The hymn says, I know I shall
see in his beauty the King in whose law I delight. The song
of the redeemed, the love to sing of their Redeemer. Another
hymn we sing is, I will sing of my Redeemer. That's the one in whom God's
people delight. That's why they come to the house
of the Lord to hear a hymn. David said, One thing have I
desired of the Lord, that what I seek of him, that I may dwell
in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold
the beauty of the Lord, to behold his beauty. And over in 2 Timothy, I need
some notes, don't I? He said this to the people of
God, the young Timothy. He said, God hath not given us
a spirit of fear, but God has given us, he said, the people
of God, a spirit of power. Is that word familiar? and of love and of a sound mind,
power, spirit of love and a sound mind. Last Sunday, my pastor
spoke of those who have a form of godliness, but deny the power
thereof. And then Wednesday night, we
looked at the power of God and how we're kept. We're kept. by the power of God. Paul said
to the Thessalonians, he said, I know your elect, brethren,
beloved of the Lord, because the word, our gospel came unto
you, not in word only, but power. And that's what Paul's talking
about. He says God's given us a spirit of power, of love, powerful influence of love and
a sound mind, the gospel. His power of God creates in God's
people. Now this is what the gospel does.
It makes them love Christ. Love God as God. Love Christ. I mean really. And love his people. That's how
John said you may know that they love God. They love his people.
Now do you know they love his people? They love God. And a sound mind, he said, that
is, they have the mind of Christ, they have a spiritual mind, knowledge
and wisdom based on the truth. And these are what every believer
possesses by the power of God. It takes the power of God to
make a human being love God. It takes the power of God. To love a God they've never seen. Peter's going to talk about that
in 1 Peter. to know the unknowable, but you
can't by searching find out. It's a revelation. That's the
power of God. But every believer has this love. Everyone of them,
they love God. We know that all things work
together for good to them that love God and do so because they're
called according to His purpose. He purposed to make them love
Him. And we're talking about real
love. And we're going to go on to describe
this. And 1 Peter is our text. 1 Peter chapter 1. We're not talking about this
religious emotion that goes on today in religion. Everybody
gets emotional. And it generally takes things. Why do you think religion plays
music while they do the invitation and while things are going on
this slow, while they pray and the music is playing slowly in
the background? You've got to drum up some emotion. You've got to drum up emotion.
I was saying this to my wife last night at dinner. I said,
love is something you cannot fake. You can't fake it. And
you can't drum it up. You can't drum it up. It's especially
true of the gospel of Christ, of God loving him. You can't
drum it up, and you can't fake it. Either do or you don't. This
is the power of God. And it's real, and it's not based
on superstition or tradition, but it's real abiding love for
Christ, for his people. And all those that understand
know Him. Well, John, listen to this before
we get into it. John said, We know. We know the
Son of God has come. We know He's come. And He's given
us an understanding that we may know Him that is true. This is
the true God in eternal life. John said, We know. We've handled
Him. We've touched Him. We've heard Him. Well, all right, 1 Peter chapter
1 speaks of the elect of God, and I've already given you one
way that you may know the elect of God. They love him. They love God. I want you to examine your own
heart as you listen to this message. Examine your own mind. Know you're
not, whether Christ is in you. except you be reprobate. All
right, verse 1, Peter says to the strangers scattered throughout
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, Rocky Mount,
Danville, Lexington, Ashland, Cherokee. It says that. It sure does. Strangers scattered
all over. Elect, verse 2. Elect. Chosen. Yes, discriminated for. God doesn't have to discriminate
against anybody. You understand what I'm saying?
He doesn't have to choose someone not to be the non-elect. They don't want Him anyway. We
didn't either until He chose us. He discriminates in favor of.
Well, elect, chosen according to the foreknowledge of God,
that is the forelove, the predestination of God. The Father, through sanctification
of the Spirit, he sends the Holy Spirit to these elect of his
and separates them by the truth. This is the power. It's a separating
power. It's kind of like, you heard
my pastor use the illustration of a cowboy roping calves. He
goes after one calf and he leaves the rest of them alone, cutting
horses. Remember that? The Holy Spirit takes the gospel.
To everyone, God says, right there's one of mine, right there,
that calf, right there, that skinnish, crawny, no good calf
that's going to die. Get him. He's mine. I've loved him. Draw him with
cords, cords of a man, cords of love. Draw him with the gospel,
the power of God, the gospel. Make him hear it. Open his eyes,
open his ears, open his heart to receive it. draw him and fatten
that old skinny calf up, fatten him up, not for the slaughter
either, but for the king's use. And that's the Holy Spirit separates
by the gospel, and he separates them unto it. It's separated
by the gospel, the power of God, and boy, they're sold out to
it now. We're going to talk about love,
and you want to know how to spell love? C-O-M-M-I-T-M-E-N-T. I'll spell it a little slower.
C-O-M-M-I-T-M-E-N-T. Commitment. Did I spell it right? Commitment. You don't love somebody
if you just live with them. You marry them. That's the true
proof of love. United, never be separated. Love
never separates. Well, they are sanctified by
the Spirit, by the gospel, by the power of God unto the gospel,
which keeps them by the power of God, unto obedience and sprinkling
of the blood, grace and peace unto you, he said, be multiplied. Verse 3, Oh, bless God. We ought
to, shouldn't we? And God's people do. They bless
God. That's why they come here. There is no other reason needed
to come here. We don't go to church. We come
to praise God, bless God. Oh, my soul resolves within me
to bless His Holy Name. Don't we? Do you have any reasons?
We don't do this. We don't call on people to stand
up and give the testimony. Have you got one to testify? My, my. Surely every believer
could stand up in this place and say something of the wondrous
works God has done for you. Not going to do it, but surely.
That's why we come here, isn't it? Not to be entertained, not
to be prodded and cajoled and pumped up and all that, but to
bless God. Bless God. Rain! He's been raining. He's sending
the rain. Boy, this building ought to be
full. Bless God. Look at this. The Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy, Everything
is according to mercy. You're breathing right now according
to mercy. But God in His hands, our breath is in all our ways.
We haven't glorified like we ought to. We've got to withhold
the breath. That's enough. You've messed
up my hair long enough with your vile breath. I'm taking it back. Mercy. Barnard said everything
inside of hell is mercy. Young and old ought to be blessing
God this morning. Mercy endureth every morning.
Because of His mercy, we're not in hell right now. Because of
His mercy, the sun rose up. Because of His mercy, the rains
fall. Because of His mercy, we've got clothes and food and water
and shelter and our children are well. Mercy, mercy, mercy
me! Bless the Lord, O my soul. His
mercy, David said, according to his multitude of his tender
mercies. I'm not going to church. Blessed be God, Father of our
hearts, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again. Some people are born from above. Some of you children are born
into families that you ought to absolutely be thanking God
for the family you live in. Not some of you children, every
child in here ought to thank God that He gave you the parents
He gave you. But more than that, there are
some in here who, oh, they have a father, and what a father, the heavenly Father. Born again,
we didn't decide to do it, did we, John? No more than our children
decided who they were going to be born to, we didn't either.
But blessed God who decided, who gave us the spirit of adoption,
whereby we can call God Our dad, the Holy God is our
dad. "...begotten us from above unto
a lively hope." Look at that, lively hope. Like I said, I love that word. It's enlivening, quickening,
that's what it means. Quickening, power, hope. It's
not a hope. or a wish on the stars, but based
on person. Why? Who? Look at it. By the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This hope is based
on a living Lord who right now lives. You remember the illustration
I gave of my wife being out of town, and I know she was alive
because she called me. I love my wife, and she was out
of town, and she called me to let me know she'd arrived safely.
And she was there, and everything was all right. And God does the same thing with
His people. And I know she's alive now, so she came back,
and right there she is. And Christ said, I'm coming back
to you. And I hope, I have a real hope
based on a living Lord who called me by His grace. Let me know
where he is." He's at the right hand of the majesty on high and
everything is all right. And he's coming back. He said,
I'm coming back. If it were not so, I would have
told you. And he's coming back, and that
right shortly, and I say the sooner the better. He rose from the dead. We're
not talking about a theory, we're talking about a person. He rose
from the dead, a real and living Lord. Verse 4 says, and oh, bless
God, He hath given us an inheritance incorruptible. And the reason
we can't describe it is because I haven't seen it yet, this inheritance. But it's incorruptible and undefiled. That means it's a holy inheritance. Bible, pure, undefiled, fadeth
not away. It fadeth not away. You know,
some of you people may have rich parents or a rich uncle or somebody
whom you hope to get inheritance from. Some of you. Well, you know, as time goes
on, it gets iffy, doesn't it? It might cut you out of the wheel. If you're not acting right, it
might cut you out of the wheel. This doesn't fade away. There's
no fear of our inheritance fading
away and him forgetting about us, you know. He might forget
about me. He might cut me out of the wheel.
It gets more sure, more sure. The more you read all the promises. Reserved in heaven for you, fadeth
not away. Reservation. He said, I go to
prepare a place for you. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God whom you haven't
seen? I'm here. Believe also in me. I am God. You call me Master
and Lord, you say, well, so I am. Who are you? The same as said
to Moses in the beginning. That's me. I'm here. I'll go to prepare a place for
you. And if I go, I'll come again and receive you myself. Let not
your heart be troubled." Oh, but Philip said, wait, wait,
wait, show us the Father. Philip, here looking at him. Reserved in heaven for you. Fade us not away. Getting stronger
the older you get, the surer it gets. Reserved in heaven for
you who are kept, verse 5, by the power of God. You are kept
by the power of God. He would have quit a long time
ago if it wasn't for the power of God. If God hadn't chose you,
hadn't sent His Son to die for you and hold His Church to sanctify
you, you'd have been just like everybody else, gone a long time
ago. Kept by the power, but you're kept by the power of God through
faith. And that's according to the working
of His mighty power in faith. It's not of yourself, it's the
gift of God. And it's the working of His mighty
power. You can't make somebody believe something they've never
seen, never heard. You can't make somebody love
somebody they've never seen. God can. And God does. And it's real. Unfamed faith. I mean, they trust their souls
and their lives with somebody they've never met. Kept by the power of God through
faith. Yes, they believe, not in doctrine,
but in a person. They believe all the person's
doctrine. Through faith unto salvation.
Oh, what is salvation? We're going to see. We're going to see the abundance
of it and the mercy of it. We're going to see the souls
of the damned. We're going to see the souls of the redeemed. Oh, what salvation. We're ready to be revealed in
the last time. It's already ready to be revealed in the last time,
kept by the power. Now, right from verse 6, these
are the elect of God. These are God's chosen. How do
you know them? Verse 6 says, wherein they you
greatly rejoice. You greatly rejoice in what? What we've just been saying,
the promises of God, all that He is and all that He's said
and all that He's done, all He's prepared. He said you greatly
rejoice. In this salvation, you greatly
rejoice in this power of God, this gospel of God. You greatly
rejoice. Like I said, this is not—and
I'm not trying to pump anybody up, and only God—you greatly
rejoice. It's not just—you greatly rejoice. And I know there's times, you
know, when we're hot and cold, and only God can give those hot
times. But they do. God's people greatly
rejoice in Him and in His salvation in Christ, this gospel. They
don't just give mental assent to it and walk out of the door
every time and say, that's a good sermon preacher. They greatly
rejoice. They don't walk out and say,
oh, he stepped on my toes. I don't want anybody wearing
steel-toed boots in here because I'm not after your toes. They greatly rejoiced. Listen
to the language of believers through the scriptures. I just
browse through the scriptures to hear how believers talk about
rejoicing. Hannah. Hannah says, My heart
rejoiceth in the Lord. I rejoice in thy salvation. David said, I'll praise thee,
O Lord, with my whole heart. I'll be glad and rejoice in thee.
I'll rejoice in thy salvation. He said, Jacob shall rejoice.
Israel shall be glad in the Lord. He said, Be glad in the Lord
and rejoice, ye righteous. Shout for joy of all ye upright
in heart. Mary said, My soul doth magnify
the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. John
said, The friend of the bridegroom which standeth and heareth him
rejoiceth gladly, greatly. greatly rejoiced." Because of
the bridegroom's voice, this, my joy, is fulfilled. So Peter
says, they greatly rejoice. How do you know the elect? They
greatly rejoice. It's not something you can fake,
not something you can drum up. Our Lord said over in John 15,
listen to this, He said, He said, These things have I
spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and your
joy might be full. Full, full of joy. And he said
in another place, he said, I'll see you again, and your heart
will rejoice, and your joy, no man will take it from you. No
man. And you know, back here in 1
Peter 1, God's people, they rejoice in
Christ. They rejoice in the gospel. And part of what makes them rejoice
in the gospel, in Christ, is this right here. Look at verse
6. These trials they go through. It says, wherein you greatly
rejoice, though now for a season, and it's just for a season, if
need be, if need be, Who determines the need, if it need be? God does. He sends the trials
according to his wisdom. He says, right now for a season,
if need be, according to God's purpose and wisdom, you're in
heaviness through manifold or many temptations or trials, that
the trial of your faith be in more pressure. Now, faith's what's
precious. It's a rare and valuable thing.
That's what precious is. Faith is a God-created thing. Much more precious than a gold
that perishes. That the trial of your faith,
though it be tried with fire, here's why he does it. Look at
it. Verse 7. These trials come upon
believers. Why? That faith might be found
unto what? Praise. Praise. Not murmuring, complaining. Trials aren't set so to make
people bitter. At the end of it, praise God. Praise. And honor, it says. And honor. We don't realize. One of the
old saints was talking to a fellow believer who was going through
a deep trial. And he said to that person, he
said, Well, the Lord must love you an awful lot. Do you understand what that means?
Great high honor? It's going to be found in the
honor. We read in Matthew, he said, oh, woe is unto the rich. They have their consolation,
their reward. The world gets the world. God
weans his people from it to give them the world. Do you understand that? Blessed
are the meek. They'll inherit the earth. Thought
he was going to burn it up. He's going to burn up the first
one all right, but he's going to Create a new one, and that's
our wish. What do you mean? I can't tell
it. I haven't seen it, but it's going
to be better than this one. Which would you rather have?
An inheritance that fadeth away? Corrupt? Or one that never fadeth?
Your own righteousness, which is filthy, ragged, and stinks?
Or one that never, never fadeth away? It's going to be found
in honor. We don't realize how highly honored
we are. We don't realize how highly honored
you are. We are to be here this morning.
We really don't. It's a high honor and a privilege. I've said so many times, And
we don't thank people for coming to worship God. It's a high honor,
a privilege. My, my. God, you see your calling,
brethren, don't you? Not many wise men of the flesh,
not many mighty, not many noble to call. All the high muckety-mucks are
honoring one another this morning, aren't they? Patting each other
on the back for what they're doing for Jesus. Congratulating
men for all they're doing for God. Oh, we've been highly honored
to come and hear what He's done for us. Someday we'll know just how honored we've been.
And glory. You know, Peter says this three
times in the space of about three or four verses. Glory, glory,
glory. Glory, hallelujah. Peter says
this, glory is going to be found. Look at it, verse 7. We're going
to be found unto praise, honor, and glory at the appearing of
Jesus Christ. Eternal, unspeakable, wondrous
glory awaits God's elect. And that's, like I said, can't be told about. I haven't been there. I haven't seen what it's going
to be like. This is for God's elect, those who love Jesus Christ. Look at verse 8, "...whom having
not seen..." You know, they're going to be found. Verse 7 says,
"...God's elect will be found praising, honoring, and in glory
at the appearing of Christ." You know, that's how they're
found now. Psalm 84, my favorite psalm,
says, "...how amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts."
Oh, my, how blessed. Even a bird, he says, a swallow
had found a nest for her young. Oh, what a place to be, the house
of God. He says the people of God in verse 3, the congregation
of God, he said, those that are found praising God in the house
of God, he said, they'll be still praising them. Where are you
going to find them? Well, you'll find them now when
you come every opportunity, every blessed and glorious privilege
it is to meet together. You'll find them praising, honoring,
and glorying in him. Right now, and that's how Christ
is going to find them when he comes looking for them. He won't
have to go far. He'll find them where he left
them. He left his disciples looking
up, praising and honoring. And the angels said, don't look.
They said, he'll so come in like manners you've seen him go. For
all of you that look for his appearing. That's what we're doing here.
waiting on the Lord. That's what we're doing here. Jesus is the reason for the season. I wish I could cuss, I'd cuss. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
reason for every time we gather together. They'll be found, where
are you going to find God's elect? Praising Him, worshiping Him. Why? They love Him. Who? Somebody they've never seen.
Look at it verse 8. Whom having not seen, you ought
to love. No, no, you do love. You love. Do you love? Now listen. That's why I say
examine yourself. Do you love what you're hearing
right now? You can't fake this. You can't
make yourself love it. Do you love what you're doing
right now? It's the power of God now. You
can't make somebody sitting, well, whom have you not seen? You know, and this is a mystery. I've never seen him. But, you know, I've seen him
just as clearly as if he were standing. Haven't you? Some of you have? Yes. You say,
I don't understand, Preacher. No, no, I can't. He has to reveal
Himself to you. Like He was head to His disciples. He walked along the road to Emmaus
with them. He was head. They didn't know Him. How'd they
know Him? When He broke the bread and revealed
Himself to them. Mary was at the garden and thought
He was the gardener until He said, Mary, Mary! Lord, it's you, isn't it? You are real. You're alive, aren't
you? And she grabbed him by the feet. Can you love somebody you've
never seen? Well, you most certainly can,
and you better. You say, well, if it's up to
God, I can't make myself love Him. No, but He can. That's why,
Lord, I don't even know yet. Do like Barnard told that young
lady, I double-dog dare you to go home and get in your closet
and ask the Lord to reveal Himself to you. Young people, I double-dog
dare you. Go home and say, Lord, I'm just
not interested in the gospel. I just don't, I don't, I'm just
not interested in that. I want to be interested. Would
you make me interested? Blessed are they that hunger
and thirst, that they'll be filled. He says, you see Him not, but
you rejoice. I've never heard Jesus Christ's
voice. I can't wait, literally. Literally,
I cannot wait. to hear him whom no man spake
like, ever. Even his enemies were charmed
by him. They came back to him. The captain
said, where is he? You're supposed to get him. They
said, we're spellbound. No man spake like this man. I can't wait. Can you? I cannot
wait to hear him preach on my fifth ship. Because a half's
never been told. I cannot wait for Him to open
up the Scriptures to my understanding. We're going to have a permanent
case of heartburn. You know how it feels when the
gospel does get a hold of you a little bit, how glorious it
is. Glory! A foretaste of glory! A foretaste of what we're going
to have through it. Sheba came to see Solomon. Solomon
said, Do you want something to eat? You want something to eat? I've
got some bologna back here. Solomon said, I've got some leftover
chicken salad. No, she saw his table. What do
you want to eat here? Take a whole chicken. Take a
ham too. You want some chocolate cheesecake
brownie? Take the whole pan. And here's
another one to take home with you. Not miserly one. Like some of my dear friends,
you know, who keep it for themselves and just give it. Solomon said,
Do you want something to eat? And she came in and saw the table
and she said, Do you want to see glory? And
she beheld him. Ask me a question, Solomon said. He revealed him. She said, Well,
there's no more spirit left there. And she went home and they said,
Well, tell us about Jerusalem. Jerusalem. I'd forgotten I was
there. Oh, yeah, I was in Jerusalem,
wasn't I, holy man? Solomon. Oh, Solomon. Solomon,
Solomon, Solomon, Solomon. What did you have to eat? Did
he serve you? Well, let me tell you about that.
I can't. You had to just eat it yourself. Are you eating right now, anybody? This is meat to eat that some
people don't know of, and only Christ can give it to you. My
body is meat indeed. My flesh is meat indeed. My blood
is drink indeed. Except you eat the flesh of the
Son of God and drink His blood, you have no part in it. No part
in it. Lord, let me taste of this graciousness. This gospel make the gospel sweet
to me. I don't see you. Show yourself
to me. Well, whom have you not seen? In whom, though now you see him,
not yet believe him? Now, I know what some men say
today about Jesus. I hear what they say. Some are
saying he's a good man. Some are saying he's a miracle
worker, a prophet. Some are saying he's oh so sweet
and kind, gentle Jesus, meek and mild. But John Sheasley,
whom do you say that he is? Who do you say he is? He's the Christ. the Son of the
Living God with power. Oh, blessed are you, John Barshishley. Flesh and blood doesn't reveal
that to you, that our Father which is in heaven, you believe
the true God and the true Christ. Believe. You believe what people
hate today. You know that? Some of us, by
God's electing Sovereign, discriminating grace believe what the majority
of the world absolutely despises. They despise and reject Christ
no less now than they did then. You know that? They do. And if we believe, we
believe what men hate. We love what men hate. We hate
what men love. We esteem an abomination what
men highly esteem. We esteem highly what men esteem
abomination. We call good, good, while they're
calling good, evil. Who maketh us to differ? Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according
to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively and living
true hope. Now, the resurrection of Jesus
Christ on the day of two hundred and thirty. See, we can go right
back to the start. We need to stop after every verse
and repeat verse three. You know that? Whom having not seen, you see.
It's a paradox, isn't it? Isn't it, Devin? It's a paradox.
Never seen him. Well, we've seen him. Never heard him. Oh, he's spoken
personally to me. You see, you believe. You believe. I believe. Lord,
help my unbelief. You rejoice. Look at that. unspeakable,
full of glory, full of glory, receiving the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls. Oh boy, what is this salvation?
Well, I tell you, it's so wondrous that prophets have inquired,
searched diligently, spent their whole lives looking into it.
who prophesied of the grace, oh the grace, abundant grace,
that should come unto you, searching water what manner of time, when
the Holy Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when
it testified beforehand of the sufferings of Christ, when he
should come, who he should be and what he should do, and the
glory that should follow." Maybe that ought to be the name
of this message, glory that should follow. The glory that will follow. Let
me close with this verse of Scripture. In Psalm 17, David wrote this. And can someone, I ask the question,
can someone know someone they've never really met? Yes, you can. You remember me telling you that
story about the woman who fell in love with that man through
writing letters back and forth? You remember that story? True
story. A man was a bookseller over in England, had an antique
bookshop, and this woman was a teacher in the United States
back in World War, during World War II, I believe it was, and
she loved old books, and she wrote, sent off to get an old
book that she was looking for from this little shop in London,
England. And the man wrote her back. Well,
they began to correspond back and forth. And she flat fell
head over heels in love with this man. Never seen him. Never
met him. And they just went on for some
time. She was too poor. The war, you
know, couldn't travel overseas during the war. And finally, he died. And she'd
never met him. After the war was over, she got
enough money up to go over and visit where he was. And she fell
in love with him. It's just like Rebecca. You remember
when Abraham's servant went to seek
a bride for Isaac? And he began to describe Isaac
to that young a woman named Rebecca. And he described him, my master's
son. And went on to tell about him.
And he said, will you go marry this man? Will you come with me? I know
you've never seen him. You've never heard him. But will
you go marry Isaac? She didn't even hesitate a second.
When can we leave? When can we leave? Oh, those
that didn't know him weren't listening. You know that? Oh,
don't do that. Rebecca, your other man. She fell in love with
a man she had never met, of whom she had only heard. And buddy,
when she came and saw him riding on his high horse, she hit the
dust. And he took her into his mother's
tent. Well, in Psalm 17, verse 15 says
this, David says, As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness. Not my own. I'll behold thy face in righteousness."
Have you beheld his face even now in righteousness? Huh? Yeah,
God. Cause the light to shine out
of darkness has shown in our hearts. And I'll be satisfied, he says,
oh will I, will you ever, when I awake with thy likeness." So,
Rebekah, read the story for yourself. Over in Genesis 24, Rebekah,
was she satisfied with Isaac? Well, you know, she was a poor
woman and unmarried. And man, she got the
man of her dreams. She's satisfied. He became all things to her.
And, oh, we'll be satisfied, won't we? I'm satisfied now. The only thing I'm not satisfied
with is I want to see Him as He is. I've
seen Him. I've seen pictures of Him. I've
got glimpses of Him. I've heard Him, you know, in
a still, small voice and occasionally heard Him speak. occasional call. I want to be with him where I
can never, never part. All right, Joe, you got a hymn
picked out? A hymn? 272. 272. Sing a couple
of verses. 272. 272, stand with me. We'll sing the first and the
last stanza, the first and the last, of Solid Rock. My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest
praise, but wholly lean on Jesus' grace. All other ground is sinking
sand. All other ground is sinking sand. When peace shall come with trumpets
sound, Oh, they are then in every land, Yes, and His righteousness
alone, God loves to stand before the throne. I was raised with
solid rock gods and all other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand. I like you and you're just me. I like that one too. darkened the space and filled
it with haze. The rest of the area had all
changed into grey. I swore this to him in the book
I read in the afternoon. Over, over the country, over
the city, down that hill, down that valley. all around