This message today, down there
in verse 28, is where I get my thought from. After this, after this, after all the things
that had been said, all the things that had been done, Jesus knowing
that all things, all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture
might be fulfilled. The Scripture fulfilled. He saith, I thirst. I thirst. Four times here in the reading
of this, you'll find it says that the Scripture's fulfilled.
The Scripture's fulfilled. The Scripture fulfilled. Now,
there are three groups here at the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Three groups. First of all, there were the
Jews. The Jews were gathered around there. They hated the
Messiah. They hated Christ. They rejected
Christ. They despised Him. They ridiculed
Him. They mocked Him. They were there to enjoy and
watch Him suffer. That's what they were there for,
to enjoy watching Him suffer. They derided Him and they mocked
Him. They said, He saved others. He can't even save Himself. If
you'd be the Christ, come down. And when he cried out, My God,
why have you forsaken me? They said, He's calling for Elijah.
Let's have Elijah come and get him. So they were there to mock him.
They hated him. They despised him. They were
there to enjoy. Can you imagine somebody enjoy
seeing someone suffer like this? It hurts you to see somebody
suffer, but these men enjoyed it. They delighted in it. And then the second group that
were there were Roman soldiers. What does it say back up there
in verse 23? Then the soldiers which had crucified
Jesus. This happened to be their duty
day. This is the day, you know, no doubt there was a group of
soldiers and they took time about crucifying people. And this is
the people that crucified the men that the Jews had taken to
crucify these men this day. And they were the ones that had
nailed the Lord Jesus Christ to that tree. They were the ones
who took and drove in the nails. They were the ones who drove
the nails in those other fellows. And they were there because that
happened to be their job that day. They were on duty that day. And this is the duty that they
had. And they were so hard and so callous about it, that after
they crucified Him and they're hanging there in agony, they're
down there around the crosses gambling and for the garments
of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were gambling for it, and
then when they'd come to his coat that was woven, you know,
it wasn't in pieces, it was woven from top to bottom, very valuable,
and they'd been given to him. They said, let's don't tear this
apart. Let's cast lots for this. Let's roll dice for this. And
so those fellows, when these are men, you know, remember they
said, go break the bones of them, you know, so we can get them
all down off the cross. This is a Sabbath day. Them Jews
were more interested in keeping the Sabbath day, that day. And
so they said, break their legs. And here's men callous enough
and hard enough and cold enough and tough enough to take a big
hammer and break the legs of men so they'd die sooner. So
that's the second group that took the cross of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And the third group, Look down
there in verse 25. All together, a different group
of people. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother
and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary
Magdalene, when Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciples
standing by, whom he loved. He saith unto his mother, Woman,
behold your son. Then he saith unto his disciple,
Behold your mother. And from that hour he took that
disciple and took her home. Now here there were some. They
weren't in the distance from the cross. Look what it says
there. They stood by the cross. They're standing by the cross
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Close enough to them, maybe a
foot or two away. And there hath come our Lord
Jesus, saw them there. And there they were. And he started
talking. They had a conversation between
themselves. Christ began to talk to them. And they're so close
to the cross, and the Lord Jesus probably ain't off the ground
a foot, eighteen inches, two foot at the most. Not off the
ground very much. And the mother and all these
disciples, five of them, four women and one man, and they stand
there by the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Christ just
speaks to them. He said, woman, called his mother,
woman, there's your son. I'm your son, but there's going
to be your son. Son, and then he called him that
disciple whom Jesus loved. He always referred to John as
that disciple whom Jesus loved. You know, we're concerned about
how much we love the Lord Jesus. But oh my, I'm more concerned
how much he loves me than he loved me with an everlasting
love. But here, he had this conversation that all these saints were loved
by Christ and they loved the Lord Jesus Christ. And when they
told him, that disciple took the Lord's mother home with him
and treated her from that day forth like that was his own mother.
Provided for her, cared for her, loved her. And you know it here,
beloved, let me look at this from the mother's viewpoint.
Let's look at it from the mother's viewpoint. Here stands his mother. She had brought this child, as
far as she concerned, come out of her womb. She suckled him,
cared for him, loved him, fed him, raised him. And here she
stands, looking at him, blood around him, Walking people around
him. And she sees that son that she
raised. That son that she loved. Her
first son. Not Joseph's son. The seed of
the woman. Her son. And she saw him hanging
there. Can you imagine what went through
her heart? What was going through her mind
seeing her son suffer like that? Seeing her son being treated
that way? I'm sure she stood there and her heart was broken.
She was sobbing. She was weeping. She was crying.
Her soul was in agony. And in fact, when the angel told
her she's going to have this son, she said, Sorrow will fill
your heart, and a sword shall pierce your heart also, because
your son is sent for the rising and falling of many in Israel.
And a sword's going. And here that sword is piercing
her heart as she stands there. And so let's look at this business
of knowing that the scriptures are fulfilled. Look what it says
there in verse 28. After this, Jesus, knowing all
things, all things, were now accomplished, saith
I first. Now here it says they're accomplished.
Look back over in 18 with me. Chapter 18 and verse 4. And you
know Christ knew all things. But here he's talking about the
things on earth, the things that's happening to him. It worked out.
This is right before he goes into the garden. And it says
here in verse four, it says, Therefore, Jesus, knowing all
things that should come upon him, things that's going to happen. He knew everything that was going
to happen in the garden, everything that's going to happen at the
cross. Every scripture is going to be fulfilled. Knowing all
things that were to come, he went out to do it. And now over
here it says, now knowing all things were now accomplished,
there he said all things that were to come, now all things
are accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled. And look
what he says here. He says, I thirst. I thirst. This is the fifth utterance from
the cross, if you take them as they come. And here he says,
I thirst. And he says this knowing that
the Scriptures might be fulfilled. Then he says, I thirst. What
in the world is he saying, I thirst for? Here he is. He's the one
who measures the waters in the hollows of his hands. He was
the one who separated the dry land from the seas. He's the
one who put all life in the seas. He's the one who created all
things, the creator of heaven and earth. And here's the Lord
Jesus Christ Himself who helps over the world by the word of
His power, saying, I thirst? I thirst? Here's the Beloved
of the Father, the One whom the Father delights in, rejoices
in, and says, He always pleases me, saying, I thirst? Well, why did He say, I thirst?
He says, I thirst that the scripture might be fulfilled, and after
they were, that's why he said it. But here's the thing about
it. I thirst shows us his humanity. Shows us that he's really a man.
That he's a man who can suffer. That he's a man who has a feelings.
He's a man who knows what it is to be hated, despised, rejected,
and mistreated. And knows what it is to suffer
in his body. It shows his humanity. He was
not, and I've said this so many times over the years, he was
not a deified man. People in this world deify men.
They deify men. They deified the prophet Mohammed.
People killed multitudes in his name. They deified Confucius. They deified Buddha. Buddha is deified. And God has
temples all over the world. They deify the Pope. Oh, if you
can just get the Pope to touch you, to get the blessing from
the Pope, to be able to kiss his ring. Oh, they deify him. But here's a man who's not deified. He's a man. And he's bleeding and he's suffering
there on that cross. And he's not a deified man and
he's not a God who is humanized. A God that's brought down and
humanized and brought down to a level lower than us even. No, no. He was the Word that
was made flesh. The Word of God that created
the world made flesh and come to dwell among us, live among
us, tabernacle among us, and we saw His glory. And there is
the glory, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and full of truth. And oh, beloved, he was always
God. Always God, eternally God. Oh,
he inhabited eternity. High and holy. But when he took
upon himself, he never ceased to be God. But when he became
a man, he'll always be a man from that day forth. And right
now, there's God sitting at the right hand of God. And there's
a man sitting at the right hand of God, in one person, Jesus
Christ. Huh? And oh, he was made like unto
his brethren. It says over in Hebrews 2.16,
it said he took not on him the nature of angels. No, he didn't
take on him the nature of angels. Angels are created beings. Angels
are beings that last forever and endure forever. They created
their eternal being. Christ took upon himself not
the nature of an angel, but he took upon himself the seed of
Abraham. Let me say just a little something
about that to give you something to think about. When God told
Abraham, He said, go out and look at the stars. How many are
there? I said, oh, I don't know. He
said, look at all that sand you're standing on. How many? Can you
count that? Oh, no. He said, well, that's
how many seeds you're going to have. That's going to be your
children. And He's going to come through thy seed. And beloved,
when He took upon Himself the seed of Abraham, He took upon
Himself humanity to save all those stars and all that sand. Let me show you how He's in His
humanity when He said, I thirst. In Luke 2, it says, He increased.
He increased in wisdom. God don't injure God. He's all
wise. He's omniscient. But here's this
man. Growing up as a child, he increased in wisdom. He increased
in stature. That meant that he grew. That
he got bigger and bigger and bigger. He had to learn to walk. He had to learn to talk. Had
to be fed. And not only that, beloved, but
he got wearied in his body. He took a trip one day and he
walked eight miles. And when he got there, and it
was high noon, it was hot, and his scripture says that he sat
down on a well, Jacob's well, leaned up on that well and sat
down because it said he was wearied in his body, wearied in his body. And then it tells us that he
was hungry. That shows us his humanity. He was hungry. One day he got
hungry, and he wanted some figs off of a tree, and he walked
up to that tree, and there weren't any figs. He cursed that tree.
And then, oh, it tells us that he slept. Our Lord Jesus Christ
went from day to night, and he was laying in the hold of a ship
one day, and a great storm come up, and he was so tired in his
body, so weary in his body, so weak in his body, that he laid
down there and went to sleep, and the storm didn't wake him
up. His disciples had to go and wake him up. Oh, he's a man. And he marveled. What would God marvel at? But
a man would marvel at something. He would marvel at unbelief.
He would marvel at all this. What is that? And not only that,
but he wept. Can you imagine Him weeping?
Here He is. He stood outside Lazarus' tomb.
There's Mary and Martha and all of the people that He loved,
and all those people that love Lazarus. And our Lord Jesus stands
in tears, fills His eyes, and out of those holy eyes began
tears start coming down His cheeks and dripping off the end of His
chin, down onto His clothes. And He's standing there and He's
really crying, not just a few, Mist in his eyes. I mean, it
says he wept. And you know what it is to weep
when you weep? You're weeping. And he wept there,
standing there, and everybody saw it. Everybody heard it. Why would he be weeping like
that? I'll tell you the reason I think, because I've got to
call this man back into this world. I've got to call Him back
from the rest that He has. I've got to call Him back from
the peace that He has. I've got to call Him back into this world
and leave Him here that they may see my glory and see my power
and see how that I raised the dead and can do it with just
the Word. I've got to bring Him back. When one of your loved
ones go, would you bring them back? Would you want them brought
back no matter how much you love them if they knew Christ? No. Well, that's what Christ had
to do to this man. And they went. And oh, he stood
and looked down over Jerusalem one time and he just started
weeping over it and said, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Tears streaming
down his face, Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Oh, he was a man. So he said,
I thirst because he's a man. And he prayed. He knew what it
was to pray an actually agonizing prayer and earnestly pray and
seek his Father. And he knew what it was to have
joy in his heart. He rejoiced. Told his disciples
to rejoice. And he groaned. You all know
what it is to groan. When you ain't got nothing else
you can do. You hear somebody in pain. You hear somebody in
the hospital. You hear somebody going through
agony in their body. And they're laying there and
they're just groaning. And you hear them groaning and
you try to comfort them. Well, our Lord Jesus Christ groaned. And here it says, he thirsted. He thirsted. Now God does not
thirst. God does not thirst. You ever
read of an angel thirsting? You ever read of an angel saying,
I thirsted, looking for some water? No. And I tell you, there's
coming a time you and I won't either. Look over in Revelations
with me. There's a time coming that you and I won't. Revelation
7. There's a time coming that you and I'll never thirst again. Look in Revelation 7, verse 16. I stay thirsty, look at that. But there's coming a time that
I'll never, ever want another drink of water, and you won't
even. Look what it says. This is what God says about us.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more. Neither sun gonna light on them.
Oh my, we'll never have to get no more stuff cut off of us because
of the sun. Sun won't affect us, sun won't
burn us, sun won't hurt our eyes. Never have to be looking for
a shade. Or there won't even be any heat. Never have to move
around trying to get out of that heat. Click on that. Perfection. And here he says, I thirst, so
that one day we'd never thirst. And oh, beloved, but here's our
Lord in the depth of His humiliation, saying, I thirst. I thirst. Psalm 32, verse 4 says this,
Christ is about to be spoken, says, Thy hand was heavy upon
me day and night. And my moisture is turned into
the drought of sin. That's what he says, I thirst.
And listen, this cry, I thirst, comes after three hours of darkness. And in that three hours of darkness,
this is it, after he had endured the fierceness of the wrath of
God himself poured out on his soul and on his body. I mean
the anger and the fierceness of God's wrath beat on him, and
beat on him, and beat on him, and when he comes out of it,
now all that the Scriptures fulfill says, I thirst, I thirst. And you remember when the rich
man, the old timers called him dives. I don't know where they
got that at, but they call him Dice. Dice when he is in hell.
He said, would you send Lazarus, that fellow that I drove by every
day, sat there begging, would you send Lazarus? And let him
dip his finger and let one drop fall on my parched tongue. We're going to never thirst again.
And that's all they're ever going to do. Oh, but listen, and I'm going
to tell you something about when he says, I thirst. It's not for
the relief of his sufferings and the suffering of his thirst
that he cries out. Remember this, he was the one
who caused water to flow out of that rock. In fact, he was
that rock that the water flew. He was that rock that watered
all of Israel, that walked this part of Israel. He's the one
who turned water into wine. So when he says, our thirst,
he says, he's not saying our thirst and his suffering might
be relieved. He could have easily, easily
met his own needs. Just like that. He, you know,
he took Elijah and says, you go over there by that brook,
I'll feed you and take care of you. And here he is on the cross
crying out to the earth. He was that rock that was smitten
that the water come out to Israel. That our rock. He turned the
water into wine. He could have easily said that.
But you know why he said it? And why he done it? Because it
is written in the volume of the book concerning me. I do like
to do thy will. Oh, Father, how thy will I come
to do. And, O Beloved, in His death,
as in His life, this was our Lord's authority. This is what
He obeyed. This is what He found to be His
way. Thee come in this world to fulfill this blessed book,
and do what His Father sent Him to do, and say what His Father
sent for Him to say, and accomplish what His Father gave Him to accomplish. And it was written of Him in
the volume of the book. And the one thing it said in
that book was, And he said, I thirst. And oh, here he makes known his
need, not that it might be relieved, but that the Scriptures might
be fulfilled. Look again what it says there
in verse 28. Jesus sawing all things, all things were now accomplished. He had hung on that cross for
six hours. Six hours. And in that six hours,
he passed through sufferings that you and I can't conceive
of. We could not imagine what he went through. Now, when you
and I suffer, I've seen some of you suffer, and we hate to
see people suffer. We'd relieve their suffering
if we could. Our children, our husbands, our wives, we'd do,
you know, and talking to a woman the other day, and she said when
the EMT, she had broke her leg Fellas got there, said, you got
any morphine? Yes. Said, give me that morphine
before you move me. She was in such pain. But here's our Lord Jesus Christ.
Here's a sinless man. A holy man. And the soul, the
suffering that he went through, the fact that he had our sin
on him. Died in enough of his self, his suffering. And then
not only have our sin on Him, but to bear our punishment for
sins He Himself not committed, for God to punish Him for something
He didn't do and regard Him as if He had Himself done it. And for God to even Himself,
that Father whom He was with in all eternity, and delighted
and rejoiced in, and they communed together in perfect holy harmony
throughout eternity, for His Father to turn His back on Him
and say, I ain't going to look at you, I'm not going to help
you, I'm not moving a finger to do anything for you. I've
got to let everything I've got go against you. Oh, the sufferings. And the things that they've treated
him is bad enough, but for what God done to him. And him being
made a sinner. And him being treated as a sinner.
And God regarding him as a sinner. And punishing him as a sinner.
And pouring out the curse of the law on him. And he's just
about ready to leave this world. He got just a few more heartbeats,
just a few more breaths, and he's leaving. And it says here, he was still yet, when all this
is going on, it is clear in his mind, his memory is perfect,
he is in complete control and completely self-possessed, because
he just got through having a conversation with his mother and John. He just got through saying, I
thirst, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. And he in a moment,
viewed all these prophecies concerning himself, and knowing all things
were now accomplished, I thirst. Oh, what a Savior. What a Savior. What a Redeemer! And He thirsted on that cross
that you and I could take the water of life today and take
the water of life here today. And what did they give Him to
drink when He said, I thirst? What did they give Him to drink?
Look what it says there in verse 29. Now there sat a vessel full
of vinegar. A vessel. Some kind of a pot,
some kind of a clay, a bucket of something. And they took a
sponge that happened to be there, and they filled that sponge with
vinegar. You know how many times that we have taken sponges, and
they have these little things now, you know, with the sponge
on the end of them, when people's in the hospital and their mouth
gets real, real dry. And you put it in that cold water, and
you put it in their mouth, and let them suck it off. Give them
some relief. And here they took this big sponge,
and they put it down in that vinegar. Put it on high. And they didn't have to reach
up but just a little bit. Stuck that sponge in his face. Gave him vinegar. And look what
it says here. When he had received it. There
he received it. But I want to show you something
over in Matthew 27. Over here they They gave him
vinegar and gall. He didn't take it. Matthew 27,
34. They just happened twice. And for my thirst, they gave
me vinegar to drink. That's what it says in Psalm
69, 21. Scripture fulfilled. But look what it says there in
verse 34. They gave him vinegar to drink,
mingled with gall, and when he had tasted that, he would not
drink. Why wouldn't he drink it? Because it had gall mixed
in it, and gall was what they used to deaden those men's pain
when they were being crucified. They'd mix it with gall, and
that gall was what would, and our Lord Jesus Christ did not
come to have his pain relieved. He came here to suffer, and He
refused it there. But here it says, when they gave
me vinegar to drink, it says they put it to His mouth when
Jesus, therefore, had received the vinegar. He drank it this
time, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. And, oh, beloved,
here He does. He doesn't, I don't want my pain
deadened. I come here to suffer. I come
here for this pain. But here He accepted it. to fulfill
the scriptures, to accomplish his father's will. And then look
what it says in verse 30. When Jesus, therefore, had received
the vinegar, he said unto them, he said, It is finished. It is finished. Everything's
accomplished now. Everything's done. Everything
required is done. And this is the briefest cry
from the cross. It is finished. What's finished? All things have been done, which
the law required. It required perfect obedience.
He gave perfect obedience to it. Everything the law required,
cursed is everyone that continueth not at all in our Lord Jesus
Christ, which treateth as if he hadn't kept the law. For those
who didn't keep it, you and I. And all things established which
the prophecies predicted, you find, beloved, all through the,
especially through the prophets, and throughout, oh my, so many
prophecies concerned. And here, therefore, people,
he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity. The
Lord made his soul an offering for sin. It pleased the Lord
to bruise him. And there He is, beloved, and
He's hanging on that cross, and He said, all things that the
prophecies concerning me are now finished. Oh my, that's finished! To Him all the prophets give
witness, and that's what He said going back. And all things were fulfilled
concerning the tithes. Here's that Passover lamb, the
last Passover lamb offered on the face of this earth was Christ
himself. And that's what they wanted him
took off the cross for, because this is the Passover day. And
he's our Passover, and he was the lamb. He's that lamb of God
that God said, Oh, behold, the lamb of God, given to suffer,
to be our substitute, to be our sin offering. And all things
accomplished which the Father had given to do. He says, oh,
Father, now I've finished the work. I've finished it. You gave me a work to do. After
you gave them to me, I've kept them. You gave them to me, I've
sanctified them. You gave them to me, I'll lay
down my life for them. And oh, beloved Father, He said,
I've finished the work. And all things that were performed
that were needed for our redemption, that was a price paid to redeem
us. To buy us from our slavery, to
buy us from our bondage, to buy us from our sinfulness. For He
paid the price of our redemption, which was His blood. And nothing
was left wanting or needing to be done. The wages of sin is
death. And sin's wages was paid right
here, once and for all. Sin's wages were paid back there
in Fort St. Paul. The wages of sin is death. My wages were paid that day. My mind was paid that day. Just
give Donnie Bell his wages. Just pay him for his sin. Give Him the wages of your sin.
Let Him give Him the wages of your sin. Well, you've got to
die. Christ said, here's the payment,
Christ's Father. You want the wages? You want
death for their sin? And here I am. Bless His holy name. Bless His
holy name. Now, this word, it is finished,
this one word. And I told them yesterday up
at Charlie's, it's teleo. Only other Greek I know is alpha
and omega. But here's a Greek word, teleo.
Well, I know gamma, gamma, gamma. But it is finished, teleo. That's
the word. And there's different uses of
this same word throughout the New Testament. And let me give
you four of them. And this shows us, these four
uses of this word, toleo, shows us the fullness and finality
of the work of our Lord Jesus Christ when he said it is finished.
First of all, it says in Matthew 11, when he made an end of commanding
his disciples, he made an end of it. And then it says in Matthew
17, 24, Peter asked him, he says, does the children pay tribute
or the strangers? He said, he says, you know, unless
we offend them, and we really are strangers in this place.
He said, there's a fish down there, you go catch that fish,
you take that fish, and there's some money in his mouth, you
take it and you pay our taxes, you pay our tribute. And that's
what it means to pay. Pay the tribute. And then, When
his mother and father took him into the temple, the scripture
says they performed all things written in the law concerning
him. Performing all things. It means to perform it and complete
the performing of it. And then he told his disciples,
he says, now must the Son of Man go up to Jerusalem and all
things that were written concerning him must be accomplished. So
this word, finished, means made an end of, to pay, to perform,
performed, and accomplished. Now put them all together, and
then you understand what it is when he said it is finished.
What was made an end of? Our sins. Once and for all, he
put away our sins by the sacrifice of himself. What was paid? The
price of our redemption. God ain't going to come back
and say, now you owe me. No, no. He's not coming back
to say you owe me. The payment's been made. And
what was performed? The utmost requirements of God's
love. I mean, now we can face God's
holy law and dare it to bring an accusation against us. Dare
it to bring an accusation. Dare it to curse us. Who shall
condemn us? It's Christ that died. Who shall
lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It's God that justified
them. And oh, Christ is the end of
the law for everyone that believeth. The law cannot touch me. It says it demands perfection. It's got perfection. It demands
perfect obedience from the day you're born to the day you die.
I've got it. That's what it means to save. What was performed? Everything
that brought law requirement. What was accomplished? The work
which the Father gave Him to do. He did it all. All to Him
alone. What was finished when He said
it is finished? Salvation. Salvation. Salvation. Not only salvation from our sin,
but salvation every single day of our lives till we reach glory.
I mean, it's a full salvation. We need salvation, don't we?
We need it from there to there. Well, that's what we got. It's complete. We don't have
to do any more of that. It's full. You can't put any
more in it. It's finished. There's nothing
else done. The atonement's been made. God
looks at him and said, I'm satisfied. And oh, beloved, and if God's
satisfied, then he's satisfied with everybody that's in his
son. Huh? No wonder Paul stood and preached
to that bunch and said, Be it known unto you, therefore, men
and brethren, that through this man, this man is preached unto
you the forgiveness of sins by which you could not be justified
from all things, by which you could not be justified by the
law of Moses. And then look what it says here
in verse 30 again. Let me give you that. Oh, this
is so precious to me. He says, and he bowed his head.
He said, it is finished. Knowing all things were accomplished,
all things were accomplished, he said, I thirst. And then he
said, it's finished. It's done. And watch what he
said. So evidently he'd been upright,
conversing with his mother, conversing with John, said, I thirst. They reach up and give him vinegar.
All this is going on just in a few moments. Just a very few
minutes. And then, he's looking around. He just had a conversation. He
just took that vinegar. He's looking up. He just bowed
his head. And his heart stopped just like
that. He took his last breath. And life left his body. It says he bowed his head and
gave up the ghost. Nobody else has ever done that.
And you know what? He said, Herein doeth my Father
love me, because I lay down my life for the sheep. No man takes
it from me. I've got the power to lay it
down. I've got the power to take it up again. The scripture's been fulfilled.
Salvation's done. And old Bruce Crabtree brought
a message up there yesterday that said, rest in Him. Just
rest in Him. Just repose, you know. Repose. When you get home today, you're
going to trust your chair and you're going to lay down in it?
You're going to trust your bed and you're going to go to sleep?
Well, do the same thing in Christ. Just lay back. Rest in Him. Trust Him. Our Father, oh, blessed, blessed
Savior. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, blessed
be your name. Oh, Lord Jesus, oh, thank you,
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you. Lord, I can't thank you enough.
I can't praise you enough. I can't bless you enough. And
oh, God, thank you for giving us a son who loved us and gave
himself for us to save us from our sins and let us now live
by faith in the Son of God. And oh, blessed Savior, save
your people in this place. Cause this gospel, cause this
gospel to find a place in a person's heart today.
May they find rest in the Lord Jesus today. We ask in his name. Amen. Amen.