Turn with me this morning to Revelation chapter 7. Revelation chapter 7. This book begins by telling us that it is the revelation of
Jesus Christ. The Apostle John, who is given this word by God. He is also the writer of the
epistle of 1 John. This is what he says there. If we receive the witness of
men, We do receive the witness of men. We receive it every day,
moment by moment. We believe what people tell us. Foolishly, we believe what we
hear on the news. But we do receive the witness
of men. But he says, the witness of God
is greater. It's far greater. It's a witness of truth. All
people will find out one day that the witness of God was the
witness of the truth. This is the witness of God which
he has testified of his son." He said, you listen to the witness
of men, the witness of God is far greater and has an eternal
consequence. And it is the witness of God
concerning His Son. So this is the revelation of
Jesus Christ. So if you look with me in chapter
7, beginning at verse 9, listen to what we find in this book,
this book that has for so long, been proven by God to be His
lasting truth. Books have come and books have
gone, but not this book. His Word abides forever. Verse 9, It says, after this,
I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of
all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before
the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and
palms in their hands. and cried with a loud voice,
saying, Salvation to our God, which sitteth upon the throne,
and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round
about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and
fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God. saying, Amen, blessing and glory
and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be
unto our God forever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered,
saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes,
and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou
knowest. And he said to me, These are
they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed
their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the
throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne
shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any
heat. For the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto
living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes." This man, John, was at this time
exiled to the Isle of Patmos. And it is there in this exile
that he receives this revelation concerning the Lord Jesus Christ
and his people. Much of it involves symbolic
language. We know that because in the very
beginning it says that he sent and signified these things to
John. And that is because these words,
these truths are not for simply a particular people in a particular
time, but they are applicable to all of God's people in every
age and time. The real truth of these verses
will apply at every age, irregardless of what the particular opposition
or trial may be. And this book, rather than being
confusing, this book, rather than being a difficult book,
is simply the book wherein we find these pictures and these
promises concerning the total conquest and the absolute victory
of the Lord Jesus Christ over all his enemies. A full victory and triumph. And not only that, but being
in him and because of him, we find the victory of all his elect
over all their enemies. over all their difficulties,
over all their sufferings and persecutions that they are often
found in by the will of God. John sees them in heaven when
he is asked by an elder, who are these? Who are these? And not only that, where did
they come from? And they are all there. They
are everyone there in heaven. There are none of them missing. They are all rejoicing. And they are everyone victorious. Paul said, thanks be unto God
who gives us the victory in the Lord Jesus Christ. But not only that, we are also
given a description of them. We're given this description
and this is very important. If you look back in verse 9,
this is one of the verses in which we find a description of
them. He says, I beheld and lo, a great
multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds
and people and tongues, they stood before the throne and before
the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms in their hands." He doesn't say here that every
son and daughter of Adam was present. He doesn't say here
that there was a universal salvation that had been accomplished and
every child of Adam was there present. But he does say there
was a great multitude. There was a great multitude. Not all men. But we find, as
we find in so many texts, God's many. He came to give His life
a ransom for many. And so though they be described
as few here or a little flock in another place, whenever they
are all gathered together in His presence, the saints of God,
through all the ages, they will be, as John saw them in this
vision, a great multitude. How many? Every one God purposed
to say. How many? A sufficient number
to glorify God in His salvation. They will be as they are called
on earth, His people. Christ is the Lord of hosts. There'll be a great multitude. As a matter of fact, whenever
you look in the book of Isaiah in chapter 2. In that second
verse, this is what it says. And it shall come to pass in
the last days, that's the days particularly between the first
coming and the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, He
hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, in the last
days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established
in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the
hills, and all nations shall flow under it." What is that? Mount Zion, that spiritual mountain. The church of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And many people shall go and
say, Come ye, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to
the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways,
and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth
the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He describes
Zion as being a mountain to which a people from every nation, kindred,
tribe, and tongue shall flow by God's grace. He also gives this description. He says, which no man can or
could number. If you remember, David one time
got in trouble numbering the Lord's people. And there is not
a modern evangelist or preacher or whoever they might be, so-called
missionary, that can number the Lord's people. They like to count
their numbers, post them on their boards, give them in their reports,
but it is a number that no man can number. But God can. God can. And He has. And that number is
that people that are described in scripture when it says, the
Lord knows them that are his and let everyone that names the
name of Christ depart from iniquity. He knows that number. They are
a great multitude. They are a number that man cannot
number, and they are a people out of, among all nations and
kindreds and tribes and tongues. They are a people from or out
of both the Jews and the Gentiles. For so many centuries, there
was a division established by God in order to show in a picture
His people. There was a distinction between
Jew and Gentile. But in God's grace, that petition
has been brought down, and there is a remnant, according to the
election of grace, from among Jews and Gentiles, so that these
people are made up of people from all these various kindreds,
nations, tribes, and tongues. Men like to talk about a Christian
nation. But there is only one Christian
nation, and that is the nation that is made up of God's choice
of a people from among all nations. They are this holy nation, the
nation in Jesus Christ. And it's not whether or not their
name was on some church membership roll, it's whether or not their
names were written in heaven, as Christ said, written in the
Lamb's book of life. And then it says that they stood
before the throne. In Revelation 5, these people,
in verse 9, who were redeemed from among men. It says that
they stand before the throne. Now, the Bible tells us that
men have established many thrones. But in truth, there is only one
throne. And these are said to stand before
the throne, the sovereign, eternal, and unchanging throne of God,
that throne where the risen Christ sits. He rules and he reigns. And they're standing there before
that throne. They're standing there in God's
presence in heaven. They're not, as so many foolish
people have tried to make this to be, they're not fishing, they're
not playing golf, they're not doing the favorite sport that
they had on earth. They're not just simply talking
to each other. They're not doing all these foolish
things like talking to mama or listening to dad sing or any
of these things. They're standing before the throne. Because they're occupied with
the one who sits on the throne. Oh, I tell you, when men stand
before the living Lord of glory, all that has been said in the
descriptions of heaven and what people will be doing or smiling
or doing all these things looking down on earth, they're not worried
about what's going on on earth. They're engrossed. in the one
who sits on the throne. Their eyes, their attention,
their affections are fixed on one object who is described here
as the Lamb. The Lamb. The Redeemer King. Because the one who sits on the
throne is not only the one who is God himself, not only the
one who rules and reigns, but he's the one who saved them from
their sins, who rescued their eternal souls by his sacrifice. Oh, they'll know then what they've
been saved from. They'll know them in some measure,
the expense of that salvation which he wrought. They'll know
more in that hour about what his sacrifice really was. And all of the treasures of earth
and all the pleasures of earth will surely fade away in an instant. They stand before the throne
of Him who is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,
who by His sacrifice has made this to them a throne of grace. They'll praise God for His sovereign,
free grace. They're not debating about free
will. They're not debating about a
point of doctrine. They're not debating about all
these things that men and women are always fretting about there.
They're occupied with the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ. And that 10th verse says, they
cried with a loud voice. They cried with a loud voice,
and they cried with one voice. When you read about these voices
in heaven, they are all in unity, saying the same thing, ascribing
the same glory to the same person. And what are they saying? to our God, which sitteth upon
the throne and unto the land." What are they saying? They're
ascribing their full and eternal salvation to the Lord Jesus Christ. They're ascribing their salvation
to God and His grace alone. Salvation to our God. Virtually the same thing that
Jonah was brought to confess in the belly of the whale. Salvation
is of the Lord. That's what God's people, when
He's pleased to reveal the truth to them and call them out of
darkness into His marvelous light and show them the Savior, that's
what they begin to confess on this earth. God alone has saved us. It is
He that has saved us and not we ourselves. Salvation is of
the Lord in its origin. Salvation is of the Lord in its
redemptive accomplishment. Salvation is of the Lord in its
application. Salvation is of the Lord in its
maintaining. Salvation is of the Lord from
A to Z. And that's why he gets all the
glory. But note this. It says that they're clothed
with white robes. They're clothed. The only thing
that's said about them As far as the description of
the way they appear there in God's presence personally is
this. They're clothed in white robes. Now, I know what self-righteous
false religion depicts them as being. Religion, false religion, would
have each and every one of them appearing in that hour in heaven
in varying degrees of accomplishment. Here's a fellow over here, and
he's just got nothing but that robe on. Here over here is another
one over here. He's got that robe on, but he's
got three stripes on his sleeve. And here over here is this one,
this one. They're always lifting up this
one. They're always sitting as the
ideal. He looks like Omar Gaddafi with
all his medals, his awards. Such foolishness if we are all
saved by grace. Such foolishness if Christ is
the one who has done all the work. Such foolishness if Christ
actually, as he said on the cross, finished this salvation. Such foolishness if Paul was
right when he said, where is boasting then? It is excluded. No. They're all just exactly
alike. They're all dressed in these
white robes, and there is no distinction among them They're
all clothed alike in these white robes which are symbolic of holiness
and righteousness and perfection. Richard's saying, God is holy. That's exactly right. He's holy. He's righteous. And the only
way that any son or daughter could ever stand in His presence,
they're standing in His presence. And the only way they could is
for them to be holy. For them to be righteous. And that's what these white robes
symbolize. They symbolize that righteousness,
that perfect, imputed righteousness, which is emphasized. They're
not standing there naked in themselves. They're standing there wrapped
in something that has been put on them. They're not standing there in
their own perfection. They don't have any in themselves.
They're standing there in a perfect righteousness. They've been clothed,
or as it says, they're arrayed, that is, they're dressed, they're
robed in what old John Bunyan called the glory of an imputed
righteousness. When I stand before the throne,
dressed in glory not my own, they're standing there wrapped,
if you want to say so, arrayed, clothed, whatever the description
might be. There are many times in the Scriptures,
but they are there because they've been made the righteousness of
God in Christ. In Christ. You see, He's our
robe. I will never forget. reading
a descriptive account many years ago of what is done whenever
the sheep have all the lambs in the season of their birthing. And I read where this sheep farmer,
when he would go out there, amongst his sheep, and he'd be checking
on the lambs that had been born, and he would find this one over
here, this one, and her young one is alive and fine, and over
here is another one that was fine and everything. Over here
is one that had lost her sheep in birth. Or over here is a sheep
who died giving birth living lamb. And it said that that farmer
would take that dead lamb that had been born and skin that dead
lamb and take its skin and wrap it or pull it over that living
lamb without a mother and take him over there to that sheep
that had lost hers, and she'd smell that smell. Well, that smells just like my
own. And she would nurse and care
for and keep that orphaned lamb like her own. That's what God
does to us. That's what imputed righteousness
is. We are made the righteousness
of God in Him. He has made unto us wisdom and
righteousness and sanctification and redemption. He is. Look at verse 14. He says, these are they which
came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and
made them white in the blood of the Lamb. They're washed. And the amazing
thing is that what they are washed in or through is blood, the blood
of the Lamb. They're clean and they're pure
before God having been washed. Turn back over to chapter 1 here
in Revelation. Because when the Lord Jesus, in this revelation to John of
himself, When the Spirit of God begins
to speak these words, look at verse 5. It says, And from Jesus
Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the
dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth, unto him that loved
us and washed us from our sins in his own blood. He's washed us. He's washed us. And the truth of the matter is,
when it says that we washed our robes, all this simply means
is we look to Christ, who alone has washed us from our sin. That's what continually cleanses
our conscience. Because Jesus said when he was
teaching concerning the humility of a servant, he said, he that
is washed needeth not to wash save his feet. Why? Because he's clean. My friend, if dear, if the Lord
Jesus Christ washed you from your sins by His blood, you can
count on it, you're clean. You say, well preacher, I feel
so vile. I feel so, so wretched. Wretched? I believe that's what
Paul said of himself, wasn't it? You see, you don't get clean
before God trying to wash yourself. You're clean before God because
He hath washed us. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth
us from all sin. And somebody always says, but
what about our sins tomorrow and the next day? Well, they
were all future when He died on the cross, were they not? cleanseth us from all sin, washes
us. These white robes... Turn over
to Ezekiel chapter 16. Ezekiel chapter 16. Now I'm telling you, each and
every one of God's people are pictured by God for exactly what
they are in themselves. In this case, they're described
as being like an aborted infant out in the field, been left there. Verse 6, he says, And when I
passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood,
our blood's the blood of Adam, I said unto thee, when thou wast
in thy blood, live. Yea, I said unto thee, when thou
wast in thy blood, live. I have caused thee to multiply
as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen
great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments. Thy breasts are fashioned,
and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. In other words, by an act of
God, in this spiritual sense, they're brought from looking
and being like this, aborted, dirty, blood-covered, polluted,
infant in the field, to a beautiful bride. What a difference. But you'll
notice, it's all because of what He did. Now when I passed by thee, and
looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee,
and covered thy nakedness. Yea, I swear unto thee, and entered
into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest
mine. You see that spreading of the
skirt. over her was symbolic of engagement and betrothal,
just like when Ruth sided up to the feet of Boaz, pulled that
skirt over her. Then washed I thee with water,
yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed
thee with oil. I clothed thee also with broidered
work, and shod thee with badger skin, and I girded thee about
with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk." Oh, we had the
time to just look at all those various things, some which symbolize
protective, like the badger skins, and some which, well, just picture
other things. I decked thee also with ornaments,
and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck,
and I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and
a beautiful crown upon thine head. Thou wast decked with gold
and silver, and thy raiment was of fine linen and silk embroidered
work. Thou didst seek fine flour and
honey and oil. Thou wast exceeding beautiful. all the way from being polluted
to beautiful because of what he did. I, I, I did all these things. And thou didst prosper into a
kingdom, and thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy
beauty. or it was perfect. Now, you're
some lovely ladies here this morning. I was married for almost 51 years
to a beautiful lady, but you're non-perfect. Perfect. Pretty close sometimes, but you're
not perfect. This woman is perfect. This is
the bride of Christ. She has to be. But listen to
what it says. For it was perfect through my
comeliness which I had put upon thee, saith
the Lord God. He put his comeliness on us He
imputed His perfect righteousness to us. God counted us as being
perfectly righteous and accepted in the Beloved. In the Beloved. Look over in Isaiah 61. Isaiah 61 and verse 10. I will greatly rejoice in the
Lord. My soul shall be joyful in my
God, for or because He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation. He hath covered me with the robe
of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments,
and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." You see, a bridegroom like the
Son of God, the bride of that bridegroom
has to be perfect, because he is. But the only way she can be perfect,
the only way she can be described like this is through his comeliness,
which he puts on her. wraps her in His own righteousness. When Adam and Eve in the garden
sinned and fell against God, they couldn't stand to stand
before His holiness or even to hear His voice in their own selves. So they began to sew together
these fig leaf aprons or tunics. But that didn't make them acceptable
by God. No, but God in grace slew a sacrifice and made for
them coats of skins which pictured the righteousness that He puts
on us in Christ. So the bridegroom looks at the
bride there in the Song of Solomon and he says, you're all fair. There is no spot in you, no blemish, no spot. Isaiah said, when the Lord shall
have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and shall
have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the
spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning, when He's purged her, washed
her, cleansed her, made us perfect in His sight. Clean in God's sight. Accepted
by Him and before Him. Every matter of justice satisfied
through His sacrifice in the matter of our sins. That's the
only way. Proverbs says, there is a generation
that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their
filthiness. You see, in your eyes, that's
not where it counts. In my eyes, that's not where
it counts. It's in His eyes. His eyes. So Paul, when he wrote to those
in Corinth, which was a wicked place, so many vile things took place
in Corinth. Some of them yet remained in
the church there in Corinth. Paul wrote and he said, Know
ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners
shall inherit the kingdom of God. I sure am glad that's not the
end of that statement. Because His very next words are
these, and such were some of you. Oh, but you are washed,
you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the
Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God. Isaiah said, No weapon that is
formed against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise
against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage
of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of
me, saith the Lord. They're all washed. They're all
clean alike. They're all robed in the righteousness
of the Lamb. They're all accepted. They're
all standing. They're all worshiping Him as
the Savior. John also not only asked who
they are, he asked where'd they come from. Where'd they come from? And contrary to what the man-made
schemes of eschatology say about the church being raptured or
escaping what they call the Great Tribulation, contrary to that,
these were said to have been in Great Tribulation. those that go into God's presence,
those He saves by His grace, those who are the children of
the Father and the people of the Lord Jesus Christ, these
redeemed ones, they were in great tribulation. Don't you imagine that Joseph,
when he lay at the bottom of that pit, cast into it by his
brothers? When he was dragged out of it
and sold into slavery and taken down to Egypt, betrayed by Potiphar's
wife, left in prison by those who promised to speak on his
behalf, don't you imagine that he felt like he was in great
tribulation? What about Daniel when he was
there in that lion's den, surrounded by ferocious lions
that probably hadn't eaten in a week just to make sure they
gobbled him up. Don't you imagine he thought
he was in great tribulation? Well, those three Hebrew men,
when they wrapped them in the thickest garments and coats and
shoved them into that fiery burning furnace, don't you imagine they
thought they were in great tribulation? What about Peter down there in
prison? It wasn't like a prison in our day. Don't you think he was in great
tribulation? Those that are described in Hebrews
11 as being sawn asunder, left for dead, Paul when he was stoned
and whipped and all these things and cast into prison himself. I'd call that great tribulation,
wouldn't you? You see, all of God's people
in every age have tribulation. And I assure you, to them, it's
great. They have hardships. They have severe trials. They
have awful afflictions. They suffer great persecutions. They endure hardship in families. And they feel within them This
bent to sinning, this power of the flesh to do that which they
desire not to do. They're always in great tribulation. As a matter of fact, Contrary
to what men say, Christ said, these things I have spoken unto
you, that you might have peace in the world. You shall have
tribulation, but be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. Did
you hear that? In the world, you shall have
tribulation. In Acts, the apostles went about,
it says, confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting
them to continue in the faith and that we must, through much
tribulation, enter into the kingdom of God. Now, I decided I would
look up one more time that word, tribulation, in the Strong's
Greek dictionary. Would you like to know what the
first word given as a definition for this Greek word was? Pressure. Pressure. I'm yet to meet one of the Lord's
people that don't know something about pressure. Oppressed. Oppressed. It's defined by burdens, troubles, afflictions. Many are the afflictions of the
righteous. In the world, and because of
the world, in part, you shall have tribulation. The sooner
you are brought to realize that, the better off you'll be. The devil, the world, the flesh,
plus God-sent tribulation, pressure. Sometimes we may call it Stress. Tribulation with God's people. He says, "...who comforts us
in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them
which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves
are comforted of God." I hope by the Lord's enablement
when I was preaching this past weekend concerning the will of God that
the Lord used something of what He's taught me to be of comfort
to somebody else. And that is that whatever happens, our only consolation is really
this. It is the will of God, the wise,
good will of God. They came out of great tribulation. Paul says in Thessalonians, For
verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should
suffer tribulation, even as it came to pass, as you know. You know. All of God's people
know. This is not a... I call it a
hallelujah hayride to heaven. No, it's not that. It's a rough
road full of pitfalls, enemies, opposition, falls, failures,
you name it. Tribulation. Pressure. Oh, you just like to wake up
one day and say, oh, just to have a day without pressure. I've not seen many of those days
of life. Pressure, just pressure. But there's one more thing I
want to show you. When He describes them, these who stand before the throne,
these that are clothed in these robes, these who have been in
the midst of these great tribulations, He says this about them. He says,
they came out. Did you hear that? They, every one of them came
out. They came through. They made
it. They're here. He delivered them. He saved them. They, every one were kept. They, every one of them made
it safely into God's presence. None of them fully, finally fell away. They didn't fall so low that
He didn't bring them up. They didn't get to flying so
high that He didn't do something to bring them down. They never
met so many enemies that He didn't defeat them. They never had so
many afflictions that He did not, in the end, make them whole
and perfect. They never had so many troubles
that He did not give them grace in the midst of it and bring
them safely out the other side. That's actually the title of
this message they came out. They had troubles. A man born
a woman is a few days and full of trouble. Add to that what
one faces as the Lord's child, confessing Christ and believing
the truth. They have trouble. But they all
came out. You had a squad of men in a bad
battle, awful smoke, all these things that happen to you military
men. When it's all over, what's the
first thing you do? You start counting heads. How
many made it? How many made it? All of these
made it. By God's grace, by God's power,
by the One who lived and died, and who as the Lamb saved them,
kept them, and brought them into His presence. And all through their days. You look back here in Revelation
7. Verse 15 says, Therefore are
they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in
this temple? And he that sitteth on the throne
shall dwell among them? This is a twofold description.
He certainly dwells among them in heaven, but he begins dwelling
among them in earth. Where two or three he gathers
together in his name, what? There I'll be in the midst also. They shall hunger no more. Why? Because they've been made to
hunger and thirst after righteousness, and he that hungers and thirsts
after righteousness shall be filled on earth, certainly in
eternity. Neither thirst anymore. Why? That unsatisfiable thirst in
the soul for that living water, That fountain of everlasting
life that He makes to spring up in His people in Christ Jesus
quenches their thirst. They have taken of the water
of life freely. Neither shall the sun light on
them nor any heat. The light, instead of burning
them, has been made to shine in them to reveal the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ. For the Lamb, which is in the
midst of the throne, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto
living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes." Even this morning, I can't wipe
them away. When they sang, it just melt in my heart to think of
the God who's holy and mighty and still the God of grace to
us. But one day, He'll wipe away
all their tears. And there will be no more crying,
it says. We're going to cry here, but not so stone cold hearted. And even if we are, we're his
child, he's going to bring us to tears. But he'll wipe away all our tears, because they all came out. I don't know about you, but that's
good news to me. somewhere out there in time. The older we get, us older ones,
we know it won't be all that far. But whether it be by death or
whether it be that we're alive at His actual coming, we'll come
out. We'll come out. They all came
out. because He saved them, clothed
them, washed them, saves us from our sins by Himself. Father, we thank You for such
a blessed and glorious hope. We thank You that You loved us,
chose us in Christ, who did by himself redeem us through his
cross and shed blood. We thank you for your spirit
that came to us in time in mighty power to reveal these things
to us, to give us faith to believe what you say in your gospel,
to quicken us, to help us in every way, and give us such a glorious prospect,
such an anticipation to comfort us and to encourage us in the
times of our trials and our tribulations. Oh, we thank you that you save
all your people from all their sins. And we'll finally and fully
and eternally bring each one unto yourself, never to be separated
again. We thank you and we give you
praise in Christ's name. Amen. Amen.