Bibles, if you would, to Song
of Solomon, Chapter 1. Continue our study in Song of
Solomon. Tonight's message is called,
Draw Me. Draw Me. Let's read Song of Solomon 1
to 7. The first verse tells us that
this is a song, and then from verses 2 to 7, we have the bride
confessing her love for the bridegroom. The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is
better than wine. Because of the savor of thy good
ointments, thy name is an ointment poured forth, therefore do the
virgins love thee. Draw me, and we will run after
thee. The king hath brought me into his chambers. We will be
glad and rejoice in thee. We will remember thy love more
than wine. The upright love thee. I am black,
but calmly. O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
as the tents of Kadar, as the curtains of Solomon, look not
upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon
me. My mother's children were angry with me. They made me the
keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard have I not kept. Tell me, O thou whom my soul
loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest
at noon? For why should I be is one that turns aside by the
flocks of thy companions. Now, last week we looked at verse
three in which we considered the savor, the savor, the smell
of the good ointments of Christ. The ointments of his grace, which
are poured forth to us, to the bride in Christ. And we consider the preciousness
also of His name. How precious is the name of Christ
to the believer. How precious it is. It was a
name once that some of us used as a byword, and now it's a name
that's so precious. So precious. And God had mercy
on us, didn't He? He had mercy on us. And now that
name, oh, it's the name above every name. It warms our hearts
when we think and we hear about the Lord Jesus Christ. And his
name is wonderful, wonderful to his people. It's like an ointment
poured forth. Now, tonight we're going to look
at verse four, and we note here it's the bride petitioning the
bridegroom to draw her. The bride is petitioning the
bridegroom to draw her. And I was pondering this verse
and studying the thought came to me. Those would never be the words
of a man or woman in their natural state. It would never be the words of
us before the Lord saved us. The bride who is born again of
the Holy Spirit says, draw me. Knowing he's already drawn us
to him, right? But we continually. What's the
scripture say? We hunger and thirst after righteousness.
Lord, draw me. Draw me close, Lord. Draw me
close. Draw me. So these are the words
These are the words of God's people of his bride. Of his bride,
because before we were saved, we did not desire Christ. We
did not desire the gospel of Christ. We did not desire God's
people. We did not desire to read his word. But now there's
no one I'd rather be with in God's people. There's no there's
there's nothing I'd rather hear than the gospel preached and
proclaimed. My. And there's nothing I'd rather
read than his word, right? His word is precious to us. It's
precious, it speaks to us, to our hearts. And the born again
believer, the bride of Christ, cries out, draw me, draw me. Even after we've been drawn by
the Holy Spirit to run to Christ, we still cry out, draw me, draw
me. And it's our continuous cry.
It's a continuous cry of the born again believer, the continuous
cry of we who have been redeemed. Lord, draw me, draw me near as
I struggle. Draw me near as I struggle with
my sin. Draw me near as I go through trials and tribulations
in this world. Draw me near, Lord. Draw me near. Draw me near as I journey through
this life. Draw me near. Draw me near when I hear the
gospel preached, that I might find comfort and strength in
the preached word. Because who does it point us
to? It points us to Christ. It points us to our bridegroom. And you who are born again for
our blood-bought saint of God, is not this your cry? Is not
this your cry to the Redeemer? Draw me near. Draw me near. when you think of the excellency
of Christ, when you ponder the excellency of Christ, when you
ponder Christ's love for you, when you just think upon it,
when you consider the savor of his ointments, and when you consider
the preciousness of his name. Do you not in love cry out to
him, Lord, draw me, draw me and I'll run after you. I'll run
after you. It says here in the scriptures,
draw me and we draw me. We will run after you. The king has bought me into his
chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in
you. We remember your love more than wine. The upright love you.
Now, when God again draws a sinner to Christ, we looked at this
this morning. It's effectual, isn't it? It's effectual. God
calls a poor sinner by His grace, and He brings the sinner to Christ.
He brings the sinner to Christ. Hosea says this, Hosea 11 verse
4 says this, I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of
love. He lovingly draws us to the Savior. And I was to them as they that
take off the yoke on their jaws. Freedom in Christ. Freedom in
Christ. And I laid meat unto them. He
feeds us by His Word. He feeds us by His Word. God
lovingly draws His people to Christ, and He alone grants them
faith. Turn, if you would, to John chapter
6. He alone grants them faith, and He alone grants them repentance.
And what happens when God, the God of all grace, grants faith
and repentance? They flee to Christ. They believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is what Scripture proclaims
here in John chapter 6. Look at verses 44 and 45. Now
this is pretty plain, but people don't believe this. They think
that they're the ones who draw themselves to Christ, or they're
the ones who run to Christ. Look what it says. No man. No man. Two one-syllable words. No man. Can. Another one syllable.
Come to me. Notice how the Lord speaks in
one-syllable words. No man can come to me except
the Father, which has sent me, draw him. And I'll raise him up at the
last day. No man on the top side of this earth has the ability
to come to Christ on their own. No man. That's what the scripture
says right there. No man. So if you've come to
Christ, if I've come to Christ, it's because the Father drew
us. Isn't it wonderful? It's wonderful. And the bride
still says, draw me, draw me, draw me. And it says, I will raise them
up at the last day. There's no maybe about it, is
it? And then look at John 6, 45. It is written in the prophets,
and they shall be all taught of God. Everything you and I
know about Christ, everything we know about God, we've been
taught. He's revealed to us. so that
we can boast in nothing. Nothing. It's all revealed. Every man, therefore, that has
heard who he's given her here in ears to and hath learned of
the father, what cometh unto me. Cometh unto me. So no man can come on his own
except the father which sent me draw him. And all that the Father draw
comes unto Christ. And then the bride continues
to say, draw, draw, draw. No man or woman has power to
come to Christ. We lack not only the power, but
we lack the ability to come to Christ in our natural state. We're spiritually dead and trespasses
and sins. The sinner in his natural state
is stout hearted, stout hearted. far from righteousness, averse
to Christ and the way of salvation, but by the mighty grace of God,
the God of all grace, the stout heart is bought down, bought
down and made willing, made willing to submit to God's way of salvation,
which is trusting in Christ alone. and trust in our eternal souls
to Christ and him alone. And as we saw in that text, it's
all by God's drawn power. All by, the old timers called
it fetching grace. Fetching grace. Remember David
said about Mephibosheth, go and fetch him. Go and fetch him. And the Holy Spirit goes and
fetches the lost sheep and turns them right to Christ. And then
they just run. They run. And the bridegroom
says this, look at what the bridegroom says, draw me and what we will
run after you. We will run after you, unconverted
sinners are unwilling to come to Christ for life, but those
who belong to the election of grace are made willing in the
day of Christ's power. And it is those who have experienced
this drawing power spoken of in our text. And it's those who
cry out, draw me, draw me. We will run after you. We will
run after you. Notice how centered she is on
him. Notice how centered she is on the bridegroom, beloved.
Draw me, we will run after you. She's centered on the bridegroom. To know Jesus is to love Him
supremely, to love Him with all our hearts. He's everything to
us. And to His true followers, He's
the object of their delight. He's the source of our joy. Nothing else stands in comparison
to Him. Think about how you used to think,
what you used to think of Christ and what you used to think about
people who were born again, right? And think of how you feel about
God's people now. What a change, what a change. Think about how you thought about
Christ before and how you think about Christ now. The believer
is a new creature and our desires, we desire him, we're run after
him. And this is the bride saying this, draw me, we will run after
you. He is the object of our delight, the source of our joy.
And she cries out for the bridegroom to continue to draw her. For
she wants no other, beloved. She wants no other. And she desires to be in his
presence in constant communion with him. Draw me, we will run
after you. And note here too, take this
note. Remember we saw over in John
6, 44, no man can come to me except the Father which sent
me, right? Draw him. Look what the bride say. The bride speaks
of her inability. She speaks of her own inability
to come to Christ. She must be drawn, beloved. She
must be drawn. And when she's drawn, sure run
to Christ. What are we as God's sheep? Even
after we're saved, we're prone to wander. We're prone to wander, aren't
we? We wander over here. And the Lord, he gets that shepherd's
staff and the cook there, puts it around her neck, just brings
us gently back over here. Come on back over here. We're
prone to wander, beloved. prone to wander, but our wonderful
Bridegroom lovingly draws us back to Himself, and we run to
Him. And this is why we have to have
that article by Henry in the Bulletin about God's people,
we desire to hear the Gospel preached continuously, all the
time, because it's constantly drawing us back to Christ, bringing
us back to Him. Oh my. We need to have the Gospel
preached to us again and again and again. And this is what the
bride desires, because she cries out here, draw me, we will run
after you. So she has one object. She speaks
of her inability, and she has one object, Christ,
Christ. Look at this too. It says, draw
me will run after thee. The king has brought me into
his chambers. Note she cries out and note the response immediately.
The king brings her into his secret chambers of mercy. My
in grace. And how much is the scripture
brought forth here, which proclaims this Isaiah 6524 says this, and
it shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer. Before
they call, I will answer. And while they are yet speaking,
I will hear. Draw me, we will run after the king hath bought
me into his chambers. My beloved. He has drawn, she
ran, and the results are abundantly satisfying. We now find her in
the company of the king. The king. The king hath bought
me into his chambers. Not Solomon, for greater than
Solomon is spoken of here. This is the Lord Jesus Christ,
beloved. Who must have the preeminence,
the king. Know what he's called, the king.
There's only one who's the king of the whole world. There's only
one who's the king of kings and the Lord of lords. There's only
one who's the king of the saints. And it's the Lord Jesus Christ,
beloved. He has complete universal rule. And His rule is over all the
empires of the world, all the governments of the world, princes
and principalities, heaven and earth. He rules over heaven,
earth and hell. He rules supreme. And these chambers here represent,
one commentator said, His own personal possessions. All the
unsearchable riches of Christ are at Her disposal. And beloved, we know that the
elect of God have all spiritual blessings in Christ alone. In
Christ alone. His peace, His rest, His joy,
His riches, the riches of His grace are all ours in Christ.
And the present possessions the believer has in Christ, a full
salvation, a complete salvation, being redeemed and purchased
by His blood, being justified before God Almighty, before the
holy and righteous God of the universe, all by the work of
Christ. To be clothed in His perfect
spotless righteousness, all because of His work as our substitute
in His life and in His death upon the cross. Now let us consider
this. It would be a tremendous privilege
for any common citizen to be admitted into the presence of
an earthly prince, monarch, or king. I saw the Queen once. I was in Sick Kids. I had been
in for some operations and they wheeled me out in a wheelchair
and I got to see the Queen go by. Queen Elizabeth. And that was a privilege. The
Queen Mother was there too and they were all in the cart going
by and that was a privilege. And I still remember it. But
to be in the presence, to be brought into the chambers of
the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords, mine. So we contrast what a privilege
it would be for a common citizen to be admitted into the presence
of an earthly king, or an earthly prince, or an earthly monarch,
but contrast this with what we have before us here, an unworthy
sinner of unclean lips to be brought into the royal chambers
of his majesty. the king of kings and the Lord
of Lords. What a privilege. What an honor. And it is so with the bride of
Christ, beloved, she's bought into the king's chambers. What great mercy we have here
manifested before us, what love and compassion is manifested
here before us, the one who rules and reigns in heaven above. brings
us into His chamber, brings His people into His chamber. His
ways of grace are higher than our ways or our thoughts. His thoughts of mercy are higher
than any of our thoughts of mercy, right? Scripture declares this
in Isaiah 55. It says this, For my thoughts
are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways, saith
the Lord. For as the heavens are higher
than the earth, So are my ways higher than your ways, higher
than far, and my thoughts than your thoughts. What humility
is shown here, beloved? What condescension is here before
us? Our gracious and benevolent King not only permits sinners
with a criminal past, and we're all criminals, right? Because
we're all sinners. We've broken the law of God in
our natural state. People don't like to hear that,
but that's what we are by birth. Rebels and criminals who have
broken the law of God. But our benevolent King not only
permits sinners with a criminal past to live in His glorious
Kingdom, but He alone by His sovereign hand of love fetches
us, fetches us, beloved, from the sinful state of our depravity.
And He fetches us and brings us into His chambers. My! What a Savior! What a Redeemer
is Jesus Christ, my Lord. And he says, the bride says here,
draw me, we'll run after thee. The king had bought me into his
chambers. We who are redeemed are brought
into the covenant chambers of Christ, of his amazing grace
and note, note here, look, note, note here. It's he who has bought
us in. Look what the text says. The
king hath bought me into his chambers. He bought me in. He fetched me. He drew me. Now he's bought me into his chambers. She could never have entered
into the chambers without being bought in by him. Think of that,
beloved. My goodness. And let us note
next the joy that the bride has. Look at the joy that the bride
has. We will be glad and rejoice in
thee. No wonder. She knows her inability. She
knows that she could never have entered into his chambers without
him bringing her in. And she rejoices. She rejoices, beloved. We will
be glad and rejoice in thee. We will remember thy love more
than wine. Let's read the whole verse again.
Draw me, we will run after thee. The king hath brought me into
his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in thee. We will
remember thy love more than wine, the upright love thee. Now we see those who are brought
into the king's chamber, they're glad. They rejoice. They're not walking around with
long faces, are they? No, they're rejoicing. They're
glad. The Lord saved me. The Lord drew
me. And I had no ability to come
on my own. But by His mercy and His grace, He saved me. These are those who've been redeemed by the precious
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. They're glad. And it says they
remember His love more than wine. These are those that through
the grace of God and Christ have been bought into covenant and
communion with God through Christ. Turn, if you would, to Acts chapter
8. And they have reason to go on their way rejoicing, beloved.
They have reason because they're redeemed, they're saved. This fills the believer with
joy. We see here with the eunuch in
the book of Acts beloved. He goes on rejoicing look at
Acts 8 37 to 39 and Philip said if thou believest with all thine
heart thou mayest And he said I believe that Jesus Christ is
the son of God He commanded the chariot to stand still and they
went down both into the water both Philip and the eunuch and
he baptized him And when they were come up out of the water
the spirit of the Lord cut Philip away That the eunuch saw him
no more and he went on his way what? Joyce oh He's rejoicing. He's rejoicing He's born again
to the Holy Spirit of God He's rejoicing in His salvation which
is in Christ and Him alone. He believes on the Lord Jesus
Christ. He believes that He's the Son
of God. And He goes on His way rejoicing. Rejoicing. And notice in our text it says,
we will be glad and rejoice in Thee. Now notice again, notice
again the singularity. In Thee. We rejoice in Christ. We rejoice in Him. We rejoice
in what He's done for us. My, we'll be glad and rejoice. Two words with one sense. Double
joy, blessedness upon blessedness. Glad and rejoice. There should
be no limit to our rejoicing, beloved, in the Lord. When we
think of God's grace given to us, when we meditate upon that,
when we think upon that, when we ruminate upon that, It'll
be His anointment poured forth, beloved. It'll make your heart
rejoice. It will fragrance this journey
here on earth with joy and gladness. Even though we'll go through
trials and we have tears and tribulation, we do, and sorrow,
but oh, we can rejoice, beloved. We've been drawn by the King
of kings. We've been brought into His chambers. When we consider His person,
God incarnate in the flesh, when we consider His salvation, that
all our sins are forgiven, when we consider His love to His people,
not just to us personally, but His love to all of God's elect,
when we consider that He left heaven, He left heaven to come to this world, and He
knew He was coming here to die. He knew he was the Lamb of God.
He's the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. What
love. What love, beloved. When we consider
that, when we just think on that, it should fill our souls and
our hearts with joy and gladness. Because the believer can say,
he did that for me. Oh my, what a Savior. Turn if you would to Psalm 30.
Psalm 30. Do you know what it'll do? When
we think upon Christ, when we think upon Him, it turns our
mourning or our sorrows into dancing, beloved. We just rejoice.
We rejoice in what He's done for us. Look at Psalm 30, verses 10 to
12. Here, oh Lord, and have mercy upon me. Lord, be thou my helper. And what a helper he is to his
people. Thou has turned for me my mourning into dancing. Thou
has put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. Is that
not what the bride said? To the end that my glory may
spring praise to thee. Well, she remembers his love. She remembers his love. should be glad and rejoice in
thee. Thou hast turned from me my mourning into dancing. Thou
hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness to the
end, that my glory may sing praise to thee. Notice the singularity
again of it. And be not silent. God's people
won't be silent about Christ. They won't. Brother Scott Richard
said, it leaks out of us. It leaks out of us. My oh lord
my god. I will give thanks unto thee
forever And note the bride who the bride
rejoices in note in our text draw me We will run after thee
the king hath bought me into his chambers. We will be glad
and rejoice in thee and thee She rejoices in the king And
is it not so with which with we who being redeemed, do we
not rejoice in our King, the Lord Jesus Christ? Are we not do we not rejoice
and are we not glad? When we ponder what the Lord's
done for us. We are complete in Christ, complete
in Christ, complete in him. and plead in him. He has purchased
us from the slave block of sin by his own precious blood. And
it is in him, in him alone, that we rejoice. We rejoice in no
other. And when the bride considers
how she's been drawn with loving kindness, and that all her spiritual
needs are found in Christ, she rejoices, beloved. She rejoices. And she's glad. And she enters
in rejoicing, rejoicing in Him. Turn, if you would, to Psalm
45. Psalm 45, verses 13 to 15. Psalm 45, verses 13 to 15. The king's daughter is all glorious
within. Her clothing is wrought of gold.
She shall be brought unto the king in the raiment of needlework.
The virgin circumcisions that far shall shall be bought unto
thee with gladness and rejoicing shall they be bought. They shall
enter into the king's palace. She enters into the presence
of the king with gladness and rejoicing. And she rejoices in
him. Is it not so in our text to the
bride of Christ, we rejoice in Christ and him alone. And next, let us note in our
text, draw me, we will run after thee. The king hath brought me
into his chambers. We shall be glad and rejoice
in thee. We rejoice in Christ and him alone. But look at this,
we will remember thy love more than wine. We will remember thy
love more than wine. Beloved, his love is far better
than the world's best wine. It's not a plant that grows among
the weeds of this earth. No, it's from The everlasting.
It's it's holy, it's divine, his love. It's a divine love
given to us by the Holy Spirit of God. You know, Scripture says
in Romans chapter five, it says this and hope, make it not a
shame because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.
It's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given
unto us. Think of this when we take the
cup and the bread of the Lord's Supper. We remember what our
King has done for us. We remember the great love which
was manifest towards us, towards His people at Calvary's tree.
And we rejoice, beloved. Sometimes, sometimes we rejoice
with tears of joy. Because we ponder what it cost. We ponder what it cost. Sometimes
we rejoice with tears of gladness. And sometimes we just rejoice
in His great love. But see, the Lord's table is
for us to remember what he's done. To remember what he's done,
remember what it cost for our salvation. And to reflect in
God's people, we're always remembering. We're always remembering when
we take the cup and the bread that the Lord's Supper, we remember
again what what he's done. We track the love of Christ for
his people from the scriptures from eternity past. where we were chosen in Christ,
and it's all because we're loved by God with an everlasting love,
and we remember that, and we rejoice, don't we? We look to the cradle where Christ
was born to be our Savior, and He was born to be our Savior. He was born to save us from our
sins, and we remember that, don't we? And we rejoice. We remember
that, and we rejoice. We see the cross. where his love
was manifest like no other love. No other love in this world.
And we see him dying in our place as our substitute before God's
law and justice. We see him having our sins imputed
to him. And we see that all that was
demanded for our sins is paid for. And we remember and we rejoice. We look to the grave where he
was buried. And we see his resurrection.
The tomb is empty. It's empty. He's gone. And he and we know we know from
scripture that he was raised for our justification. And we
remember and we rejoice. And now we look. To our savior
and glory. By faith. We see him seated right
now at the right hand of God as our mediator. And we know
that where He is, we shall soon be there. And we remember, and
we rejoice, and it fills our hearts with gladness, beloved,
and joy. Through all this, we trace His
everlasting love. And we remember, and we rejoice
in Christ alone, the Bride, God's elect, We find our joy and gladness
in remembering and marveling in the secret wonders of the
great King's redeeming love to his people. Never let the gospel
become commonplace to you. God's people, for us, we never
grow tired of hearing the gospel preached. Because it tells us
of our Savior. It tells us of Him. I remember
Brother Henry saying about Psalm 23, and he said people read it
so much that it almost becomes commonplace to them. And he said
it ought never to be so. Scripture ought never to become
commonplace to us, no matter how many times we've heard it.
No matter how many times we've heard it. It should always bring
us joy and gladness. Because we remember. and we rejoice
in God's everlasting mercy to us and in the immutable purpose
of His grace and salvation for His people in Christ Jesus our
Lord. Again, the text says, draw me and we will run after Thee.
The King hath brought me into His chambers. We will be glad
and rejoice in Thee. We will remember Thy love more
than wine. The upright love Thee. And here
we close with the latter part of our text here. The upright
love Thee. and by the upright here are sincere
followers of Christ, not mere professors, and there's a lot
of people who just profess, but these are sincere followers of
Christ. And they are in no way upright
in themselves, not at all. In Christ they are. They're upright
in Christ and Him alone, clothed in this perfect spotless righteousness.
David calls them the undefiled in the way. David says this,
blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of
the Lord. Psalm 119, one, the undefiled
in the way. I like that. Turn, if you would, to Ruth,
we have a picture. We have the picture in the book of Ruth with
the converted Moabite. Here's the language of every
true believer. And we find the language of the
true believer in what Ruth says to Naomi. And this is wonderful. Just think upon this scripture.
Ruth 1, verses 16 and 17, And Ruth said, Entreat me not to
leave thee, or to return from following after thee. For whither
thou goest, I will go. And where thou lodgest, I will
lodge. Thy people shall be my people,
and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die,
and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more
also, if ought but death part thee in me. My, what a statement. Let us turn to John, chapter
21. And we see our master talking
to one, one of his sheep whom he's redeemed, one who's been
purchased by his blood. John chapter 21, and think of
this, Simon had denied the Lord, Simon Peter denied the Lord three
times, didn't he? Look what our master says. Look
at the loving words. And may we think about these.
May we think about these words. Look how precious these words
are. John 21, verses 15 to 17. So when they had dined, Jesus
saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me
more than these? He saith unto him, yea, Lord,
thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, feed my lambs.
Now notice what the Lord's, Peter has denied the Lord three times.
Think about what happens in religion. You mess up, you are kicked to
the curb, man. Peter denied the Lord three times.
See, religion's awful because it inspects every little thing
and brings out every little fault in people. But grace doesn't
do that. There's enough fault in me and
there's enough fault in you to burn this whole building down,
right? But look what grace does. Look
what God says to one of his redeemed sheep, right here. This is absolutely
beautiful. He saith to him again the second
time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, yea,
Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, feed
my sheep. He's not hammering him, is he? He keeps bringing Peter to him. He saith unto him the third time,
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grave because he
says he said unto him the third time, lovest thou me? And he
said, Lord, thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love
thee. Jesus saying to him, feed my
sheep. What a Savior, beloved. This
is the one whom we've been brought into his chambers. This is the
one who the bride says, draw me, draw me and I'll run to you. Oh, Lord Jesus. We come before
the. And we have seen tonight our
utter inability to come to the. And we know that the only reason
we who believe come to you is because you have drawn us. And
we cry out, Lord, please keep drawing us. Draw us near, Lord. As John the Baptist said, you
must increase and I must decrease. Oh, Lord, draw us. Help us be
our strength and our guide and our shield through the trials
and storms of this life. We know that you are an ever
present help. And we marvel when we see this,
that we who are sinners are bought into the king of kings, the chambers
of the king of kings, you, the king. And we marvel at the mercy
and the grace and the love which you have for your people. And
we see how you treated Peter. Lovest thou me? Oh, Lord. We know that the love we have
for you is only because you first loved us. And this brings us
low, Lord, but it exalts you high. What a Savior you are to
us, Lord. May we leave this place rejoicing
today. And we love you and praise you
in Jesus' name. Amen.