I have an unusual title for my
message this evening, and it is Hope Revived. We just sang, my hope is built
on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. But there
are times in the lives of believers when our hope seems very faint, and God himself has to revive
it. I'm going to begin in 1 Corinthians
chapter 13, and I only have one verse that
I want to read here. This is a portion of scripture
that I think it was Brother Brent Bush read this at his mother's
funeral, at Carolee's funeral, 1 Corinthians chapter 13. But
I'm just going to read one verse, and that's the very last verse
of 1 Corinthians chapter 13, which says, and now abideth faith,
hope, love, or charity, these three. But the greatest of these
is charity. Earlier in this portion of Scripture,
the Apostle Paul talks about things that are going to be lost,
things that will come to an end. He talks about the gifts of prophesying. These will cease. He talks about
the gift of languages, speaking in different languages or tongues.
That's also going to cease. And he says knowledge will vanish. In other words, our comprehension
of the things of God now is nothing, nothing compared to what it's
going to be in eternity. We're thankful for the knowledge
that God has given us. And God has greatly blessed this
congregation and many other congregations across the world with a knowledge
of His gospel, a knowledge of how He saves sinners in a manner
consistent with His justice. But there is going to come a
time when the knowledge that we have now, that knowledge is
going to seem like we didn't have any knowledge at all. because
of the knowledge that we're going to have when we see our Lord
Jesus face to face in eternity. But though these temporal mercies,
such as prophesying and speaking in foreign languages and knowledge,
though these are going to be lost, He does say, now abide
it. There are some things that will
abide all the way through the life of a believer. Faith. Faith. Without faith, it's impossible
to please God. Faith is a gift from God, for
by grace you say through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. Our Lord Jesus, shortly before
His ascension, He said, He that believeth and is baptized shall
be saved. He that believeth not. shall
be damned." True faith is a gift of God. A gift of God by which
the sinner is convinced of the accuracy, the truthfulness of
the Word of God. We believe who God is. We believe
that what God has to say about us is the very truth. And we
believe that the only way we can ever come to a holy God and
He will receive us and accept us is through the beloved Savior
and His sacrifice upon the cross of Calvary. We lean the weight
of our soul's salvation upon Christ Jesus. Faith. It is vital. Faith. And then he says, he uses the
word hope, as faith is a gift, so hope is also a gift. We use
the word hope quite a lot. I hope the weather will be nice
tomorrow for our drive northward. I hope you have a good week this
week. By that kind of usage, it's a
wish. It is a desire that I have for
you and for me. We use the word hope quite often. But in the Word of God, the word
hope is much, much stronger. It's more than a sanctified wish. It's more than a desire. It is
a confidence. It is an expectation of future
good both in this life and in the life which is to come based
upon God's Word. Based upon the promises of our
Lord. It is a confidence and an expectation
based upon the very person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have a good hope. We have
a good hope through grace. And we believe that what God
has said, God will do. And we stand on these things.
We're convinced we have an expectation of future happiness. We have
a confidence of future glory. We fully believe what God says
to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord.
We have a good hope. We have a confident expectation
of good things. Because our hope is built upon
the Rock, Christ Jesus. And our hope is built upon the
very Word of Him who cannot lie. What's the relation of faith
and hope? I think it's accurate to say
that faith is the mother of hope. Faith is the mother of hope.
It is a confident looking forward to the fulfillment of all the
promises of God. We have confidence in Him. We wait. We wait for the fulfillment
of those things that we can't see. Well, what do we have to
build our hopes upon? The Word of God. That's all. The Word of God. So as faith is a gift, so also
hope is a gift. 2 Thessalonians 2 says, now, our
Lord Jesus Himself, our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God,
even our Father, which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting
consolation and good hope, we have good hope through grace. Peter says, blessed be the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope,
a living hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
just as sure as God raised His Son from the dead. So all of
His promises to usward will come to pass. The evidence of that
or the proof of that is the resurrection of our Savior. Now as faith is
a gift and hope is a gift, so love is a gift. Love is a gift. The love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Romans
chapter 5 and verse 5. Love is a living principle within
us that God has created. Love is that which finds its
very fulfillment in bestowing the best it can upon the objects
of its affection. And love, true love, real love
now, cannot be happy except to the extent that it fulfills this
desire. To speak of the love of God is
to speak of an ocean of love that nobody can fathom it. It's boundless. It is higher
than the heavens, deeper than the seas. God's love for us And
we love Him because He first loved us. Now there are many messages that
have been preached, many songs that have been written on faith. Many messages have been preached,
many songs have been written on the subject of love. But not as many messages preached
on the subject of hope and not as many songs written about hope. And back in, I was trying to
figure exactly the date, but back in 1970, I think it was,
Nancy and I, of course, we were in college, and we would drive
from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to Salem, Virginia, every weekend,
and I worked at a church up there. And I was the music director,
the choir director, youth director, and taught Sunday school and
all those types of things. And I knew lots of songs, like
you know lots of courses. So I knew all those courses,
too. And I knew lots of songs, but
I heard a song there that I had not heard before. My hope, blessed
Jesus, is anchored in thee. Thy righteousness only now covereth
me. Thy blood shed on Calvary now
is my plea. My hope, my hope is in thee.
Do you know that? Of course, the song is not in
our song book, but it is a beautiful song. And when I first heard
it, because somebody, and I direct, we had a choir, and I directed
the choir, and somebody said, I wish we would sing that. And
I said, well, I don't know that one. And so I asked the organist
if he would play that song, and he did, and then I loved the
music to it, and then I got looking at the words of it, and they're
just outstanding. I quoted you the first stanza.
The second stanza is, I stand on the rock that no tempest can
shake, and life from thy hand every moment I take. Thy love
shall endure when others forsake. My hope, my hope is in thee. My hope from eternity resteth
in thee. My heart, my heart deeply longs."
Sorry. My hope for eternity rests... I can't read more than writing. Well, rest somewhere. Rest in thy hand. I scribble
sometimes on post. I have little cheat notes. I
have a little scribble in here and I wrote it so small I couldn't
read. My hope from eternity rests on
thy hand. My heart deeply longs for that
fair better land. where one day complete in Thyself
I shall stand. My hope, my hope is in Thee. Wonderful Savior, all glory to
Thee. In Thee is salvation so rich
and so free. I'll shout through the ages,
my hope, my hope is in Thee. Maybe we can learn that. I bet
you know that, don't you? Wait till I come back and play
it, okay? I'd love to hear that, and it's
really got various parts to it. And so the ladies could sing
that and be a wonderful special. But it's about the believer's
hope. We have a good hope in the Lord
Jesus Christ. There are three conditions in
which sinners are to be found with regard to hope. Now turn with me to Ephesians
chapter 2. There are three conditions in
which sinners are to be found with regard to hope. Number one, the state of having
no hope. And that's where we all were
at one time. The state of having no hope,
Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 12. Paul is speaking to the Ephesian
saints of God in chapter 1. He has said before them the amazing,
sovereign, free grace of God in election, in predestination,
in redemption, in revelation. Then he gets into the second
chapter and he says, now this was your condition before God
did something for you. You were dead in trespasses and
sins, and it goes on and on and on. And now he says in verse
12 of chapter 2, that at that time you were without Christ,
being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from
the covenants of promise, having no hope. and without God in this
world. They had no expectation of future
blessings based upon the Word of God. Now, they did have a
hope. And most people you know have
a hope. They have an expectation of future
happiness. But it is a hope without a good
foundation. You've got to have a hope that's
built on a rock. A hope that will last through
eternity. You see, the apostle is not saying
here that the Ephesians before conversion had no carnal hope,
because most people do indeed have an expectation of future
happiness. But he's saying that the hope
that lost people have is a hope without a good foundation of a well-respected person in
this area who recently passed away. a very lengthy obituary
regarding this dear lady, and I suppose she did a lot of outstanding
things in her life. It was said of her, she has now
gone to see her ancestors. That's the sort of hope most
people have. A hope that is built upon morality. A hope that is built upon a good
reputation. A hope that is built upon kindness
and compassion and thoughtfulness for others. But that's a hope
without a good footing. That's a hope without a good
foundation. It's like building a house on
the sand. The Lord said, and we read to
begin with, the one who builds a house of salvation, He's talking
about, on the sand is foolish. That's foolish. And most people
that we know, people that we communicate with, people you
work with, people you live beside, many people in our families perhaps,
If you ask them if they have a good hope, and if you ask it
this way, are you going to go to heaven when you die? Well,
you know I am. Well, you think I'm a heathen
or something? You think you'd take me for an atheist? Well,
of course I have a good hope. But if you ask them, it's not
a hope built on Christ Jesus. It's not a hope built upon blood
redemption. It's not a hope built upon the
grace of God. It's not a hope built upon the
Word of God or the promises of God. It's a hope built on something
they've done. That's sand. And it's a sad thing. Because they just know everything's
alright. I just know she's in heaven. I just know he's in heaven. I can't tell you how many times
I've stood beside the casket of someone who's passed away
and I'm looking at their face and a family member says, finest
person I ever knew right there, I know she's with God. And I just, I cringe. I said, well, if they knew Christ
Jesus, they were with the Lord. A good hope isn't due to your
morality or your kindness. You see, no hope of future happiness
can be founded with any real confidence except on Christ Jesus. You build on Him, don't you?
You found it on the rock, aren't you? Surely you are. You wouldn't
be so foolish as to build on your experience. Experience can impact you a lot. So my life
was changed. A lot of people change their
lives. They get religion and they quit
their drinking, they quit this and they quit that. That's not
a good hope. A good hope is the wrought Christ
Jesus. There's your hope. See, there's no promise of salvation
and future glory given to those who do good or to those who keep
the law of God or to those who live by the golden rule. Oh,
she lived by the golden rule. That's a faulty hope. That's
an empty hope. That's a useless hope. That's
the hope of a lost person. So there's the state of having
no hope. Secondly, turn to 2 Thessalonians
chapter 2. There's the state of having a
good hope. The state of having a good hope.
All of us by nature were in the state of having no hope until
God gave us hope. God gave us an expectation of
future happiness, of glory, of being with Him, And that hope
is built on the very Word of God. Heaven and earth will pass away.
Not this Word. Not God's promises. We build
on His Word. We build on His promises. We
build on His Son. There's the state of having no
hope, and then there's the state of having a good hope. 2 Thessalonians
2 and 16. Now, our Lord Jesus Christ himself
and God, even our Father, which hath loved us and hath given
us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort
your hearts and establish you in every good word and work. I think everyone here and most
if not all of you who are watching on the internet have some sort
of hope that all will be well for you in the end. And you know, I have a hope that
all will be well for me. Don't you? You? You? And if it's a good hope, all
will be well. In fact, it is even accurate
to say, are you saved? I hope I am. Romans chapter 8
says we're saved by hope. Are your sins forgiven? I hope
they are. I live in the confidence that
they are through the blood of Christ Jesus. That's a good hope,
see. Will you dwell with the Lord
eternally someday? I sure hope so. And I have a confidence in the
Lord. He's true to His word. There's nothing wrong with that
kind of language if your hope is a good hope. So then how do I know if I have
a good hope? Well, a good hope is built upon
Christ's person and His work. You ask me, who is Christ Jesus
to me? He's my surety. Always has been. Always borne responsibility for
my eternal safety. Just like Judah bore responsibility
and surety for Simeon. When Jacob's sons went into Egypt
to get grain, he kept Benjamin at home. As far as he was concerned,
Joseph was dead. And the other ten sons went into
Egypt. Joseph had disguised himself.
They didn't recognize him. He said, who are you? You're
spies, aren't you? I said, no, we're not. Our dad
lives over in Canaan and we're hungry and we just come to buy
food. You got any more at home? Any more brothers? Well, you
ever got a younger brother? Well, I tell you what, I'm gonna
hold one of you here. I'm gonna hold him hostage. Simeon. And you other nine, you can go
back and if you tell me the truth, you bring your younger brother
to me. I know you're on the up and up. Of course, all along
he knew who they were. So they'd go back and they'd
tell Jacob. We're studying the 12 sons of
Jacob now. They tell Jacob, and Jacob says,
all of this is against me. No, you're judging by the physical
line. These things are going to work
out for you good, Jacob. He said, Joseph is not, and now
you want to take Benjamin from me? Benjamin, my youngest? Benjamin, who Rachel bore in
her death? And Reuben, the oldest, spoke
up and said, Dad, I'll take care of him. Reuben's the firstborn
from Leah. And Jacob said, no, nothing's
gonna happen. And they got more hungry. And
then Judah, Judah went to his dad and said, listen, Dad, You
send Benjamin with me, I'll be surety for him. I'll take care of him. And you
hold me responsible if I don't bring him back to you safe and
sound. I'll be surety. Judah said, I'll
be surety for Benjamin. And out of that tribe of Judah
came our great surety, Christ Jesus. And before this world
was ever made, He said to God the Father, in essence, trust
me with them. I'll bring them all home. I'll
bring all you Benjamins home to you, Father. He's my surety,
and this Benjamin is safe because somebody stood for me in the
eternal council chambers of God, even the Son of God. He's my
surety. He's my surety. He's my Savior. He's my substitute. He died in
my stead. That's what He did. What's that
song Brother James sings for us sometimes? I should have been
crucified. I should have suffered, bled
and died. I should have hung on that cross
in disgrace, but Jesus, God's Son, took my place. That substitution. He's my substitute. He was the sin offering. He died to save me. And He ever
lives to make intercession for me. My standing before God is
a good one. Because I stand on the rock because
He put me on the rock before the world began. He established
my goings. I have a good hope because I
know who my hope is. Christ Jesus. My hope is built
on Christ's person and His work and my hope is a good hope because
it's built on the Word of God. Someone said to me not too long
ago, Jim, sometimes I don't feel saved at all. And then they said at other times,
I feel saved. And in as delicate a way as I
could, I tried to tell them, that's dangerous language. because feelings are not a good
test of being saved, and the lack of feelings is not a good
test of not being saved. Luther said, feelings come and
feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. And you know how he
finished that? I trust the Word of God. Nought
else is worth believing. You can't trust your feelings.
What's your feelings got to do with it? I trust the Word of God. In fact, I would say this, I
wouldn't want to offend anybody, but when somebody says they feel
saved, That really bothers me. Because
I feel like they're looking at their own righteousness. They're
looking at their own works. When is it that you feel saved?
When you've been to church. When you've read your Bible.
You've prayed. You've been in the Your closet,
wherever it is that you feel like you meet with God and you
have devotion, you come out and your wife says to you, how do
you feel? I feel great. I just feel saved. Don't you?
And that's dangerous because it sounds
to me like what I would be concerned about is that you're looking
for Some evidence is, and you're pretty happy with what you see. And the fact of the matter is,
if we're honest, we can never be happy with the things we see
that we do because they're all polluted by sin. Therefore, we
look outside of ourselves to Him who is our righteousness. I'm always happy with Him. Always happy with Him. Probably
the nearer that we are to the Lord, if this is the right way
to say it, is when we say, I don't feel saved. I don't feel saved
at all. You know, you're looking at your
sinfulness. Well, that's really a more honest
thing. That's really a better thing
to do. But still, you can't go by your feelings. Feelings are up and feelings
are down. God's Word, just like this, never wavers. Never wavers. And I'll tell you this, my hope
is a good hope because it's based on the grace of God. If you've
got a good hope, it's based on grace. Not based on you at all. Not based on anything. It's based
on God's grace, God's covenant of grace. You read 2 Samuel 23. David talked about that covenant.
That's where he found comfort in his death. Not in what he
had done. Lord, you know I've written all
these psalms and I've strummed on my heart and I've blessed
a lot of people from my music. No! He said, I find comfort in
your covenant. It's all my desire. It's all
I want. Because all my salvation is in
there. We sang this morning. His covenant,
His oath, His covenant in His blood. Support me in the whelming
flood. My hope is a good hope because
I can tell you about it. Peter says, sanctify the Lord
God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every
man that asketh you of the reason of the hope that is within you
with meekness and fear. Can you tell me what your hope
is? Can you tell me why you have
a good hope? Well, let me give you the third
one over here in Lamentations 3. The state of hope revealed. The state of hope revealed. Or
revived, excuse me. The state of hope revived. Lamentations
chapter 3. I don't have much time to get
into this, but as you know, Jeremiah loved and cared for the people
to whom God sent him to minister. He now sees them afflicted, persecuted,
broken, taken captive. Many had died. Others were prisoners
in a foreign land. Jeremiah's heart is very heavy. Very heavy. He felt the pain of his countrymen. And then he had his own griefs
to bear. And he felt the heavy, heavy strokes of God's providence
in his own heart and life. Chapter 3, verse 9. Listen to
him talk about what God's done to him. He hath enclosed my ways
with hewn stone. He hath made my paths crooked. I don't know which way I'm even
going. He was as unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion
in secret places. He has turned aside my ways. God has pulled me in pieces.
He's made me desolate. And I wonder if maybe there's
a child of God who almost feels like Jeremiah felt. It's like the Lord's just pulling
you in pieces. All is darkness and it's just
one storm after another. That's the way it was with Jeremiah.
Look what he says in verse 12. He hath bent his bow and set
me as the mark for the arrow. He's caused the arrows of his
quiver to enter into my reins, into my heart. He says, I was a derision to
all my people, their song all the day. People mocked me. People
made fun of me. He's filled me with bitterness.
He's made me drunken with wormwood. He has also broken my teeth with
gravel stones. He's covered me with ashes. I'm covered with ashes. I'm sad
all the time, he says. I don't know anything about gladness. I don't know anything about joy.
I'm just sad all the time. And thou hast removed my soul
far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. And I said my strength and my
hope. Uh oh. My hope is perished from
the Lord. I don't even have any more hope.
Boy, that's a bad state to be in right there. I know hope is the expectation
of future good from the Lord based on His Word, but Jeremiah
says, my hope is perished. I don't even have any hope anymore.
He's in a bad way. Maybe I'm talking to somebody
who you feel just like this. He says, remembering mine affliction
and my misery, I'm miserable all the time. That's what Jeremiah
said. The wormwood and the gall, my
soul hath them still in remembrance and is humbled in me. But then he says in verse 22,
it's almost like all of a sudden, the Spirit of God snaps him out
of his doldrums. Out of his despondency. Out of
his sluggishness. He seems to have realized the
awfulness and the foolishness of his unbelief. And when I read
this and studied this, it reminded me of Psalm 73. That's the reason
I got Terry to read it. David says he's envious of the
wicked. And then he finishes up by saying,
I was so foolish. Why would I envy the wicked?
God's put them in slippery places. And it's like the Spirit of God. And the Spirit of God will do
this. And I know because this has happened
to me. He can just bring you out of
it. And just using the Word of God,
He can just bring you out of the doldrums. Your despondency. He can make everything light. where you thought before everything
was darkness. Verse 21, this I recall to mind. In other words, the things that
he's going to mention. I recall to mind, therefore,
have I hope. My hope is revived. And I'll
tell you something, the only one who can revive the hope is
the one who gave it. I know that's right. is the one
who gave it in the first place. And I would say to anybody here
this evening or somebody watching, it's like darkness is all around
you. You feel like God's knocked your
teeth out. That's what Jeremiah said. My
life is full of bitterness. I don't have any joy. I don't
have any gladness. It's like the storms. One wave
after another. Is there no end? Oh God, revive that hope. Revive
that hope. Restore unto me, David said,
the joy of Thy salvation. When we get down on ourselves,
when the trials of life seem too heavy to bear, when things
get so dark in our lives we can't see our way, may what happened
to Jeremiah happen to us. God brought some things to his
memory. Number one, to hope in God's
mercies. This is what came to his mind. Number one, hope in God's mercies. Verse 22, it is of the Lord's
mercies that we're not consumed. It is of the Lord's mercies.
Not single mercy, but mercies. Mercies. The psalmist said, I
will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever. What is mercy? It's God not giving
us what we deserve. You see, whatever happens to
you and me in this life, I'm talking about the trials now.
I'm talking about the difficulties. It isn't anywhere close to what
we deserve from the hands of divine justice. That's just a
fact. Whatever God does to you, whatever
He puts you through, whatever He does to me, whatever He puts
us through, it's nothing compared to what I deserve from divine
justice and Christ Jesus bore all of that. Thankfully, divine justice has
no issue with me. Justice is satisfied. Everything around us may be consumed everything. This world's goods,
we may lose our health, we may lose our money, we may lose our
families, but we won't be consumed. Why not? Because we've lived
right? You've missed it if you think
that's the answer. It's because of the Lord's mercies.
What kind of mercies? Well, what about covenant mercies? What about the mercy of election
unto salvation? What about the mercy of predestination
to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto Himself? What
about the mercy of redemption through the blood of Christ Jesus?
What about the mercy of forgiveness? What about the mercy of righteousness
that God has given to you? What about the mercy of justification? What about the mercy of all things
working together for your good? What about the mercy of future
glory with Christ Jesus? Hope in God's mercies. Secondly,
hope in the love of God. Look at verse 22, last phrase,
because His compassions, they fail not. His co-passions, they
fail not. His love will never fail you.
What kind of love? Eternal love? God said to Jeremiah
in Jeremiah 31 3, I've loved thee with an everlasting love.
Enduring love? What do you mean by enduring
love? The love of God is indestructible. It is indestructible. You didn't
do anything to get God's love. He said, I'll love them freely.
Hosea says that. And you can't do anything to
destroy God's love. Isn't that wonderful? Well, what
about my sins? Well, they're awful, but they're
not going to destroy the love of God. In fact, God, because
of His love for you, sent His only begotten Son. Herein is
love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His
Son to be propitiation for our sins. Satisfaction of divine
justice. His love is indestructible. And His love is forever. Having
loved His own, which were in the world, He loved them to the
end. And then hope in the faithfulness of God, verse 23. There knew
every morning His compassions, fresh every morning. Great is
thy faithfulness. Hope in the faithfulness of God.
Not in your faithfulness. God's faithfulness. God's faithful
to His purpose. God's faithful to His covenant. God's faithful to see the work
of His Son. God's faithful to all of His
promises. Get some joy from the faithfulness
of God. Now, you can... wallow around
in self-pity and, oh, I'm unfaithful, I'm unfaithful. Well, nobody's
going to argue about that. We're all unfaithful. And we
ought to be more faithful. We ought to be more believing,
more committed. There's no question about that.
But I can rejoice in God's faithfulness. He'll never fail me. He'll never
go back on His Word. And then here's something else,
verse 24, hope in Christ himself who is our portion. Look what
he says in verse 24. The Lord is my portion, saith
my soul, therefore I hope in him. I will hope in him. He's my portion. You know what
that means? He's my inheritance. Therefore, it's absolutely foolish
to speak of one believer getting a bigger inheritance than another
believer. Because the Lord's our portion.
He's our lot. He's the one who is our inheritance. All of it. All of it. And then hope in the Lord's goodness,
verse 25. The Lord is good unto them that
wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. Hope in the Lord's
goodness. Since God is always good, He's
not partially good, He's not sometimes good to you, He's always
good to you, then it's good for us to believe Him and wait for
Him. Just wait on the Lord and seek Him and find Him. And then
finally in verse 26, hope in the Lord's salvation. It is good
that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation
of the Lord. I wait for the fulfillment of
His salvation. When's that going to happen?
Well, I'm going to have to die. I'm going to have to die to experience
an additional grace to this salvation. Because then I'll be free from
sin. And someday He'll raise this
body from the grave. And then I'll be fully saved. Oh God, revive our grace. Revive
our hope. Revive our love of Your mercies.
Revive, we sing that song, revive us again. Revive the hope. You gave me hope. Now revive
it. Revive it. Remind me of who you
are and all that you've done for me. That's best thing that
happened for you. Best thing happened to me. For
God to remind us and we remember then, oh yes, look what God has
done for me through Jesus Christ. And He abides with us always.
And that's our last song, 75. Number 75, abide with me. Abide with me. Let's stand and
we'll sing this. Let's sing just a couple of stanzas.
This first stanza and the last stanza, 75. ? Abide with me ? ? Trespassing
even time ? ? The darkness deepens ? ? Lord with me abide ? ? When
other helpers ?