Let us turn again to God's Word
and turn into the Old Testament and the book of Job in chapter
33 Job 33 and I want to read the portion from verse 23 through
30 Job Chapter 33, and we read from
verse 23. If there be a messenger with
him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man
his uprightness, then he is gracious unto him. And saith, Deliver
him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom. His flesh
shall be fresher than a child's. He shall return to the days of
his youth. He shall pray unto God, and he
will be favourable unto him, and he shall see his face with
joy, for he will render unto man his righteousness. He looketh
upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which
was right, and he profited me not, he will deliver his soul
from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Lo, all these things worketh
God oftentimes with man, to bring his soul from the pit, to be
enlightened with the light of the living. I want us to take for our text
really those words that we have in verses 27 and 28. he looketh upon men and if any
say I have sinned and perverted that which was right and he profited
me not he will deliver his soul from going into the pits and
his life shall see the light. We see much of the gospel here in
this remarkable book of Job probably the oldest part of all the Word
of God, predating even the five books of Moses at the beginning
of the Old Testament. And yet, how remarkable it is
because here we have the Gospel. Surely we have it in the language
of verse 24. Then He is gracious unto him
and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit. I have found
a ransom, man's deliverance, from the very pit of hell because
God has found a ransom, an atonement. In fact, the Lord God has made
that provision Himself in the person and the work of His only
begotten Son. And so we read of the work of
Christ, His redeeming work, and all that that redemption cost
Him, His very lifeblood, when he poured out his soul unto death
we read of it here in this book and then also of course we have
other remarkable statements we see something of the resurrection
of the same Lord Jesus in the testimony that we find back in
in chapter 19 remember those words remarkable words that Job
was able to utter all those many years ago Verse 25 of chapter 19, For I know that
my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter
day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms
destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I
shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another,
though my brains be consumed within them." What a blessed
hope that his Redeemer lives and he will see that Redeemer
with his own eyes. There's so much of the Gospel
here, even in the book of Job, these ancient parts of Holy Scripture. And what we've read just now
is our text here in chapter 33, of course, is part of the speech
that was made by Elijah. In fact, only on Thursday evening
we were looking at words that we have later towards the end
of this speech. Remember those words in chapter
37? And verse 19, teach us what we shall say unto him, for we
cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. or the confession
you see of how we find it so impossible to pray because of
the darkness of our mind and we need one to teach us and we
were looking at those words words of Elihu I remarked then on Thursday
concerning this man he makes a rather long speech commences
here in chapter 32 and runs through to the end of that 37th chapter
previous to that we have those other men who speak by turn,
the friends of Job, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar from chapter
3 right the way through to chapter
31 after they are introduced to us we see that one makes a
speech, Job answers and another makes a speech and Job answers
And then the third makes a speech, and Job answers again, and then
the pattern is repeated. Cycles, and cycles of speeches. That's the main part of the book. And then, they don't really understand
Job. In fact, he says, of the miserable
comforters are you all. And then, when we come to chapter
32, we're told, so these three men ceased to answer Job. because
he was righteous in his own eyes. Then was kindled the wrath of
Elihu, the son of Barakal, the Buzite of the kindred of Ram. Against Job was his wrath kindled,
because he justified himself rather than God. Also against
his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found
no answer and yet had condemned Job. And so then at verse 15 there
in that 32nd chapter, they were amazed, they answered no more,
they left off speaking. When I had waited, for they spake
not, but stood still and answered no more, I said, I will answer
also my part, I will show mine opinion. So now we have Elijah
beginning to make his speech as I say, and here in chapter
33 of course his speech continues and so we have the words the
words of the text in verses 27 and 28 speaking of God's He looketh
upon men and if any say I have sinned and perverted that which
was right and he profited me not he will deliver his soul
from going into the pit and his life shall see the light and
this is the portion that I want to concentrate on or attempt
to concentrate on for a while with you this evening. What is
it that we have here? Well, I'm calling it Gospel Repentance. Gospel Repentance. How necessary repentance is. And there's no salvation, of
course, without faith and repentance. But as I trust we'll see our
forgiveness, the forgiveness of our sins is not because of
our repentance or because of our faith. The only ground of
salvation is in the Lord Jesus Christ and that great work of
redemption. We see that so clearly in verse
24. Then He is gracious unto him
and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit. I have found
a ransom. For there it is, it's altogether
outside of ourselves, our acceptance, the pardon of all our sins. It
centers in, in the Lord Jesus Christ. but if we're those who
have experienced anything of that salvation we'll know something
of what gospel repentance is and so that's the theme I really
want to look at for a while first of all what do we have here in
verse 27 we have confession of sin and we have repentance that's
the language that is being used As I said, there is much of gospel
language in the book of Job. It's not only here, in what this
man Elihu has said, but the other friends, they say some remarkable
things. They didn't understand Job, they
were poor comforters, but they do come out with some quite remarkable
statements. So far, in a sense, is one who
speaks of repentance, in what he says in chapter 11 verse 13
if thou prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hands toward
him if iniquity be in thine hand put it far away and let not wickedness
dwell in thy tabernacles he's speaking of repentance putting
away iniquity turning away from wickedness that's what repentance
is It's recognizing what sin is and turning from sin. And what we see in Zophar, we
see something very similar in the language of another. Eliphaz,
when Eliphaz is speaking in chapter 22, and the words that he utters
at verse 23. Receive, I pray thee... This
is verse 22. Receive, I pray thee, the law
from his mouth, The law of His word in thine heart, if they
return to the Almighty, they shall be built up, they shall
put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle. So there again we
have putting away iniquity and returning or turning to the Almighty. That's what repentance is. And it is really such a fundamental
change in the life of that person who knows that grace of repentance. I've said many a time that when
we come to the New Testament and the fuller revelation of
God that we have in the New Testament Scriptures, the word that's used
there for repent is one of those compound words, two words brought
and welded together. It's the word mind and the verb
to change. So it's a change of mind, that's
the basic meaning of repent, a change of mind. But it is a
fundamental change, because it's such a change that the life is
turned around. There's a change in directions. The life is turned upside down,
the life is turned inside out. That's the sort of change that
we are to understand by repentance. The person, his whole life is
a different life now because he's been brought to repentance. And now it's very much the ministry
that we see unfolded when we come to the New Testament. The
forerunner of Christ, John the Baptist, whom the Lord says is
the greatest of all the prophets, although he only has a short
ministry. What was the ministry of John
the Baptist? We're told, aren't we, there
at the beginning of Matthew three. In those days came John the Baptist
preaching in the wilderness of Judea saying, repent for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand. That was his message, repent.
His baptism was a baptism of repentance. And that continues really with
the Lord Jesus Christ. As I say, John's ministry is
a short ministry, then John is taken, he's put in prison, he's
beheaded. And what are we told in Mark's
Gospel, in the opening chapter of Mark? After that John was
put into prison, we're told how Jesus came into Galilee, preaching
the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, saying, the time is fulfilled,
the Kingdom of God is at hand, repentance. and believe the gospel. Repentance, repentance, repentance,
this is the message that is being proclaimed. And as with the ministry
of Christ, so also when we come to consider the message of his
apostles. And we have the record there
in the Acts, and of course also we learn the content of their
ministry from what they write in the various epistles of the
New Testament. but there in Acts 2 Peter on
the day of Pentecost well what does he say? the Spirit of God
is abroad they are pricked in their hearts they are brought
to the place of conviction oh he says repent ye and be baptised repent ye and be baptised for
the remission of sins he preaches repentance and it's the same
isn't it when we when we come to Paul's ministry. We have the
record of some of Paul's preaching as well as that of Peter and
we see him there in Acts 17 and he's preaching in Athens. And what does he say? He addresses
the Athenians and he sees the idolatry or the Athenians. The
people, you see, who pride themselves on all their great philosophers.
And Paul is stirred in his spirit because the whole city is full
of superstitions, why there's even an altar to the unknown
God. And then he begins to preach who the unknown God is. He preaches
the Lord Jesus Christ. And he refers to God's dealings
through the generations. And he tells them plainly, we
are the offspring of God. We ought not to think that the
Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone, graven by art
and man's device. In the times of this ignorance
God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.
because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the
world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof
he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised
him from the dead. Peter, Paul they also preach
repentance. This is the message and when
later in Acts we see Paul addressing the Ephesian elders when he's
taking his final leave of them and reminds them of his ministry,
testifying both to the Jews and to the Gentiles. Repentance toward
God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance toward
God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is what
we have really here in this text in verse 27 he look at the one
man and if any say I have sinned and perverted that which was
right and he profited me not real repentance, real repentance
is what he is speaking of and where does real repentance begin? well it comes from the right
view of sin in a sense we can't separate repentance and faith
we might say they're different sides of the same coin but of
course we know that faith must have the preeminence because
whatsoever is not of faith is sin and when we think of repentance
really can we not think in terms of repenting of our sin of unbelief
That's where it begins. To repent of the awful sin of
unbelief whatsoever is not of faith, you see, without faith
it's impossible to please God. Oh, there must be that view of
sin and we have it here in the words of the text. And three
things to observe with regards to this repentance and this relationship
really to the Lord of God. He looketh on my men, and if
any say, I have sinned. I have sinned. Or are we those
who do really believe in God, and believe in that law of God,
which is a holy law? And sin, of course, is a transgression
of the law. If any say, I have sinned, what
is man? in his natural condition, he's
in a state of alienation, he's a rebel against God. Though this
only if I found, says the preacher, God made man upright, but they've
sought out many inventions. Men go their own way, men do
their own thing, they will not submit to the law of God. They turn their back, they refuse
to accept, to acknowledge his authority. When Moses goes before
Pharaoh with the Lord's message. What does the Pharaoh say to
Moses? Who is the Lord? Who is the Lord
that I should obey his voice? I know not the Lord. And then
when the Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel is telling the parable,
he speaks of those citizens, remember, you say, we will not
have this man to reign over us. Oh, man, you see, he imagines
he's an independent creature. We see it in the fall, don't
we, of our first parents. So, man makes a god of himself,
really. Isn't that what the serpent,
the instrument of Satan, says, to wave you shall be his god?
Oh, eat but these fruits, the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, ye shall be as gods. The men think that they are gods
and they refuse to bow to the authority of God or to submit
to His holy law. But here, you see, is the penitent
sinner and he says, I have sinned, I have sinned. Oh, that was David. Against the lady only have I
sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. What had David done? He had sinned. He'd sinned against
Bathsheba, he'd sinned with Bathsheba, he'd certainly sinned against
her husband Uriah. He'd murdered the man, really.
And yet, when he comes to make his confession, he feels his
sin is against God. Oh, the carnal mind, the natural
mind, it's enmity against God. it's not subject to the law of
God our minds are not subject to God's law we don't want God's
law we're in a state of alienation having the understanding darkens
says Paul alienated from the life of God through the ignorance
that is in us because of the blindness of our hearts well
that's our natural condition but we examine ourselves by the
word can we say with this man here in the text I have sinned
I have sinned and then he goes on and perverted that which was
right you see God's law is not just a holy law it's a righteous
law it's a righteous law when we think about the law of
God it's of course it's an authoritative law because it sets before us
the command of him who is the creator and he has authority
but isn't the law also a moral law? it's an authoritative law
because it's God who speaks those 10 words But it's also a moral
law in that it doesn't just reveal to us something of the authority
and the sovereignty of God, it reveals to us something of the
character of God. The law is a revelation of God.
That's what the Bible is. It's God revealing himself and
he reveals himself in the law as well as revealing himself
in the gospel. And we see it. in Deuteronomy
5. Remember the children of Israel?
God brings them out of Egypt. He takes them to Mount Sinai.
He enters into covenant with them. We have the Ten Commandments
there in Exodus 20. But then they go on. They come
to the borders of the Promised Land and they're full of unbelief. And they don't enter into the
Promised Land because they're afraid of the giants and the
walled cities. and that old generation must
pass away and there's the 40 years wanderings in the wilderness
and then when we come to Deuteronomy the end of the 40 years and now
again they're about to enter into the land of promise and
there's a repetition of the Ten Commandments in Deuteronomy 5
and Moses is reminding them of what had happened 40 years previously
And we have it there. Look at the words in that fifth
chapter. We have the Ten Commandments in the former
part of the chapter. And then we find this in verse
24. Moses says to them, He said,
Behold the Lord our God, hath showed us his glory and his greatness,
and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. We
have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth."
And that's what they said. He's reminding them of what was
said at Mount Sinai all those 40 years previously. When they
heard the voice of God speaking to them. But what does he say? Behold, this is what they said,
Behold the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and His greatness,
that's what God does in the law He shows His glory He shows His
greatness He is revealing Himself that's what God's law is, it's
a revelation of Himself and His character, His moral character
because He is a holy God and a righteous God and a just God
and doesn't Paul say as much concerning the law in Romans
7 the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good. You see,
there's nothing arbitrary about God's laws. When He gives commandments
to His people, to His children, He's not playing with them. He's not being capricious in
any way with them. He's giving them laws that are
good. God is good, and God does good, and God's law is a good
law. And what does man do? Oh, man
perverts it. He sins, he breaks the commandment,
I have sinned and perverted that which was right. That's the language
of a man who knows something of real repentance. The law is holy, the law is righteous,
and the law is good. The law then is something that
is fitted to make the man a happy man. But what does he say here? The third thing he says, he profited
me not. All my sins against the Lord
of God, my perversion of the Lord of God, it didn't profit
me one little bit. What shall it profit a man, says
the Lord Jesus, if he gain the whole world and lose his own
soul? And what shall a man give in
exchange for his soul? No profit there. No profit there. And we have to learn the truth
that God's Lord is good. And how is God's Lord good to
us now as sinners? Well, He's good to us as sinners
because It's made to serve the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Remember what Paul says there
in 1 Timothy 1, the law is good if a man use it lawfully. Knowing this, that the law is
not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient,
for the ungodly and for sinners. That's the point, the purpose
of the law now, it serves the gospel. And we're to recognize
that. There's goodness in the law,
or despises so, the riches of his goodness and forbearance,
not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. Paul reminds those in the church
at Rome there, in the second chapter, the goodness of God,
that goodness in his law, The law is that schoolmaster that
brings us to Christ. The law is subservient to the
gospel. And is it not a blessed truth
that God's goodness is principally revealed to us in the gospel?
Oh yes, there's the law. And there's that ministry of
the law. It shuts the mouth of the sinner.
We know that whatever the law says, it says to them who are
under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world
guilty. For by the law is the knowledge
of sin. But when God comes with the gospel,
law and terrors do but harm All the while they work alone, but
that sense of blood-bored pardon soon dissolves the heart of stone. Oh, that's the godly sorrow.
Isn't that the godly sorrow that the apostle was writing of to
those Corinthians? We read the passage there in
the seventh chapter of the second letter. Godly sorrow, workers'
repentance to salvation. Not to be repented of. the sorrow
of the world worketh death all we need a godly sorrow to see
sin as God sees sin and God has revealed to us what sin is in
the law, yes, but also in the gospel in the sufferings of the
Lord Jesus Christ the tremendous cost that was required when God
found the ransom or deliver him from going down to the pit I
have found a ransom. To whom is the ransom paid? The
ransom is paid, of course, to God. It's the ransom that God's
holy, righteous and just Lord demands. The soul that sinneth,
he shall die. Or do we see it, the awful horror
of what sin is in the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ? And
you know, it's all God's work, isn't it? You say, how can I
obtain this repentance? How can I know real repentance,
a godly sorrow over sins? Well, we can't do it ourselves.
He says here at verse 22, all these things work with God. Often
times with man. What does God work with us? It's
the work of God, it's the gift of God. It's all in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Him hath God exalted with his
right hand, says Peter, to be a prince and a saviour to give
repentance to Israel and the forgiveness of sins. Now if the
Lord Jesus Christ gives repentance, repentance is the gift of God. It's all in Christ, it's all
from Christ, all the time. where do we obtain faith? it's
looking on to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith it's
that faith that is of the operation of God and this repentance, it's
the work of God, it's the gift of God and yet and I say it again,
repentance is not the grounds upon which our forgiveness is
established and dear dear John Kent certainly recognizes that
in that that short hymn that we just sang 916 should the tears
of deep contrition like a torrent drown thy eyes yet for sin there's
no remission but in this great sacrifice Through repentance
Christ to Israel freely gives. All our forgiveness, all our
salvation, all our acceptance with the Lord God is only in
the Lord Jesus Christ. There is the basis. And so, having
tried to say something with regards to the confession and the repentance
that is spoken of here in the 27th verse, I want us in the second place
to consider something of the ransom, the deliverance. In the
next verse, verse 28, He will deliver his soul from going into
the pit, and his life shall see the light. He will deliver his
soul from going into the pit. I have found a ransom. Deliver him from going down to
the pit. there in verse 24 well let us come then to consider
this ransom and this deliverance and two things I want to mention
first to say something more with regards to the grounds of it
and then secondly to consider the grace of it although confession
is that the clearly issues in forgiveness, that's the relationship
between the two parts of the text, these two verses confession
will issue results in forgiveness but the confession, the repentance
is not the grounds of that forgiveness it is all in the work of the
Lord Jesus, we know that I know this is so basic really it's
all in that precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that was
shed there's the price of redemption for as much as you know that
you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from
your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers
but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish
and without spots or we know that we know that we're not able
to do anything towards the pardon of our sins it's all together
outside of us outside of ourselves the pardon of sin isn't anything
that God has done in us it's all in what was done by and in
the Lord Jesus Christ Remember the language of the Psalmist
in Psalm 49 and what he says there at verse 6 and then also
at verse 7. They that trust in their wealth
boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. None of them
can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for
him. and then later verse 15 he says
but God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave and he
shall receive me seal on all redemption you see there's where
we find and obtain the pardon of all our sins that's the only
ground but then also the grace the grace of God in all of this
how remarkable is that's grace of God what do we read? God is looking
he's looking for something he looketh upon men it says and if any say I have sinned
and perverted that which was right and he profited me not
he will deliver his soul from going into the pit and his life
shall see the light God looks, he looks for something quite
rare really. This is a very rare thing that's being described
in these verses. Sin isn't rare. How common sin
is, it's everywhere. It's in our hearts tonight, all
of us, all of us. We can't escape it. It's not
a rare thing. Remember the language of Paul.
It's remarkable, isn't it, when we read that epistle to the Romans.
It's a gospel letter, so much of the gospel in it, and yet
in the opening chapters he says so much about sin. Having said
that he separated out of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ,
having defined the gospel, he then says so much about sin.
And remember how in chapter 3 He gives long quotations from two
Psalms, doesn't he? Psalm 14 and Psalm 53. Those Psalms that speak so plainly
of sin. He speaks about the things that
are written. And God has said it twice in
the Psalms. They're virtually identical,
Psalms 14 and 53. And then, lo and behold, Here is the Apostle quoting it
all for the third time. In Romans 3.10, as it is written,
there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of
the way, they are together become unprofitable. There is none that
doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher,
with their tongues they have used deceit. The poison of asps
is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery
are in their ways. And the way of peace, have they
not known? There is no fear of God before their eyes." It's
a quote from the Psalms. And it's the third time then
these things are recorded, and that's the threefold cord, of
course, that is not easily broken. It's the truth. God looks. There's
nothing rare with regards to sin. God sees sin. Man might look on the outward
appearance and there might be many who are respectable, but
the Lord God looks upon the heart, deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked. Who can know it? I, the Lord,
search the heart. There's not a just man upon the
earth who doeth good and sinneth not. We can understand then that
strange statement that Hart makes in the hymn, a sinner is a sacred
thing. In hymn number 89, isn't it?
A sinner is a sacred thing. New life from him we must receive,
before for sin we rightly grieve. Sin is everywhere, and yet there
is a sacred sinner, and this is what God is looking for. or
repentance. Repentance is so rare a thing. God looks. He looks on men and
if any say, if He can find just some, maybe just one or two or
a few more, any who say I have sinned and perverted that which
was right and He profited me not, He will deliver his soul
from going into the pit and his life shall see light. It's a rare thing and it's rare
because only God can do it. Only he that made the world can
make a Christian. That's a tremendous sentence.
It's there in the introduction to Hart's book, of course, where
he gives some account of his experience and he makes that
acknowledgement He was brought to see only the God who made
the world to make a Christian. We can't make ourselves Christians.
God made Christians. How does he make Christians?
Well, he shows man his sin. That's what he does here in his
words. Doesn't James speak of the word as a mirror, a glass,
a looking glass? And the man looks in the mirror
and he sees what he is and then he goes his way and forgets what
manner of man he is. man-made in God's image, created
after God's likeness. We come to the Word, we read
the Word, and we should see ourselves. But what do we see? We see how
deformed we are. We don't like the Word of God.
The old nature doesn't like the Word of God. It condemns us. Men don't want the Bible in their
natural state, because God is faithful in His dealings. We
know that what things, however the law says, It says to them
who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped. And all
the world become guilty. That's what the Bible does. It
pronounces sinners guilty. Men don't like that. And God speaks. Here at verse
14, God speaketh once, say twice, yet man perceiveth it not. All
God speaks, men close their ears. They don't want to hear what
God is saying. They refuse to hear what God is saying. Esau found no place of repentance,
did he? So he sought it carefully with
tears. How he despised his birthright,
foolish man! How men are fools! And yet God,
so gracious, so persevering with men, verse 16 we're told then
he openeth the ears of men and seetheth their instruction how
God has to open our eyes open our ears God has to do it he
shows us what we are and he does it by his dealings with us not
just dealing with us in terms of his words sometimes he comes
with his chastenings and the whole context here of course
is the context of God chastening men what do we read of man? Verse
19, he is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude
of his bones with strong pains, so that his life abhorreth bread,
and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed away that
he cannot be seen, his bones that were not seen stick out,
yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the
destroyers. Oh, when God deals with us, he
deals with us sometimes in such contrary ways. He turns man to
destruction. That's what Moses says, isn't
it, in Psalm 90? He turns man to destruction and
says, return, ye children of me. God, oh, will bring the man
to the end of himself. And we read the word, it's whom
the Lord loveth. All whom the Lord loveth, he
chastens and scourges. Every son of me receiveth. If
ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons. What son
is he whom the father chasteneth not? How God does deal with his
people. Deals with us in order to bring
us to our senses, in order to bring us to himself. And what is the way of acceptance
with God? It's the way of faith and the
way of repentance. It's the same old message. The
kingdom of heaven is at hand. And the message is this, repent
and believe the gospel. It's the message of the Baptist,
it's the message of the Lord Christ himself, it's the message
of the apostles, it's the message down through all the generations,
it's the message right from the beginning, it's here in the book
of Job. It's here in the book of Job. Oh yes, salvation, the
forgiveness of all our sins, the remission of all is of course
in Christ and in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ but here
is the way he looketh upon men and if any say, oh for grace
to say it in all sincerity I have sinned I have perverted that
which was good he profited me not but what does he then say Concerning
this great God, this gracious God, He will deliver His soul
from going into the pit, and His life shall see light. O God, grant that we might be
those then who know what it is to walk in the light of the gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the light of the world,
and whosoever followeth Him shall not walk in darkness. that shall
have that light of life. May the Lord grant it and bless
his word to us. Amen.