Oh my God, my own trouble. I texted many of you, those who
text, and told you the text that it's Psalm 20 on the subject
of help in the day of trouble. More specifically, he says, Lord,
send thee help from the sanctuary, help in the day of trouble from
the sanctuary. I hope this will be a help. It
may, I hope we'll learn something. see something we haven't seen,
but at least that we'll understand more fully what we really know,
and it will be of true help to us for our troubles, lighten
our troubles. Verses 1 and 2, it says, The
Lord hear thee in the day of trouble, the name of the God
of Jacob, defending thee. Send thee, the Lord send thee
help from the sanctuary. Strengthen thee out of thy trouble,
trouble, help and trouble. Job is the oldest book in the
Bible. Go over there, it's right before
the book of Psalms. It's the book of Job. Job chapter
5. Job, as you know, went through
a great deal of troubles. No one man went through more
troubles than Job, not since our Lord, that is, perhaps
the Apostle Paul. But Job chapter 5, he said in
verse 7, man, well verse 6, although affliction cometh not forth of
the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground. Yes,
man. is born of trouble. As the sparks that fly upward,
if you light a fire, the sparks will naturally just fly up. The man that is born of woman,
he said in chapter 14, is a few days and they're full of trouble. All our days on this earth are
full of trouble. Why is that? Why is that? When sin entered this world,
all our troubles started in it. And so our troubles will never
end while we're on this earth. This is not a message of doom
and gloom, just reality. Face the facts that we're born
to trouble. We're going to have trouble all
of our days as long as we live in this sinful place and as long
as we have sin within us. We're going to have trouble.
Trouble. It's never going to end until
we leave this life. We experience trouble. We go
through trouble. Troubles confront us. We cause
trouble. We go through any and all troubles.
Everyone goes through some degree of the same troubles. More or
less. Even unbelievers. All people
go through trouble, some to one lesser or greater degree, according
to what God allows or determines. And I hope tonight we'll find
some help in trouble, something that will lighten our troubles. We looked at 1 Samuel 22 on Sunday,
how that those that were in distress, meaning under a heavy weight,
a burden of trouble, I hope that this will lighten our troubles.
They're not going to go away, but I hope we'll be able to lighten
our troubles. And remember, he said, cast your
care. I'll give you the secret right
now. The secret of lightening our troubles. Cast your care
on him. He cares for you. And this is
the direction I want to take with this. This is what this
is saying. I hope we'll see this. The way to lighten our troubles
is to see Him who took our troubles. Now Paul, the apostle, went through
exceeding great trouble. Exceeding great trouble. If you
read in 2 Corinthians, he lifts his troubles. He finally, he
never, he didn't dwell on his troubles. He didn't talk about
his troubles. Some people do. Some people will tell you all
their troubles. Some people won't tell you any
of the troubles. Some troubles are evident, aren't they? Some
troubles are obvious, such as sickness or bereavement. But some troubles, if not most
troubles, are hidden, are secret. And some people are going through
deep troubles that don't tell you about it. And you don't know
what they're going through. Paul didn't tell people his troubles. He was in the business of trying
to lighten people's troubles. I was talking to Brother Dale
Simpson on the phone again, talking to Brother Bruce Crabtree also,
and we talked about this, how that our Lord bore our griefs
and our sorrows. He was a man of sorrows, acquainted
with grief, yet the scriptures called Him that blessed man.
Now, blessed means happy. And the scriptures said so much
of Him, how He said, Lo, I come, and the volume of the book that
is written of Me, I delight to do that with, who for the joy
that was set before Him. He didn't walk around with a
sad face. In fact, he was all the time
cheering up his disciples when he was bearing their troubles. When he came into this place
to bear their troubles, to deliver them from the trouble, the cause,
the source of the trouble. The heavy weight of the world
was upon his shoulders. The Lord laid on him the iniquity
of us all. All of our iniquities were laid
on him. This is a lightning stroke. And I am two pages ahead of my
50. But this can't wait. Paul, our Lord did not revealed
his troubles until the garden. You remember that? We studied
that. Until he came to the garden, then he finally told his disciples,
he said, now is my soul exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death. He said, watch with me. And they were so poor, they couldn't
watch with him for 60 minutes. That's what I said. Why? Pretty
much because we're dwelling on our own troubles. See, that's
the trouble with trouble, is that we like to dwell on it,
and it causes us to stay in a pit and get deeper in trouble. It's a form of pride, self-pity. It's not thinking of others,
and it's sure not thinking of our Lord, who put Himself through
such trouble for us. Paul, he said this, And if you'll
read his troubles that he went through, he finally, before he
speaks it, he had to defend himself to many that said he wasn't an
apostle, he wasn't called, he wasn't a man of God, and finally
he said, okay, you suffer a few fools, gladly I'm going to speak
like a fool, I'm going to tell you all my troubles. And he listened
to them, didn't he? Oh, my. But he's the one that said, I
would like to speak to you. You know why he said
that, y'all? Because he knew that whatever
the Lord sent him was life compared to what he deserved. Paul said, I was before an injurious,
a blasphemer. I persecuted the church. He stood
there and held the coats while they stoned Stephen. He never
lost sight of that. And he knew the Lord had not
dealt with me according to my iniquity. I received far less
than I deserved. And it's never punishment. It's
good. It's the love of the Lord. Paul
went through all these things as a testimony to God's grace
and mercy and goodness to him. And he never complained. And he said, our light afflictions,
in light of what we deserve, in light of eternity, he said
our light afflictions are not to be compared with the glory
that shall be revealed. When it's all good, It's all
good to keep us from wanting to stay here. To keep us looking to the Lord.
Show us the brevity of this life, the vanity of this life, the
trouble. But this place is nothing but
a present evil world, full of trouble. Now, this psalm was written,
Psalm 20. Let's go back there. was written
by David, written by David for the people to sing about him. If you notice it, he's talking
about the king. This is a song that David wrote
for the people to sing of him and to him, a prayer. David knew
of the great responsibility he had over God's people, believe
them, and the many enemies that they saved. And he wrote this
psalm and said, you pray to God for me, that God will send me
help, that God will save you through me. You remember, and
David is a picture of Christ here. We're going to see that
this psalm is of Christ. This speaks of the Lord Jesus
Christ first. The trouble he went through.
This is what we need to see first. It will lighten our trip. But
picture this. See, David came out there as
a young man. 18 years old or whatever. 19 years old. And everybody was
faced by Goliath. And if Goliath and the Philistines
win, they're doomed. Right? And nobody could face
him. And young David, a man after God's own heart. Picture of Christ.
What a story that is. David comes out, the Father sent
him. If I'm not careful, I will be. But David, the Father sent
him to check on his brethren, and he came down and he saw that
big eight-foot giant that nobody could tangle with, who's a picture
of Satan, our archenemy, the God of this world. Unless a stronger
than he defeats him, we're goners. And David came out as a picture
of Christ. And he said, is there not a cause?
And nobody stood with him. They were all afraid. What happened? David said, I'm going after him. Isn't that? Don't you know they were rooting
for him? Huh? The Lord hears you. The Lord
says, you have David. Can you hear that? Can you see
that? The Lord helped him. This is our salvation, Lord.
Don't let him defeat our David! Get him! Can you hear this? It all depends on him. You see this? This psalm was
written by David. Pray for me! And all through the scriptures
it talks about David defeating the enemy. It sounds like he
did it single-handedly. Well, that's because he's such
a picture Christ. Well, let's look at it in light
of the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, this is Christ. We pray
of Him and to Him. The Lord hear thee in the day
of trouble. Christ came down here, our captain, captain of
our salvation, like David before Goliath. He came down here to
face our foe, our adversary. People, this is real. This is
not a fairy tale. This is not a fable. Not a timely
and devised fable. This is the truth. We've got
a real adversary, but he's unseen. Our Lord saw him, and our Lord,
the first thing he did as a man, was face him head on, didn't
he? He came to this place of trouble,
of sin, of darkness, to deliver his people from their sin. to deliver them from the captivity
to this arch enemy, the God of this world who holds men captive
at His will, who has men, all men and women, in the fear of
death, to deliver them. And our Lord Jesus Christ, He
faced Him. He faced Him in the garden, and
He defeated Him. And then He faced Him on the
cross. Remember, He said this over and over again. Now is the
God of this world. Catch that. He's come to me,
the Prince of this world. I've got to do bad things. Old Martin Luther's hymn, I love,
I quote it all the time. Oh, if not the right man, if
the right man's not on our side, then may have gobs on shoes and
we're doomed. He must win the battle. Stronger than they think. This
is our captain. Our Lord Jesus Christ, He placed
Him on Calvary's tree in a day of trouble. That was the day
of His trouble. Remember, He said, Now is my soul exceedingly
filled with sorrow. Trouble. This is when God began
to lay on Him the iniquity of the soul. Are your troubles lightening
already? Honestly, we don't have troubles
to bear now. He's got every one of us, every
one of His people on His shoulders, the responsibility of all of
God's people, of saving their souls. Oh, the name of the God of Jacob,
the Phinby. Verse 2, Phinby hailed from the
sanctuary, the very presence of God. Strengthened be out of
Zion, or in the midst of Zion. You see, God set His King on
His holy hill of Zion. He came for His people. Oh, verse
3, may the Lord remember all thy offerings. Isn't that our
prayer? Oh, may the Lord accept thee
on our behalf by burnt sacrifice. Our only hope is that God accepts
the burnt sacrifice of Christ on Calvary tree. Oh, Lord, the Lord grant thee
according to thine heart. Remember in his prayer in John
17, he said, Father, I will that they be with me where I am. That's
my heart's desire. Oh, may the Lord grant that and
fulfill all our counsel. Now, David is writing this in
prophecy. The Lord hasn't come yet, but he knew the Lord. He
looked to the Lord that was to come. He hadn't come yet. He's
praying this as a prophecy, Mary. Oh, may He come and do this blessed
work. I know He will. I believe He
will. May the Lord bless it. We look back and say, He did.
He did. He accepted it. He came out of
the holy of holy. He came out of the grave. Yes,
the Lord did accept the sacrifice of our great high priest. Oh,
verse 5, we will rejoice in thy salvation. You see that? Remember,
David came into Jerusalem and they said, David has slain his
10,000. Oh, our Lord Jesus Christ has
slain more than that. Oh, we rejoice in thy salvation.
In the name of our God, we'll set up our banners. The Lord
fulfill all thy petitions. Now know I, I know this, David
said, the Lord saveth his anointed. The word anointed means what? What's the word anointed? Christ. That's the word, Christ. Now
I know that the Lord saves through his anointed, Christ. He will hear him from his holy
heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. Remember when
the Lord prayed at Lazarus' tomb? Remember what he said? He said,
Father, I know that you hear me. I know you always hear me. He said, I say this in verse
7. Verse 7, some trust in chariots
and some in horses. Pharaoh and Egypt or the world
and its technology and its leaders. We will remember the name of
the Lord our God. Who is that? The Lord Jesus Christ. He's our Lord. Thomas said, My
Lord and my God. They're brought down and fallen.
He brought them all down. But we're risen. We're quickened
together. He's raised us up together. The
heavenly places you're sitting right now, in a heavenly place.
It doesn't look like it. If he was like John in the spirit
right now, he'd feel like it. Seeing Christ crucified, we're
glorified with him. He's raised us up when we see
Christ crucified. We see this victory we have in
the Lord Jesus Christ. He raises us up out of the muck
and the mire. Our feet out of the mirey clay
instead of on precious, out of the dung heap. That's right. The gospel. You can stand upright,
not grumble and crawl. And then he says, everyone pray
this, save Lord. Verse 9, save Lord, save us.
Let the king hear us when we call upon him. Christ said, you pray. The Father
will hear you. You pray in my name. Listen to
me now. The Father always hears him.
And he said, if you ask the Father in my name, he'll hear you. I
promise you. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. Shall be saved. Out of what?
Anything you call for. Everything you call for. All
your troubles. Old Psalm 107. Psalm 107 is the
Psalm of Trouble. Those of you who know it, know
that the people, like us, they got in trouble. They were constantly
getting in trouble. At first they were, you talked
about the pilgrims, wandering through a world of trouble, and
as much trouble as they got up on the world. Much trouble they
got through, the difficulty of the way, and they cried unto
the Lord, and it says, and he heard them and saved them out
of all their distress. And then the middle trouble,
the two other troubles they went through, was troubles of their
own making. because of their sin, because of their rebellion,
because they wouldn't hear His Word. And they got in trouble,
and they got worldly, and they got down and so low. And then
they cried again unto the Lord in all their trouble, and He
heard them, and He saved them from all their distress. And
then in the end, the last troubles they went through, troubles that
God sent. So He raises the stormy wind.
And the waves were exceeding, and they were tossed to and fro,
and they're up and down, trouble from here, trouble there, up
and down, all from God! And then they cried unto him
again in their trouble. And he heard them, and he thanked
them, and all their distress. Oh, my Lord. Today of trouble. J.C. Stillpot. whom Brother Bruce
Crabtree and I were talking about today. I told him that he's become
kind of a pastor today, J.C. Philpott. I don't know of a man
that I esteem more highly, whose wisdom I value more highly, whose
writing and preaching I profit from more. But he preached on
this, and he talks about The day of trouble. The day of trouble
is when the Lord begins to work on someone and bring them into trouble with
sin. There's got to be a day when
every person whom the Lord saves gets in trouble with God. That is, they begin to realize
that my real troubles are sin. J.C. Philpott put it this way,
when guilt is finally laid as a heavy burden upon the man's
conscience. Never had it before. See, until
this day that the Lord brings this person... I was talking
to someone recently. Came to talk to me, and they
were telling me their troubles. And they were very real troubles.
I felt very, very sorry for this person. Going through deep troubles. I have a child that's going through
drugs and violence and just all of the troubles that this person
was facing. Very real. But I don't believe
this person knows the trouble that they are in. with God. The real trouble. I began to try to tell them about
the real trouble that we need deliverance from. And all these troubles, there's
some things we can't do anything about it. That they're not going
to end. And while we need some help and
some peace and some hope in those times of trouble, but when this
trouble is taken away, sin trouble, this guilt before God, when this
is finally faced, and we call upon God for this trouble to
be like Brother Scott Richardson, who went through all these, oh,
many, many troubles. He said, I haven't heard any
real bad news since I heard the news. Then we'll realize that
whatever troubles we face, it's good. You see, I don't think this person saw
that, but the day of trouble that we need to get in, need
to get into, that the Lord brings all His people in, is the trouble
with sin and guilt. When the person comes, Philpott
said, when their iniquities, they face their own sin and iniquity,
and they think they're more than the hairs of my head, and they
think, I'm going to be cast into hell. He's going to send me down, because
I'm such a rotten, no-good sinner. That's the day of trouble, you
know that? That is the day of trouble, and yet it's the day
of salvation. Because the Lord is going to
hear that person. Nobody is going to call upon the Lord in truth. It says the Lord will hear them
that call upon Him in truth. Everybody all over the world
is calling on the Lord to save them out of various troubles. Death is trouble when he is called
upon the Lord for it. Call upon the Lord in the day
of trouble and the Lord will hear you. The Lord is going to
come a day, Scripture says, when the Lord is not going to hear
people who have called on Him. Proverbs 1 is one of the most
frightening passages in all of God's Word. You can have a read.
He says, you'll call on me in the day of calamity, and I'm
not going to hear you. He says, I'm going to laugh.
Have you ever read that? Because the Lord said, I called,
and I called, and I called, and you didn't hear me. My gospel's
preached. You don't come. I tell you about
my son who came down to this despicable place, who troubled
himself. That John 11, when it says the
Lord went to Lazarus' tomb, It says that he groaned and was
troubled, and the margin says he troubled himself. He put himself
through a great deal of trouble. For who? For who? A good man? A righteous man?
No, for the ungodly, for sinners. For the very ones that said,
we don't want you, go back. And yet, so the Lord says, I
preach this, and I preach this, and my men come preaching this,
preaching this, and you don't come here? You're not interested?
And I call, I call, come, and you don't come? You don't hear
me? You're not interested? He says, you're going to call
one day. And I'm not going to hear you. And you know why, the only reason
you and I have called? You know how sorry we are? We
call because he said call and we wouldn't call if he hadn't
done that. Oh, how blessed be his name.
How blessed he is. Oh, in this day of trouble, when
the Lord, you see, the day of trouble, we didn't know, but
we finally realized we're in trouble with God. This is our
biggest trouble. When the Lord brings us to this
day, we hear the gospel, and the Lord speaks to us and troubles
our heart and troubles our mind, troubles our conscience, and
nothing can give us any peace. But when the Lord speaks peace,
He's going to hear you. You're going to call, and He's
going to hear you. That's what it says. Read it again with me
in light of that. In this day of trouble, oh may
the Lord right now bring somebody in this room into trouble. This
day of trouble, because I'm here to tell you, He'll hear you. He'll save you. Oh, may the Lord hear thee in
the day of trouble, of sin, the name of the God of Jacob depending. Oh, happy is he that hath the
God of Jacob for his help. Ask old Jacob about trouble,
and he'll tell you, trouble? Yeah. I'm in it. We're in it. That's what he'd say, wasn't
it? Jacob, what do you think about this? He said, I ain't
nothing but trouble to anybody. But God said He loved me. I called on Him. I laid hold
of Him one day. Not until He came and laid hold
of me. And I laid hold of Him. I said,
I'm not letting you go. The Lord said, I urge you, don't
change your name just yet. The God of Jacob. The name of
the God of Jacob. He's the Lord said to Moses,
I'm going to proclaim the name of the Lord before you. The Lord. The Lord. Be Lord. Here's help for trouble. He's
Lord over all troubles. There wouldn't be any trouble
if He didn't allow it. He's the Lord. He's the Lord God. Merciful. May the name of the God of Jacob.
Defend thee. Merciful. Gracious. Defend thee
against our archenemy who constantly laying accusations against us.
He's the accuser of the brethren. Always laying his guilt upon
us. Laying the law against us. Hidden. May the name of the God
of Jacob defend thee. He's merciful. Resist the devil
with that. The Lord said he's merciful.
Said he's forgiven all my sins. I know I'm a sinner. But he said
he came to stay a sinner. Verse 2, He sends thee help from
the sanctuary. What sanctuary? Well, that's
the very presence of God, the throne of God. And yet, strengthens
thee out of desire. You know that God is in the midst
of His church. This is where God dwells. This
is right now, where His people meet, where two or three gather
in His name, where He's raised up a man to preach the gospel
for our health, for our strength. This is the sanctuary of God
where He dwells. This is where we'll get help.
Sad to say, so many people, you know, they stay away from the
place of help. If you hadn't come here tonight,
I hope you get some help out of this. If you get some help
out of this, you wouldn't have got it if you hadn't come. And
you wouldn't have come if the Lord had not changed. Oh, the Lord's going to help
you. David, remember he got in a bad way in Psalm 73. He got
the Indian the wicked. He couldn't understand why the
rich were so successful and they weren't in trouble like other
men. Remember that? Remember that? And he got real
low. He said, I was like a beast. And finally he said, I've cleansed
my hands in vain. I'm religious for nothing. He
said, then I went into the sanctuary. I heard Nathan preaching. And one of the things he said was, thou art
ever with me, even in trouble. The Lord is going to send you
help out of the sanctuary. Psalm 77, I believe it is, says
this, that thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary. If a man is sent of God, he's
worth his salt, he's going to preach Christ. And Christ said,
I am the way. What way? Name something. I am the truth. What truth? About
what? Name something. Just anything. In Him are hid all the truth.
I am the life. You don't have life. There's
no real life. second day. Thy way is in the
sanctuary. It's the gospel of Christ. It says in verse 3, Oh, may the
Lord remember all thy offerings. We come here tonight offering
the sacrifice of our lips, don't we? The sacrifice of our praise
and our song. The Lord said sing unto the Lord.
Sing, sing. Oh, we're such poor singers,
aren't we? We've drawn near with our lips. Don't we? We sing these songs of thine
over and over again, we sing them by rote, like a parrot all
the time. You know, but the Lord accepts
them. In the name of Christ, He accepts the most feeble, most
pitiful attempts. Oh, I accept thy burnt sacrifice,
Selah. What burnt sacrifice did you
burn? We can't worship like Isaac. I know we can't worship God without
the Lamb. I know it. He's our burnt offering. Verse
4, May the Lord grant thee according to thine own heart. You know
what the desire of my heart is. What's the desire of your heart?
Really now, what's the desire of your heart? Can you say with
David, one thing have I desired? Tell you, if you can, the Lord
is going to grant that desire. Like Mary, she's chosen the good
part, it's not going to be taken from her. Mary is right now receiving
the desire of her heart. One thing have I desired of the
Lord, and that one I seek after, that I may dwell in the house
of the Lord forever, behold the beauty of the Lord, and reply
unto Him. One of the brethren after Sunday
morning's message came up to me, He said, I was so blessed,
he said, I would just want to do this for the rest of my life. The Lord will grant that. Yes,
sir. But desire thine heart, fulfill
all thy counsel. You know, His Word is my counsel.
God's Word is my counsel. When I want to know something,
this is where I go. I don't turn to anybody but Him. I'm telling
you the truth. And He's going to fulfill it
all. I'm going to see it fulfilled. I've seen it fulfilled. Right
before my eyes. And in my arms. Yes, He will. Now know I, I know that the Lord
saves His anointed. You know who His anointed is?
I said Christ is. As He is, so are we. You know
where He is anointed? Yes, we are. He said touch not
mine anointing. My beloved is mine and I'm his.
He hath anointed my head with oil. That's Christ and that's
me. My cup's runneth over. I'm his anointed. Now I know. One time I was so
low. Oh, I was so low. So low. Lower in a snake's belly, they
say. Feeling so bad. So sinful. So rotten. Like I
knew I was going to be cast away. And I opened the scripture and
fell on there. I said, now I know that the Lord
saveth his mouth. That he will hear him from his
holy hand with the saving strength of his right hand. You know what?
He picked me up. He picked me up. I went from
being lowered in a snake's belly to flying on wings of eagles.
You know what I'm talking about. Now I know. Now I know. The Lord saves his anointed because
of his anointing. Because of Christ. Some trust
in chariots. Read Isaiah 30 and 31 for yourself. 33. Oh, Pharaoh, he's just a
man. Technology is going to fail. Some trust in chariots and some
in horses Man and modern technology, we remember. This is why we come
here, to remember the name of the Lord, our God. See, they're
going to all be brought down and fallen. They're brought down
and fallen, but we're risen. Oh, and are we going to be risen?
We are risen, right now. Seated together with Him in heavenly
places. And stand upright, man grovels. We sing that song and
often we feel like we grovel here below the people. We're
not walking around on all fours. We're standing upright, standing
on a rock, Christ Jesus. And David said, we'll never be
moved. If you stand on Christ, you'll
never be moved. Never be moved. Stand on anything
else. Because God is going to shake
everything, and the only thing that's not going to fall is things
can't be shaken. What's that? Christ, the Son
of God. Save us, Lord. Verse 9. Oh, let the King hear us when
He calls, when we call. Isaiah 65, verse 24 says, Before
they call, I'll hear them. Before they even call. I've already heard. Like old
Daniel, he said, Daniel, when you set your heart to seek me,
I came for your relief. I came for your help. And Daniel
called, and the Lord heard him, and he said, Oh, you're greatly
beloved. And we're just like Daniel. Just like Daniel. Oh,
I said, Lord, I hope you got some help. Is this trouble lightening
a little bit? This is our great trouble, that Christ came to
deliver us from sin. Sin. And if that is taken care
of, if God laid on Him the iniquity of us all, then we don't bear
it. We don't bear it. God's not dealing
with us according to our sin. He's dealing with us in love.
He's dealing with us as the Father deals with His children. He's
chasing us. He's teaching us. He's leading
us. He's guiding us. He's pulling us away and pulling
things away from us. It's all good. It's not punishment. It's help. No, it's trouble. It's good. It's all good. All right, stand up. Oh, Lord, thank you for coming
to this place, this cesspool of iniquities, dark, deep pits
of corruption called this world. Oh Lord, light came into darkness,
and darkness comprehended it not. It came unto your own, your
own received you not. Creatures curse the Creator. Oh Lord, but our God is rich
in mercy and brings great love wherewith he loved us. He came
into this world to deliver us from this darkness of sin, this
trouble, to reconcile us to Our God, by taking our sin and being
made sin for us, O Lord Jesus Christ, O God, thank you for
sending the Lord Jesus Christ to bear our troubles, be made
sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him, someday coming again to deliver us finally, forever,
eternally from all our troubles. Oh Lord, deliver us from murmuring,
complaining. Deliver us from self-pity. Deliver
us from love of self and lack of faith. Oh Lord, may we think on things
of others. May we pull our brethren up rather than push them down.
May we be a help and not a trouble. Oh Lord, may we be like our Lord
Jesus Christ. That's our purpose here. Oh Lord,
hear our petition in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Help
us. Help us. Save us from ourselves. Save
us from this world. Save us from our foe. In Christ's name, Amen.