Number 13, praise ye the Lord,
the Almighty. And if you could all please stand. 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. Where all
things so wondrously reigneth, Shelters thee under His wings,
yea, so gently sustaineth. Hast 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, decked thee with health and with
loving, and guided and stayed thee. How often grave hath not
He brought thee relief, Spreading His wing 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. Let the old man sound from
his people again. Gladly, for I, we adore him. Be seated, please. Good evening. Thank you, Bert. I think Tom and Cindy took Jimmy's
stuff up to West Virginia. And with them up there, we've
got David and Elizabeth Wright from West Virginia down here
with us tonight. So we're so happy that they're
here and we've had some time to fellowship with them. David's brother, Norris, who
you all know attends the services in Sarasota, his wife, is going
to be having a baby. And so they're having a shower.
They came down to be a part of that and going to be in services
in Sarasota on Sunday night. Turn with me in your Bibles to
John chapter 8 for our scripture reading this evening. John chapter
8. Welcome. the church in Sarasota
joining us and others. John chapter 8 beginning in verse
1, Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives and early in the morning
he came again into the temple and all the people came unto
him and he sat down and taught them. And the scribes and the
Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery and when they
had set her in the midst They said unto him, Master, this woman
was taken in adultery in the very act. Now Moses in the law
commanded us that such should be stoned. But what sayest thou? Oh, these foolish men thought
they were going to trap the Lord between the law and mercy. He's
the one who's just and justifier. He's able to satisfy the law
and show mercy at the same time. They thought it was one way or
the other, but it in fact is both. This they said tempting
him that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down with
his finger and wrote on the ground as though he heard them not.
What he wrote we don't know. Maybe he was writing the law.
Maybe he was writing the names of those that those men had been
with. Wouldn't be surprised if that's
what he was writing. So when they continued asking
him, because this sort of judgment is so hypocritical, just like
David. Remember when Nathan brought
that scenario to David and told him about the man who stole the
other man's ewe lamb, and David said, that man should die. And
he needs to pay back fourfold. He needs to be held to the letter
of the law. And all along, David was was
covering up his own sin. Not the way we are. We're harsher
on others than we are on ourselves. And that's what these men were
doing. Verse 7, so when they continued
asking him, he lifted himself up and said unto them, he that
is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down and
wrote on the ground, and they which heard it, being convicted
by their own conscience. That's why I think maybe they
were just, the Lord broke the law. They weren't convicted by
the Holy Spirit, they were convicted by their conscience. The law
has a conviction on the conscience. The Spirit of God's the only
one that can make you to be an unbeliever. When the Spirit of
God comes, he'll convict the world of sin because they believe
not on me. not because they violated the
law, because they didn't believe. They were convicted by their
conscience. They went out one by one, beginning at the eldest,
even unto the last. And Jesus was left alone, and
the woman standing in the midst. And when Jesus had lifted himself
up and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where
are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? And
she said, no man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, and
here's what you and I need to hear. Here's what we need to
hear. Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more. Let's pray together. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we're so very thankful that we have an advocate with thee. We
have one who pleads our case and presents himself to you as
our righteousness, making us accepted in thy presence, making
us to be even as he is without sin. Oh Lord, that you would
speak effectually to the hearts of your children. That you would
minister grace to us by your spirit. That we would not just
fall under the conviction of conscience. But Lord, that you
would comfort our hearts by saying to us, neither do I condemn thee. Lord, we know that the only way
that can happen is for your law to be satisfied and for your
justice to be fulfilled. So we ask that you would enable
us this hour to set our affections on Christ, defined him to be
our all in all. For it's in his name we pray.
Amen. We're going to sing again the
hymn from the Harbeck hymn. We're going to sing number 158.
You can remain seated. 158, come Holy Spirit, heavenly
dove. 158. Come, Holy Spirit, heav'nly dove,
With all thy quickening powers, Kindle a flame of sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours. Look how we grapple here below,
fond of these earthly toys. Our souls, how heavily they go
to reach eternal joys. In vain we tune our formal songs,
in vain we strive to thrice. Oh, Xanas, languish on our tongues,
and our devotion dies. Dear Lord, and shall we ever
live at this foredying grave? Our love so faint, so cold to
Thee, and Thine to us so brave. Come, Holy Spirit, heav'nly dove,
with all thy quickening powers, come shed abroad a Savior's love,
and that shall kindle ours. I find in my heart agreement
with Martin Luther when he said that the three most important
virtues in the Christian's life are humility, humility, humility. That's the effect of the gospel.
We are by nature self righteous. And the truth is that self-righteousness
is the greatest sin of all. It's the greatest sin of all.
It robs Christ of His glory. And the gospel brings us to that
place where we just bow before Him, give to Him all the glory
for our salvation, and confess that outside of Him we are nothing
but sin. Oh, that the Lord would make
us humble, and that he would slay our self-righteousness over
and over and over again. These men that we just read about
in John chapter 6, that was their problem, wasn't it? Just self-righteousness. Just believing themselves to
be better than someone else. Our text tonight comes from Matthew
chapter 7. Matthew chapter 7. I don't know of a verse of scripture
that I've heard abused more often than Matthew chapter 7 verse
1. I can't tell you how many times I've heard what someone
say to me, you're not supposed to judge. You're not supposed
to judge. Judge not that you be not judged.
What exactly does Matthew chapter 7 verses 1 through 5 mean to
the believer in terms of his own self-righteousness, his own
need for humility, and the work of Christ in the believer's heart? The Lord did speak, Judge not
that you be not judged. Men, by nature, twist the Word
of God. And the way they do it is they
pull verses out of context, and they create a whole doctrine
around something that feels good to them. And the Lord makes it
clear in 2 Thessalonians 2 that He's the author of that. He sends
men a strong delusion that they might believe a lie. Why? Because they had no love for
the truth. They had no love for the truth. They had no love for
Christ. So God uses his word in order to deceive men who refuse
Christ. Paul, when he went to Thessalonica,
was run out of town and went to Berea, preached the gospel
in Berea, and he makes this statement in Acts, he says, the believers
in Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that
they received the word of God with an open heart and searched
the scriptures to see if that which I preached was true. Isn't
that the way we ought to hear? We're here with an open heart.
We're here with a believing heart. And at the same time, we search
the scriptures, trying the spirits to see whether they be of God.
We know that this judge not doesn't mean that we're not to judge
the truth. We are to judge the truth. Satan
from the beginning, you know, his tactics haven't changed.
You remember when he presented himself to Eve in Genesis chapter
3, and he asked Eve, hath God said that thou shalt not eat
of the trees of the garden? He knew what the Lord had said.
And he just added a couple words just to change, and Eve said,
oh no. No, we can eat of all the trees
of the garden except the one tree that's in the midst of the
garden. God said do not eat of it, nor touch it. God never said
don't touch it. So Eve adds her little caveat
to the scriptures and Satan's got a foothold now, doesn't he?
And he takes the very word of God and changes it up just enough
to deceive her. And all of the human race fell
as a result of that deceit. He's still doing it. He's taking
the word of God and twisting it, changing it just enough And
that's what he's done with our text in Matthew chapter 7. Now
our Lord made this statement in John chapter 7. He said, Judge
not by appearance, but judge righteous judgments. So now,
is the Lord Jesus Christ contradicting himself? In Matthew chapter 7,
he says, judge not that you be not judged. And in John chapter
7, he commands us to make righteous judgments. He says, don't judge
according to appearances. Oh, there's a whole lot of folks
in this world that are just like Saul of Tarsus. Concerning the
law, they are blameless. I mean, outwardly moral people.
people that are virtuous, people that live lives above reproach. And the Lord said, don't judge
by appearances, don't make a conclusion because a person is outwardly
good, that therefore they're a Christian or therefore they're
saved, but make righteous judgments. What do they believe? What do
they believe? Because it doesn't matter how
good a person you are. It doesn't matter. All of your
goodnesses, all of your righteousnesses are as filthy rags before God. You're not going to earn favor
with God. You're not going to be received
into heaven because of your good works. And no bad works you perform
will keep you out. Salvation is by God's free grace. Our Lord says, don't judge by
appearances. But judge righteous judgments. Discern the truth. Discern whether
or not the gospel's being preached. Beware, our Lord told the disciples,
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. And the disciples were confused
when he first said that. He thought he was talking about
bread, and he said, oh no. No, the leaven of the Pharisees
is their works salvation, their works gospel. And he goes on
to say that a little bit of leaven leavens the whole lump. So beware
of that leaven. Don't let any of the law, don't
let any of your works invade the gospel of God's free grace
in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. It'll destroy the
gospel. Judge righteous judgments. Judge
righteous judgments. Listen to what's being said.
Don't be a part of anything that demands or requires any works
from man. The work that's been performed,
that God's pleased with, is the accomplished work of the Lord
Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross. When he laid down his life for
his friends, greater love hath no man than this. He satisfied
the demands of God's justice, and he presented himself before
God as all our righteousness. The fullness of the Godhead is
found in him, and you are complete in him. That's the gospel. And if it's of grace, it can
no longer be of works. Otherwise, grace is not grace.
You can't mix the two. So you have to have some judgment
about you, don't you? You have to have some discernment.
You can't just say, well, you know, and here's the way, anytime
we make discernments about the gospel, I hear somebody saying,
oh, judge not, that you be not judged. You know, God said don't
judge. No, He said judge righteous judgments. For the salvation
of your soul, you better have some discernment about truth
and error. And that requires judgment. You
just think, well, you know, it's all the same. I was talking to
a man last Sunday, goes to the Catholic church on Sunday morning,
comes to, listens to me preach the gospel on Sunday night. And
I asked him, I said, do you know the difference? No, it's all
the same. No, it's not. It's not the same. You need to make righteous judgments
about the truth for the salvation of your soul. So let's not take
Matthew chapter 7 verse 1 and pull it out of its context and
say, well, you know, you just, you have to be, you have to be
tolerant and have to be loving and kind and let's don't, let's
don't make judgments. Oh, make judgments. Make judgments. Speak the truth. Yes, speak them
in love, but speak the truth. Men's souls are at stake over
the truth, over the gospel. Paul said, beware of dogs, beware
of evil workers, beware of the concision, beware of those who
would tell you that circumcision is necessary. You got to go through
this hoop. You've got to perform this work. You've got to abstain
from this. Beware of that. Make judgments
about the gospel. We could cite a hundred examples
or more from the lips of our Lord, telling us that we need
to be able to judge righteous judgments. Beware lest any man
spoil you through vain philosophy or vain deceit after the traditions
of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth the fullness
of the Godhead bodily, and your complete salvation is in him. You are complete in him. You're
perfectly righteous before God in him. We've got to be found
in the beloved. But the religions of men, they
destroy the gospel by making it something other than grace. Something you do. It's not of
him that willeth, and it is not of him that runneth. It is of
God that showeth mercy. Paul said, if any man preach
unto you any other gospel than the gospel that I preach to you,
Let him be accursed. That's strong language, but that's
God's language. That's God's language. When God
says, judge not that you be not judged, he wasn't talking about
making righteous judgments about the gospel. John put it like
this, brethren, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits,
whether they be of God, for many false prophets have gone out
into the world. They're everywhere. Make righteous judgments. Discern, judge the difference
between free will and free grace. They're contradictory. They're opposites of one another. You can't have it both ways.
Either the gospel is based on a will or a decision that man
makes, or it's based on one that God has made. Discern the difference. Discern the difference between
an impotent God and an omnipotent God. That's judging, isn't it? I've got to have some judgments
about this thing. You tell me about a God who loves everybody
and a God who wants everybody to be saved and a Christ who
died for everybody and a God that's doing everything he can
for men to let him have his way. And you're talking to me about
an impotent God, a God that has no power. It's not the God of
scripture. God of Scripture is omnipotent. He sovereignly chose a people
before the foundations of the world according to his own will
and purpose. And he sovereignly accomplished
their salvation in the person of their substitute when he bore
in his body all the sins of all of God's elect. Oh, we've got
to discern. We've got to make judgments.
Judge not that you be not judged has nothing to do with judging
the truth about the gospel, the truth about salvation. Your soul
is at stake over that truth. My soul is at stake. And if everything
has got its place and everything is to one degree or another true,
then it robs me of my salvation. This gospel is exclusive. You tell me about man having
the ability to make a decision and pray a prayer, then you've
denied the righteous judgment that God has made in His Word
that we are dead in our trespasses and sins and unable to believe. unless God does a sovereign work
of grace, breathing life into our hearts, regenerating us.
These are extreme contradictions, aren't they? They're extreme
differences. They're judgments that have to be made. Tell me
about a people of God that will only be able to be numbered in
the end When all the works and all the free will and all the
decisions of man are taken into consideration, only then will
we know who's going to be saved. God wrote the names of His chosen
people, His elect people, in the Lamb's Book of Life before
time ever began. And the Church of the Lord Jesus
Christ is exactly the same size right now as it was before Adam
breathed his first breath, and as it will be when this world
is consumed by the fiery wrath of God's judgment. It's exactly
the same size. God's not added one, and he's
not lost one. What a difference. Righteous
judgments judge righteously. One says, oh, salvation's an
offer to be accepted or rejected by man. God says, salvation's
of the Lord. It's not an offer. It's an accomplished
work. It's not something that you have
to do. It's something that's already done. What freedom we
have. Oh, what a difference. People
say, well, you know, we worship the same God. No, we don't. No,
we don't. This is life or death. This is
heaven or hell. God says, judge righteous judgments. Don't let somebody intimidate
you by saying, well, you know, Matthew 7 verse 1 says, judge
not that you be not judged. Don't stand in judgment now.
Oh, I need to be in judgment in order to know that what I
believe is the truth. The truth is the only thing that's
going to set me free. Tell me about a salvation that's
based on law keeping. or salvation that's based on
the law keeper. One who has kept the full counsel
of God's law. One who said, I did not come
to destroy the law, I came to fulfill it. And not one jot or
tittle will pass from my law. That's what I came to do. Oh,
that's what I need. I need a savior that'll satisfy
the law of God on my behalf. present himself as my righteousness
before God. I've got no other hope. Judge
righteous judgments. Don't, don't be like those who
twist the scriptures. Don't be those who would take
one little verse of scripture completely out of its context
and make it to say something that it doesn't say. If it says
what most people think it says, then all the other scriptures
that we've just referred to are a contradiction. And if God's
word's a contradiction, then what hope do we have? So it doesn't mean not making
judgments about the gospel. It doesn't mean that. And it
doesn't mean not making judgments about in the legal affairs of
things. Adam, you're an attorney. This
doesn't have anything to do with civil or criminal law. We've
been blessed to live in a nation of laws, and that's kept some
semblance of order in our society for these years, and the law
is for the lawless. And God says, judge not that
you be not judged. We don't throw out the legal
system. We realize that that's not what
he's talking about here. And it doesn't mean that there
aren't times for just wars. We've got men in this congregation
that have engaged in international conflict with other nations.
Why? Because we had to make some judgments
about what was evil and what was good and what was right.
And there's justifiable righteous wars that have to be waged from
time to time in order to maintain peace in the world. So he's not
talking about that. The bleeding heart liberal would
take this verse and just broad brush everything with it and
say, well, you know, we just can't make any judgments about
anything. That's not what he's talking about. He's not talking about making
judgments about what's right and what's wrong. We're not to call good evil,
and we're not to call evil good. I made a quick reference to a
passage of scripture the other day and I want to go back to
it and see if I can clarify something in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 if
you'll turn with me there. Verse 9, I wrote unto you in
an epistle not to company with fornicators, yet not altogether
with the fornicators of this world. or with the covetous,
or extortioners, or with idolaters, for then must your needs go out
of the world. But now I have written unto you
not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a
fornicator, or a covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or
a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one do not eat. For
what have I to do to judge them also that are without? Do you
judge them that are within? But them that are without, God
judges, God's gonna judge. Therefore, put away from among
yourself that wicked person. Now two things I wanna say about
this passage of scripture. First thing is that all those
sins are in my old man. And Paul speaks of dying daily
and mortifying the flesh. And in the spiritual application
of this passage of scripture, we separate ourselves from that
old man every day. We die daily. We crucify him
with Christ. We bury him with Christ. We understand that we can't have
anything to do with that old man. That old man's going to
get what he deserves one day. He's going to go back to the
dust from where he came. And in the meantime, we're burying
in our bodies this old man. And he's a man of sin. He's a man of death. And this
admonition to not have anything to do with him is an admonition
for believers to daily cut off that old man and sentence him
to what God has sentenced him to. That's a spiritual understanding
of this passage. That's an application of grace
that every believer sees their need for in their own hearts.
The other application of this relates with Galatians chapter
6. Turn with me there. Galatians chapter 6, verse 1. Brethren, if any man
be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, in other words,
you're not being overtaken in a fault at the time. Restore
such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou
also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens,
and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if any man think himself
to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Back to our text, let me see
if I can tie these two passages together. Back to our text in
Matthew chapter 7. Judge not that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge,
you shall be judged. And with what measure you meet,
it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote
that is in thy brother's eye, but considereth not the beam
that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother,
let me pull out the mote out of thine eye, and behold, a beam
is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out
the beam that is in thine own eye, and then thou shalt seek
clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
So, In 1 Corinthians chapter 5, Paul says, if a man calls
himself a brother, in Galatians chapter 6, he's fallen in, he's
gotten caught up in a fault, you go to him in a spirit of
meekness, understanding your own faults, understanding your
own flesh, your own sin, and you encourage him, and you pray
for him, and you lead him to Christ. And the Lord's pleased
to restore him because you Remember that you're nothing. If any man
thinks that he's something when he's nothing, he deceives himself.
And the royal law of love is fulfilled in that restoration. Now, what if that person who
claims to be a brother continues in that open rebellion? Well, let me ask you this. Let
me ask it to you like this. If you fell into a fault and
a brother or sister came and pled with you and prayed for
you and begged you and you in rebellion continued, would you
want the church to just receive you as a brother and sister in
Christ and overlook that? Would you want that? No, you
wouldn't, would you, Ed? You wouldn't. You wouldn't want to just have
that sin swept under the rug and acted as if it didn't matter. To allow you to just continue
in that. Judge the way you want to be
judged. How do you want to be judged? First of all, you don't
want to be judged by the law. You don't want to be judged by
the law. And that's what we do. We hold men to standards that
we don't want to be held to. And that's what the Lord's talking
about here. He's talking about holding another man to a standard
that you don't want to be held to. Don't, that word judge actually
means take them to the law. That's what it means. So you
don't want to be taken to the law under any circumstances for
anything. You don't want to be taken to
the law. You want to be judged according to the gospel of God's
free grace. You want to be judged in Christ. And that's the way you want to
judge other people. You judge them the same way you want to
be judged. In the measure in which you meet, it'll be meted
out to you. You go through life judging men
under the law, and you're just declaring that that's the way
you want to be judged. Grace begets grace. And if a man or a woman who claims
to be a believer, as we read in 1 Corinthians chapter 5, persists
in open rebellion against the gospel, then the most loving
thing you can do for them is not treat them as a believer. And that would be the way, if
you're a believer right now, you're saying, yeah, I don't
want you to treat me like, I don't want you to act like everything's
fine. I need to be ostracized. I need
to be put out. I need to be left to myself. Paul's talking about that man,
you remember, that took his father's wife and the church just swept
it under the rug. And that was, it's not a matter
of correcting sin, it's a matter of what's good for that man that's
bound in the sin. What's good for him? So you judge
according to the judgments that you want to be judged by. You
want to be told if you're in sin. You want to be corrected. And if you're not, you don't
want to be treated as if everything was fine. Does that make sense? Judge not that you be not judged.
For in the measure in which you judged, you'll be judged. For with what judgment you judge,
you shall be judged, and with what measure you meet, it shall
be measured to you again. Oh, humility knows that the only
way I can stand in the presence of God is to be found in Christ
and to be judged according to the gospel. Lord, don't take
one jot or tittle of your law and hold it against me. I can't
measure up to any part of it. So what gives me the right, like
David, to hold someone else to a law that I can't keep? I mean,
David told Nathan, he said, kill him. All that man did was kill
a lamb. David had killed Uriah. He was holding another man to
the standard of the law while covering up his own sin. Isn't
that the way it is? You hear someone preaching against
particular sins, and one of two things are true. Either they've
identified a sin that they're not guilty of, which makes them
self-righteous. Or they are preaching, I've seen
this happen many times, they're preaching against a sin that
they really are guilty of. And they think if they preach
against it, that it'll just kind of cover up the fact that they're
engaged in it. Point your finger at everybody
else, which makes you a hypocrite. We're not here to pass judgments
in that sense. To point out, to either be self-righteous
or hypocritical. When the Lord said, judge not
that you be not judged, judge in the manner in which you want
to be judged. Judge according to the gospel. Judge according
to grace. Oh, don't be that person that
just goes through life with this negative spirit and attitude
about everybody and everything else. It just comes back on you, doesn't
it? It just comes back on you. Not only it comes back on you
from other men. Who wants to be a... And don't
misunderstand what I'm about to say, because I heard a preacher
say one time, he said, I'd rather be around a warm-hearted Armenian,
I'd rather fellowship with a warm-hearted Armenian than to be around a
cold-hearted Calvinist. And I don't want to be around
either one. And I don't fellowship with either one. But that having
been said, I've not been around meaner people. I've not been
around more intolerant people. I've not been around more judgmental,
negative people than I have self-righteous Calvinist who are under the law and putting
other men under the law. And going around identifying
everybody else's sin, Going around insisting that someone offended
me and you've got to repent now of that sin. I mean, it's the
meanest place in the world to be. To be in a legalistic, Calvinistic
church. Oh, they talk about grace. They
talk about grace as if it was, you know, we believe in grace. No, you don't. No, you don't. That's what the Lord's talking
about. Judge not that you be not judged. By the standard by
which you judge is the standard you're going to be judged. How
do you want to be judged? You want to be judged according
to the gospel. You want to be judged in grace.
That's how you want to be judged. And you don't want sin to be
glossed over. And you don't want to be ignored. And if you persist
in it, you want to be considered an unbeliever. If you're going
to persist, as Paul identified there in 1 Corinthians 5, and
he's talking about that man who refused, even when you go, and you pray, and you
encourage, and you plead, and someone's just gonna live in
open rebellion, we make judgments about that. And it's for our
good. But Peter, Peter's such an example
of self-righteousness, isn't he? I can identify with Peter. Oh, Lord, I don't know about
those guys. They may, you say we're all going to deny you?
Yeah, they might, but not me. Not me. Oh, let him who thinks
that he's something when he is nothing. Peter, you're gonna deny me.
You read the book of Job, and Job is pleading with God for
justice. Justice. There's at least 30
chapters in the book of Job where Job is just insisting that God
give him justice. Bring me to the bar of the law
and I'll prove that I'm innocent. And then God speaks. And Job
says, oh, I don't want justice, I want mercy. I had heard of
thee by the hearing of my ear, but now mine eyes have seen thee
and I repent in dust and ashes. Oh, Lord, don't give me justice.
Give me mercy, give me grace, I'm vile. Humility, humility, humility
is the product of the gospel. And it's a contradiction to our
self-righteous ways. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father,
we ask that you bless your word to our souls. We ask it in Christ's
name. Amen. Number 42 and the soft back temple.
Let's stand together. In myself I have no merit Nothing
good have I to give That a holy, just and perfect God could ever
let me live Sin defiles my best performance Guilty, violent,
ruined I am Yet my heart break in repentance, By God's grace
I see the Lamb. See the Lamb of God, our Savior,
Bearing all our sin and shame. By eternal love and favor, Jesus
died, bearing our blame. Bruised and wounded and forsaken,
as our substitute he died. It is finished, sin's forgiven,
justice now is satisfied. Here's my hope and consolation,
Jesus died for sinners' sake. Trusting Him, I have salvation
and a cup of blessing take. All is well, I cannot doubt it,
God who gave His Son for me. Rules this world and all things
in it, For my good eternally. So I'll trust my God and Savior,
Though my joy is mixed with pain. He is worthy, worthy ever, That
in me His feast should reign. Faith is such a great Redeemer,
gives my soul a blessed calm. Christ is near, He's my protector. He will keep me from all harm. Amen. Grace, touch me in this. I'm so glad you're here.