Number 58. Jesus, the very thought of Thee
with sweetness fills my breast, but sweeter far Thy face to see,
and in Thy presence rest. nor voice can sing, nor heart
can frame, nor can the memory find a sweeter sound than thy
blessed name. O Savior of O hope of every contrite heart! O joy of all the meek! To those who fall, how kind thou
art! How good to those who seek! But what to those who find? Ah, this nor tongue nor pen can
show The love of Jesus, what it is None but his loved ones
know Jesus, our only joy, be thou as thou our prize wilt be. Jesus, be thou our glory now
and through eternity. Please be seated. Let's open our Bibles to Song
of Solomon, chapter 4. Song of Solomon, chapter 4. I want to read one verse in chapter
4 and then, well, two verses. Verse 7, Song of Solomon, chapter
4, verse 7. The Lord is speaking about His
church, and He says in verse 7, Thou art all fair, My love,
there is no spot in Thee. He has made us comely by His
comeliness. Now look at verse 16, Awake,
O north wind, and come, Thou south, Blow upon my garden, that
the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his
garden and eat his pleasant fruit. I am come into my garden, my
sister, my spouse. I have gathered my myrrh with
my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with
my honey. I have drunk my wine with my
milk. Eat, O friends. Drink, yea, drink
abundantly, O beloved." What a gracious call. That's our Lord speaking to us.
Let's pray together. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we come before Your throne of grace thanking You that in the
person of our substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ, that we can
have hope in knowing that we are without spot before thee. For Lord, apart from that, apart
from him, there's nothing in us but sin and unrighteousness. Oh Lord, how we pray that you
would cause us again tonight to find our hope in Christ, to
set our affections on him. to know Him, to rest in His glorious
person and in the accomplished work of His redemption for sinners. For we ask it in His name. Amen. Number two from the Gospel Hymns
booklet. Number two. Let's all stand together. Yeah. Lord, we come before thee now. At thy feet we humbly bow. Oh, do not our suit disdain. Shall we seek thee, Lord? Lord, in vain. Lord, on Thee our souls depend. In compassion now descend. Fill our hearts with Thy rich
grace. Tune our lips to sing Thy praise. In thine own appointed way, now
we seek thee, here we stay. Lord, we know not how to go till
a blessing thou bestow. Send the message from thy word
that may joy and peace afford. Let thy spirit now impart Christ's
salvation to each heart. Please be seated. Will you open your Bibles with
me to begin with in Exodus chapter 11, please? Exodus chapter 11. We're going to be in Isaiah 29,
but by way of introduction, I wanted to read a couple of verses here
in Exodus. chapter 11, and this goes along
with that passage that we looked at Sunday morning from 1 Corinthians
chapter 4. Who maketh thee to differ? Who maketh thee to differ? Now
I've titled this message, Lord, make me to differ. Make me to
differ. Don't leave me to myself. I'll
be just like the rest of the world. Look at verse six in Exodus
chapter 11. And there shall be a great cry
throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it,
nor shall be like it anymore, but against any of the children
of Israel. shall not a dog move his tongue
against man or beast, that ye may know how that the Lord doth
put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel." The Lord's
the one that makes us to differ. And how desperate we are for
him to do that work of grace in our hearts. Our God is holy. He must punish sin. He has nothing
but wrath and justice for those outside of Christ. He has nothing
but mercy and grace and love for those that He has made to
differ. There's no in-between. He's not
indifferent toward anyone. He has perfect hatred and perfect
love. All how we need for him to make
us to differ. I don't want to know anything
about the wrath of God. I want to be able to have hope.
in knowing that it has been expiated, that it's been extinguished,
that the Lord Jesus Christ has bore the full burden of God's
justice for me, and that my sin's been put away and God's justice
has been satisfied, the law's been fulfilled. He makes us to
differ. Now, in Isaiah chapter 29, if
you'll turn with me there, The Lord says in Romans chapter
14 verse 17, the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness
and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Now what the Lord is going
to show us in Isaiah chapter 29 is the distinction that He
makes between works religion and the gospel of His free grace. And that's the difference. There's
no in-between. We're either in one camp or the
other. The Kingdom of God is not meat
and drink. It's not what we do. It's not
what we eat. It's not what we drink or don't
drink. Matthew chapter 15, we'll go there in just a few minutes.
But, well, let's just go there now. Matthew chapter 15. Then came to Jesus, verse one,
the scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem. Now, Isaiah
29 is the prophecy, one of the prophecies, one of the many prophecies
of the Old Testament, condemning Jerusalem and their religion
of works. And by extension, that condemnation
is toward all man-made religion. And all of them are the same.
And so the Lord is speaking to these scribes and Pharisees.
He says, and they said to him in verse two, why did thy disciples
transgress the traditions of the elders? For they wash not
their hands when they eat bread. They even called it the tradition
of the elders. That's all it is. I hear religious
people talking all the time, well this is our tradition, and
that's our tradition. And it's just superstitious traditions
based on touch not, taste not, handle not. What are you gonna
do? Or what are you gonna not do in order to earn favor with
God? They're all the same. But he
answered and said unto them, why do you also transgress the
commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, say, in honor
of thy father and thy mother, and he that causeth father and
mother, and he that curseth father and mother, let him die the death.
But you say, whosoever shall say unto his father or to his
mother, it is a gift. by whatsoever thou mayest be
profited by me." In other words, their tradition said that we
can declare all our possessions having been devoted already to
God. And so if my mother or my father
asks me for something that they need, I can say to them, I can't
give it to you. It's not mine to give. I've already
given it to God. It's in my pocket. I'm using
it as I will. But the hypocrisy of this man-made
religion, and the Lord is exposing that, and He's saying to them,
you're denying the commandments of God in order to uphold the
commandments of men. You honor not your father or
your mother. He shall be free verse 6 thus
have you made the commandment of God of Non-effect by your
traditions You've made the commandment of God. What is the commandment
of God? This is what God requires that
you believe on him whom he has sent That's the work of God Now
what they ask him, what work can we work to perform the works
of God? But what do men do? Men replace the commandment of
God with the commandments of men. And the Lord makes it clear
in Isaiah chapter 29 that His justice will be exercised with
no restraint against that. But, that in doing so, He's going
to save a remnant. And this chapter is beautiful
as far as the promises that he makes to the church. In another place, the Lord said,
go ye, go back to our text now, go ye and learn what this meaneth. I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the
righteous, but sinners to repentance. I'm going to have mercy, not
sacrifice. The sacrifices of God are a broken
and contrite heart. That He will not despise. That's
a work of grace that He has to do for us. He has to break our
hearts, make us to be sinners, and cause us to cast all our
hope on the Lord Jesus Christ. for all our salvation. This is
all my salvation, all my desire. He has made with me an everlasting
covenant, ordered in all things and sure. All right, Isaiah refers to Israel
in different ways. He calls them in chapter one,
he calls them Babylon. No, he calls them Sodom and Gomorrah. In another place, the scripture
refers to Jerusalem as Babylon. Here, Jerusalem is called Ariel. And Ariel translated means lion. And so this is the city of David. This is the picture of the church.
It's also, much of chapter 29 is a perversion of the truth. People calling themselves the
church, people calling themselves the bride of Christ, people calling
themselves part of the line of the tribe of Judah, but they're
not. And he says to them in verse
one, woe to Ariel, to Ariel. If there was any question about
it, that's cleared up in the next phrase. The city where David
dwelt. Add ye year to year. Let them
kill sacrifices. Does this sound familiar? Turn
over to chapter one of Isaiah. Chapter one. Look at verse 12. When you come
to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to
tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations,
incenses and abomination to me. The new moons and Sabbaths, the
calling of assemblies, I cannot away with it, it is iniquity.
Even the solemn meetings, your new moons, your appointed feasts,
my soul hateth. They are a trouble unto me, I
am weary. to bear them. Did you see the
latest WikiLeaks release yesterday? Some of Hillary Clinton's, yeah,
is that right? Yeah. comments about religion and some
of her, and I thought, well, there's one time when I can agree
with the left. You know, everybody's all up
in arms because they were insulting religion. They were insulting
man-made religion. And I thought, well, they nailed
it. They were making disparaging comments about the ridiculous superstition of Catholicism in
particular, I think. And everybody's all, well, I
agree with everything they said. That's exactly what the Lord's
saying here. Your religion, I despise it. I hate it. You're bringing
your sacrifices in thinking that you're going to earn favor with
me, that you're going to somehow turn my hand to bless you by
what you bring. And the Lord says, in verse 15 and when you spread
forth your hands I will hide my eyes from you yea when you
make many prayers I will not hear your hands are full of blood now back to our text the killing
of the sacrifices that's the cutting off of the head of the
sacrifices in another place Isaiah said you you you you might as
well be cutting off a dog's head which would have been I mean,
so blasphemy, so blasphemous, and that's exactly what the Lord's
saying. Your sacrifices that you bring
are an abomination to me. Yea, verse 2, I will distress
Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow, and it shall be unto
me as Ariel. Has the Lord distressed you in
your works mentality? Has He caused
you to see how foolish you were? How dishonoring you were to Christ? Has He turned your Jerusalem
into His area? His Lion of Judah, does Christ
alone get all the glory for all your salvation? Has He all by
Himself satisfied the demands of God's law? Has He all by Himself
put away all your sins and made you accepted before God? I'm going to distress Ariel,
and she's going to become my Ariel. She'll be my Lion. And then they'll have a place
where they can come and rest. Look at verse three. And I will
camp against thee round about, and I will lay siege against
thee with a mount, and I will rise forts against thee, and
thou shalt be brought down, and thou shalt speak out of the ground,
and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall
be as the one that hath the familiar spirit out of the ground, and
thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. Now, he's speaking
of, that's a work of grace done in the heart. When we come before
the throne of grace in humility. seeking God's mercy and Let in
our words be few and and and trusting Christ. He's also speaking
of What he's going to do to all the false prophets the ones who
had our ear The ones who had a voice that we listened to now,
what do they sound like? They sound like familiar spirits.
They sound like demons We don't listen to them anymore Moreover,
the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and
the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff." Now
that terrible ones means the strong ones, the strong ones,
the powerful ones, the ones who have a reputation, the ones who
have a name, the ones who are controlling the people. He said, the terrible one shall
be as chaff that passes away, yea, it shall be at an instant,
suddenly. When the Lord sets your affections
on Christ, he calls you to see the foolishness of these false
prophets. And they're suddenly, suddenly, all of a sudden, I
don't have an interest in hearing them anymore. I want to hear
about Christ. I want to hear a faithful gospel
preacher tell me about the Lord Jesus Christ and expound unto
me the truth of God's Word. I can't go back there. Can't
do that anymore. He's also, this prophetically
now, there's spiritual application of this in our hearts and there's
the historical application, what the Lord did when he took the
vineyard away from Israel and brought a sudden end to Jerusalem
in 70 A.D. and gave the gospel to another
vine dresser, another worker in the vineyard. Thou shalt be visited of the
Lord of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and with great
noise, with storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire. That happened. That happened
when the Lord destroyed Jerusalem, but also happened in our hearts.
In the light of the gospel, in the face of the Lord, He put
to silence all the gainsayers and all the law-mongering. We couldn't go there anymore.
We saw that the fire of God's wrath fell from heaven and was
quenched by the sacrifice that Christ made of Himself. And the multitude of all the
nations that fight against Ariel, Listen to this, even all that
fight against her and her munitions and that distress her shall be
as a dream of a night vision. Next time someone makes an accusation
against you or against your gospel, against the Lord Jesus Christ,
you can say to them, according to the word of God, you're dreaming.
You're dreaming. Listen to what he goes on to
say. It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold,
he eateth in his dream, but he awaketh and his soul is empty.
He's not satisfied. Or as when a thirsty man dreameth,
and behold, he drinketh, but he awaketh, and behold, he is
faint and his soul hath appetite. So shall the multitude of all
the nations be that fight against Mount Zion. Oh, to stand up against Christ,
against His church. He's going to defend His bride. You're going to defend your bride,
aren't you, man? How much more? How much more will He defend
His bride? Stay yourself. Stand still and
wonder. Cry ye out and cry. They are
drunken, but not with wine. They stagger, but not with strong
drink. Oh no, the spirit that they're
intoxicated with is much worse than any intoxication of alcohol. This is an evil spirit. This
is a spirit that would deny Christ His glory and turn the gospel
of God's grace into commandments of men, a works gospel. For the Lord hath poured out
upon the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed your eyes, the
prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. And the
vision of all has become unto you as the words of a book that
is sealed. Oh, you remember when John saw
that book that was sealed in glory? And he wept because there
was no man that could be found to unlock the seals and open
the mystery of the book. And then the angel said, Weep
not, John. For the Lion, Ariel, of the tribe
of Judah, he hath prevailed, and he is worthy to open the
book. But the book is sealed to everyone
else. It was sealed to us, wasn't it? Do you remember the day?
Those of you that were in religion and studied the Bible before
you came to learn the gospel, When you saw that this book was
all about Christ and all of a sudden, all of a sudden it was just different. It was changed. And what the
Lord is saying here is that their prophets and their rulers and
their seers are in a deep sleep. I have put them in a deep sleep.
Do you see that? In verse 10, For the Lord hath
poured upon them the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed their
eyes. In verse 12, and the book is
delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I
pray thee. I'm sorry, we didn't finish verse
11. Read this, I pray thee. And he
saith, I cannot. It is sealed. The book is sealed. I don't understand it. It doesn't
make sense to me. And every attempt they make to
make sense of it apart from Christ is a perversion, it's a twisting,
a resting of the scriptures to their own destruction. Only the Lord can unlock the
seal. Only He can make the gospel clear to our hearts. And so He
brings the book to another and He says, open the book and read
it. Pray thee and he said I cannot
I'm not learned. I can't read So one man says
I can't read another man says the book sealed I can't understand
it And that's the way it is to every person in the world every
person in the world was talking to a dear sister today on the
phone and and she was saying, you know, I I've come to see
the gospel so much more clearly now that I'm not even sure if
I was converted back when I thought I was. And we both agreed that
it really didn't matter whether she was converted back when she
thought she was, or whether or not she was converted right now. Do you know Christ now? Don't
live off of yesterday's manna. Don't look back to yesterday's
experience and think, well, that was my salvation. Is the mystery
of the gospel opened to me now? Has the Lord taught me? They
shall be all taught of God. Father, I thank Thee that Thou
hast hid these things from the terrible, the wise, the prudent,
the strong, the self-righteous, and revealed them unto babes. Verse 13, Wherefore the Lord
said, Forasmuch as this people draw near with me with their
mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but they have removed
their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught
by the precepts of man." Touch not, taste not, handle not. The commandments of men. That's
all religion is. One religion says, well, you can't drink alcohol. Another
one says, you can't have anything to do with nicotine. Another
one says, no, the problem is caffeine. Another one says, no,
it's meat. You can't eat meat. You've got
to be a vegetarian. Another one says, you've got
to dress this way or that way. Sarasota has a large number of
Mennonites. And anywhere you go in Sarasota,
you're going to run into some Mennonites. And you can tell
by the way they're dressed. And Mary was telling me the other
day that she passed a Mennonite church and they had on their
sign, gospel says done, religion says do. I thought, well, that's true.
That's true. So why do you dress the way you
dress? And why do you have the commandments of men that you
have if it's already done? You know, and that's what the
Lord is saying. You honor me with your lips, but your hearts
are far from me. You look at what men do and how
they try to make themselves acceptable to God through the commandments
of men. And then there's those, of course,
that would agree with us on all points of the doctrines of grace,
and yet they've made a work out of Sunday. And they've got their
Sabbath laws and their rules and regulations that they can't
and can't do on Sunday. Sabbatarians. The commandments
of men. Oh, Lord, deliver us. That's
what he's saying here in this chapter. I'm going to do away
with all that. Listen to what he's going to
do. Verse 15, Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel
from the Lord, and their works are in the dark. And they say,
Who seeth us and who knoweth us? Don't fool yourself. You're not going to fool God.
You're not going to fool God. He knows. He knows the heart. Surely your turning of things
upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay Now he's
what he's saying is you remember when they were accused the disciples
of turning Jerusalem upside down at penny after Pentecost You
know, they brought him in before the Sanhedrin. They said these
men have turned our city upside down Now they were just turning
it right side up. The Lord says right here. You
turned it upside down and For salvation's always been by grace,
and you've made it the commandments of men. You've made it a works
gospel. You've turned it upside down. And it shall be esteemed as the
potter's clay, for shall the works say of him that made it,
he made me not? You're going to let your work
Stand as the testimony of your faith before God? That's what he's saying. You're
presenting your works as the hope of your salvation. And your
work's not gonna say, he didn't do it. Your work's gonna point to you.
You want your works pointing to you? For your acceptance before
God? Or shall the thing framed say
of him that framed it, he had no understanding? Lord, excuse
him, he didn't really mean it. Yes, he was trusting in his works
for his salvation, but he didn't really understand it. You see,
everybody that presents their pottery to God, the works of
their hands, their works are gonna testify against them. Is it not yet a very little while
and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful
field shall be esteemed as a forest. Now he's talking about the gospel
going out to the Gentile world. And Lebanon is the Gentiles and
they're gonna, that's us. We're Lebanon. And the Lord has
taken the gospel away from those Jews and given it to Gentiles. And Jerusalem has grown up as
a forest, produces nothing. And Lebanon now is the fruitful
field. Turn over to chapter 32, you'll
see a better, another Look at verse 15, until the spirit
be poured upon us from on high and the wilderness be a fruitful
field and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. So when the spirit of God comes,
then that which was a forest is going to become a fruitful
field. And that which was a fruitful field will be grown up as a forest. All right, go back with me to
chapter 29. Verse 18, and in that day, and
in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book. Do you
fear your ability to hear? I mean really, really fear it. Lord, I'm deaf. I can't hear. My wife says, amen, I'm glad
to hear you say that. But you know, it's a terrible
thing to not be able to hear. But I am deathly, deathly afraid
of my deafness. before God. Lord, if you don't
cause me to hear, I won't hear. I'll hear everything else. I
can remember trivia and stupid stuff that has no relevance whatsoever
on anything eternal and I'll forget the eternal. And you'll
speak to my heart and I'll hear your voice and I'll walk out
of this place and I'll get right back into the world and I've
forgotten everything you said. I'm not listening anymore. And then there's the man who
says, I can hear. I can hear very well. I got it
all figured out. I understand. I know what it's
about. The deaf will hear. And he that thinks he can hear
will be truly deaf. And the eyes of the blind shall
see out of obscurity and out of darkness. What those Pharisees
say, are you suggesting that we're blind? That we can't see? What the Lord say, if you were
blind, if you were blind, you'd see. But the fact that you think
you can see when you can't means that your sins remain. Lord, I'm blind. I'm deaf. You're
going to have to open the eyes of my understanding. You're going
to have to unstop my ears. You're going to have to teach
me. I can't hear it from a man, and I can't figure it out for
myself. The book is sealed, and I have
no understanding. And that's the meek. If that's
your feelings about yourself, then you meet the qualification. For the meek also shall increase
their joy in the Lord. You see, if you're blind and
deaf, God's made you dependent, meek, and lowly. Lord, you're
going to have to teach me. You're going to have to show
me. You're going to have to reveal yourself to me. I can't get bowed
down thine ear, O Lord, for I am poor and needy. I don't have
anything. I can't do anything. Here's the
ones the Lord's promised to bless. Those self-righteous that are
relying upon the works of their hands, that are hiding their
sins from God? No. The meek shall increase their
joy in the Lord. Don't you want to have joy in
the Lord? He's the only one that can give it to you. You know
that, don't you? This world doesn't have anything to offer. They
make lots of promises, don't they? And they never deliver. And the poor among men shall
rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. Rejoice in Christ. Rejoice in
knowing that God is satisfied with him. And that if God's satisfied
with him, he's satisfied with those that are looking to him.
Trusting him. Relying upon him. The poor. Blessed. Isn't that how the Lord
begins those beatitudes in Matthew chapter 5? Blessed of God are
the poor in spirit. What does it mean to be poor
in spirit? Lord, my spirit is in abject
poverty. It doesn't have anything. I can't
manufacture anything. Men love to think that they can
whip up some humility or some spirituality or some holiness. Lord, I can't do any of it. Blessed
are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God. The Lord goes on to say, blessed
are those who mourn, mourn over their sin for they shall be comforted
and blessed of God are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. And that's what the Lord saying
here for the terrible one. The strong one, the self-righteous
one, the independent one, don't you see in verse 20? Is brought
to naught. Has God brought your self-righteousness
to naught? Has He caused you to see that
that which you thought was your strength? As Paul said, you know, You know, that which I thought
was gain to me, I now count but loss. Yea, in all things but
loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus. And
do count them as dung? You hear religious people talk
about what they gave up for Jesus. And you can tell by the way they
talk about them that they still relish those things. But the
Lord said, no, it's dung to me. It's what it is. For the terrible
one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and
all that watch for iniquity. Now I looked up that word iniquity, and it means to pant or to exert
oneself. So the mocker, the scorner, the
one who talks arrogantly about the gospel, and the one who watches
for that which he has done in his effort as he has exerted
himself, what's the Lord say? They're going to be consumed. Going to be consumed. wood, hay,
and stubble. Now what we saw, 1 Corinthians
chapter 3, wood, hay, and stubble. How much of that do we bring?
It's going to be consumed. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. The gold, the silver, and the
precious stone, that's Christ. And Christ being built on Christ
is the only thing that's going to last. Therefore, Sorry, verse 21, "...that make a man an offender
for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate,
and turn aside the just for a thing of naught." That's the scorner,
that's the one who says, well, you know, they want to take the
things that we say about Christ and twist them. It's what they
did to the Lord and they're still doing it. Therefore, thus saith
the Lord who redeemed Abraham concerning the house of Jacob,
Jacob shall not now be ashamed. Neither shall his face now wax
pale. Oh, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, my son,
Jacob, don't be afraid. I've redeemed you. I redeemed
your father, Abraham. And just like Abraham believed
God and it was counted to him for righteousness. So the sons
of Jacob believe God, and that is counted to them for righteousness.
It's not their works. It's not their works. It's the
one they're trusting. But when he seeth his children,
the work of mine hands in the midst of him, they shall sanctify
my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear
the God of Israel." Is that your experience? Oh, Lord, You brought
me by Your grace to bow down to Christ, to rejoice in Him,
To fear Him, to give to Him all the glory, to set Him apart as
the Holy One of Israel. That's what it means to be sanctified.
They also that erred in the Spirit shall come to understanding,
and they that murmured shall learn the gospel. Doctrine. The gospel. They'll be taught of God. The kingdom of God is not meat
and drink. The kingdom of God is righteousness
and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, looking unto Jesus, the
author and the finisher of our faith. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, oh, how
we need for you to take your word and open it so that we are
brought to find our all in all in thy dear son. For it's in
his name we ask it. Amen. 252, 352, 352, let's stand together. 352. I still love it. No wonder. I got the wrong code. Gotcha. It did start. That's the intro. Let the box
do its thing. Now we'll start. Jesus, lover of my soul, let
me to thy bosom fly. While the nearer waters roll,
while the tempest still is high, hide me, O my Savior, hide. Till the storm of life is past,
Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last. Other refuge have I none, Hangs
my helpless soul on Thee. Leave, ah, leave me not alone,
still support and comfort me. All my trust on thee is stayed,
all my help from thee I bring. Cover my defenseless head with
the shadow of Thy wing. Thou, O Christ, art all I want,
more than all in Thee I find. Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
heal the sick, and lead the blind. Just and holy is Thou, I am all unrighteousness, false
and full of sin I am, thou art full of truth and grace. ? Plenteous grace with thee is
found ? ? Grace to cover all my sin ? ? Let the healing streams
abound ? ? Make and keep me pure within ? ? Thou of life the fountain
art ? ? Freely let me take of Thee ? ? Spring Thou up within
my heart ? ? Rise to all eternity ? Okay.