Psalm 116. I know you all enjoyed Gabe and
appreciate Obie and Stacia taking him home and watching out for
him, taking care of him, appreciate that very much. I love the Lord
because he hath heard my voice and my supplications, because
he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon
him as long as I live. The sorrows of death can pass
me, and the pains of hell get hold upon me. I found trouble
and sorrow. Then called I upon the Lord,
on the name of the Lord. O Lord, I beseech Thee, deliver
my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous,
yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preserveth the simple.
I was brought low, and He helped me. Return unto Thy rest, O my
soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with Thee. For thou
hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my
feet from falling. And I will walk before the Lord
in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I
spoken. I was greatly afflicted. I said
in my haste, all men are liars. What shall I render unto the
Lord for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation
and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto
the Lord now in the presence of His people. Precious in the
sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. O Lord, truly
I am Thy servant, I am Thy servant, and the son of Thine handmaid.
Thou hast loosed my bonds. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice
of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. I
will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all His
people, in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of
thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord. It's Him. He is mine. I am my Beloved's
and my Beloved is mine. I am His. Down there in verse
12, The psalmist asked, what shall I render unto the Lord
for all His benefits toward me? What shall I render unto the
Lord? Now what in the world is it that
we could ever possibly give God? What could we give Him? Our righteousness
adds nothing to Him. If we were sinless, it would
add nothing to Him. No matter what shape we're in,
we add nothing to God. So what are we going to render
to Him? What can we give Him? But every believer feels in his
heart, in his soul, an infinite indebtedness to the Lord. He
feels this infinite indebtedness to the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh,
old Robert Murray Machine had a hymn that he wrote. How much
I owe, you never know how much I'll win. Said yonder son, Shirley's
got it on her phone. I was looking for it today and
couldn't find it. I'll never know how much I owe. And I know
this, and we're so indebted, we feel so indebted to God for
His grace. Oh, for His grace, how it's so
gracious to us. You keep Psalm 116, look over
here at Psalm 40. You know, and this is a deeply
considered, personal consideration. What shall I render? He says,
I, and I have to, you know, that's what, what will I render unto
the Lord for what he's done for me, for the benefit that he's
given me? What can I render unto him? Look
what he said here in Psalm 40 in verse five. Many, O Lord my
God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy
thoughts which are toward us. Not only did He do many wonderful
works, but He had thoughts, thoughts toward us. My word, you mean
God thinks of us? Said He had thoughts toward us?
And then He says, they cannot be reckoned in order unto thee.
And if I would declare and speak of them, there more than can
be numbered. So what am I gonna render? Where
am I gonna start? But look back over here at Psalm
116. But this is a deeply personal consideration. What shall I render? What shall I render to the Lord? What shall I render? What shall
I give him? But he says, what shall I render unto the Lord
for all of his benefits toward me? I'm just going to go through
this psalm here and look at just a few of the benefits that he
gives us. And oh, what benefits, what blessings. and how we benefit by the grace
of God, what we benefit through our Lord Jesus Christ, what we
benefit through his death, what we benefit through his blood,
what we benefit through his righteousness. And look what he says here. The
first thing he says, what have he benefits toward me? He hath
an inclined ear, a listening ear. In verse two, because he
hath climbed his ear unto me. I have mentioned this so many
times. I did down in Joseph this last weekend. And when an inclined
ear, that means it's a listening ear. It's a listening ear. And
every one of us has, some people have hearing problems. Some people
speak so soft that you got to have them speak again or get
real close to them to understand what they're saying. Well, God
has a listening ear. He's inclined his ear. He's bent
his ear down. A listening ear. And look what
he says. He hath heard, verse 1, He hath
heard my voice and my supplications. He's heard my voice. If all of
us call on the Lord, He hears my voice and He hears your voice.
Whoever voice is calling on Him, whatever voice is speaking to
Him, whatever voice that Christ is saved and redeemed by His
precious blood, whatever voice and whatever supplications, what
you ask for, what you plead for, what you beg for. He said he
hears them and he bends down to listen. He bends down to listen. You know, When our, when babies
are little, especially grandkids, you know, you lay them down and
you just sit there and just, just, just, just go nuts over
them. Every time they go, ooh, ah,
ah, ee, ah, you know, you just go, you just sit there and listen
at them. Oh, did you hear that? Did you hear that? We listen
to every little beep they make. And we're just overwhelmed by
it. Oh, that's a, well, if that's the way we are, imagine what
God does when he hears us. Sometimes it's just a groan,
sometimes it's a word, sometimes it's a cry, sometimes it's a
prayer, sometimes it's asking for something on behalf of somebody
else, asking for something for ourselves. But he bends down
to listen. And here he listens with compassion,
compassion. And he listens with care. He
cares about us. He really does care about us. And I tell you, this is what's
so blessed about it, that He hears our voice and our supplications,
is that He's got the ability to do something about it when
we speak to Him. He can do something. If I call
on you, you might be able to do it, you might not. But God
can do. God can do. And let me show you
another one. Here's one of his benefits, not
only an inclined ear, here's my voice and my supplication,
but he saved us from death. Look what he says in verse three.
The sorrows of death come past me and the pains of hell gat
up on me. Look down in verse eight. He
said, for thou hast delivered my soul from death. I'm telling
you, that's a bit, you talking about a benefit. dead in trespasses
and sins with no ability to listen, no ability to come, no ability
to do anything and Paul talked about over in 2 Corinthians 1.9
he said, I had this so we had so great a death, so great a
death that I thought this is it, this and this is great and
then I'll pass the sentence of death on myself. and he said
it was so great a death and that God saved me and delivered me
from this so great a death and what in the world is a great
death well it was a great death when our father Adam died because
when he died every single one of us died in him when he sinned
against God we sinned against God There ain't but two men got
views in this world. That's the Lord Jesus Christ
and Adam, and both of them representative men. And our Lord Jesus Christ,
we died in Adam, and we had no hope in Adam. And I tell you
what, that's why our Lord says you must be born again. But He
said He delivered us from this death. And what caused it to
be a great death? Because we sinned greatly. Oh,
how we sinned so greatly. I wonder how many sins we committed
today? How many sins we committed today?
We commit sins we're not even conscious of. That's our part
and parcel. But He delivered us from so great
a death of great sins. And it was great, this death
was great because it was an eternal death. I mean, if Christ hadn't
intervened and God hadn't saved us and delivered us from death,
it would have been an eternal death. And I can't imagine an
eternal death. I can get my head around an eternal
life. I can get my head around being
with Christ forever and ever. I can believe God when He says
that I can go be with the Lord Jesus Christ, that He saved me,
and that I'll walk and talk with Him one of these days. That I'll
sit down at the marriage supper of the Lamb. That the Lamb Himself
will sit and serve all of us. I can believe that but for somebody
to leave this world and go into an eternal death this is one
of the God's blessed mercies to us that we know people that
we know they died and they know that they died without God they
died without Christ and they died without hope we know that
but God does not let us enter into that some way somehow but
he lets us enter into a believer going home he lets us rejoice
over believers going home But oh, he saved us from this. And
great, this great death is on us because there was none to
help. But one of these days, one day, I said one of these
days, one day, the scripture says, he hath quickened, quickened,
give life to them who are dead in trespasses and sins. He quickened
us together, gave us life together with the Lord Jesus Christ. We
was like Lazarus in the tomb. We were stinking, we were corrupt. Don't take away the stone. And
then the Lord Jesus stood outside the tomb and he said, come forth. And you know what happened? You
came forth. And God had been taking off them
red clothes ever since. He'd been taking them off. He
said, loose him and let him go. And God loosed us and let us
go. No wonder the apostle said, oh
death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The strength of sin, the strength
of sin is the law. Well, Christ fulfilled the law
for us, so strength has no sin on us. Thanks be unto God, which
always giveth us the victory, giveth us the victory. And I
tell you what, God delivered us, saved us. And that's what
that word deliver means. It means salvation. had been
salvation then look what else he said in verse seven here's
another here's another one of his benefits look down verse
seven he says the last part of that verse for the lord hath
dealt bountifully with thee you know what david said he said
my cup runneth over with god deals you know You know, they
have these here at Thanksgiving. They have what they call these
horns of plenty. They'll have these big horns to have it stuffed
with all the stuff like the pilgrims had in that. Well, listen, God
gives us so much more. We could not begin to enter into
all the things that God dealt bountifully with us. And look
how He dealt with us in verse 5. Gracious is the Lord. This is the first bounty that
He gave us, grace. He's the gracious. He come and
He gave us grace. He dealt with our soul in grace.
He came to us in grace. He came to us and did something
for us that we could not do for ourselves. And if it wasn't for
the grace of God, there'd not be a soul on this earth that
we could possibly be saved. if he left salvation to us that
much and I got both them fingers together if he left that much
would be no hope for us but he said he graced and then not only
that but he says yea our God is merciful he dealt with us
in mercy mercy and abundant mercy glorious mercy and look what
he says and he's righteous and he did all this righteously he
gave us grace and he gave us mercy Didn't just say, well,
I'm going to give it to them no matter what they live or how
they act. No, no, that's not the way it
was. He gave us grace and mercy righteously in his blessed son. Our Lord Jesus Christ bore our
sins in his own body on the tree. So God righteously punished our
sins and now he can deal with us in grace and deal with us
in mercy. I want to show you something.
You keep this and look in Luke 15. Look here in Luke 15. Let's look at this together. Luke 15. Here's something that
I hope will be a blessing to you. This is when the prodigal
come home. This is when the son came home. And Noah listened. The father,
you know, first thing he said to the Lord when he said, I'm
going to go home and I'm going to go and be a servant. He said,
Lord, Father, I've sinned against you and I've sinned against heaven.
And I'll come back and I'll go to work. That's what he said.
But that's not what his daddy wanted to do. And oh, listen. His father was his way off and
his father saw him and had compassion on him, ran and fell on his neck.
And look what he said in verse 21. And the son said unto him,
Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and
am no more worthy to be called thy son. But now listen to what
happens here. Talking about bounty. But the
father said to his servants, bring forth the best robe. Wait a minute, he just got through
saying I sinned. Bring forth the best robe. Oh,
listen. And listen to what he says. You
put it on him. You put it on him. And listen
to this. And put a ring on his hand. Put
some shoes on his feet. And I ain't done yet. Bring a
fatted calf. Slay it. Kill it. Let's eat and
be merry for my son that was dead is now alive. Oh, listen. Not that way God does us. He put on the best robe that
heaven had to offer, and he put a ring on our finger, the eternal
covenant of grace. And that's what a ring is. It
shows a covenant. It shows a relationship. It's
round and it's eternal, no beginning, no end. Then he put shoes on
our feet. He shot us with the gospel of
peace. And he kills a fatted calf for us every service. And
he kills a fatted calf for us all the time. Oh, does anybody
eat better than we do when it comes to spiritual things? I
got to sit Friday and Saturday and hear Pastor David pledge
or preach. Oh my goodness. He said, oh,
God blessed him, sent such a meal. Oh, what a meal he sent. All
right, let's go back over here to Psalm 116. So there's three
things here now. Incline to error. Salvation from
death. Oh, He fills up our cup. He deals
with us in grace and mercy. And then look what else it does.
He gives us freedom. Look down at verse 16. He gives
us freedom from bondage. He said, O Lord, truly I am Thy
servant. I am Thy servant and the son
of Thine handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bonds. Thou hast loosed my bonds. He
set us free from bondage. And you know, you know the first
bondage that we were under, the most awful bondage that we were
under. And there's no way in the world
we could ever set ourselves free. And that's the bondage of sin.
We could never set ourselves free from that. But He, He hath
loosed our bondage. The Scriptures tells us that
He put away our sin, never to be remembered against us again.
And sin shall not have dominion over you. Why not? Because you're
not under law. If you want to be, when you go
under law, the first thing you do is you put yourself under
bondage. And like I've told you before, I said, if you want to
get a fight started at the house, lay down the law to your wife.
And you done got an argument started. You got a fight started. Or let the wife go home and sit
down to the law to her husband, and they got a fight. And that's
all the law can do is make you angry and bring you under bondage.
But we're not under bondage. We're not under the dominion
of sin. We're under grace. And so I'll tell you what, he
set us free. And then he saved us from the
bonds of legalism. Oh, listen, all of us have enough
legalism in us and self-righteousness in us. And that's why Paul says,
stand fast in the liberty we're with Christ has made you free.
Now, let me ask you, how many of you have been a legalist down
through the years? And a legalist is somebody who
sets up standards. So they call them standards,
they call them fundamentalism, they call them convictions, they
call them principles, they can call them a lot of things. But
what it is, is that I'm doing something that I'm not doing
something that you are doing, so that makes you worse than
me. And I tell you what, legalism is a horrible thing. Oh, it's
a horrible thing. to be under the law, to go under
the law, to set yourself up above somebody. That's what the Pharisees
were. They were legalists in the awfulest
sense of the word. If you didn't wash your hands,
you couldn't eat. If you didn't go to the temple
a certain time, they'd put you out of the synagogue. If you
gave Christ the glory for anything, they wanted you out of the meeting.
And oh, legalism. You know what legalism is? It's
a man thinking that he's got clean hands and a pure heart
by what he does. But Paul said in Galatians 6,
4, stand fast, therefore, in the liberty, freedom that Christ
has set you free. He set us free from legalism.
He set us free from it. And then the bonds of tradition.
Shirley and I was talking about that earlier. Oh, the traditions.
Oh, the traditions. All of us had a tradition. You
know why most churches do what they do is because that's the
way everybody's always done it. They never questioned it. They
never questioned why people did this thing, why people went to
the front, why people had altars, why people had testimony services,
why people were dressed a certain way and why they was against
this and why they was for that. People never questioned those
things. But when God confronts you with the gospel, God confronts
you with the grace of God, God confronts you with sin and what
it really is, and confronts you with yourself, you want to be
done with anything, anything that takes away from His glory.
You don't want no traditions. Paul talked about the tradition
of the gospel, that tradition of holding to the truth. But
all the traditions that we had. and all the things that God saved
us from tradition. And then He saved us from the
bonds and bondage of the world and its opinions. Who in the
world cares what the world thinks? Do you care about the opinions
of the world? Do you care about the opinions
of the world? What the world thinks about anything?
what he thinks about religion, what he thinks about politics,
what he thinks about social issues. Listen, this world would not
know God if it met him in the middle of the road. They're not
interested in him. They're interested in their opinion,
their feelings, their emotions, and their accomplishments, and
what they're going to do, and where they're going to end up. Listen, the world This has happened. I was gone for several days,
she was gone for several days, we turned on the news, picked
up right where we left off several days ago. I'm going to quit watching
it. It'll just stress you out. You'll
get aggravated. And by the way, we don't care
what they think, but I tell you what, I impose my thoughts on
what them fellas think though. What in the world, what's the
matter with these people that you think? Well, I know what's
the matter with them. They're the world. What do we
glory in? We glory in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ. All right. You know, we become
bond slaves now. Look what he said in verse 16.
Oh Lord, truly I am thy servant. Oh, we become bond slaves to
our Lord Jesus Christ. And you know what? When he sets
us free from this bondage, you know what he does when we become
bond slaves? He sets us free to serve him,
to honor him, to worship him, to call upon him. And we come
with boldness into the throne of grace. He set us free to worship. Oh my. And then let me give you
this. That's four things that benefits
that he's give us here. Now, what shall I render unto
him? What shall I render unto him? Look, it says in verse one,
I love the Lord. I will love him. And you know,
why will we love the Lord? Why will we love the Lord? The
simplest answer is we love him because he first loved us. Herein is love, not that we loved
God. No, we didn't love God, but that
he loved us. and sent his son to be an atoning
victim, to propitiation for our sins. Ah, listen, this idea that
God loves everybody, if God loved everybody, what in the world
does the love of God mean to anybody? But oh my, I love him. Our Lord Jesus Christ, he says,
greater love than no man hath this, than he laid down his life
for his friend. Ah, bless his name. Now, so,
I love him. I don't love him like I want
to, don't love him like I should, but I do, and I know you do,
and here's the thing about it. One of these days, we'll love
him like we will. We'll love him like he's worthy
of being loved. We'll get there to glory, and then there won't
be none of this to deal with. Won't be none of this to deal
with. And all with unseating heart. See the Lord Jesus Christ. Then look what else he says.
And listen, he says in verse two, he says the last part of
the verse, therefore will I call upon him. I'm going to call upon
him. How long are you going to call on him? As long as I live.
How long are you going to call on him? As long as I live. As
long as I live. Oh, and you know what? You have
to do it. You can't help it. Can you not
call on the Lord? Can you stop yourself from calling
on the Lord? Can you keep yourself from calling
on the Lord? I have to do it. I can't help
but do it. And here's the thing about it,
calling on the name of the Lord. We don't call upon the name of
the Lord to change him. We call on the name of the Lord
to change us. You know, people say all the
time, prayer changes things. No, no, no. Listen, prayer doesn't
change God, it changes us. And that's why we go, and one
of the last things we say after we get through praying, Lord,
if it be thy if it pleases you. Ain't that what we say? And that's
why we call upon the name of the Lord. Oh, listen, it changes
me and it conforms me. And that's why, you know, when
the apostles and all them disciples started walking away from the
Lord Jesus Christ, and you know what he said? He said, I told
you that no man can come unto me except my Father which giveth
him draw me. And it's only those who come
to me it's been given to me to come to me. And they said, this
is a hard saying. Who can hear? And they turned
around and started walking away. That ain't fair. I was talking
to a dear preacher friend today, and his daughter's been listening
to him. She'd been downloading some messages
off of Sermon Audio. She'd been listening to him,
said, I just wanted to hear your voice, and so I downloaded these messages
just to hear your voice. She listened for a few times,
and then she called up the other day, and she said, this election
business don't sound fair to me. But that tells you she's
listening. She heard something. And I tell
you, that's what they said. They said, oh, this ain't right,
that I can't come to you anytime I want to. I don't have the power
to come to you. I don't have the ability to come to you. No.
And they said, well, that's just too hard. I said, no, if my free
will and my power and my ability is not no good in your presence,
I'll just go do something else. And then he looked at the apostles
and says, you're going to also go away? Lord, to whom shall
we go? Thou, and that's what he said.
Thou has the words of eternal. Where are we going to go? We're
going to call on the name of the Lord. And how long are we
going to do that? As long as God lets us live and
we got our right mind, huh? You know, it's like Saul of Tarsus. When the Lord stuck him down
on the Damascus road, He was over there blind. God struck
him blind. He went over to Ananias' house
and God sent this man named Enoch and said, go over there on the
street called Straight and you'll see a fellow over there and saw
the Tarsus. And he said, oh Lord, I've heard
how mean a man he is. I've heard how he persecutes
your people. And you know what he told him?
He says, you go on over there. Behold, he's praying. He's praying. He'd always been, but oh, listen,
he's really praying now. I mean, he's praying from his
heart before he prayed from his head. Now he's calling on God. He's emptied, he's calling on
God. And oh, listen, let me show you another one of these things
that we'll render unto him. Down here in verse seven, look
what he says. Return unto thy rest, O my soul. I'm gonna rest in him. I'm gonna
rest in him. Return unto my rest, thy rest,
O my soul. Our Lord Jesus Christ, come unto
me and I'll give you rest. Give you rest. I'll give you
rest. And oh my, Augustine said this,
Lord, our souls were made for thee and they find no rest till
they find their rest in Thee. And that's why our souls won't
rest until they find their rest in Christ. There was no rest
in works religion. There was no rest in legalism.
There's no rest in church membership. There's no rest in being a preacher.
But there's rest in Christ. Rest in Him. We can actually
repose our soul in Him. You know, I tell you what, you
know when you rest? You know when you rest? When
you're tired. When you're tired. And I tell
you what, you know when you'll rest? When you get tired of sin.
When you get tired of worrying. When you get tired of being afraid.
When you get tired of the world. When you get tired of self. When
you get tired of doubts. When you get tired of worrying. And people are not going to rest
until they get tired. Tired of their self and tired
of their sin. Tired. And oh, that's why Peter
said it like this. Casting your care upon Him. All your care upon Him. For He careth for you. Take that weight off. Don't carry
it. Don't carry it. Just take it off. Take that worry,
that doubt, that fear, that anxiety, your children, and all them that
you can't do anything for, then just pray. Just take them off
and give them over to the Lord Jesus. He can carry them. And
then rest. Leave them. Take your burden
to the Lord and leave it there. Oh, just leave it there. And
let me give you another benefit, a render that we'll render unto
Him. And look down in verse nine. I will walk before the Lord in
the land of the living. Oh, this one, I'll walk with
him. Oh, listen, I'll walk with him.
You say, how in the world do people walk with the Lord? Well,
by faith. How else? By faith. Enoch walked
with God and we walk by faith. We don't walk by sight. And look
over here and keep this and look in Genesis 17. Look in Genesis
17. Oh, I'll walk with him. And ain't
it a wonderful thing to know? that you're walking with the
Lord Jesus Christ and Christ is walking with you. And I mean,
we don't, you know, there's making fun of our vice president the
other day because he says that the Lord talks to him. And I
say, the Lord speaks to me. He speaks to me through his word.
He speaks to me through preaching. He speaks to me. Well, they make
fun of that. They make fun of that. Let them
make fun of, hell be full of people that made fun of God's
people. Be full of them. But I tell you
what, we're conscious. We are so conscious of His presence. Ain't you conscious of the Lord's
presence? Oh, conscious that God, when you go to bed at night,
you're conscious that the Lord is going to have to keep you
asleep and give you the rest that you have and wake you up
in the morning, closing your rotten mind. You're conscious
that when you get up in the morning, you're conscious that this day
belongs to Him and you belong to Him. You're conscious of the
Lord. A man who knows Christ cannot but be conscious of Him
being watching His eyes on us everywhere we go. on his care
for us. And look what he said to Abraham.
When Abraham was ninety years old and nine. Ninety-nine years
old. That's young for him. Ninety-nine
years old. The Lord appeared to Abram and
said unto him, I am the Almighty God. Listen to this now. Walk
before me. Be thou perfect. How is he going to be perfect?
He said, he will perfect that which concerneth me. He told
us in Hebrews 13, He said, it's the Lord that makes us walk before
Him and fills us up and causes us to do these things. And He
said, and I'm going to make my covenant between me and you. Oh, thank God, thank God. No
wonder Paul said it like this. Why should I fear what man shall
do unto me? The Lord hath said, He'll never
leave me. And He'll never forsake me. Never
do it. And oh my, I've seen folks, believers,
believers, believers who by their life and by their grace and God
for them and God in them, I've seen them come to the place where
they would become unconscious. Several days before they died.
Now they couldn't call on the Lord then, but the Lord had His
eye on them. The Lord knew them. The Lord
kept them. Ain't you grateful it's that
way? We may get to the place we can call on Him, but He'll
never leave us where He, that He's not with us. All right.
And then look what He said in verse 5 here. No, excuse me,
verse 10. Back over in Psalm here. I've got to hurry. I'm
preaching too long for Wednesday night. Look what He said in verse
10. I will, I believe, therefore
have I spoken. That's what the Apostle said
in 1 Corinthians 9. I believe, therefore have I spoken.
And I believe God and I believe the record that he gave us of
his son. I believe that record. And that's
what Davis says, what I believe, that's what I'm going to talk
about. What I believe, that's what I'm going to speak. I'm
not going to be ashamed of the Lord. I'm not going to be ashamed
of his word. And I tell you what he said,
I'm going to speak of his glorious person. I'm going to speak of
His accomplished salvation. He didn't try to save, He saves! I'll speak of His definite atonement. I'll speak about Christ dying
for His sheep and His elect. That's what we got to speak. Henry Mahan used to say all the
time, you cannot tell what you don't know no more than you come
back from someplace you've never been. And a man can't tell what
he don't know. And so that's why he says, therefore,
as I believe, that's what I spoke about. And if you believe Christ,
you'll speak about Christ. If you know about grace, you'll
talk about grace. You're talking about Christ in
His person, you'll talk about Christ in His person. If you
believe that Christ died for His elect, you believe He died
for His blessed sheep, then you'll preach a definite atonement.
And oh, we'll speak of His electing grace, speak of His glorious
resurrection. Speak of His glorious ascension
to the right hand of God. Talk about His intercession,
taking up our cause and our case before God. And oh, we'll talk
about Him coming again. Oh, He's coming again. He's coming
again. And then last of all, I'm gonna
be done with this. Look what it says in verse 13.
Verse 13. I will take the cup of salvation. You know what? This is what we'll
render unto Him. And you notice everything is
that he done it for us and that's why we just give back to him
what he gave us. I will take from him. What are
you going to take from him? We take because he's the one that
does the giving. We can't give him but he sure can give us something.
And all he doesn't owe us, he isn't paying us, he gives us
freely, gives us fully. And what is it we take from him?
Look what it says here, I'll take the cup of salvation. and this cup is full full oh
my can you imagine how the cup of salvation our lord took a
cup of the dregs he says father if it'd be possible let this
cup pass from me but it didn't and then he turns around gives
us a cup of salvation oh my what's in it grace is in it mercy's
in it righteousness in it justifications in it sanctifications in it glorifications
in it Eternity's in it. And I tell you what, the more
we take, the more He gives. He gives us grace for grace.
Oh my, what a blessed Savior is Jesus. What shall I render?
Oh, He gives us lots of benefits. We're going to call on Him. We're
going to walk before Him. We're going to love Him. We're
going to take from Him. Our Father, in the precious,
holy, glorious name of our Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for allowing
us to meet here tonight. Thank you for your word. Bless
the word to the heart, to the mind, to the understanding, to
our hearts and our souls. Lord, help these things not to
slip away from us, but oh Lord, we are so thankful. Oh, how we
bless you for your benefits. And Lord, we just give back what
you give to us. You loved us, so we love you.
You called on us, so now we call on you. Oh, Lord, blessed be
your name. Amen. Amen.