Open your Bibles, please, to
Psalm 48. Many times in the Old Testament,
repeated in the New so that we know this, when we talk about
God's city, it's His people. We talk about Zion, it's His
church. When we talk about Israel, it's
His people. And that's what He's talking
about here in Psalm 48. Great is the Lord, and greatly
to be praised. in the city of our God, in the
mountain of his holiness, beautiful for situation, the joy of the
whole earth, is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, the city
of the great king. God is known in her palaces for
a refuge. For lo, the kings were assembled,
they passed by together, they saw it, and so they marveled,
they were troubled, and hasted away. Fear took hold upon them
there, and pain as of a woman in travail. Thou breakest the
ships of Tarsus with an east wind, as we have heard, so have
we seen in the city of the Lord of Hosts, in the city of our
God. God will establish it forever. We have thought of thy lovingkindness,
O God, in the midst of thy temple. According to thy name, O God,
so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth. Thy right hand
is full of righteousness. Let Mount Zion rejoice. Let the daughters of Judah be
glad because of thy judgments. Walk about Zion and go round
about her. Tell the towers thereof. Mark
ye well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that ye
may tell it to the generation following. For this God is our
God forever and ever. He will be our guide even unto
death. John 17. I started preaching
on this a couple of weeks ago. I'm going to continue for a while
out of John 17. It's one of the most beloved
passages of scripture in the Bible. I suppose that this particular
chapter has been read as much as any. But I look there in verse
1. These words spake Jesus and lifted
up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy son that thy son
also may glorify thee. As thou hast given him power
over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many
as thou hast given him. Let me review just a little. This is the high priestly prayer
of our Savior. And the Holy Spirit allows us
to enter into it, to listen, and to learn. Our Lord is leaving
His beloved disciples behind. He's going to leave them here
on earth. He's going to go away. He's going to go away. And He
said that if He went away, He wouldn't leave them comfortless,
but He'll send another comforter, the Holy Spirit. but he's believing
them behind, his beloved people, and he prays for them, those
that he's leaving behind, and he prays for us who shall believe
on me through them. Now this particular prayer here
that our Lord prays has verses one through five, there's three
parts to it. Our Lord prays mostly for himself through the first
and the fifth verse. And then in verse six through
19, he prays for his disciples, his people in particular, those
around him, those that are about him. And then in verses 20 through
26, he prays for the church, all the church that hasn't existed
and the church that existed at that time. He prays for all of
his people for all times and in all places. And you remember
our Lord's prayer starts with adoration and worship as he prays
for himself. He lifted his eyes to heaven
and spake these words, spake Jesus, showed that he loved his
father adored his father worshiped him father and prayed for himself
and then he turns around and prays for his disciples and those
who are going to believe on him through their through them you
know we quote peter and paul and john and and isaiah and moses
and and Ezekiel and Jeremiah, we quote these prophets. And
why do we quote these men? Because these are the men that
God used, that we believe the gospel through these men that
God taught. And so, you know, pray our Lord
Jesus, I pray not only for them, but for those who shall believe
on me through them. through them. And I bless God
for the day that he crossed my path with a man that knew the
gospel of the grace of God. Oh, how I bless him for that
day. I can, I can, so many things that I can bless him for. But
the day that he crossed my path with the gospel, with somebody
that was honest, somebody that cared more for the glory of God,
cared more for the truth of God, the gospel of the grace of God
than he did for my feelings or my friendship or anything else.
And I blessed God for the day he crossed my path with the gospel. And then our Lord Jesus Christ,
he says, Father, lifted up his eyes and said, Father, this shows
us his glorious relationship with his father, my father, righteous
father, holy father. Six times he calls him his father.
And then the hours come, the hours come, every event in history,
every event in history, in the history of redemption, in history,
in this world had a time fixed in the eternal degree of God.
To every time and season there is a purpose under the heavens.
And our Lord Jesus Christ says the hour has come. That hour
was fixed. This hour talks about Him coming
to His death, coming to suffer in this world. And I was on my
way up here tonight and there was a leaf, one leaf, down off
a tree and come right down in front of the car. And immediately
I thought, God fixed that leaf to fall at this time, that one
leaf, and come right by me, flittering away. I thought of that. That's how people say, well,
God don't pay attention to things like that. If He don't pay attention
to His creation, what makes you think He'd pay attention to us?
If He don't take care of the modest details that's in this
world and orders all things that's in this world, even to the falling
of a leaf or the dust in the air, if He don't take care of
those things, what makes you think He'll take care of us?
I mean, He Himself said, you know, the hairs of your head,
I've numbered them, and He calls us His beloved. Oh, thank God
that He does control these things, and that there is a time and
a purpose for every season under the heavens. Now, let's look
here. I want to talk about glorify thy Lord Jesus Christ, that last
line in the first one, glorify thy Son that thy Son also may
glorify thee. Glorify thy son. That's what
our Lord Jesus Christ. He said father glorify thy son
the hours come the hours come now glorify thy son That thy
son also may glorify thee and our Lord Jesus Christ when he
talks about this in his hours coming He says glorify thy son
in my sufferings. That's what he's talking about
the sufferings that he's going to go through He starts into
his sufferings when he goes into the garden in chapter 18 And
then after his sufferings, he says, glorify me. Look what he
says down in verse five, after his sufferings. He said, and
now, O father, he said, I finished the work you gave me to do. And
now, O father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the
glory which I had with thee before the world was. Glorify me in
my sufferings and glorify me after my sufferings and take
me to glory. And that's what our Lord Jesus
Christ does. And oh my, in His cross, in that
hour that came, in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, how
His glory shone, how God glorified Him. He put our Lord, God says
that He spared not His own Son, that He delivered Him up for
us all. and there he was set forth on
the cross for the whole world to see, put on display for the
whole world to see. And it looked like that things
was really, really awful for him. But there God was glorifying
his blessed Son, and beloved, his attributes were so gloriously
displayed on that cross. When our Lord Jesus Christ hung
on the cross, the Son glorified the Father on that blessed cross.
I mean He glorified Him in His obedience, He glorified Him in
His sufferings, glorified Him in His will, glorified Him in
His righteousness, glorified Him in His mercy, glorified Him
in His righteousness. And that cross is where He was
sent to redeem His people, to pay for their sins, to put everything
that was against them out of the way and nail them to that
blessed cross. that cross is where He manifested
His absolute perfect obedience to His Father. When that cup
was handed to Him, He said, this cup is from my Father, shall
I not drink it? Do you think for a moment that
I would not drink this cup that my Father has put in my hands? This cup of suffering This cup
of grief, this cup of sorrow, this cup of suffering at the
hands of men, do you think for a moment that I would shun back
from facing the wrath of God and the justice of God and having
the sins of my people laid on my own body to bear them on the
tree? Oh, no, no, no. And oh, and His
love, the love of God, how He glorified. God glorified His
Son there and showed the infinite love that He had for His people
there, for sinners there. Oh, you think God loves sinners?
You look at His Son on the cross. Now, you're talking about love.
You're talking about love. Very few, very, very few people,
they might try to save somebody that they love. If they was in
an awful, awful situation, they might run in and try to save
them. But God, in glorifying His Son,
He sent Him to die for the sorriest, most despicable, Creatures on
the face of the earth. Sinners from the top of their
head to the sole of their feet. Corrupt inside and out. Enemies
of God. Enemies of Christ. Enemies of
everything that's holy and righteous. But God so loved His people. He loved them with an everlasting
love. And He said, I'll manifest My
love to them in a way that will express My love like nothing
else could ever do it. I'll send my son and I'll put
their sins upon him. He'll be as a lamb led to the
slaughter and he will not murmur, he will not complain, he will
not cry or lift his voice up and he'll take everything that
I put on him and he'll do it because I love my people. And
I want them to know that my love will absolutely take no for an
answer. And He sent His Son, and oh what
love! How the Son glorified the Father
in His love on that cross. And I tell you what, He showed
there how that He had power over the Prince of this world, over
Satan. I mean, He defeated the Prince
of the power of this world. No, and he prayed to be glorified
by the Father. And you know why he prayed, Father,
glorify Thy Son? Because I don't want nothing
from the world. I don't seek nothing, no honor from the world.
He didn't make himself of no reputation. My whole existence
in this world is to glorify You, to glorify You in the sufferings
and the salvation of Your people. and then oh he says glorify and
the cross he glorified him and he said glorify listen to this
thy son thy son our lord jesus said christ says thy son and
i know we've seen this i don't know how many times but look
in proverbs 8 again this is you know our lord jesus christ He
said, glorify thy son, not just anybody, your son. You know,
under which of the angels did he say at any time? He said,
at my right hand. But under the son, he says, thy
throne, oh God, is established forever and ever, and thy scepter
is the scepter of righteousness. He said, thou art my son, this
day have I begotten thee. And oh, listen, he said he took
his son and set him on the hill of Zion, on the holy hill of
Zion, And look what it said here in verse 22, Proverbs 8. We've
looked at this so many times, but oh my. The Lord possessed
me in the beginning of His way before the works of old. I was
possessed by God. Possessed by His will. Possessed
by His power. Possessed by His love. Possessed
by God and His eternality. I was possessed by Him. And look
what he goes on to say, I was set up, God set me up to be the
King, to be the Savior, to be the Prince, to be the mighty
God from everlasting, from the beginning before the earth ever
was. And when there was no depths
in the sea, no depths in the mountains, no valleys, I was
brought forth. When there were no fountains
abounding with water, I was there, I was brought forth. And before
the mountains were settled, before the hills was, I was the one
that brought them forth. While as yet he had not made
the earth, nor had the fields, nor the highest part of the dust
of the world, when he prepared the heavens, I was there. When
he set a circle on the earth, on the face of the depth, I was
there. When he established the clouds
above, which is the dust of his feet, when he strengthened the
fountains of the deep, when he said, oh, I'll set the oceans
and the seas, When he gave the sea his decree, he said, you
can come only up here. You got a tide to go out and
you got a tide to come in. You can't come no further. That
the water should not pass his commandments. When he appointed
the foundations of the earth, I was by him. As one brought
up with him. And listen to what he said, I
was daily, daily his delight, rejoicing always before him. I'm his son. Father, I'm your
son. Glorify your son. What a prayer
from a son to a father. Father, I'm your son. Glorify
me, glorify me. And you know what he turns around
and says? You glorify thy son, that thy son may turn right around
and glorify you. The only reason for my glory
is that you get the glory, that you'll be glorified, oh father.
And let's just consider, just consider one attribute of God
glorified in Christ on the cross. Just that word, one attribute,
righteousness. Just that one attribute, righteousness.
He declared it right here. He declared the righteousness
of God when he says, glorify thy son, that thy son may glorify
thee. You know, God's righteous to
punish sin. God's righteous to punish sin,
and now righteously to forgive sins. Look with me over here
in Luke 24. Not only is He righteous to punish
sins, and here's the thing, here's the thing. That sin, the consequences
of sin is death. Is that not right? Consequences
of sin is death. Now when God made Christ to be
sin, He died. He died. Now you and I are going
to die, but we're not going to die for sin. And we're not going
to die in our sin. And we're not going to be punished
for our sin. Because God's done established righteousness in
His blessed Son. And He declared the righteousness
of God that God's righteously to punish sin. And He punished
sin in His Son there on that cross. and if sin was punished
there God's righteous to punish sin and our Lord Jesus Christ
willfully voluntarily was willing to take that sin upon himself
and so when he took that sin upon himself God righteously
punished sin on him and then he turns around and righteously
righteously forgives us of our sin because it's already been
punished in another And look what it said here in Luke 24,
37. This is when our Lord Jesus Christ is on the cross. And look
what it said here. 24, 47. Wait, let me look. Wait a minute. 23, 47. I'm in
the wrong down. Yeah, 23, 47. You know, this
is when our Lord Jesus cried with a loud voice and says, Father,
into thy hands I commend my spirit. And then he gave up the ghost.
Now listen to this, now when the centurion, the fellow that
was in charge of all them soldiers that mistreated our savior, gambled
for his garments, nailed him to the cross, cut his side with
the spear. Now when that centurion saw what
was done, he glorified God. What did he say? Certainly, certainly
this was a righteous man, was a righteous man. And all truly,
this is the Son of God, the righteousness of God. And all, I tell you what,
the righteousness of God was glorified in the Son on the cross
and I thank God that it was. I thank God that it was. Our
Lord Jesus Christ says, Glorify thy Son, and the Father glorifying
the Son. Our Lord, you know, the Father
answered this prayer for our Savior. That's our Savior praying,
Father the hour has come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify
thee. And our Lord, the Father glorified
his Son, his prayer was answered in his suffering for sin to save
his people. Look in verse 2. Oh my, in his
suffering for sin to save his people. As thou hast given him
power over all flesh. Now listen to this, that he should
give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. He glorified
him and he suffered for sin to save his people. What people
did he save? Those that were given to him.
How many times? I think it's seven times. I believe
it is. You can look yourself. I think
it's seven times where it talks about those given to me. those
given to me father you gave them to me and i got power over them
and i'm going to give eternal life for them do you know who
i'm going to give it to as many as you've given me and so our
lord he got he glorified his son in that and he glorified
the son in all the miracles that took place at his death Oh, they
were just stood in astonishment and wonder when our Lord Jesus
Christ and he said, glorify your son and all the miracles that
took place at his death during his suffering. Darkness covered
the whole earth. Darkness came down. You know
it was dark when God went through Egypt and slew all the firstborn
and you know it was dark there but the only place where there
was any light, the only place where there was any hope was
in that lamb being slain, that blood on the post of the door
and here our Lord Jesus Christ's darkness covered this awful scene.
The earth began to quake, and the veil in the temple ran from
top to bottom. And our Lord was appointed to
this time. He obeyed unto death. And God
appointed him this sufferings, appointed him to be glorified
through his sufferings. And our Lord Jesus Christ willingly
endeared them. He said he was laid as a lamb
for the slaughter. before his shears, and he opened
not his mouth. He was taken from prison and
numbered with the transgressors, never said a word. God said,
I'm going to lay on you all of my children's iniquities. I'm
going to charge their sins to you. I'm going to wound you for
their sins. I'm going to wound you for what
they are. And our Lord Jesus Christ never
said a word. You know what he said? Glorify
you, son. And this way God's going to glorify
you. And then he cried out on that cross. And he cried this
because the scripture said he would do it. My God, my God. Why hast thou forsaken me? And you know what the answer
comes back? Because thou art holy. Because thou art holy in
all life. And I tell you what, he endured
all these things in his humanity. And then not only did he glorify
him in his suffering on that cross and the miracles in his
death, appoint him to this time but glorified him in his resurrection
he says thou will not leave my flesh neither leave my body in
corruption nor suffer my leave my soul in hell said you won't
let me see corruption nor leave my soul in hell god's not gonna
leave him in the grave god can't leave him in the ground you know
why because he would not be glorified if he is left in the ground God
said, My Son has honored Me, My Son has glorified Me, My Son
put sin away, My Son has established righteousness, My Son has suffered,
My Son has obeyed Me, and now He's dead for the consequences
of sin and to prove that He's My Son, to prove that He has
satisfied Me, to prove that sin's been put away, to prove that
righteousness established. Get up! And on the third morning,
they went out to the grave. Went out early on Sunday morning.
Mary went out there, and there's two angels sitting there. Said,
Sir! She looked down in the grave.
They said to her, said, why are you seeking the living among
the dead? Behold, Jesus is not here. He's risen. She looked
in there. She ran back as hard as she could
go and said, John, Peter said, the Lord's not in the grave.
They told me he rose. They ran out there as hard as
they could go and looked in there and said, he's not there. He's
not there. Oh, my. What a blessed day that
was when our Lord Jesus rose from the dead. You talking about
glorifying him? Glorifying him. Can you imagine
what it was like when the disciples first saw him? Would he appear
to them? Lord, we saw you on the tree.
We saw you dead. We saw you buried. And here you
are. Oh, my. And glorified him not
only in his resurrection, but in his ascension. God said, I
sent my king, my king, on that city of God, on that high and
holy mountain. He said, after he by himself
purged our sins, he sat down, where at? On the right hand of
the majesty on high. And God gave him a name that's
above every name. And he has all authority. God
gave him all authority when he raised him from the dead and
set him there. He said, you sat here till your enemies are made
you footstool. He has all authority. He said
he had power over all flesh, all flesh. In Him, in Him dwells
the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And I tell you all angels and
powers are subject and principalities are subject unto Him. And oh,
bless His name. And God now glorifies Him on
this earth. You know how He does it? Look
in John 16. He glorifies Him not only in
His suffering, and in his in the miracles at his death and
his time when he obeyed him glorified him in his resurrection glorified
him by his ascension and exaltation but he now glorifies him on earth
look what he said in verse 13. Howbeit when he is come, howbeit
when he the spirit of truth is come, he's going to guide you
into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever
he shall hear that shall he speak and he'll show you things to
come. He said the Holy Spirit is in the presence of my father
and said he's going to come when I go away he's going to come
and you know what he's going to do? He's going to guide you
into all truth not all at once But He's going to guide you into
all the truth that He wants you to know. All the truth that you
need to know. How much does a man need to know
to be saved? God said He'll guide you into
that truth. He'll guide you into that truth. Look what He said.
And He won't come down into this world and talk about Himself.
He won't talk about the Holy Spirit. He won't speak of Himself.
And look what He said here now. He shall glorify Me. For he shall receive of mine
the thanks concerning myself, and that's what he's going to
show you. That's what he's going to show you. We was talking about
that at lunch today. Brad said this, he said, you
know, they wanna talk about doctrine, talk about things. We wanna talk
about Christ. They don't wanna talk about,
we wanna talk about a person. We want to glorify a person.
It's a person that saved us. It's a person that we call on.
It's a person we look to. It's a person that's revealed
to us in the script. This was a person that said,
Father, glorify thy son. I'm your son. And oh my. as soon as he ascended you know
what the holy spirit did he came on them on the day of pentecost
and the holy spirit come down on them and them fellas oh my
goodness peter began to preach and he what did he start talking
about start talking about christ start talking about christ oh
my immediately glorified the son And oh, He glorifies the
Son on this earth, giving eternal life, giving eternal life, calling
those, bringing those for whom Christ died. And I tell you something
else that's gonna happen. He gonna be glorified in the
destruction of His enemies. You know, He said, sit right
here, son. He said, my son, sit right here until I make your
enemies your footstool. Till I make your enemies your
footstool. And oh my, And let me show you,
look over here in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, chapter 1 with me
a minute. This is what's going to happen.
Our Lord's going to be glorified at the destruction of His enemies. Oh, there's so many. There's
a fella died here about a year, year and a half ago, and he was
a world famous atheist. Well, I can't think of his name
right off the top of my head, but he's famous all over the
world and got in debates all the time, wrote all kinds of
books about there's no way God could exist, that God couldn't
be this, God couldn't be that. He's world famous. I mean, he
was on television all the time, big debates all the time. Oh
my, the minute he died, I said, he knows now. I said, the minute
he died, he knows now. Go ahead and fight God. As old
Scott Richardson said, go ahead and fight him. But you're fighting
a war you can't win. You know, I'm going to be like
General Robert E. Lee. You know, when they went
to Appomattox, they said, stack your arms. And that's what I
did, buddy. I laid down my weapon. I put down my sword. I put every
weapon. I even took off my, I even admitted
that the clothes I had on was nothing but rags. And if God
didn't close me. I'd stand before him in rags.
And oh my, listen to what he said here. In verse 7, 2 Thessalonians
1, chapter 1, verse 7. And to you who are troubled,
troubled about the world, troubled about your soul, troubled about
what's going to happen to you, troubled about trials, troubled
about old age, troubled about health, and to you who are troubled,
just rest with us. Rest with us. When the Lord Jesus
shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. This
is what's gonna happen. In flaming fire, taking vengeance
on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Now listen to this now. Who shall
be punished with everlasting destruction. How can you be everlastingly
destroyed? but God said there'll be everlasting
destruction. Destruction, destruction, destruction,
as long as time lists, man will be everlasting his enemies, everlasting
destroyed. Destruction going on and on and
on and yet never destructed. And look what he goes on to say.
Everlasting destruction, this is it, from the presence of the
Lord and from the glory of his power. Oh, that's what we're
looking forward to seeing and being in. And now listen, when
he shall come to be glorified in his saints, going to destroy
his enemies, be glorified in his saints and to be admired. Oh, how they going to admire
the Lord Jesus Christ and all of them that believe because
our testimony was believed among you in that day. that day what
a day it's going to be for the joy of his sheep oh his sheep
is going to oh what a day sheep on the right goats on the left
but a day of sorrow for all others and our Lord Jesus Christ said
every eye shall see me they shall look upon him whom they pierced
every eye is going to see me Those men that nailed him to
the cross, they're going to see him again. Pilate's going to
see him again. Herod's going to see him again.
That soldier that took that blood out and water out of his side
is going to see him again if God didn't save him, if Christ
didn't save him. And I hope he did. And I tell
you, not only is he going to glorify him in destruction, he's
going to glorify, God's going to glorify his son and his glory
will continue forever and ever. He has an everlasting dominion. And then our Lord's prayer has
been answered. Oh, God glorified Him. And the
Father has been glorifying the Son. And the Son has been glorifying
the Father. And this is going to continue
throughout all eternity. That's what they're both going
to be doing for one another throughout. The Father's going to glorify
the Son throughout eternity. And the Son's going to glorify
the Father. That's going to continue. That's never going to stop. Never
going to stop. And the Father, by the Holy Spirit,
is even now, even now, working in many, many hearts. To do what? To glorify His Son. Oh, listen. God, He glorifies Himself when
He brings the Gospel to us, when He reveals Himself to us, and
it's a revelation. Oh, what a revelation. He comes
and reveals and opens your heart. When our Lord Jesus Christ, in
the day of His power, He starts making you willing, and he starts
drawing you to himself. No man can come unto the father
except my son except the father which sent me. Draw him and the
father begins to draw you and then when he starts drawing you
to him then he gives you faith, gives you faith to believe him,
gives you faith to believe his word, causing you to love him,
causing you to adore him, causing you to worship him, and causing
you to desire Him above all else in this world. Everything else
is temporary, but He's eternal. Everybody we love and know is
going to leave us one of these days, but He'll never leave us.
We'll shed a minute tear over one another, but I'll tell you
what, Christ will wipe away all tears from our eyes one of these
days. Oh, that's why we adore Him and love Him and need Him
above everything in this world. Take everything away from me,
but you cannot take Christ. And whatever God takes, He'll
give you grace to bear it. But I do know this, that if you
got Him, you got what you need for time in this world, and you
sure got what you need for time in eternity. And everybody in
this building can attest to that right now. Everybody in this
building can attest to that. Well, whom have we in heaven
besides thee? Who do I desire on earth besides
you? Oh, bless his holy name. Oh,
bless his name. And I tell you, the Son, by the
Holy Spirit, glorifies His Father, working in us to rejoice in Him,
to love Him and worship Him and reverence His Father. We reverence
the Father. We reverence God. We glorify
the Son in honoring the Father and glorifying the Father, thanking
Him for giving us His Son. We reverence the Father of whom
and by whom and to whom are all things. And that's why, because
His Father is our Father. His God is our God and we willingly,
willingly, not like we want to, not like we desire to, not like
we would love to, but we willingly glorify the God, the God the
Father. We willingly glorify God the
blessed Son by the Holy Spirit and we make it our aim in this
world to glorify Him. Look what, look over here in
Revelations 5. And I'll close with this. Revelations
5. In verse 13. Oh my, we willingly glorify God
the Father, God the Son. And we do it by the Holy Spirit.
He did it all. All to Him we owe. Look what
it says in verse 13 here. Talking about honoring, worshiping,
blessing God. And every creature which is in
heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as
are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I say, this
is what I heard Him say. Everything on heaven and earth. Everything there is. He said,
this is what I heard Him say. Blessing. and honor and glory
and power be unto him that setteth upon the throne and unto the
lamb forever and ever. And the four beasts said, amen. And the four 20 elders fell down
and worshiped him that liveth forever and ever. And that's
what we get to do one of these days. Father, glorify your son. The father answered that prayer.
The Father answered that prayer, still answering it and saving
his people. Oh, Lord Jesus, blessed be your name. Blessed be your
glorious, glorious name. Lord, we can't praise you enough.
We can't love you enough. We can't submit to you enough. We can't glorify you, can't honor
you. But Lord, one of these days,
when it's your time, when it's your time, we will then, we'll
do it perfectly then, we'll not have this flesh to contend with,
this body to contend with. Oh Lord, what a day that'll be.
What a time that'll be. We look forward to it. But Lord,
until that time comes, till our hours come, enable us to live
as a body of believers here and as your church on this earth,
and your dear people enable us to honor you, to glorify you,
to speak of you, to speak highly of you, highly of your father.
to exalt you in our minds, exalt you in our hearts, exalt you
in our will, exalt you in our obedience, in our submission.
And Lord, it's in our hearts and souls to prostrate ourselves
before you, to just lay before you and acknowledge your glory
and your power and your majesty, your great authority. And oh,
to bless you for the great love were with you loved us. Oh, you
loved us. And oh, you shed abroad that
love in our hearts. And we bless you for it. Thank
you for the day. Thank you for your mercies. Thank
you for the Holy Spirit. Thank you for the gospel. Thank
you for the saints of God. Preserve us and keep us till
we can come worship again. In Christ's name, amen. Amen.