Got that going. We're going to begin our second
service. We're going to use the heartbacks, the blue hymnals. Let's turn in our hymnals to
292 and sing it while we're standing. 292, surely goodness and mercy.
292, surely goodness and mercy. Sorry. A pilgrim was I in a wandering. In the cold night of sin I did
roam. When Jesus the kind shepherd
found me, and now I am on my way home. Surely goodness and
mercy shall follow me all the days, all the days of my life. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days, all the days of my life. He restoreth my soul when I'm
weary. He giveth me strength day by
day. He leads me besides the still
waters. He guards me each step of the
way. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days, all the days of my life. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days, all the days of my life. When I walk through the dark,
lonesome valley My Savior will walk with me there And safely
His great hand will lead me To the mansions He's gone to prepare
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days, all the
days of my life. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days, all the days of my life. ? And I shall dwell in the house
of the Lord forever ? And I shall feast at the table spread for
me ? Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me ? All the days,
all the days of my life All the days, all the days of
my life. If you would turn to number 224. I know whom I have believed,
224. I know not why God's wondrous
grace to me he hath made known, nor why unworthy Christ did love
redeem me for his own. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that He is able to keep them which I've committed
unto Him against that day. I know not how this saving faith
to me he did impart, nor how believing in his word brought
peace within my heart. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I've committed
unto Him against that day. I know not how the Spirit moves,
convincing men of sin, revealing Jesus through the Word, creating
faith in Him. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I've committed
unto Him against that day. I know not what of good or ill
may be reserved for me. Of weary ways or golden days
before his face I see. But I know whom I have believed
in and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've
committed unto Him against that day. I know not when my Lord
may come at night or noonday fair, nor if I walk the vale
with Him or meet Him in the air. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that He is able. to keep that which I've committed
unto Him against that day. Thank you. You may be seated. All right, I'm gonna read Psalm 111. Psalm 111. Praise you, the Lord. I will
praise the Lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the
upright and in the congregation. The works of the Lord are great,
sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. His work is
honorable and glorious, and his righteousness endureth forever.
He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered. The Lord is
gracious and full of compassion. He hath given meat unto them
that fear him. He will ever be mindful of his
covenant. He hath showed his people the
power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the
heathen. The works of his hands are verity and judgment. All
his commandments are sure. They stand fast forever and ever
and are done in truth and uprightness. He sent redemption unto his people.
He hath commanded his covenant forever. Holy and reverend is
his name. The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom. a good understanding, have all
they that do his commandments, his praise endureth forever.
Let's pray. Father, we come to you thankful
today for a Lord that has all of these qualities, Father, that
we just read about. Lord, we're so thankful that
you sent your son to save a people And when he said it is finished
on the cross, it was finished. It is finished. There's nothing
for us to do. And Father, we just ask that
you watch over us this morning. We ask that you give our pastor
the words that we would hear. Father, you open, please open
our ears and hearts and minds. And Father, we ask that you just
watch over and care for us in Christ's name. All right. Let's turn to John chapter two. I wanna look at verses one through
11. John chapter two, one through
11. Now in this passage here regarding the miracle in Cana
of Galilee, when our Lord turned the water into wine, I want to
look first, well, we see here that it's got. some practical
instruction, some spiritual instruction in the types of our salvation,
and even a word of prophecy, I believe is found here as well,
at least a word, a prophetic word of comfort and joy for his
people here. And the last verse of the text,
verse 11, John tells us that this beginning of miracles did
Jesus in Cana of Galilee. and manifested forth his glory,
and his disciples believed on him." And that tells us that
our faith is born and formed and created of the Lord Jesus
Christ when he manifests his glory. We have faith revealed in us.
We that are his people, his faith is revealed in us under the power
of the manifestation of our Lord's glory. Because when he did that,
his disciples followed him. They followed him. And I pray
that the Lord is pleased to bless us that are gathered here to
hear his word today with that same faith and glory and power. All right, so we're gonna begin
with the practical, and then we'll move into the spiritual,
and then we'll close with that prophetic, joyful word there. I've titled this message, The
Practical Spiritual Prophetic Miracle, all right? And so, we'll
begin here. Let's take up, before the spiritual
picture, let's look at the practical here. I think there's a few couple
things, there's actually many things that can be gleaned but
we'll focus on two primarily here. So the first thing that
strikes us is that our Lord looks upon marriage between a man and
his wife favorably. He blesses it. It's a sanctified
thing because look at verses one and two. And the third day
there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of
Jesus was there. And both Jesus was called and
his disciples to the marriage. So the fact that our Lord attended
this marriage shows his approval of marriage. It was instituted
by God our creator in the garden. Marriage is a blessed thing.
It's good that a man not be alone, but that he have the companionship
of his wife. It's good. And you men that are
married and that the Lord has blessed you to see it rightly,
you love your wives. And it's good that we're not
alone. It's very good that the Lord has given us a companion
in our lives. And I'm choosing my words very
carefully, obviously, because we know the day in which we live. And marriage is between a man
and a woman. It's between a man and a woman. And the institution of marriage
by the Lord, it precedes all laws of men. Before man came
up with his laws and what he says is right, our God showed
us what is right in his word in bringing Eve to Adam. And so I'm saying this because
It's under attack. It's been under attack now for
a while and it's important that we remember what marriage is. It's between a man and his wife. It's ordained of our Lord. The word of our Lord, marriage,
is attack. It's attacking today what people
do. It's attacking what our Lord
has revealed to us. It shows us in Genesis 2, 22
through 24, I just want to take a little bit of time and show
you this, but it says, the rib which the Lord God had taken
from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, this is now bone
of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because
she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they
shall be one flesh. And so in the the rebellion of
man and his hatred and enmity against God, he rebels against
marriage and what the Lord has revealed in his word concerning
marriage, that it's between a man and a woman. And so because he
rebels against God, the Lord tells us that he's given up men
and women unto vile affections, right? Women with women and men
with men, working that which is unseemly. at which is unnatural,
right? We all know it's unnatural. And so that's where it started
was attacking marriage, right? And then we saw when they went
after genders, right? And now we have this genderless
society taking hold. And once it really got a footing,
what happened? Everybody suddenly became confused
about their gender, right? So that children as young as
eight and even five years old, are being abused by society,
telling them that they weren't born right, that what God created
them to be is not right and they can just change it. And so they
began to self-identify as something other than what the Lord had
created them. And it gets even worse and worse,
right, where they're identified as both or neither and all kinds
of weird, evil confusion. Confusion, right? I think the
thing we see shaping up in our day is transhumanism. That's the next thing. It's all
setting that up. It's all that breaking down of
our understanding of what God has made us into what's called
transhumanism, which is another term that technologists will
use, people who believe that through technology we can overcome
the weaknesses of the flesh by integrating or uniting ourselves
with technology in a perverse way. I believe it's a perverse
way. If you look at 1 Corinthians 6, Paul says that there's two
unions that God blesses. It's a union between a man and
his wife, and they too become one flesh. And the other blessed
union is between God and his people. They are of one spirit.
every other kind of union is fornication, right? And he says,
flee fornication. And I believe the scriptures
tell you, don't do it, because it's marching down. I know it's
early. I'm ahead of where it is, but it's coming. It is the
next battle shaping up is transhumanism. So just be aware of that, because
Paul even says, he says, all things are lawful. But not all
things are expedient. There are some things that we
don't do, though they're convenient. Expedience is convenience at
the sake of principle, at the cost. There are some things that,
in principle, we ought not to do, even if it could be argued
that it's lawful. All things are lawful, he said,
but I will not be brought under the power of any. And so, remember
those blessed unions that our Lord reveals in His Word. A man
and his wife, one flesh, and God and his people, one spirit.
Those are the blessed, sanctified unions of the Lord in Scripture.
Alright? So, you that are married, fight
for your marriage, right? It's hard, there's hard times.
There's tough days, there's tough weeks. Tough months, sometimes
a tough year, right? But you love your spouse. You work through that. You pray
that God help you and bless it because it's a blessed thing.
And what God has joined together, let not man separate that. Don't let it be driven apart. Love your wife, love your husband,
and pray the Lord bless it, and he shall. All right, so the next
thing we see here that I want to point out is this submission,
this submission to the Lord. John 2, three through five. And
when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, they
have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, woman,
what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. And
his mother saith unto the servants, whatsoever he saith unto you,
do it. Now to our ears today, when you
read that, it sounds like the Lord is sassing his mother, and
then it sounds like she's just being dismissive of what he said,
that she's just ignoring. what he said, and that's not
what's being said. Our ears maybe hear it that way
because of the terms being used, but it's not. The Lord's not
being disrespectful to her. In fact, he's using the proper
term of that day. Woman is how a man would respectfully
refer to a married woman in that day. He would say woman, and
he said, what have I to do with thee? And what he's saying to
Mary is, I'm no longer under your authority as your son. I'm
now a man about my father's business. I'm doing what my father has
called me to do. And so he's speaking to her as
almighty God. He's instructing her and reminding
her that I'm not under your authority as your son. any longer. I'm now doing the work that my
father has sent me to do and so he's putting her in a right
understanding. And when he says, what have I
to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. In other words,
what she's focused on and concerned with was not his focus and concern. And what he's saying by my hour
has not yet come, everywhere in the scriptures where he's
speaking of that, it's referring to when he suffered in his humiliation
on the cross. And really what it's driving
towards is, He's saying that this is not my time to be under
the will and subjection of what wicked man will do, what man
will do to me. Because there's coming a day
when the wickedness in man's heart will be allowed to take
me and to kill me, to crucify me on the cross. And so he's
saying, I'm not subject to the will of man. This isn't my hour.
I'm not subject to your will. doing the will of my father here.
All right. And so that's what he's making her aware of. And
she understood it. And that's why suddenly her tune
changed. It actually changed. And she
turned to the servants, not to the Lord, because she's not going
to tell the Lord what to do. She turned to the serpent and
said, whatsoever he say unto you, do it. And that includes,
if he says do nothing, that's it. That's the end of the story.
There's nothing more to be done. And so for us, the lesson is
that our God is not under subjection to our will. He's not subject
to our commanding and what we think should be done and what
we want to happen. He's sovereign, almighty God,
able and doing what he has purposed to do. And so that's what we
ought to do. When the Lord says to us, do
it, we do it. Now that brings us to our next
point. Those are the two practical things I'd like to bring to your
attention, but let's go to the spiritual now. This chapter,
it opens with the word and. John 2, verse 1, and. And by saying and, it's connecting
this miracle of Cana to what's gone before in chapter 1. And what we've learned in chapter
1, basically, is that Judaism was an empty shell. It was an
empty, dead, religion and Judaism had failed the people, right? Rather than turning them to the
Lord, rather than turning them to Almighty God, they were turning
them away from the Lord, away from the Lord and looking to
the law, right? And just practicing the law,
just practicing the form of religion and the dead letter, right? And
so Rather than turning them to God and looking for his coming
Messiah, they were turned to the flesh and believing through
the teachings of Judaism that by their works under the law,
it was their righteousness, that that's how God was going to justify
them, declare them righteous for their works in the law. And we know this because John
the Baptist said to them, while he's speaking to the most religious
people in the land, the Pharisees, and he said to them, there standeth
one among you whom ye know not. As religious as you guys are,
you don't even recognize the Messiah. They didn't recognize
John, they didn't receive his testimony, and they didn't recognize
Christ, and they didn't receive him. They didn't see the light
and glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, and so they
rejected him. And pertinent to this passage,
It could be said of Judaism, of looking to the law for righteousness,
they have no wine. There was no wine. And there
was no wine in the religion there in that day. It was empty, void
of joy and merriment. They didn't rejoice in serving
the Lord. rejoice in going and worshipping
the Lord, there was no wine. It was just an empty, dead-letter
form. They were worshipping the Lord,
but not in spirit and in truth, right? So they really weren't
worshipping the Lord. They were worshipping the God of their own imagination
and thinking that these things made them righteous. And so,
all that joy just left them. No wine. They have no wine, right? And so, Some of the verses that
come to mind are in Ecclesiastes 10, 19, where we read that a
feast is made for laughter and wine maketh merry, right? And Psalm 104, 15 says, and wine
that maketh glad the heart of man and oil to make his face
to shine and bread which strengtheneth man's heart. And there's a lot
of sweet, gospel pictures just in that verse, that's Psalm 104
15 and that's really what the form of Judaism had become. It had no wine, there was no
joy, there was no understanding of the Word of God, there was
no oil, right, no spirit, no spiritual worship there, and
there was no bread, no Christ. No Christ. And so it was just
an empty form of religion. And as Paul described them in
2 Corinthians 3, he said, to this day, the veil is yet over
their heart. In Israel, when Moses came off
the mountain and his face shone with the brightness and the glory
of God, they asked him to put a veil over his face so that
they could look upon him. to this day in religion, not
even just Judaism, but much of religion, men and women are looking
at the word, and there's nothing but a veil, a thick veil over
the heart. But thankfully, in grace, he
says, when it shall turn to the Lord, the heart, under the power
of the Spirit, shall be turned to the Lord, the veil is taken
away, because then we behold Christ our salvation, Christ
our glory, Christ our hope, and our peace with God, all right?
So religion without Christ is always going to be a dead letter
religion, always, always lifeless, always dead. And it doesn't matter,
you know, what, it doesn't matter the lineage that we have, it
doesn't matter how strong the heritage of our, you know, of
our congregation. It doesn't matter if it has not
Christ, all right? If Christ is lost, if the wine
has dried up, and it's no longer there, then what good is just
having a lineage or a strong heritage? We need the Lord, and
we know that the Lord is able of stones to raise up children
unto Abraham. He does that. What's pictured
here in these verses? Well, it signifies when Christ
comes and he makes the wine, it shows him bringing that joy
and that peace and that gladness into the hearts of his people
who are worshiping and serving Him. It's signifying, it's revealing
regeneration in dead sinners who have no ability to save themselves. It's showing the power and glory
of our Savior, our God, to give life to dead sinners. And this
is what we see here. In verse six, it says, and there
were set there six water pots of stone, after the manner of
the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
So here's these six water pots that are set there for purification
purposes in the Jewish religion. And they hold water for the purpose
of that purification of the Jews' religion. And that's a good picture,
right? They're there for religious ceremony,
but they're empty. there's nothing in them, it's
just a shell, and it's empty, it's void of any hope, any goodness,
void of water, right? And so what does water picture
in the scriptures? Well, water is likened to the
word of God, Ephesians 5, 26, that he, that is that Christ
who gave himself for the church, that he might sanctify and cleanse
it with the washing of water by the word." So they're void. He's saying they're void of the
word of God. They're not preaching the word
of God in truth, in faithfulness. They're not preaching the word.
That is, they're speaking the form of it, but they're not directing
the hearts of the people to Christ, who is our salvation and our
hope and glory. their works, whatever they were
doing, whatever they were practicing, it wasn't sanctified, it wasn't
blessed, it was just D-E-A-D, dead, just dead, dead religious
works. And then it says that there are
six water pots of stone, and six, who was created on the sixth
day? Man. And then the seventh day,
our Lord rested from all his works, which completeness, that
perfection, and man In Adam, in his fall, he continually comes
up short from the glory of God. He comes up short in pleasing
the Lord because he's imperfect. We've fallen in Adam. We don't
please the Lord. We're enmity against the living
God in our flesh. Man is likened to a stone, right? His heart is called the hard
stone, an adamant stone in Ezekiel. And that's a hard, hard rock. You're not going to break that.
And it requires that God and God alone is able to break it,
and He must do it. As we said before, God's able
of these stones. to raise up children unto Abraham.
And we thank him for that because when we're honest, when we're
made honest, we know that we ourselves are hard and stubborn
and will not come unto Christ that we might have life. It's
the calling, it's the moving of our God in power and glory
to draw us, to drag us to Christ, to give us liberty, to call us
out from that prison that we're in by nature being bound in our
sin and iniquity. And he does that for his people.
All right, now here's our Lord's power on display in verses seven
and eight. Jesus saith unto them, fill the
water pots with water. Preach the word. Preach my gospel. Preach the word faithfully to
the people, this hardened people. And they filled them up to the
brim. They preach this. Oh, preach
it. And they preached it. They glorified Christ. We march
under the banner of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We
preach him, exalt him, and lift him up because he said, I'll
draw all men unto me. You just faithfully preach and
declare what I've sent you to preach and declare. And what
did they do? They filled it up to the brim.
That's faithfulness, right? They didn't fill it up halfway. They filled it up to the brim
and and the Lord then says in verse 8 draw out now and bear
unto the governor of the feast and they bear it and It's not
what we see here. It's not that man has any power
to effect a response right to affect this this glory nor is
it in the power of you the people hearing it to effect or create
this faith to bring forth this spiritual work and This work
is all done by the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, fill it with
water. Preach the word. And then he
said, draw it out. And when they drew it out, it
was the best, finest wine ever. Ever. I imagine that was amazing,
wonderful, delicious wine that we never had. But it's because
the Lord himself made it perfect. And it's a picture of his Glory
being manifested. that water was turned to wine.
Somewhere in there, that water was turned to wine. And that's
what it is, right? We preach the gospel, we preach our Lord
Jesus Christ, and in the day of his love, when it pleases
him to sovereignly move upon the hearts of his people, He
converts them. He gives them life from the dead. He gives them a birth, a new
birth from His spiritual incorruptible seed, removing that work of Adam
and putting in its place His glorious work, whereby we are
His children and bear fruit of our husband to the Father. Then
we bear precious fruits of righteousness in and by Him. they drew upon
it, and it reminds me of Revelation 22, 17, where it says, and the
spirit and the bride say, come, right? Thinking of that drawing
upon it, the spirit and the bride say, come, and let him that heareth
say, come, and let him that is athirst come, and whosoever will,
let him take of the water of life freely, right? So, we see
in that that we're preaching the word, and we encourage, We
encourage our hearers, our brethren, well the people here, we encourage,
come, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. He's a tender, kind,
faithful Savior. All who come to the Lord seeking
mercy shall find Him. Beg Him for mercy, seek Him.
He is kind and gracious to all who ask Him and to all who seek
Him. All who are sinners, come, come
to Christ. I don't have any power to make
you come or I can't even by saying that I have no no idea I have
no thought that I'm actually affecting faith in you not at
all But I believe the Lord right and he says draw upon it And
so I encourage you come to the Lord because in the day of his
power He's the one who reveals that faith in you whereby you
come it's his it's his work. It's his faith It's his power
drawing you come if you're a sinner and you have no hope of righteousness
in yourself, and you hear that Christ is all, and I'm saying
Christ is all, believe on Him. Believe on Him, trust Him, cry
out to Him, ask Him for mercy and grace, and He's tender and
kind and gracious to all who seek Him for it. So that's the
drawing out, the no power in us, all the powers of Him, and
He does it and fulfills it in His people by His sovereign will.
All right. Let's look at this prophetic
word there. Go back to verses 1 and 2. John
2, 1 and 2. It says, and the third day there
was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
And both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage. Now, all right, so it's the third
day. Well, what happened two days earlier? Well, two days
earlier was when John the Baptist is standing there and he sees
Jesus coming and says, behold, the Lamb of God, right? And that's a picture of what
our Savior did two days before his resurrection, right, before
his resurrection on the third day. was there on the cross to
put away the sins of his people as the Lamb of God. He was sacrificing
himself unto the Father to make atonement, to put away the sins
of his people. And so we see the Lamb of God,
and then three days later, what happens? He died and was buried,
and then on the third day, he rose again from the grave. And,
you know, we see that picture throughout, throughout, um, we
see that picture throughout scripture, right? This, this third day in
this resurrection, even in creation, it was the third day when the
Lord raised up the land out from its watery grave, right? When
the lands were gathered to themselves or the waters were gathered to
themselves and, and up came the land and then the land began
to bear fruit and, and, and of trees and grasses and fruits,
right? God said, let the waters under
the heaven be gathered together onto one place and let the dry
land appear. And it was so, and that was the
third day, all right? And so another thought in this
is that it's been nearly 2,000, the completion of 2,000 years
since our Lord was crucified and rose again and ascended up
to the Father, somewhere in there. We don't know exactly the year
that Christ was born or the day, but it's nearing about the beginning
of that third day, that year 3000 since our Lord ascended
to the Father. And here we are at the third
day of Christ's ministry, of his work here. And Peter says
to us, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing. In other words,
I'm purposely calling this to your mind, he's saying. Don't
be ignorant of this, that one day is with the Lord as 1,000
years and 1,000 years as one day. And we're nearing that third
day, if you will. Right? When our Lord, since our
Lord was raised. And, you know, just thinking
about that, Hosea chapter six, verses one and two, he says,
come, let us return unto the Lord. The Lord's calling our
attention to this marriage here. He's saying, here, hear me. Look
at what is being said here in this passage. And he says, let
us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us. He hath smitten. and He will
bind us up. After two days, He will revive
us. This is the day of grace now.
We're preaching the grace of our God and Savior to the people.
He's gathering together His people because we shall not perish with
the inhabitants of this world who who reject, who know not
God and refuse to hear his word, right? We're being gathered together,
separated from the world that is going to perish under his
wrath, right? And so he says then in the third
day, right? After two days, he will revive
us. In the third day, he will raise us up and we shall live
in his sight. And so that's just a glorious,
view that I pray the Lord bless it to your heart that we're nearing
that day and when that day comes and we are raised together to
be with our Lord there's going to be a marriage between the
bridegroom and his bride between the Lord Jesus Christ and you
his precious beloved people whom he loves and laid down his life
for that he willingly suffered for your sakes and though you
suffer now in our trouble He promises he shall return. And
in that third day, he shall revive you and raise you up to be with
him forever with the Lord. So continue. Whatever trials
or hardships or tribulations you face, beg the Lord to keep
you. Just stay upon the Lord. Continue
in him. Even if it requires your life,
you stay faithful to the Lord. May he bless you to remain faithful,
ever looking to Him because the day draws near, brethren, that
the day draweth nigh when we shall meet the Lord and be with
Him forever. So I say that to comfort you,
that it be a joy that you be filled and reminded with the
joy of our Savior who loves you. If you that are His, He loves
you and gave His life for you, and that's why you believe on
Him and trust Him for your righteousness and continue in Him. All right?
In closing, the last few verses, when the ruler of the feast had
tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it
was, but the servants which drew the water knew, the governor
of the feast called the bridegroom and saith unto him, every man
at the beginning doth set forth good wine. And when men have
well drunk, then that which is worse. Because they wouldn't
know any better. But thou has kept the good wine
until now. Right? We, we, our savior has
wrought that good wine in and for his people. He's, he's provided
that good wine born out of, of his grace. And so I pray the
Lord would, would bless that. And we're, we're told this beginning
of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee. and manifested forth
His glory, and His disciples believed on Him." And so when
our Lord manifests His glory, His disciples believe Him and
follow Him. So I pray He bless your hearts
and comfort you in that. All right, let's close in prayer. Our gracious Heavenly Father,
Lord, we thank You for Your mercy and Your kindness your grace
toward us. Lord, we pray that you would
help us. Lord, you know that we're weak and frail and full
of hardships. But Lord, it's a good thing if
it causes us to lean upon our Savior, that we not trust the
flesh, that we have no confidence in the flesh, but find our all
in our Savior. Lord, bless your word. Bless
your people. Help us, Lord, to hear that When
you draw upon that work which you've done, that your fruits
of grace and faith and love would be found there to the praise,
glory, and honor of your name. For it's in the name of our Lord
and Savior that we pray these things. And Lord, we ask that
you would bless your people, those that are sick, Wounded
we thank you for the good news of our brother Scott who is healing
and and Lord that you've protected him and sustained him and kept
him Lord and Father we thank you for your mercies and giving
us our brother that Is such an encouragement to us. We thank
you for all those Lord that that that you give us a heart for
and a and a burden for, Lord, that you would bless your word
to the hearts of all your people and help us, Lord, to walk in
love and kindness toward those who are brethren, but Lord, you
know. And we pray that you bless your
word and make it effectual in our hearts. It's in the name
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, that we pray this. Amen.
All right, brethren. Let's stand and sing a closing
hymn, 452, My Savior's Love, 452. I stand amazed in the presence
of Jesus the Nazarene, and wonder how he could love me, a sinner
condemned unclean. How marvelous, how wonderful,
And my song shall ever be! How marvelous, how wonderful,
Is my Savior's love for me! For me it was in the garden He
prayed, not my will, but Thine. He had no tears for his own grief,
But sweat drops of blood for mine. How marvelous, how wonderful,
And my song shall ever be! How marvelous, how wonderful,
Is my Savior's love for me! In pity angels beheld him, and
came from the world of light, To comfort him in the sorrows
he bore for my soul that night. How marvelous, how wonderful,
and my song shall ever be. How marvelous, how wonderful
is my Savior's love for me. He took my sins and my sorrows,
He made them His very own. He bore the burden to Calvary
And suffered and died alone How marvelous, how wonderful And
my song shall ever be How marvelous, how wonderful Is my Savior's
love for me When with the ransomed in glory His face I at last shall
see, Will be my joy through the ages To sing of His love for
me. How marvelous, how wonderful,
and my song shall ever be. How marvelous, how wonderful
is my Savior's love for me. Thank you.