Good evening, everyone. Let's
begin our evening service by standing and singing 139 from your softback. 139. As on the cross of Christ, I
thought. As on the cross of Christ I thought,
it seemed I heard one cry. Is all this nothing in your eyes,
you who this day pass by? Is not such suffering greater
than that which we've seen before? And was there ever any man who
grieved or suffered more? I looked again, and what I saw
I cannot fully tell. It seemed within his very bones
there raged the fire of hell. What caused you grief, I asked
the man. What crimes could you have done? At God, Jehovah struck you down
and left you all alone. His answer cut my heart like
steel and left me void of breath. This for your sins, this pain
I feel, for you I go to death. Your soul before my Father's
throne could find no place to hide. This is the way God can
be just, and you be justified. Jehovah's mercies never fail,
each morning they are new. Great is His faithfulness and
love, therefore we're not consumed. Jehovah God in Christ the Son,
shall all my portion be. My soul shall therefore wait
for Him and live eternally. Thank you. I would like to read from Romans
8. Romans 8, starting with 28. I
have some notes I've written down when Greg Elmquist was preaching
a sermon. And I have here from 28 to 30,
it speaks of God's sovereignty, from 31 to 34, God's justice,
and then 35 to 38, the love of God. So Romans 8, starting with 28. And we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are called
according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he
also did predestinate, to be conformed to the image of his
Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover,
whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called,
them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we say then to these
things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared
not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall
he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay
anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It
is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even
at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for
us. Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long.
We are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all all these
things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Our heavenly merciful father,
we thank you for allowing us Lord to come together once again
this evening and each week. Father, what a great blessing
it is. And will you please remember us this evening, Lord? will you
pour out your spirit upon Brother Eric, where he stands before
us again. Father, give him the words to speak. And Lord, separate
us from the stress and the busyness of life this evening and allow
us to listen that we may eat the gospel again, that our eyes
may be turned to the Lord Jesus Christ, our only hope, our only
rest. Father, will you pour out your
blessings tonight upon us? We deserve nothing, but yet we
have so much to be thankful for. Even though, Lord, this assembly
is but a small assembly, we are so thankful, Lord, that you have
given us unity and peace. And, Father, if it would please
you, will you add to this local assembly, call out your lost
sheep among this community? And, Father, will you also remember
our loved ones? You know perfectly where they
are and what they stand in need of. And if it would please you,
Lord, Will you call them out of nature's darkness into your
marvelous light? Be with those of us, Lord, that
are struggling with health. You know perfectly what ailments
and struggles they have. Lord, will you continue to give
them healing and that they may eventually come back and to worship
with us again. Father, remember brother Eric
where he stands before us again. Lord, pour out your spirit upon
him. Bless us, increase our faith. Grow us in grace, for Jesus'
sake alone, Amen. Let's turn to hymn number 140, Behold the Savior of Mankind,
140. Behold the Savior mankind. Hail to the shameful
tree. How vast the love that Him inclined
to bleed and die for me. O'er how he groans while nature
shakes, And earth's strong pillars bend, The temple bell in thunder
breaks, And solid marble rends. Has done the precious ransoms
paid? Receive my soul, he cries. See how he bows his sacred head. He bows his head and dies. ? Soon he'll break the siren
chain ? ? And in full glory shine ? ? O Lamb of God, was ever pain
? ? Was ever love like thine ? Thank you. Looks like it's having trouble
with the phone or the connection for some reason. All right. All right, brethren, let's turn
to Isaiah chapter 60. Isaiah chapter 60. The last time that we were here
in Isaiah, a couple of weeks ago, we saw how that Christ conquers
this fallen kingdom. He has conquered it. He's already
won the victory. He's already fought the battle.
The victory's won. The works are finished from before
the foundation of the earth. And we saw how that Christ now
plunders that kingdom of this world which he has conquered,
which he has overcome, and he plunders that kingdom. He takes from the strongman's
house that which is precious to himself, that which is precious
to Christ. He has a people there whom he
loves and he gathers them out and brings them into his kingdom
and adorns his his kingdom with his precious people whom he loves. And what we see now detailed
in these verses is the experience of our grace. We who are precious
to Christ, we who have been taken out of the strong man's house,
that strong man who is bound by Christ, and we that are precious
to Christ, we now experience the grace of our God who loved
us and has given us life in himself. Now, as we go, I'm not sure where
we'll make it to tonight. I'd like to try and finish this
chapter, but we see detailed here our experience. But a lot
of commentators, as I was reading them, they noticed, they spent
a lot of time noticing how that this is a picture of the glories
to come. This tells us of the inheritance,
the joyful, glorious inheritance of the saints in Christ. and that these things that are
described here will be realized, that is, we'll come to see them
in their fullness upon Christ's return. And while that is true
in a final and in a grand sense, we also see here that these descriptions
describe what Christ does now in regeneration for his people. This is what your Savior works
in your heart, in your life, in your experience, the experience
of grace who are redeemed by the blood of Christ. That's because
He sends us His Holy Spirit now. And we're told that the Holy
Spirit is an earnest or a down payment of that which is to come. The Holy Spirit is a foretaste
for us of the glory of our God so that by Him we receive eternal
life now of Christ. We're given spiritual life now
to know and understand what our God has done for us in His Son. And so now In regeneration, we
do enter into the experience of the grace of our God in Jesus
Christ, who manifestly reveals in us our Savior, our Lord, what
He's done and what He's accomplished. It's manifest in us. The fruits
of our God are manifest in us. They're wrought in us. They're
seen. They're witnessed. There's fruit that's born in
us that testifies to us and to those about us that our God is
the true and living God. So we were studying last time
the details and the descriptions of Christ's kingdom and him gathering
in precious things, precious things into his kingdom. And
we saw the building of his kingdom as it was described of the gathering
of the souls of just men and women who had been made righteous
by their Lord, by the blood of Christ. And we saw a description
as they were a flock of souls seen as birds flying across the
sky toward the light, toward that glorious light from heaven. And they were flying to the windows
of heaven to behold the glory of their God and Savior. And
the scripture is in verse 8, Isaiah 60, verse 8. Here it was
asked, who are these that fly as a cloud and as the doves to
their windows? It reminds me of starlings, I
believe it is, where they gather together in great numbers, thousands
of birds at a time. And when they take off from a
field or from trees, They move, as it were, a great cloud in
unison, so that when one goes left, they all go left. And when
another goes right, they all go right. And they shape, and
they widen, and then shrink down. And they have this form of a
cloud. And that's how we're described
as all moving together in unison. And we're all moving towards
the light of the windows of heaven, that is, the shining of our Lord
and Savior. And so these are living souls
who have been made alive by the power of Christ. Christ has not
only the authority to give us life, but he has the power to
give life to whom he will. And those to whom he gives life,
they live. They shall live, and they shall
know Him, and they shall be embraced in all the blessings, the spiritual
blessings of God in His Son. And He says it this way, our
Lord says in John chapter 10, why don't you turn there. In John chapter 10, we'll pick
up in verse 14. Our Lord says, I am the good
shepherd. Your Savior is the good shepherd.
And he says, I know my sheep and am known of mine. As the
Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father. And I lay down
my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which
are not of this fold, them also I must bring. and they shall
hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd."
And so our Savior is testifying to us that He gathers together
His sheep so that Brethren, we're scattered, as it were, not only
across locations, but even across time. And our Savior gave his
life for his church, for his people. And our Lord, the Good
Shepherd, now gathers them together unto Himself to know Him, to
know the Good Shepherd, to be cared for by Him, to be set apart
from this world, to be sanctified, set apart by our God for our
God, to be used of Him and to be taught of Him. And so we see
here these birds, these souls of men and women made just, made
righteous, justified by the Lord Jesus Christ, flying together
as one, being gathered to one, the only true and living God. And we liken this view of these
living souls that we saw last time, we likened this picture
of the spirits of just men made perfect by Christ to that sober
description which was given by the spirit to the Apostle John
who wrote in Revelation 20 verse 4 when he said, I saw thrones
and they sat upon them and judgment was given unto them and I saw
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 there are some that would say,
but that speaks of a future day of persecution which is to come
upon the church. That speaks of a day in the future
And I don't doubt it, but it also speaks of and testifies
of the work of our God, His working grace in the hearts of His people. Every child of God who loses
their headship in Adam. They are beheaded of their headship
in Adam, that they might take their place under the headship
of Christ. They lose their headship in Adam
for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God. And they
are made servants of the living God, where Christ is their glorious
head, and they members of his body. Our Savior gathering together
his people into his kingdom, into his body, having our part,
our inheritance, our lot, our place in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so Christ gathering his people,
he draws them by his glorious light, by his power, and there
they find in him the fulfillment of all their needs. So that when our God saves his
people, when we behold Christ, and we see that he is the very
salvation of God, that there is not another, we stop looking
about in other religions for some other component that we
think is missing from our lives. Because Christ fills the whole
of the room. He's glorious. His train fills
the room so that there's no more room for any other kings or queens
or mighty noble men because Christ is the blessed man. He is the
glorious King. He's the one that we worship
and we find in Him the balm for all our healing. We find in Him
the wisdom to answer all our questions, to settle us, to satisfy
us, so that we trust Him. Whether we understand it or not,
we believe Him. And we're not out looking to
other places. We're not out looking to other
religions. We're not out looking for some
other spiritual way or some other charm or token or fanciful thing
that man delights himself with who has no spirit of God in him. We find the fulfillment of all
our needs in the Lord Jesus Christ. As the word testifies, for unto
him shall the gathering of the people be. We're gathered to
Christ, and we're satisfied with Christ, even as the Father is
satisfied with Christ. He's well pleased with him, and
we are made well pleased with Christ. so that we don't look
for another. We're satisfied in Him. And so
Christ fills His church with precious things. The souls of
just men made perfect who are precious to Him, according as
He hath chosen us in Christ from before the foundation of the
world. We're precious to Him, and we
are His people. Now, our Lord tells us that is
love and power, it will be manifested in his people. His people shall
bear fruits of righteousness in their Lord. He says it this
way in John 13, 35. He said, By this shall all men
know that ye are my disciples. if ye have love one to another. If ye have love one to another. That grace of love is wrought
in us in the same manner that faith is wrought in us. It's a spiritual fruit which
is given unto us, born in us by the Spirit of God, so that
we do have faith and hope with the greatest of these fruits
being love. being love. And you know, if
you felt in yourself that you had no faith, that you didn't
believe God, you didn't trust God, and you doubted the truth
of God, when you see that ugliness, that grossness, that blackness
in your own heart, where you see your doubts and your unbelief,
you think, I'm sick. I'm not well. I'm not trusting
the Lord. I'm not well. So it is with love. If you don't have love for your
brethren, there's something sick. You need healing. You need your
God to deliver you from that sickness, to fill you with His
Spirit, to manifest in you that there's life. Because if you
don't believe God, and you don't love His people, and you don't
hope in God, or trust Him, or worship Him, or love Him, There's
no life there. So the life of Christ is manifest
in us so that we do bear fruits of the Spirit testifying to the
life of Christ in us and that in you and in me there is the
love of God in us. The love of God in us. Because
Christ when he was speaking to the Jews said, I know you and
you're of your father the devil. I know you. You're not of God
because you have not the love of God in you. Because if you
loved God, you would love me. And if we love Christ, there's
love for our brethren. There's love for our brethren.
We love them. And so, here in this text, in
verse 14 is where we're going to pick up, we see that even
the enemies, the enemies of Christ, they know They'll know that we
are the Lord's by the love which we have for one another. And
it says it this way 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. You know, that's a curious thing
because when we begin to experience the awakening of grace in us,
when the Spirit moves upon us and we're made to hear the voice
of our God, there's oftentimes a struggle There's a struggle
within us because we doubt. We doubt everything that we've
been up to that point, everything we've believed, everything we've
done in the name of God and in religion, because we see that
all of those works that we've done are but dung and they don't
earn us any favor with God. And so we begin to fear and worry
and doubt that maybe our God is casting us off. And so in
the beginning, we experienced that. And there's other times
as we're growing, as we're walking by faith and we're stumbling
and we see the the old man of this flesh rear his ugly head,
and we begin to doubt. And yet here, in this scripture
here, it shows that the wicked, they'll know you're the people
of God. You're the people of God, the
city of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. And They know who you are, and they'll
persecute you for it, because they despise that which is precious
to the Lord. And so they go after that which
is precious to Him, because they can't get at Him anymore. They
crucified the Lord of glory according to the determinate will and counsel
of our God. But now that He's seated and
enthroned in the heavens, they'll go after that which is precious
to the Lord. And so you may not always see
yourself as precious to the Lord, but this world knows, because
our God manifests Himself in you, who believe Him, who trust
Him, who love Him, and who love His people, and are willing to
stand with your God, because He's made precious to you. And
He's counted you precious and given His life for you. And He
makes that known in us so that that fruit is born in us to love
Him. And so, we see here as we go
through this text here, there's an affliction, there's a persecution
which they bring upon the children of God. But know this, when you
are afflicted and when you are tried and when you go through
difficulties, especially that which is brought upon you by
this world, even if it doesn't seem direct, but just all the
way this whole world works, the system of this world and the
things of this world, it afflicts you and it stresses you and it
puts you in tough places and in difficulties where you struggle
to even find time to worship the Lord and to be with the Lord. But know this, with all your
difficulties and all your struggles, you're not a castaway of God. And you're not being afflicted
because he's cast you away. You're being afflicted by this
world and by the systems and ways of this world because you
are the Lord's. And he has a purpose and a will
in all these things which we go through. Your God loves you
and has made you precious through the blood of Christ. You know,
Cain slew Abel and Ishmael mocked Isaac. And Esau would have killed
his brother Jacob, but his mother sent him away before he could
do it. And Saul tried multiple times to kill David. And there
were many prophets who were killed because they bore witness to
the truth. And all of the apostles were
killed save one, the apostle John. And they were killed for
the gospel's sake. And so this world does hate and
despise the things of God, and they go after that which is precious
to our God. In respect to our afflictions,
then, Peter writes this in 1 Peter 1, verse 7. He said that the
trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that
perisheth, though it be tried with fire, that it might be found
unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. So that our God is testifying
to us that there's a purpose. for the struggles, there's a
purpose for the afflictions, there's a purpose when things
just don't go right and there's difficulties and there's inconveniences
that come in and there's persecutions and despisings and attacks of
various sorts and in various ways, there's a purpose to the
hatred that we receive from those who love not the truth because
God is revealing to you who look to Him, who trust Him, that you
are His chosen vessel, that He has brought in and placed into
His kingdom. You're His people. And so the
Lord says in verse 15, Isaiah 60 verse 15, He says, 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. And this, brethren, speaks to
the history of the church, the history of the church. You know,
I'd said that when our Savior, when he saved his people, not
only are we found and scattered across the world. Not only are
we scattered across locations, we're scattered across time.
And your God delights to search out, to find his people wherever
they are, and to call them by his grace through the ministry
of reconciliation, so that we're called to preach to all That's
why it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what race we
are. It doesn't matter what color we are. It doesn't matter what
culture we come from. It doesn't matter what country
we're from. It doesn't matter if you're from
Canada, the United States, China, Singapore, Russia, Ukraine, Africa,
Middle East, Europe. It doesn't matter. We preach
to all because God has scattered his people throughout all the
different tongues and nations and tribes and peoples, so that
we, as we come to a knowledge of the gospel, preach it and
declare what God has done for us through His Son, Jesus Christ,
knowing that there's someone out there. Though we may not
think it to be so, yet God has His people scattered throughout
so that we would be faithful not being able to tell by this
sight, not being able to tell by fleshly things, but that we
would be faithful to declare that word knowing that though
many are called, few are chosen, but we call it out, we declare,
we proclaim what God has done through his son Jesus Christ
in providing a remedy, in providing reconciliation, in redeeming
his people with things that are precious, that which is most
precious, the blood of Jesus Christ, and that his people are
precious to him so that we would be faithful to proclaim the word,
trusting our God, believing that he knows them that are his and
he'll call them out. and he'll bring them to himself,
so that we preach that word faithfully. And so this is, that verse 15
there is a picture of the church. Whereas thou has been forsaken
and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee
an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. Many have
opened their mouths knowing, seeing the look of hatred on
the faces of people, and yet God, makes his people able to
stand in that day and to preach the word faithfully. because
God saves his people. That's how God ministers life
in their heart, through the preaching of the word, through the witness
of the word of God, which testifies of Christ, that his blood is
sufficient to cleanse all your sin. He is able to deliver every
one of his children, all who come to him seeking mercy and
forgiveness with God, Christ is able. to deliver to the uttermost. He saves to the uttermost. And so here's the church going
through all the various sufferings which she's experienced, the
difficulties that she's endured at the hands of her enemies,
but our God has an eternal purpose in it. And he describes it in
verse 15 as making thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations,
many generations. And sometimes there's times in
the church when she's gone through great persecution. You think
of the apostles. and the persecution that came
upon the brethren then, not only the apostles, but other faithful
believers who lost all that they had, lost houses, lost lands,
lost wages, lost friends, lost family, lost their lives for
Christ's sake. And then there was other seasons
where there wasn't as much persecution. And then it would rise up and
there'd be more persecution and less persecution. And we don't
know what the day shall be for us. And yet we see that our God
has a purpose and a will in all that he does, and that he'll
be glorified in his people. And isn't that a joyful thought
to know that my God would look to me, look to his son in me,
that he would take me out of the house of death, out of the
pathway of death, out of the way of death and darkness, and
bring me into his kingdom to use me howsoever he pleases,
that he would be glorified in me, in me, and in you, and in
his people for that day, for that generation, for that hour. He is making thee an eternal
excellency, a joy of many generations, so that it all results, as Peter
said, to the praise and honor and glory at the appearing of
Jesus Christ. And so, as it's true of the church
universal, so it is with each individual within that body,
in that generation, in that church, in that local assembly. It's
all, we go through these experiences because our God is faithfully
teaching us instructing us, keeping us, showing us the sufficiency
of Christ for us. We're gathered unto Him. We learn
to lean upon Him. We learn to breathe out our cries
and our prayers and our cares to Christ. And we look to Him. And it's all by His grace and
His mercy. And we learn that. We learn that. And we see that. And when we
see that, we're thankful. and we praise Him and we give
Him thanks for it, because we know that it's all of His doing,
that He should use me as a doorman in His kingdom, as a servant
in His kingdom, what a glorious thing, that we should be called
the sons of God. Not only is it true of the church
universal, but it's true of you as individuals. And Peter writes
this. Turn over to 1 Peter 5. Let's see that in 1 Peter 5. At the end of verse 9, Peter testifies. He says, knowing
this, that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren
that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who
hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus. After
that ye have suffered a while. Make you perfect, establish,
strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion
forever and ever. Amen. And so, whatever the afflictions
are, whatever the various things that we're going through, it's
being accomplished in your brethren, wherever they are, whatever country
they're in. We think that things are bad
here in the United States. Well, there's things that are
bad in South America. There's things bad in India.
There's things bad in Japan. There's things bad all around. And we could rattle off all kinds
of problems and issues. But whatever we're going through,
it's all being accomplished in your brethren as well. And it's
all coming down to the eternal glory by Jesus Christ, who strengthens
us and perfects us and is establishing us. Because we have an anchor
of the soul, the Lord Jesus Christ. And when you get worried, and
when you wake up at night and you're stressing about something
and thinking about something, Remember the grace of your God
in Christ, and give Him thanks, and praise Him, and trust Him,
and believe Him, and confess that you're worried, and confess
that these are your cares, but trust Him, because He is in control
of all things, and He's working all things for the glory of His
name. And Peter ends, to Him be glory,
and dominion forever and ever, amen. And so in the awakening
of grace, we do, we go through a trial of soul, we go through
difficulties, because we're learning, we're coming to see that my God
is holy, and I was so far short of the glory of my God. And I
thought that this was the way of salvation. And I see now that
all my ways were darkness and all my ways were wrong. And everything
I did was death. And everything I did only heaped
up the debt of sin that I owe. But he sent his son, Jesus Christ,
who faithfully came doing the will of his father because he
has a people that he loves. A people who cannot save themselves. A people who have no righteousness
of their own. But he came and fulfilled all
righteousness for his people. He paid the debt. He put away
the debt of sin that we owed so that we stand righteous, justified
of God, imputed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. And we are made
sons and daughters of the true and living God. And our God,
continues to teach us so that this flesh is ground up. It's busted up so that our wisdom
fails, our strength fails, our beauty fails, because he's withering
the flesh. His spirit blows upon the flower. His spirit blows upon the grass,
which is this flesh, and he withers it. so that we're nothing in
ourselves, have no confidence in this flesh, and find all our
confidence, all our joy, all our peace, all our strength in
the Lord Jesus Christ. And is that we should be found
in the end to be not planted by the strength of our flesh
and our wisdom, but that we are the planting of the Lord, trees
of righteousness, of his planting, of his doing, of his glorious
power, to his honor and praise. And so our God gives us this
promise. I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of
many generations, And so what our God is saying is He promises
to delight in you that are His people because you are precious
to Him. He's made you precious with the
precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we have now an eternal
fellowship with Him. where he teaches us and shows
us just how precious we are to him. And so I'm going to stop
there, and we'll pick this up again the next time we come back
to Isaiah. But there's many glorious things
here that show us the grace and power of our God and what he
does for his people. And so I pray that that be our
meditation of our heart how precious our Lord is, how faithful He
is, how glorious His power, His honor, and that we would praise
Him and give Him thanks for it, and seek His face to be found
faithful in Him, standing in Him, trusting Him, and throughout
whatever the afflictions or trials that we go through, because He
has a will and a purpose in Him. He's sovereign and he's in control
of all things, all things. So I pray the Lord bless that
word to your heart. Amen. All right. Let's pray. Our Lord, our gracious
Lord, we thank you, Father, for your mercy and your power. Lord,
we thank you that you have a purpose in that which you do. that your
will is being implemented here, that you are sovereign, almighty,
glorious God. And Lord, we thank you that we
have been gathered together by your hand and that you manifest
your grace, that you manifest the fruit of your spirit in us. That it's testified to that we
are indeed the children of God, the city of our God. And Lord,
we thank you for what you've done for us. And we fail to express
it perfectly. We fail to see it perfectly for
all your glory. But Lord, we are so thankful
that you cannot deny yourself because you are God and you know
your works and what you have done. And Father, we thank you
for gathering us together by the hand of Christ, that we are
sons and daughters of our God by Christ and through Christ
and in Christ. Lord, help us indeed to love
one another, to not only walk in faith and in hope and in joy,
but Lord, to walk in love, love toward our God and love toward
one another. We do pray for our brethren.
We pray that you would give them strength and health, and that
you would gather your people together, and you would feed
and nourish us with the gospel, that we would indeed be blessed
by your glory. It's in Christ's name we pray
and give thanks. Amen. I cut it short there, but the
next verse there talks about sucking the breast of kings,
and that's a picture of the gospel. And we drink the milk of the
Gentiles. That's the gospel which our God
has brought to us. And we drink in that sincere
milk of the word. And that's how our God nourishes
us and feeds us. And it's just such a, there's
a lot of sweet pictures, but I would have been here for an
hour. So, and it's midweek, so. Thank you for that. All right,
brother. Our closing hymn is 109. Hallelujah,
God has saved me. 109. I was lost and did not know it,
rushing madly to my end. But my God, who's rich in mercy,
would not let me die in sin. Hallelujah, God has saved me,
saved me by His sovereign grace. Jesus died, the Spirit called
me, I am saved by sovereign grace. Chosen by my Heavenly Father
and redeemed by Jesus' blood, I am justified, forgiven, and
accepted by my God. Hallelujah, God has saved me,
Saved me by His sovereign grace. Jesus died, the Spirit called
me, I am saved by sovereign grace. In time the Spirit called me,
Gave me life and set me free. He revealed my blessed Saviour
and created faith in me. Alleluia! God has saved me, saved me by
His sovereign grace. Jesus died, the Spirit called
me, I am saved by sovereign grace. God has saved me and will keep
me by the power of His grace. He will guide, guard, and protect
me till I see my Savior's face. Hallelujah! God has saved me, saved me by
His sovereign grace. Jesus died a spirit called me
I am saved by sovereign grace. Thank you.