Good evening, brethren. Let's
turn in our Bibles to Psalm 119. Psalm 119. This Psalm has been a blessing
to me. And I trust it has to you too. I know your comments
have been very good. Sunday was a special blessing
to me. And the whole service was the
singing, the scripture reading, the comments. I want to go back
here tonight while it's fresh in our hearts. Verse 41, let thy mercies come
also unto me, O Lord. even thy salvation according
to thy word. So shall I have wherewith to
answer him that reproacheth me, for I trust in thy word. And
take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for I've hoped
in thy judgments. So shall I keep thy law continually
forever and ever. And I will walk at liberty, for
I seek thy precepts. I will speak of thy testimonies
also before kings, and will not be ashamed. And I will delight
myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. My hands also will
I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will
meditate in thy statutes. But David had asked the Lord
to teach him. He asked the Lord to give him
an understanding. He asked the Lord to make him
willing. He asked the Lord to save him from himself, from his
sins. He asked the Lord to establish
the Word to his heart. He asked the Lord to save him
from men. He asked the Lord to quicken
him in Christ his righteousness. And now, with all of that, he
asked for the Lord's mercies. He asked for the Lord's mercies. God had mercy on whom He would. And He had mercy in Christ. And
all God's tender mercies are in the Lord Jesus. And they're
only for the Lord's sake. Only for His sake. By God's covenant
word, His word of grace that He's given us here through the
written word, God promises mercies to those He's everlastingly loved.
Mercies. The love of God works by mercy.
The love of God chose his people in Christ, and all God's mercies
toward us are in Christ, and they're all for Christ's sake.
All his mercies. When we fell in Adam, his love
moved him to mercy for Christ's sake. In great mercy, God sent
the gospel to us. He quickened us together with
Christ. Scripture says, God who is rich
in mercy, rich in mercy, rich in mercy, for the great
love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, foul,
ungodly, God's mercies toward us never changed. His mercies
toward you never changed. Think of the vilest, most wretched
thing you ever thought or did. God's mercies never changed toward
you. Not one time. And they won't. Even when we were dead in sins,
He quickened us together with Christ. By grace, you are saved. By grace. That means if God chose
you by grace, He's going to save you by grace. All of grace, all
of grace. Now God's mercies are free in
Christ. God's mercies are free in Christ
and they are for Christ's sake. Now the mercy of God presupposes
that we're unworthy for mercy. That just presupposes mercy,
that we're unworthy for mercy. David here is a sanctified child
of God and he's admitting, confessing as he asks God for mercies that
he's not worthy of any of God's mercies. That's what it is to
ask for mercy, is to confess, Lord, I'm not worthy of your
mercy. Jacob prayed, Dad, he said, I'm
not worthy of the least of all thy mercies and of all the truth
which thou hast shown unto thy servant. If we ever get to where
we feel like we're worthy of God's mercies, we're in a terrible
place. We're not worthy of the least
of God's mercies. David here knew he needed God's
mercy and he's asking God for mercy, and he did this a lot.
He did this so many times in his life, throughout his life.
We find it all through the Psalms. He said in Psalm 40, verse 11,
withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord. Let
thy loving kindness and thy truth continually preserve me. We pray for God's mercies personally,
and David did that throughout his life. In Psalm 6, this was
his prayer. He said, O Lord, rebuke me not
in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have
mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak. O Lord, heal me, for my
bones are vexed. You prayed that. You prayed that. That's why I love this Psalm
119 is because it resonates in my heart because I pray this. I pray this. Return, O Lord,
deliver my soul. O save me for Thy mercy's sake. For Thy mercy's sake. He prayed
in Psalm 25 6. He said, He said, ìRemember, O Lord, Thy
tender mercies and Thy loving kindnesses, for theyíve been
ever of old.î Theyíve been from everlasting to everlasting. ìRemember
not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions.î That is,
not my past sins nor my sins today. ìAccording to Thy mercy,
remember Thou me for Thy goodnessí sake, O Lord.î We know that particular
Psalm, Psalm 51, and there David tells us, as he's praying to
the Lord for mercy, that God's mercies are many mercies. It's a multitude of mercies,
and we're thankful for that. He said, have mercy on me, O
God, according to thy lovingkindness, according unto the multitude
of thy tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions. Are
you going to be saved by just a little mercy? Just a few mercies? Or is it going to take a multitude
of mercies? It's going to take a multitude. It's going to take
a multitude. It's always better to cast yourself
on the mercies of God than to cast yourself into the hand of
a man. That's always better. Always better. When David sinned
and he numbered Israel, The Lord smote him in his heart, and the
Lord sent Gad the prophet. And the Lord gave him three choices,
to choose one choice from among the three. He gave him three
options. He said, seven years of famine.
He said, flee three months from your enemies while they pursue
you. He said, or choose three days of pestilence in your own
land. And this was David's answer.
David said to Gad, I am in a great strait. Let us fall now into
the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are great, and let me
not fall into the hand of man." Rather than choose, he just cast
himself on God's mercies. He said, I trust God's mercies.
But now as David prays here for God's mercies, David's got someone
specific in mind. He's got someone specific in
mind. He says there in verse 41, Let
thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation according
to thy word. God's salvation is His Son, the
Lord Jesus. In Luke chapter 2, Simeon was
promised that he would see the Lord. And in Luke 2.28, it says,
Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord,
now let us, thy servant, depart in peace according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation. He was looking at the Lord Jesus
when he said that. I've seen thy salvation. That's
what David prayed for. Thy mercies, Lord, let thy mercies
come unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation. David knew Christ. David was saved by Christ, same
as you and me are. He was looking. The Lord said
to my Lord, sit there on my right hand until I make thine enemies
our footstool. He believed the Lord. And he's
praying for Christ to come and save him. All God's mercies are
in his Son. All God's mercies are by his
Son. It was God's mercy to send his
Son. That's what Zacharias said, through
the tender mercy of our God, the day spring from on high hath
visited us. Through the tender mercy of God,
Christ came. So David prays here, let thy
mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even Christ thy salvation according
to thy word. He's pleading for Christ to come.
He's pleading for Christ to quicken him in mercy. He's pleading for
Christ to save him. To save him. Brethren, God saves
by a multitude of tender mercies. There's no doubt about that.
It's called mercies. It's calling mercy. There's regenerating
mercy. There's converting mercy. There's
justifying mercy. There's pardoning mercy. There's
sanctifying mercy. Our complete salvation from the
womb all the way to glory is by God's
mercies. Somebody said this, salvation
is an aggregate of mercies, incalculable in number, priceless in value,
incessant in application, eternal in endurance. Now is that so
of you? That's certainly so of me. I need God to show me mercies
constantly, continually. And then notice this, David pleads
for God's or he pleads God's own covenant promise. At the
end of verse 41, he says, according to thy word. According to thy
word. Throughout this psalm, David's
asking the Lord's mercies. And repeatedly, he says, according
to your word. He's saying, according to your
promise, Lord. You promised. You made a covenant promise to
me in Christ. According to your promise, Lord.
God tells us to plead his promise. According to your promise. Listen
to this, this is David's word to, I mean the Lord's word to
David. And as I read this, I want you to hear God the Father's
covenant to his son. He's the true David. All these
mercies were David's because this is God's covenant word to
Christ his son. He said in Psalm 89, 24, My faithfulness
and my mercy shall be with him. And in my name shall his horn
be exalted. I will set his hand also in the
sea, and his right hand in the rivers. He shall cry unto me,
Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Also
I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the
earth. My mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant
shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to
endure forever in his throne as the days of heaven." That's
God's word to David, the man. But that's God's Word to Christ,
and that's why it's God's Word to David and to you and me that
believe. It's all in Christ. And so David
prays for God's mercies in Christ according to God's Word, according
to His promise. Look here in Psalm 119, look
at verse 58. I am treated thy favor with my
whole heart, be merciful unto me according to thy Word. Look
at verse 76. Verse 76. Let, I pray thee, thy
merciful kindness be for my comfort according to thy word unto thy
servant. See, it's all according to the
word. Verse 77. Let thy tender mercies come unto
me that I may live for thy law, thy word, thy gospels, my delight. Verse 132. He says, Look thou upon me and be merciful
unto me as thou used to do unto those that love thy name. I'd
say David knew what he was in himself, wouldn't you? David
needed mercy. David needed mercy. He's pleading
for God to be merciful to him. for Christ's sake, according
to His Word. And that's God's covenant promise
to His people. That was His promise to David,
and that's His promise to His people. He will show mercy. That's
His Word. He will show mercy. We ask God
to show us mercy, we ask Him to reveal Christ Jesus, His salvation
to us, and we ask Him to save us, all according to His Word. All according to His Word. And
God says He's pleased with a broken and a contrite heart. That's
it. That's it. Coming to God, owning
what we are, and that we need mercies, mercies, mercies, mercies. We trust God's Word. Now why
did David need these mercies? Well, we see why in verse 42.
So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me
for I trust in thy word. David was a man that knew a little
something about troubling his own house and troubling other men's houses.
He killed his best friend because he stole his wife and Shimei
was reproaching him Others were reproaching him. He suffered
that a lot all the rest of his days. Now, as you hear this word,
verse 42, So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth
me. I want you to remember that these Psalms, we can hear our
Lord Jesus praying to the Father in these Psalms. Don't forget
that. Don't forget that. It's because of Christ, that David and all
his people can trust that our Lord Jesus will save us, he'll
have mercy on us, and the reason is because he walked where we
walk. He has walked where we walk.
There's no point in which he has not suffered like what his
people suffered, except for sin. Now this is the prayer of our
Redeemer first and foremost. It's the prayer of our Redeemer.
The Lord Jesus fulfilled the law in perfection. Verse 44,
so shall I keep thy law continually forever and ever. Our Lord Jesus
came down from heaven's glory and took the form of a servant.
And as a servant, he totally depended upon the Father. And
he's praying here for the Father to show him mercies and keep
him because he's suffering the reproach in the place of his
people. He came forth and he, now when
we say he kept the law continually forever, we're talking about
in his mother's womb, he was nothing but holy. In his mother's
womb. In our mother's womb, we were
sin. In his mother's womb, he was holy. He was holy. He came forth, not speaking lies,
he came forth pleasing God his father. pleasing God his Father. He kept God's law continually
forever and ever, and he did it for his people. Christ Jesus
spoke God's word before kings. He said there in verse 46, I
will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and will not
be ashamed. He did that. We've seen that
all through John. And due to his sinless, perfect
righteousness, The Lord Jesus suffered reproach as He suffered
in place of His people. Psalm 69, 7. This is our Lord speaking and
this is what He said. Psalm 69, 7. He said, For thy sake I have
borne reproach. Shame hath covered my face. I
have become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
mother's children. For the zeal of thine house,
that's the zeal of the house of Israel, the Pharisees and
the scribes, the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, zealous,
zealous, zealous for God's law, but ignorant of God's righteousness.
The zeal of thine house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of
them that reproach thee are fallen on me, the Lord said. What did
they say? Matthew 27, 40. He's hanging
on the cross. He's hanging on the cross. Surely
some of these fine holy people would show a little compassion
and pity with a man whose visage is marred more than any man hanging
on a bloody cross looking like a piece of meat hanging there.
Unrecognizable. No. No. They said, Thou that
destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself.
If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priests
mocking him with the scribes and the elders said. Now these
are the chief priests. These are the chief priests.
Along with the scribes and the elders who studied the word of
God. They said he saved others, himself he cannot save. If he
be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross
and we'll believe him. He trusted in God. Let him deliver
him now if he'll have him, for he said, I'm the son of God.
Now they believed what they were saying. They believed he was
an imposter. They believed he was a sinful,
blaspheming, vile man. They believed it, and that's
how they treated him. Verse 63, they said, Sir, we remember that
that deceiver said while he was yet alive, after three days I'll
rise again. Mocking him, mocking him, mocking
him. But here's our Savior's perfect faith. This is why I
can't come to God in the law. This is why you can't come to
God in the law. Here's our Savior's perfect faith. In this psalm,
we see His prayer when He was reviled and reproached by men. He prayed for God's mercies. So He would have to answer them
that reproached Him. No sin in His heart. Nothing. Perfect, holy, perfection through
and through. Now David was a sinner. David
sinned. That's why David was bearing
the reproach he was bearing. He sinned. He sinned. And God
sent the ones that were casting reproach in his teeth. God sent
them. They were a tool in God's hand
to whip his child. Chasing his child. But the Lord
Jesus knew no sin. He knew no sin. And He prayed,
just like our psalm says here, for the Lord to come according
to His Word so that He might have to answer him that reproached
Him. What was He doing? What was our Lord Jesus doing?
Just what Peter said He did. When He was reviled, reviled
not again. When He suffered, He threatened
not, but committed Himself to Him that judges righteously. And our Savior, by doing this,
by doing it, this is just a little, well it's a great example, but
it is part of that perfect holy heart, that perfect obedience
by which He justified His people and put away our sin. He would
not answer them that reproached Him. He depended on God. He went to God and He cast it
all upon God. And the word that God gave Him
to answer them that reproached Him was this. Silence. He opened not his mouth. When we see David, we see others
in the scripture that are a type of Christ, as David is right
here. When we see that, remember this. Remember this now. God
put the whole thing in Christ's hand before the world was made.
And the Son of God has been ruling everything from creation. He
created everything. And when you see somebody like
David, who is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ in what he bore,
foreshadowing the Lord Jesus, Christ worked that in him. Christ
worked that in him. Shimei was throwing stones at
him and reproaching him all the way up the mountain. He followed
him a long way for a long time, cussing and throwing stones at
him. This is why our Lord said to the Pharisee, if you are without
sin, cast the first stone. But he did that and what a type
of Christ, a type of our Lord Jesus that is in David. You think
about this, David crossed over the brook Kidron and went up
the Mount of Olives. So did our Lord Jesus. So did
our Lord Jesus. David bore reproach for his sin. This is what they said to David.
David said, many there be which say of my soul there's no help
for him in God. Many there be, David said, that
are saying of me right now, this man has no help for him in God. There's no help for him. That's
what they said to Christ. Ain't it? Exactly. Our Savior
bore that same reproach as He bore David's sin and as He bore
all the sin of all His elect. The same reproach. Our Savior
drew David to pray this word right here in our psalm. He put
this prayer in his heart. If you pray anything, God put
it in your heart. He breathed these scriptures
for David to write. And David wrote this, David's
committing his cause to the Lord. Back there in Psalm 33, David
said, But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me, my glory and the lifter
up of my head. Christ worked that in David to
picture the Lord Jesus Christ committing his soul to the Father
on the cross and trusting his judgment to him from those that
reproached him. Then the Lord gave David a word
concerning his reproach. The Lord gave David a word concerning
his reproach. He's going up that mountain,
she-meow's cussing, throwing stones, and one of his men want
to take his head off, but David gave him a word concerning his
reproach. I believe that Psalm 1941 is what David was praying
while he was bearing that reproach. I know this. It's my prayer. It's my prayer. David said to his men, this is
the word God gave him. He said, if you'll come to me
in mercy, Lord, I'll have wherewith to answer them that reproach
me. And David turned to his men and he said, don't touch him. God sent him. God did this for
my good. Peradventure, God will have mercy
on me. Leave him alone. Leave him alone. That's exactly, the Lord worked
all of that in David to picture the Lord Jesus Christ and what
he did for us at Calvary. The Lord did that. I would to
God that when we suffer or any brethren suffer, that we could
have the discernment to look to Christ and see something of
what Christ has borne in the place of his people. Now, thirdly, that Lord Jesus
continues to draw us to pour out our heart to Him. This is
how He does it. He uses all these things to do
it. When you're reproached and reproached or whatever it is,
He brings you to pour out your heart to Him for mercy and grace
to help in time of need. We're not talking about a sinless
man. We're talking about a sinner saved by grace. A righteous sinner. As He did the first hour, our
Lord turns us to Him. And He'll make you behold Him,
and He'll keep you beholding Him. He'll keep you beholding
Him. That by God our Father sending
His mercy to us, by sending Christ His salvation to us, He has saved
you. And He'll show you that. He'll
show you that in your heart. He'll show you that our Savior
fulfilled the law for His people. He removed our sin as far as
the east is from the west. He's justified His people forever. And He's still going to shower
His people in His tender mercies for Christ's sake. Now this is
how and why verse 42 says, we trust in Thy Word. This is how we trust in His Word.
This is why we trust in His Word. Because He's proven to us, He's
faithful, and He won't let you stop trusting His Word. He's
going to keep you trusting His Word. Both the written Word,
but also the essential Word. Christ Jesus the Word. And in
mercy to us, God promises, He promises He will never take the
gospel out of our mouth. It's going to keep you begging
Him, Lord don't remove it from me. He said there in verse 43,
Take not the word of truth, the gospel of Christ the truth, utterly
out of my mouth, for I have hoped in thy judgments. God's put the
gospel in our heart and in our mouth. And He'll never take it
utterly out of our mouth. You may have times where you're
so full of unbelief that you couldn't speak a word in season
to save your life. But He won't take the word utterly
out of the heart of His children. He's going to keep that word.
He declared His judgments to us. Let me tell you what God's
judgments are. It was God's judgment before
the world was made to choose a people in His Son by His grace
only. It was God's judgment to trust
the whole work of saving His people into the hands of His
Son. Not in our hands, not into the hands of those He chose,
into the hands of His Son. This was God's judgment of how
He could manifest His glory and show every attribute of God to
this people and not only do that, but save us from our sins, make
us the righteousness of God, and create us anew by the Spirit
of God so that we can actually worship the invisible God in
spirit and in truth through the faith that He gives. This was
the judgment of God to do this for His people. And when He came
to you and He taught you in your heart, He taught you His judgments.
He taught you that it was God's grace, it was His mercy, it was
His good pleasure to save you simply because He loved you without
a cause in you. The cause was in Him, the cause
was in His Son, and this is His judgments to you. And He's promised
His child, you that He's called, He's taught you these judgments
and He's persuaded you that your judgment before His holy, just
law, that just, holy, good law has been satisfied and fulfilled
at Calvary's cross when Christ was judged in your room instead.
And He's taught you this. This is His judgment. For the
sake of My Son, I will keep you all the way to the end. I will
perfect that which I have begun in you. I will finish the work
I've begun in you. And He's made you to know those
judgments, and He's made you to hope in God's judgments. Do
you hope in the law of Sinai? No. We hope in God's judgments. We hope in God's judgments. Our
hope is in Christ Jesus. Whatever God does is right and
we trust him. Christ is all our hope. We're
waiting for the hope of glory by faith in our Lord Jesus. He's
our hope. So by the Lord's continual mercies
to us. In Christ our salvation, by His
grace working in our heart, by Him coming to you when you're
in a dire strait like David was in, and you cannot, you don't
know what to do, you don't have a word. And He comes and He shows
you His mercy. And He shows you. That He has
you and everybody about you under His full sovereign rule. Trust
Him. Hope in His judgment. When He
does that, He brings you... It's what He did in the beginning. And what did He do? He brought
you to obey Him by casting everything into His hands. Look here, verse
44. So shall I keep thy law continually
for ever and ever, and I'll walk at liberty, for I seek thy precepts. God's gospel command is this. This is His commandment, that
we should believe on the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and
love one another as He gave us commandment. That's liberty. knowing that
in Christ I have fulfilled the law continually forever and ever. That's liberty. There is no more
curse, no more condemnation. You have fulfilled the law forever
and ever who have been brought to believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ. And by this gospel, by this grace, by these continual
mercies, He's given you faith and He keeps faith in your heart
and He keeps you believing Him until the end. And you know God
only gives one heart. He said, I'll give them, my children,
one heart. You know what that heart is?
It's Christ in you. He's the only one with a holy heart. And
our Lord Jesus, when He's formed in you, we're all a bunch of
different people assembled here together, but everybody born
of Him has the exact same heart. You've got one holy heart by
Christ being formed in you. You've got one spirit, one Lord,
one heart by the Lord Jesus. I'll give them one heart, He
said. and He keeps you loving one another as He gave us commandment.
There's no liberty like that. There's no liberty like that.
Legalists want to do their best to just destroy that liberty.
They want to try to bring you back under bondage and condemn
and throw stones. Brethren, you go to the Lord
and ask mercy like David's doing right here. That's what David
was bearing. David was bearing this and he
called on God to have mercy on him. A guilty sinner confessing
his sin to God and begging God, have mercy on me. Have mercy
on me. God will. Christ is going to
keep us under his grace and he's not going to let us fall away.
He's going to give us hearts to follow him, to walk as his
free men, redeemed by his blood and kept by his blood. And that's
how he's going to keep you following after him. And by His grace,
we're going to speak the Gospel before kings. He said there in
verse 46, I will speak of thy testimony also before kings,
and I will not be ashamed. I'm speaking His testimony right
now before some kings. I'm speaking it to you who He's
made king-priest by His precious blood. And I'm not ashamed of
what I'm telling you because this is all my salvation. We delight to serve Him and we
delight to serve one another for the sake of our Redeemer.
I will delight myself, verse 47, I will delight myself in
Thy commandments which I have loved. And then we lift up, only one
to God, we lift up Christ our shield. He said in verse 48,
My hands also will I lift up under thy commandments, which
I have loved, and I will meditate in thy statutes. Robert Hawker
had a great point on this. He said, As we behold the Lord
Jesus delighting Himself in His Father's law. That's who you
hear saying this, first of all. It's Christ. As you hear Him
delighting Himself in His Father's law, fulfilling and obeying it
for us and for our salvation, we delight to come before His
throne seeking acceptance only in the Beloved. Only in the Beloved. Hence, the whole church is represented
here as crying out with uplifted hands to Jehovah. Uplifted hands
to His commandment. He said, Believe on My Son and
you hold up His Son. The only way I can come to you,
Lord. I'm coming in the great, I'll preach." And so, he said
this. He said, because Christ is our
shield before God our Father. His precious blood is hidden.
All the sin of His people washed it away, and He's our shield
now. And Hawker said this, Psalm 84,
9. I love how he did this. He said, Behold, O God, our shield. We come to God saying, Behold,
O God, our shield. We are holding Him up here. You
said this is your commandment to come in your Son. We are holding
Him up. We are holding up your commandments.
We are holding Him up, trusting Him. Behold, O God, our shield. And look upon the face of Thine
anointed. Look upon Thy Son whom You anointed
to save Your people. For a day in thy courts is better
than a thousand. I'd rather be a doorkeeper in
the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. That's how God deals with His
people in mercy. When you've troubled your own
house, that's how He does it. That ain't how He deals with
the ones He chose to pass by, but that's how He deals with
His child. Father, we thank You for Your
Word. Lord, we need your tender mercies.
We need you to send your salvation. Only then, Lord, will we know
the answer. Then, Lord, we'll delight ourselves
in your Son. We'll obey your Word and we'll
trust Him to defend us, to be our shield, to save us, to lead
us, to guide us, to protect us. We'll say with David, Lord, that
your judgments are good. Thank you, Lord, for chastening
your people. Lord, we pray, will you chasten
your people? Will you chasten us, Lord, and
correct us? We need it every day. And Lord, we ask you, be merciful
to us. We're weak. Lord, we can't bear up much,
not any. We need you to be our strength.
We need you to be the arms beneath us. We need you to be our shield
about us. We need you to be the word speaking into our heart.
And Lord, we ask you to do this for your people. When you work
this in your heart, brethren, heart of your brethren, Our soul delights itself in You. That's when we start cleaving
to You rather than cleaving to dust. Lord, we pray that the living
Word come now and cleanse us. Keep us trusting Christ. Lord,
don't ever, don't let us Don't let us be in a place of
shimmy-eye. Keep us, Lord. Keep us. Better
to be the one bearing the reproach than to be the one doing the
reproaching. Help us look to Christ alone. Keep us in Him for His sake.
Thank you, Lord, for mercies. Thank you for mercies. In Christ's
name we pray. Amen.