Good evening, everyone. Let's
begin our evening service with Abide With Me, number 75, Abide
With Me. Light with me fast falls the
eventide The darkness deepens, Lord with me abide When other
helpers fail and comforts flee Help of the helpless, O abide
with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's
little day. Earth's joys grow dim, its glories
pass away. change and decay in all around
thy seed. O thou who changest not, abide
with me. I need thy presence every passing
hour. What but thy grace can foil the
tempter's power? Who like thyself my guide and
stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, O
abide with me. Hold thou thy word before my
closing eyes. Shine through the gloom and point
me to the skies. Heaven's morning breaks and earth's
vain shadows flee. In life and death, O Lord, abide
with me. Thank you. That's a good version of that
music in that one. Abide with me, it's really nice.
I'm going to read from Ephesians chapter 1, picking up in verse
15 and read to the end of the chapter. It's the Apostle Paul's
prayer for the brethren. Wherefore, I also, after I heard
of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in
my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation
in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being
enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling
and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us where to believe
according to the working of his mighty power? Which he wrought
in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at
his own right hand in the heavenly places. Far above all principality
and power and might and dominion and every name that is named
not only in this world but also in that which is to come. and
hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the
head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness
of him that filleth all in all. Let's go to the Lord in prayer.
Our gracious Lord, we do thank you for the almighty grace of
your salvation, given, worked, established, founded upon the
blood of Christ. what he's done to obtain our
eternal redemption Lord we thank you for this Lord we don't thank
you enough or think of it enough but Lord we we do give you thanks
and praise and glory in this your salvation which you so wisely
gave and provided in your son freely for your people Lord we
We do pray that your spirit would teach us, that you would fall
upon us for our good, that you would enlighten our eyes and
give us understanding in the things of our Savior, that we
would see not ourselves, but what he has done and accomplished
for us. Lord, we ask that we would indeed
be fed this night, that we would fellowship with one another in
the spirit and with our God. Lord, that you would bless us.
Christ's sake. Lord, we pray for our brethren
who could not be with us tonight. We pray that you would heal them,
help them, strengthen them, encourage them. Lord, that you would indeed
establish this work, establish this body. Lord, that you would
call out your sheep from the areas around us, that you would
call them out of darkness, that you would give them a heart to
come and hear this Word preached, maybe even on a Tuesday night,
that they would come and listen. And again on Sunday, Lord, that
they would come and meet with us and hear the Word of our God
preached as it is in Christ, according to the Spirit and not
according to the traditions of man. Lord, we pray for your guidance. We pray that you will continue
to lead us and to keep us ever looking to the one whom you've
sent, the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, we know that there's no
salvation in any other but him alone. Keep us right there. Establish
us in him. It's in Christ's name we pray
and give thanks. Amen. Our second hymn will be 263,
A Shelter in a Time of Storm, 263. I thought I had it keyed up,
let me just see. Oh, here it is. ? The Lord's a rock in Him we hide
? A shelter in the time of storm Secure whatever will be tied,
a shelter in the time of storm. Oh, Jesus is a rock in a weary
land, a weary land, a weary land. Oh, Jesus is a rock in a weary
land, a shelter in the time of storm. A shade by day, defense
by night, a shelter in a time of storm. No fear's alarm, no
foe's affright, a shelter in a time of storm. Oh, Jesus is
a rock in a weary land, a weary land, a weary land. Oh, Jesus is a rock in a weary
land, a shelter in the time of storm. The raging storms may
round us beat, a shelter in the time of storm. We'll never leave
our safe retreat, a shelter in the time of storm. Oh, Jesus
is a rock in a weary land, a weary land, a weary land. Oh, Jesus is a rock in a weary
land, a shelter in the time of storm. Rock divine, O refuge dear, A
shelter in the time of storm. Be thou our helper ever near,
A shelter in the time of storm. Oh, Jesus is a rock in a weary
land, a weary land, a weary land. Oh, Jesus is a rock in a weary
land, a shelter in the time of storm. Thank you. Good to be back. I had a good
trip at Darwin's and fellowshipping with the brethren. It was really
nice and getting to spend time with them and even meet some
others. I didn't realize that they were
from Wichita Falls group there. So that's really nice. Let's take our Bibles and go
to Isaiah chapter 66. Isaiah 66, looking at verses
1 and 2 this evening. This is the final chapter of
Isaiah, and it's a continuation of what has been declared before. And it speaks to the consolation
of God's people. The Lord rebukes those who come
in their own righteousness and in their own self-confidences,
in their own works. The Lord rebukes them and sets
them straight. Sets them straight in telling
them the truth because He is the God of truth. And we bless
ourselves in the God of truth. And He consoles His people. He teaches His people and blesses
His people in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's where
He meets with His people is in them. He's at rest. God is at
peace with us and He makes us who are rebels and enemies of
the true and living God, He makes us to be at peace with Him, at
rest in Him, in the Lord Jesus Christ. Tonight in these two
verses, in verse one and the beginning of verse two, the Lord
adjusts the attitude of that carnal professor, that one who's
confident in himself. He fixes his attitude by pointing
out that God isn't contained or controlled by the will and
the permission of man. God isn't bound. by our foolish
fickle will and us allowing God to do what God does. He's not
waiting or controlled by us. God is sovereign and he sits
robed in majesty and he treads upon the earth and man beneath
his feet. And having put us in our place,
then he declares the gospel. He tells us whom he looks to
for all our salvation, for our peace. And that's where he meets
us, is right there in the Lord Jesus Christ. I've titled this
message, To This Man Will I Look. To This Man Will I Look. Let's
see verse one. The Lord Thus saith the Lord,
The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where
is the house that ye build unto me, and where is the place of
my rest? Why does the Lord say this? Why does He ask these questions? Well, man naturally thinks that
he does something for God and that he can do something for
God to earn God's favor and to make up for some folly, some
sin, some foolishness of his. He tries to work it off and pay
down the debt by his works and he thinks that he can honor and
please God by his own works. And so he builds monuments to
the Lord. He builds great large structures,
magnificent edifices and things that are meant to give us a sense
of awe. They build, they use great stones
and have beautiful arches, majestic arches and feats of engineering
that wow man and and try to inspire man with stained glass and statues
and stations and candles and various things to stir us up,
to lift us up out of the earthly realm into that spiritual realm
and give us a sense and inspiring us in some sense of God, if such
a thing were even possible. And so the Lord reminds man,
saying, heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool and asks
where are you gonna build me a house now we do know that the
Jews Solomon built the temple he built the first temple that
first permanent structure where the Ark of the Covenant came
to rest before then it had been moved from place to place sometimes
staying in someone's house and so now They had built a permanent
structure where the ark came to rest. But even Solomon confessed,
will God indeed dwell on the earth? He said, behold, the heaven,
the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this
house that I have built it. And you can read about that in
1 Kings 8. But it was a picture of where
God would meet with his people, where he would condescend and
meet with his people and bless his people and teach his people
and feed his people and comfort his people was there in that
temple. That's what it pictured, where
God meets with his people. And so this earthly temple, it
typifies Jesus Christ. It speaks of him. It points to
him. He is the head of the body and
the body is his church which is built and raised by Christ. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 3.9,
he says, ye are God's building. You are the temple of the Holy
Spirit. You are the building of God.
Christ is the one who builds the house. We read that in Hebrews. Moses built his house. Well,
Christ builds his house. He's the sun over the whole house. He's not the servant, he's the
son over the house, and he raises it up. And he's the son, just
like Solomon was the son of David who built the temple. He was
the son who built the temple. Well, so Christ is the son who
builds the temple, who is the very temple of God's people where
we meet with God. He told the Jews, destroy this
temple, and in three days I will raise it up. John 2 verse 19. Now this building of God, it's
built and established by Christ and that's what the Jews rejected. The Jews rejected the salvation,
the worship of God established in and by the blood of Christ.
They rejected Him. They rejected that in rejecting
Him and God rejected them. Do you know that when Stephen,
just before he was martyred, when Stephen was preaching to
the Jews, he quoted this passage here in Isaiah 66. It was the
last thing he said before making application to the Jews at which
they gnashed upon him with their teeth and murdered him by stoning. This was the last verse that
he quoted of scripture to them. Turn over there to Acts 7, Acts
7 verse 48. through 53. And the point that
I'm making here is that man rejects, the natural man rejects the true
and living God. And God is here teaching us the
truth, saying to them, what are you going to build me? What are
you rejecting? What are you going to do to save
yourselves? So Acts 7, 48, This is Stephen
speaking. He says, how be it the most high
dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the prophet. They were proud of their temple
that Herod had built and extended. They were proud of that, and
they trusted in themselves. He says, heaven is my throne.
Now this is from Isaiah 66, verse one. Heaven is my throne, and
earth is my footstool. What house will ye build me,
saith the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? And this is
the beginning of verse two, hath not my hand made all these things? And then he makes application
saying, ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised and hardened ears, ye do always
resist the Holy Ghost as your fathers did, so do ye. And so This is rebellion against
what God has accomplished, being manifest in the hearts of these
Jews who rejected, who denied the Lord Jesus Christ, who would
not have that man to rule over him. And he's pointing this out,
using this verse, saying, you are rebels. You reject the salvation
of God. By nature, that's what we do.
And he asks, which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?
And they have slain them which showed before of the coming of
the just one, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers,
who have received the law by the disposition of angels, ministers
of God, and have not kept it. and then they turned against
him and they murdered him also. So that's the context. that we
have here in Isaiah. That's the context when the Lord
is asking these questions. When he's laying this, it's because
man is a rebel and he's shutting the mouth of man. He's silencing
the boasting and the arrogance of man. He's speaking to people
in their fleshly nature who are not obedient to the righteousness
of God. They're not trusting in his salvation.
They have their own righteousness, they glory in their own works,
and we see it so plainly in the Jews, and yet in our day, with
many religion, we don't see, they don't see it. We don't see
it unless God makes us to see that all my works are self-righteousness,
and I'm trusting in what I do, and I'm not hearing Christ. I'm
not looking to Christ. I'm not trusting the Lord Jesus
Christ. And so the scriptures teach that
Christ is that chief cornerstone. upon which Mount Zion is established,
upon which the Church is founded, and without that cornerstone
which is Jesus Christ There is no church. There is no salvation. It's not the law. It's not Moses. It's not anything but the Lord
Jesus Christ. He is the whole of our salvation. All the scriptures speak of and
testify of the Lord Jesus Christ. God is showing to us, declaring
to us, look to my son. whom I have sent. He is your
salvation. He's the builder. He's the one
in whom I dwell. He's the one in whom I come to
rest with my people and have no wrath, have no demands upon
them, but my grace and my love for Christ's sake. He's the one
where I meet with my people in Christ alone. Peter in first
Peter chapter two called him in verse six, elect. precious,
and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. You that hope in Christ, who
forsake your own righteousness and confidence in yourself and
your law-keeping and what you've done for the Lord, you're not
going to stand before God and be speechless, and be confounded,
ashamed, is what that means. You're not gonna be ashamed,
but God's gonna say, what were you thinking, trusting in my
son for all your righteousness? That's not words you're gonna
hear. You're gonna hear, well done, well done, blessed of the
Lord. You're the work of my son, and
as I love him, so I love you. and you're accepted of me. But
all those who say, well, I don't know so much about Christ. I
don't know if that's sufficient. I've got to do this, and I've
got to do my part. God helps those who help themselves,
they say, which is not in the scriptures. and they look to
the law and they look to their works as their salvation. They shall be confounded because
they laid aside that chief cornerstone. They stumbled over him and pushed
him out of the way. Peter went on to say in verse
seven and eight of that same chapter, unto you therefore which
believe he is precious, but unto them which be disobedient. That's what we have in this context
here. The Lord is speaking to the disobedient,
who are trying to build magnificent structures of their own righteousness
for God, and they're stumbling over the stumbling stone, which
is Christ. The stone which the builders
disallowed, this rejected it, the same is made the head of
the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to
them which stumble at the word being disobedient, whereunto
also they were appointed. They were appointed to this.
And so the Lord confronts the arrogance of man in verse one,
saying, where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is
the place of my rest? God is asking man, are you going
to do this? You that have rejected my son,
my righteousness, my servant whom I sent, you're going to
do this? You're sure about that? You think you're going to please
me and build me a house? Because that's what man does.
He's rejected the truth. And so this is the arrogance
of man. And just like when Moses read the book of the covenant
to the people, what did they say? All that the Lord hath said,
we will do and be obedient. We'll do it. We got this. We
got this. No, we don't. We don't, we fail,
we come short of the glory of God in the law. And the scriptures
testify to that very truth to us over and over and over again,
testifying that all have sinned. Every one of us has sinned and
come short of God's glory. So the Lord asks, man, what will
you build for me? Do you have any idea where the
place of my rest is? And he adds in verse 2, the beginning
of it, for all those things hath mine hand made, and all those
things have been, saith the Lord. Stephen wrapped it up saying,
hath not my hand made all these things? I've done it. I've done
it. I've already provided salvation. It already exists. As the psalmist
wrote in Psalm 38, salvation belongeth unto the Lord. It's his work. he's done it he
has accomplished the redemption of his people and so the natural
man rejects that in favor of his own works because he's not
born again and no man doesn't make himself born again he doesn't
go down to the church and and do what they say to make Himself
born again. We don't have any authority or
control over our second birth, any more control over that than
we had over our first birth. It's all in the hands of the
Lord. It's according to His grace and His mercy whereby we are
made of His grace new creatures, born again after the seed of
Christ. replacing that, removing that
corrupted, ruined, defiled seed of Adam and giving us a new birth,
a spiritual birth in and by the seed of Christ himself. And man, natural man, doesn't
even get that or understand it. But thankfully, believers are
taught this, and know God has done this. He's done this. He's
done the work. And we're made partakers of Christ.
Now, for all the works and sacrifices of men, where we see God is not
impressed, God declares the works of man as sin and rebellion.
And what the Lord is teaching us here is that He's teaching
us, he's rebuking the natural man to see the folly and the
wickedness of his own works. And then the Lord turns himself,
he turns and looks upon Christ and declares to us, you look
upon, or you look upon the one whom I look upon, the Lord Jesus
Christ. He says there in the second half
of verse two, but to this man will I look. even to him that
is poor, and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. Now
before we go off and examine ourselves to see how well we
fit into that description of the man whom God looks at, I'll
just tell you plainly, as I've been saying it the whole time,
this is speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the man whom
the Father looks to for all the salvation of his people. Everything
is provided in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. When he says, but
to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a
contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word, he's speaking of
that perfect man, the perfect man whom he has sent. The natural
man, who's taken up with himself and excited about what he's done,
he examines himself. And he checks himself to see
whether or not he's meeting that up and he convinces himself that
by his church going and his law keeping and what he's doing and
who he's rebuking and telling what they need to be doing, he
looks at those things and determines that this is speaking of me.
He looks at his experience and the trouble that he feels. Sometimes
some men do that and they convince themselves that this is me. I'm
the poor one. I'm trembling at the word of
God. I'm afraid. They look at their
experiences or they look at what they're accomplishing because
some men are very confident and others are not so confident.
So they all find different things that suit them to make themselves
feel convinced that this is speaking of them, that they're the ones
whom God is looking at. but it's Christ. It's speaking
of Christ in his humanity. Turn over to Colossians 1. Let's
see this in Colossians 1. The Lord teaches us this because
if we're going to boast in something We're going to boast in Christ.
If there's anything good that we boast in, it's the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's whom the Lord is turning
us to. He's not whipping us up to get us to do something for
Him. He's teaching us what he's done
for us. And by his spirit, he leads us and teaches us out of
love. And in love, we bear fruits of
righteousness and good works, but it's out of love for what
Christ has done for us. And we rejoice in that. And so
Colossians 1, 16 and 17. If we are going to boast of creating
something like the house of God we need to speak of the word
of God who makes all things and creates all things, the one whom
God looks to to create all things. For by Him were all things created
that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible,
whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers,
all things were created by Him and for Him. And he is before
all things, and by him all things consist. I'll stay right there
in Colossians 1. If the father wants something
created, he looks to the son. He doesn't look to you or to
me. He's looking to the one who created all things, and did all
things well. 18-19 And he is the head of the
body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from
the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell. He is talking about the building
of the church. Christ is the one who builds
the church. He has the preeminence in everything. Where is the house that you will
build, God? You and I won't. Christ does. Christ builds the house. Then
we see also that God entrusted the whole of our salvation. This salvation is that structure. It's the place where God meets
with his people, which is Christ himself, who accomplished this
work I struggle to describe it, but he accomplished it in his
whole service and obedience to the Father and coming and fulfilling
the law perfectly and going to the cross as the Lamb of God,
as our substitute, as the surety of his people, taking our place,
bearing our sins as the sin-bearing sacrifice, to make an atonement
for sin, to satisfy the righteousness of God in all things, and to
satisfy His anger and wrath against us, so that now He is well pleased
with us in Christ. Our Lord did that. and so that
we are his body, we are in Christ and in his temple, worshiping
God in the temple of God, which is Christ himself. Verse 20 through
22, and having made peace through the blood of his cross by him
to reconcile all things unto himself, by him I say, whether
they be things in earth or things in heaven, and you that were
sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now hath he reconciled. in the body of his flesh through
death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in his sight." When you go into various churches,
and especially ones that have setups where you can go and do
things and feel like you're doing something, all those things,
those givings and those burning of candles and lighting incense
and all the program of stuff, the singing of the hymns and
the reading it back to one another in the back of the the hymnals
like we did in Presbyterian churches too and the Catholic churches
and all those things that we did to try and sanctify ourselves
and to do religious works. What's being described here is
Christ did it all. He did all those works that make
peace and that give us peace and comfort and rest for our
souls and Christ. That's why people go and do religious
things. They're trying to do something
to make themselves feel better and to convince them to cleanse
their conscience and give them a relief from the guilt of their
conscience for their sin. But he's saying right here Christ
did all that. He did all those religious services
and works. It's all done in and by him and
through his blood we now have peace with God who meets with
us there in that building. the Lord Jesus Christ and so
the Lord saying what could you give that I've not already given
in my son or that my son is not already given for his people
what more can you do that he himself hasn't already done perfectly
and satisfied me so you might ask now well how does this speak
of Christ when he says but to this man will I look even to
him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth that my
word." Well, it describes Christ and his humanity. First, this
man, Christ, was poor. When he ministered to the people,
we're told, he said, the Son of Man hath nowhere to lay his
head. He's poor. He emptied himself
of the glory he had with the Father, to take upon him the
weakness of this flesh, being made like unto his brethren,
that he should make a perfect sacrifice for them, to make them
his own people. 2 Corinthians 8-9 For ye know
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet
for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might
be made rich. So he became poor to make us
rich, rich in the inheritance of the saints and light, those
that are redeemed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. That
word poor can also be translated afflicted, humble, lowly. He was afflicted, he was tried,
he was persecuted, he was put to death for his people, made
low, came in the low, lowliness and in poverty in order to be
a fit and perfect sacrifice for his people in all things. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, thy king cometh unto thee. He is just, and having
salvation, lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt
the foal of an ass. They despised him and rejected
him. But to you who believe, by that
grace of God working in you, giving you faith, to you he is
precious. precious. Second, Christ is of
a contrite spirit. He was made contrite. He was brought low through the
sufferings and the sorrows, that lot which was given to him to
bear for his people. In Isaiah 53, 4 and 5, it describes
this suffering, whereby we see his contrite spirit. Surely,
he says, he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet
we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. That's
what that contrite spirit means, he's stricken, he's smitten,
he's been brought low, he's been humbled. And this is why he came,
but he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes
we are healed. And so the Lord through his word,
through his prophets, through his preachers, says to you, behold,
the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world. There's
one Savior given to the world, whereby the Lord calls all his
people Jew and Gentile. There's one Savior, one salvation.
Look to him. That's the man whom the Father
looked to. You look to him, and you'll not be confounded. You
shall never be ashamed. He is precious, he is elect,
he is the one whom God has sent, the one where God meets with
his people in peace, in fellowship, in kindness, in love. Now third,
Christ is the man who trembleth at God's word. This speaks of
the reverence that he had for the word of his father and his
commitment to fulfilling all that word, which the father sent
him to do. In John 7, 16, Jesus answered
them and said, my doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. In John 8, 26, he said, but he
that sent me is true when I speak to the world those things which
I have heard of him. John 12, 49 and 50, he said,
I've not spoken of myself, but the father which hath sent me,
he gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should
speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. Whatsoever
I speak, therefore, even as the father said unto me, so I speak. Christ faithfully obeyed the
word of his father in order to secure, to obtain, that reconciliation
of you, his people. He did it perfectly so that the
Father is well pleased with him. In whom he delights, it says. And that's where you are. You
are in Christ. And the Father delights in you,
his people, because Christ has obtained and redeemed and purchased
you with his own blood. It's of Christ that we sing.
When we look at Psalm 1 verses 1 through 3, we're not describing
us and what we've done. We're singing and rejoicing in
what Christ himself has done. Blessed is the man that walketh
not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is
in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day
and night. he shall be like a tree planted
by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in the season
his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall
prosper." And so this temple, it speaks of the building of
Christ, it speaks of that house that he built where God dwells
in him, with him, for in him dwelleth all the fullness of
the Godhead bodily. That's where God meets with his
people. We don't now come up and push
Christ out of the way and say, wait a minute, look what I did.
I got some things that I want to talk about and set before
you. We don't dare do that. Would we really push Christ out
of the way to talk about what we've done? We rejoice in what
He has done, because He's done it perfectly. He's the one who
trembled at the word of God, meaning He fulfilled it perfectly,
honoring the Father in all things, in all things. We're calling
God a liar if we say that we haven't come up short and stumbled
in this thing, and that thing, and the other thing, in everything.
We need a Savior, and God provided that Savior. Look to Him, and
that's what He's saying in this word, You're not building me
the house. I've already built it. My son
has. The one whom I love, the one whom I sent, the one whom
I gave you to for your care and keeping, for your salvation.
You stop looking to you and you look to him. You look to Christ. To this man will I look. If God's looking, to the Son,
we need to look to the Son. That's salvation. That's our
Savior. That's our salvation. So I'll
stop right there. And let us just rejoice in what
Christ has done for his people in making peace, rest. God rests. He's at rest. Prosecution rests. There's nothing to say. There's
no crime committed because it's all been put away by the Lord
Jesus Christ. And God is at peace with you.
in that building, in the building, the house that Christ has built.
And we rejoice in him by his grace and glory. Amen. Let's pray. Our gracious Lord,
we thank you for this salvation that you have built, the house
that you've built. Lord, you look to your son and
he fulfilled your will and purpose perfectly well. wonderfully in
all things Lord and we have nothing to boast in Lord we thank you
for teaching us for shutting our mouths for shutting our boasting
for stopping us from looking to self and examining self we
come up short Lord we want to serve you we want to walk in
the light of Christ and that's how we're going to serve you
is walking in him By faith, by the leading of your spirit, by
your teaching, by your keeping us, Lord, we have no power, no
strength, no righteousness of our own. We don't want to be
found in our works, but in the works of your son, Jesus Christ.
It's in his name we ask for these things. Amen. Our closing hymn will be 460.
Let's all stand and sing our closing hymn, Leaning on the
Everlasting Arms. 460. What a fellowship, what a joy
divine Leaning on the everlasting arms What a blessedness, what
a peace divine Leaning on the everlasting arms Leaning, leaning
Safe and secure from all alarms Leaning, leaning, leaning on
the everlasting arms. Oh, how sweet to walk in this
pilgrim way, leaning on the everlasting arms. Oh, how bright the path
grows from day to day, leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, safe and secure
from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on
the everlasting arms. What have I to dread? What have I to fear? Leaning on the everlasting arms. I have blessed peace with my
Lord so near. Leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, safe and secure
from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on
the everlasting arms. Thank you.