Good morning. Let's go to Genesis
chapter 12. Last week we were in chapter
11 and that spoke of Babel, Babel's creation and Babel's destruction. We saw the wickedness of man's
heart was exposed in its founding, where he was attempting to make
a lasting habitation for himself. He was looking to give himself
life, life everlasting, and a way to get around the judgment of
God. Whatever God would throw at it,
man thought that he could build himself a place where he was
safe and could provide for himself. And he was confident. We saw
him working with all his might and strength and spending and
laboring and sweating to build this until God came down and
divided them, giving them a division of tongues and they were separated
by families which eventually became nations. And this confusion
of language was spread throughout all the earth. But we see that
it was already in their hearts. It was already spread and in
their heart, that confusion of language, that false gospel that
man holds to and believes in. And we saw in this that even
after the flood, in which men and women, young and old, were
wiped out by the wrath and judgment of God, saving one family. However,
the depravity of man's heart yet remained. It was still there. It was not washed away by the
flood of wrath. Now, after telling us of Babel,
the spirit immediately returns to Shem and Shem's genealogy
and it makes a beeline for Abraham. It goes right to, brings us right
through all the families and all those born from Shem directly
to Abraham. It didn't get off onto the other
kids or anything, just went right to Abram. And I want to talk
to you this morning about Abraham because he's a, he's an important
figure for those that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. He's
an important figure to us because he's the figure of every child
of God. The way that we see God saving
Abram is the way that God calls all his children. It's how he
saves every one of his children, regardless of whether they're
Jew or Gentile. Abraham's important to a lot
of religions in the world. but we look at him simply as
a figure of how God saves all His people. Galatians 3, 6 and
7 says, Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted or
imputed to him for righteousness, know ye therefore that they which
are of faith the same are the children of Abraham. The same
are the children of God. They're children of God regardless
if they are natural sons and daughters of Abraham or not. Because like Abraham, sinners
believe God and their faith is accounted to them for righteousness
and they are of faith because they are the children of God.
God manifests that faith in those whom He loves. He gives faith
to His child. All God's children, like Abraham,
are saved by grace through faith. When we're looking at Abraham,
a lot of people in religion feel like they're looking at an extraordinary
man. But when we look at Abraham,
we see an extraordinary God. We see a wonderful God who saves
His people to the uttermost by His grace. You know, by nature,
when we think of someone who is faithful, whether we're thinking
of ourselves or we're thinking of someone else, we often see
them as having a tremendous willpower and having great self-control. And we say, that's a faithful
person. But the reality is that the life
of faith is marked by the amazing grace of God for that sinner. That is a picture of God's amazing
grace to do for them what is not done for everybody. God does
it in grace and mercy. We're told in Ephesians 2 verses
8-10 that it's by grace are ye saved through faith. And that
faith is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. God gives faith. It is not a
work of the flesh. It is a gift of the Spirit in
you that believe. We didn't do this. God did this
gracious work. Not of works lest any man should
boast. For we are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained,
that we, we that believe by His grace should walk in them. And
this workmanship is what we see in Abraham. We're looking at
the workmanship of the Lord Jesus Christ for this man. Abram, Abraham,
well, who will be called Abraham. Abram was a man of faith, but
he wasn't always a man of faith. He wasn't always a man of faith.
He was an idolater. Turn over to Joshua 24. Joshua
24, and just leave your finger when we
get there, because we're going to go a little past that in a
moment, so you might as well stay there. Joshua 24, And let's,
there's a phrase I want you to recognize in verse, let's look
at verse three first. He says, I took your father,
Abraham, from the other side of the flood. And what he's saying
is, after the flood, I took Abraham. This is after the flood, don't
be, like when I read it, I thought, what is he talking about, before
the flood? The other side of the flood? No, he's saying after
the flood, I took Abraham. Now verse two. Verse 2, And Joshua
said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood. They were
born after the flood. In old time, even Terah, the
father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, and they served other
gods. Abraham and Abraham's family
were idolaters. They worshiped and bowed down
to false gods. This faithful man was not always
a faithful man. And they descended from Shem.
They came through the lineage of Shem and Arphaxad and through
Selah and Eber, where the Hebrews got their name from, from Eber.
They came down that lineage, but they were idolaters here. And they lived in Ur of the Chaldees,
where Abram and his brother Nahor took wives. And Abraham was called by God
while he lived in Ur of the Chaldees. Stephen in Acts chapter 7 verses
2 through 4 clarifies that for us. He says God called Abram
before he even left Ur of the Chaldees. And what drove them
out, finally what brought his father out, what seems to be,
because there's a lot of history at this time that we only look
down through a glass very darkly. And we're told that the oldest
son, Haran, died before his father, Tira. And I looked up that word
before. It doesn't mean in time he died
before his dad died. It means he died before the face
of his father. He died before his father's fate.
He was right there and saw his son die. And Terah said, kids,
let's get out of here. Let's round up. Because God had
called Abraham. And maybe something was going
on. Maybe there was a dispute. I don't know. But Terah saw his
son drop dead and die for some reason. And he left with Abraham,
too. He went out with Abraham to another
city. And so, what is it that changed
with Abraham? If you're still there in Joshua,
let's go a little further to Nehemiah. That's still one of
the books of history, so that's before Psalms, and before Job,
and just before Esther. Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. That's
where you'll find it, before Job and Psalms. Nehemiah chapter
9, verse 7, tells us what changed with Abraham. Thou art the Lord the God who
didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees,
and gavest him the name of Abraham. And so, our Lord is telling us,
the scriptures are revealing to us that the difference in
Abraham from all other idolaters that were in the earth at this
time is that God chose Abraham. God chose to be gracious to Abram. The difference wasn't because
Abraham did something. Abraham didn't sanctify himself
and start to do things better than what he was doing. God chose
Abraham, and that is the difference. That's what separated Abram from
all other idolaters in the earth. So when we're looking at Abraham,
and we know that he's a figure of every believer, then we're
being given an understanding by our Lord how that God saves
sinners. how he saves all his people. The way we see, what we see here,
and what God did for Abraham, this is exactly what God does
for every one of his children. And nothing's different. Nothing's
different for us than what it was for Abraham. The first thing,
and we'll see seven things that the Lord does for Abraham, and
these seven things are what the Lord does for us. And the first
thing that God does is He chooses whom He will. God chooses whom
he will. For he saith unto Moses, I will
have compassion on whom I will have compassion. I will have
mercy on whom I will have mercy. So then the conclusion is, it's
not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God
that showeth mercy. It's not your free will or my
free will. It's not your works or my works. It's of God that showeth mercy
to whom he will. He chooses to be gracious to
whom He will apart from any outside influence from us. It's God's
choice. God made the difference in Abram
from all other families in the earth by choosing that man, that
idolater, unto salvation. Paul asked the Corinthians, saying,
who maketh thee to differ from another? That's a good question,
because we get puffed up. We get puffed up with knowledge.
We get puffed up with pride. We think we're something when
we're nothing. And the Spirit says, who maketh
thee to differ? Why are you boasting as though
you did something? It's God that maketh thee to
differ. What hast thou that thou didst
not receive? Everything we have is by the
gift of God. And that's why we thank God,
not just to inform, not just to do it because the scriptures
say that we should do it. We do it because the Lord shows
us, I don't have nothing if you haven't given it to me first.
good or bad, we thank God because this is the will of God for you. This is the will of God. Is that
2 Thessalonians 5.18? We thank Him because this is
the will of God for you. Or verse 24, one of those So,
every blessing that Abram had was because God chose to bless
Abraham. He chose to be gracious to Abraham. And that's true of every one
of you that believe the Lord Jesus Christ. There's no one
who believes Christ that was not first chosen by God. God is the first mover. God chooses
whom He will. Turn over to 2 Thessalonians
chapter 2. And when you get there, leave
a marker there because we'll come back a couple times in a
bit to that area. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and
verse 13. We're here because it confirms that
God chooses whom He will. 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 13. But we are bound to give thanks
always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification
of the Spirit and belief of the truth. God manifested His choice
of you by giving you His Spirit, and giving you life whereby you
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Because faith is the gift of
God and it's not of this flesh. It's His gift to whom He will.
All whom God chooses, He saves by the blood redemption of Christ.
We don't come another way. We come through the gate on the
narrow way, which is as narrow as Christ. It is walking right
behind His shoulders. As high as He is, right behind
Him, He is the narrow way. And that's the way that all God's
children go, following Him because God was gracious in choosing
them before the foundation of the world and giving them to
Christ to save them. Now because of their redemption
by Christ, God calls all his people out of darkness, out of
idolatry, out of false religion, out of their folly and their
wayward way. He calls us out from the broad
way and puts us into the narrow way, which is Christ Jesus. So the second thing is that God
calls his people out of death and darkness. And this is what
we see with Abram. Genesis 12 verse 1, Now the LORD
had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and from thy father's house unto a land that I will
show thee. And so God having chosen Abram
unto salvation in Christ, God called Abram out of idolatry,
out of that land of idolatry to serve and to follow Him. God called Abram. God never leaves
His children in darkness. You know, some people like to
think that God will do that. And so they might have a hope
that their loved one is saved, that they're in heaven now when
they get there. But God shows us that he never leaves his child
whom he loves in darkness. He brings them to the truth,
to a knowledge of the truth, to believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, to know what He's done for them, and they confess Him.
Lord, You've done this for me. He calls us out by His grace. That's what He shows us in the
Scriptures. Turn back to 2 Thessalonians
chapter 2, and this time we'll look at verse 14. You see, this love of God is
an effectual love. This choosing of God is an effectual
choosing. It leads to life and salvation.
Where unto, verse 14, He called you by our gospel? Not only did
He choose you, in verse 13, He called you by our gospel to the
obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Sinner, have you heard the effectual
call of your God? calling you to Christ, to believe
Him, to lay down your works and the things that you trust in,
and the things you think you need, to look to Christ. He calls
with an effectual call. He makes you to hear His call
of grace and mercy, and to trust that Christ will deliver you
into the presence of the Father, safe and sound. as he said, behold,
I and the children whom thou hast given me." Christ, he saves
his people effectually, effectually. Abraham was called because God
drew him effectually to himself according to grace and mercy.
Nothing could prevent God, God's will from being done for Abraham,
nothing. You know, some in religion, I
was taught that Abraham could have rejected God's call. Abraham could have turned it
down and said, no, no, that's not for me. And then Abraham
would have been passed by. But thank God that nothing Abraham
did could turn him away from God's will being done. We're
not God, God is God, and God's will is always accomplished,
His will is always brought to pass for His people. We know
from the scriptures that left to ourselves, we always do resist
the Holy Ghost. That's what Stephen said in chapter
7, you do always resist the Holy Ghost, and that's us by nature,
we always resist God. But when God loves a sinner,
and He's chosen them, He calls them, and it's effectual. It's
effectual to our calling. We do come out. He's not going
to leave us in darkness, and He's not going to let us get
away. Nothing's going to get us out of God's hand. He's gracious
and merciful. Our Lord spoke of this drawing
to Himself by the Father in John 6, 44, saying, No man can come
to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him. He drags
them. He brings them. He brings them. He effectually saves them unto
the end. And I will raise him up at the
last day. I will. That's a beautiful promise
that the children of God rest in. He's not going to abandon
us or leave us behind. He will raise you at the last
day, you that believe in Him, you that have no righteousness,
you that call upon Him and say, Lord, save me. Have mercy on
me, Lord. He hears you. When man does it,
You know when a man has come to Christ because he boasts in
what he's done. He tells you of what he's done,
how he walked the aisle, how he raised his hand, how he gave
his heart to the Lord. He tells you what he's done.
He boasts in what he's done and focuses all his attention on
himself because he's done it. But when God draws a sinner,
that sinner glorifies and boasts in what God has done for them.
And that's the difference. That's the difference. We speak
of what our Lord has done in grace for a sinner, an undeserving
sinner, and what He's done. We glory and we boast in Christ.
We boast of Him and rejoice in Him. And so we give him the glory. Now all whom God chooses and
all whom God calls, they will believe. And that is the third
thing. His people believe Christ and
follow Him. Look at Genesis 12 verse 4. So Abram departed. He got up. and he followed the voice of
his, the call of his God. He got up and he followed him.
He departed as the Lord had spoken unto him and Lot went with him
and Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran. So
that what happened was he came out of Ur of the Chaldees, they
stopped in what's probably Paddan Aram and it, his dad Tira probably
called it Haran, named after his son that he had lost and
died before his face. And so they stopped there and
then the Lord moved them further. Tira died and Abram went on and
Nahor stayed there where Rebekah came from. Nahor remained there
in Haran and And Abram went on under the call of God. And God
promised to provide for Abram, and he believed God, and he departed.
He followed him. We're told in Hebrews 11.8, by
faith, Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which
he should have to receive for an inheritance, obeyed. And he
went out, not knowing whither he went. And we see nothing stopped
them. Not even the beauty of Haran, where they parked it for
a little while, God moved him on further. He never let him
go. He never stopped. He didn't let
him stop there. He brought him all the way in
faith, believing God. And so God's grace works faith
in the sinner. He gives them faith whereby his
chosen believe him. And we call upon him. We'll call
upon Christ. He's chosen us, and He's called
us. He gives us faith. Turn back
in Thessalonians, this time to 1 Thessalonians 2, verse 13. 1 Thessalonians 2, verse 13. For this cause also thank we
God without ceasing. Because when ye receive the word
of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word
of men, but as it is in truth the word of God which effectually
worketh also in you that believe. And so the Lord is showing us
the scriptures hath concluded all under sin, we're all sinners.
But sinners saved are differed from other sinners in that they
hear Christ, and they receive Christ, and they believe Christ,
and follow Him. Then spake Jesus again unto them,
saying, I am the light of the world. He that followeth Me shall
not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. It's
a faithful promise that our Lord fulfills in His people. He'll
cause us to follow Him, and we will not walk in darkness. We'll
continue walking by faith in our Lord, trusting Him. Faith
of God's children obeys God by following the one whom he sent.
That's how we obey God. It's by faith, looking to Christ,
trusting that he is all my salvation. And so believing Christ is the
obedience of faith that God works in the heart of all his children.
all his children believe Christ. Fourth, God blessed Abram. He said back in Genesis 12, verses
2 and 3, And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth
thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Now,
where does God bless His people? Does He bless His people in church,
coming to church? Does He bless His people in good
works? Does He bless His people in baptism? No, those are the
forms of things. He blesses His people in Christ.
And so when we come, we come with a willing heart. And God
blesses His people to hear the voice of Christ and comfort us
in coming to church services and hearing the Word preached.
And He blesses His people with his workmanship unto good works
which he's ordained in us in Christ. And we're baptized, believe
in the Lord, because the Lord has done this in us. He's given
us faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. So all the blessings aren't in
what we do. They're not the sanctification.
Christ himself is the sanctification. And that's why we walk in truth. It's for Christ's sake. It's
what he's done in us to the praise and glory of his name. And so when you read a passage
like Ephesians 1 verse 3 which says, blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which hath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. We see that
it's all in Him, all because of Christ. Every blessing you
have, brethren, is in Christ. Nothing is apart from Christ.
Nothing is because of what you have done, or haven't done, or
said, or didn't say. It's all for Christ's sake. It's all the blessings are in
Christ, and those good works that follow are all His workmanship. They're all of His hand. And
then, as you read in Ephesians 1, we see those blessings. That it's according as he hath
chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world. That
he's predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ to himself, according to what? good pleasure of His
will, of His will, all within Himself, to the praise of the
glory of His grace wherein He hath made us accepted in the
Beloved, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness
of sins according to the riches of His grace. Not according to
the riches of our works, but according to the riches of His
grace. in the Lord Jesus Christ. So it's all of God's grace and
not of man's works. And I emphasize this because
the Muslims look to Abraham and boast of him. The Jews look to
Abraham and boast of him. A lot of Christendom looks to
Abraham and boasts of him. Our boast is of the Lord. Our
boast is of the Lord Jesus Christ because it's all of his grace
and mercy. Fifth, we see Abraham was a tried
man. He was a tried man. His faith
was proven by God. Not to prove to God that he was
a faithful man, but to prove to Abraham. that the Lord had
done this, that he was the Lord's work, that he was the Lord's
servant, that he was saved by the Lord. And so we see, when
we look at Abram's life, because the rest of Genesis is about
Abraham and his physical seed after him. That's the rest of
Genesis now. Well, Abraham, he was tried constantly. His wife Sarah was barren. He was called to leave all his
family and land and familiarity and things that he knew. He was
called to go out and it says he didn't even know where he
was being called to. He just knew he was leaving that
place behind and he wasn't going back. And he never did turn back. When he got to Canaan, it was
filled with more sons of Ham. A bunch more idolaters from Ham's
lineage, the Canaanites. And he always dwelt in tents.
He never put down stakes. He never went back to a city
that I can tell, even when he was in Egypt, he didn't hang
out in cities, for all I know. He dwelt in tents. He dwelt in
tents, and he never turned back. Even when he got to Canaan, and
there was a famine. And that's hard for believers,
especially those who begin to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. When the Lord opens their ear,
and they begin to call upon the Lord, and they start following
the Lord, and think that they're going to do things differently
from here on, trials come. Trials come. And it really confuses
young believers. Because they think, have I done
something wrong? Did I make a mistake here? Am I still holding on to
some secret sin? Maybe God doesn't love me. And
all these questions go through our minds because we're looking
at ourselves in the trial. But the Lord has done it for
our good. He's the one that brings the trial. He loved Abraham.
We see he chose Abraham. He called Abraham. He gave faith
to Abraham whereby he believed. He blessed Abraham. And yet,
right out of the gate, all these trials. come to Abraham. And so, believer, don't be put
off when you experience trials. When you go through the fiery
trial, all these things are testified to that God gives these to the
believer for our good. for our good. You think about
when we go through trials, what does it do? It takes our proud,
haughty self and it puts us on our face. It drops us to our
knees and puts us on our face to go to God and say, to cry
out to him, Lord, what's going on? And we seek him because otherwise
I'm pretty confident in myself. I can go a long time to my shame. and to the dishonor of me. I
can go a long time, but when God is merciful, that's when
I'm brought to my knees and I'm reminded, who are you? What do
you think you're doing? You're proud and puffed up and
arrogant. And he brings me down on my face. And it hurts the
flesh, but the spirit, the new man rejoices in what he's done.
And so he shows us through trials what? Not the strength of us.
He shows us his glory and his power in the face of what we
think is impossible, yet God does something and we know, Lord,
only you could do this. And I'm sad to say, then we go
a little time and we forget. And we get proud and arrogant
again, and the Lord reminds us graciously that without Him we
can do nothing. And so Paul was made to confess,
he said, I take pleasure in infirmities. I doubt he took pleasure right
away. But he learned, by grace, to take pleasure in infirmities,
in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses,
for Christ's sake. Not for being a rebellious fool,
but for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I
strong. And even when we are rebellious
and we're brought low, we're made to confess, Lord, you're
good. You're good. You're right, Lord. You're just.
What you do is right, and you know, Lord. Thank you. Thank
you. because he brings, he does that for his child. For whom
the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom
he receiveth. And so it's not because God hates
you that you go through fiery trials. It's because he loves
you, and he's drawing you to himself, and he's keeping you,
and never letting you go. He will not let you go. Now,
because of a famine that came into the land when they got to
Canaan, they had to go down further to Egypt. They didn't turn back
closer to Haran or Ur, they went even further away from that place. And they went down to Egypt,
and Abram asked Sarah to say that she was his sister. He said
in Genesis 12, 13, say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that
it may be well with me for thy sake, and my soul shall live
because of thee. What's Abram doing here? He's
fearful of the Egyptians. He's being fearful of the Egyptians. What he's doing is sinful. He
shouldn't do this. Because in Egypt, he was probably
right that they took notice of Sarah. She was a beautiful woman.
And maybe they would have tried to kill Abraham and take Sarah
for themselves. Which shows you that they wouldn't
commit adultery. But they would murder you and
then take your wife that way. They were careful not to do adultery. I guess because then that person
could come after you and maybe get you. But that's what they
did. But what we see there is that
he didn't believe God. He was faithless. This faithful
man now fell in unbelief. And what's that saying? The best
of men are but men at best. Something like that. And it shows
that we are sinners. We're always, in this flesh,
we are sinners. In this flesh, we are not perfect.
In this flesh, we are, we see what we are without the grace
of God keeping us. And so that's the sixth thing
is that all believers are sinners saved. We don't become perfect
in the flesh. We are sinners saved by His grace. and we walk after Him, and we
are ashamed of our sin, we don't want to practice sin, but we
see the weakness of our flesh, and we're reminded of it, that
we might be gracious to one another, and kind to one another, and
forgive one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath
forgiven you. That we will be tender, and merciful, and kind
to our brethren, because without the Lord we can do nothing. And
so we see Abraham, Abraham fell in unbelief. But in spite of
Abraham's sin, we see that God restored him. God preserved him,
and that's the seventh thing. Pharaoh was angry with Abraham
when he did this, when he found out that Sarah was Abram's wife. Pharaoh was angry, but Pharaoh
didn't harm him. And Pharaoh had loaded him up
with gifts to sweeten the deal, to let her brother go to Pharaoh
to be his wife, and he gave him various things and cattle and
whatnot, and he didn't take any of those things from Abram. He
sent them out with all that he gave him. It says in verse 20,
and Pharaoh commanded his men concerning Abram, and they sent
him away and his wife and all that he had. And so the seventh
thing that our Lord does is he preserves his people. He preserves
you to the end. Nothing you do is going to take
you from the grace of God. Don't play. Don't tempt God.
but nothing we can do can take us away from the Lord. It's His
grace and mercy. So what you see in Abraham is
what the Lord works in all His children. It's His grace doing
these things for us. So in Abraham, we see what God
does for all His children from beginning to end. It's all of
His grace for us who are sinners. Sinners saved by His grace for
Christ's sake. I pray the Lord bless that word
to you, brethren. Amen. Let's pray. Our gracious Lord,
we thank you for your grace. We thank you, Lord, for your
mercy toward us. We see what you do for sinners
in Abram. Lord, do that same work of grace
for us. Lord, bring us to see your handiwork,
to look not to ourselves and not even look for anything in
us, but let us find our all in Christ. Let us see your grace
and mercy given to us in him. Lord, we thank you for this.
We pray that you would bless our hearts, that you would turn
us ever to Christ, and to be kind and gracious and merciful
to one another, even as you are to us for Christ's sake. And
Lord, we pray now that you would bless this remaining time together
as we take the Lord's Supper, that we would remember him. who
gave his life for us, Lord, to put away our sin fully, completely,
perfectly, that we may stand complete in him before your throne,
faultless. Lord, we pray that you would
indeed turn our hearts and minds only to Christ. And then, Lord,
afterwards, as we fellowship and take of this food, we ask
that you will bless it to the nourishment of our bodies and
bless our time of fellowship with one another. It's in Christ's
name we pray and give thanks. Amen. All right. Brother Joe, would
you hand out the bread and the wine? I'm going to read from 1 Corinthians
11, and this time I'll read the whole thing, then
I'll sit down and we'll take the bread and the wine together. All right, 1 Corinthians 11 verse
23. Paul writes, for I have received
of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus
the same night in which he was betrayed took bread. And when
he had given thanks, he break it and said, take, eat. This
is my body, which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of
me. After the same manner also he
took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament
in my blood. This do ye as often as ye drink
it in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread
and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. Let's all stand and sing a closing
hymn. We're going to sing 292, Surely,
Goodness and Mercy, 292. A pilgrim was I in a wandering
In the cold night of sin I did roam When Jesus the Kite Shepherd
found me And now I am on my way home Surely goodness and mercy
shall follow me all the days, all the days of my life. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days, all the days of my life. He restoreth my soul when I'm
weary. He giveth me strength day by
day. He leads me besides the still
waters. He guards me each step of the
way. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days, all the days of my life. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days, all the days of my life. When I walk through the dark,
lonesome valley My Savior will walk with me there And safely
His great hand will lead me To the mansions He's gone to prepare
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days, all the
days of my life. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days, all the days of my life. And I shall dwell in the house
of the Lord forever, and I shall feast at the table spread for
me. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days, all the days of my life. All the days, all the days of
my life. Thank you.