Brethren, let's go to Psalm 34.
Now we see here at the heading in
Psalm 34, it says this is a Psalm of David, when he changed his
behavior before Abimelech who drove him away and he departed. Now, let me give you some background
so we can see who is speaking here. It was well known that
David was God's choice king of Israel. David was the king God
had chosen. And so Saul tried to kill David
to keep the throne for himself. Now when Christ came in the flesh,
it was known that Christ is God's chosen king. Herod, you remember,
tried to kill Christ because he was trying to keep the throne,
a physical earthly throne for himself. And sinners by nature
who think we're kings do the same thing, rejecting Christ. So David, he went into the land
of the Philistines to Achish, the king of Gath. Now it says
here that this was Abimelech, but Abimelech was a title for
their king, just like Pharaoh was a title for the Egyptians'
king. The man's name was Achish. And
so David was in the land of Gath. That's where he had slain Goliath. He still got Goliath's sword
on him. And there he is in Gath now,
and he's surrounded by enemies. Christ our King dwelt on this
earth. And the whole time He was here,
He was surrounded by enemies. Whether like David, He was in
Israel, or He went to the Gentile land, He was surrounded by enemies. Go with me to 1 Samuel 21. 1
Samuel 21, verse 11. It says, And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David
the king of the land? Did they not sing one to another
of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and
David his ten thousands? And David laid up these words
in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. David
was fearful that Achish was going to want to kill him. Verse 13,
And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad
in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and
let his spittle fall down upon his beard. And then said Achish
unto his servants, Lo, you see the man is mad. Wherefore then
have you brought him to me? Have I need of madmen, that you
have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall
this fellow come into my house? David therefore departed thence,
and escaped to the cave of Dullam. And when his brethren in all
his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
Now Christ did not feign madness, but He appeared like a madman
to every God-hating rebel. And for that reason, we crucified
the King of Glory. But, just like God delivered
David, God delivered Christ. And so now, go back there, I
mean, look there again at 1 Samuel 22.1 and let's read this a little
different way. Now listen to this. Christ, therefore,
departed from this earth and escaped to the right hand of
the Father. And when His brethren in all His Father's house hear
the gospel, they go thither to Christ, And everyone that's in
distress over their sin, everyone that's in debt to the law, everyone
discontented, bitter of soul, gather themselves unto Christ
through faith. And He becomes the captain over
them. And they are with Christ a number
no man can number. Now let's go back to Psalm 34.
So, like as David taught this psalm to his brethren who came
to him, Christ, our prophet, teaches all who come to him and
he teaches us to give all the praise and all the glory to God
for saving us in Christ through His finished work. That's what
Christ, just like they came to David, God delivered David and
they came to David and David taught them this psalm right
here. Christ has been delivered. He's been raised to the right
hand of the Father and when God brings His people to Him, Christ
our prophet, He's called our prophet because He teaches us
affectionately in our heart. And Christ teaches us to glory
in God alone. So our subject tonight is Christ
teaches us to glory. Now first of all, Christ teaches
us what it is to glory in the Lord. Psalm 34, verse 1. He says, I will bless. That means
give honor, praise, and glory. I will bless the Lord at all
times. His praise shall continually
be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast
in the Lord. So first of all, we see here
to bless the Lord is to praise only the Lord. Christ says, I'll
bless the Lord. I'll bless the Lord. Christ,
the Son of God, took flesh, came to where we are to glorify our
triune God. He came to glorify only the triune
God. to give Him all the glory and
the salvation of God's elect. Hebrews 1 says, God in these
last days has spoken to us by His Son. And then it says, and
Christ is the brightness of God's glory. He's the express image
of His person. So even in Christ's person, He
glorified only God. The Scripture says, the Word
was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth. In the new birth, what happens?
God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, shines
in our heart to give us the light, the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ. So everything that we're going
to learn about the glory of God, we're going to behold it in Christ.
Christ gives all the glory to God. That's what He came to do. Just like the text Eric just
read. God said, I'll raise up a prophet
like unto Moses. I'll give him the words. He'll
give those words to you. That's what Christ is doing in
our text. He's giving us the words and
teaching us the glory in God only. Now we haven't gloried
only in God if we praise ourselves for one little part of our salvation. If we just praise ourselves for
one little aspect of salvation, we're not glorying only in the
Lord. Glorying in the Lord, praising the Lord, blessing the Lord is
to glory only in the Lord. And then we see here, to bless
the Lord is to do so at all times. He says there in verse 1, I'll
bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually
be in my mouth. That means in happy times and
in sad times. You look to the cross and we
see our substitute bearing more sorrow than any man ever bore. When you see that cross, there's
no sorrow like unto his sorrow. That's the lowest time. in the history of the world as
far as man's sin and rebellion is concerned. And you see Christ
bearing the worst sorrow anyone ever bore. But what do you see
Him doing at the same time? Glorifying God like no man ever
has, shall or will. And He's doing it in perfection.
Our glory in the Lord at all times. When Christ sends His
preacher, when He sends His preacher, As that preacher is preaching
the gospel, you know what Christ is doing? He's glorifying the
Lord. Because Christ, when He's speaking
through His preacher, when He gives the message to His earthen
vessel, it's being poured into that earthen vessel and poured
out of that earthen vessel to the people and it's Christ speaking
and glorifying the Lord continually. Praise coming out of His mouth
continually for the triune God. by the Spirit of Christ. You
remember when Paul and Silas were beaten and thrown into prison. That was a bad time. That was
a very sad time. God's mercy. Can you imagine?
I try to think about that today. Imagine if y'all heard that I
was cuffed and whipped and thrown in jail. Can you imagine what
the Lord's people thought? But what did it say about Paul
and Silas? At midnight, Paul and Silas prayed
and sang praises unto God. That's the Spirit of Christ working
in His people. So God's providence may cause
us sorrow. In this world you shall have
tribulation. But at all times, God is only doing what is good
for us and what brings Him glory. And so we're exhorted in the
scriptures, in everything, give thanks, praise Him, glorify Him,
for this, whatever the trial is, is the will of God in Christ
Jesus concerning you. It's the will of God that we
thank Him and praise Him and glory only in Him and whatever
trial He brings us into, this is the will of God concerning
you. So thank Him, praise Him. And then Christ teaches us here
to bless the Lord is to do so from the heart. He says there
in Psalm 34.2, My soul shall. My soul shall. The sinless God-man
glorified God the whole time He walked this earth from the
heart. From the heart, even until the death of the cross. when
our Lord was hanging on the cross in darkness, bearing the sin
of His people, forsaken of God, satisfying divine justice, upholding
God's justice, magnifying God's law, showing the righteousness
of God who will by no means clear the guilty, while He was doing
that, continued from his soul glorifying
God. And he did it in perfection.
He's the only one that ever did it in perfection. In our flesh,
as we come into this world, we can't glorify God. We can't in
our flesh because all our flesh is, is sin. We cannot glorify
God. You know how foolish it is for
vain religion to continually tell sinners to clean up the
outside. To be cleaning up the outside.
That's all vain religion is concerned about. Cleaning up the appearance. Cleaning up the outside. That's
what you hear in every message. Being moral outwardly. And Christ
said this, Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. He's
always stern with the leaders of vain religion. He was merciful
to the poor sinners who were being deceived by them, but he
was strict with those false preachers. He said, Woe unto you scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like unto whited
sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within
full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. Christ told
us they were all concerned about what they ate. What they ate. Eating without washing your hands
first. You're going to defile yourself doing that. That was
just a law made up by men, just like men in churches make up
their church laws that they have, and they enforce as if it's God's
Word. And He said to them, He said,
it's from within, out of the heart of men, that precede evil
thoughts and adulteries and fornications and thefts and so on. Out of
the heart, He said, all these evil things come from within
and defile the man. So that means it's not your surroundings,
it's not how you were, what your situation was with your upbringing,
it's not It's not what you eat or what you drink. It's not what
you do outwardly. The evil is from our sinful heart. That's where the evil comes from.
The things that come outwardly that you can actually see that
religion is worried about covering up, that's coming from a heart
that no man can change. That no man can change. Christ
redeemed must, we must be born again. And all Christ redeemed
shall be born again. He went to the cross and laid
down His life that we might be partakers of the adoption of
children. That God might send forth the
Spirit of His Son into our hearts and make us cry Abba Father from
a new heart, a clean heart, a pure heart. So we must be born again. We must be given a new heart.
Because no man can glorify God in the flesh. All we are is sin
in our flesh. We have to have a new spirit
put within us. A new man has to be created within. And in that new man now, he brings
us to glory in the Lord. Why is that so? Because religion,
true religion, is not just outward. It's in the heart. It will affect the outward. But
it begins in the heart. and works out from the heart.
Why? Because God told Samuel when
he was choosing David, he said, don't look on his outward appearance.
God does not look as man looks. God looks on the heart. Christ
said, the hour cometh and now he is when the true worshippers
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, in a new spirit
that he gives. in the new birth. For the Father
seeketh such to worship Him. That means that's the only kind
that's going to worship God are those that's been given a new
heart, a new man, a new spirit. God is a spirit and they that
worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. If a
man denies that there's a new spirit, a new man created within,
I know that new man is one with Christ, But that new man, Christ
is not worshiping for you. He is not believing for you.
He is not repenting for you. It is in that new man that we
can actually worship Him and repent from our dead works and
serve Him. Otherwise, if all a man has is
the flesh, you can't do anything in the flesh. Nothing comes from
the flesh but evil. So to glorify God is to praise
only God. That's first of all. It's to
do so at all times. And it's to do so from a new
God-given Spirit. Here's the next thing we see.
To bless the Lord is to boast in God our Savior. He says there,
verse 2, Christ said, My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. That's what we're doing, brethren.
When we gather to hear the gospel preached, we're bragging. We're
bragging. But whereas religion is bragging
on man, and on how you can clean everything up, and how you can
make Christ's blood effectual for you, that's bragging on man. We're bragging on God. We're
making our boast in the Lord. Go to Jeremiah 9. I want you
to see something here. I want you to see two or three
scriptures. Jeremiah 9.23. I'm just going
to go to verse 4 in our Psalms, so don't worry. Jeremiah 9.23. I want you to see this. Jeremiah
9.23. Thus saith the Lord, let not
the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory
in his might. Let not the rich man glory in
his riches. Let him that glorieth glory in
this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord
which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in
the earth. For in these things I delight,
saith the Lord. Now watch this. Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised,
that is, which are physically circumcised, with those that
are physically uncircumcised. You know the Israel? Israel,
those of Judah, they put all this confidence in outward physical
circumcision. That's what religion is doing
today. They put all this confidence in outward acts of religion. The Lord said, there's coming
a day when I'm going to punish all those that are doing all
those outward acts along with all people that have never done
those outward acts. Why? Look at this. Well, let's read on. He says,
Egypt and Judah. That's Gentiles and Jews. Edom,
and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the
utmost corners that dwell in the wilderness." Why is He going
to do this? For all these nations are uncircumcised and all the
house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. You see that? In the heart. What's He talking
about? Circumcision, physical outward circumcision that God
gave to Abraham was to typify circumcision of the heart. Regeneration,
the new birth, it was given to typify that. That's wherein God
makes His covenant with us, writing that covenant on our hearts,
and He brings us and teaches us to glory only in the Lord. Go with me to Romans 2.28. Romans
2.28. This is what Paul is talking
about right here. He had said to the Pharisees
in this chapter, they were so strict outwardly. He said, there's
Gentiles that don't even have the law of God and they got the
law of God written on their heart too. They know stealing is wrong. And he says, but what if now
one of those Gentiles that never been under the law of God actually
fulfills the righteousness of the law. The only one way you
can do that, that's through faith in Christ. He says that over
in Romans 9. The Gentiles who sought not after
the righteousness of the law obtained it. How? Through faith
in Christ. And the Jews who were seeking
the righteousness of the law did not obtain it because they
were seeking it by the works of the law. So he says here,
if one of these Gentiles actually has the righteousness of God,
will He not condemn you? Will He not show you to be absolute,
utter fraud? And here's what He's teaching.
Romans 2, 28. He's not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither
is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. He's a
Jew which is one inwardly. And circumcision is that of the
heart in the Spirit and not in the letter, whose praise is not
of men but of God. We're talking about praise tonight.
We're talking about glorying in somebody. This work, this
inward work of God brings a man to glory in God. And that word
there where it says whose praise is not of men, those men are
doing out works. They're trying to get the praise
of men. But this work God does wherein He brings a sinner to
cast all his care on Christ, He actually has the praise of
God. the commendation of God, acceptance with God. And that
sinner also glorifies only in God. God destroys the wisdom
of the wise and He brings to nothing the understanding of
the prudent. Who is the wise and the prudent?
That's me and you, all of us by nature. We think we're so
wise and so prudent, just ask a man, any man, he'll never even
pick this book up and he'll tell you everything he knows about
God and about Scripture. But God's going to destroy, in
everybody He saves, He's going to destroy the wisdom of the
wise, so-called wisdom of the wise, and the so-called prudence
of the prudent. He's going to destroy that. How's
He going to do it? First of all, He's going to save
using the foolishness of preaching. That's what 1 Corinthians is
telling us. The reason God's going to do it this way, the
reason it pleased God to save through the foolishness of preaching,
this means of public preaching, is because by this means He destroys
those who boast in their wisdom saying they found out God without
hearing the gospel preached. And He's going to save using
only the preaching of Christ in Him crucified. Not only is
it the foolishness of preaching He's going to use, it's only
going to be the preaching of Christ in Him crucified, declaring
that Christ alone is all in the salvation of His people. And
He's going to use weak, unimpressive nobodies to preach that gospel. Congratulations, Eric. God just
declared before everybody in the world that you are a weak,
helpless, ignorant nobody. And that's who He uses to preach.
You got one standing right here in front of you. But what does
He do through all that? He brings to naught things that
are. He brings to nothing people who
think they're something. That no flesh should glory in
His presence, but of Him. Through this means of Him are
you in Christ Jesus. Through this means of Him is
Christ made unto you wisdom and righteousness and sanctification
and redemption. That's what Jeremiah was talking
about. That's what the Lord was declaring through Jeremiah when
He said, If you want to glory, glory in this, that you know
and understand Me, how that I execute righteousness and judgment in
the earth. Because that's where you find it in Christ. Our wisdom,
our righteousness, our sanctification and redemption. And He makes
Him all this unto us through this preaching. Through the preaching
of Christ and Him crucified. Through a nobody preaching. That
stains the pride of man. But He does it so that He that
gloryeth, He that's going to make His boast now, He's going
to make His boast in the Lord. boasting the Lord. Now let me
tell you what that means, brethren, and be sure to get this. Only
those saved by this means glory in the Lord alone. Only those
saved by the means that God is pleased to use glory in the Lord
alone. All who claim to be saved another
way, glory in themselves. Whatever is that different way,
whatever part is that different way, that's the part wherein
They are glorying in themselves, whatever it is. To glory in the
Lord is to boast that our salvation is all of the Lord alone in the
way He is pleased to do it, in His way. Now, let's go to the
next thing here. First Christ teaches us what
it is to glory, and then Christ teaches us who is going to glory.
Who will glory in the Lord? Psalm 34, verse 2, the second
part. The humble shall hear thereof.
They're going to hear this message and be glad. And be glad. That's who's going to glory.
Only those God has made humble. Only those He's given a broken
and a contrite heart. He's going to talk about that
a little later in the psalm. We'll come to that another time.
But only those He's given a broken and contrite heart to bow to
God's way. They're the only ones that are
going to hear this message and they're going to be glad. Aren't
you glad it's this way? I'm glad it's this way. There's
no other way I could have been saved than God's way. There's
just no other way. I had no ability in me to do
it. It has to be God's way. And they hear this and they're
glad. I'm glad that it pleased God to save through the foolishness
of preaching. I'm glad it pleased God to save
with the preaching of Christ and Him crucified only. I'm glad
that God used somebody that was nobody to bring me to nothing. I'm glad of that. You know why? Because I know by that it was
all of the Lord. And I'm glad. I rejoice in it. They hear this and they're glad
that God chose whom He would and passed by whom He would.
Why does that make you glad? Because He told Moses that is
His very glory. I'll choose whom I will and I'll
pass by whom I will. That's the glory of God. That's
His glory as God to do so. They hear this and they're glad
that Christ came and accomplished our redemption by being made
a curse for us. I'm glad when I hear that there's
nothing left for me to do. I'm glad when I hear that Christ
fulfilled the law and honored the law and upheld God's righteousness,
magnified and honored the law because I never could have done
it. But He did it and He's the righteousness, our righteousness.
I'm glad He's my righteousness. They hear and they're glad that
Christ is our sanctifier and our sanctification. Why? Because
it gives Him all the glory as our holiness. I don't want it
to be as men ignorantly, foolishly, vainly preach that they'll preach
everything is all of the Lord except for this thing of sanctification.
And they'll say that's a co-effort between you and the Lord. Well
then if it is, you got where in the glory. That doesn't make
me glad. Because that steals. That shows
you it's not true sanctification because that's robbery. That's
thieving. That's impure and unholy. That's stealing the glory that
belongs to Christ. I want him to have all the glory.
I want him to have the glory of being my holiness. Don't you?
I hear that and it makes me glad. When I hear that we're kept by
the power of God unto salvation and that Christ will lose none,
that makes me glad because I'll prove every single day that if
He wasn't keeping me, I'd fall away. It gives him all the glory
and I'm thankful. I'm thankful that every good
work that a believer does was ordained by God before this world
was made and God brings him to do that work that he before ordained.
I'm glad of that because it gives God all the glory for every good
work that a believer does and doesn't give us any room to boast
in ourselves. We boast in the Lord. We boast
in the Lord. So we're thankful, brethren.
Now the one and only reason a man would not hear this and be glad,
there's only one reason a man would hear this and not rejoice.
He wants just a little bit of this praise that goes to God
only. He wants a little bit of it.
I pray tonight God would make somebody hear this or later when
they hear it on tape or however they hear it, I pray God would
use it to give them a new heart and bring them to glory only
in the Lord and be glad. I'm so glad that he gets all
the glory. And then look at this last thing.
Christ teaches us how it is that we come to glory in the Lord.
He says here, O magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His
name together. This is the only way a sinner
is going to cease boasting in himself and trying to take just
a little bit of God's glory, which is to try to take it all.
The only way a man is going to stop boasting in himself and
trying to steal God's glory is when Christ commands this command
effectually in his heart and says, Oh magnify the Lord with
me. and let us exalt His name together. Oh, magnify the Lord with me.
Christ magnified the Lord's righteousness by declaring God just and justifier
of everyone that believes on Christ. And He makes us magnify
God's righteousness. You know how? By submitting to
Christ our righteousness. You want to glorify God's righteousness?
All these people going around talking about what honor they
have for the law of God, and how they want to see the righteousness
of God's law upheld, and they're going about doing these things
they're doing because of that. You want to really magnify the
righteousness of God as Christ magnified the righteousness of
God? Submit to Christ our righteousness, the righteousness of God, and
you'll glorify and magnify the Lord. He says to us, let me read
this psalm. I want you to look at this psalm.
Psalm 35, just one psalm over. Psalm 35, 27. Look at this. Let
them shout for joy and be glad that favor my righteous cause. You see what the margin says?
That favor my righteousness. Favor my righteous. Let them
shout for joy and be glad that favor my righteous cause. Yet
let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which
hath pleasure in the prosperity of His servant, of Christ His
servant. That's who the Lord has pleasure
in, the prosperity of Christ His servant. Now then He says
to you, let us exalt His name together. Exalting Christ. Confessing Christ to be all my
salvation, exalting Christ is exalting the name of God. Listen
to this now. I'm just going to read these
to you, but listen to this. Christ is Jehovah Hosinu, the Lord our
Maker. Did not Christ make all things?
That's the name of the Lord. That's who He is, the Lord our
Maker. He's Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will provide. He's Jehovah
Nisi, the Lord our banner. He's Jehovah Rapha, the Lord
that healeth thee. And this is all Christ's name,
isn't it? He's Jehovah Shalom, the Lord our peace. He's Jehovah
Rea, the Lord our shepherd. He's Jehovah Sidcanu, the Lord
our righteousness. He's Jehovah Imkadesh, the Lord
that doth sanctify you. He's Jehovah Shema, the Lord
is there. He's Jehovah Jesus, the Lord
our Savior. Whenever David wanted to build
a house for the Lord, remember what the Lord told him? I'm going
to raise up your son. And he wasn't talking about Solomon. He was talking about Christ.
And he said this, He shall build a house for my name and I will
establish the throne of his kingdom forever. If anybody doesn't realize
that's Christ, just go read Acts chapter 2. That's what Peter
preached. That was Peter's message. Why
do we give God in Christ all the glory? Why do we do it? Look
at verse 4. I sought the Lord and He heard
me and delivered me from all my fears. When Christ was in
that darkness, surrounded by His enemies, when hell and the
devil and all the wickedness was around Him, and all His enemies
were surrounding Him, and God had forsook Him, and He's hanging
there in darkness, alone, treading the winepress of the fury of
God alone. Christ sought the Lord, and He
heard Christ. And He delivered him, and in
doing so, He delivered all His people in Him. And so, when He
brought us to call on the Lord, when He speaks this word right
here, affectionately in your heart, and says, Come now, let
us magnify the Lord together, let us exalt His name together,
and He brings you to call on the name of the Lord. Beg at
mercy from the Lord. When you see you're surrounded
by the law that said you deserve to die, and you see that there's
nothing you can do to save yourself, you see that your flesh is your
enemy, you see that false religion is your enemy, you see that all
your very best works in religion and all the deeds you did is
all your enemy, and you're finally brought to truly seek the Lord
and call out for mercy, for Christ's sake, He heard you. And for Christ's
sake, He made you to know you're delivered. You're delivered. And when He did that, He brought
you to glory in the Lord. Let me sum up what I've tried
to show you here. Christ Jesus, our risen prophet,
priest, and king, is preeminent in praising Jehovah, our triune
God. And it's only by Christ teaching
us through the Spirit of God in our hearts that we're able
to bless the Lord, that we're able to give Him all the praise
by resting entirely in Christ our salvation. This is what God
said. In the Lord, in the Lord shall
all the seed of Israel be justified, and in the Lord shall all Israel
glory. Nowhere else, just in the Lord.
Why? Everyone that's called by my
name, I created him for my glory. And I formed him and I made him
for my glory. If we're not glorying only in
the Lord, we haven't even been created by him or made by him.
That's what his people do because that's why he created them anew.
In the Lord. Shall all God's elect be justified,
and in the Lord shall all God's elect Israel glory. Aren't you
thankful? That's Christ our prophet that
teaches us that. I pray he don't. I don't ever
want him to teach me that. I'll fall away in a heartbeat.
I want glory only in him. Amen. Let's stand together. Our great God and our Father,
how we do thank You that You sent Your Son and You worked
this work and continue to work this work in our hearts. We thank
You, Lord, that You've raised Him to the right hand to continue
to mediate, make intercession for us, and continue to teach
us to glory only in Your holy name. Lord, make us rest in Christ. If there's any that is troubled
by their sin and have doubts and fears about salvation, make
us see and know and rest entirely in Christ the Lord. And by that,
Lord, make us glory in You, only in You. Save us from ourselves,
save us from our foolish boasting and the things that we get caught
up in thinking we've really accomplished something. Lord, turn us and
make us glory only in Your holy name. speak this word effectually,
we ask it. Lord, thank You for the trials.
Thank You for the lessons You teach us through them. And thank
You, Lord, that in it all, You won't ever lose one of Your people
or let us go. Lord, people are suffering in
this world and You know it. You sent the trial. You know
what You're doing and, Lord, we ask You according to Your
mercy, according to Christ's blood, according to His intercession
at Your right hand, we ask You, Father, for His sake, for Your
glory, for Your honor, for Your holy name, we ask You, Lord,
comfort their hearts, bring them to see and rest in Christ alone. Lord, thank you for the word.
Thank you for this place, for your people everywhere. Be with
Brother Eric and Michelle as they are preparing to move. Lord,
be with the church in Missouri. We pray that you would comfort
their hearts and knit their hearts together as husband and wife. Make them united forever. We
ask it, Lord, that you might have all the glory and honor.
In Christ's name we pray. Amen.