Turn in your Bibles to Song of
Solomon. We're in Chapter 4, and we have
reached the end of Chapter 4, verse 16. It's remarkable, as
we go through Song of Solomon, it's a remarkable picture of
the Lord's dealings with His people. And I love I love the
way those hymns highlight what Song of Solomon is saying. Isn't
it amazing, isn't it, that if we could understand how God dealt
with people, if we could understand it, if we could understand God's
dealings, our God is too small. It's wonderful to think, isn't
it, that there is There is just in the purposes of God when it
comes to personal dealings with His people, there is just God's
ways with His people that are beyond the tracing outs of men. How did Mr Whittle say it? I know not why God's wondrous
grace to me he hath made known, nor why unworthy Christ in love. redeemed me for His own. One of the things that Song of
Solomon encourages us to do, isn't it, is to think upon God's
personal dealings with us. And at the end of the day we
can but do with this Him writing says, isn't it? When I think
that God, His Son not sparing, sent Him to die, I scarce can
take it in, that on the cross, my burden gladly bearing, He
bled and died to take away my sin. The song is an encouragement
for us. to sing, isn't it? Then sings
my soul, my Saviour God to Thee, how great Thou art, how great
Thou art, how great God. And as any of us who have walked
with the Lord for some little time know that in God's dealings
with people, unless God in sovereign mercy and by his Spirit's work
works in the hearts of people. There is nothing. The Lord Jesus says, without
me you can do nothing. It doesn't mean that men aren't
able to be incredibly active. and to build great edifices of
religion around the world and have great zeal and cause amazing
things to be seen in the eyes of men. But here we have the
words of God to his spouse. He has talked about her in verse
9 as the one who has ravished his heart. He calls her his sister
and his spouse. And then he says in verse 10,
how fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse. How much better is
thy love than mine, and the smell of thine ointments and all spices.
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honey can. Honey and milk
are under thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like
the smell of Lebanon. Then he describes his sister,
this spouse as a garden in close, a spring shut up, a fountain
sealed, thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant
fruits, and then he talks about these spices that grow in the
garden, camphor with spikenard, spikenard and saffron, calamus
and cinnamon with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes,
with all the chief spices. a fountain of gardens, a well
of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Such is the garden,
the garden enclosed, the garden planted, the garden that he calls
my garden. The Father's gift to him, it's
his by his purchase. It's his by his choice. It's
his by his conquests of grace. It's his because she voluntarily
surrenders, made willing in the day of his power. And he's the one who's planted
this garden. He's the one who's separated
a garden from the wilderness world. And here in these verses
we have the Lord, I believe, speaking. And He speaks and says,
Awake, O north wind! Come thou south, and blow upon
my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. And of course as
we know from other places in the scriptures, the wind is likened
to the breath of God. God's breathing out. He's breathing out into this
garden. He breathes out. And awake, he
says to the north wind, he says, open your eye, the eye of mercy
and the eye of grace. And the wind, as John 3 says
when Jesus was talking to Nicodemus, the wind blows where it wishes. We don't know where it's come
from and we don't know where it goes. We just know that the
wind has blown. Just let's read those words from
our Saviour. You see He's talking to the man
Nicodemus, who was the teacher of Israel. He's talking to him
about new birth. He's talking to him about spiritual
life. He's talking to him out of passages
like Ezekiel 36. which is talking about the spirit
coming upon people and the heart of stone being removed and the
heart of flesh being put into these people. And he says in verse 6 of chapter
3 of John's Gospel, that which is born of flesh is flesh and
that which is born of spirit is spirit. as I and others stand here with
God's Word before me, my labours laid out before the Lord and
before you, and I look out and I'm just reminded again and again
that if all this is going to mean anything, if this is going
to mean anything, to your souls. But this is going to mean anything
for the glory of God. Then He must do this. So that
which is born of flesh is flesh, starts in the earth, finishes
in the earth. But that which is born of spirit
is spirit. The reality is unless something
and someone from heaven comes to this garden and blows and
activates things in this garden, the garden which is his people,
the garden enclosed which is his church. Unless things come
from Heaven, they can't go back to Heaven. It's a beautiful picture,
isn't it, in Genesis 3. When Adam and Eve had sinned,
there's a beautiful picture of salvation. Their fig leaves Their
fig leaves are their own activity to cover their shame, in a sense
to cover their wickedness and cover their sin. Those fig leaves
were removed by God and they were left there as they really
are and then God clothed them with the skins of an animal.
He clothed them with the robe of the righteousness of the Lord
Jesus, and they were banished from that garden. And outside
of that garden stood those cherubim with those flaming swords, those
whirling flaming swords, saying to all of humanity, all of Adam's
seed, you cannot get back into the garden. You cannot get back
into the garden by your own activity, by your own work. What was the
next thing we read of in Genesis? We have that beautiful picture
of humanity divided, Cain and Abel. See, Abel brought to God something
from inside the garden. He brought the same sacrifice
that covered Adam and Eve's shame. He brought the Lord Jesus to
God in the form of that sacrifice. It wasn't the lamb that was slain. It was what the slain lamb represented
to God that mattered. And Cain brought the works of
his own hands. as if the works of his own hands
could find a passage in. It's only the things that come
from heaven that can rebound back to heaven. It's not the
things of this earth, which is why These are, I believe, the
words of the Lord Himself. He has separated this garden. He has planted this garden. He's
made it beautiful. He's made it fruitful. He's made
it a garden which is an orchard of pomegranates. with pleasant
fruits, and he's planted this garden with herbs and spices,
and he's watered this garden, a fountain of gardens, a well
of living waters, streams from Lebanon, he's watered this garden. But here is the Lord calling
upon the wind, calling upon the Spirit to blow upon this garden,
Yes, says Mr. Hawker, surely they can be none
other than the words of the Lord. For none but Jesus can send the
Holy Ghost to his church and people. And besides, none can
call the church my garden, but he that is the rightful owner
of it. Surely your Lord, it is thine, both by thy Father's gift
and by thy choice, and by thy purchase and by the conquest
of thy grace, that you have made this garden, and dost thou then
call both the north wind and the south Thou dearest Lord,
to blow upon my soul. Dost Thou command all suitable
influences of Thy grace to visit me, that one may search and another
may warm my affections and call Thine own gifts and graces forth
in exercise upon Thy glorious person. and Thy glorious work. Come then, Thou Holy Spirit,
with all Thy sweet and precious officers. Come, Lord, to convince
and comfort me, to humble and direct me, to chill my affections
to the world, and warm them towards the Lord Jesus. Come thou holy,
gracious, almighty quickener, reviver, restorer and glorifier
of my God and Saviour. Come. Awake, says our Lord. Open your eye. Look upon this
garden and come the north wind. The north wind is typified in
the scriptures as the wind of the rough dispensations of Providence,
which is why I believe it's the Lord who's calling the north
wind. We have all been through times of affliction. We are going
through times of affliction now, and we have more times of affliction
ahead of us, and yet none of us None of us would volunteer
to have those things come upon us and none of us would know
how they are to be ministered. It needs a great physician to
wound that he might heal in the right and proper way. It's the
afflictions, the temptations. When you think of the providence
of the people that we know of in the scriptures, just think
through the Gospels and you have that paralyzed man. Who would
have chosen that? Who would have called that to
come upon them? The leper, the man with the withered
arm, the bleeding woman for 14 years, the grieving parents of
the dead girl. Mary and Martha and Lazarus,
the blind, the lame, the good Samaritan, Job, Isaiah, the list
goes on and on. Which of the apostles would have
chosen to have been in Jerusalem on that extraordinary day? There
were plenty of safe places, they could have been in Galilee, that's
where they came from. Mary, his mother, think of what
happened thirty years, thirty-three years prior to that. She'd been
promised that a sword would pierce her own soul. You see, the Lord
Jesus Our Great Shepherd and our Great God takes His people
into places of affliction and temptation and trials and difficulties,
but only He Only He, that great God who loves infinitely and
knows completely and sovereignly works all things, knows how to
administer the afflictions that we have come upon us. He knows
how much we need, when we need it, because He sees the end from
the beginning. He sees that Peter, with all
of his pride, says, I will, I will, I will. And then he says to Peter,
before it all happens, he says, when you are converted, when
you are turned, strengthen your brothers. Peter went through
those appalling trials which revealed who he is in his Adam
flesh and how weak and pathetic he is. And the purpose was to
strengthen his brothers. What's the strengthening of his
brothers that comes from that? Surely it's the Gospel. He can say to his brothers, I
have fallen and stumbled. that my God and His grace is
sufficient for me. O come, open your eyes, O north
wind, and come." You see, the wind blows where it wishes. The Spirit of God blows where
He wishes. We don't see Him coming but we
actually know that he has been in remarkable ways. In a sense,
what drew Nicodemus to the Lord Jesus? The Lord Jesus loved him
in eternity. Nicodemus, as we see in John's
Gospel, went from someone who came out of the darkness into
the light to ask questions and to be humbled before the Lord
Jesus. He basically said to the teacher
of Israel, the greatest professor in all of their Bible colleges,
he says, you don't have a clue what this book's about. You don't
have the first clue about who God is and how He works. And
yet we read in John chapter 7 that Nicodemus is defending his Saviour
and defending God's law. And then marvellously we see
at the end that he's prepared to defile himself for that great
Passover and not participate in it, he's prepared to go outside
of that camp to suffer that reproach that men would have heaped upon
him. God's Spirit, God's Spirit, as we have borne witness to,
blows where it wishes and we try and we agonize and we pray
and we do and we All of these things, and yet God will do things
in the most remarkable way, beyond our imagining. He will do more
than we imagine or ask. It's free. He's free. He acts when he will, how he
will, to affect the things that he will. It's free sovereign
grace. is what saves us and free sovereign
grace is what our hope lies in. We look around this world and
we look at our people that we care for and love and we know
that the only possible hope is that God will sovereignly intervene
despite themselves. despite their activity, despite
their wisdom, despite their sins, so the wind blows imperceptibly.
You hear the sound thereof, but whence it comes and whither it
goes, so is everyone born of the Spirit. To the natural man,
the activities of God are invisible and unknowable. Sometimes they're just gentle
breezes, sometimes they are strong gales. But like these streams
from Lebanon, the wind blows powerfully and irresistibly as
we have seen here lately. Who can stop it? What man can stop the wind? It just flows. Only one man ever
said to the wind and the waves, be still. Our Lord controls them. In Acts chapter 2 verse 2, we
read that the Holy Spirit came upon those 120 in that upper
room as a mighty rushing wind. A mighty rushing wind that brought
transformation to those people. A mighty rushing wind whose result
was the proclamation of the Gospel. That's what the mighty rushing
wind does. It brings the Gospel. It destroys
Satan's strongholds. The mountains are made a plain
before it. The wind is cleansing and refreshing
and purifying and piercing and searching, as we know the Word
of God does. It exposes who we are. And it exposes who we are in
light of who the Lord is. The north wind comes. with tough
things, and in the south wind is a gentle wind. As the Lord
Jesus said to these people in Luke 12, 55, when you see the
south wind blow, you know that there will be heat and it comes
to pass. In that part of the world, the
south wind came from warmer parts. The north wind came from that
cold country. The south wind brings warmth.
It brings warmth to cold hearts, dead in trespasses and sins. Job 37.17 talks about this wind
and it says that this wind is gentle and quiet. He says, He quieteth the earth
by the south wind, brings peace and rest to storm-tossed and
troubled souls. The south wind in that part of
the world was a wind that also brought rain. And here our great
saviour, the great gardener says, blow upon my garden. It is really to fan the embers
into fire. The smouldering flax Smoldering
flax is when they're put together and they're blown on all of a
sudden. They've blown into a fire And so in these This north wind
and this south wind, this wind that blows upon this garden,
we see the different operations of our great God, the Holy Spirit. So the north wind is sharp and
cold and cutting, and the south wind is warm and refreshing. The north wind brings conviction,
brings awareness of sin, and the south wind is gentle and
a comforter. The north wind kills, the south
wind makes alive. God's operations are that the
north wind comes first, he wounds before he heals, he humbles and
makes low before he exalts and speaks comfortably to them. In
the days of George Whitfield he stayed in houses and he used
to make a point of talking to the people in the houses about
their souls and in one of the houses he was staying there was
a young maid who was not caught up in the religious things that
were going on and the excitement of conversions and revival and
Whitfield spoke to her I gave her a piece of advice. before
he went off on one of his trips and he said to her, please ask
the Lord to show you who you are. When he came back to the
house, he looked around and he couldn't find the maid and he
asked the owners of the house, where's the young girl, where
is the maid that was here? And he said, they said to him,
she left in such great distress after you'd spoken to her. And
Whitfield sought her out and said to her, now why don't you
ask the Lord to show you the Lord Jesus, show you Him in grace
and mercy. And she who had been so conflicted
and tossed was in God's time and providence. converted and
brought to a place of peace. There is no rest for people outside
of the Lord Jesus. like that dove that Noah let
out from the ark. There is no place of rest in
that world for God's people. The only place of rest we have
is inside this enclosed garden. Isn't it wonderful that he says
that it's my garden? It's my garden. He's planted
this garden. He's nurtured this garden. This
garden is there for his pleasure, for his glory. And he says, blow
upon my garden, rekindle, keep alive, stir it up. As Timothy was told, by Paul
to stir up, to fan into flame the gift that is in him. See, we need both winds. The
gardener, this gardener, knows that we need both winds. We need them to see a holy God
and a fallen sinner. We need them to see heavenly
purity and creature vileness. We need that wind, that breath
of God, that we might see God on a throne of light, a righteous
and a holy God, and that we are just lepers on ash heaps. We need the Spirit of God to
take our eyes from ourselves and lift them above this flesh
and above this earth that we look into heaven and then we
see down on this earth from heaven's perspective. blow upon my garden, that the
spices thereof may flow out." The spices, as we saw last week,
are but pictures of the Lord Jesus, aren't they? You remember
from last week, the campfire means to cover, it means a ransom,
it means satisfaction. Spikenard is that humble plant
with no beauty or comeliness about it, but when it's crushed,
when the root of it is crushed, it is fragrant. That saffron,
which flavours and colours with a golden hue. That calamus, which
means to buy and to purchase and to recover. That cinnamon
that we know well, that frankincense, the tears of frankincense from
the wound in the tree, that myrrh, that bitter herb, those aloes,
those plants which God grows, that when they are cut down there
is a sweet smelling savour. All of them Picture the Lord
Jesus and his work. All of those spices only flow
out when they're crushed and broken, when the tree of frankincense
is wounded, when the root is broken. How do you get cinnamon?
You peel the outer bark off a tree and you take the inner bark next
to the trunk. All of them come through wounding
and crushing. All of them come through being
afflicted. You know what herbs are like.
You grab them and you rub them together and you smell them and
it's amazing how much odour flows out. We have some mint that grows
near one of the steps and you tread on the mint and almost
instantly at my height, nearly six feet off the ground, there's
the smell of mint and it's all over, isn't it? It's just remarkable
how they flow out, but they don't flow out until there is times
of affliction. The herbs and the spices need
the north wind and they need the south wind to blow out. We would want to live in the
light and in the comfort of the warm south wind all the time. But it's in the afflictions that
come, it's in the balance of those two, which mercifully and
thankfully are in the hands of our great shepherd and our great
gardener, that they flow out. and all of them flow out, reminding
us of the Gospel. They remind us that the Lord
Jesus is that sweet savour, that fragrance to God, that purifying,
that preserving savour to our God, a sweet smelling savour
to the Lord Jesus. You see, the Lord wants them
stirred up. It's not something that believers
are capable of doing. Christ, our great Saviour, calls
upon the Spirit to come, to awake, to blow, to revive what is there. When did those beautiful fragrances
get into that plant? They were there in the growing
of it. They are hidden from the world and they are hidden from
us. And when that spirit blows, the work of Christ in the lives
of His people, His work from eternity, His work on the cross,
that work flows out and He gets all the glory. You see, this
Spices flow out. The gifts that God has placed
in you by the stirring of his spirit flow out to whom? They are a sweet-smelling savour
to our God. But in an enclosed garden with
those walls around, they flow out to each other, brothers and
sisters. the gifts of God's grace that
He has planted in your heart, that only often come out in times
of affliction, they flow out to other people, they flow out
to other members in that garden, imperceptibly to us. We don't even know that we have
them and we don't even know what we are doing. I remember some
time a couple of years ago or so I was under a pretty heavy
burden and I was sharing something and I only said a couple of words
and Graham reached over and just put his hand on my shoulder and
what he was saying by a simple gesture without any words is
that I know something of what you are suffering. And a simple
action, a simple action, sometimes some simple words can mean more
to us than books and books and books and millions of words. See, the spices that God has
placed in your life, you may not even know they're there.
They might be hidden like the frankincense in that tree, and
only when it's wounded do they flow out. And the frankincense
comes out like tears. It often might just be in tears
that say, I know, I understand. They might be just words where
we remind each other that it's all about the Lord Jesus. It's
not about me and what I do. It's about Him and His sacrifice. He is that offering to God. It might just be a reminder to
take my eyes off myself yet again. and fix them upon Him who is
the author and the perfecter of faith. Awake, O north wind, it might
be tough. Come thou south, it might be
a gentle warming breeze with rain. Blow upon my gardens, says
the Lord Jesus, make it fruitful. Let those spices flow out. Let your light shine before men,
says the Lord Jesus, that they may see your good deeds and praise
your Father in heaven. The only good deed, the only
good deed that I know of in this world that causes us To see this
deed and for God to be praised is the proclamation of the Gospel. All other good deeds are seen
by men. It's about the proclamation of
the Gospel, brothers and sisters. It's about proclaiming the gardener. It's about proclaiming Him who
calls His bride. Thou art all fair, my love, there
is no spot in Thee. It's about saying to our brothers
and sisters, come with me, come with us, come with the Lord Jesus,
let's join together with Him. he causes us to be united. He grows that body together and
joins it together that it can nourish each other and be held
together as one. See, he commands, awake North
Wind and then she replies, she replies, let. Let my beloved
come into his garden." He commands. She respectfully asks. But she has that beautiful pronoun,
doesn't she? She who has been enclosed, she
who has been separated, she who has been grown, she who has had
these spices in her, she who has been made fruitful, says
that it's my beloved. Let My Beloved come into His
garden." He's really saying, come Lord Jesus and fellowship
with Me. This is eternal life, that you
know the Father and you know Him, that you fellowship with
Him. The highest joy for a believer,
that joy that overwhelmed Isaiah and Job and Ezekiel and others,
was actually being in the presence of God Himself. They knew Him, but they needed
Him to come afresh. As David said in Psalm 119, 94,
I am Thine, save me. I am Thine, Lord, come and fellowship
with me. They belong to Him. They're His planting, His nurturing,
His pruning, His watering, His fertilising. They're not their
own, they're bought with a price. They're submissive to Him, whether
the north wind or the south wind blows. We might know it all intellectually,
but God, and theoretically, but the Lord brings it as a reality
in our lives. I love what 2nd Corinthians says,
isn't it? That the God of all comfort. How does He comfort us? So different
from what the world says, isn't it? Blessed be the God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus, the Father of mercies, the God of
all comforts, the God of all comforts, who comforts us in
our tribulation, 2 Corinthians 1.4. It's really important that word
in, isn't it? He comforted us in our tribulations. That's His promise, that we may
be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort
wherewith we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings
of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by
Christ. Come and fellowship. Come and comfort us. We are his workmanship. He is the great shepherd. Come
into this garden, she says. Come into the garden that you've
created. Come into this garden through
the new birth. Reinvigorate what was dead. I don't know about you, but how
often do you find your spiritual life slow and dull and dead? We know that this Word is light
and life for us, and yet it seems like a closed book, and we spend
hours reading a novel and are bored in 30 seconds in the Bible,
and spend hours and hours watching movies and a few seconds glancing
at God's Word. It seems like a burden, doesn't
it? So often, is that just me? So
often it's a struggle. We know that prayer is wonderful. We know that communion with the
Lord through his word and through prayer is incredibly important
and special. But here she's saying, you come. on my own, I can do nothing,
Lord Jesus. Come and revive. I know what
you have put in me. Come again and revive it. Come again. Come again, my Saviour. Send your Spirit at your will
into my life." I love what we read in John 4. Did you see John
14? He's calling on the wind to come,
spirit to come. But in John 14, verse 18, he says, I will not leave you comfortless.
I will come to you. Verse 23 he says, Jesus answered
and said unto him, If man love me, he will keep my words, and
my Father will love him. And we, the Father and the Son,
will come to him and make our abode with him. In verse 16 we read, And I will
pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter, that
he may abide with you forever, even the spirit of truth in the
world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth
him, but you know him, for he dwelleth with you and shall be
in you." Isn't it remarkable? God the Father, God the Son, in us. God the Holy Spirit, in us. Isn't it remarkable how God is
so gracious to sinners like us? He has done a planting. He has created a garden. He has
separated them. And it's a beautiful picture
at the end of Matthew 28 where they have what is called
the Great Commission and they are talked about, they are to
go and to teach, they are to baptise in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever
I have commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even to
the ends of the world. And one of the beautiful things
in Greek, and I don't like talking about Greek much, but all through
the scriptures we have from Exodus, we have this great, I am God,
and all through the Gospels Jesus says, I am, I am, I am, the light
of the world, I am. all of these things. He's saying,
I am God and these are the characteristics of God that I am displaying.
At the end, as he's leaving, he actually separates the words
in Greek and it really reads, I with you am, as if Trinity
itself has opened up and gathered. How enclosed are we brothers
and sisters. How secure are we? What can this world offer? Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he hath visited and redeemed his people, says Zechariah. that famous sermon. And he comes
to eat his pleasant fruit. He comes to enjoy them. He comes to delight in these
pleasant fruit. His father who is the husbandman,
they are the fruits of his grace. They are obtained for her in
the eternal covenant. They are obtained for her by
his perfect righteousness. They are obtained for her by
his sin bearing death on the cross. They are obtained for
her by Him magnifying and honoring God's law and saying it is holy
and God is holy and His law is holy and unbending and inflexible
and the soul that sins, it must die. And He dies in the place
of His people and she is made holy. She is made fruitful. She is made spotless and blameless
before God. So where does the fruit come
from? Where does this pleasant fruit come from? The Lord makes it so clear in
the scriptures. Without Him we can do nothing. As he says, from me is thy fruit
found, Isaiah 14.8. And it's multiplied again and
again through the scriptures. He says in Isaiah 57.19, I create
the fruit of lips. Peace, peace to him that is far
off and to him that is near. Save the Lord. He creates that
fruit. Turn in your Bibles as we come
to our conclusion in 2 Thessalonians. There is a most remarkable verse at the beginning, opening chapter
of 2 Thessalonians. Sometimes if God hadn't written
these words, we could never contemplate how amazing they are. He talks about, if you read the
rest of the chapter, he talks about the destruction of those
who do not obey the Gospel of the Lord Jesus. Those who have
another way of righteousness and another gospel will be punished. when he comes, verse 10, when
he comes to be glorified in his saints and to be admired in all
them that believe, in all them that have believed the testimony
of Paul about the Lord Jesus, have believed the apostles' gospel
and the apostles' doctrine, who have been enclosed and remained
enclosed by God who has shut them up in that garden. You shall come to be glorified
in your saints and be admired in all them that believe because
our testimony among you was believed in that day. Wherefore also we
pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of
this calling and fulfil all the good pleasure of His goodness
and the work of faith with power. the work of His faith that He
has given with power. And the result is in 12, and
it's remarkable, isn't it? That the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ may be glorified in you. And the next three or four words
are unbelievable, aren't they? And you in Him. according to the grace of our
God and the Lord Jesus Christ. That the name of the Lord Jesus
may be glorified in you, and you in Him. It is all, it is
all purely the grace of God. The southern wind which blows
warm and lovely and refreshing. The north wind which blows hard
and troubling. All of these are in the hands
of our great and sovereign God. He directs them as He will, that
the garden may flourish with these living waters, with these
streams of Lebanon, with these winds that blow, that bring out
these spices. And He will come into His garden
he will come into his garden as he does right now. He comes into his garden and
he eats his pleasant fruit. He comes into his garden and
he feeds among the lilies. He comes into his garden and
he finds his chosen bride to be delightful. to be almost life
for Him. We have an amazing God and an
amazing Saviour. By Him, therefore, let us offer
the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is the fruit
of our lips giving thanks to His name. Let's pray.