your Bibles with me if you will
to Matthew chapter 9. Matthew chapter 9. I've just
got four verses to read and then Pam's gonna come and
sing after I leave prayer but Bruce Daley's in the hospital.
He had to go to the emergency room this morning. He's got a
stone that's got his bile duct stopped up, and he was in excruciating
pain. They gave him some morphine,
and they sent him just a little while ago. He's on his way to
Park West, and they'll decide tomorrow when to do the surgery,
but he's going to have to have surgery to get the stone out. So he's pretty sick and he'll
be at Park West this evening and be down there tomorrow. And
just as quick as Sandy lets me know her, you know when the surgery's
going to be. And I tell you, poor Bruce, he bless
his heart, I come up last Saturday and They started him on oxygen,
you know, and that just, oh, my heart just sank over that. He's supposed to have a hip replaced,
two hips replaced, and two knees replaced in the next year, one
every three months. Yeah, but y'all remember him.
He's special. Ain't nobody like Brucie, nobody.
But y'all remember him and Sandy. verse 35 Matthew 9 35 and Jesus went about all the
cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and preaching
the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every
disease among the people but when he saw the multitudes he
was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and
were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith
he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers
are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. Our gracious Father in heaven,
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Father, we thank you
and bless you and praise you. You're worthy of all of our praise,
our worship. We bless you, holy name. Who
is like unto you in mercy and compassion and power, pity. Lord, to keep your people saved,
to keep them looking to you, believing you, cleaving to you
in this world of sin and grief and sorrow, troubles and trials
vanities and vexations. And yet, Lord, you keep us and
with all that goes on in our own selves, with our own hearts
and our own minds. And yet, Lord Jesus, you keep
us. You keep us believing. Keep us
looking and trusting to you. And Lord, I thank you that you've
allowed us. Oh, God, what a blessed privilege.
I know I say this every But Lord, I am truly thankful for the privilege
to be able to meet with people of like mind, like heart, begotten
of the Spirit of God, that believes the Lord Jesus Christ, and to
worship with Him, and to study the Word with Him, and to be
numbered among them. And a privilege, Lord, for us
to meet. God open Your Word tonight. And, Lord, we pray for Bruce.
Oh, Lord, please pity Bruce. Lord, give the doctors the wisdom
to know what to do. And, oh, Lord, be merciful to
him. And, Lord, make him, enable him
to be made whole and be made so he can come home and be without
any pain and without such grief. God bless Sandy. Lord, strengthen
and encourage her. We know your grace is sufficient.
We know that. They know that. And they're looking
to you. And Lord, we're looking to you
for them. We love them. Pray your very best for them.
Strength and power and grace and mercy. Oh, Lord Jesus, raise
him up. Worship with us again just in
a few days. May you grant it for Christ's
sake. Amen. Amen. Family, okay? My subject
this evening is a portrait of our Lord Jesus Christ, a portrait
of our Lord Jesus Christ. It says here in verse 35, and
Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their
synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every
sickness and every disease among the people. But when he saw the
multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them because they
had fainted. They were tired and wearied and
lay down and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd." I want to use this word compassion
to talk about our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus was filled
with compassion. And our Lord was moved when he
looked at these people. He was moved with compassion
on them. His emotions were moved. His
heart went out. All that was in him went out
to these people. It moved him. It moved him to
such a way. And compassion is the ability,
is the ability to enter into somebody's trouble and then do
something about it. And our Lord Jesus was filled
with tenderness, tenderness concerning these folks. They were fainted. When it says they were fainted,
they got tired and they laid down. They just were so tired
and so weary that they all just sat down and they all just began
to lay down. And I tell you, our Lord Jesus
Christ, all that was within him was stirred up when he had a
sight of all these people. And he was full of emotion about
it. And it wasn't, it wasn't because of the temporal condition
that they were in, but because of the spiritual condition. It
said here, he was moved with compassion because they were
as sheep without a shepherd. So he's looking at them in a
spiritual sense. And I tell you, this is the way
I say it. His heart yearned for them. He
was touched, really, truly touched with the feelings of their infirmity.
You know, when more miserable a person is, when misery is there,
misery is the object of mercy. When people are in misery and
in such a sad state, that's the people that's the object of the
mercy of God. And our Lord Jesus Christ was
often found under strong emotion for men. You remember it says
that he looked out over the city of Jerusalem, he beheld the city
and he wept over Jerusalem. That's a pretty strong emotion
to stand and weep over a whole city. And he says, he said, oh,
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, oh, if you just knew, just knew what
could have been yours, but you would not, you would not. And
he stood at the tomb of Lazarus and he wept at Lazarus too. he
wept not for the people that was grieving but he wept because
he's got to bring this man back again and he's got this man's
gonna have to go through the same thing again but our lord
shows that he had power over death but still yet he wept over
it and he had anger there were time he was angry one place it
tells that he was angry at them for the hardness of their hearts
and he says to korethi woe unto thee korazin For if the works
that had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah had been done in you,
they would have repented. And then he says, Woe unto thee,
Bethsaida, you're going to be cast down to hell. So he got
angry. And then there was the time that
he come in and cast out all the money changers and thrown over
all their tables and thrown over all the, and then took a scourge
and whipped them and beat them out of the temple. Said, you
did, you turned God's house, the house of prayer into a den
of thieves and whipped them out of the temple. So he's a man
of emotion. And he also knew what joy was.
He had joy when those saints came back and said, oh, he said,
I tell you what, said the devils are subject unto us through thy
name. He said, oh, listen, that ain't nothing. He said, oh, that
you got a place in heaven and your heavenly father sees you.
And that's what brings joy to you. That's what brings joy to
me. But this verse, MOVED WITH COMPASSION ON THE MULTITUDES,
MOVED WITH COMPASSION SHOWS OUR LORD'S ENTIRE LIFE, ENTIRE LIFE
AND GIVES US A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND
LET'S BEHOLD HIS COMPASSION IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT WAYS, SEVEN
DIFFERENT WAYS. FIRST OF ALL, LET'S LOOK AT HIS
COMPASSION IN THE GREAT TRANSACTIONS THAT HAPPENED IN OUR LORD'S LIFE.
NOW, OUR LORD HAD TRANSACTIONS BEFORE HE CAME INTO THIS WORLD.
That was the eternal covenant before the world ever began,
before God ever put the stars in space, and as Spurgeon said,
before the sons of God ever shouted for joy, God the Son, God the
Holy Ghost, and God the Father, they entered into an eternal,
everlasting covenant. and a covenant was best between
them, and it involved us only as we were given to someone in
that covenant. But it was conceived in the will
and purpose and decree of God. And God made a covenant, and
the covenant was with the Son, the covenant was the Holy Ghost,
the covenant was with the Father. And this is the arrangement of
it, the Father said, I give you a people My son, I love you and
I give you a people, if you will go and become their surety. And a surety is one who stands
good for another and compensates for their incompetence or their
lack of ability. And he stood for, cause we was
incompetent and certainly had no ability. So he said, if you'll
go be their surety, if you'll stand good for them, If you'll
go down and be their substitute, be their one standing, you take
their sin and stand in their place and bear their iniquities
and bear their judgment and bear their death and bear everything
that's responsible, that I would hold them responsible. If you'll
do that, if you will take upon yourself
their sin and bear it away in your own body on the tree. I'll give you sheep and you'll
be their shepherd." And our Lord Jesus Christ said, I'll do that.
I'll do that. And the Holy Ghost, He said,
and this is what the Father said for the Holy Ghost to do. He
said, you go down there and everyone that I give to Him, you go and
you make Him known to them. You take what I say about my
son, and what's written about my son, and what's taught about
my son, and all the deeds of my son, and you go to those that
he died for, and I will give to him. You go to them, and you
make him known to their hearts, and minds, and will, and give
them faith, and give them repentance, and give them a sight, and give
them all they need for time and eternity. Our Lord said, I'll do that.
And you know what? Right here's evidence of it.
You're talking about compassion. Compassion before we was ever
born. He was moved with compassion
in the eternal covenant of grace. The Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost was for us. For his people, for a multitude
of sinners that no man can number. You remember when Joseph kept
Benjamin down there. He made him bring his youngest
brother that he had never saw. And he was going to take him
down there. And Judah, his father said, oh,
if he goes, I'll never see him again. And Judah said, I'll be
a surety for him. I'll guarantee that he's brought
back. And if they don't hold me responsible, and that's what
our Lord Jesus Christ did in the covenant of grace. He became
responsible for us. For all of our salvation before
we ever was, before time began, He was moved with such compassion,
the Godhead was, that they made a way, made a way, to save people
like us, to save Adam, to save Noah, to save Abraham,
to save Jacob, to save you, to save me. And I'll tell you another
way for it shows his great, great compassion. And then when our
Lord Jesus Christ came here and took upon himself flesh, when
he came here, the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, when
he came into this world. Oh, listen, you're talking about
Matthew's compassion, that our Lord Jesus Christ would humble
himself and come into this world, and he would come born of a woman. He that was God would put himself
in the womb of a woman and be born of a virgin. And he was
put in the poorest family that there could possibly be thought
of. A poor family, working family. And our Lord Jesus Christ, and
then not only that he was born of a woman and the announcement
was made. And she said, how can this be?
I've never known a man. He said, oh, listen, God will
take care of that. The Holy Ghost will do that.
And oh, listen, and then look where he was born. Born in Bethlehem. You go to Bethlehem today and
it's still a tiny little village. And not only was he born in Bethlehem,
but he was born in a stable. Go down to my barn. Go down to
my barn. Well, you feed your cattle and
feed your goats and feed your sheep. Go to the... And that's
where our Lord Jesus Christ was born, in a stable, in a place
where they kept the cows and the donkeys and the sheep and
the goats. That's where He was born. And
everything about Him, all of His life, He was a poor man. There's a poor man. Though he
was rich, he became poor. That we through his poverty,
he became poverty stricken. He was a poor man. That we through
his poverty might be made rich. And then another thing that shows
us his compassion, his living in the flesh. Oh, what compassion
our Lord. He came and assumed this flesh. Now listen to me. Our Lord Jesus
Christ said He was made in the likeness of sinful flesh. Now
He was a man. He was a man. You feel Him? You
could slap Him. He could bleed. He could be hurt.
He knew what it was to be hungry. He knew what it was to be thirsty.
He knew what it was to be tired. He knew what it was to work. But He was every way like us. But it was the likeness of sinful
flesh. It was not sinful flesh. You
and I are sinful flesh. Our Lord Jesus Christ took upon
himself a body like ours. But he had no sin of his own.
He had no sin. And I tell you, beloved, the
Lord Jesus Christ, God said, prepared him a body. And he put
all things under his feet. And you know what people said
about him? Look over in John chapter 9. Or excuse me, John
chapter 6. Look what people said about him.
Look what was thought of him. He lived in this world and he
lived in the flesh. I tell you, to show you how he
was God and man, there's so many instances that show you. Just
like he was asleep in the whole of that ship. The sound of sleep,
wore out, tired. And there's going across the
sea, and a great storm rose up. And that storm never bothered
our Savior. He laid there and slept. They
run down there and woke him up, shook him, said, Master, Master,
can't we sleep after we perish? And he just walked out there.
Now, we know God don't sleep. Man does. But he looked out,
walked out on that ship, and he said, peace be still. And
the wind calmed down, the rain stopped, and the sea became just
as calm as it could be. Man can't do that, but God can. And God was in the person, the
man. God took on himself a body and
lived in this world. And look what people thought
of him when he was here. Look what it says in verse 42,
John 6, 42. and they said is not the verse
41 then the jews murmured at him because he said i am the
bread which came down from heaven and he is the bread he's that
heavenly manna and they said is not this jesus
the son of joseph whose father and mother we know how is it
then that he saith i came down from heaven Man, we know his mom and his
daddy. What kind of, what's he talking about? Can't be anything
to him. And then look over here in chapter
7, verse 2. Now the Jews' feast of Tabernacle
was at hand. His brethren therefore said unto
him, Depart hence, and go into Judea. Now his brethren now,
he had brothers. His brother said therefore unto
him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also
may see the works that thou doest." Going to go up to Jerusalem and
say, For there is no man. Now listen, this is what his
own family thought about him. For there is no man that does
anything in secret. If he does it in secret, you
know what he wants? He himself seeks it to be known
openly. Man don't do things where people
can't see them and can't get any recognition for That's what
he's saying. That's human nature and that's
their nature We don't want to do anything that we don't get
recognized for and that's what they're saying about him He says
oh listen, you don't do anything You want to be known openly if
you do these things show thyself to the world listen to this for
neither did his brethren believe in him His family thought he was crazy. They mocked him, made fun of
him because he never learned letters. And he says, the foxes
have holes, the birds of the air have nests, but the son of
man hath nowhere to lay his head. And oh my, oh great compassion
in this covenant of grace. Great compassion in him coming
in here. and being born of a virgin, and
being born in a little place called Bethlehem, and being laid
in a manger. And oh, what compassion when
he was made in the likeness of sinful flesh. And God sent him
into this world to be one with us. And you're talking about
compassion. Move with compassion. He is bearing
our death penalty. That's the highest compassion
that he could possibly show you and I. Bearing our death penalty,
bearing our sin, bearing our iniquities. She sung that tonight. He was wounded for my transgressions,
bore my iniquities. And I tell you what, it meant
several things for our Lord Jesus Christ to bear our death and
actually die. And he died, he died, actually
died. How does life die? Christ did. And that meant, beloved, that
he had to be separated from men. Men themselves separated him
from them. Said, away with this man, we'll
not have him reign over us. And then the worst part about
it was that he was separated from God. God the Father wouldn't
even come to his help. God the Father wouldn't even
come to his aid. God the Father wouldn't even help him in any
way. Our Lord Jesus prayed and said,
oh, if there's any other way. But there on that cross, after
six hours, a man was alive talking. And he said, I thirst, and they
stuck some vinegar on a sponge and stuck it up to his mouth. And he says, it's written. And
then he cried out, it is finished. And then he died. He died and
gave up the ghost. And they was astonished when
they come. And this is a man that cannot die, died. And they
took him down. off that cross, had to pull those
nails out of his hands, pull those nails out of his feet,
take him off that cross. And some ladies and some men,
they took him over there, and they washed his body real good,
and put all kinds of fragrances on his body, and then took some
cloth, and they started winding him up, and put him in his grave,
and then put a stone on him. He died a death that you and
I'd have to die. And except we would have died
eternally. Moose Park sent me a song that an Armenian, a freewheeler
wrote back in the 1700s about anybody. I mean, he bragged on
free will and if God's really in control, sovereignty, you
know, then that's You know, it's just awful that he's bragged
about his free will and all that. And I wrote him back and said,
that man's been in hell all this couple hundred years and he's
just getting started. And should a man that would write
and boast about his free will and write a song about free will
and despising the grace of God. And that's what's gonna happen
to men and women. But here's, we'll never die.
There's no way we'll, this body will. But we ourselves will not
die. What makes us, us will not die.
The person inside me that is animated, that talks to you,
that's the person that's gonna go to be with Christ. This body's
not, but that spirit, that person inside of me, that same person,
that person with this way I am and all the loves, that's who
will go to be with Christ. And I won't die. The body will,
but I won't. That's why we say they're gone,
they're gone to be with the Lord. And I tell you why, because Christ
is already born our death. And the death, sin is the wages
of sin is death and Christ paid our wages. Ain't that right? Paid our wages. Oh no, that's why we say when
a believer dies, they just start living. They just started living. Me and Duke went out to his mother's
grave here a few little while back and he stood there and of
course he's very emotional and I said, son, I said, you know
your mother's not there, you know that. I said, just a body's
hair. And we knew that body. But I
said, son, she's in glory. She's rejoicing in glory. She's
in the presence of Christ. Never has thought another thing
of this world right here. Never entered her mind. And you
know why she's there? Christ paid the wages of her
sin. He was moved with compassion. Huh? Move with compassion. Oh, my. Let me tell you, I don't want
to take too long, but let me give you another that shows the
compassion. What a beautiful portrait of our Lord. Move with
compassion. What a portrait of our Lord Jesus
Christ. His intercession for sinners
shows us that He still has compassion on us. The fact that He intercedes. He's sitting at the right hand
of God, and he intercedes for us. He takes up our case. He
takes up our cause. Now, Donny, I want to show you
some things. You know, we have a high priest
that's holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, higher
than the heavens. And we come unto a throne of
mercy, a throne of mercy. But as the high priest, under
the law, bore the names of the children of Israel. Our Lord
Jesus Christ bears us before the Father. And I'll tell you
something, He don't talk about us, He talks about Himself. Right
now, I'll tell you what He's doing, He's interceding for Bruce,
Bruce Daly. Right now. Because He's touched
with the feelings of his infirmities. And just as sure as you're crying,
Bruce is calling on Him. If Bruce is awake, He's calling
on the Lord. And the Lord's moved and touched with the feelings
of his and hers. The Lord's interceding for him right now. The Lord's interceding for us. He knows what's going to happen
10 days out, 100 days out, 10 years out. And beloved, everything
that happens, he takes up our case and our cause. Let me show
you something in Exodus 28. Turn with me to Exodus 28. And I tell you what, you fall
into sin and you're embarrassed. You fall into sin, you do something,
you're embarrassed to say, Lord, I told you I wouldn't do that
again, here I've done it. And there you go, you know, you
go before the Lord and say, oh Lord, I've told you, I've told
you, and I've told you, I wouldn't act that way, I wouldn't do that,
and here I am, I've done it, and Lord, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed,
and yet, He intercedes for us. Look here in Exodus 28 and 9. And thou shalt take two onyx
stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel,
six of the names on one stone and the other six names of the
rest on the other stone according to their birth. from Reuben all
the way up to Benjamin. With the work of an engraver,
graven in stone, like the engravings of a signet, thou shalt engrave
the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Thou
shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. That means, you
know, there's these epaulets, it's on people's suit, military,
that's what he's got here. He got these things here and
you can stick things in them. And that's what he says. And
thou shalt put the two stones upon the ephod for stones of
memorial unto the children of Israel and Aaron shall bear their
names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial." Six names on this and over here,
six names on this and over there. Our Lord's got our names right
there. The government's on his shoulder. He puts his sheep upon
his shoulder. And let me show you another.
And so he bears them up on his shoulders. He's got the strength
to bear them. He's got the strength to bear us all. Now, let me show
you another one here. Look down here in Exodus 28,
29. And of course, it's got another thing
where they take all the children of Israel and put them on four
different stones, and they're laid in front, three on three
on three, and they're on the breastplate. Now, look what happens
now. And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel
in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth
into the holy place for memorial before the LORD. And thou shalt
put in the breastplate of judgment the urim and the thummim, and
they shall be upon Aaron's heart when he goeth in before the LORD.
And Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon
his heart before the LORD continually. Oh my he got right across his
heart He's moved with compassion And we own his heart and he bears
her judgment Continually before the Lord now look over here.
Let me show you one more Exodus 28 36 Now he's talking about
this mitre this golden mitre this go set on Aaron's head,
and thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, engrave upon it like
the engravings of a signet, holiness to the Lord. And thou shalt put
it upon blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre, upon the forefront
of the mitre it shall be. and it shall be upon Aaron's
forehead, now listen to this, that Aaron may bear the iniquity
of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow
in all their gifts, and it shall always be upon his forehead that
they may be accepted before the Lord. Now what's the holy things
that we do? We're doing it right now. We're
worshiping, singing, praying, preaching, sins in that, he bears
the iniquity of our holy things. Like Henry said, even our tears
need to be wept over and repented over. There's so much sin even
in our tears. Let me give you quickly some
instances of our Lord Jesus Christ, instances of His compassion.
Turn with me back to Matthew 9. I don't want to take long. Turn with me back in Matthew
15. Look at our Lord Jesus, oh, he's
so moved with compassion. And when you go through the scriptures,
reading his history, you know, his life in the Gospels, you'll
see how many times he said he was moved with compassion. Look
in verse 32, Matthew 15, 32. Then Jesus called
his disciples unto him and said, I have compassion on the multitude
Because they continue with me now three days and have nothing
to eat. I will not send them away fasting
lest they faint in the way. Now he had compassion on the
multitude. They've been with me three days
and they're hungry. He had compassion on them. And
look over here in Matthew 14, 14. He had compassion on the sick. Matthew 14, 14, and Jesus went
forth and saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion
toward them and he healed their sick. Oh, moved with compassion. Let me show you, let me show
you in Matthew, Matthew 20. Look here in Matthew 20 and this,
and I'll be done. But you know, the lepers would
come to him and said, oh Lord, if thou willest, thou can make
me clean. but in Matthew 20, 29. And as they departed from Jericho,
a great multitude followed him. And behold, two blind men sat
by the wayside when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out,
saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David. And the multitude
rebuked them, because they should hold their peace. But they cried
the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.
And Jesus stood still and called them and said unto them, what
will you that I shall do unto you? They say unto him, Lord,
that our eyes may be open. Now listen, so Jesus had compassion
and touched their eyes and immediately their eyes received. Compassion,
compassion. And oh my, it's like that maniac
of Gadara It's like the widow's son. She was heartbroken, a mother
heartbroken, the only son she had. She was going to the graveyard
with him and a whole bunch of people was going along with her.
And our Lord came from the other way. He stopped that funeral,
stopped the casket, and the scripture said he was moved with compassion
towards her. A widow, the only son, He said, I say rise. And he raised
up out of that casket. And she went home with her son. That's compassion. And I tell
you what, which one of these are you? Which one are you? You
a leper? You blind? You hungry? You sick? Whatever
it is, he's moved with compassion. And let me give you several things
quickly of what compassion our Lord Jesus Christ has provided
for us every day, even now, and will until we leave this world.
You see, let me show you this in Hebrews 5, and this will set
this up. Hebrews 5. Let me set this up in Hebrews
5 about our Lord Jesus Christ. and being our high priest and
what compassion he has for us. Now look what it says here. Every
high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in thanks
pertaining to God that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices
for sins who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that
are out of the way. For that he himself also is compassed
with firmity. And then he talked about no man
takes dishonor in verse four unto himself but he that's called
of God. So Christ also glorified himself not to be made a high
priest but God did. But as our high priest and as
the lover of our souls, as the one who saved us by his wonderful
blessed grace in that covenant of grace, The Lord Jesus, knowing
our ignorance, knowing our needs, knowing our sorrows, let me tell
you some things He's provided for us. He provided us a Bible. He provided us this blessed book.
Oh, my. He gave it to us for our guidance
so He could talk to us and we could see Him and understand
some things about Him. And He gave it to us for our
guidance, for our comfort, for our light. And I'll tell you
something else He gave us. He gave us preachers. Men that
speaks as one man to another man. And God uses preachers to
tell out men's hearts and tell where they are and what they're
going through. Thank God for preachers. Not because I'm one,
but thank God for preachers. Preachers, it preaches the gospel
of the grace of God that stands and loves us and tells us the
truth and wants the very best for us. And I tell you what,
he also gave us the Holy Ghost to comfort us, to help our infirmities
in prayers and the weakness of our flesh and our natures. Oh,
the Holy Ghost is given to us to keep us, strengthen us, encourage
us and comfort us and help us to pray. And I'll tell you something
else he gave us. He gave us a throne of grace
to go to to obtain mercy in our time of need. That's compassion. He gave us a throne of grace
to go to to obtain mercy. And also many promises. How many
promises has he given us? How many promises? Oh my, how
firm a foundation you saints of the Lord is laid for your
faith in his excellent word. What more can he say than to
you he has said, to Jesus for refuge has fled. Oh my. And then he gave us two things,
two things and both of us, both of them tell us of him. Baptism tells us of his death. TELLS US OF HIS BURIAL, TELLS
US OF HIS RESURRECTION. AND HE WAS RESURRECTED TO THE
GLORY OF FATHER AND WHEN A MAN'S BAPTIZED, HE'S BEING IDENTIFIED
WITH THE DEATH OF CHRIST WHEN HE'S BURIED IN WATER, HE COMES
UP OUT OF THAT WATER. AS A RESURRECTION, HE COMES UP
OUT OF THE POOL AND HE LEAVES OUT OF THAT POOL AND HE'S GOING
TO WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE TO THE GLORY OF GOD. AND THEN THERE'S THE LORD'S SUPPER.
He said, as oft as you eat this bread and drink this wine, do
it what? In remembrance of me. Oh, my. And what compassion our Lord
has to us and our own experiences proves it. Oh, my. Has he ever left you without
hope? Has he ever left you in the midst of a trial, in sickness
or affliction? And you know just as we're able
to bear something, He teaches us as we're able to bear it.
And this is compassion right here. And I'll leave with this. He has never ceased to love us
and let us know He loves us even when our hearts are cold and
we fell into sin. He still loves us just the way
We ain't surprised him by anything we've done. Oh, what a beautiful
portrait. Moved with compassion. Moved
with compassion. Oh, our blessed, blessed, blessed,
blessed Savior. Thank you for your word. Thank
you for allowing me to speak of your blessed person tonight. Oh, Lord, you moved my heart. You spoke to my heart. Thank
you, Lord. Thank you so much. Blessed be
your name. God bless these dear saints.
Encourage these saints. And please help us all to remember
to pray for one another, but especially to pray for Bruce
and Sandy now. God see them. I know you'll see
them through this, Lord. But we want to be there. We want
to pray for them. We want to show them that we
love them. And oh God, meet the needs of ever heart, ever home.
Save you people in this place for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen.