I was expecting special music. Also remember Brother Gary Salyer
in prayer. He had surgery and has some vision
restoration and we believe and trust that his
vision will get even better in the next few weeks. Let's bow our heads together. Lord, once again we seek your
face. This is such a critical time. in this service as we ready ourselves
before you to receive your word from your messenger. Oh God, give us the ability to
hear with faith. Oh, give us, grant unto us the
ability to believe you. to rest in you. Spirit of God, would you speak
to every troubled heart, the hearts of your people, would
you speak, peace be still. Let us know the peace that passes
understanding. Let us know the rest of resting
in our Lord Jesus who has entered into His rest, having finished
the work of redemption for all of your people. We beseech you, Lord, to speak
to each of us today. Give us a great confidence in
the Son of God the only Savior of sinners. Let us once again
see the government of our Lord and King, that He governs over
all things for the good of His people to fulfill your eternal
purpose. Let us join in the worship of
our God as these redeemed people out of Egyptian bondage did after
they crossed the Red Sea. Having witnessed the goodness
of God to them, they joined their voices together in worship and
in adoration. This morning you have drawn us
together, come from different walks of life, come from different
locations. We come to sit under the gospel. We ask that you would enable
us to be of one heart and one mind in worship, to adore our
King. to fall before Him and join in
blessing Him for redemption. Speak to me, Lord, speak through
me, and speak to each of these. And give us grace to hear what
you have to say to us today. We ask these things for Jesus'
sake. Amen. This is the first song
of the Bible. And it is the most appropriately
the song of redemption. It comes forth from the lips
of people who have been redeemed. They were, you see, a captive
people. They could not release themselves
from the Egyptian bondage, but that which they had no ability
to do, God did for them. Our God manifested his greatness
in releasing them from the bondage of Pharaoh, the cruel slavery of Egypt. He did it by means
of blood. That is, he purchased them and
he did it by means of his great power. He released them. They have now come out of Egypt. They have crossed over the Red
Sea. Such a great obstacle to them,
but no obstacle to God. There's nothing that stands in
the way of God fulfilling His purpose. Let's remember who it
is who delivered them. This is our God. This is the
only God. And let us remember who delivered
us. The Lord, the Lord who made all
things. I'm speaking to people this morning.
Many of you know something about redeeming grace. You have been
brought to believe the Lord Jesus. You have been convinced by the
spirit of grace that you have no goodness of your own. You
have no works to commend you to God. You're an object of His
grace and you know that. You're an object of His mercy
and you rejoice in that. And you have no hope in yourself. You have no confidence in your
own abilities. Your confidence is in the Lord
Jesus, that One who redeemed you. He redeemed you by His price
that was paid, that is, His own blood. You're redeemed by You're
bought with a terrible price, the death of the Son of God.
And moreover, he has redeemed you also by his power. He has
released you from that bondage of Satan. The scripture says
that he holds all men captive at his will. Satan does. 2 Timothy
2 says that. Let men rant and rave about how
we have free wills, yet Satan, Satan holds us captive. He holds us in bondage by his
will. It will take a will greater than
yours to break the will of Satan. Well, thankfully and happily,
there is a will who that greatly exceeds the will of Satan, that's
the will of God. And He has broken that bondage.
And the one who redeemed you by paying your debt of sin, He
has come to you in great power by His Spirit. And He has driven
out the enemy of your soul. He has evicted him. and He has
established His own grace and His own mercy and His own salvation
within your heart. You've been brought to bow to
the King. You've been brought to believe
Him. You've been brought to rest in Him. You know something of
the preciousness of the forgiveness of sins, that you're reconciled
to God. There was no reconciliation to
God by your own efforts, by your own deeds. He saved you. Who saved you? God saved you.
How did He do it? By grace. By grace are you saved
through faith. And even that's not of yourselves,
it's the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should
boast. and therefore being an object
of God's redeeming grace and mercy, you can enter into this
particular song of the saints. And as we read through, as Ron
read through this passage for us, this song of redemption,
and as we followed him through the scriptures, did you notice
this? There wasn't one word of Israel
working with God or Israel cooperating with God? In other words, there's
no word of self. Well, self is left out of this. You see, that's what real worship
is. This is what real adoration is. It's when our self is left out
and God only receives all the glory. You see, here's what's wrong
with so much of so-called worship today. There's self involved. But I ask you, you who know God,
you who know the truth, you who are very acquainted with the
word of God, is there any way in which self
enters into salvation? Did self choose you? Did self redeem you? Did self regenerate you? Is self preserving you? Has self
justified you? Will self glorify you? And the answer, of course, is
no. And therefore, throughout all of these verses, as Ron read
to us, there isn't anything about self in this. You've got to take
self out of this equation of salvation. There's no room for
self. There's no room for glory. For
of God are you made, wisdom, Christ is made unto you, wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, that according
as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. What
have you ever done to be gloried in? What have you ever done that
God would take note of that? What contribution have you made? What contribution did Israel
make to their redemption? Did they lift up their hand against
the Egyptians and against Pharaoh? Did they get to the Red Sea and
then in and of themselves do something to cause that wide
path to open up for them all the way across the sea? They
did nothing. There's no room for boasting
here. There's no room for self. Let's
get self out of it. And this is what is necessary
as we meet together every time for worship. We've got to get
ourselves out of it to where we adore Him only. You know,
as you read all of this, it's God who release them from their
bondage. It's God who redeemed them. It's
God who took their enemies and dealt with them severely. It's
all of the Lord. And Israel has nothing of which
to boast. Israel has nothing of which to
glory. They therefore must, if they're
going to worship, if they're going to glory, they've got to
glory in the Lord. And you and I who know of His
salvation, who have experienced the mighty power of His grace,
who have been brought to the Lord Jesus, we understand, don't
we? We know, don't we? This is not
of us. Why, we would be anywhere else
in this world. in religion, or perhaps in open
wickedness, or just in total neglect of God, would be anywhere
else this morning, except right here under the sound of the gospel,
if it weren't for God. Now, you know that's true. Therefore, we can enter into
this song of Moses and visualize the song of redemption. They
said, the Lord redeemed us. The Lord purchased us and He
dealt with our enemies very severely. Well, where are your enemies?
They're sunk to the bottom of the Red Sea. They'll never bother
you again, that's what He says. I've dealt with them. He did
what we could not do. He defeated every enemy of our
souls. Satan, our enemy? Oh yes, our
Lord Jesus dealt a fatal blow to his head when he died upon
the cross of Calvary. But what about our own sinfulness?
Our own iniquities? Oh, he dealt with those too.
For all of those were made to meet upon him. They were laid
upon him by Jehovah, God our Savior. And our Lord Jesus bore
those away into a land uninhabited. He saved us. He redeemed us. He delivered us. And I'll tell you, those only
can sing the song of redemption who've experienced the reality
of God's salvation. Oh, that the church on earth,
we're more engaged in the worship of our God, like the church in
heaven. And we do worship, and I understand
that. We do worship, we seek God's
face, we seek to honor Him. But you know and I know our worship
is, well, it's filled with sinfulness. There's much weakness in our
worship. Won't it be wonderful when we enter into that land
of everlasting joy and happiness? and we can lift up our voices
together in the song of redemption, and our minds will be fully,
fully engaged in worship. Won't that be wonderful? Now,
maybe for a few minutes, we can focus upon the things of God,
but we all know how easily distracted we are. You know that. Anybody who says, oh, I'm never
distracted. Not me. Not me, preacher. You're
not being honest with yourself. I tell you, it's a testament
to the greatness and the grace of God that he keeps us, that
he preserves us. It's not us, and we know that. It's not us. Oh, that the praise of our Lord
would echo on this earth as it echoes throughout heaven. The Lord Jesus himself, he is
the object of our worship, he's the subject of our worship, he's
the authority of our worship, and he himself is all the power
of our worship. Lord, help us to honor you. Whenever
I come before you to preach, that's always my prayer. Lord,
help us to truly worship. Help us to adore. As the Israelites looked at the
vanquished Egyptian army, as they gazed upon the dead bodies
upon the shore of the Red Sea, And as they observed their own
safety, they looked at themselves. Here we are. We were over there. And we were over there, us and
our forefathers for hundreds of years. That's where we were.
That's where we were, but bless the name of God, we're not where
we were. We're not there anymore. Oh,
we're still in this world, but we're confident of a sure standing
due to the work of our God Himself. Little wonder then that they
lift their voices together, and I'm sure as they sang out, their voices must have just soared
when they got to verse 11. And they sang out, who is like
unto thee, O Lord, O Jehovah, our Savior? Who is like unto
thee, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in
holiness, and fearful in praises, doing wonders? Verse 12, thou
stretchest out thy right hand. And what happened? The earth
just swallowed them. Verse 13, thou in thy mercy,
literally thou in thy loving kindness, hast led forth the people which
thou hast redeemed. thou hast guided them in thy
strength unto thy holy habitation. Let me set forth a few things
to you this morning based upon these three verses
of scripture. First of all, God alone is God. Who is like unto thee, O Lord,
among the gods? Now they had observed all the
gods of Egypt. All the Egyptians had a bunch
of gods. They had a god for everything.
In fact, the man who sat upon the throne was a god himself,
Pharaoh. He was a god to the Egyptians.
When the Israelites were on the other side of the Red Sea, they
had come right there to the very edge of that mighty body of water. And there was the last God that
they would ever see of the Egyptians, Baal Zephon. And I've said to
you before, the job of Baal Zephon, he was put up in the tower. And
he was to keep watch. And it was his job to make certain
that all the servants of Egypt, all those who were in bondage
in Egypt, all those slaves in Egypt, they all stayed in. His job was to not let a one
of them escape. That was the job of Baal-ziphon. That was the last god they saw,
who was utterly powerless. because all the gods of men are
utterly powerless. Who is like unto thee, O Lord,
among the gods? All the gods of the Egyptians
were man-made. Oh, they had eyes, but they couldn't
see. They had ears, but they couldn't
hear. They had hands, but they couldn't
move or work. They had feet, but they couldn't
walk. They had absolutely no ability. They were just the images wrought
by the hands of men from men's wicked imagination. Where do
idols come from? Where do false ideas about God
come from? From man's wicked imagination
and his own heart. But they could not do anything
to keep Israel within the borders of Egypt. They had no power whatsoever. The Lord burst through. And as usual, walked up to the waters. It was the Lord who opened the
path, miles wide. so that about two and a half
million people could walk right through the Red Sea and never
get their shoes muddy and arrive safely on the other side, on
the glory side of the Red Sea, the glory side. And then they
look back and then the Lord just washed the enemies of Israel
into eternity. and they perished. He alone is the Lord. He has
no rival. This is the God who says He'll
do His will in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants
of the earth, and no man can stay His hand or say unto Him,
What doest thou? He is God alone. He has no equal. He asks in Isaiah chapter 40,
to whom will you liken me? Who do you think I'm like? Who do you think is like me?
Why he exercises his will everywhere, always fulfilling his purpose
and doing his will. Look with me in Isaiah chapter
45. Isaiah chapter 45. Who is a god like to our Lord? He stands alone. This is the
God we worship, not the mamby-pamby God of today's religion, who
wants to do some things but men won't let him. whose will is
dependent upon the willingness of men to cooperate with him. That's not the God of the Bible.
That's not the God that we must deal with. The God of the Bible,
the God of all things, governs all things to fulfill his will.
There's nothing that lives or moves or exists that is not under
his sovereign authority. Nothing happens by accident.
There is no luck. There's God. When will people
ever learn that? Well, I'll tell you when they'll
learn that, when he's revealed to them. That's when they'll
learn that. This is the maker of heaven and
earth. We're talking about the one who governs all things, the
one who saves sinners, not the one who wants to save, not the
one who put by Christ's death all men in a savable position,
but the God who saves. He's saved from old eternity.
He's a just God. He's a Savior exercising His
will in all things, in all big things and all little things
too. Listen to the words of the Lord
through the pen of Isaiah. Look at Isaiah 45, 20. Assemble yourselves and you come
and you draw near together ye that are escaped of the nations.
They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image
and pray to a God that cannot save. You think about those Egyptians. Those Egyptians who prayed to
Baal Zephon, oh, keep us safe and keep our servants here within
our borders. Oh, Baal Zephon, don't let any
of them escape. They have no knowledge, people
who do that. And the people today of our generation
who pray to a God who cannot save, they do that because they
have no knowledge. And the knowledge of the living
God can only come by means of revelation only. You see, you take a pagan out
in the forest Let's say you go into the deepest
part of Africa, let's say, and he finds a watch. When he looks
this thing over, here's a watch, and he takes the face off of
it, and he looks at these little gears inside of it. He can be
amazed at this watch, but he doesn't know the watchmaker. And you see, even people of our
day, they can behold creation. They can see how things are moving
all around this world, but they have no knowledge of the one
who's moving all things. He can only be known by revelation. And we only know God in the Lord
Jesus. For this is life eternal. Listen to the words of the Savior.
This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true
God in Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. He has to be revealed. This is the day, and Billy Graham
said this over and over again, the hour of decision, the hour
of decision, you go ahead and decide all you want, but you'll
only know God by divine revelation. And He doesn't have to reveal
Himself to you, that's something else. That's up to Him. He makes Himself known to whom
He will. So, he said, why do you pray
to a God that cannot save? You have no knowledge. That's
the problem. You have no knowledge. Look at
verse 21. Tell me and bring them near. Yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared this from ancient
time? Who's told it from that time?
Have not I the Lord? There's no God else beside me. Did you hear Him? There is no
God else beside me, a just God and a Savior. If he's gonna save,
he's got to save in a just way, in the fulfillment of his justice
in the death of the Lord Jesus. He said, there's none beside
me. There's no God beside me. No wonder. Moses said to Israel
in Deuteronomy chapter 6 and verse 4, Hear, O Israel, the
Lord our God is one Lord. One Lord. Micah says, Who is a God like
unto thee? Who indeed? Our God is not to be pitied.
He's not to be felt sorry for like the God of modern religion. Our God is to be worshiped because
He is God. He sits on no pretend throne. He doesn't just say with empty
words, I'm God. He conducts himself as God, doing his will everywhere. Everywhere. He alone is God. There are many angels. There
are many men. There are many idols. There are
many of the other creatures upon the face of God's earth, but
there's just one God. And here's what we read in 1
Timothy, for there is one God to whom you must answer. There's
one God who will do with you as He will. There's one God,
wait a minute, and one Mediator. There's a Mediator with this
one God. It isn't as though we cannot
come to this God. There's a way to this God. There's
one who stands between guilty people like us and this Holy
God, this one God. There's one Mediator between
God and man. That's the man Christ Jesus. I say, he alone is God. Go back to our text. Let me show
you something else here. First of all, he alone is God.
Secondly, he is glorious in holiness. That's what verse 11 says in
the middle. Who is like thee, glorious in
the holiness. You know, holiness is more than
an attribute of God. It is more than a characteristic
of God. If I could put it this way, it's
His nature. It's His nature. He's glorious
in holiness. He's honorable. He is full of
majesty and He is magnificent in His holiness. What is holiness? It is the love
of all things pure and the hatred of all things evil. That's holiness. I can't begin to enter into the
holiness of God. I do know this, most people today
have no idea whatsoever as to what holiness is. I hear people talk about holy
living, holy manners. Let me tell you
something. Holiness is not how you comb
your hair. It doesn't have anything to do
with the clothes that you wear. Holiness is not doing this or
ceasing to do something else. That's not what holiness is.
Holiness is a love of purity and a hatred of anything that
is to any degree less than purity. That's what holiness is. And I'm going to tell you something. Follow peace with all men is
what the apostle said in Hebrews, and holiness, without which no
man can see God. You go ahead and keep your ideas
of holiness according to the definitions of religion today,
and you'll miss God. You've got to be holy. Is that right? Does a man have
to be holy to be approved of God? Well, you know he does. God can't approve of anything
to any degree less than holy. Well, how can I? And I drink
iniquity like water. And so do you. And our minds
aren't pure. Our actions aren't pure. Our motives are not pure. Don't
talk to me about how holy you are. Oh, I'm a holy man. I'm a holy woman. There is one
who is holy, and that's God. Hear the seraphim saying, holy,
holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts. The whole earth is full
of his glory. And the only way he can have
anything to do with you, the only way you can be embraced
by a holy God is for you to be holy yourself. And the question is, how can
that which is unholy be holy? That's the $64,000 question. I quoted already out of 1 Corinthians
1. Who of God, that is Christ Jesus,
is of God. Now listen. He is made of God
to us to be wisdom. He's my wisdom. He's my wisdom. Righteousness. He's all my righteousness. Mine
are filthy rags. But He is righteousness. He not
only does righteous, He is righteous. He's the Lord our righteousness.
He's our wisdom, God made Him to be so. He's our righteousness,
God made Him to be so. And then the third word is sanctification. That's holiness. God has made that man who came
into this world and who saved his people by his bloody sacrifice
and resurrection, God has made him to be our holiness. In his son, I'm holy. Well, you don't look holy. What
does holiness look like? Our minds are so distorted by
religion that's called holiness. a denomination called the holiness
denomination, or the church of God, or Baptists say, there are
holy people over there, really. Well, they don't smoke, and they
don't drink, and they don't go to dances, and they don't go
to the shows, and they're a holy people. Those things don't have
anything to do with holiness. Holiness is a love of purity. And in the Lord Jesus Christ,
I love purity. He is my purity. He is my holiness. And in him, I hate every evil
thing. But Jim, you just finished saying
you're a sinner. I know I am. My sanctification,
my wisdom, my righteousness, my sanctification and my redemption
is seated at the right hand of God. He's all things for me that God
demands. Do you understand that? You see,
this is why we always set forth the Lord Jesus in Him crucified. He's all God demands and He's
all we need. We are complete in Him. And I'll tell you, if that truth
will ever take hold of your heart, it'll give you some peace. You
won't be restless, you won't be struggling. You won't wonder,
well, does God accept me? He accepts his people in Christ
Jesus and nowhere else. I'm telling you the truth. Oh,
he's glorious in holiness. His name is holy. Holy and reverend
is his name. Don't call me reverend. Don't
ever call any preacher reverend. Would you remember that? Don't
call preachers reverend. All preachers are irreverends. That's what they are. We're not
reverend. Reverend and holy is his name. Let's get that straight. I know
men love these titles. And I'm just, when I write an article anymore,
I don't even put Pastor Jim Byrne. I just put Jim Byrne. I'm just
kind of sick of titles. We just, that kind of, we want
to be elevated. We want to be exalted. No more
titles. I'll have to tell Suzanne in
the bulletin, no more titles. We're not worthy of them. But
he is. He is. The unmistakable evidence that
he's glorious in holiness is the works that he does, the works
of judgment. Do you see in the Bible how God
deals with anything less than purity? Adam and Eve, God put
them out of the garden. You know why? Because he's glorious
in holiness. We just studied in Genesis six
through eight how God sent a worldwide flood. Why'd he send that flood? Because God is glorious and holiness. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
and all the cities of the plains. Why'd he do that? Because God
is glorious and holiness. And then you look back yonder
2,000 years ago, you see that man hanging on a cruel Roman
cross in nakedness, covered with the spittle of the religious
leaders of the day? that is mingled with His own
blood that gushed forth from Him. Do you see Him hanging there,
His back having been beaten and its furrows on His back? You
see Him there with His hands outstretched and His feet nailed
to a cross. And do you hear him cry out in
the darkness? A voice is heard through the
darkness. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? And you discover in the 22nd
Psalm and verse three, why God forsook him. For thou art holy. And so we read in Romans 8, God
spared not his own son, but lifted him up for us all.
Because God is holy, Christ died. And because God is holy, acceptance
with him on the basis of creature merit is utterly ridiculous. You go ahead and do the best
you can. And I'm trying to live right, preacher. Well, just have
at it. Everybody ought to try to live right. Ain't no question
about that. You got some bad habits you need
to stop? Well, stop them. Let me tell
you something. That's not holiness. Until you know Him who is holy,
you're unholy. I'll tell you what's got to happen.
The spirit of grace must bring you to what Isaiah calls the
way of holiness. That way of holiness, which is
the Lord Jesus, the only way to God, that one who is the truth,
in that one who is the life. And then the song says, God is
fearful in praises. He can't be really praised unless
we fear him. Where is the reverence for the
Lord today? Well, I know it's not in false
religion. The reverence for the Lord, for
the Lord who is sovereign, for the Lord who is independent,
I don't know where this idea came from that God needs us. He doesn't need any. God's independent. He got along fine before we ever
got here. He'll get along fine when we're
gone. God's independent. We're dependent. That's why I
don't like it. What kind of Baptists are you?
Somebody says, we're independent Baptists. No, I'm not an independent
Baptist. I'm a dependent Baptist. I'm
dependent upon Him. That one that you're dependent
upon. I'm dependent upon Him for my next breath. I'm dependent upon Him to have
the strength to scratch my head. And I'm dependent upon Him to
know Him. I'm dependent upon Him to be
saved by Him. I'm dependent upon Him to have
all my true needs fully supplied. I'm dependent upon Him. He's fearful in praises. He's
the Lord. He's independent. I praise Him
for who He is. God's not like who you think
He is. Most likely God's not like who
your grandmother said He was, or your grandfather, or maybe
your father or your mother, I don't know. God is who He says He is. The sooner we can get away from
all the foolish talk about men's ideas of God and get in the Word
of God and find out who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the
gods, better off we'll be. You see, He tells us. He hadn't
hid himself from us. He's revealed himself. Get in
the book. Read of who God is. And this is the God who's to
be feared, referenced, standing in awe of God. He's not your
co-pilot. Fool you with that kind of talk.
What stupidity. God's my co-pilot. I got news for you. If he's your
co-pilot, you got the wrong guy. He doesn't need any co-anything. No, he is the pilot. He is the captain of our salvation. And he says here, he does wonders. Is creation a wonder? Oh my. What about divine providence?
Oh yeah. What about your salvation? Oh, what a wonder that he had
saved me. And you know what he does with
his enemies? Verse 12, he swallows them. Now if you stand against
him, now you hear me, All of you here and all of you on the
internet, you stand against Him. You don't bow to Him. You don't
worship Him. You don't believe Him. You don't
honor Him. Let me tell you something. Earth's
going to swallow you up one of these days. His earth. He's going
to make it open up. You're going to die. He's going
to cast you into hell, close the earth back up over top of
you. That's what he does with his enemies. Will you remain
his enemy? Permit me to say this, my friend,
you're a fool. You're a fool to stand before
this God. Who can stand before Him? Who
can endure His wrath? Oh, God, help us to bow before
Him, to believe His Son. It's a gift
of faith. And then he says this in verse
13, thou hast in thy mercy and thy loving kindness, you've led
forth thy people which thou hast redeemed. Well, if he's redeemed,
you know he's gonna lead them forth. He's not gonna take them
back there in the wilderness and not take them all the way
to the glory land. And he says this, and I'll quit.
Thou hast guided them in thy strength, because they
don't have any. You are the people of God, rejoice
in it. You don't have any strength.
But he says, my strength is made perfect in your weakness. Thou hast guided them in thy
strength unto thy holy habitation. Watch this. I'll give this to
you and I'll quit. He speaks of getting to that
glorious destination of thy holy habitation as having already
happened. Thou hast guided them. Thou hast
guided them. You read Romans chapter eight
once again. that those whom he foreknew and
loved, he predestinated to be conformed by the image of his
son. Whom he predestinated, them he called. Whom he called, them
he also justified. And whom he justified, them he
also, what's that next word? Glorified. It's as good as done. He is guiding us, listen, in
the Lord Jesus, our Savior, He has guided us all the way to
His habitation. Who is a God like unto our Lord? Oh, worship Him in the beauty
of holiness for His glory and for our good. Let's pray. Thank you, Father,
for the gospel of redeeming grace, for the good news of the Savior
of sinners. And if Satan should whisper in
the ears of any of your people at any time and say, you're not
a saint, you're a sinner, then we would do well to respond,
yes, I'm a sinner. And that's good news for Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I'm chief. Lord, we admit what we are. We're sinners. And we confess
our great and our ultimate need of the Lord of all glory, the
God of salvation. We bow before you. We're humble
beggars. We have nothing to bring to you,
no merits to present to you. We're just laden with iniquity. But Lord, your greatest glory
is seen in the salvation of sinners. Oh, God of grace, glorify yourself
in saving us. And it shall be our delight for
the rest of the days that you give us on this earth to bless
your name. And then as we enter into the
portals of everlasting glory, to lift up our voices with all
the saints of God who are already there. And then sing together
worthy is the lamb that was slain. who has redeemed us unto God
by Thy blood. Bless this message to the good
of some poor needy soul. And Lord, here's one poor needy
soul talking to you right now. Bless it to my good and for these
others as well. For the glory of your name and
for your son's sake I ask these things.