Good evening, let's all stand
and sing an opening hymn, 235, Pass Me Not, 235. Bless me not, O gentle Savior,
Hear my humble cry, While on others Thou art calling, Do not
pass me by. Savior, Savior, Hear my humble
cry, All on others Thou art calling,
do not pass me by. Let me at a throne of mercy find
a sweet relief, kneeling there in deep contrition to help my
unbelief. Savior, Savior, hear my humble
cry. While on others Thou art calling,
do not pass me by. Trusting only in Thy merit would
I seek Thy face. Heal my wounded, broken spirit. Save me by Thy grace. Savior, Savior, hear my humble
cry. While on others Thou art calling,
do not pass me by. Hail the spring of all my comfort,
morn and life to me. Whom have I on earth beside thee? Whom in heaven but thee? Savior, Savior, hear my humble
cry. While on others Thou art calling,
do not pass me by. Good evening. I'm going to read
tonight from 2 Corinthians chapter 5, picking up in verse 14 to
the end. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 14. For the love of Christ constraineth
us, because we thus judge. that if one died for all, then
were all dead. And that he died for all, that
they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto
him which died for them and rose again. Wherefore, henceforth,
from here forward, know we no man after the flesh. Yea, though
we have known Christ after the flesh, Yet now henceforth know
we him no more. Therefore, if any man be in Christ,
he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold,
all things are become new. And all things are of God, who
hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given
to us the ministry of reconciliation. To wit, that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses
unto them, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors
for Christ. As though God did beseech you
by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin
for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. Let's pray. Our gracious Lord, we thank you,
Father, for your mercy, for your love, your kindness in reconciling
your people unto yourself in the Lord Jesus Christ. that everything
is provided. Everything needful, everything
necessary, Lord, you've given. And you've given it all, given
it all in your son. Lord, thank you. Thank you for
your grace and mercy. And Lord, we thank you for this
body here. Lord, we thank you for the love,
the kindness, the blessings that you have for this people here. That they should hear the glory
of our God and the grace of our God in Jesus Christ, what he's
done, what he's accomplished. That you don't look to our works.
You don't look to anything in us. You look to your son and
find everything that you would justify us and reconcile us,
have fellowship with us. Lord, we pray that you would
watch over your people, help those of us who are sick and
ill and struggling. Lord, pour out your spirit of
grace upon them and mercy. And Lord, that you would remember
us here and remember those around us who are yet sitting in darkness,
who you've purposed to be gracious to. Lord, we pray that you would
stir their hearts, that you would cause them, Lord, to hear that
your word, that you are giving bread to your people here in
this place, and that they would come and hear and believe the
word that is preached and declared here concerning your son, concerning
your grace in him. Lord, we thank you for all that
you've done for us. We thank you for the healing
of our loved ones who are sick and have gotten ill with COVID
or other flus and other sicknesses. Lord, we thank you for that.
And Lord, we pray for those who are getting sick, other pastors
and other believers in other places. Lord, that you would
be merciful to your church, that you would help them and heal
them and recover them and restore them again to your people. It's in the name of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ, that we pray this. Amen. Let's sink 355 from every stormy
wind that blows 355 From every stormy wind that blows,
From every swelling tide of woes, There is a calm, a sure retreat,
Tis found beneath the mercy sea. There is a place where Jesus
sheds the oil of gladness on our heads. A place that all beside
more sweet, it is the blood of Jesus. There is a scene where spirits
blend, where friend holds fellowship with friend. Though sundered
far, by faith they meet around one common mercy seat. We flee for aid when tempted,
desolate, dismayed. For how the hosts of hell defeat,
as suffering saints no mercy see. wings we soar, this innocence
molests no more, and heaven calms down our souls to greed, while
glory crowns the mercy Take your Bibles and turn with
me to Isaiah chapter 55. We'll be picking up in verse
10 and working our way down to verse 13. Here, in this part of the chapter,
our Lord, he gives us a picture that we see in nature. It's a
picture of rain and snow. And we see the effects of rain
and snow in the earth. And he shows us how that what
we see in the rain and the snow is a picture of what his word
is and what his word accomplishes in the earth. And what we see
here, or what we know, is that our God's Word to us. When He
declares His Word, He's expressing to us, He's making known to us
what His will and purpose is. When you speak words, you're
saying to someone, when you give someone your word, you're telling
them what your will, what your intention, what your purpose
is. And you make it known through
your word, and then you do it. And so our God makes known his
will and purpose through his word of what shall be accomplished
in all people in the earth, especially the blessings that come upon
his chosen people, whom he loves. And so tonight, I want to look
at what this word is. What is this word that God declares
to us? And how is it like rain and snow? And then I want us to see how
that word translates to our spiritual blessings in the Lord Jesus Christ. I've titled the message, God's
Word Goeth Forth. God's Word Goeth Forth. And we're
going to begin looking at the word. In Isaiah 55 verse 11,
verse 11, our Lord says, so shall my word be that goeth forth out
of my mouth, it shall not return unto me void or empty, but it
shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing
where to I sent it. So, what is this Word? What is this Word which God speaks? Well, whenever you hear that
Word, whenever you think of the Word of God, if you see that
Word in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ, That's a good thing. You will not err beholding the
Lord Jesus Christ. So if you consider that the promises
of God are his word, you are correct. You're correct. For
all the promises of God in Christ are yea and in him, amen. And if you consider and think
that this word is the gospel, is this word the gospel, which
the spirit blesses to those who hear it and receive it and believe
it, you're correct as well. Paul said in terms of the gospel,
preaching the gospel, he said, because when ye received the
word of God, which ye heard of us, speaking of the gospel, ye
received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the
word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. He said that to the Thessalonians.
And if you say this Word is the Word made flesh, the Word made
flesh, you are correct, because the Word of God is the Son of
God come in the flesh as the God-Man mediator. He is fully God, fully man, who
came to mediate between God and men. to reconcile holy God to
sinful men made righteous in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to establish peace between us, to bring us into friendship and
fellowship with our God because of Christ our Savior, And we
see Christ as the Word of God because Christ reveals to us
the Father. He reveals the Father. He said,
he that hath seen me hath seen the Father. John 14 verse 9. So Christ is the Word of God,
meaning that He's revealing, making known to us who the Father
is, especially what is the will and purpose of God toward us. Christ makes all that known to
us, so that by Jesus Christ, knowing Him, seeing Him, hearing
Him, by Jesus Christ, we know what God's will and purpose is
toward us in Christ. That God will be gracious to
us in the Lord Jesus Christ. That he sent his son to put away
the sin of his people by the sacrifice, the death of himself
and the shedding of his blood to remove that sin that God may
be just in declaring us justified by the Lord Jesus Christ. And Christ reveals to us the
will of God in making us to know that, to know what he's done,
to know what he's accomplished for us. In scattering our enmity
and removing that darkness and that hatred that's in our nature
against holy God, he removes that as well. So he removes the
sin that God may justify us in Christ, and he removes the enmity
that we may hear and know and love our God, that there be reconciliation. That God would forgive us and
receive us into the family of God. That's all revealed in Him
who is the Word of God, declaring to us God's will, His intention,
His purpose to us. That God would be gracious in
Christ. Turn over to Hebrews chapter
one. Hebrews chapter one. Verse 1
and 3 is what we'll read. God, who at sundry times and
in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the
prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son. whom he hath appointed heir of
all things, by whom also he made the worlds, who, being the brightness
of God's glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding
all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty
on high. So that those last two phrases
are bookends, if you will, that declare the whole of Christ's
work for us. He came in the flesh and purged
us of our sins by dying our death on the cross, on the tree, as
our sacrifice to put away that sin, and having accomplished
it entirely, sat down on the right hand of the throne of God,
sending His Holy Spirit to seek out the sheep that are lost,
scattered about the world, that we would hear and know mind of
our God revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ. And as I said before,
I'll say it again because this is the ministry of reconciliation.
That God will be gracious to you in the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ put away all our sin.
Christ sends his Holy Spirit who removes the enmity that gives
us life again from the dead whereby we are born again of the seed
of the Lord Jesus Christ." And when we say that, we're just,
we're comparing that Christ's seed to Adam's seed. We were all born of Adam's seed.
When Adam sinned in the garden, all his seed were in his loins.
So when he died and he was corrupted, all his seed in him died and
being corrupt. Came forth, born of sin, having
no spiritual life in them. And so by grace, because of what
Christ has accomplished for us, we are born of his spiritual
seed. Born of his spiritual seed, having
life and light in him, in our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, just
as an example, because I've been saying that the Word of God is
Him expressing, Him revealing to us His will and purpose toward
us, we see this being true even among men. Turn over to 2 Corinthians
chapter 1. Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 1
and look at verse 17 and 18. Paul hears writing to the church
in Corinth, and he says, when I therefore was thus minded,
did I use lightness? Was I careless? Or the things
that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that
with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay? But as God
is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. And so what he's saying there
is I gave you my word. I revealed my mind, my purpose
toward you. That is that I would come to
you there in Corinth twice. On my way to Macedonia and on
my way back from Macedonia on my way to Judea. I gave you my
word. I let you know my will and purpose. And so we preach the Lord Jesus
Christ. because Christ is the Word of
God and He makes known to us, He reveals to us God's will and
purpose in this ministry of reconciliation, that God will be gracious to
you in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now this word that goeth forth
out of God's mouth, it's described here in verse 10, likened to
a picture that we see in nature. Isaiah 55 verse 10, For as the
rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth, and
bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater. so that the purpose we see here
is likened to rain and snow. Rain, you know, there's former
rains and there's latter rains. There's springtime rains and
fall rains. And then snow, snow comes down
and it packs on top of each other so that it slowly melts and seeps
into the ground and it fills the reservoirs and the water
wells for those times in the summer when it's more of a drought.
And it provides that water that's needed during times of drought. And then we see that this word
is also likened to seed, which the sower casts forth. which is pictured of our declaring
and proclaiming, preaching the word of God. And then it's also
likened to bread, which the hearer, the believing hearer, feeds upon,
that bread from heaven whom we preach. And so this word which
our God gives, which he speaks, its purpose is to bring forth
much fruit and to continually bring forth fruit in this heavenly
cycle of rain and snow, of fruit and seed turning into bread and
feeding and nourishing and healing the church, the people of God. And that picture describes that
word spoken of in verse 11, so shall my word be that goeth forth
out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please. And it shall
prosper in the thing where to I sent it. So Christ, the word
of God, he's the one that accomplishes the will and purpose of God and
makes the will and purpose of God known unto his people, his
beloved bride. And our Lord, he spoke of this
word, he spoke of himself as the word of God, as the seed
of God. He said in John 12, 24, verily,
verily, Or truly, truly, I say unto you,
except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth
alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth
much fruit. And that's true. If I leave a
seed in a little packet of seeds, and I don't put it in the ground,
I just leave it in that envelope, there it remains. It abideth
alone. But if I take that seed out at
the time of planting, and I put it in the ground, As the rain
comes down and the waters come down and the heat of the sun,
it sprouts up and it grows and it bears fruit and much seed. So the life and death of our
Lord and Savior. Him dying, being buried, and
rising again has borne much, much fruit, abundance of fruit
unto our heavenly Father. And so the fruit of our Lord,
it's manifested in God's people. It's brought forth, it's wrought
in God's people through the preaching of the word, through the preaching
of the word, which by the gospel is preached unto you. preached
unto you. And so, this is seen in other
areas of scripture. For example, in Acts 18. Acts
18, in verse 5, we read there that Paul testified to the Jews
that Jesus was Christ. It's at the end of verse 5. He
testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. meaning that he showed
that all the scriptures point to the Lord Jesus Christ, and
that Jesus Christ fulfilled all the scriptures which speak of
Christ, which speak of God's salvation. And we read that the
Jews opposed what he said, and they blasphemed God regarding
the things that Paul said, so that Paul turned to the Gentiles. And it says in verse eight, And
many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized. And so we preach Christ, and
Christ bears fruit in the hearers. He bears fruit in his people. He teaches them, he feeds them,
and they bear fruit in the Lord Jesus Christ, loving him, serving
him, loving their brethren, serving their brethren. And seeing this
work which God had brought through the preaching of the gospel.
Paul, seeing that and learning, being instructed how God does
this, he wrote to the Corinthians over in 2 Corinthians 2. Turn
there, 2 Corinthians 2, verse 14. Here's a picture of that word
accomplishing the will of God and the earth in all peoples,
all people that hear it. Verse 14, now thanks be unto
God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh
manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place. For we
are unto God a sweet savor of Christ. We're fruit of Christ. In them that are saved and in
them that perish, to the one we are the savor of death unto
death. and to the other the savor of
life unto life, and who is sufficient for these things. For we are
not as many which corrupt the word of God, but as of sincerity,
but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ." And
so, remember, this is all wrought through the preaching, through
the making known the mystery of God, which is declared to
the people in the gospel, the Lord Jesus Christ. And so what
we're doing here is preaching the gospel word to make known
to you what the mind of your God is toward you and what he's
purposed for you in the Lord Jesus Christ, that God will be
gracious to you. in the Lord Jesus Christ. He's
merciful and gracious to all who come to him through Christ. And so, in this preaching, in
this word, God's will and purpose is accomplished. It's done. In
them that hear it. And in understanding that he
gives by his Spirit to know Christ. Alright, this brings us now to
our second point where we see spiritual blessings. Ephesians
1 3 we're given a good word Paul says blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ so that all blessings
for the people of God are given and only given by in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Outside of Christ, there's no
blessings for us. In Christ are all spiritual blessings
given abundantly, freely by our God through the Lord Jesus Christ
to his people. So let's now look in our text.
In Isaiah 55, verse 12, we see here a description of those spiritual
blessings given to us. Verse 12 For ye shall go out
with joy, and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the
hills shall break forth before you into singing. and all the
trees of the field shall clap their hands. So here's four spiritual
blessings, four blessings that the Lord declares here. And two
are contained right here in the beginning. Ye shall go out with
joy and be led forth with peace. Now these descriptions, they
hearken back to the rain and the snow regarding our going
out and being led forth. So the gospel comes as good news
to needy sinners, to those who have no righteousness of their
own. to you that cannot work a righteousness for your God,
that cannot please your God by the things that you do. You fail,
and you sin, and you mess up, and you cannot keep that law. You cannot keep in God's favor. You can't do the things that
are required of you because of the weakness of this flesh and
the corruption of our nature. We cannot please God by our works. And so the gospel, hearing that
God will be gracious to us in the Lord Jesus Christ, comes
as good news to the needy sinner, to the one who has no righteousness
of their own. And so Christ came for sinners. Christ came for sinners. You know, even the Pharisees
and the scribes murmured about Christ saying, this man receiveth
sinners and eateth with them, eateth with them. And that was
a true testimony. They weren't even exaggerating
about it because it said right in that verse before them, then
drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And that's why they were murmuring
and complaining. They weren't even making it up.
He receives sinners and publicans and those who aren't worthy of
God's mercy. Those who aren't worthy of being
in the family of God. Those who aren't worthy of having
a place at the table in that great day, that great feast.
And yet sinners and publicans, saved by grace, will be the ones
pulling up their chairs to the table and feasting with their
Lord in that day, in that day. And so what Christ was saying
to them were words that encouraged them, that drew them to hear
that God would be gracious to them. that God purposed to save
them, to put away their sin by the death of the Lamb of God,
to make them holy and righteous, accepted of God through the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. to scatter their darkness, to
drive away their enmity, to give them life from the dead, spiritual
life whereby they know and praise and glorify their God and have
an understanding of what their God is saying in his word, all
revealed in the word of God, who is Jesus Christ, the righteous,
the righteous. And sinners are drawn to that.
Sinners are drawn to Christ. They're drawn to his word of
reconciliation. And so it's by the Spirit teaching
us and drawing us. And that word comes as a refreshing. It comes as rain on a hot, dry
day. It comes and it's received with
joy. with joy, and we go out with joy, meaning that by his
spirit who teaches us this, who causes us to hear the word of
God, we are brought out of that prison of darkness, we are brought
out of the pit of death into the light of Christ who speaks
comfortably, peacefully to us. It's a joy to come to our Lord. then being led forth of the Spirit
with peace, being led forth with peace, every child of God is
born again of the Spirit who applies that blood of Christ,
who separates us out from that body of death and and leads us
to behold the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, to see what
he's done and accomplished for us, and to be washed in the blood
of Christ. And then it comes upon us like
a thick, heavy blanket of snow comes upon a land and covers
all the blackness of the earth. And there's peace. There's peace. You know, here in Missouri, we
don't get much of it, but if you're from the north or any
state where there is a lot of snowfall, you know that after
a good snowfall, you go out there and there's just silence. It's at peace. All the cars that
are normally going by on the road, no one's out. Even the
birds aren't chirping. They're all huddled down there,
I guess, to keep warm. It's so peaceful and the ground
is so smooth and just blanketed in that peaceful white snow.
That's what we have in the Lord Jesus Christ by His blood. Peace with our God. A conscience
is no longer screaming and worried and fearful and afraid. We're
at peace because God receives us through the blood of his son,
Jesus Christ, whom he's provided. He sent him for that purpose.
He spared him not to be gracious and merciful to you whom he loves,
to you whom he's chose and set apart for himself to reconcile
you through his son, Jesus Christ. Therefore, Paul says, being justified,
being justified by the death and the resurrection of Christ.
He had just said it in Romans 4 25, who was Christ who was
delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification. And then in the very next chapter,
verse one, therefore being justified by Christ, by faith, we have
peace with God, meaning We have, God's at peace with us and he
communicates it to us through the faith which he reveals in
his people, through the life-giving spirit which comes upon us and
gives us life and fellowship and peace with God. Now next,
it says in verse 12, the mountains and the hills shall break forth
before you into singing. all the obstacles, everything
that stood between you and God, everything that was impossible
for you to fix and put away and make right, that which you couldn't
do, Christ has. He's taken all the hills and
the high places and brought them low. And every low place, he's
raised it up. So it's all level and a highway
on the Lord Jesus Christ. And so good news comes to you
who hear, who rejoice in your Savior. Good news comes from
every mountain and every hill, declaring the grace and mercy
of God for you in the Lord Jesus Christ. Psalm 72 verse 3 says
the mountains shall bring peace to the people and the little
hills by Righteousness so that upon every mountain and upon
every hill Every sin and every shame there's going to be a declaration
that Christ your God reigneth that he's put it away that he's
put away all your sin and Your God forgives you. He receives
you in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's conquered
every foe, every obstacle. And you hear it from every mountaintop,
from every hill, how beautiful. Upon the mountains are the feet
of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth
good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion,
thy God reigneth. Thy God reigneth. And so all
those mountains, all those obstacles, all those hills, they melt away
in praise from the child who's forgiven. They melt away in praise
and thanksgiving to your God. That's what we see in Revelation
5, 9. It says, They sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy
to take the book, and to open the seals thereof. For thou wast
slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. And so they melt
away in praise and thanksgiving to your God for his peace, for
his forgiveness, for his kindness in the Lord Jesus Christ. And
then that last phrase in the verse says, and all the trees
of the field shall clap their hands. That is all the children
of God. who are described in the next
verse as trees who are planted by the Lord, they shall receive,
even you, into fellowship with them, like-minded believers who,
like you, are also forgiven cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And they will rejoice at every
sinner saved and welcome you into the fellowship and family
of the living God with them, rejoicing in you. They'll clap
their hands. They'll be thankful with you and rejoice for your
salvation. Continuing now to verse 13, we
see here that curse which was put upon man, which comes forth
through Adam's corrupt seed, it's all overturned by the grace
of God and Christ for those who are now born of Christ's incorruptible
seed. Look at verse 13. Instead of
the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar
shall come up the myrtle tree. You remember thorns and thistles
and briars, they're all pictures of that curse that God put man
under and said, you're going to work for your bread. By the
sweat of your brow, you're going to labor and work hard for your
bread. And you're going to do all this
labor, and the earth is going to yield forth curses. thorns
and thistles and briars is going to come up for all your labors,
right? A picture of our works that we
do to try and please God. It just produces curses upon
us because we can't keep the law. And it shall be to the Lord
for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. And so that nation that tried
to come to God in cursed things, in their own works, in trying
to please God by their own religion and their own way of doing things,
who tried to come to God in dead letter religion, who labored
under a ministration of death. They'll be given repentance.
They'll turn from those false ways, and they'll look to the
Lord Jesus Christ. And they're given His name. A
mark is put on them, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that
they are His people, who are His bride now, who are in His
family, who are covered with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Revelation 3.12 says, Him that
overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, And
he shall go no more out, and I will write upon him the name
of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new
Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and
I will write upon him my new name. And so, brethren, these
are spiritual blessings that are wrought, that are given to
us by our God because He's reconciled us to Himself through the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is God's Word to you. This is His Word of promise.
This is His Word which through the Gospel is preached to you.
This is His Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word who is made
flesh. declaring to you that God will
be gracious to you, that he's put away all your sin by the
death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and
he sent his spirit out into the world to seek out all his lost
sheep whom he loved and cause them to hear, separating them
out unto this gospel to be called of God and have heard it and
believe the glorious good news as a refreshing, as a covering
for their sin, all accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ. And he brings forth praises from
his people. and rejoicing, and we're thankful
to God for one another and for what He's done for His people. Your God's word goeth forth,
and it accomplishes all that He purposes to do, because He
is God, and none can stand against Him. So trust Him, trust His
word, believe His word, because His word is faithful, just, and
true. Amen. Let's close in prayer. Our gracious Lord, we thank you,
Father, for your glorious, good word, Lord, for revealing to
such lowly sinners like us what your will and purpose is for
your people to be gracious to them, that you would cause us
to hear Christ and to hear just this glorious good news and the
simplicity of the gospel and to know our God, to hear his
word, and to believe him. Lord, have mercy on all your
people. Cause them to hear this word,
and to rejoice in him, and be glad in you. And that we would
clap our hands, one for another, for your salvation wrought in
them, for your glorious work, praising and glorying in Christ
our Lord and Savior. It's in his name we pray and
give thanks. Amen. Okay, brother. Let's all stand and sing a closing
hymn, 256. It is well with my soul, 256. When peace like a river attendeth
my way, When sorrows like fleeting billows roll, Whatever my lot,
Thou hast taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well. my soul. Though Satan should
buffet, though trials should come, let this blast assure its
control. that Christ hath regarded my
helpless estate, and hath shed his own blood for my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. I sin, O the bliss of this glorious
thought. I sin not in part, but the whole,
is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord,
praise the Lord, O my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. And haste, Lord, the day when
my face shall be sighed, The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend. Even so, It is well with my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul.