Bring this world away to Him,
and let all be His praise. Thank You, Lord, for giving us hope. Thank You, Lord, for letting
me know. Thank You, Lord, for giving to me. There is no greater love Well, there was a good hymn in
that little book, in the new one. It was taken from Psalm
106, but I enjoyed reading it. Psalm 106. Psalm 106. Verse 1
says, Praise you the Lord, or the word is Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Jehovah. Praise to Jehovah. O give thanks unto the Lord. For he is good. His mercy endures
forever. O give thanks unto the Lord.
That's what we're here to do tonight. That's what I want us
to do, to give thanks. This is a psalm of thanksgiving
and remembrance. Remember. The national holiday of Thanksgiving
Day is being observed right now. And this, it would be a good
thing if people truly gave thanks to God. But as you know, it's
not even politically correct now to use the name God. You'll
notice and listen very carefully. No one says thanks to God. It's just give thanks. Listen
to the radio and all. They're not allowed to do it
anymore, but they're fearful of doing it. But for those who know,
who know Him, those who truly understand that we are about
what we are by the grace of God, we give thanks unto the Lord. We give thanks unto Him. He is
good. He is good. David is saying that
we give thanks not just for what he does for us, so he is good
to us. But he says we give thanks unto
the Lord for he is good. He's good. He is good. Not just
good to us, but he's good. everything about him. He is good,
holy, just, and righteous. And our chief cause for thanksgiving,
the chief reason we give thanks, David said, is his mercy can
do it forever. You sure don't hear many people
talking about that, but God's people do. They understand. David
did. A man after God's own heart.
He knew the chief cause for thanking the Lord was for his mercy. It's
of the Lord's mercies, he said, that we're not concerned. His
compassions, they fail not. They live every morning. And
those who know something about sovereign mercy and grace understand
that that's our chief cause for thank-giving. He's been merciful
to them through Christ our Lord. His mercy, and it endures forever.
And we're here to praise and worship and give thanks unto
the Lord. Verse 2, he says, but who can utter the mighty acts
of the Lord? Who can utter the mighty acts
of the Lord? David is going to attempt to do so. If you read
it with me, he tries to do it, but he says who can? Who can
utter the mighty acts of the Lord? Who can show full apology
to Christ? Which of you can rightly declare
just how good God's been to you? We can't even, we can't recollect
all the goodness of God to us. The next thing he says here,
in a moment David is going to recount the sin and rebellion
of the children of Israel. He gives a running account of
their sin and rebellion and the terrible consequences of their
sin. And so the first thing he says here, verse 3, is, blessed
are they that keep judgment. Truly blessed are they who keep
good judgment, according to God's word, good judgment. Are you
with me? There weren't many. Joshua, Caleb,
Moses. How many more? There's bound
to have been some more, not mention. Some women, probably. But the
rest of that bunch of Israelites lost their heads. Isn't it? Blessed
are they that keep good judgment. The only way you keep good judgment
is right here. Is keep under the sound of this
right here. If you have to remember the sound
of this right here, you're out of your mind. You don't have
any judgment. This is our judgment. Blessed
are they that keep judgment. And he that doeth righteousness
at all times. Doeth righteousness? Well, he
that trusts Christ has his righteousness. and he that doeth his commandments.
Christ said, blessed is he that keep my commandments. Blessed,
truly blessed and happy is he, or would be, whoever it is that
would keep good judgment for this world, trust Christ, and
do what he says. He'd be happy. We'd be happy. I mean, really happy. As far He said, I'm content wherever
you are. He had good judgment. And so
he starts out by saying that. Blessed are they that keep good
judgment. Oh, and then David is convicted
by that. He's convicted himself, and I'm
convicted. And so he says in verse four, oh, remember me,
Lord. Remember me, O Lord, with the favor that thou bearest unto
thy people. He's going to give this account
of God's grace and mercy and favor to these ungrateful, rebellious
people. And David said, you know, we
all come to the point that the thief on the cross came to him.
That's where we all come to in the end. Where the only thing
we can really say is, Lord remember me. Lord, remember me, have mercy
on me. Remember me, O Lord, with the favor you bear unto your
people. God favors his people. God's particular saving favor
and grace is upon his people. And even they don't deserve it.
Like we were saying Sunday morning, this is where the whole world
goes wrong. They think that God ought to love everybody. That's
just not so. God ought not to love anybody.
And he uses the children of Israel as a prime example. These were
the people of his favor, and his choice, and his love, and
his mercy, and his grace. Did David deserve it Wesley?
None of them did. But if you're under God's favor, I'm not. So David says, remember
me with the favor you bear unto your people, and visit me with
thy salvation. Visit me with thy salvation. That I may see the good of thy
chosen. Thy chosen. I want to see the good of your
elect. I want to be in that remnant according to the election of
grace, don't you? It doesn't matter what the world says about
it. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. If
there wasn't, we'd be in asylum tomorrow, Paul said in Romans
9. We will be. And I've got to let me to myself.
So there's a I know there's a remnant
according to the election agreement. I believe I'm part of it. I've
chosen. That I may see the good of thy
chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation. God
has a new Jerusalem, a new Israel, a heavenly people, a peculiar
people, a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a chosen generation. It's God's new kingdom, Christ's
kingdom. And he says, I want to glory
with thine inheritance. I want to be in that number, in glory with your inheritance. We have sinned, verse 6. David says, we've sinned with
our fathers. We've done everything they've done. Actually, people, we're
worse. People, their Israelites, not one of them had a Bible.
Not one of them had a Bible. Their sin is unforgivable. Their sin is inexcusable. Not
unforgivable, but inexcusable. But they didn't have a Bible.
They just listened to a man come down and talk to them, Moses.
That's all it is. So we're worse. We've sinned, he said, with our
fathers. We've committed iniquity. We've
done wickedness. All we, like she, have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his
own way. Right? Are you we? We are all
together unpopular, the scripture said. And like David said at first,
God's mercy is the chief reason for our thanksgiving. And if
you and I remember how good God has been toward us through those
years that we didn't give him a thought, and how good God has
been to us since then in times we still don't give him a thought,
how ungrateful and rebellious we've been, you see how the mercy
is our chief cause for thanksgiving. Right? Mercy. God's mercy. And that ought to make you thankful.
You ought to be more thankful for God's mercy than anything
else. We haven't talked about one single
material thing yet, but we've got a great cause for
Thanksgiving, don't we? And we're no different than the
Israelites. David said that. We've sinned with our fathers.
Verse 7, Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt. They
understood not their transgressions. They understood not thy wonders in Egypt, and they
remembered not the multitude of thy mercies. Nor have we understood fully. God's wonderful works and providence
toward us. None of us, none of us have fully
understood how that our God has watched over us and sustained
us and provided for us from the day we were born. None of us.
None of us. We have not really understood,
nor stopped to think for any length of time, as we should,
of God's wonderful promise to us. None of us. David said, we're
all guilty. We're all guilty. Nor remembered
the multitude of his mercies that provoked him at the sea,
even at the Red Sea. The Lord performed miracle after
miracle for these Israelites, and he has for us, too. Miracle after miracle for their
deliverance, yet they got their backs against the wall just for
a day or so. When they were at the Red Sea,
they weren't there long, just 24 hours. God brought them out of Egypt
with a high hand, it said. You remember all the miracles
that God performed to bring them out? And those ungrateful wretches
didn't even want to leave. Remember? They didn't even want
to leave. Kind of like a warlock, you know, and so on. But they
didn't want... Well, God brought them out anyway
with a high hand and led them through the... out. And they
got their backs up against the Red Sea just overnight. And they were ready to quit.
They wanted to go back. They did. They complained. They cried
out, and it's Moses. Moses is the only one they could
get to. So they blamed him. Verse 8, it says, Nevertheless,
he saved them. He saved them. Why? Why? God says this so many times throughout
the Scriptures. Ezekiel 36, throughout the Psalms,
throughout Isaiah, God saved them for the same reason he saves
us, for his name's sake. For his name's sake. That he
might make his mighty power to be known. He doesn't say, Brother
Kelly, he didn't save you, he didn't save me, because we're
better than our brothers. Because we could do more for
him. Save them for his name's sake.
His name's sake. Make his mighty power to be known.
He saves the worst so he can show his great power. Overcomes
the worst of sinners. The most self-righteous are the
most wicked, openly vile. For his name's sake, for his
mighty power to be known, he saved. That's why he saved. That's
why God saves anybody. Verse 9, it says, He would mint
the Red Sea, and it dried up. So He led them through the depths,
that's through the wilderness. And He saved them from the hand
of them that hated Him, Pharaoh. Pharaoh was a type of Satan,
our archenemy. Satan who desired to sift us
as wheat. But he can't have at us. He can't
have at us. Uh-uh. You remember the story of Elisha
and his servant, how that servant went out, and there were
the Philistine army surrounding them. And the young servant went
in and said, it's all over, let's quit, we're going to die. And
I think it was Elisha that said it. The Lord opened his eyes,
opened his eyes, and he might see that they before us are more
than they that are against us. And the young servant went out
and saw a multitude of heavenly hosts surrounding him, more than
the enemy, including our enemy. This is true that there are demons
and there are devils. It's true. It's not fictitious.
It's not fantasy. It's not wives' fable. It's true.
It's scripture. But may it be for us or more,
but may it be against us. is angels in camp round about
in the period. And Satan and no one can touch
his anointing unless God gives permission like he did to Job,
concerning Job. That's true of every one of his
people, not just Job, that's true of all his people, from
the least to the greatest. That's right. Well, he saved
them from the hand of him that hated them and redeemed them
from the hand of the enemy. God here redeemed us from our
sins. And the waters covered their enemies. There was not
one of them left. I love that story. I went back and read it,
John. And it says that we just might go through exodus soon.
I've been enjoying reading that as a result of it. But I went
back and read that story of them at the Red Sea and how they went
through on dry land. And don't muddle your feet. And
they went through and the chariots went through after them. Every
one of them. All of Pharaoh's army. His whole
army. Dan, he didn't leave anybody
home. It says he got every single chariot he had. In Egypt. The fastest horses
and the fastest chariots. And took out after those people
on foot. And it says the Lord took the
wheels off the chariots. And they grazed heavily, and
they must have run into some mud. And they couldn't get across,
and then they saw that the waters were going to come in, and they
tried to get back, and they couldn't. And the Lord killed them all,
which is a picture of our sins. It's not one sin. It says that the children of
Israel, when they made it over to the other side, they saw the
dead bodies of the Egyptians. But they were dead. They couldn't
harm them. They had no fear, because they
saw that their enemies were dead. And that's a picture, somehow,
in glory. We're going to know that we have
been delivered from our sins. We're going to remember something
of what sinners we were. But our sins won't take us and
won't bother us. We'll see them dead, put away,
and cry. Lay it on the shoulders. Not to pursue us anymore. Can't
harm us. Well, verse 11 and 12. The robbers
covered their enemies, and not one of them left. They believed.
Then believe they his word. They believed then. They'll never
doubt the Lord now, will they? Never. I believe. They sang his praise. They showed
up in service. Moses said, let's have a worship
service. Everybody was there. Everybody. But they soon forgot. Verse thirteen,
they soon forgot his words. and they waited not for his counsel. Right after they got across, the Lord called Moses up into
the mountain to receive the law, all about the tabernacle and
all the wonders, law throughout Exodus and Leviticus and so forth. And he was gone for forty days,
just forty days. And while he was gone, man, they
got in a mess. Look at it. They forgot his works,
and they didn't wait around for the Word. They were out from
under the Word for a short time. Aaron, who should have been faithful
in preaching, keeping them while Moses was gone, didn't. Aaron
got in a bad way. Anyway, the people were out from
under the sound of the word for a little while, and they got
vile. And so will we. Look at it, verse
14. They lusted exceedingly in the
wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. Lusted exceedingly. Too much time without the word
of the Lord, too idle, and they lusted. That is, they started
thinking about anything and everything. Too much time, too idle, the
same with us. If we go a long time without
the gospel, without the word, we'll grow cheaply, we'll grow
covetous. Covetous and wanton. And it says there in verse 15
where he gave them their request. through a big party and got what
they wanted, pleasure, but sent leanness into their soul. Leanness into their soul. David's
son wrote the Proverbs, you know, and he wrote things like this. Proverbs 13, he said this, There
is he that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing. there's he that maketh himself
poor, yet hath great riches." He wrote this, he said, better
is little with fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble
therewith. So he gave them what they wanted. They began to lust after this
and that and the other and wanted to party and play and As Paul
wrote in 1 Corinthians 10, children sat down to eat and rose up to
play, but they had a lean soul, a leanness of soul. And you can't
live by bread alone, by pleasure. It doesn't last. Verse 16 and 17, it says they
envied Moses in the camp. This was the sons of Korah. Dathan
was a brother to Korah. They kind of ended Moses. They
said, you've got a good job. We want that. They did. Who do you think you are, anyway? We're going to quit listening
to you. While we've got the spirit, we're going to offer up incense
ourselves. Oh, are you? And the earth opened
up, verse 17, and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company
of Abiram. We've had a couple of sons of
Korahs in And they've been swallowed up somewhere, haven't they? But their greatest
sin and ours, their greatest sin and ours, down in verse 21,
they forget God, their Savior. That's their greatest sin. It
truly is. They forget God, which had done
great things in Egypt. You know, I thought about this.
It really is. But this is a really a scriptural
holiday. If you want to have a scriptural
holiday, Thanksgiving would be it. I can't think of any other.
There's no other. That doesn't tell us anywhere
to observe Easter or something like Christ's Mass. Any of that
sort of thing, does it? Lent? good Friday, or any of
that stuff. But Thanksgiving now, we're told
throughout the scripture, to give thanks to someone. But it's
really utter hypocrisy to reserve one day a year. You know, and then not even mention
his name. That's an abomination to God,
it really is. Always one day of the week, and God blesses effort. Those that seek Him would all
heart. This is why I deem Wednesday
night probably the most important time of all. Takes a little effort
to get here. Sunday, sleep late, get your
day off, you can, no problem at all to get here.
As a matter of fact, you're expected to be here. Everybody shows up. God blesses effort. God blesses
effort. Seeking me, you'll find me when
you search for me. And when you're like Mary at
the tomb. She went looking for the Lord.
She found me early. We give thanks at every opportunity.
That's why we come. We don't come because we're supposed
to, because it's the first day of the week. We come because
we ought to, and we come to give thanks. And two days a week's
not enough. Is it? One day's not nearly enough. Two days is not enough. It really
isn't. They forget God, and how soon
we forget God, don't we? We go a couple of days and we'll
forget him. So every time we meet together
is good. It really, we bring the remembrance, the remembrance
of the goodness of our God to us. Verse 23, so God said he
would destroy them. They'd forgotten God and his
goodness and ungrateful, and God said he would destroy them.
Had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, in
the gap. like a daismon, to turn away
his wrath, lest he should destroy them. You remember that? Remember
that story? Over in Exodus 32, the Lord said
Moses was with him in the mountain. He said, I hear noise in the
camp. Sounded like one of these Pentecostal meetings. Jumping and shouting and caroling.
I hear noise, God said. And God knew, and he saw that
they were reckless and wild, and God said, I'm going to kill
them all. Well, God is love. I'm going to kill them all. My
people, I'm going to kill them. It's entirely different, God,
isn't it, than you're hearing about today. God said that about
his people. I ought to kill them all. But Moses, his chosen, his mediator,
his spokesman, stood between the children of Israel and a
wrathful God, a God who is a consuming fire. He said, Don't kill them.
What world will think less of you that you brought them out
here in the wilderness? Don't kill them. Now, who does
Moses represent, you think? Who is it that stands in the
gaps, in the breach for all his people, essentially? That's why
this happened. That's why it was written. Jesus
Christ, one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ
Jesus, who stood in the breach as the umpire, as a daemon, betwixt
us, and a wrathful, vengeful God, and he'd rather destroy
us all, shouldn't he? Right now. Right now. But he won't. Why?
I ever lived, to make intercession for the transgressors. So he stood in the breach. Moses
did, as a type of cry. Yet, verse 24, they despised
the pleasant land. They believed not his word. Now,
they're getting ready to come in the promised land now. They
come near Canaan. And they're real close. They
can see it. They can smell it. So they sent
spies. It was inhabited by other people. And Moses, the Lord had them
send spies into the land to look it over and come back and give
a report of the land. And so they did. And Joshua,
remember Joshua and Caleb were among those. They were a bunch
of spies. And they brought back, there
was a place called Esco. There must have been a big vineyard
there, and they got... It was a land, just like God
said, full of milk and honey. It was the most bounteous land,
just a promised land, just as God had promised it, paradise,
as far as they were concerned. And so they wanted to bring back
some evidence, and they found this vineyard and got one bunch
of grapes. to bring back and show the people.
One bunch. Well, they brought back one bunch
of grapes, that's all about it. To show the people. But it took
two men to carry it. It truly is. I'm like, but, there's giants. I mean, there's
giants and like big, fierce men that'll kill us all. We don't
stand a chance. That's what they said. And all
the people, they started to cry all night. They were there. They were at the promised land.
Got about a mile this way for 40 years. By now this way, the
other birds are going in the palm of his hand. Not a good
time now. Not going to make it. God got mad on me. Now off to
the door. There's only two of them, Joshua
and Caleb. So what's wrong with you all? We're there. The great brothers. We're almost
there. You'll quit now? Oh, you got
to worry about some giants. Don't you remember the Red Sea? Don't you remember anything? What? You going to pray for John? David wasn't, was he? David believed
God, but they didn't. They didn't. They believed not
his word. Murmured in their tents. Verse twenty-five said they were
in their tents. They got home and the husband and wife said,
Honey, we ain't going to make it over. Hearken not unto the voice of
the Lord, but through Joshua, and Caleb, and Moses. Don't fear. Fear not. Believe God. We're
going in. It's ours. He didn't believe
the word of the Lord. He didn't believe the word of
the Lord, the voice of the Lord. So he lifted up his hand against
them, to overthrow them in the wilderness, to overthrow their
seed among the nations. Oh, my. See, they had to wander
a little. And God, it says down in verse, jump on down here to
verse 32, that angered him at the waters of strife. They went
without water for about three days, and Moses got mad at them. Remember? Moses said, Must I
fetch you water out of the rock again? That's why David said
he spake unadvised of it. Moses spake wrong. Moses didn't
give him that water. He was angry. He was furious. And God took it out on Moses.
You want a picture of Christ's antics?
Huh? It was their fault that God killed Moses. They went in
with Moses for their sake. They provoked his spirit. Christ
has made sin for us. We knew no sin. And verse 34,
they did not destroy the nations concerning whom the Lord commanded
them, but were mingled among the heathen and learned their
works. God said, Don't give your sons
and your daughters to the heathen people. Don't marry them. Don't mingle with them. How can
life have fellowship with darkness? Can sons of God have fellowship
with the sons of man? Don't go into them. You're not
going to help them. That just hurts you. Evil communications
corrupt good manners. Not good manners make better
evil communications. You're not going to help them.
Don't. Don't. Fool with them. They don't have
anything. They don't have anything. Or
you don't have anything that they want. But they've got a
whole lot of that old man that's still, that you'd still desire. So don't be tempted. Don't go
in amongst them. Don't make them your friend.
Don't go amongst them. They did it anyway. They just
roamed in and out among them until you couldn't tell the difference. They ended up sacrificing their
sons and daughters under the devil. My, my. They got plumb
pagan. In verse 39, it says they were
defiled in their own works. Don't blame the world. Blame them. God told them. They knew better. Their own works
went a-whoring with their own inventions. I mean, men that
went after everything they could go after. And the wrath of the
Lord was kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred
his own inheritance. My, my. It's a sad bunch, isn't
it? And we're no different. That's
how David started it out, didn't he? He said, we've sinned with
our fathers. We looked at David's life a little
bit, didn't we? David's thinking about himself.
He's not just thinking about the Jews and what a sorry lot
they were. But he says, Lord, I'm no different. I'm no different. Many times,
verse forty-three, it says, many times did he deliver them. Many
times. Many times. But they provoked
him. Provoked him with their counsel.
And they were brought low for their iniquity. If you're one
of God's people and you get in a mess like they do, you're going
to be brought low. If you're one of God's people. He's going to bring you low.
He's going to let your iniquity and your sin bring you low. And
that's good. It's good to be low. It's good
to get low. It sure is. They were brought low for their
iniquity. David, Psalm 51. Lord. Nevertheless, look at verse 44.
Now here's the good news. That's all a bad, bad village,
but they got a good job. You see, one day they started
this thing, and the Lord's good, and he gives all this badness.
He paints the blackest picture that he can paint. He paints,
he puts man in his true light, doesn't he? He puts his children
of Israel in their true light, and us too. What we really are. The Lord exposes us for what
we really are. It doesn't gloss over our sins,
but it magnifies them so that we're brought low. Nevertheless,
never be less. It's never less for whoever,
even the least, with His mercy. He regarded their affliction.
He regarded their affliction when He heard their cry. Henry
loves Psalm 107, don't you? It says, they got in a mess and
then they cried to the Lord, and it says, he heard them and
delivered them. It said it four times, doesn't it? They got in
a mess, then they cried, he heard them and he delivered them. They
got in a mess, then they cried, he heard them and he delivered
them. Kept doing it, kept doing it.
Nevertheless, God's mercy is never less, it's
always more. His grace is always sufficient. He endures forever. He regards
their affliction when He heard their cry. And look at this,
verse 25, He remembered for them His covenant. What's His covenant? What's God's
covenant for us? It's always been the same. God's
covenant is the gospel. God's covenant is that agreement
he made with his son for the transgression. Concerning the,
it's the sure mercies of David. It's the sure mercies of Henry. It's the sure mercies of Jacob.
And it's the sure mercies of Samuel. It's the same, it's God's
covenant that he made with his son before the world began. To
save Sam. To be there to be their intercessor,
to be their mediator, to be their sin atonement, to be their righteousness.
It's a covenant. It's called the gospel. That's
the covenant of God, the covenant of grace, that God said, they
don't deserve it, but I decided to save some of them. It pleased
the Lord to make them his people. They didn't please him, but it
pleased him to make them his people. And it pleased the Son
to come down and Do that great work of redemption for them.
And it pleased the Holy Spirit to come and babysit them all
their life, and lead them, and guide them, and teach them, and
scold them. That's a covenant. They all three
agreed on this, to do this for God's chosen people. That's a
covenant. It's our birthright. You know
that? It's our birthright. It's our
birthright. What would you give for it? This
is the gospel we're talking about. This is what you hear about Sundays
and Wednesdays. And read about it in your spare time. It's our
birthright. What would you give for it? You'd better not give anything
for it. You'd better not trade anything
for it. It's our birthright. It's the only thing that keeps
a wrathful God from destroying us. You know what we're doing
right now? This is the only thing that keeps
God from leaving us with the rest of the world that doesn't
mention it. It's this gospel that you're
hearing tonight. This is the covenant. This is the birthright. Mm-hmm. You better stay under
it. Keep yourself. Who was it that
said, keep yourselves in the love of God? Keep yourself. That means be under the sound
of it. If you're not careful, you'll be like Esau and sell
it for a bowl of beans. Verse 47 says David closes this
with a parting prayer after thinking about those children
of Israel. And now he's thinking about himself
and his family and his friends and his brethren in his day.
And may we do the same with David and say, Save us, O Lord. We're no different than they
were. Save us. Have mercy on us, O Lord our
God. Gather us from among the heathen. Gather us as, as, save
us, as Peter says, save yourselves from the sons of old generation.
How do you do that? Keeping yourselves under the
mercy, mercy and love of the Lord. Or else you'll go with
them. You'll go with Egypt. Just like the children of Israel,
you'll be ready to go back and drop the hat at the leeks and
onions. The world. Save us, O Lord, from
Egypt. Save us from the world. Save
us chiefly from myself, ourself. Save us, O Lord, our God. Gather us from among the heathen.
Call us by your gospel. Gather us out. Sanctify us. Set us apart. Pick us as a band
from the burning. Gather us from among the heathen.
To do what? To give thanks. To give thanks. under thy holy name, and to triumph
in thy praise." We're going to triumph. And all will remain
in his praise. All in heaven are going to be
praising him throughout eternity for that mercy. Jobs will be
forgotten. Homes will be forgotten. Families
will be forgotten. Things will be forgotten. Material
possessions will be forgotten. Everything and everyone will
be forgotten except one thing. unto him that loved us and washed
us from our sin, his own blood. That's the cry throughout eternity. We're going to triumph in his
praise, his praise. And those that'll be there then
are those that enjoy it now. They're a part of it now, in
his praise, the triumph. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say, All right, let's stay. We give you thanks, we ask your
forgiveness, we ask you to repent, and we give thanks in Christ's name. Amen.