What a joy it is to have Charles
and Cheryl Pennington here with us this morning. They didn't
make it down last year. Charles had cancer treatments
and different things and they're hoping to be here all winter
and all spring. So we're looking forward to that.
We're so glad y'all are here. And most of you know Norris and
Latille Wright. They attend our church over in
Sarasota. And Latille gave birth to Mason
this past Thursday. So they're very excited about
that. It's their third child and we're
happy for them. Let's sing. We have come into
this place to call upon His name and worship Him. We have come
into this place to call upon His name and worship Him. We have come into this place
to call upon His name and worship Christ the Lord. Worship Him, Jesus Christ our
Lord. We are chosen by His grace, redeemed
by His blood, now worship Him. We are chosen in His grace, redeemed
by His blood, now worship Him. We are chosen in His grace, redeemed
by His blood, now worship Christ the Lord. Worship Him, Jesus Christ our
Lord. He is all our righteousness,
I stand in Him complete, now worship Him. He is all our righteousness,
I stand in Him complete, now worship Him. He is all our righteousness,
I stand in Him complete, now worship Christ the Lord. Worship Him, Jesus Christ our
Lord. for the time, the hymn on the
back of your bulletin. Let's stand together and we'll
have a much better song later. Come, Jehovah, with us meet,
As we worship at thy feet. Here we are assembled now, Prostrate,
Lord, we humbly bow. Prostrate, Lord, we humbly bow. Thou art God and Thou alone,
reigning on Thy sovereign throne. Thou the potter, we the clay,
grant salvation, Lord, we pray. Grant salvation, Lord, we pray. Show us mercy is our plea by
the blood of Calvary. Speak the word that we may live. All our sinfulness forgive. All our sinfulness forgive. May thy glory fill this place. Grant to us thy sovereign grace. Thine the praise shall ever be. Now and for eternity. Now and for eternity. Please be seated. Good morning. A scripture reading
is found in Luke chapter 10. Luke chapter 10, verse 38. Luke
10, 38. Now it came to pass that as they
went that he entered into a certain
village. A certain woman named Martha received him into her
home. And she had a sister called Mary,
which also sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word. But Martha
was cumbered about much, with much serving, and came to him
and said, Does thou not care that my sister hath left me to
serve alone? Bid her, therefore, that she
help me. And Jesus answered and said,
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and art troubled about many things. But one thing is needful, and
Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away
from her. Sometimes we are, I see myself
and sometimes we see ourselves in her. And Martha, I know we worry
about a lot of things and especially here. the day of the Lord where
what we need to, one thing's needful for us is to be attended
and not distracted and listen to God's word. May he help us
do this, because that's the one thing needful for us, for the
believers, is to hear Christ and be at his feet. And it's
so few a time a week that we're here. Father God, we come before
you. Father God, we come before you
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, by his righteousness
and by his blood. First, we thank you for the wonderful
blessing that we have of being able to come here and worship
you and listen to you at your feet, Father God. We pray now
that your Holy Spirit may enable Our pastor, Greg, and as well
as all the other pastors that preach the gospel, may they be
full of the Holy Spirit, may they preach Christ and honor
him and preach clearly the gospel, Father. But we also pray for
ourselves, Father. We pray that your Holy Spirit
would enable us to listen and to hear what you have us to learn
about Christ, Father God. We desperately need your assistance,
and we pray this in the Lord Jesus' name. Amen. Let's stand together again. Hymn
number 340 from your hardback timbrel. Number 340, nearer, still nearer. Dearer, still dearer, close to
thy heart. Draw me, my Savior, so precious
thou art. Hold me, oh, fold me close to
thy breast. Shelter me safe in that haven
of rest. Shelter me safe in that haven
oppressed. Nearer, still nearer, nothing
I bring, not as an offering to Jesus my King. Only my sinful, now contrite
heart Grant me the cleansing Thy blood doth impart. Grant me the cleansing thy blood
doth impart. Nearer, still nearer, Lord, to
be thine. Sin with its follies I gladly
resign. All of its pleasures, pomp and
its pride, give me Give me but Jesus, my Lord crucified. Give me but Jesus, my Lord crucified. Nearer, still nearer, while life
shall last, till safe in glory my anchor is cast. Please be seated. One day, we'll experience the answer to that prayer we
just prayed. We do hope that He will draw
us near as He grows us in His grace and makes us to see more
and more of our need for Him. But one day, it doth 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. The 20 and
four elders sat around the throne. That's the church. Oh, the nearness
that God's people are gonna have to him in that day will be the
answer to that prayer we just prayed, we just sang. Would you open your Bibles with
me to Psalm 69, Psalm 69. titled this message, A Sinner's
Substitute. A Sinner's Substitute. Now we
are completely dependent upon God's grace, as we saw in the
previous hour, for the Lord to make us to be sinners. We're not sinners by nature.
No, by nature we're self-righteous. We're not devoid of any hope
or help by nature. We put our hope in our righteousness,
and we put our hope in our own help, in the strength of our
right hand. And only when the Lord is pleased
to make us a sinner are we in need of a Savior. When the Lord does make you to
be a sinner, you'll have a burden that you can't bear. burden that you will need the
Lord Jesus Christ to deliver you from. You will say with Job,
behold, I see something I never saw before. I am vile. You will say with Isaiah, woe
is me for I am undone. I'm a man of unclean lips, I
live among a people of unclean lips. You will say with Job,
I have heard of thee by the hearing of my ear, but now mine eyes
have seen thee and I repent in dust and ashes. You'll say with
the Apostle Paul, in me, that is in my flesh dwelleth no good
thing. Oh, wretched man that I am, who
shall deliver me from this body of death? Now, that having been
said, I want to issue a warning. A warning. Because if you get
too caught up in what I just said, the heart is deceitful,
desperately wicked. We'll make a work out of anything.
We're by nature recovering Pharisees and we're always gravitating
towards self-righteousness. And if you're not careful, you'll
use that work of grace as penance. In other words, you'll say, well,
how deeply do I need to feel my sin in order to have truly
repented of my sin? What experience do I have to
have? And then you'll be looking to that experience and to that
feeling and to that deep-seated sense of unworthiness before
God as the hope of your salvation. Two problems with that. First
of all, your sin and my sin is a whole, whole lot worse than
we think it is. You'll never be able to plumb
the depths of it. The second problem is that the
Lord in his grace will not allow you to plumb the depths of it,
for if you did, you would not be able to live with yourself.
You'd not be able to live, you'd not be able to function. You'd
be completely out of your mind if the Lord showed you how wicked
and evil your sin really is. So I want to warn you about diving
too deep into the well of darkness in order to try to plumb the
depths of your sin to get assurance of your salvation. Truth is,
that the evil of our sin is seen best not in our feelings or in
our experiences but it's seen best in what the Lord Jesus Christ
had to do in order to put it away. I hope this morning as we look
at Psalm 69 that the Lord will enable us to see what our substitute
had to bear in order to put our sin away. Before we look at Psalm
69, will you turn with me to the book of Zechariah? Towards the end of your Old Testament, Zechariah chapter 12. Here's
my prayer and I hope your prayer this morning. Zechariah chapter
12 verse 9, and it shall come to pass in that day. Oh Lord, would you make this
day that day. It shall come to pass in that
day that I will seek to destroy all nations that come against
Jerusalem. Lord, destroy in my heart any
thoughts or feelings that would come against you and your grace. And I will pour, Lord do this
for me, I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication. Lord, that's
what I need. I need for you to pour out, I
need for you to open the windows of heaven. I need you to pour
out your spirit of grace in my heart. I'm so self-righteous. I'm so prone to wander. I'm so
prone to make even my repentance, that you gave me a means of penance
to earn favor with you. Lord, I'll do it. If you don't
pour out your spirit of grace in my heart, if you don't give
me a spirit of supplication, you see the root to that word,
don't you? It's the word supply. Lord, supply for me what I cannot
supply for myself. And they shall look upon me whom
they have pierced." Oh, don't look at your sin, brethren. My
friend, don't try to plumb the depths of the dark well of your
own sin in order to try to work up a spirit of repentance. This
is what God gives when he enables us to see what our sin did, not
to us, but what it did to Christ. They shall look upon me, whom
they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth
for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one
that is in bitterness of his firstborn." Now, if the Lord
pours out that spirit in our hearts, then we'll have some
understanding of our sinfulness before God. if he enables us
to see what the Lord Jesus Christ had to do in order to put away
our sin. That's the clearest revelation
that you and I can ever receive from God as to what the real
condition of our sin problem is. Not how we feel, not what
consequences it brought into our lives, not how much humility
we have, but what our sin did to Christ. And if the Lord enables you and
I to See ourselves in Psalm 69 as the one who afflicted this
horror upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Enables us to see our union with
Christ on Calvary's cross. Enables us to believe what the
Apostle Paul said when he said, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet it's
not I, but it's Christ that liveth in me. The life that I now live,
I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave
himself for me. Oh Lord, help me to see. that this picture, there's no
question that Psalm 69 is the prayer of our Lord's heart from
Calvary's cross. I mean, even the religious who
have never heard the message of grace call Psalm 69 a messianic
psalm. It so clearly depicts many of
the things that our Lord suffered, and yet they have no understanding. Look at verse 32 in Psalm 69. The humble shall see this and
be glad. Oh, that's my hope this morning,
that God would humble us and give us eyes to see and to rejoice
in what the Lord Jesus Christ did on Calvary's cross to put
away our sin. David is speaking prophetically
about what happened on Calvary's cross when the Lord Jesus Christ
offered himself to God as a substitute for sinners. That's what David's
talking about here. He's not talking about his own
suffering. It's not first and foremost to be understood as
a prayer of ours. It is our Lord's heart. Now I
want to know, we have many of the words that our Lord spoke
audibly recorded in the Gospels from the cross, of which we're
very encouraged to hear Him say, but here the Lord has given us
a peek into His heart. He's given us, and if we're able
to see it, we'll be glad. We'll be glad to see what Christ
went through for sinners. Here's the picture of the problem
that we have. Might God give us the spirit
of grace and of supplication that we would mourn, not over
our own experience, but mourn over what we did to Christ. Yes, every one of us needs to
pray, save me, O God, for the waters are come into my soul. But here's a picture. This is what our Lord is doing
on Calvary's cross. He's trusting God. Yes, he said
when he hung his mighty head, His last words, he uttered, were,
it is finished. The work of redemption has been
accomplished. There's nothing left for you
to do. But then he went on to say, father, into thy hands,
I commend my spirit. The Lord Jesus Christ trusted
his father to the bitter end. He trusted God to his dying breath,
and here he's crying out to the Father, save me, oh God, for
the waters are come into my soul. They've come into my soul. You
know, here's the problem with, you've heard it said, I've said
it, I've heard it said by others. The thing that bothers me most
about my sin is how little it bothers me. That's the truth. That's the
truth. We're just not convicted. We don't see the problem as it
really is. And we're, to some degree, gonna
always be that way. We're never going to sufficiently
bear the burden of the guilt and shame of our sin as it ought
to be done. But when the Lord Jesus Christ
hung on Calvary's cross, He did. He did. He knew something of
its shame. He knew everything of its shame,
not just something. He knew everything of its burden.
He knew everything of its guilt. And that's what he's crying to
the Father. Look at verse seven. Because for thy sake I have borne
reproach, shame hath covered my face. Shame hath covered my face. If you were punished for someone
else's crime, unwillingly, and I'm sure it
happens all the time, you would feel indignation, you would feel
resentment, you would feel anger. If you were punished for someone
else's crime willingly, you would feel pity and affection and love
for the person that you were suffering on behalf of. But one
thing that you could never experience, if you were suffering for someone
else's crime, you could never experience guilt and shame because
in your heart of hearts, you know you didn't do it. You didn't
do it. Look at verse 19. Thou hast known
my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor, mine adversaries
are all before thee. This matter of imputation, God made him who knew no sin
to be sin for us. When God charged the Lord Jesus
Christ with our sin, He took it to be His own. He's experiencing
the shame. He's experiencing the guilt.
Oh, we get a little bit of shame and a little bit of guilt when
we do something really bad. We've got a conscience. The Lord
Jesus Christ experienced the full shame of sins that you don't
even know you've committed. God made Him who knew no sin
to be sin for us. He imputed our sin to Him. He owns our sin as His own, and
as the Son of God, He's standing before His Holy Father suffering. Suffering. Here's what we need
to know about our sin. What it took the Lord Jesus Christ
to put it away. When He went to the garden, Oh,
he cried, Father, if there be any other way, if there be any
other way to save these people, rather than me drinking the bitter
dregs of thy wrath on Calvary's cross, Father, if there's any
other way, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my
will but thine be done. There was no other way. There
was no other way. It's the reason the skies were
blackened. It's the reason that he was forsaken of God. My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why? Because my eyes are
too pure to look upon sin. And the Lord Jesus Christ bore
in his body on that tree all the sins of all God's people
and satisfied God once and for all. So that he said, I'm satisfied. Here's what we need to know about
our sin. We'll get caught up in some sort
of false humility if the depth of our guilt and our shame has
to do with just what we're feeling about what we've done. But if
the Lord gives us grace, the humble shall see this and be
glad. If the Lord gives us grace to
realize, to believe, just to believe it, You know, you don't
have to, it's not something to feel. Again, believe that the
Son of God, the sinless one, the holy one of Israel, bore
your sins on Calvary's cross and suffered the wrath of God's
justice, consuming the fire of God's wrath and quenching that
fire once and for all. putting away our sin. Here's
the real picture of how evil our sin is. And so he cries out, Save me,
O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul. Does this not
sound like what Jonah said? And Jonah's a picture of Christ. Jonah said, you know, this storm,
It's because of me, cast me into the ocean and Jonah willingly
gave up his life in order to rescue the rest of the mariners
that were in the ship. And Jonah was swallowed by a
great whale, three days and three nights in the belly of the whale.
And as Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly,
so the son of man spent three days and three nights in the
belly of the earth. Why? To come forth victoriously. Save me, O God. He's crying out
to God to save him. I sink in deep mire where there
is no standing. I'm coming to deep waters where
the floods overflow me. We don't know. This is the Son
of God. This is the sinless one. This
is the one who never did anything but please his Father. In thought,
in word, in deed, in attitude and action, everything he did
was pleasing to God. But as he's hanging on Calvary's
cross, he's realizing, I'm sinking? I'm in deep mire? Why? Because of your sin? Because
of my sin? That's the cause of it? I am weary of my crying, my throat
is dry, my eyes fail while I wait for my God. Oh, what perfect
faith! We can rejoice and believe God
when things are going well. But when the chastisement of
God is upon us, when the frowning providence of God is the experience,
we whine, don't we? We just whine. Oh God, why me?
Why is this happening? Here the Lord is suffering the
full judgment of God and he's not whining. Oh no. He's calling
out to the Father in perfect faith to save him. And he believes
he will. They that hate me without a cause
are more than the hairs of my head. They would destroy me,
be in mine enemies wrongfully are mighty. Oh, and we did. We came into this world naturally
as God-haters. You say, well, I've never hated
God. If you believe that, if you believe
that, I'm here to say to you on the authority of God's Word,
you still do and you don't know it. You don't know it. You were born
into this world as a God-hater. You say, well, I never shook
my fist at God and cursed God. You didn't care about Him. The
worst form of hatred is indifference. It's indifference. The Lord said, you're either
for me or you're against me. We come into this world deaf,
blind, dead, without any affection for the things of God. And until
the Lord, oh, you may have had an affection for the God of your
imagination. Everybody does that. We're idol
factories by nature. We come into this world manufacturing
little idols in our imagination. The problem is that they are
nothing more than the figments of our own imagination. They
don't exist. the God that does exist, why
do we make these idols? Because we refuse to bow to the
God who does exist. We want to make a God that we
can control. We set ourselves up, the scripture
says, on the throne of God. That's hatred towards God. God
has to change our, He has to take out the heart of stone and
put in a heart of flesh if we're ever going to be able to love
Him, believe Him. They hated me without a cause. I didn't give them any cause
to hate me, but they hated me anyway. I will make, look at the last
part of verse four, being mine enemies wrongfully. I'm so thankful
that the Lord said that he would make his enemies to be his footstool. We are, the scripture says, by
nature at enmity with God. We're the enemies of God. But
he makes us to be his footstool. You go, he causes us to be like
Mary and to sit at his feet. and to receive that one thing
that is needful, the word of God. In spite of the fact that they
hated me without a cause, in spite of the fact that they had
enmity in their heart towards me, nevertheless, I restored
that which I took not away. Do you see that? Oh, there's
the gospel. He didn't take away our righteousness,
but he restored it. He didn't take away our fellowship
with God, but he restored it. He didn't take away our justice.
We did, but he restored it. He didn't take away our will
to follow God, but he restored it. Nevertheless, I restored that
which I took not away." Well, there's our sin. There's the
Savior. There's doing for us what we
could not do for ourselves. Oh, God. Thou knowest my foolishness
and my sins are not hid from thee. The Lord Jesus Christ would
take my rebellion, my hatred for God, my enmity against God,
my unbelief, and make it his own? The coldness of my heart? And bear all those things on
himself? It's exactly what he did. And
he calls them his own. Let not them that wait on thee.
Now he's praying for his people. He's praying for his disciples.
He said, Lord, there are those that are waiting on thee, that
have believed what I've told them. Those that you gave me
out of the world, that has received the word of God, they believe
me. Oh Lord, God of hosts, let them not be ashamed for my sake. Let not those that seek thee
be confounded for my sake, oh God of Israel. Father, I pray
not for the world. I pray for them that thou hast
given me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest
them unto me. And now that's what he's doing
on Calvary's cross. He's praying for his people.
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Do you need a Savior to pray
that prayer to God for you? Peter, before the cock crows,
you're going to deny me three times. What was the difference
between Peter and Judas? They both did the same thing
on the same night. Now, the argument could be made
that Peter did it, cursing, three times. What made the difference between
Peter and Judas? Peter, be of good cheer. I have prayed for you. I didn't pray for Judas, I prayed
for you. Oh, I need an advocate. I need
an intercessor. I need one that's able to stand
before a holy God and offer up prayers that are acceptable to
God. For me, that's what he did. Here's the evil of our sin. When God saw your sin and my
sin on his darling son, he had no choice but to put him to death. It pleased God, the scripture
says in Isaiah 53, to bruise him. God put Christ to death. He imputed to him our sin and
had no choice but to put him to death because for thy sake
Verse 7, because for thy sake I have borne reproach, shame
hath covered my face. There's a lot of discussion among
men that talk about, well, you know, Did the sin really become
Christ? What about this thing of imputation?
Was it just something that God did legally in heaven and charged
Christ with our sin? If it was, He would not have
been able to feel the shame and the guilt of our sin. You can't
feel shame. You can't feel guilt for something
you did not do. You can't do it. This is not
a pasted on righteousness. or a sin, any more than what
he gives to us is a pasted on righteousness. Oh, it's real. It becomes our nature, our new
nature in Christ. God made him a new no sin to
become sin for us. Why? That we might become the
righteousness of God in him. It's not just a legal transfer.
It's not just something that God writes in heaven. It's something
that's really done in the nature of Christ and in the nature of
His people so that we have union with Christ on the cross and
now. That's our only hope. Christ
in you is your hope of glory. This is not This is not something
that's just done on paper. Verse 8, I am become a stranger
unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. Now
that can be understood as the Lord's own, I don't want, well
I do understand this. You want a picture of depravity?
You want a picture of blindness? Of our inability to see? You know, people say, well, I
want people to see Jesus in me. They didn't see Jesus in Jesus.
He's talking about His own brethren. It wasn't until after the resurrection
that the very men and women that grew up with Him, Thirty years,
day in, day out, they saw the Son of God wake up. They saw
Him live a perfect life. Every day. They did not believe. They couldn't believe. If His own brethren couldn't
believe. His brethren came to him one
day and said, man, you're going about this all wrong. If you
want to be popular, you need to go to the big city and preach
on the hilltop. Come on. And the Lord said, who
are my brethren? Who is my mother? Those who believe on me. His
own brethren didn't believe him. If you could spend 30 years,
day in and day out, with the sinless Son of God, and not know
that He was the Son of God? How are you going to know He's
the Son of God? How are you going to believe on Him? How am I going
to believe on Him? Only if He intervenes. Only if
He causes us to believe. Only if He gives us the gift
of faith. You're not going to come up with
it. You're not going to see it. Who, Isaiah said, who hath believed
our report? And then he answers that question,
to whom the arm of the Lord is revealed. The person of the Lord
Jesus Christ can only come to the heart by divine revelation. You're not going to figure it
out any other way. Verse nine. We're not gonna get
through all of Isaiah. I mean, Psalm 69, there's so
much here. It's so rich. For the zeal of
thine, you say, well, how do you know this is talking about
Jesus? How do you know this is talking? For the zeal of thine
house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproach
thee are fallen upon me. Now when our Lord began his three
year public ministry, he went into the temple in Jerusalem
and he turned over the money changers tables and chased out
the animals. That's how he began his public
ministry. In the last week of his life,
when he closed his public ministry, three years later he did exactly
the same thing. What was so significant about
that? that the Lord would do it twice to both open and close
His public ministry. Why did He do it? What had those
money changers done? They had turned the house of
prayer into a den of thieves. They had merchandised men's souls. You brought an offering to make
for sacrifice and the money changers would look at that offering and
they'd find something wrong with it. And they say, oh no, you
can't offer this one, you gotta buy one of ours. And then they'd
sell you one of theirs, and then turn around and sell yours to
somebody else. All for what? All for making a profit. You've taken the house of prayer
and you turn it into a dinner. You know, that's exactly what
religion is today. Men merchandising other men's
souls, all for their own profit. Believing that somehow the sacrifice
that I buy, that I pay for, that I do, that I have to offer, is
going to be pleasing to God. And the only thing that's pleasing
to God, the only thing that's pleasing to God, is for His people, by His grace,
to call, to pray, to call upon the name of the Lord. Say not
in your heart, what can I do to bring Jesus down? Say not
in your, what can I do to make what he did work for me? What
can I do to make his resurrection work for me? For he is nigh unto thy lips. He's as close to you as your
lips are. Have mercy upon me. Oh, God save
me. There's nothing, there's no other
sacrifice. There's no other offering. Verse 10, when I wept and chastened
my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. Now the devil
is God's devil. The Lord Jesus Christ created
him. He belongs to God. And yet when the Lord Jesus Christ
went 40 days and 40 nights without bread, the scripture says that
Satan came and tempted him. That's what he's talking about
here. The very devil that the Lord Jesus Christ created came
to him and insulted him. If thou be the Son of God. Satan knew he was the Son of
God. He knew he was the Son of God. Why did he suffer these
reproaches? When he chastened his soul, why
would he suffer such reproach? Why would he not just snuff out
Satan right there? Why would he not just overpower
him? Why would he allow him to speak? He's suffering for our sin. He's suffering for your sin.
He's conquering Satan. He's doing something that we
can't do for ourselves. Satan's too powerful for us.
So he says, when I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was
to my reproach. I made sackcloth also my garment,
and I became a proverb to them. They that sit in the gate speak
against me, and I was the song of the drunkard." Now, I've heard
some ballroom songs that blaspheme our God, and that's a terrible
thing. But I also know that in my own
experience, there was a time when I was intoxicated with the
spirit of free will. I was intoxicated with the spirit
of good works. I thought that I could make a
decision. I thought that I could offer
up something to God that would satisfy Him. And then I became
intoxicated with the spirit of knowledge. Oh, knowledge puffeth
up. We got a little knowledge, a
little doctrine, a little theology, and we thought, well, we got
it now. And all along, what were we doing? Singing songs to Jesus. Feigning worship to God. That, my friend, is a worse blasphemy. worse than anything going on
in any bar room, worse than anything going on in any secular song
that blasphemes the name of our God. Taking the name of God in
vain as a religious person is worse. Worse. They that sit in the gate speak
against me, and I was a song or the song of the drunkards.
But as for me, as for me, oh father, my prayer is unto thee. Oh Lord, in an acceptable time,
oh God, in the multitude of thy mercies, hear me in the truth
of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire and
let me not sink. Let me be delivered from them
that hate me and out of the deep waters. God would not allow the
soul of His Holy One to see corruption. He brought Him forth out of the
grave. He answered that prayer. And
as a result of what the Lord Jesus Christ went through because
of your sin, because of my sin. You want a picture of sin? Here
it is. Here it is. Oh God, pour out a spirit of
grace. Pour out a spirit of supplication
in my heart. Cause me to believe that this
was done for me. For me. And enable me. Verse 32. The humble shall see
this. And what? And be glad, be glad. Our heavenly father, we're thankful
for thy word. We thank you that the living
word, thy dear son, went through such horrors and such agony in
order to satisfy you of your justice and put away the sins
of your people. Lord, might we look to what Christ
experienced on Calvary's cross as a picture of the wickedness
and evil of our own sin. And Lord, might you give us a
spirit of grace and supplication. Might you cause us to be humble
and to be glad. For we ask it in Christ's name.
Amen. Number 108 in the Sopheak Tymna.
Let's stand. It is finished, Jesus cried. Then he bowed his head and died. Died for sins, but not his own. And redemption's work was done. Justice then was satisfied, God's
elect are justified, Righteousness our Lord brought in, And removed
His people's sin. Sin and death and hell subdued
by the power of Christ's blood, grace to sinners now is given,
pardon, holiness, and heaven. It is finished, can it be, That
Christ's blood was shed for me? Yes, I know He died for me, For
by grace I now believe. Pleading Christ's atoning blood,
Kneeling at the throne of God. God, my guilt, my sin is gone,
It is finished, all is done. Is she willing? Is she willing? Okay. Okay.