Good morning everyone. Let's
begin our second service by standing and singing 318. I need thee
every hour. 318. The every hour most gracious
Lord, No tender voice like thine can peace afford. Every hour I need Thee, O bless
me now, my Savior, I come to Thee. I need Thee every hour,
stay Thou nearby. Temptations lose their power
when Thou art nigh. I need Thee, O I need Thee, every
hour I need Thee. O bless me now, my Savior, I
come to Thee. I need thee every hour, enjoy
your pain. Come quickly and abide, for life
is vain. I need thee, oh, I need thee
every hour. Bless me now, my Savior, I come
to Thee. I need Thee every hour, Most
Holy One. O make me Thine indeed, Thou
blessed Son. I need Thee, O I need Thee, Every
hour I need Thee. O bless me now, my Savior, I
come to Thee. Thank you. Let's turn to 2 Thessalonians
chapter 1 I'll get myself squared away up here 2 Thessalonians
1 Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus
under the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ. Grace be unto you and peace from
God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We are bound to thank
God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your
faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you
all towards each other aboundeth. So that we ourselves glory in
you in the churches of God for your patience and faith, and
in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,
which is manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that
ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God. for which ye
also suffer, seeing it as a righteous thing with God to recompense
tribulation to them that trouble you. And to you who are troubled,
rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven
with his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them
that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power.
when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired
in all them that believeth, because our testimony among you was believed
in that day. Wherefore also we pray always
for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling. Fulfill
all good pleasures of his goodness and the work of faith with power
That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you
and ye in him according to the grace of our God and the Lord
Jesus Christ Let's pray Father we're thankful
again for our time together this morning and Lord that you have
given us a place to come and meet and Father, we're thankful
for the first message that you brought us this morning. Lord,
we ask that you open eyes and ears and hearts as you bring
the second message this morning. And father, we're thankful for
the one you've sent to bring that message. Father, we ask
that you watch over him in his time of study. And we just ask
that you continue to bless him with the words that you'd have
us to hear. And father, we ask that you continue to watch over
this group, this congregation. And father, we ask that wherever
the gospels preached this morning, that eyes be open and ears and
hearts are open. And Father, again, we just ask
that you watch over and care for us in Christ's name. As you remain sitting, let's
sing The Solid Rock, 272, The Solid Rock. My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest
frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ the solid rock
I stand, All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground
is sinking sand. Darkness fails his lovely face,
I rest on his unchanging grace. In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil. On Christ a solid rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand. His oath is covenant, His blood
support me in the whelming flood. When all around my soul gives
way, He then is all my hope and stay. On Christ the solid rock
I stand, All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground
is sinking sand. When he shall come with trumpet
sound, O may I then in him be found, Dressed in his righteousness
alone, Faultless to stand before the throne. On Christ the solid
rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground
is sinking sand. All right, brethren, let's go
to Judges chapter 18. What my prayer is for us is that we're
mindful of the grace of our God and what he does for his people. Specifically, how that he strips
us of vain confidences. things that are of no value or
profit to us, and actually hurtful or harmful to us, keeping us
looking to and having confidence in the flesh. Our God, in grace,
by his power, strips his children of these vain confidences, that
we would find our all in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now let me just remind us of
what we've seen in Judges chapter 17. We met a man named Micah
and it was discovered to us his idolatry. He was a very religious
man, a very idolatrous man. And he had come under the curse
of his mother and he didn't like that. He didn't like what he
heard because he was there and heard the curses that his mother
brought upon the one who had stolen from her. And so he was
moved, he was pricked in his heart by that and he sought to
deliver himself from her curse by his own religious deeds. And so he confessed to his mother
his sin. He restored to his mother that
which he took from her and wanting to do more, he had a house full
of religious things, religious idols, including the idols that
his mother had made in his name with the proceeds, some of the
proceeds she got back from her son. Interestingly enough, she
had said she was going to donate the whole thing, the whole, all
of the, I think it was 1,000 talents of silver to make this
idol. And then she came up with it
in her mind to strip that away and only do 200 talents of silver,
whatever it was, pieces of silver. And he put that in his home,
the two things, the, The two idols that were made,
he put them in his house. He had made an ephod and a teraphim
by which men would do thinking that this would enable them to
seek the Lord for themselves and for others who would pay
them money. And he consecrated one of his
own sons to be the priest of his family. And then when a certain
young man who was a Levite came by, he, He lured him in and had
him become the priest of his family. And so he thought by
these religious works that God would do him good. And it says
in Judges 17 verse 13, Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord
will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. And Micah thought, he thought,
everything's coming together for me. God has delivered me. But in reality, all he did was
set himself up to be stripped, to have those things removed
from him, because God did something very contrary to what Micah expected,
at least in the goodness that he thought God would do for him.
You see, in Judges 18 now, it continues on with Micah, but
its focus is, it changes a bit, and we are introduced to five
men who come from the tribe of Dan. Micah, if I recall correctly,
was from Ephraim. And these men are from Dan, and
they're looking to expand into the land of their inheritance.
And so they come across Micah's home, but they hear the voice. They hear the voice of a young
man, that Levite priest that Micah thought would be the means
of his good. Well, they hear his voice. And
all of Ephraim, they happen to know this young man's voice,
and they turn in, they go deeper in, and that's where they discover,
whoa, this man, Micah, has a lot of treasure. He's got a lot of
religious things. And so when they were coming
back through, when they got their army of 600 men, they saw where
they were gonna go and appropriate some land of the Zydonians to
themselves. They come back through and they
take from Micah those religious objects, all the religious things
that Micah trusts in. They remove them from Micah.
It says in Judges 18, 18, and these went into Micah's house.
and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim,
and the molten image, and then said the priest, that young man,
unto them, what do ye? And they told him, be quiet,
just be quiet, and come with us. Verse 19, they said unto
him, hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with
us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for thee
to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou should
be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel. And the priest's
heart was glad, and he took the ephod and the teraphim and the
graven image, and went in the midst of the people." Well, what
happened to God doing Micah good? Micah decided to go after these
men, and he catches up to them. He gets some neighbors and his
household servants, and he catches up to them, and it says in verse
24, Ye have taken away my gods, which I made, and the priest,
and ye are gone away, and what have I more?" Everything Micah
trusted in was taken from him, and he went back to his house
empty because they were too strong for him to do anything about
it. Now, we're left only to wonder whatever happened to Micah. Was
that made profitable to him? We don't know, probably not.
All the expectations that he had of God were, as far as he
was concerned, God failed him, I would imagine. Isaiah says
this of the idolatrous man, and it's very unflattering. It says
that, he speaks of the idolater, will cut down a tree, and with
part of that wood, he'll make a fire to warm himself. With
another part of that wood, he'll cook his food to nourish himself
with. And with another part of that
wood, he'll make an idol. He'll carve it with his own hands,
something he himself has made, and he bows down to it, calling
it his God. In Isaiah 44 20, he says, he
feedeth on ashes. He's eating ashes. If you try
and live on ashes, you will die. It gives you no nourishment. It does not feed the body. Even if you burn down tomato
plants, it's ashes and it gives you no nourishment to you. The nourishment of the believer
is the Lord Jesus Christ. We feed upon Him and He He is
mighty to save. He is our savior. He does feed
his people and by him we live. We are strengthened. We are profited. Isaiah goes on to say, a deceived
heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor
say, is there not a lie in my right hand? That's how deceived
we are. As sons and daughters of Adam,
that is how deceived our heart is. We don't even recognize our
folly. We don't see our own foolishness. Micah expected God's blessings
for all the religious deeds that he did. And God stripped away
everything that he trusted in. And while I don't know the conclusion
of Micah, what I do know is that God strips away the things that
his people trust in, those things that we think is our salvation,
in grace and mercy, to do us good. Our God strips away those
things that we trusted in, thinking that is my salvation, and he
shows us his son, the Lord Jesus Christ, that he is all our salvation. Now, when we looked at the last
chapter, we saw Micah trying to deliver himself from the curse.
And it was a chapter full of sin and confusion and idolatry,
but we were blessed to see how that Christ delivers his people
from the curse. And here, in the same way, in
this chapter, which is full of sin and idolatry and confusion,
but where the Lord is gracious, he strips away the things from
his people that are keeping us from trusting Christ, from leaning
wholly upon him. So I've titled this Stripped
for Our Good. Now there's two verses that I
want to look at in this chapter that will help us understand
what the Lord is showing us, how that he does us good in stripping
away these things. First is Judges 18, one, where
we're reminded in the first verse that in those days there was
no king in Israel. And then look at verse seven,
in the middle of it, it says, there was no magistrate in the
land. This is what our God must do
for us. He makes Christ King in our hearts. He is the King, whether we own
Him as such or not, He is the King. But in grace, He makes
Christ the King in the hearts of His people. And by His Holy
Spirit, He has made unto us a magistrate. He writes the law of God on our
hearts and minds. He leads us in paths of righteousness. He directs our steps. He tells
us, He shows us Christ our King, our all. And so, without these
spiritual blessings, which are given to us in Christ, all our
obedience, no matter how good it looks, even if it's under
the name of Christian, without Christ in the heart, without
His Holy Spirit, all our obedience is in the flesh. And the carnal
man trusts in those things. The natural man trusts in his
suiting up, and going to church, and reading his Bible, and saying
his prayers, and giving to the work. That's the natural man
trusts in those things. And he thinks he's paying off
his debt, and he's buying good credits on what he does or does
not do. That's what the flesh trusts
in. The scriptures teach us that
there's a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof
are the ways of death. And so graciously, mercifully,
For Christ's sake, our God strips away those things. He turns us
from the way of the flesh, from the course of the world. He delivers
us out from under the influence of the prince of the power of
the air, and he gives us life in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, like Micah, That's what
we think. We think like Micah. And the
Lord tells us, thou thoughtest that I was altogether like unto
thee. You thought I was just like thee. But the Lord is not
like you or me. The Lord is holy. He's just. He's perfect in all his ways. He created us. We didn't create
God. Now man has created many gods.
Man has created many idols, many false gods that cannot save,
but there is one true and living God who has created us, and you
that believe the Lord Jesus Christ, he's created you for himself
to be his people. And He is a God to you. He is a Savior. He is mighty
to save His people to the uttermost. And He shall never let you perish. You shall never slip from His
hands. He does all things necessary for your profit and your good
in the Lord Jesus Christ. What He does for His people is
good. Always, always good. Now, there's
many people recorded in scripture that worshipped God like Micah,
that worshipped God according to the flesh, doing what seemed
right in their own eyes. And these are not the people
that we want to be identified with. Not by grace, we don't
want to. By nature, sure, we don't mind.
But in grace, not at all. For example, we see Cain. Cain
thought he could come and worship God any way he pleased. And so he brought what he thought
was the best of the best. Cain brought the fruit of the
ground in offering unto the Lord. In other words, he brought his
works of the flesh. That ground, which is dust, is
our flesh. And he brought his best works
done in the flesh. And God didn't receive them.
God didn't receive them. And Mike and Cain was very angry,
very angry with God. We also read of Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram. And they thought that Moses and
Aaron were taking too much to themselves, and so they thought
no big deal to oppose those whom the Lord had set over the people
and given to them to lead them out of Israel. And so they despised
those that God had given to them. Balaam also, we read of him,
he sold his services to the highest bidder. If you gave him enough
money, he was willing to curse the people of God for the right
price. Likewise, we read of Simon. He
was a certain man of Samaria, and he tried to purchase the
gift of the Holy Spirit. When he saw the apostles lay
their hands on others and give them a gift of the Holy Spirit,
give them the gift of the Holy Spirit, he wanted that, and he
was willing to pay any price to have that. And then there's
Ananias and Sapphira, and they lied to the spirit of God and
thought they could get away with it. The one thing that all these
have in common, and those like them in the scriptures, is that
we see God stripped them away. from the body of Christ. He took
them out of the body of God's assembled people. Why? Because they did what was right
in their own eyes. They came to God in the way they
thought was right, the way it pleased them. But if God is gracious,
to us who are sinners, to us who by nature are just like them,
rather than strip us away from the assembly, he strips away
from us those vain works that the flesh trusts in and has confidence
in, and he turns us from them to behold, to look to the Lord
our righteousness. Paul, writing to Timothy, said,
I know whom I have believed. I know him. And I'm persuaded
that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him
against that day. What he's saying there is, yeah,
Timothy, I was born a Jew, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, circumcised on
the eighth day. I'm of the tribe of Benjamin.
I've got all these things. I was a Pharisee. I was under
the law, a student of Gamaliel. I was excelling my peers in the
law. I was doing great. And yet Paul
said, all those religious deeds and works that men trust in and
look at with wonder and awe, he said, to me, they all became
dung, garbage, worthless, unprofitable. Not only unnecessary, but I don't
even want to talk about them. I don't want to boast in those
things. They mean nothing to me. And I've committed everything,
the whole of my salvation, in the Lord Jesus Christ. He's my all. I've committed,
I'm so convinced that Christ is all that I've got no other
hope. I don't dare come before holy
God with any other hope. addition to the blood of Christ.
I come in the blood of Christ alone. And so our God does this
in showing us Christ. He shows us that Christ is all. He shows us Christ on the throne.
Turn over to Isaiah 6. Let's see this Isaiah 6 and we'll
look at verse 1 and then one other verse there. Isaiah 6.1 In the year that King
Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and
lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Now up until this
point, Isaiah's confidence, Isaiah's boast, was King Uzziah. Isaiah loved Uzziah. He was a
family member. He served in Uzziah's court,
and he loved Uzziah. Uzziah was all, and he felt blessed. He felt confident. He was related
to the king, and he loved the king, and he served the king.
But God stripped from Uzziah, or stripped Isaiah, stripped
from Isaiah, Uzziah as the king. He took him away and made Isaiah
to see Christ seated on the throne in his glory. His train filled
the temple so that there was no room for any other king, no
room for anything else to stand in Isaiah's view. He saw Christ
in Christ alone. And what did the Lord do? Verse
five, then said I, woe is me, for I am undone, because I am
a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean
lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. When the Lord had stripped away
everything that he had confidence in, Then he saw the only, the
true King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, his salvation, the
Lord Jesus Christ seated on the throne. And then he became profitable. Then he became useful to the
Lord. The Lord used him because the Lord did this for him in
order to be gracious to him. And that man went on to write
the Gospel of Isaiah. with the most beautiful, clearest
views of the Lord Jesus Christ who was to come, blessing our
hearts, comforting us, speaking of Him who is all our glory and
all our salvation, the Lord Jesus Christ. Job 2, here's another
one, who saw his God. Job 42, verses five and six,
when Job said, I've heard of thee with the hearing of the
ear, But now mine eye hath seen thee, now mine eye seeth thee,
wherefore, seeing you, I abhor myself and repent in dust and
ashes." Repent in dust and ashes. So now he sees and knows the
Lord. It's true, we hear the Lord. of things for a time, and we
grow up hearing things for a time, but when the Lord comes with
power and grace, then we hear, then we know the truth and are
turned from our fleshly ways. So our Lord makes Christ king
in our hearts, and he's king whether we acknowledge him as
such or not, but he turns us from that which we trusted him
and makes us fall on our face and worship Christ alone. Now,
previous to salvation, all we were were sinners dead in sins,
dead in trespasses. We walked by the old man and
we thought that according to the flesh, we could approach
God and worship him the way we pleased. And our confidence was
in what we knew and what we did. Just like we saw of several individuals
in the scriptures. And they were stripped away from
the congregation of the Lord. But God graciously stripped those
things from us. He didn't strip us away. He didn't
pull us away. He didn't draw us away. He drew
us to Christ. He was merciful and gracious
to us. and he formed faith in our hearts
that heard Christ and believed Christ and worships Christ, so
that we're sealed by his Holy Ghost who keeps us and guides
us. Ephesians 1, verse 13 and 14.
You could turn to Ephesians, because we'll go to one other
scripture there. Ephesians 1, 13. It says, in whom ye also trusted,
After that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation, in whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed
with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of
his glory. What our Lord does for us is
He sent His Son, who laid down His life, shedding His blood
to make payment, to make an atonement for our sins. And He gives us
His Holy Spirit that turns us from dead things and shows us
the Lord Jesus Christ. And He teaches us all that the
Father has done so that we are given light and life in Christ,
reconciled to the Father, having fellowship with Him to know the
things. that have been done for us by our God. Look at Ephesians
4. Ephesians 4, verse 20. It says, but ye have not so learned
Christ. Our faith and understanding is
not according to the flesh. That's not how we've learned
Christ, by what we've done in the flesh, but through the preaching
of the gospel made effectual to our hearts. Verse 21, if so
be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him as the
truth is in Jesus, so that the Holy Spirit, as a magistrate
in our hearts, turns us to Christ, looks to him, hears him, and
follows him. follows Christ. Verse 22, that
ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which
is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the
spirit of your mind, and that ye put on the new man, which
after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore,
putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor,
for we are members one of another. And so our God puts away the
old things, and He makes all things new. He makes us new in
Christ Jesus. And so our Lord, in grace and
in mercy, strips away from us those vain things that we trusted
Him, thinking that this was our righteousness, and He makes us
to see Christ. Micah had everything taken from
him that he trusted in. He was broken. He said, you've
taken everything from me. Well, that's what God does. He
strips away all those things that we had all our confidence
in and thought, this is my salvation. This is why God will do me good.
And we trusted in them. And what did the Lord do? Graciously
comes and strips them away and says, no, that's not your salvation. And a lot of those things hurt,
and they're hard when they're taken from us. And we think,
this is it, God has come to get me. It's my time now, and he's
going to destroy me. And we're so terrified, but under
the preaching of the gospel, made effectual to our hearts,
in grace by his spirit, he makes us to know that no, God didn't
do this to destroy me. He took that from me for my good,
that I would find my all in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he brings
that home to the heart, each one individually. What's stripped
from one is not necessarily stripped from another, but he knows exactly
what we need for our good and our profit to show us Christ. And that's why Paul wrote in
Romans 8, 28 and 29, he said, we know, that all things work together
for good to them that love God, to them who are called according
to purpose. Called according to the purpose
of our God, for whom he did foreknow. whom he did love and choose and
gave to Christ, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image
of his Son." And that includes the removal of vain things that
God has no purpose for, will not leave them in us and removes
them from us. And it's by this grace, by this
power, by that, the withering of the blowing of the Spirit
upon us, upon which this flower fades and dies in itself, that
we might hear the word of our God. That's how we're brought
to confess with Paul, who said in Philippians 3, verse 3, we
are the circumcision. And what is circumcision? It's
a cutting away, it's a removal of something that God does in
the heart. We're the circumcision which
worship God in the Spirit. and rejoice in Christ Jesus and
have no confidence in the flesh. That's given to us. That's taught
to us. That comes through those trials
and those hardships and afflictions that strip away, that narrow
way, which brings us down to nothing but us standing face
to face with our God and Savior, to behold Him, to see our God
in the face of Jesus Christ. Now let's look at one final passage.
Let's turn to Isaiah 43. Isaiah 43 I'm gonna read verse
1 & 2 with you But now thus saith the Lord that
created thee O Jacob and he that formed thee O Israel fear not
fear not for I have redeemed thee I have called thee by thy
name thou art a mine. When thou passest through the
waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall
not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the
fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle
upon thee." This last week Michelle was traveling and she was going
up to the northeast and she had to get on a connecting flight
to and from. And so I went on the weather
channel and when I was there checking out the cities that
she was passing through and where she was, I was looking to see
if there were any dangerous weather events. I love her, I think about
her, I care for her. So I was looking and I was looking
at these videos on the Weather Channel and these videos were
these various compilations of weather events going on throughout
the world. Some here in the States, some
in Norway, some in China, and I saw lots of floods Lots of
heavy rains coming down and these pictures, these videos were taken
showing cars being washed down the road. Sometimes so fiercely
with so much force and violence that they were being turned up
on their noses and flipping over. Sometimes you see garbage dumpsters,
whole dumpsters floating down. In Norway there was a raging
river that took a whole house And that house was flowing down
the river till it came and met a bridge. And that bridge just
scraped off the roof, and that thing kept on washing down the
river. And there's many videos like
that on the internet. Additionally, we see now, most
recently, are the fires in Lahaina, Hawaii, and that terrible tragedy
there. And some of the people that they
were interviewing said, well, thankful to be alive, but I lost
everything. Everything that I had. Some of
the people were tourists and all their stuff in the hotel
they had to get out so fast they lost all their luggage. Other
people who lived there lost their whole houses with all their belongings
and their cars. And so when I read this verse
this week, I noticed these waters. and these fires. And what the
Lord is saying to you, his child, is when you go through these
waters that wash away and strip away those things that you trusted
in. And when the fire comes, it comes and it strips and removes
those things, turning those things that we trusted in, we're so
confident that this is my salvation, he turns them to ashes. What
he's saying there is, I'm with you. I'll be with you. I won't
leave you. I'm doing this for your good. And so these things remove from
us those vain confidences that distract, that turn away, that
leave us doing what we think is right in our own eyes. And
he removes them and shows us the precious Lord Jesus Christ,
our King, seated on the throne, our God and our Savior, who has
laid down his life for our lives and given us true life and salvation. in him by his grace and mercy. So, brethren, rejoice. Be glad in the Lord. This stripping
is for your good. I don't know what happened to
Micah, but I pray that we rejoice in the stripping of our God who
does this for our good. Amen. I'll pray and then brother disclose
this in a hymn. Our gracious Lord, we thank you
for your grace. We thank you for your mercy and
your power. Lord, your wisdom that takes
from us those vain confidences that are in us by nature that
we read of and see in Micah. And Lord, you take them from
us. And Lord, the stripping, it's painful in the flesh. It's
hard in the flesh. It's impossible in the flesh
for us. But Lord, by your grace and by your Spirit, we see your
goodness, we see your love and your kindness for us in Christ,
for Christ's sake, to take away those things that need to be
removed and to show us, to give us Christ, to show us his glory
and power and grace and wonder and love. Lord, thank you. Help
us, Lord, strengthen us, keep us. You know that we don't have
the power to do it ourselves. We have nothing in us, but Lord,
you have everything and you are sufficient. Lord, help us. Be
merciful and gracious to us for Christ's sake. Amen. Okay, brother. Let's all stand and sing a closing
hymn, 112. Blessed Redeemer, 112. O Calvary's mountain, one dreadful
morn, O Christ my Savior, weary and worn, Facing for sinners
death on the cross, But He shall save them from endless loss. Precious Redeemer, Precious Redeemer,
Seems how I see Him on Calvary's tree. Wounded and bleeding, For
sinners pleading, Blind and unheeding, Dying for me. Father forgive
them, thus did he pray, Pain while his lifeblood flowed fast
away. Praying for sinners while in
such woe, No one but Jesus ever loved so. Blessed Redeemer, Precious
Redeemer, Seems now I see Him on Calvary's tree. Wounded and bleeding, For sinners
pleading, Blind and unheeding, Dying for me. Oh, how I love
Him, Savior and Friend! How can my praises ever find
end? Through years unnumbered on heaven's
shore, My tongue shall praise Him forevermore. Blessed Redeemer, Precious Redeemer,
Shames now I see Him on Calvary's tree. Wounded and bleeding, For
sinners pleading, Blind and unheeding, Dying for me. Thank you.