times in just the last two or
three weeks. But today, God, the Holy Spirit read it
to me. And so I want you to just hold
your Bibles open on your lap this morning, this evening, and
let me share with you what God has given to me. I have a greater sorrow than
anticipation of my sister's painful, lengthy demise, my sorrow is
immeasurably increased because I fear she doesn't know God and doesn't know it. So you can imagine the sorrow
of hearts with which I began today. Here are 10 words of comfort
God's given me. In this third chapter of Exodus,
God the Holy Spirit is giving us the preface to the deliverance
of the children of Israel from their bondage and oppression
in Egypt after 400 years. He is here about to send Moses
to deliver Israel out from under the hand of Pharaoh. And that
itself is a portrayal of every believer's experience of God's
grace about which Brother Frank has just been preaching to us.
It is itself a portrayal about the believer's life experience
of the grace of God being redeemed by the hand and now stretched
arm of God Almighty by purpose, by blood, and by power. Redeemed because God purposed
to do it. redeemed by the precious blood
of Christ, sin-atoning sacrifice by which our atonement was purchased
from under the hands of divine justice, our sins put away and
justice satisfied, and redeemed by the power of God calling us
to life and faith in Christ, preserving us and keeping us
all the days of our pilgrimage, bringing us at last into heaven's
glory when we close our eyes in death, and then in the consummation
when Christ comes again, makes all things new, and raises us
up in perfected glory with himself. That's redemption by the grace
of God. Now, the things that are written here in Exodus 3
are written by divine inspiration according to the Spirit of God
for our learning and admonition that we, through patience and
comfort of the scriptures, might have hope. Everything written
in this book. Everything written in this book. Did you get that, Eric? Everything
written in this book is written for us, who are gods. No matter where you live, when
you live, or under what circumstances you live. Written for us, that
we, through patience and comfort of the scriptures. I don't really
know what the spirit of God means when he says patience of the
scriptures. Perhaps the great mercy of God
over a period of 1,500 years, in the experience of his saints
in various parts of the world, under every imaginable circumstance
in life, giving us the word of God, that we now, through patience
and comfort of the scriptures, the book of God is designed to
comfort God's people. to comfort God's people. Some
years ago, some fella over at Staten Island came down to visit
with me, going to some reformed church over there. I don't even
remember who it was. If the fella's here tonight, I hope he learned
his lesson. But he, they're going to some reformed church, and
we're sitting out on my deck. I was smoking my pipe, and Shelby
was getting lunch ready, or we were just over lunch, and he
was telling me about going to church. He said, oh, I go to
church every Sunday, and I come away just beat down. Just beat
down. He's such a good pastor. I said,
what? Why on earth would you go to
church with somebody that beats you every day? I wouldn't go home. My daddy beat me every day. As
a matter of fact, I didn't. I just don't go in for that.
Oh, no. The scriptures are intended to
comfort his people. to comfort you, my people, saith
the Lord. But don't you need to reprove
sin? Preach the gospel, got to reprove your sin. Point men to
Christ, your sin will be reproved. There's no compromise in this.
Our intent, by the direction of God, is that we comfort his
people by the gospel. The word of God is written for
our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. If
you just hold your Bibles open here, that's the Exodus chapter
3. I'll show you 10 words of comfort
from God our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the angel of the
Lord. He's the one who's speaking to
Moses out of the bush. What a sight that must have been.
Moses saw a bush, not a holly bush, Not an evergreen bush,
not an azalea bush, a bramble bush. Y'all like to watch westerns? That's about all we watch. Nothing
fit to see on TV. Most of the westerns aren't either,
but at least they're fitting what I've got now. And you watch
westerns, you ever see the bushes blowing across the desert? Bushes
don't have any root. They're dry as hay, laying out
in the field in the middle of July with no rain for 30 days.
Just a bramble bush. A worthless, easily consumed,
meaningless bush that's got nothing on it but briars. That's what
we're talking about. And Moses saw a bush burning.
Burning with fire! But it wasn't burning. There
was just fire in the bush. And the bush wasn't burning.
And Moses said, I've got to stop and look at this. And as he did,
the angel of the Lord, everywhere you see those words in the Old
Testament, that's Christ our Redeemer. Comes down to visit
with man and speak to him. The angel of the Lord spoke to
him out of the bush. Now listen to what it says to
him. We'll begin at verse 7. Number 1, I have surely seen
the affliction of my people. I have surely seen the affliction
of my people. Deprived of liberty, the children
of Israel were slaves to the king of Egypt, in common with
other subjects. And they were not just slaves,
they were slaves to slaves. They were compelled to work in
the open air, in the hot desert sun, gathering stubble to make
hay without anything given to them. And they were forced to
do so under the hand of cruel, diligent taskmasters who loved
to make them hurts. Their food was meager and contained
little nourishment during the time of their great affliction.
All they had were the leeks and onions that grew wild in Egypt
and the few sheep they raised. Painful and distressing as those
things are, Those were the smallest part of Israel's misery. While
the fields were surrounded with their cries all the day, their
huts echoed their lamentations every night because their sons
were dragged from their mother's arms and drowned in the river, put to death. just to keep them
from multiplying. Degraded and oppressed, they'd
been in bondage in Egypt for 400 years. Who can imagine the
anguish they were in? We talk about it almost glibly. Who can imagine the sufferings
they endured? We can't begin to understand
it. To them, the morning sun arose without hope, and the setting
sun had no peace. The beauties of new life budding
forth in the spring gave them no thought of budding life. The bounties of harvest in the
fall only reminded them that while others gained much, they
only starved and were empty. Even the ordinary charms of domestic
life were made bitter to them. Any of you ladies fixing to have
a child? Anybody? Anybody pregnant? Just imagine. Just imagine, Christine, when
you and Scott found out you were going to have that first baby.
You knew just as soon as you were born you were going to die.
Hmm. Carry that baby for nine months.
And that boy begins to cry. And Pharaoh's snitches hear the
cry. Go get him and kill him. Oh,
what pain, what misery, what sorrow. To them, everything was
misery. Everything was grief. Everything
was despair. They knew it not. And they wouldn't
have believed it if they had heard it. But the Lord God says,
I have surely seen the affliction of my people. He said, Moses, I've seen the
affliction of my people, my people. In their great sorrow, they had
long forgotten God, and they presumed God had forgotten them. For wise and gracious reasons,
the Lord God delayed to appear on their behalf for 400 years.
But that was not intended to show any indifference by him
to their sufferings or to them. He saw their affliction and he
heard their cries. Not just as they cried to him. They just cried. They just cried. His eye was upon them. His ear
constantly open to their sobbing hearts. Every tear they shed
observed by Him. Every groan recorded by His hand. These words of our Savior, I
have surely seen the affliction of my people, might be read this
way. In seeing, I have seen the affliction
of my people. That's an indication of much
more than omniscience, much more than a doctrine, much more than
something abstract. The words express the clear,
distinct, full sight he had of all their afflictions, his sympathy
toward them in all their troubles, and an affectionate concern he
had for them, fixed, settled determination in his heart to
deliver them. He thoroughly observed their
affliction and was moved by what he saw. Well, Brother Don just
messed his theology up. Anybody knows God's not moved.
Well, if you think God's a rock, go ahead and think so. God reveals
himself to us in anthropomorphic terms to give us some understanding
of his being and his work. And he is moved with that which
moves us. God, the incarnate God, our Savior,
Jehovah, is moved with that which moves us. He thoroughly, thoroughly
observed their affliction and was moved by what he saw. This
is what the book says. In all their affliction, he was
afflicted. In all their affliction, he was
afflicted. I just can't grasp that. I just
can't grasp that. He was bent upon delivering this
people from their affliction with which he was afflicted.
I've said all of that. to say this, child of God, ever
remember this, our God sees us. I mean by that his watchful eye
is always upon us, watching over us, watching over us, watching
over us with the tender care of our Father. He watches over
us with all the affection, all the goodness, all the mercy,
all the loving kindness of his infinite holy being. Thou, God,
seest me, Hagar said. Thou, God, seest me. If God sees, everything's all
right. If God's watching over me, everything's
alright. Thou, God, seest me. Men may oppress. Satan may assail. Sorrows may crush. My own heart
may condemn. But thou, God, seest me. He sees you. He sees you perfectly. He sees you always. He sees you
where you are. He sees you with the eye of perfect
love. And he's touched with what he
sees. Our Redeemer became one of us,
that he might be for us a merciful and faithful high priest, touched
with the feeling of our infirmities, that he might be able to succor
them that are tempted. We don't use that word sucker
much. I know up here, amongst you folks, that's a strange word.
Down south, we about quit using it, but every now and then you'll
find some southern folks, especially in rural areas, who still use
it. It's an old English word. It's a much bigger and better
word than sympathize. Much bigger and better word.
We sympathize with people. But if it's your baby suffering,
If it's your husband suffering, if it's your wife suffering,
then you don't just sympathize with them and help them. You help them with feeling. He's touched with the feeling
of our infirmities. And because he is God in our
nature, having endured all that we endure, our great God and
Savior reaches down his hand of mercy and helps with feeling
his people in all their trials and temptations. Within thy circling
power I stand. On every side I find thy hand.
Awake, asleep, at home, abroad, I am surrounded still with God. Look at verse 7 again. Here's
the second thing he says. I have heard thy cry. In chapter 2, we read in verse
24 that God heard their groaning. God heard their groaning and
remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with
Jacob. What an indescribable blessing. You who are God's bear me witness.
I'm certain your experience is the same as mine. When we really pray, I'm not talking about saying
our prayers. Most of the time, we do that abominable thing called
saying our prayers. We pray because it's time to
pray, we pray because we're supposed to, pray because we're expected
to, and we say words. But when you really pray, I'm
talking about when you're forced by the hand of providence and
grace to go to God, you find it difficult to order
words before him. Your words get in the way. All you can do grow The book
of God makes this promise to us the Spirit of God maketh intercession
for the Saints With groaning which cannot be heard God the
Son, who knows the mind of the Spirit, searches our hearts,
and He hears the Spirit of God groaning in us, and He grows
with us, for us, at the throne of grace, to God our Savior,
with the mind of God. And He is always effectual in
His prayers. The God of glory hears the cries
of our hearts. David said, in my distress, I
called upon the Lord and cried unto my God. He heard my voice
out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even to his
ears. The King of heaven says to you
and me, let me hear thy voice. The doors of mercy are always
open to your cries. Let me hear your voice. Let us
therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. When I was in college, I didn't
have many courses that were worth having. The theology classes,
I was in a constant battle all the time. I mean, from the beginning,
when I was I was 17 when I started. From the beginning, this constant
battle, this relentless battle. But I had a couple of good courses. One of them was class on prayer.
And it wasn't an academic thing. It was a class in which principally
the professor just talked to us about prayer and his experience
of prayer. One assignment he gave was probably
the best assignment I've ever had given to me in any academic
circle. He said to the class as we dismissed
the class for some kind of a break we had. He said, now class, when
you come back, while you're gone, I want you to take Hebrews 4.16
and just go at it from every angle you can go at it from and
write down what God teaches you from it. Let us. I don't know exactly who that's
talking to, but I presume since I read it, let us is talking
to me. Let us. Let us, therefore, because Christ
is such a God, such a Savior, such a High Priest, touched with
the feeling of our infirmities, able to succor them that are
tempted, let us come boldly. The word has not come cocky like
some hotshot Pentecostal evangelist trying to impress you. The word
has come freely. Come like a little child to his
father who's not old enough to understand that daddy sometimes
is upset. A little child comes to his father
who's not old enough to understand that sometimes daddy's too busy. Come like a little child to his
father who expects his daddy always to be there and always
to hear him. And always to care. That's the
word. Come freely. Come freely where?
To the throne. Come to the place that controls
everything. The throne of grace. Oh, our
God sits yonder on his sovereign throne. A great white throne of grace. Throne of grace. I presume that
means there's grace to be had at the throne for everybody who
needs it. Come boldly to the throne of
grace that we, you and I, may obtain mercy. Mercy. Something we don't deserve. Mercy. Mercy is more than a judge saying,
well, I'll let you off this time. Mercy is a felt tenderness. That we may have felt tenderness
from Him who sits on the throne and find grace to help. just
as often as you need it. In every time of need. Prayer
is not eloquence. Oh, no. Prayer is earnestness. It's not the definition of helplessness. It's the feeling of it. It's
the cry of faith to the ears of mercy by the merit and efficacy
of Christ's precious blood and righteousness. The cries and
groans of our hearts penetrate the heart of God. Now look at
the last line of verse 7. I know their sorrows. I know their sorrows. He knoweth our frame. He remembers
that we're dust. And he knows our sorrows. Touched
with the feeling of our infirmity. He who bore my sin upon Calvary's
cursed tree bore my sicknesses and bore my diseases. And frankly,
I don't know why those words are used in the scriptures, but
they're used. He bore my sicknesses and my diseases. Does that mean
he actually had cancer? Does that mean he actually got
pneumonia? Does that mean he actually broke his foot? Does
that mean he actually had headaches? I am confident it means indescribably
more than that. He who bore our sins upon Calvary's
cursed tree, the man of sorrows endured in his humanity Every
pain, every heartache, every sorrow,
every difficulty, his people endure through the days of their
lives walking on this earth. Everything. Now, he who once
bore my sin and carried our sorrows is touched with the feeling of
my infirmities. His tender eye was once damned
with weeping, too. The Lord God says to his servants,
comfort ye, comfort ye my people. Let me give you three things
described in this book for our comfort. First, we're told in
Job 14 that he has a bag for our sins. In ancient times when men died
at sea, they were wrapped up in a body bag that was sealed,
sewn up, sealed, and they put weights in it, and they were
dropped off the ship, and they sank, hopefully, to the bottom
of the sea. The Lord God has put our sins
in his sword. made his son to be sin for us
and cast our sins into the sea of infinite forgiveness. Such
infinite forgiveness that he says, I will not remember their
sins. How can God, who knows everything,
not remember anything? He can't! The only thing he can't
remember what is not, what you just said. He put our sins away. He purged our sins, buried in
the depth of the sea of infinite forgetfulness at God's back. When you can find the back of
the almighty, you can find my sin. Not only has he a bag for
our sins, he has a book written that contains our names. Rejoice
in this! Your names are written in heaven. Well, that takes care of everything,
doesn't it? Your names are written in heaven. What else matters? Your names are written in heaven.
Rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. In other words,
the Savior is saying, children of God, you've got nothing to
fear. Nothing to fear. And we're told
in Psalm 56, David prayed like this, put thou my tears into
thy bottle. Are they not in thy book? In
ancient times, they used to have, folks were even bigger on ceremony
and tradition than they are, well, I don't need it bigger
than we are, just different ones. But they had traditions. And
in Egypt, they used to have little vials. Little vials. I remember
when we were in England years ago, we went to a place called
St. Albans. They had uncovered a
Roman city. And they had the tiniest little vials. Just tiny
little vials. You know what they were? They
were tear bottles. Tear bottles. So that folks would
go to a funeral and they'd catch tears in a bottle. And in ancient
Egypt, they would put those in the tombs of the dead. as a continual
memorial to their grief and sorrow concerning the one who's gone.
Put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in thy book? In
other words, David says, Lord, you take my sorrow that comes
because of your decree. and put it in your bottle. Make
me to know, my God, that you remember me." John Trapp said,
that's a sweet support to a seeking soul that God knows all and bears
apart. My father knows. That's enough. My father knows. That's enough. I, uh, have told you before,
I only have one child and he was a girl, so I don't qualify
to give parental advice about anything. But I'll tell you what
I expected from my daughter. And you know, I still do. She's
47 years old and I still expect it from her. If she got any difficulty,
any difficulty, I say to her, I know. That means, honey, I'm
going to take care of this. It's all right. I know. I know. I'll take care of it. And you
know what I expect from her? I expect her to trust me to take
care of it. Your father knows. Whatever it
is that crushes your heart, your father knows. Whatever it is
that drives you to your knees, your father Whatever it is that
causes you to be uneasy your father knows. I know, I know. Thou God seest me. Number four,
look at verse eight. I am come down to deliver them. I have come down to deliver them. What? In his incarnation. The Lord Jesus came down to deliver
us. He became one of us that he might
redeem and save us. I came down to deliver them.
He comes down at the appointed time of love in his marvelous
grace when he sends his spirit and fetches his own and calls
you by his grace. Oh, may God come down tonight
and deliver you. Oh, may he come down and deliver
you. And he comes down in his providence. And he brings you into the depth
of the sea. And you reel to and fro like
a drunken man. And you stagger back and forth
and you're at your wit's end. And you don't know what to do.
And you're utterly incapable of doing anything to help yourself. Then they cry unto me. He comes
down to help. He comes down to deliver. In
all His gracious providence, God brings pain that He may bring
joy. He brings sorrow that He may
bring gladness. He brings trials that He may
bring triumph. He brings us low that He may
lift us up. And I don't mean by that Lift
us up into some great position or notoriety or fame. Oh, no,
I mean he brings you low in your soul That he may lift you up
to himself That he may set you down with him at his old right
hand in the sweet experience of his grace look at verse 12
Certainly I will be with them Certainly, I will be with thee. Moses, Moses, son, you're going
to have some tough days ahead. You're going to have some tough
days ahead. Certainly, I will be with thee to encourage you. I'll be with you to protect you. I'll be with you to strengthen
you. I'll be with you to help you. Fear not thou. I'm with thee be not dismayed
for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yeah,
I will help thee Yeah, I will uphold thee with the right hand
of my righteousness What a word not the right hand of my might
Not the right hand of my power not the right hand of my omnipotence
though. They're all included I will uphold
you done for throughout the days of all this
conflict and all your sinful rebellings and all your fallings
and all your corruption and all your unbelief, I will uphold
you with the right hand of my righteousness because it's right
for me to uphold you. You're mine. I've redeemed you. Justice demands it. I will uphold
you with the right hand of my righteousness." This is God's
promise to every believing sinner in the world. I don't remember how many times
you find this promise in the book of God. At least three.
I think five. At least three. He said, I will
never leave thee nor forsake thee. I'll never leave thee nor forsake
thee. Brother Clay, how often we leave
him on purpose. I'll never leave thee nor forsake
thee. Read it like this. I will never, no never, no never
leave thee. I will never, no never, no never
forsake thee. When you read it like that, it's
redundancy. That's the reason the translators didn't translate
it that way. That's exactly how it reads. I will never, no never,
no never leave you. I will never, no never, no never
forsake you. No matter what. Never, never. Look at verse 12, the last line. Ye shall serve God upon this
mountain. This mountain is Horeb. This
mountain is Mount Sinai. This mountain is the mount where
the children of Israel trembled with horrid fear. And they said, Moses, you go
up and talk to God. We can't talk to God. And Moses
veiled his face, went into the mountain. The clouds, and the
smoke, and the thundering, and the shaking. There's where the
law of God came down. God says to Moses, and God says
to Israel, thou shalt serve God upon this mountain. Now hear me, my brother. Hear
me, my sister. Whatever mountains of sorrow
and troubles rise before you, and they will. Whatever mountains of trouble
and sorrows rise before you, And they will. I'm talking mountains. Whatever they are. The Lord God
Almighty will be with you. And he will uphold you with the
right hand of his righteousness. And when he gets done, you'll
serve God on the top of that mountain. What do you mean, pastor? I mean that I know a little bit about pain,
and a little bit about sorrow, and a little bit about trial,
and a little bit about heartache. I'm 66 years old. God saved me
50 years ago. And Looking back over those years,
I've never wept a tear. I've never felt a pain. I've
never endured a sorrow that I would have taken away. I wouldn't change
anything, not a thing. It's all been good for me and
good for everybody whose lives I touch. Thou shalt serve God
upon this mountain. Look at verse 14. Perhaps this
is the most powerful incentive possible to believe that it shall
be so. He who made these promises declares,
I am that I am. Listen to me, my brother. Listen to me, my brother Moses. This is I am talking to you.
I made these promises to you. I'll be with you. I'll uphold
you. I'll deliver you. I hear you. I see you. I'll uphold you with
the right hand of my righteousness. You can bake on it! I am that
I am. I am the eternal, self-existent
God. I am the all-sufficient God. I am the independent God. I am the only one who can say
I am. I am always what I am now. I was yesterday what I am now. I will be tomorrow what I am
now and tomorrow I will be what I am now and what I was yesterday. You can count on me. You can
count on me. I had a very high compliment
from a dear, dear friend this past week. I called him. He was
going through some trouble. And I said to him, I'm your friend,
and I'm here for you. And I've got your back. And I'll
go to the wall with you. And he said to me, Brother Dodd,
in every difficulty I've ever been in, you've been my friend. That's a high compliment. Let
me tell you about my friend. His name is I Am. His name is I Am. I Am. That means they're not anybody
I need to be afraid of. or anything I need to be afraid
of, or any difficulty I can't face, or any trial I can't endure,
or any heartache I can't endure, for His glory, and to honor Him
in it. He's I Am. Oh, you're bragging
now, now I'm telling you what's true. His name is I Am. I Am. And He's my God. And He's my brother. And He sees
me. He said, I'll uphold you with
the right hand of my righteousness. I am that I am. Look at verse
17. I will bring you up out of the
affliction. I'll bring you into a land flowing
with milk and honey. The fact is he squeezes milk
and honey out of every hard rock of adversity and causes milk
and honey to flow to us in such abundance in our souls that the
rock of adversity from which it flows is soon forgotten. Let's
get down to verse 21. Now, I love this. Look at this. God
promises his people favor even among the Egyptians. even among
the Egyptian. God promises him a favor. He
says, when I bring you out of this place, now remember I told
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, I'm gonna bring you out, I'm gonna
bring you down here, and you're gonna stay here 400 years. But
I promised Abraham, blessing, I'll bless you. Man, it sure
doesn't look like it, does it? What kind of blessing is this?
God says, when you leave here, you'll not go out empty. You'll
not go out empty. What happened? When Pharaoh said,
all right, Moses, you get every one of these Jews, and all your
cattle, and all your sheep, and all your children, and get out
of this land. We're sick and tired of all these
things you've done to us. And by the way, you need some
gold? You need a little silver? Wait
a minute! Bring your necklaces, and your
earrings, and your bracelets, and your tabrets, and your jewelry.
Y'all got some coins in the trays of your chests there? Bring those
over. Put them in their head! They're going out of here. What?
What? And if that's not enough, Pharaoh
changed his mind and pursued them into the Red Sea. And God
drowned the Egyptians on the Red Sea. And you know what they
got while they were there? They went around and gathered up weapons
of war to do them for 40 years in the wilderness. What did they
take out of Egypt? They took everything out of Egypt
that was worth having. Everything worth having. Well,
what was left in Egypt? Everything wasn't worth having.
That's what was left there. That's what was left there. You'll
not go out empty. I like afflictions which are
but for a moment. Work for us a far more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory. Peter said, the trial of your
faith, more precious than gold that perishes. Not your faith,
the trial of it. For heaven's glory shall be indescribably greater
in the experience of it that it could ever have been without
it. Now I know some folks, so let's just stretch it a little
bit. We could never have known the glory of God in redemption
had we not had that first trial in our father Adam. And the same
is true of all others. The Lord God, the Angel of the
Covenant, our Savior, has from eternity purposed everything
we experience in time, and He brings it to pass in time, creating
darkness and light alike, creating peace and evil alike in the lives
of His people, so that when He's done with us, oh, what it'd be something to
look back over the Alps of time and have the angel of the Lord
say, God, remember, you remember when you're over there? Yeah,
I remember. Let me show you what I was doing.
And he causes us to see his wisdom, his goodness, his grace, and
his glory as we could not see it otherwise. And so it is even
in time. We see things through eyes that
have burned with tears. We cannot see otherwise. We see
things through difficult times. We cannot see otherwise. And
we learn things through trial. We cannot learn otherwise. One
more text. The last thing our Savior says
in verse 22. And ye shall spoil the Egyptians. Ye shall spoil the Egyptians. What's that ancient saying? You
remember it? To the victor go the spoils. Ye shall spoil the
Egyptians. Read the book of Revelation.
Get to the end of the book and God tells us something wonderful.
He says, The nations of the saved, the nations of them that are
saved, that is, his people saved from among the nations of the
earth, come and bring the riches of the nations and the kings
of the earth, the kings of the nations. Bring all the treasures
of the nations and they flow into God's house. So that when God's finished with
this world, and God's finished with us, and Christ sits triumphant
on his throne, and we sit triumphant with him on his throne, we shall
forever enjoy possessing and enjoy all God's creation. in all the benefits of creation
and providence for his glory and our joy as God originally
created us for his glory. God help you now to understand
this is our God. This is our Savior. Oh God give
you faith in him. God give me faith in you. Amen. We're going to close with hymn
number 272. Let's stand and sing hymn 272, The Solid Rock. 272.