Let's all stand and begin our
second service by singing 354. What a friend we have in Jesus,
354. What a friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything
to God in prayer. Oh, what peace we often forfeit. Oh, what needless pain we bear. Oh, because we do not carry everything
to God in prayer. Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged. Take it to the Lord in prayer. ? Can we find a friend so faithful
? ? Who will all our sorrows share ? ? Jesus knows our every
weakness ? ? Take it to the Lord in prayer ? ? Are we weak and heavy laden ? with a load of care. Precious Savior, still our refuge,
take it to the Lord in prayer. Do thy friends these spies forsake
thee? Take it to the Lord in prayer. In his arms he'll take and shield
thee. Thou wilt find a solace there. Thank you. I'm going to read Psalm 36. Psalm 36. This will be the first attempt with
new bifocals, so we'll see how this goes. All right. The transgression
of the wicked saith within my heart that there is no fear of
God before his eyes. For he flatters himself in his
own eyes until his iniquity be found to be hateful. The words
of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He hath left off to be
wise and to do good. He devises mischief upon his
bed. He settles himself in a way that
is not good. He abhors not evil. Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the
heavens, and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. Thy righteousness is like the
great mountains. Thy judgments are great deep.
O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. How excellent is thy lovingkindness,
O God. Therefore the children of men
put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. they shall be abundantly
satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou shalt make
them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the
fountain of life, and in thy light shall we see light. O continue
thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness
to the upright in heart. Let not the foot of pride come
against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me, for
there are the workers of iniquity fallen. They are cast down and
shall not be able to rise. Let's pray. Father, we come to you again
this morning, thankful for the first message that you brought
to us this morning. And Lord, we're thankful for
the time that we have together to fellowship and to hear the
gospel. And Lord, we're thankful to have
our pastor back this week. And we just pray that you continue
to watch over him as he brings the messages and studies and
prepares. Lord, we ask that you grow this church as you see fit,
and Lord, just please watch over and care for us in Christ's name. As you remain sitting, let's
sing 212. Nothing but the blood of Jesus,
212. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. ? No other fount I know ? ? Nothing
but the blood of Jesus ? ? For my pardon this I see ? ? Nothing
but the blood of Jesus ? ? For my cleansing this I plea ? ?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus ? Oh, precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. No other fount I know, nothing but
the blood of Jesus. Nothing can force in a tone Nothing
but the blood of Jesus Not of good that I have done Nothing
but the blood of Jesus Oh, precious is the flow That makes me white
as snow No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my hope and peace,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my righteousness,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. No other fount I know, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. Let's take our Bibles and go
to the book of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 60. In this chapter,
we've seen how that our Lord Jesus Christ our God and our
Savior, how that he has redeemed his people, that he is our salvation,
that he is our righteousness, and he has delivered us from
eternal death. He's delivered us from the ruin
of our nature, what we've earned and what we've obtained. He's
delivered us from that inheritance in Adam, which is death and destruction
and eternal separation from our God. But rather, he's conquered
that kingdom that held us fast in death and in ruin. And he
is even now plundering. that Kingdom, taking out those
things, your precious souls that are precious to Him and He's
establishing you and fixing you in His Kingdom, meaning He's
planting you and you're taking root in the Lord Jesus Christ
in His Kingdom. This last Tuesday I was trying
to make it from verses 14 up through verse 22, and I didn't
make it very far at all. I only got through verses 14
and 15, but I do hope to get through verse 22 with you this
morning. And I began saying how that these
verses are the detail, they describe in detail our experience as the
children of God even now. And our Lord shows us our righteousness
and our salvation in Christ because the way He does that is He gives
us life in Him. He gives us His Spirit. We're made partakers of the grace
of our God through the Holy Spirit which the Father and Son have
sent to give us life. And the Spirit is given to us
as an earnest which means a down payment. He is given to us as
a foretaste of our inheritance in the Lord Jesus Christ, of
that eternal glory that we shall share in and partake of the glory
of our God, that we are made partakers of that inheritance,
the second Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ, who's obtained for us
eternal life and salvation and light and knowledge of our God
through the Son, Jesus Christ. So it's by the grace of God that
we experience this grace in Jesus Christ, and it's manifested in
you who believe. We believe because it is the
manifestation of God's grace toward us in his son. And so
the title for this portion of the scripture is Thy God, Thy
Glory. Thy God, Thy Glory. It's taken
from the end of verse 19, which we'll see in a bit. So let's
do a quick review of verses 14 and 15. And our Lord tells us
in verse 14 that the wicked They'll know that we are the children
of God. They'll know that we are precious
to God. Both in that day, they'll come
and bow down. But even now, they'll know, they'll
testify that we are the children of God. When we look at ourselves,
we don't see any reason to hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. But
when we look at Christ, and only then do we see and know that
he's all my hope and all my salvation. But here regarding the wicked,
it says in verse 14, The sons also of them that afflicted thee
shall come bending unto thee, and all they that despise thee
shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet. And they
shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One
of Israel. And then the Lord speaks comfortably
to His people. He makes us to know that we are
His children. Verse 15, Whereas thou hast been
forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will
make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. Now, I know that when we look
at this portion of scripture, many look at this and say, that's
speaking of a coming day. That's speaking of when the Lord
returns for his people. And that is certainly true when
we'll realize this glory, the glory of our God, more fully
in that day. But this experience of his grace
begins now. by the giving of his Holy Spirit,
who is the down payment, the foretaste of our inheritance
in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so these verses here, which
is speaking of the afflictions and the sorrows and the trouble
of the church, which are brought unto her by the disobedient,
and by the children of wrath, and those who do not believe
the truth of God, we see described in these verses a history of
the church which speaks to the sufferings which are appointed
to the church of Christ, which are ordained for us to face and
experience in each and in every generation. so that those who
have come before us have experienced afflictions and lies and things
that oppose the grace of God, and they fought against those
lies. And they declared the truth in
the face of those lies and in the face of the afflictions which
were brought upon them. And now we, in our day, are called
up as being baptized for those that are dead to fill the ranks
of those who have gone before us and passed on home to their
eternal glory so we are called up to the day. in which we have
trials and adversities and sorrows and afflictions that come against
the church in our day. And we are made faithful as faithful
soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting him to do battle in
the day in which we find ourselves. And so in other words, our God
has an eternal purpose. in the afflictions. He has an
eternal purpose in the troubles which came against the church
in her day and in each and every day so that we, brethren, learn
from those who have gone before, who have been instructed before,
and laid stones in the way of our salvation. They have built
up the Church through the preaching of the Gospel faithfully in their
day, and so we too have been blessed as they have to continue
to preach the Gospel faithfully in our day, to instruct the people
of God, to feed with the people of God, and to behold the glory
of our Lord and Savior, to declare that He is all our salvation. That truth hasn't been lost.
Our God faithfully taught it to those who came before and
he faithfully teaches us. this same truth this day to be
declared to the next generation. And so we see the wisdom of our
God, we see the strength of our God, in that we see our need
of Him and our dependence upon Him, that we never outgrow Him,
but that this body, from the first of it all the way to this
day, continues to lean upon Christ, to trust Him, to stay upon Him,
because He's our all. He's our salvation, and He gladly
owns you that are His. He's made you precious by the
blood of Christ. He declares to you that you are
His people, that you're His child, that He loves you, that He gave
His own Son and spared Him not to make you His own precious,
darling, inheritance in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
so our God brings these trials and it's not because he hates
us or that he's opposed to us but that by the blowing of the
Spirit through the preaching of the word this flesh is withered
and it's ground up and brought to nothing. so that we see my
strength, my wisdom, my beauty is all fading. As a flower that
fades at the end of spring or the end of summer, as the grass
withers and dies, so my flesh withers and dies. under the blowing,
the wind of the Spirit, through the preaching of the Word, so
that we don't hope or have any confidence in this flesh like
the wicked do, like the children of disobedience trust this flesh.
Your God delivers you from that and delivers you into the arms
of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where you want to be.
That's where the children of God are found. That's the grace
of your God in Christ, not to leave you in death, but to deliver
you from death and establish you fixed in Christ, rooted in
Christ, attached to the Living Vine who gives life to all the
branches that are in Him. God is fixed in Him. And so what
a wisdom, what a glory of our God that we should be found in
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, one of the primary blessings
that our God gives us, which I've spoken to to some degree,
is the promise that he shall feed and nourish you. that are his. He will not abandon
you. He will not leave you without
witness of himself, without witness of his salvation in the Lord
Jesus Christ, but he teaches you and instructs you as all
the children of God are taught of God to know him. And he teaches
us the Lord Jesus Christ. And here in verse 16, he calls
this gospel the milk of the Gentiles. the milk of the Gentiles. Because
there were Jews who first heard and were faithful and believed
the Lord Jesus Christ and gave their lives for the church, even
the Gentiles. Gentile dogs like us, unworthy
of the grace of God. But they gave themselves that
the truth of the gospel would not depart from us. But as it
is this day, we know salvation is the Lord Jesus Christ. It's
not by the things that I do. It's not by the things that I
don't do. It's not by my doing, but the doing of Christ, the
work of Christ, the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ. They
gave their lives, men and women, faithfully laying down themselves.
And that word prospered in the Gentile nations so that it continues
to this day amongst the Gentile nations. And it feeds all the
children of God. And if God be pleased, it'll
flow back and the Jews will hear. And they'll be called out not
by their works, not by the law, but by the grace of God through
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because there is no other salvation.
There is no other way that we're saved. It's not by the law, but
by Christ. Christ, he's all our salvation.
And so here in verse 16, thou shalt also suck the milk of the
Gentiles. that gospel which he's made us
to hear. And shalt suck the breast of
kings, those who have been made kings and priests of your God
by the Lord Jesus Christ. And thou shalt know that I, the
Lord, am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob." How
do I know if I'm hearing the gospel? Because you know that
God is your savior, that he's your redemption, that he's your
all, that he is our deliverer, he's our God, he's our all. I have no other hope or confidence
but in the mighty one of Jacob. And so with every church generation,
we're benefiting from those labors, the afflictions, the sorrows
that are ordained for us. Be thankful to your God, because
they're establishing our feet in Christ, and they're for the
benefit of those who come after us. It's that the gospel continues. So all the sacrifices that you're
called to make, all the difficulties, all the oppositions, it's all
for the good of God's people, of his children. It's what he's
given to us, that we be faithful in our generation to declare
this word, that it continue. for those who come after us. And so our God gives us the preaching
of the gospel, and to you that he gathers he also gives the
hearing of that word by faith. Because many are called, but
few are chosen. And so you that believe Rejoice
in your God, because He's chosen you unto salvation, to not trust
your doing, but to trust Christ and Him alone. And so you hear
that witness of the Word of God declare, look to Christ, look
to my servant, look to Him whom I've committed you to. that He
should attain your righteousness, that He would wash you in His
blood, that you would be brought to the fountain of the blood
of Christ, to that holy Zion, to that mountain, not which strikes
with fear and thunderings and fear and worry and doubts, but
that which speaks grace to your hearts and declares, in Christ
is all my righteousness, all my acceptance, with holy God. And so our Lord blesses us with
the gospel and he blesses us with the hearing of that gospel
with the hearing of faith. And there we drink in the sincere
milk of the word that we may grow thereby. Peter said in 1
Peter 2. So by this glorious gospel our
Lord delivers his people, taking us out of the house of the strong
man and takes that plunder which is precious to him out and brings
us into his kingdom and there plants us as trees of righteousness
in the planting of the Lord. He takes us out from the charming
deceitful lies of the kingdom of darkness and establishes us
and the kingdom of his son, Jesus Christ. And so verse 17 says,
for brass, I will bring gold and for iron, I will bring silver
and for wood, brass and for stones, iron, I will also make thy officers
peace and thine exactors righteousness. You know, We see in ourselves
reason for doubt and reason for worry. And we see in ourselves
that I'm nothing to boast of. There's nothing great in me or
about me. And we see our weakness. And
we see then that we think they're gold and they're silver. and
they're precious, but I'm just hay and stubble, and there's
nothing special about me. But what your God is saying is
that he takes the very common things, the things that are not
special to anyone in this world, and he makes them precious to
him, and he brings them into his kingdom and establishes them.
He takes that which is brass, and makes it gold. And he takes
that which is iron, and that is made silver. And that which
is wood, he makes brass. And that which is stone's iron,
And then he makes all his officers peace and our exactors righteousness. In other words, God is choosing
not the gold and silver and diamonds of this world, but he's taking
you that are common things and making you precious in his kingdom
and blessing you. Look over at 1 Corinthians 1.
Go to 1 Corinthians 1 and verse 26. We'll pick up there and read
down to verse 29. Here we see those that God will
be merciful to and that God will be compassionate to. Those common
things of his choosing, you and me, who are nothing special in
ourselves, but are precious in God's sight because of Christ.
You see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after
the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God
hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound
the things which are mighty, and base things of the world,
and things which are despised hath God chosen Yea, in things
which are not to bring to naught or to nothing things that are,
that no flesh should glory in his presence. And so our God
takes you and me, who are nothing special, we're not rich, we're
not wealthy, we're not highly intelligent, we're not gifted
with strength and wisdom and beauty or anything that we should
glory in ourselves or that others should glory in us. we have the
precious blood of Christ which takes us common things and makes
us precious in the kingdom of our God and he uses us base things
and us foolish things that he may be glorified in us that he
could take so few and establish His word here, and feed you that
are precious to Him, that He's not forgotten or left to yourselves,
but that you would hear by the hearing of faith the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ." And then we see these blessings
of our God extend in verse 18, Isaiah 60 verse 18. He says, violence shall no more
be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders,
but thou shalt call thy wall salvation, and thy gates praise. And so your God through the ministry
of reconciliation He heals you. He turns your mind and your thoughts
from looking to fleshly things for comfort, thinking that I've
got to do and I've got to save myself and I've got to get working. That's violence. That's fear. That's bondage. That's wasting
and destruction. And your God turns your eyes
and all your focus and all your hope the Lord Jesus Christ delivering
you from that wasting word delivering you from that violence which
is an assault and an affront against the knowledge of God
and the Lord Jesus Christ and he destroys that in you. And
he delivers you from that, and delivers you into the arms of
Christ, within the walls of salvation where the people of God are brought
in the Zion, the city of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, of his
building, of his doing, of his work, so that we're reconciled
to God, and that's where we have peace with God, in Christ, in
Christ. You look to yourself, you try
and work a righteousness for yourselves, There is no peace
there. There's only fear and worry and
doubt and trembling, violence against you. But you look to
Christ and you behold the righteousness of God in Christ, there's peace. There's peace, there's resting
from all your labors, resting in Christ. And so what our Lord
is telling us is that that warfare, which we fought and laboring
and trying to work a righteousness for ourselves and judging others
and biting and devouring and setting ourselves up on the backs
of others that we would glory in ourselves, were delivered
from that warfare. It's all quieted. It's all taken
away. in the Lord Jesus Christ, so
that you may speak peace to others and encourage them, look to Christ,
look to Christ, trust him, believe him, all who come to him find
him a gracious savior. a merciful Savior, compassionate
to all who seek Him for mercy, who all who have nothing of themselves
to give to Him, trust Christ, look to Him. He takes the common,
vile things and makes them precious in His kingdom, in Himself. And
so we're kept of our God in the everlasting arms of Christ, whereby
we know Him and have peace and are rocked Sweet peace and joy
in the arms of our Savior Jesus Christ He's your God who believe
in Christ and so Christ becomes our fountain of confidence Christ
becomes our foundation of Confidence we rest in him. We were built
in the building of Christ now this conversion is witnessed
here in verse 19 and we see the work of our Savior
in us. Verse 19, The sun shall be no
more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon
give light unto thee, but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting
light, and thy God thy glory. And so our God turns us from
the natural things of this world, which are described as, I need
the sun to give me light. I need the sun to give me order.
There's times and seasons in the sun. I know what I'm supposed
to do based on the sun and the seasons and the moon. And I have
light from these things. speaking to natural things, carnal
things. That's where we are without Christ. We're looking to natural, carnal
things to give us light and understanding and direction and to show us
the way so that we're not lost. We trust those things. And your
God is saying, no, don't trust the things of the flesh. That's
not your salvation. They don't declare the way to
you. That's not your light. That's not your hope. That's
not your order. That's not your discipline. Don't look to the
natural things. My Son is your light. He's your
guide. He's your wisdom. He's the one
that shows you the way because He is the way. He's the way unto
the Father. He's the truth. He's the life.
He's our all. So that God, Almighty God, who
created the heavens and the earth by speaking into the darkness
and creating something out of nothing, hath shined in our hearts. to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. He has become
our light now. Who have no confidence in the
flesh, who have nothing to boast of or glory in, He is our all. Jesus our Lord spoke saying,
I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness, but shall have the light of He is our light. He's the one who guides us and
leads us along. He said, I am come a light into
the world that whosoever believeth in me should not abide in darkness. You might have the sun by day
and the moon by night and have riches and wisdom and people
that follow you and love you, but if you have not Christ, you're
in complete darkness. you're cut off from the glory
of God and have nothing without Christ. But our Lord comes to
dwell in our hearts and he makes us new creatures whereby we're
lighted by new things and we're given a new wisdom and a new
hope. and new glory in the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's the one that shines upon
us and makes us to see the things of our God and to know the things
of our God and to trust our God and his word. And so he's become
all that and more to us. And he says there at the end
of verse 19, the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light
and thy God, thy glory. thy God, thy glory, so that we
behold the glory of our God given to us in the face of Jesus Christ. For of God are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness, sanctification
and redemption, that as it's written, he that glorieth, let
him glory in the Lord. the light of God, the salvation
of God, the righteousness of God, the one who delivers his
people from death and brings them into light and life and
salvation in him. And so there's coming a day when
that glory, I God, thy glory shall be fully realized and we
shall see him in all his glory and understand with complete
understanding of our God and what he's done for us. But here
it says, thy God, thy glory. And I've said this is even speaking
to our experience in this day. So what do we mean by thy God,
thy glory? What do we mean when we say that
the children of God shall be glorified? What does that mean? How shall we be glorified? What
that is saying to us is it's declaring to us that you and
me, common things, who have nothing to boast in save the Lord Jesus
Christ, our glory is that God, the creator of all, the giver
of life to whom he will, has chosen us to dwell with us for
all eternity. God is thy glory. and He dwells with us. Even now,
you are the temple of God by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit
who dwells with us. and doesn't leave us, but even
dwells with us now, thy God, thy glory." That's the glory.
That's our glory is that God is our God and God dwells with
us for all eternity. And so he's our everlasting glory,
brethren. Rejoice in him. That's no small
thing. That's wonderful. God is my God,
the only true and living God. The creator of all is my God. That's right. You that have faith
revealed in you, trust in Christ, God is your God. And that's a
joy and a rejoicing when you dwell on that and meditate on
that. When you wake up in the middle of the night worried,
look to Christ and rejoice. God is my God. Though he slay
me, yet will I praise him. And he makes us to rejoice in
him by his grace and glory and power. and you'll soon see him
coming in the clouds with great power and glory. So let nothing
rob you, all the afflictions, the trials, the sorrows, the
difficulties, whatever you're called to face, let nothing rob
you of that glory, that God is your glory. You know, those who
were beheaded for Christ, That didn't stop them. Though they
gave their lives, though they were called to lay down their
lives, that the truth of the gospel may continue with you
to this day, they weren't turned from that, because God had given
them hope and confidence in Him, and He'll give hope and confidence
and grace to you in that day. You may not think it now, because
it's not that day, but when that day comes, if that's what we're
called to, there we trust that the grace of God will sustain
us and hold us up. It says there in Revelation 20
verse 4, "...the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness
of Jesus and for the word of God and which had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark
upon their foreheads or in their hands, and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years." And we saw how that's even our
experience now. Because Adam is no longer our
head. Our head is Christ. So we were
beheaded for Christ's sake, beheaded of Adam's headship. And we stand
in Christ Jesus, our Lord, our federal head, our seminal head,
because we're born of his seed as well. And so Christ is our
eternal inheritance, not the passing riches of this world,
that which is passing away. momentary pleasures. But he says
in verse 20, this thy son shall no more go down neither shall
thy moon withdraw itself for the Lord shall be thine everlasting
light and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. And so this will
also be more fully realized. Today we go through times where
we see the face of our Lord and other times we're overshadowed
with clouds and doubt and fears and worry. and we don't always
feel his presence. But in that day, our God shall
never leave us, and his presence will never depart from us. Thy
son, Christ is our light, shall never go down anymore, and neither
shall the moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be thy everlasting
light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. Now he words
it this way in Revelation 21, verses four through seven. God
shall wipe away all thy tears. Do you cry today? Do you have
sorrows and disappointments and trouble and difficulties that
make you cry? Your God shall wipe away all
your tears. And there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain,
for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the
throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto
me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. And he said
unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end. I will give unto him that is
athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that
overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his God,
and he shall be my son. This is your glory, the Lord
Jesus Christ, thy God, thy glory. Rejoice in Christ. Now he says
in closing, verse 21 and 22, thy people also shall be all
righteous. They shall inherit the land forever,
the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may
be glorified. You see, we're not our own work,
we're not our own Our righteousness is not of our doing, but of His
workmanship. We're the workmanship of the
Lord Jesus Christ. What we are is what Christ has
made us in His power and in His glory. And he says, verse 22,
a little one shall become a thousand and a small one, a strong nation. I, the Lord, will hasten it in
his time. And so, brethren, whatever our
difficulties, know that God is sovereign and he's doing all
things. It's Christ that opens the seals
of the book according to his will and his purpose. which unleashes
and brings various trials and difficulties and things that
oppose, that we may be found faithful in the Lord Jesus Christ,
that his faith in us may be found and made evident to those. The wicked will see it and they'll
confess they're the children of God. And your God is revealing
His workmanship. He's revealing His faith in you.
He's revealing His power and His glory in you. And He's giving
you His Holy Spirit, whereby you believe Him and trust Him
to this day. Rejoice in thy God, thy Savior,
which is the Lord Jesus Christ. And I pray that He would bless
you this day, tonight, this week, and continually with thy God,
thy glory, in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Let's close in
prayer. Our gracious Lord, we thank you,
Father, for your grace. We thank you for your glory.
Lord, we thank you that you are our God, that you are our glory,
that our inheritance is our God, and that you should be our God,
and that you should speak for us. and bless us with your word,
bless us with faith to hear your word and to receive the Lord
Jesus Christ and to believe him and rest in him. Lord, we thank
you for this is all our glory, all our hope, all our confidence
is Christ. And we thank you because that's
of your hand, of your doing in establishing us in the vine of
the Lord Jesus Christ, our righteousness. Lord, bless your people. Bless
them that are sick, those that are weary, those that are troubled
and hurting. Lord, you know our hearts and
our minds and the weakness of this flesh. Have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon all those
who are here present and those listening in online who hope
in the Lord Jesus Christ. fill us with joy and rejoicing
in Christ. And have mercy upon us for Christ's
sake, Lord. It's in Christ's name that we
pray and give thanks. Amen. All right, brother. We close with a hymn and then
dismiss. Let's all stand and sing a closing
hymn, trusting Jesus, 262. Trusting Jesus. Simply trusting every day, trusting
through a stormy way. Even when my faith is small,
trusting Jesus, that is all. Trusting as the moments fly,
trusting as the days go by, trusting Him whate'er befall, trusting
Jesus, that is all. Brightly doth his spirit shine
Into this poor heart of mine. While he leads, I cannot fall,
Trusting Jesus, that is all. Trusting as the moments fly,
trusting as the days go by, trusting Him whate'er befall, trusting
Jesus, that is all. Singing if my way is clear, Praying
if the path be drear, If in danger for him call, Trusting Jesus,
that is all. ? Trusting as the moments fly ?
? Trusting as the days go by ? ? Trusting Him whate'er befall
? ? Trusting Jesus, that is all ? ? Trusting Him while life shall
last ? Trusting Him till earth be passed, Till within the Jasper
wall, Trusting Jesus, that is all. Trusting as the moments
fly. Trusting as the days go by. Trusting Him, whate'er befall. Trusting Jesus, that is all. Thank you.