievers is they don't want to think about
dying. They don't want to talk about
it. It's a morose, depressing subject that they just want to
avoid. And the people of God think about
it all the time. not in a depressing way, but
anxious for that day when they meet their Christ, their Lord,
their Savior, and they're done with this flesh. And that's going
to be a day of great victory. Great victory. But I need to
get victory now. I need to be delivered from the
guilt and the shame and the power of sin in my flesh and in my
heart right now. Is that possible? Is it possible? Yes. That's the very promise
that the Lord's making to us here. The very promise that He's
making. is that I've come to bring judgment
to victory. I'm going to put into the hearts
of my children the hope of knowing that their sin has been separated
from them as far as the east is from the west and I remember
them no more. That their righteousness has
absolutely nothing to do with anything they have done or haven't
done. They're going to find in Christ
everything they need to have rest and hope for their soul
right now. That's what this promise is.
That's what I need. I'm not going to be delivered
from my flesh until I'm delivered from this world. Sin is always
going to be ever before us in this world. And the Lord gives
us grace to set our affections on Christ. That's why he starts
this passage by, Behold my servant, mine elect, whom I uphold. This is the one that I have put
my spirit upon. Behold Him. The only hope that
you have is to look to Christ. And oh, what glorious hope He
is. He's our Sabbath. I was talking
to somebody recently, they were talking about considering the
seventh day Adventist because they thought, well, the Sabbath
is the seventh day of the week and that's Saturday and the Lord's
Day. The believers in the New Testament
began worshiping on Sunday in recognition of the resurrection.
And the Old Testament Sabbath was done away with. Isn't it
appropriate that the Sabbath was at the end of the week, seeking
forgiveness for all that had been done in the previous seven
days, and the Lord's Day is at the beginning of the week, hoping
that the Lord would speak grace to our hearts, enabling us to
realize that our sins have already been forgiven before we even
commit them. Before we even commit them, whatever
you do this week, I want you to know right now that they're
all put away already. Already. This is the first day
of the week. You know, we think about our
week start. What do we call Sunday? The weekend, don't we? No, it's
not the weekend. This is the beginning of the
week. Right now. And it's already done. Everything we need for this coming
week is already accomplished. That's the gospel. He's going to send forth judgment
to victory. He's going to put into our hearts
the knowledge and the hope and the faith of knowing that God
has executed all of His righteous judgment against His Son, putting
away our sin once and for all. It's done. It's finished. It's accomplished. And in His name, And in his name
shall the dogs trust. Yes, I said that right. I know
it says Gentiles, but that's what Gentiles were. To the self-righteous
Pharisee, Gentiles were dogs. Did not the Lord say to that
Syrophoenician woman when she begged for the Lord to have mercy
on her daughter? Did he not say to her, it's not
right for me to give the children's bread to dogs? She was a Gentile. And what'd she say? You know,
most folks would say, if you call them a dog, well, that's
what you think about me. Just forget it. I'll go find
somebody who has a higher view of me. What'd she say? Truth, Lord. Truth, Lord. That's what I am. A Gentile dog. But the dogs eat the crumbs that
fall from the master's table. Lord, would you just brush a
few crumbs off for me? I'm a hungry dog. I need to have
some peace. I need to have some hope. I can't
get away from my sin. I need to know that I have an
advocate with the Father who's righteous. I need to know that
I have acceptance before God. I need to know that my sin has
already been put away and judgments already been satisfied. I need
to know that. How are you going to know it?
Behold, my servant. Behold my servant whom I uphold,
mine elect." Now, I mentioned that we wanted
to understand this passage in the New Testament. It's almost
a word-for-word quote from the Old Testament passage in Isaiah
42. So if you'll go with me to verse
1 of chapter 12, I want you to see the contrast that the Lord
makes in His Word between those who are resting. And that's what
the Sabbath is. Hebrews chapter 4 makes it absolutely
clear that the works were finished from the foundation of the world. What work? The work of redemption.
was already accomplished in the covenant of grace before Adam
was ever made. The blood of Christ was already
applied to the covenant. He's the lamb slain before the
foundation of the world. There's our rest. Our rest is
not looking to anything that we've done. Our rest is looking
back before time and realize that God has placed in a covenant,
a promise. That's what covenant means. Covenant
means promise. Do you find any comfort for your
sin sick soul in the promises that you've made to God? I can't tell you how many times
I've had some people tell me after they hear the gospel, well
what about good works? Well what about them? What about
them? Are you willing for God to inspect
your works for your acceptance before God? Any of them? Are you willing to offer up the
most sincere, sacrificial work that you've ever performed in
your life for the hope of your salvation? Are you willing to
offer up to God the most broken-hearted prayer that you ever prayed in
hope that God will give you acceptance based on that? If you are, and you're an honest
person, you don't have rest for your soul. Now you can be a liar and find
some rest there. Oh, how we need an advocate. How we need a substitute. How
we need a sin bearer. how much we need a Savior to
be all our acceptance before God, all our righteousness. Now notice in verse 17 of Matthew
chapter 12, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
Isaiah the prophet saying, So everything prior to verse 17
is bringing this Isaiah 42 passage into focus as its fulfillment. So what happens prior to verse
17? Look at verse one, and at that
time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn and his
disciples were hungered and began to pluck the ears of corn and
to eat. And when the Pharisees, here's
the Pharisees, who were they? Now the word Pharisee translated
means separated one. which is exactly what the word
saint means. And the only question between
a saint and a Pharisee is who does the separating. That's the only difference. If
you've separated yourself out as one who is righteous based
on something you've done, then you're a Pharisee. If you're
trusting that the Lord God before time ever began, chose a particular
people. He chose Christ first. And that He separated you out
and made you accepted in the Beloved. And you have hope that
you're a saint. Sins put away, accepted before
God. So this fulfillment of the Isaiah
42 passage is in light of what the Pharisees had to say. What
did they say when they saw the Lord's disciples walking through
the cornfield and picking corn on the Sabbath? And what did
the Old Testament law say? You do not work on the Sabbath.
You don't put forth any labor. In other words, Don't try to
justify yourself before God based on anything you've done. Christ
is our rest. He is our Sabbath. You remember in the Old Testament,
right after the Lord instituted the Sabbath and made it clear
that they were to do no work on the Sabbath, they found a
man in the camp who was picking up sticks. That's all he was
doing, just picking up sticks. I'm sure he was going to make
a fire and cook dinner. Maybe they needed to stay warm at night.
I guess it's cold in the desert. He's picking up sticks on the
Sabbath. And he got caught, and they brought him before Moses,
who's a picture of the law. And they said, what do we do?
And Moses went before the Lord, and the Lord said, stone him.
Put him to death. May God give you some understanding
as to what that means. You know what it means, don't
you? If you put your hand to what Christ has already accomplished,
it will be to your death. It'll be to my death. Christ
gets all the glory for our... We rest completely in His finished
work. And that's what these Pharisees
couldn't do. They're working, they're judging their salvation
based on what they do and don't do on the Sabbath day. Most folks,
some of us came out of a Reformed background where Sabbatarianism
is very highly regarded. What you do and don't do on Sunday
determines the hope of your salvation, or at least the proof of it.
And what we were doing was we were violating the Sabbath in
our attempt to keep the Sabbath. Keeping the Sabbath is trusting
Christ. It's resting all the hope of
your salvation in who He is and what He's done. Christ is our
Sabbath. They began to pluck the ears
of corn and to eat. And when the Pharisees saw it,
they said unto him, behold, thy disciples do that which is not
lawful to do upon the Sabbath day. But he said unto them, have
you not read what David did when he was a hungered and that they
were then they that were with him, how he entered into the
house of God and did eat the show bread, which was not lawful
for him to eat neither for them that were with him, but only
for the priest. Now what the Lord's drawing out
here is that man wasn't made for the Sabbath, the Sabbath
was made for man. He's making it clear that keeping
these rules and regulations on the Sabbath, the Sabbath is our
rest. Let's read on. Verse 5. Or have
you not read in the law how that on the Sabbath days the priests
in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless? What were
the priests doing on the Sabbath day? They were working. They
were slaughtering animals. They were shedding blood. They
were making sacrifices. Were they charged with having broken the
Sabbath? No. But I say unto you that in this
place is one greater than the temple. Here you are so concerned
about the seventh day of the week and the Sabbath is standing
right before you and you don't know it. But if you had known
what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, you
would not have condemned the guiltless. My disciples, he's
talking about his disciples. The Pharisees were condemning
the disciples because they were plucking grains of wheat and
eating it on the Sabbath because they were hungry. And the Lord's
calling them guiltless. They're guiltless. They're guiltless
because they're trusting Christ. for their rest before God. For the Son of Man is Lord even
of the Sabbath day, and when he was departed thence he went
into their synagogue. And behold, there was a man which
had a hand withered, and they asked him, saying, Is it lawful
to heal on the Sabbath days, that they might accuse him? Nothing's changed. If you've
ever tried to share the gospel with your religious friends and
family members, they are going to bring up every excuse in order
to try to accuse you and your gospel. They're trying to accuse
Christ. And he said unto them, what man
shall there be among you that have one sheep and it fall into
a pit on the Sabbath day? Will he not lay hold on it and
lift it out? If a man has necessity to save
one of his animals on the Sabbath day, is it not right for him
to do that? How much then is a man better
than a sheep? Wherefore, it is lawful to do
well on the Sabbath days. And they then said he to the
man, stretch forth thy hand, and he stretched it forth, and
it was restored whole as the other. Restored whole. I've had people
say to me, God would never command a person to do something that
they can't do, speaking of free will. If God commands us to believe,
then that must necessarily mean that we have the capacity to
believe. God's always commanding us to
do things we can't do. He said, stretch forth your withered
hand. Lord, I can't, it's withered.
Stretch it forth. And what was his ability to stretch
it forth? The command given to do it. What God commands, God provides.
And our warrant for believing is the command to believe. Yes,
the Lord calls on us to do things that's impossible for us to do.
Believe. Rest. Come. Lord, You're going
to have to do it. I want to rest. I want to believe.
I want to come. Cause me to come unto Thee and
find rest for my soul. Bid me, Lord. Isn't that what
Peter said? Bid me, Lord, to come unto Thee. And He is. He's bidding us right now. Come. Then the Pharisees went out and
held a council against him, how they might destroy him. Free grace is always a threat
to the Pharisee. The gospel always threatens their
salvation. If what you're saying is true,
then I'm not saved. How many times you tried to share
the gospel somebody in the very first thing out of their mouth?
Well, I know I'm a I'm I know I'm a Christian And what they're
saying is if what you're saying is true, I'm not saved so I've
got to defend myself Men who are trusting in anything
other than Christ are threatened by the gospel of God's free grace
and Verse 15, and when Jesus knew
it, when he knew that they had made this counsel in an attempt
to shut him up, to justify themselves and their self-righteous, free
will, works religion, When he knew that they had done that,
he withdrew himself from thence. God gives grace to the humble
and he resists the proud. The proud self-righteous will
lose the very presence of God. Great multitudes followed him
and he healed them all the ones that followed after Christ got
healed Do you need healing? You need healing You know anything
about your sin you do Sins left you as a bruised reed and as
a smoking flax hasn't it? Those who are bruised and withered
and poor and needy follow after Christ and He heals them all.
Every one of them. And He charged them that they
should not make Him known that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken of the prophet Isaiah when he said, Behold my servant. Paul called himself a bond slave
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and every child of God rejoices in
the opportunities and in the privilege of being a servant
of God. But our service will never earn
us favor with God. God requires a perfect servant. He requires a servant that will
do everything that He said to do. without question, every time. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one that ever did that. And so what's the Lord saying
to those, to that multitude who are following after Christ? Behold
my servant. Don't look at your service, look
at His. He obeyed me perfectly even unto
death. Philippians chapter 2, turn with
me there. Philippians chapter 2 verse 5 let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God
thought it not robbery to be equal with God The Lord Jesus
Christ did not consider himself to be robbing from God his glory
by claiming equality with God. Why? Because he was equal with
God. He is equal with God. But made himself of no reputation
and took upon him the form of a servant. And was made in the
likeness of men. Now here's a bond slave. The
Old Testament law said that if a Hebrew had to sell himself
into some sort of indentured service to another Hebrew in
order to pay off a debt, that he can only do that for seven
years. And at the end of the seven years, the debt was paid,
and the slave was free to leave. But if during those seven years,
his master had given him a wife, Then when the seven years was
up and the debt was paid, he could leave, but his wife and
children had to stay behind. Because they were given to him
during that service, during that time of service. But if that
slave said, I love my master, I love my wife, I love my children,
I choose not to leave." Then the master would take that slave
and take him to the doorpost of the front door and put his
earlobe onto the doorpost and drive an awl through his earlobe,
marking him as a slave for life. What a picture of Christ. He
had a perfect ear to hear every word that came from his father.
He loved his master. He loved his father. He loved
his wife. He loved his children. And he
said, I will not go out free. I will remain with her. And God
says, behold, my servant. the one who served me perfectly,
even unto death. He was made in the likeness of
men and being found in the fashion of a man, he humbled himself
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."
Now we often think about our Lord's obedience being His keeping
the law. But here the scripture says He
was obedient even unto death. So the God in the covenant of
grace had already ordained that Christ would have to die in order
to save his wife and his children. And the Lord Jesus Christ drank
dry the bitter dregs of sin in order to satisfy God's justice
and save his bride. Behold my servant. Go back with
me to our text. You see, you're either going
to be a Pharisee or you're going to be a saint. And only the saints have rest
for their souls. You think these Pharisees were
resting? No. They could never, ever do enough. Whom I have chosen, mine elect,
God chose Christ first as our Savior, my Beloved. This is my
Beloved Son. In Him, I'm well pleased. God's
not pleased with us, lest we be found in Christ. If
we're in Him, He's pleased. He's satisfied. He saw the travail
of his soul and was satisfied. Behold my servant whom I have
chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. God speaking and God saying my
soul, the very soul of God is well
pleased with Christ. The only question you and I have
to ask, are we pleased with what God's pleased with? Or are we
trying to add to what Christ has already accomplished? I will put my Spirit upon Him. Translated, that means, He's
the Christ. The Messiah, the anointed one.
He came in the full power of the Spirit of God to accomplish
the purpose for which God sent him, which was what? To save
his people. Is it possible that he left any
part of that undone? Is it possible that he didn't
accomplish what he came to do? I'm going to put my spirit upon
him. He's going to come as the Christ. He shall Not he's gonna make
an offer not he's gonna try now. He's gonna do your his part now
you got to do your part He shall show forth judgment To the dogs Can you see the judgment that
he's accomplished? Can you see that God is completely
satisfied, pleased to his very soul with the accomplished work
of Christ? He shall not strive nor cry. Neither shall any man hear his
voice in the streets." Now, I looked up those words to find out where
they were mentioned first in the Scriptures. And I found them
both in the conversation that the Lord had with Cain after
he killed his brother Abel. When Cain said, After the Lord
pronounced, when the Lord said to Cain first, he said to Cain,
what have you done? Your brother's blood cries out
from the earth against you. And here the scripture says,
and he shall not cry. You see, the blood of Abel cried
out to God for justice against Cain. The blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ doesn't cry out for justice. It declares justice. It's not
crying out for judgment against God's people. It's crying out
to God. Justice is accomplished. And
then he shall not cry. The word there is also in Genesis
chapter 4, where Cain, after hearing the judgment of God against
him for his sin, Cain said, my punishment is too great for me. I cannot bear it. I cannot bear
it. Now that was Cain's punishment
for what he had done. The Lord Jesus Christ doesn't,
his blood doesn't cry out for justice. His blood declares justice. And He would never say, the punishment
is too great for me, I cannot bear it. He bore in His body
the sins of God's people and satisfied everything God required
for justice. He shall not cry. He shall not strive. Neither
shall any man hear his voice in the streets." He's not going
to have to promote himself. The Lord made it clear. He said,
if I give witness of myself, my witness is nothing. There
is another that bears witness for me. The Word of God bears
witness for Christ. God the Father bears witness
for Christ. The Holy Spirit bears witness for Christ. God's people
and his church bear witness for Christ. And that's the testimony
that God uses to bring salvation and hope to the hearts of his
people. A bruised reed shall he not break,
a smoking flack shall he not quench. He's going to give his people
something to lean on. It's going to be the hope of
knowing that He has accomplished their salvation, that He's put
away their sin, that their acceptance before God has nothing whatsoever
to do with anything they have done or not done. It's all bound up in the service
and sacrifice of their Savior. And in His name, In His name. What's His name? You shall call
His name Jesus, for He shall save His people. In His name
shall the dogs trust. My salvation is all of Him. Our Heavenly Father, we're so
very hopeful now that You would deliver us from the thoughts
and motives of anything outside of Christ for the hope of our
salvation. Lord, put into our hearts the
hope of knowing that the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished
fully and completely everything necessary for us to have acceptance
before Thee. We ask it in His name. Amen. Number 13. Number 13. Let's stand
together. Praise ye the Lord, the Almighty,
the King of creation. O my soul, praise Him, for He
is thy help and salvation. All ye who hear, Now to His temple
draw near, Join me in glad adoration. Praise ye the Lord, who o'er
all things so wondrously reigneth, shelters thee under his wings,
yea, so gently sustaineth. Hath thou not seen how thy desires
there have been, Granted in what He ordained? Praise ye the Lord, who with
marvelous wisdom hath made thee, deck thee with health and with
loving, and guide it and state thee. How oft in grief hath not
He brought thee relief, Spreading His wings for to shade thee? Praise ye the Lord, O let all
that is in me adore Him. All that hath life and breath
come now with praises before Him. Sound from his people again,
gladly for how we adore him. Amen. you