You wanna turn in your Bibles
to the book of Ruth. I hope you've been able to follow
along in this series that we have had on this book. I know
I have greatly benefited from it. And I hope that you can retain
something of what was said the previous weeks in order to enter
into where we are now about to go in chapter three of the book
of Ruth. In the last chapter, we saw how
that until we see our need of Christ, then we won't find any
need for him. We won't find any beauty in him. We won't come to him. That's
just the nature of our sin. It keeps us from him. But God
in his grace actually uses our great need because of our sin
to draw us to Christ. And this is an expression of
his love. Last week we read in Jeremiah
31, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, an everlasting
love, a love that had no beginning and therefore was before you
were born and therefore had nothing, found nothing in you that drew
forth God's love, but God's love was always out of himself. But because, he says, I have
loved you with an everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness
have I drawn thee. Therefore, so this realization
that God's love is in Christ and we have this tremendous need
and he doesn't look for anything in us to fulfill that, to find
a motive in himself for loving us, then we see beauty in Christ. And the other thing we saw last
week when we considered Ruth coming to Boaz is that in her
life, We see ourselves, don't we? The experience of redemption
occurs in our life. Now, redemption occurred at the
cross, but the experience of it occurs in us when we find
ourselves having wasted our time, having sought after everything that
we could find to find value in who we are or in what we do,
and yet, by God's grace, finding a ruin in all that we have sought
after, finding no value in it or in ourselves, and then seeing
that all of God's value, all that he considers worthy, all
that he considers good, he only finds in his son. And then unless
we're found in Christ, we have no... We have nothing. We have no value. We have nothing.
We've found nothing. But when we have found the Lord
Jesus Christ, then we know then this is what's truly of value
to us. Of value to God has become valuable
to us. Christ is that great worthy one
in all that he has done. And so we find this. Until the
Lord saves us, we live in ignorance of Christ and his saving work.
But when He does save us, we learn of Christ, that He's our
Lord, that we owe Him our life, that He is our only Redeemer,
and that He has done the work of redemption. And then in hearing
this, in hearing this, It's compared in this book of chapter two of
Ruth, of Ruth gleaning and gathering the grain in Boaz's field, which
he himself provided for her and commanded his servants to leave
for her. And all the words he spoke to her, he spoke to her,
he showed her, he revealed to her that he understood her. He
knew he had a knowledge of her before she ever knew him. And
he was gracious to her, he comforted her, he spoke friendly to her,
he expressed his love for her. And all of this was overwhelming
to Ruth. And that's what we experience when we as sinners find ourselves
to be ruined and having wasted all of our efforts in trying
to make ourselves important to men and to God. and finding that
we cannot do it and we wasted all of our effort. We've spent
our labors on everything that's not satisfying. And then we see
Christ is all and we revel in it. We're totally overwhelmed
with the love, the condescending grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
that he would speak so comfortingly to us of his eternal love, of
his grace towards us, that he who is so great and mighty and
strong. would consider us in our complete
helpless and ruined state. Now that's the second thing we
learned last week when we considered chapter two. And now we wanna go on to chapter
three, but in doing this, I want you to notice how, and I mentioned
this as we were closing last week, I think, that how Ruth
interacted with Boaz. She spoke to him boldly at times. though very humbly. She spoke
to him and asked him to do things. Asked him if she could glean
in his field. Asked him if she could find grace and favor
in his sight. And she spoke to him. echoing
back the kind words that he had towards her. He said, she said
to Boaz, you have spoken comfort and spoken friendly to me, even
though I'm not like your other handmaids. I don't even measure
up. You've spoken. She attributed to Boaz this kindness
and this grace and this compassion he had towards her. She echoed
it back, just like we do as sinners when we come to Christ and find
that we have nothing to bring and yet we find our all in Christ
and His cross, we express that in prayer. We borrow the words
of Ruth and we express it when she says in verse 13 of chapter
2, let me find favor in thy sight, my Lord. for that thou hast comforted
me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid,
though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens." And that's
when she hears about Boaz providing everything for her. And then
in chapter 2, just highlighting some of the things we mentioned
last time in verse 14, it says that she sat beside the reapers
and Boaz reached her parched corn and she did eat and was
sufficed and left. When we find ourselves in the
experience of our life seeking salvation and then finding it
in Christ, this is all by God's doing, Then we realize that He
is ministering to us as Boaz gave this parched corn to Ruth,
so Jesus Christ is giving us personally this grace of faith
to see our all in Him and find Him to be our full, all-sufficient
supply. she was sufficed. And so we see
some of these things here. And then in chapter 2, another
highlight, it says in verse 16, he let fall, and this is what
Boaz told his servants, let fall some of the handfuls of purpose
for her and leave them that she may glean them and rebuke her
not. Now these handfuls of purpose, what is that? Well, what they
were dropping was the grain that they would already reap off of
the standing stalks. And they would take it off and
they would drop the grain they had pulled off for the service
up to Boaz, and they would drop it so Ruth could find it. But
what is this that's signified by this grain being dropped here?
Well, it signifies the bread of life, doesn't it? The Lord
Jesus Christ. Broken for sinners. And what
are we? We're sinners. And so when Boaz
says to his reapers, now you take some of the handfuls and
on purpose you leave it for Ruth to gather, it's Christ saying,
even though our sin abounded, God's grace did much more abound. So that the grace given to us
in the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior and our Lord is there
are these handfuls of purpose left by Christ at His command
to the reapers, the preachers, to leave the handfuls of God's
grace to sinners to convince them that God's grace in Christ
is abundant. It overcomes our sin. This is amazing and it builds
up to what we find in chapter 3 and 4. So I say all these things
to help us to refresh our memory about that. Of chapter two, it
says, so Ruth kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto
the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest and dwelt with
her mother-in-law. She stayed right there in the
field of Boaz, just as every believer who has come to see
their salvation in Christ sticks to him, won't go to another field. We won't find any satisfaction
anywhere but Christ. And when we find it there, we're
completely satisfied. Now, chapter three. Let's read
this together and go through this. And I've entitled today's
message, Cover Me. Cover Me. And you'll see why
when we get to verse nine. But when Denise and I were newly
married in the first part of our marriage, we heard a song
and it stuck with me. And the words of the songs go
something like this. And it's taken from verse nine,
Cover Me. Cover me, this is a prayer from
the heart of a sinner drawn to Christ by the Spirit of God who
prays this way, cover me, cover me. Extend the border, the song
goes on, extend the border of your mantle over me, for thou
art my nearest kinsman, cover me. And that's where I get from
verse nine and from that song, the title of today's message,
cover me. It's a simple request, isn't
it? It's the way God draws us to
Christ so that from our heart, we call on him, cover me. Don't leave me without your covering. Let's go through this, beginning
at verse one. Then Naomi, her mother-in-law,
Ruth's mother-in-law, Naomi, said to her, my daughter, shall
I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? Now,
throughout the book of Ruth, Naomi, as we can see the way
that she's always, what does she do? She's always telling
Ruth about the God of Israel, about the place where there's
bread, about the land where God's people dwell, where she's from,
and about the redemption that God has, from his law, provided
for the poor and the needy. She also has told Ruth about
how God provided for a widow who had no children and therefore
had what appeared to be no part in the promise of redemption
through Christ, because God promised the seed of the woman would bruise
the head of the serpent. And a woman who had no children,
who was barren then, would think, I have no part in the promised
Redeemer, in the promised Messiah. And so all these things were
spoken by Naomi to Ruth throughout not only what we're reading here,
but throughout the beginning of the book. So Naomi throughout
this book of Ruth therefore represents the pleasantness, her name means
pleasant, and the sweetness, which is what her name means,
sweet and pleasant. The sweetness and the pleasantness
of God, who in his word speaks to us by his spirit. And the
spirit of God speaks of Christ throughout the Old Testament.
So Naomi is the Old Testament, the law and the prophets and
the Psalms speaking to God's people, his elect people about
the Lord Jesus Christ and their redemption in him. And so when
it says in verse one of chapter three, then Naomi, her mother-in-law
said to her, my daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee that
it may be well with thee? And what is it in our own personal
lives by God's grace that he does continuously over the course
of our life, but direct us to the Lord Jesus Christ as the
one who alone can redeem us from our sin. Isn't that it? To bring us to Him who is the
promised one. To bring us to Him in whom all
the promises of God are. All spiritual and heavenly blessings
are in the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, we have nothing without
Him, but having Him, we have all things. And God directs us
to Him by His Spirit from His Word. Therefore, I say that Naomi,
the mother-in-law of Ruth, represents the Old Testament saints who,
by the Spirit of God, spoke to us who are saved of Christ as
our Redeemer. And so she says, shall I not
seek rest for thee? Shall I not? In this, we see
the Lord directing us to seek our rest in Christ. In all the experience of our
life, this is what God does. By His grace, He directs us.
How does He direct us to Christ? Well, from the field of the gospel
in the scriptures. preached to us by his servants. Isn't that the way he does it?
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. And faith
is that spiritual function in which we eat and drink of Christ. crucified as our life. We don't
just eat and drink of the events of His life, but we eat and drink
of Him personally who lived, who loved us and lived and died
for us and rose again. And this is what the Spirit of
God is constantly doing in our lives. And we see it We see it
when we sin and we're left alone of ourselves, and we find ourselves
cold hearted and hard hearted. And then by the gospel, we're
brought again to the one who loved us and gave himself for
us. This is a continuous process in the life of a believer. So
that we're unsatisfied, we can't find any rest until we find our
rest in Christ. But when we find him, we find
complete and all sufficient rest. Because his work is the only
work God requires, all that God accepts for us. And seeing this
in the gospel gives us peace and rest and joy and love for
him. And then in verse two, it says,
Naomi speaking still, she says, and now is not Boaz of our kindred? with whose maidens thou wast. Behold, he went with barley tonight
in the threshing floor. So Ruth had been in the field,
like sinners called to Christ by the Spirit of God, are brought
to Christ to gather what he gives where his people are in the preaching
of the gospel, that field of Christ where the gospel is. And
she tells him, weren't you with his maidens, those who also followed
after and gathered with the church of God? Behold, he went with
barley tonight in the threshing floor. She's instructing now,
she's giving direction to Ruth what to do. She says in verse
three, wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy
raiment upon thee, and get down, I'm sorry, get thee down to the
floor, but make not thyself known to the man until he shall have
done eating and drinking. So the first thing you see here
is that the Lord, by His Spirit, is teaching us, is not Christ
our Redeemer? Is He not our Redeemer? God reasons
with us from Scripture. Have you ever asked that question
of yourself? Where does it say in Scripture
that Jesus Christ is the substitute before God by God's will for
sinners? Can I find that? Can I find from
God's word where it speaks as I have heard in the preaching
of the gospel that the Lord Jesus Christ gave himself a ransom
to redeem his people, paid with his life's blood What God required
to set free from sin those he came to die for and to redeem? And that question whelms up. But it says in this same verse
that Boaz was winnowing barley tonight in the threshing floor.
So this was the place of labor. To winnow the barley means to
thresh it out, to get the grain off of the stalk, and to separate
that from the chap, that part that you eat and make bread with. So see him, in other words, Naomi
is telling Ruth to go to the place where Boaz is laboring
to beat out this bread, which we understand to represent what?
The bread of life. the bread of life. And what did
Jesus say about the bread? He said, my body broken, you
have to eat my body and you have to drink my blood or you have
no life. This is the bread of life. And
so Boaz in going down to the threshing floor and winnowing
the barley speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ going into the work
of redemption for us in order to break his body and give us
life. He is the mighty man, and therefore
he's all sufficient in our nature to act on our behalf towards
God and provide for us all that God requires. Let's look at this
in John chapter 6, where Jesus speaks of this. In John chapter
6, In verse 35, Jesus said to them, to these who had seen him
break the five barley loaves and the two fish. It's interesting
that the barley loaves that the boy had matched the barley here
in the book of Ruth. But in John chapter six and verse
35, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. I am the bread
of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger. He that believeth on me shall
never thirst. God is equating coming to Christ
and believing on him. And you can understand this.
Let's say I come and I can't walk. I come to the wheelchair,
or I come to the ones who are going to support me, and I rest
the weight of my body on their arms in order to walk. And so
we come to Christ for everything, for food, for strength, for life
itself. I come to Him, and that's believing
Him. That's trusting Him to have obligated
Himself to save us completely and to the uttermost. Verse 36
of John 6, but I said to you that you have seen me, you also
have seen me and believe not. So coming equals believing, and
they had seen him, but they would not believe him. They didn't
come, really. They had seen, but they wouldn't
come in believing. All that the Father gives me
shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise
cast out. In fact, far from casting out,
excuse me, so far from casting out, he actually draws us to
himself in love. It's not that he just is reluctant
to have sinners come to him. The Lord Jesus Christ is not
reluctant And then we come to him, well, okay, I won't cast
you out, you sinful, despicable, ruined person. No, this is his
drawing love, to bring us to himself. And that's what you
see in this account of Ruth. Ruth was poor. She was a widow. She had no claims on the inheritance
in Israel, or in Bethlehem, or the bread. She was a beggar. But Moab was mighty, wealthy,
and he took a greater interest in her than she did in him. It was because of his great condescending
kindness and tenderness towards her. that he reached out to her. He asked his foreman about her. He knew all about her life before. He knew that he himself was the
one who could redeem her. And he had determined in his
own mind to do this, even though it would outwardly look to be
a shameful thing to marry this woman. So the Lord Jesus Christ
says, him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. It's
not that he's reluctant. He is more interested in the
salvation of a sinner than that sinner is in his own salvation.
His love towards us was revealed far before and in an infinite
way before our love to him. And this has to parallel this
story as well. Verse 38 of John 6, For I came
down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of Him
that sent me. This was God's will. Sinners have a warrant
by Christ's words and the eternal will of God to come to Christ.
There's no barrier. God has removed every barrier
for sinners to come to Him in the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe
Him. Trust Him. cast the weight of
your soul upon him. That's what he's saying. Verse
39 of John 6. And this is the Father's will,
which has sent me, that of all which he has given me, I should
lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day,
to be glorified with Christ. They're given to Him by the Father.
Verse 40, And this is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone
which seeth the Son and believeth on Him may have everlasting life,
and I will raise him up at the last day. And so the Spirit of
God, God the Spirit, by the will of the Father, shows Christ to
us. That's seeing Him. When you see
in the gospel that Christ is a savior of sinners and you understand
yourself to be a sinner with no hope, you can't make up for
your sin, you can't turn from your sin, you can't do anything
about your sin, and you need everything, you need Him to do
everything for you. And then, when the Spirit of
God shows you that, then you come to Him. You put your trust
in Him. So those seeing Him do believe
Him. None can believe who are not
made to see Him. And seeing Him with eyes opened
by God causes us to believe Him, to believe Him. All of us who
do see Him by that grace do trust in Him. Now in verse three of
Ruth chapter three, Naomi tells Ruth, wash yourself, therefore,
and anoint yourself, and put your raiment upon you, and get
down to the floor. And then she says, furthermore,
make not yourself known to the man until he have done eating
and drinking, and it shall be when he lieth down that thou
shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go
in and uncover his feet, and lay thee down, and he will tell
thee what thou shalt do. So here we see that Naomi, as
I am trying to understand this with you, that Naomi, representing
the spirit of God, directs sinners to Christ and tells her, tells
Ruth, wash yourself. How can we do that? How can we
clean ourselves up? We can't. The Lord has to wash
us. It says in Revelation chapter
one, verse five, that you have washed us with your own blood. Unto him who loved us and washed
us from our sins in his own blood. Revelation one, verse five. Think
about that. Who loved us, the one who loved
us washed us. God's love is always saving love. He washes all those He loves. And His love is what caused Him
to wash us, but He washes us with His blood. We don't wash
ourselves. We can't. The blood of Jesus
Christ cleanses us from all sin. But in 1 Peter 1, it says that
you have purified your souls in believing the truth by the
Spirit of God. So what happens here is we're
seeing that Naomi's command to Ruth to wash herself is the way
God reveals to us that when He, by His Spirit, directs us to
Christ and Him crucified, giving us this grace to believe on Christ,
then His command is fulfilled, we're washed. Our conscience
is made clean by the sprinkling of His blood. In Hebrews 9, verse
14, it talks about this. So this command of Naomi to Ruth,
which Ruth followed, is teaching us that in looking to Christ,
we're washed. We're washed. His blood cleanses
us, but we experience that washing when by faith we hang ourselves
on all that He has said that He alone can and did wash us
from our sins in His own blood. So we see that there. She was
supposed to mark the place where Boaz laid down, where he rested. So we mark the place where Christ
laid down. Where did he lay down? Well,
he went to the cross. His body was broken for us because
he himself broke his body. He shed his blood. He died. The
work was completely finished. And then he rested. He was buried
and he laid down and he rested from his works. And then he rose
again. He was enthroned, he was exalted,
he was given all power, and he intercedes for his people. This
is the gospel. And so when she was told to go,
wash yourself, put on her raiment to get down to the floor, don't
make yourself known until he have done eating and drinking,
and when he lies down, mark that place where he lies down, and
then you go in and you uncover his feet and lie down. This is
seeing Christ and Him crucified for sinners and as a sinner coming
to Him and uncovering His feet as one who needs Him, who wants
Him to cover us. Isn't that what it is? This is
coming to the Lord for saving grace, for to be washed, to be
cleaned, to be wedded to him, to be joined to him in love.
And this is going to become clear as we read on. The Spirit of
God is directing sinners here to go to Christ, go in. He directs us to him. He directs
us to his sin atoning work, the threshing of the barley on the
threshing floor, that labor he entered into and then rested
when it was done. And to lay down, lay down, lay
down, The Apostle Paul said, I am crucified with Christ. I
am crucified with Him. I was buried with Him. We were
laid in the grave with Him. We were united to Him. Now that
we were united by God to him in his death so that all that
he did is counted ours, then the experience of the believer
in the experience of redemption is that we go to him and we ask
him, would you have me? Would you be my redeemer? And
we want him to cover us and so we lift up The revelation of
the gospel by faith, we lift up what God has said, and look
upon his work as our Redeemer, and we lay down in rest there. We want to be identified with
him, we want him to own us, and to accept us, to receive us,
and this is the way we come to Christ. And she says in verse
five, she said to her, all that thou hast said to me I will do.
And verse six, she went down to the floor and did according
to all that her mother-in-law bade her or bade her. And when
Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went
to lie down at the end of the heap of corn. Nothing gave the
Lord Jesus Christ more joy from all eternity than that he could
give himself in love in total for his people. And think about
that. Let that sink in, how that the
Lord Jesus Christ wanted his people and gave himself for them,
though there was nothing in them to desire, yet he condescended,
he stooped from his mighty place, his wealthy place, to save us
who were ruined and poor and had nothing. To give us his garment,
his covering, and to make us his bride. and says, when he
was married, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn,
and she came softly and uncovered his feet and laid her down. Now
in the law of God, God said that, and I mentioned this last time,
that when a woman died, I mean when a woman's husband died,
she was left a widow, and they had no children together, that
his brother was to take her to be his wife so that she could
bear children by her husband's brother. And this was done in
order that all of those who heard the promise of God, about the
redemption through Christ would look forward and trust that God
would bring Christ into the world according to his promise through
this. So the point here is that the law of God provided for widows
to look in hope to their dead husband's brother so that they
could bear children and be part of the promise of redemption
from the beginning of the world. And so Ruth, going into Boaz,
it may appear outwardly to have been an unbecoming, an indecent
thing, an improper thing to do. But it was not. In fact, by her
doing this, she is obeying God's word. She's taking the warrant
of God's word and she's going to Boaz and asking him to be
her husband. That's very bold, isn't it? Isn't
that bold? That's bold even today in this
perverse times for a woman to ask a man to marry her, to take
her to be his wife. Now, I know that that men love
their wife, that they want to marry, they ask her to marry
them, and the woman is obviously in love and responds to that. But in this relationship, God
is teaching us that as sinners, we are to take the warrant of
God's word Though we are sinners, though we are not naturally part
of anything belonging to Christ, yet He, we trust in His mercy
and His wealth and His greatness to have mercy upon us according
to His word, As he said, come unto me, all you who labor and
are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Look unto me and be
ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there
is none else. All that comes to me I will in
no wise cast out. They've been given to me of my
Father. So as believers now, what are
we to do? Daily, throughout our lives,
go to the Lord Jesus Christ. Would you have me? Would you
be my redeemer? You alone can redeem me. And so she does. She goes to
him. It says here in verse 7, to read
it again, when he was married, he had laid down. She came softly. This is an intimate heart. going out to Christ from our
heart, isn't it? We need this, but we don't do
it as boasting or parading around. This is an intimate relationship,
coming to Christ, expressing our need for Him and trusting
Him. So she comes softly and uncovered his feet and laid her
down. She put herself entirely in trust
to Him that He would do for her what she needed Him to do. Verse
8, It came to pass at midnight that the man was afraid, and
turned himself, and behold, a woman lay at his feet, and he said,
Who art thou? When the Lord Jesus Christ undertook
for his people to save them, it says when he was in the garden
of Gethsemane, that his soul was amazed that he was greatly
troubled. And exactly how it's worded there,
I'll turn and look at that. In Matthew 26, he says, he tells
his disciples, he says, He began to be, in verse 36, I'm 37 of
Matthew 26, he began to be sorrowful and very heavy. And then he said
to his disciples, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto
death, tarry here and watch. And so he goes on and he prays
to his father, if it be possible, let this cup pass for me. And
in so many other places in scripture, he says he gave his back to the
smiters and his cheeks to them that pluck off the hair. He was
afraid. He was amazed, he was sorrowful,
and yet he did it, trusting God. He did it in joy that he could
save his people, that his body could be broken for them. And
so this is referring to that when it says here at midnight,
the man was afraid and turned himself, and behold, a woman
lay at his feet. A needy sinner who needed him
to be her redeemer lay at his feet. What's gonna happen? He
says, who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth. The name Ruth means intimate
companion, friend, intimate friend. I am Ruth, thine handmaid. Spread therefore thy skirt over
thine handmaid, for thou art a near kinsman. You're my redeemer. You can redeem me. Cover me. Take me. Be the redeemer that
only you can be to me. What a blessing this is. Cover
me. Cover me with the mantle of your garment. Own me as yours. Look at this in Ezekiel chapter
16. In Ezekiel chapter 16, an infant
was cast out. It was not wanted. The parent
decided to end his life, throwing it out into the wilderness. And
God compares his people to this in Ezekiel chapter 16. He says
in verse 8, when I passed by thee and looked upon thee, behold,
thy time was the time of love. and I spread my skirt over thee,
and covered thy nakedness, yea, I swear unto thee, and entered
into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest
mine. So this act of spreading the
garment over Ruth As God tells His people, He looked upon them,
and it was a time of love, and He spread His skirt over them
and covered their nakedness. He entered into a covenant with
them, and they became His. That's what Ruth is referring
to here. When the Lord Jesus Christ owns
us as our Redeemer, He owns us as His. He covers our nakedness
with His own garments. And what is that but His righteousness?
It's a time of love, a time of love. She was asking Him to do
the part of the loving Redeemer and to own her as His and to
cover her, her poverty, her shame, And this would cause him shame,
wouldn't it? He would have to lower himself
to do this, to own this woman from Moab, and yet, notice in
this, that Boaz, in doing this, shows the greatest compassion
on a woman who didn't deserve anything, but he did it according
to the law of God. Because God's law said, you are
to take this woman whose husband died and marry her and raise
up children for her and her dead husband. And what was Boaz doing
here? That's exactly what he was doing.
And the Lord Jesus Christ, when He looked on us in compassion
as our Redeemer, He did it with obedience to God's law. He was doing it not only out
of love for us, but out of love for His Father and His holy law. And so Ruth is asking him to
act according to the warrant of God's word, what pleases God,
God's eternal will to bring us to Christ. She was asking Boaz
to do that part and so we do too. Lord, according to the words
of the Lord Jesus Christ, do for me what you do for sinners. Save me by your grace. What a
blessing this is. And we're gonna stop there this
week and we'll continue this next week.