Once more seeking the Lord's
help to grant me the words to speak to you this morning, I'd
like to direct your attention to the chapter that we read together,
Exodus chapter 20, and the text you'll find in verse 8. Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy. All of us, I think, would know
the Ten Commandments. what we all would have learned
at Sunday school. We all would have seen the pictures
of Moses and coming down from the mountain, holding the two
tablets of stone and how God's law was written upon those stones
and how those stones were, those tablets of stones were placed
into the Ark of the Covenant and then upon the top of the
Ark of the Covenant was placed the two angels, the cherubims
and that became the mercy seat which was placed into the Holy
of Holies in the tabernacle and then in the temple and that was
the place which was the dwelling place of God. have read how those laws were
given to Moses first by voice that God spoke to Moses and the
people of Israel and so fearful was the sight of God descending
upon the mountain and speaking to Moses that the people were
afraid and they moved away the scripture tells us when the people
saw it they moved and stood afar off and said unto Moses speak
thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us
lest we die. And so as that interaction took
place, as the thundering and the lightning and the voice of
God sounded from the mountain, the people cried out, give us
a mediator. You stand between God and God
will speak to you and you will speak to us. And Moses tells
them, do not be afraid for God has come to test you. and that
his fear may be before your faces that you sin not. And so the
law was given to Moses and to the children of Israel. It was
a setting out of those things which were pleasing to God in
which he desired his people to live in a way that was pleasing
to him. And we know that with every law
that is given, there is also a consequence for breaking that
law. And so God lays down those things
that were pleasing in his sight, that he created man to be subject
to him and subject to his law and to live in a certain way
that was pleasing to him. We read that they were not to
have any idols, they were not to make any other gods. They
were not to bow down or worship any other thing other than the
Lord because the Lord is a jealous God. He is jealous because it
is He who has created all things and who created all things for
His benefit that they may worship Him. And if they go then off
and worship other gods, those things are receiving the glory
that should be given to God there. therefore he is the jealous God,
and that jealousy is perfect and right for him to have it. That they were not to take the
name of the Lord their God in vain. In our own day, it is commonplace,
isn't it, to hear people blaspheme, to say, oh my God, or Jesus Christ,
and to use the name of God as a curse word. the scripture tells
us that that is not to be the case, that God will not hold
them guiltless who take his name in vain. And the fourth commandment
then is to remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. And it gives
us an explanation as to why the children of Israel were to keep
this day separate from every other day. Six days, shout thy
labor and do all thy work. On the seventh day is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no work,
thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughters, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant,
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For
in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
is in them is, and rested on the seventh day. Wherefore the
Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. And so he tells
them to remember. Remember the Sabbath day. The
word Sabbath means an intermission, a pause in day to day things. Sometimes if you're watching
something, you press pause and you go off and you do something
else and you come back and you begin watching again. In the
old theatres, Or if you're watching musicals after you've been there
for some time, the curtain would come down and it would say intermission. Go off and do your own thing
and then come back again and everything will continue. And
that is what the Sabbath means. This is an intermission, a pause,
a day of rest. It says to remember. Now, to
remember can be two ways. We can remember things that have
passed or we can continue to remember to do things. And I think with this Sabbath
day here, there is the two way. There is to remember what was
passed and there is to remember to continue to do it. If you
remember the Ten Commandments, they were written in stone in
Exodus 31. Not only were they written in
stone, but they were also written with the finger of God. Exodus
31 and verse 18. After, again, he speaks to Moses
about the keeping of the Sabbath day right at the end. And he
gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with
him upon Mount Sinai, two tablets of testimony, tables of stone
written with the finger of God. Moses was given the ceremonial
law in Leviticus and the civil law and the moral law. The moral
law was written in stone by God's own hand. The ceremonial law
and the civil law was written by Moses himself. But the moral
law was written on tablets of stone by the finger of God himself. in the book of of James. James
refers to this moral law. As the royal law. James, chapter two in the New
Testament. And from verse eight. If he fulfilled the royal law.
According to the scripture, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
ye do well. But if ye have respect of persons,
ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the
whole law, yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For
he that said, do not commit adultery, also said, do not kill. Now if
thou Commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become
a transgressor of the law. And so as God wrote his law on
tablets of stone with his own finger, the scripture tells us
that that is his royal law, that Christ summarizes that law by
saying you should love God with all of your heart, mind, and
soul, and your neighbor as yourself. And the scripture tells us here
that if you break one point of that law, you are guilty of breaking
all of that law. In other words, the punishment
for breaking one of those laws is equivalent to breaking all
of them. If you kill somebody, the punishment of that is hell. If you commit adultery, the punishment
of that is hell. And so there's no difference.
You break one, you're as guilty as though you have broken all
of them. And that is because it is the
mind of God revealed to us in his word, laid out in 10 points,
which are easy for us to understand. And not only is it God's mind,
revealed to us, but it's also for the benefit of God's creation
and God's, the social order of society. If you think, if everybody
lived in accordance with those, even if Christ summed up, Lord,
to love God with all of our heart, soul and mind, and our neighbour
as ourself, There will be no need for any police force or
any security in any way because everyone will be living for the
glory of God and to the benefit of each other. And so God's law
is his mind revealed to us on tablets of stone for the benefit
of society. And so then there is the remembering
of the Sabbath a day looking backwards, where did it start?
We read in the explanation, for in six days the Lord made heaven
and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the
seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath, and he hallowed it. We can read in Genesis, chapter
2, at the end of God's creation. Thus the heavens and the earth
were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day
God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh
day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the
seventh day. He sanctified it because that
in it he had rested from all his work which God created and
made. And so at the end of God's creation,
although he himself needed no rest, he was not tired, but he
chose to set aside this day and to rest on that day. He says
that he blessed it and he sanctified it or he set it aside as holy
unto himself. because on that day he rested
from all that he had made. And the word rested literally
means he sabbathed. He sabbathed and he paused. and he stopped those things that
he was doing and he rested on that day. He set it apart for
himself. If you think of Adam, Adam was
created by God, formed by God out of the dust of the earth
and he was given a work to do. in the garden of Eden. He was to dress it and to take
care of that garden. Now you would think that as God
rested on the seventh day, so Adam would have rested on the
seventh day with God. They rested together on that
day, on that day that was set aside, sanctified, made holy
for God. And so they were to look back
to see its origins, where it came from. And it came from the
creation, from the beginning of creation, an ordinance that
God set aside a day that was set aside for rest. And so as they were commanded
then to remember this day, they could look back the beginning
of time and see where it came from, that God sabbathed on the
seventh day. And they were told then to continue
to remember If you remember that when the children of Israel were
given manna, as it came down from heaven, they were to collect
it for six days. And on the sixth day they were
to collect double the amount, because on the seventh day they
were not to collect any manna. And this was done even before
the giving of the law of God. This was done before this instance
here, the speaking of the law and the putting it down on the
two tablets of stone. And so they were told on day
six, collect double the amount, for on the seventh day, on the
Sabbath day, they were not to collect any manna. And they were then to continue
to remember, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. If you go back again to Exodus
31. From verse 12, the Lord speaks
to Moses in seven distinct statements, and on the last one, in verse
12, the Lord speaks to Moses again specifically about the
Sabbath and the reasons why they were to keep that Sabbath. And the Lord spoke unto Moses,
saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying,
Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep. Throughout the calendar of the
life of Israel, there were specific times of Sabbaths, days and weeks
set aside for feasts and for the worship of God. And that's
why he says, Sabbaths ye shall keep. For it is a sign between
me and you throughout your generations that ye may know that I am the
Lord that does sanctify you. Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore,
for it is holy unto you. Everyone that defiles it shall
be surely put to death. For whosoever doth any work therein,
that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may
work be done, but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest holy to
the Lord. Whosoever doth any work in the
Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore, the
children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath
throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant or for
an ongoing everlasting covenant, it shall be a sign between me
and the children of Israel forever. For in six days the Lord made
heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. And so the Lord gave the Sabbath
as a covenant sign to the people of Israel. They were to continue
to keep the Sabbath so that they could continue to remember God and the covenant which he
gave with them in the tablets of stone, that they were his
people. But look at the punishment for
breaking it. The punishment for breaking the
Sabbath, for doing any work on the Sabbath was death. the same
as murder. They were to be killed and there
is an account of one man who went out on the Sabbath day and
he collected sticks for his fire and was seen. And they reported
him to Moses who then reported him to the Lord and it is said
that he was stoned to death for breaking the Lord's Sabbath.
but that was a willful rebellion against God because everybody
heard the law being spoken. Everybody knew what was required
on the Sabbath day and therefore that person had acted in a worldly
manner, had not prepared themselves for the Sabbath and had shunned
the law of God and because of that suffered the consequences
of his actions. And so the Sabbath was given
as a covenant sign to the children of Israel. It was a law binding
to them and it had consequences, punishments if they broke it. It's not a new thing for God
to put a sign with a covenant to help people remember the things
that he has said. You think of the covenant that
was made with Noah. As Noah came out of the ark and
he offered up the sacrifice to God, God entered into a covenant
with Noah. And he was going to be the continuation
of the line of Christ. And God made that covenant with
him about seed time and harvest, summer and winter shall not cease. And he said, as a sign of that
covenant, I'm going to put my bow into the sky so that it was
seen, that God could see it and as it were, remember the covenant
and that we could see it, Noah could see it and remember the
covenant that was made. What about Abraham? Abraham also
was entered into a covenant with God. In thee shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed. And the covenant was given, the
sign of the covenant, the seal of the covenant, that every male
should be circumcised. And that was an ongoing thing
that took place as a reminder to the people of the covenant
that was made with Abraham. And so the covenant that was
made with Moses and the people of Israel was to be remembered
by the ongoing Sabbath every single week. They would cease
from all of their work, all of their labour, and use it as a
day of worship to the Lord. And they were to continue to
remember that day and to keep that day holy and set aside for
God. And so it was not a new thing
that God was bringing into being out of nowhere. He was just bringing
it to the surface. and making it of paramount importance
in the life of the children of Israel because he had established
it at the beginning of creation. It was a creation ordinance.
that God rested on the Sabbath day. God sabbathed on the seventh
day and rested. And as he entered into a covenant
with the children of Israel, he elevates this day to a high
position and makes it a law that is punishable by death so that
they can remember the Lord their God, which brought them out of
the land of Egypt and from the house of bondage. And today, the Jews still remember
the Sabbath a day. Their day, Friday evening until
Saturday evening, is the structure of their day. That day is a day
unto the Lord in which they worship. When we read through the New
Testament, we see the Lord Jesus Christ going into the synagogues
on the Sabbath day and teaching the Word of God. The Apostle
Paul, as he went with the Gospel, He went into the synagogues on
the Sabbath day and he taught the people. He reasoned with
them out of the scriptures concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. What about today? The Bible tells us that Christ
came to fulfil the law for his people. in Matthew chapter 5, verse 17. He says, think not that I am
come to destroy the law or the prophets, for I am not come to
destroy, but to fulfil. For verily or truly I say unto
you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot nor tittle shall not
in no wise pass from the law till it be fulfilled. whosoever
therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments,
and teach men also, he shall be called the least in the kingdom
of heaven. But whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall
be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you
that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into
the kingdom of heaven. And so Christ came to fulfil
the law of God. We read as he was born into this
world he was born of a woman under the law, that is under
the law he was subject to the law of God, his own law which
he passed, he became a subject to that law. and he was to keep the law every
line and every dot. That would have been the ceremonial
law, that is why he was taken to the temple, that is why he
was circumcised. The civil law, in obedience to
the laws of the people, but also God's moral law. He also explains
to us in the Sermon on the Mount that this law, that this moral
law is not just an external way of living, but it has deep-rooted sources, deep-rooted within the
heart. He says, if we are angry with
our brother, as though we have killed him, If you have looked
at a woman and you have lusted after her, you have committed
adultery already in your own heart. And so he adds greater
emphasis upon the law, that it's not just
a living it out day by day, but it is the goings on within the
heart that God sees and the breaking of that law within the very heart
of a person is what defiles a person. And Christ came to fulfil that
law, his own law, not only externally, but also internally. Never was
any impure thought to pass across his mind. Never did he desire
anything but he lived in perfect obedience to the law of God and
there was no sin ever to be found externally or internally in his
character or to stain his perfect soul. And in order for him to
fulfilled the law, he had to live in that way, in a perfect
manner, to create a righteousness for his people, to become the
perfect Lamb of God, the perfect substitute for sinners. He that
is without sin was made sin for his people. And then through Christ, those
who are given eyes to see and hearts to believe and to lay
hold of Christ in repentance and faith. The scripture tells
us that we are then justified and made righteous in the sight
of God. In Romans, Romans chapter 7. Romans chapter 7 speaks about
the relationship in which someone has to the law of God. It is
though they are married to it. As a husband and wife are married
together, they are inseparable until one or another passes away. He says, so then if, while her
husband lives, she be married to another, she be called an
adulteress. But if her husband be dead, she
is free from the law, so that she is no longer no adulteress,
though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren,
ye are also become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that
ye should be married to another, even to him which is raised from
the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. The scripture tells also that
we are buried with him in baptism. When we are converted, our old
nature dies and we are raised again in new life. And so in Christ Jesus we die
to the law of God because in Christ we are counted as having
fulfilled the law of God. Our righteousness is the righteousness
of Christ and therefore we are counted as justified in the sight
of God, having lived in complete obedience to the law of God,
not of ourselves but of Christ. We are married to the Lord Jesus
Christ. We have become dead to the law
and therefore the law is also dead to us. And Paul says, what shall we
say then? Are we that who are dead to sin?
Can we live any longer in it? God forbid. You see, there was,
in the New Testament church, two battles going on. You see, if you preach that through
Christ a believer has been justified of all sin, past, present, and
future, an ungodly person may hear that and say, well, as Christ
has forgiven everything, It doesn't matter how I live. And so there
was one school of thought, there was one false teaching that pressed
in saying Christ has forgiven you. Therefore live as you want. It doesn't matter. And then there's
another school, which was the Judaizers, the Jews seeking to
bring people back to the law. Or you can have Christ, but you
must be circumcised. You must keep the Sabbath a day.
You must keep the feasts of the Jews and such like. And so there was a constant battle
between what is called antinomianism and legalism. Those people who
said it doesn't matter how we live, because Christ has done
everything. And those people who sought to
attach works to the salvation that Christ has wrought for his
people. And so what we have to do is
grab these two ends and bring them together and find out what
is the truth, what is the right way. And the right way is in
the middle. Jesus says, if you love me, you
will keep my commandments. Yes, we are. The believer is
no longer under the law, but they're under grace. Christ has
fulfilled the law on their behalf. Yet because we know the mind
of God as revealed in scripture and because we know all that
Christ has done for us and we love him, Therefore, we desire
to live in a way that pleases him. We are married to him. And because we are married to
him, we love him and we love his word and his ways and those
things that he delights in. And so in today's world, we have
those people who say exactly the same thing. There is the
legal people who speak about the Sabbath day as a binding
thing upon a Christian. There's no freedom in it. There's
no delight in it. There are chains and there are
rules. But then there's the other way,
where they say there's no Sabbath day. In Christ it doesn't matter,
he's fulfilled everything and therefore we can do and live
as we please. Jesus tells us that the sign
of this new covenant between him and his people is
to be found in the Lord's Supper. You see, Noah and Noah's covenant
and the rainbow. Abraham and Abraham's covenant
and circumcision. Moses and the covenant made with
the children of Israel and the law giving was to be remembered
in the ongoing Sabbaths. What about the new covenant in
Christ? How are we to remember that?
And it is to be found in the Lord's Supper. You see, God always
understands our weakness. And our weakness is that we are
very useless at living by faith. And therefore he gives us tokens
of encouragement that we can see. And in the Lord's Supper,
our eyes are able to be satisfied with an emblem of the body and
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in Corinthians, it tells
us there. Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken
for you. This do in remembrance of me. After the same manna also he
took the cup and when he had sup saying this cup is the new
testament or the new covenant in my blood. This do ye as often
as you drink it in remembrance of me. And so there is that ongoing
remembrance of the Lord Jesus Christ and the covenant which
he established by his death upon the cross and his resurrection. He says, if you love me, you
will keep my commandments. In Mark, chapter four, when the Pharisees
were reasoning with the Lord Jesus Christ, verse 27, So Mark chapter two. When he is debating with them
about the Sabbath and about the disciples picking ears of corn
on the Sabbath day, which the Pharisee says was unlawful for
them to do. And Jesus explains about David and how David went
into the temple and he ate the showbread. But then verse 27,
he says, and he said unto them, the Sabbath was made for man
and not man for the Sabbath. And so the Sabbath was created
in order that man may benefit from it. Not that it would be
a legal binding to him, but that he as a person, as a human being,
would benefit from a day of rest set aside for the glory and worship
of God. And Jesus says, therefore, because
of this, the Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath. If you remember when the law
was given, There was the thunderings and the lightnings and the people
were terrified. They said, Moses, you talk to
God and then speak to us. But in the New Testament, we
find that Christ now is the Lord of the Sabbath. He's the mediator
of the new covenant, a better covenant. And we know that Christ
Christ was full of compassion. He was a meek and an approachable, we could say,
an approachable person. Come unto me, he says, or you
that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. There
was no fear. And so he says, I am the Lord
or the master of the Sabbath. It is his. It is he that created
it at the beginning of time. All things were made by him and
without him was nothing made. He rested upon the Sabbath day
and it was his day. He sanctified it and set it apart
for rest and for the rest of his people. He is the Lord or
the master of that day. He is sovereign over it. He has authority over it and
he made it not for himself but he made it for men or for human
beings that they may benefit from it, that they may rest from
the ongoing labours of life, that they may worship him. Now I thought, if you can put
it in this way, if we look at the law given to
Moses and the consequences of breaking the Sabbath day was
the death, but it's as though Christ comes and he undresses
it and he brings it back to its simplicity. He removes all the
laws that were put in place regarding that day. And as Isaiah says,
it becomes then a delight. The Sabbath, the day of rest,
is a delight. He brings it back to its simplicity,
to what it was. He takes it from the end of the
week and he puts it at the beginning of the week. As he rises from
the grave on the first day of the week, and as Mary and the
women come and visit the grave on the first day of the week,
we find that he is not there. And if we go through the church,
the early church, we read that they met on the first day of
the week. in remembrance of the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus Christ and to separate themselves from the
Jewish way of doing things, the legally pharisaical binding of
the old Sabbath. And they begin a new Sabbath
on the first day of the week, which we called Sunday. It rose
again on the first day of the week, the beginning of the week.
And throughout the history of the church, the church has always
met on the first day of the week, the Sabbath. Not the Jewish Sabbath,
but if we take the word Sabbath as what it really means, an intermission,
a pause before we begin the rest of the week, as it were. If you
go to Revelation, We read there of John as he's
in the Isle of Patmos. And the Lord appears to him,
Revelation 1 and verse 10 says, And I was in the Spirit on the
Lord's day and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet. And so as the early church met
on the first day of the week, That then became the Lord's Day. And as John was in the Spirit
on the Lord's Day, the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to him. The Lord
of the Sabbath, the Master of the Sabbath, appeared to John,
the Apostle John, while he was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day
and gave him the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ to the
end times. And so the scripture starts with
God resting on the Sabbath day, God resting on the seventh day
and setting aside that day for rest, not for himself but for
his people. And the scripture ends with John,
the apostle John, in the spirit on the Lord's day, not being
taken up with other things but he is in the spirit on the Lord's
day and it's on that day that the Lord Jesus Christ appears
to him on that day which he rose again, that day which is set
aside, that day which was given to worship on the first day of
the week, the scripture closes with a great blessing that was
delivered on the Lord's day. Now I think if those of us who are born again
If we look back to the point of our conversion, we might be able to say that
it was on the Lord's Day. The Lord's Day. The Sabbath Day. The day when the Church meets
together to come under the authority of the preaching of the Word
of God. And that is the day that the Lord often uses as a means
of grace as the message is preached, that the Holy Spirit works through
the message and blesses people. The day today is being undermined even by the
Church. You notice that as people begin
to preach that there is no Sabbath day, there is no Lord's day,
there is no day that is set aside. Every day is a Sabbath day. Every day is the Lord's day.
What happens to their churches? No one can be bothered to come
to the evening service because no day is the Lord's day. So
they go and play golf. They go out for dinner. They
go and play football. They go and do what they want
to do. And so they cram God into one hour of the day. And they
say, that's enough. But from beginning to end of
Scripture, there has always been a day that is set aside for God. Six days you shall worship, and
on the seventh day you will rest. Notice that it doesn't give us
the name of the day at the beginning of time. It's just the seventh
day. But at the end in the book of
Revelation, it is the Lord's day. And we know that that Lord's
day was the first day of the week when the Lord Jesus Christ
rose again from the grave. And that day, as Christians,
is a day that we set aside for the worship of God. We try to
prepare ourselves on the Saturday in order that we may be free
to receive the word of God and to conduct ourselves in a godly
manner upon the Lord's day. And so the scripture tells us
in the law, written by God's own hand upon tablets of stone,
Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Sabbath day, we're
not talking about Jewish Sabbath, we're talking of a day that is
an intermission, a pause in day-to-day life. Remember the Lord's day. and keep it holy. Remember the
first day of the week and keep it holy. Remember Sunday and
keep it holy. And if we remove this one, what
other ones do we remove? Children, obey your parents.
Oh, in Christ it doesn't matter. I can disobey my parents because
I'm saved. It doesn't matter. Or we can
go and kill somebody. and say, well in Christ it doesn't
matter because I'm free from the law, I've been saved. But the scripture tells us, out
of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. And if you
start knocking off one thing and knocking off another thing,
it shows that you have no true desire to dedicate your life
to the Lord Jesus Christ and to take up your cross and to
follow him and to be obedient. to his commands. If you love
me, keep my commandments. Remember the Sabbath day and
keep it holy. Well may the Lord enable us to
rightly see these things in the scripture and rightly organise
our time and to use the day that God has given to us for his honour
and for his glory, but also for our own benefit, our own good. For the Sabbath was not made,
the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. It is
given to us for our rest. Yes, there are those who have
to go to work, As Jesus did miracles on the Lord's Day, on the Sabbath
day, he healed people. Also, he says there are those
who have to pull your ox out of the ditch. There are works
of necessity that have to be done. And it is not a legal binding
as it was. We're not stoned to death because
we break the Sabbath in the new covenant. But it is a day that
has been given to us for the worship of God, for the benefit
of the church, for the benefit of ourselves and for that reminder
that this day is God's day. And then one day in glory, there
will be that eternal rest with the Lord Jesus Christ. May the
Lord add his blessing. Amen. Our closing hymn for this morning's
service is hymn number 408 from Gadsby's Thanksgiving. O what
shall I do, my Saviour, to praise, so faithful and true, so plenteous
in grace, so strong to deliver, so good to redeem the weakest
believer that hangs upon him? Hymn number 408 to the tune 808. I do, my Saviour to praise. So faithful and true, so plenteous
in grace, so strong to deliver, so good to redeem. turns upon him. How happy a man whose heart is
set free. A people that can be joyfully
free. Their joy is to work in the light
of thy face, And still they are talking of Jesus' grace. Their daily delight shall be
in thy name, ? Thy righteousness wearing ? ?
And cleansed by thy blood ? ? O shall they appear in the presence of
God ? ? For their heart, their burst, their glory and power
? ? And our souls, our trust ? My soul's new creation, alive
from the dead, the day of salvation that dips up my head. The secret to me shall to me
make known. For sorrow and sadness a joy
shall receive, and share in the goodness of all that May the grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and the love of God the Father, the fellowship and the
communion of the Holy Spirit, rest and abide with us each now
and for evermore. Amen.