The Day the Sun Stood Still

Q: What does the Bible say about faith and mercy?

The Bible teaches that faith calls upon the mercy of God, as demonstrated by the blind men in Matthew 20 who cried out for mercy from Jesus. In Matthew 20, we see the profound act of faith performed by two blind men who called out to Jesus for mercy. They had not witnessed His miracles but believed in His power through the testimony of others. This illustrates that faith can often be found where we least expect it, reminding us that it is not contingent on physical sight or historical evidence, but rather on a heartfelt belief in Christ's character and promises. The blind beggars displayed a childlike faith, calling out in desperation for mercy, which highlights the importance of seeking God's grace with confidence and perseverance.

Q: Why is faith important for Christians?

Faith is essential for Christians as it is the means through which we seek and receive God's mercy. For Christians, faith serves as the means by which we access God's mercy and grace. As illustrated in the sermon, faith allows us to trust not in our own understanding or abilities but in God's character and promises. The blind men's faith exemplifies a deep reliance on the Savior, urging us to cast aside doubts and simply believe God. This trust in God's fidelity leads to the assurance that He will respond to our pleas for mercy, reinforcing the necessity for a steadfast and unyielding faith in our spiritual lives.

Q: How do we know God's mercy is available to us?

God's mercy is demonstrated in Scripture and exemplified through Christ's compassion towards sinners. The availability of God's mercy is beautifully illustrated in the story of the two blind men in Matthew 20. Their urgent cry for help was met with the compassion of Christ, who stopped to address their needs. This encounter exemplifies God's willingness to grant mercy to those who earnestly seek it, regardless of their circumstances. Furthermore, Scripture promises that all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved (Romans 10:13), affirming the truth that God's mercy is accessible to everyone who believes. This assurance encourages believers to approach God with confidence, knowing that His mercy is steadfast and abundant.

I read this afternoon in the tenth chapter of Joshua, how that by this man Joshua, by whose faith the walls of Jericho came crushing down to the ground at God's command, this man Joshua commanded the sun one day to stand still in the midst of heaven.

And the scripture says the sun stood still about the whole day. This part right there. Because a man who believed God commanded the sun to stand still. It stood still in the midst of the heavens. And we read after that, there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of man. The Lord hearkened to the voice of a man, and the sun stood still. But then I read this text from which I will be preaching this evening in Matthew chapter 20, and I have found an even more remarkable thing. I want this evening to preach to you on the subject, the day the sun stood still.

Only I'm not talking about that star that was created by the Lord Jesus Christ I'm talking about the Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who is the Son of Righteousness. Here in Matthew chapter 20 and verse 29, our Lord Jesus is coming up out of Jericho.

He's on his way to Jerusalem, and he's teaching his disciples, and the multitudes are thronging about him. And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. And behold, two blind men sitting by the wayside when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. What an interruption. The Lord Jesus is walking along, preaching as he's going, teaching the multitudes, and folks are listening, hanging on every word as they walk along the road. And as they were walking along, the Lord Jesus hears these two blind men crying, Have mercy!

Have mercy! Have mercy! Excuse me, the multitudes. And they said, don't disturb things now. He's talking to us. Read on. And the multitude, verse 31, rebuke them. Can you imagine that? Don't cry for mercy now. Wait till tomorrow. They rebuke them. Don't disturb our meeting, calling out for mercy. They rebuke 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. What a word! What an astounding thing! Jesus stood still and called them and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you? And they say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion on them. and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him. Jesus stood still. What a marvelous picture.

Here is the omnipotent God moving through the world, and he's arrested. He whom all hell could not stop. is stopped in his way. He's on his way up to Jerusalem to accomplish the redemption of his people. He's on his way up to Jerusalem to glorify his father, to bring about the consummate obedience of his life to his father's will by the sacrifice of himself. Nothing could stop him. Nothing could cause him to even take a pause as he makes his path up to Jerusalem. Nothing could detour him from his work.

Not Herod, when he came into the world and Herod slew all the innocent children, giving command that they should all be slain from two years old and below. He escaped out of Herod's hand. Satan couldn't stop him. Satan brought him into the wilderness. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, and there tempted of Satan in the wilderness. But Satan couldn't stop him. Satan could not hinder him, not in the very least. The Pharisees tried again and again to stone him, to put him to death, but they couldn't hinder him.

His disciples, when our Lord was turning to go up to Jerusalem, they said, Lord, don't go up there. The Jews have been trying to kill you. They've been planning to kill you. But our Lord Jesus pushed them aside and went on his way. Peter said, don't do this. Far be it from you. But our Lord said, get thee behind me, Satan. You say, but not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

Even our Lord's own mother. And when he was going about to do his father's business as a boy, she seemed to correct him, to scold him, saying, didn't you know we'd be worried about you? And he wouldn't hear even her tender word. He said, don't you know I must be about my father's business? Nothing could stop it.

But this cry from two poor, blind beggars seeking mercy seems to have ripped the Son of God dead in his tracks when they cried Jesus. Oh Lord, thou son of David, have mercy on us. Jesus stood still. Surely the place whereon we stand tonight is holy ground. So let us put off our shoes from off our feet and turn aside from the trifles of this time world for a little while and see this great sight. Surely there's some things here to be learned worthy of our careful attention. First, learn this. It strikes me as an obvious lesson from our text. Faith is frequently found where it is least expected. Faith is frequently found where it is least expected.

There were a great multitude following the Lord Jesus out of Jericho, some because of the loaves, some because they loved him, some out of curiosity. some out of conviction, some with greed, seeking what they could get for themselves, some with grace and with gratitude. But there were a great multitude following the Lord Jesus. But among those great multitudes, it came to pass that it was very evident that very few of them believed. Many, many, many who saw the Lord's miracles, many who heard his words, many who ate the loaves and ate the fishes, were themselves only enamored with excitement and with emotion, but they didn't believe the Savior. Those who believed him were very few indeed.

But here are two blind men, now try to understand this, they never saw him do anything. They never saw any miracles. They never saw the lame get up and walk. They never saw the loaves being multiplied and the fishes being multiplied. They weren't able to see those things taking place like others were. But these two blind men, having nothing but hearsay evidence, that is, all they had to go on was the word of somebody else.

Just somebody else telling them what the Master had done. Just somebody else telling them who the Master was. Just somebody else telling them how the Master's grace had been performed here and there on this person and that. All that had to go on was blessed gossip. That's all. Just somebody's hearsay. But they believed the Son of God. They believed the testimony of other men and women concerning what Christ had done for them. And believing Him, they called to Him for mercy. They simply heard what other folks told them about the Savior. When they heard, we're told. When they heard. Ralph Barnett used to tell folks if we'd quit trying to get everybody saved and just gossip about the good news, God might be pleased to do some. That's good advice. That's good advice. Our object, our object in ministering the Word is not to see how many folks we can get to make a profession of faith. That's not our object. Our object is not trying to get everybody to come and join our church. That's not our object. Our object is to glorify the Son of God, just telling folks who He is, what He's done.

And these people who had seen His miracles and felt and experienced His grace, who had been made themselves to be trophies of His mercy, they went about telling other folks what the Master had done. And these blind men, when they heard, when they heard, they They believed it. They just believed.

I don't know how to explain that. I don't know what all they heard. Perhaps they had heard how that the master had come to Jericho and on his way into Jericho, perhaps this very same day, well not so, but over in Luke chapter 18, we read that as he was coming up into Jericho, he healed one blind man. I can kind of get a sense of this.

Here these fellows are, they're on the other side of Jericho. And as our Lord was coming up into Jericho, walking along the way, teaching and ministering, this blind man was there. And he cried out for mercy. And the Lord Jesus stopped and He healed him.

And word just spread through the town like wildfire. Did you hear about that prophet from Nazareth? Did you hear about this man they call Jesus, the Nazarene, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus the Christ, this one who says he's the Son of God. Did you hear what he did? Why, as he was coming into Jericho, he just stopped and spoke the word.

And this poor blind man, may have been blind all his life, sitting by the highwayside begging, he was made to see and followed the same guy. These blind fellows hearing that, I suspect they said, maybe after all, there's hope for us. The prophet said, the prophet said the blind would be made to see. When Messiah comes, maybe this is Him. And they come and step down by the highway sign, expecting here as the master passes along the way, there maybe, maybe He would pause and have mercy on them as well.

Without question, they had heard who the Savior was. They had heard about His notable miracles. They heard that He is Jesus. And they knew the meaning of the name. I don't know what all they knew concerning it, but they certainly knew their own language. And they knew that the name Jesus means Joshua, Deliverer, Savior. And they knew that this one who is Jesus of Nazareth is himself the son of David, the Lord, the Christ of God. He is the Savior, the Christ of whom the prophets spoke. And they believed it. They heard about our Savior's character, his works of mercy. His miracles, demonstrating His majesty and His might.

And they heard that Jesus passed by. We read in our text that they heard that He was coming their way. Behold, two blind men sitting by the wayside, when they heard that Jesus passed by. They heard somebody say, now fellas, this is the way He's coming. This is the road he's following. He's going up to Jerusalem and he's been down here already and he's made his mark here. He's shown mercy here. He's going this way and he's going to pass right by here.

And when they heard that Jesus passed by, they believed the message and they put themselves in the way. They believed it. Now, I said that because I want you to understand that their faith puts us to shame. These fellows never sought any evidence of our master's claims. They were black. They were black.

We have volumes of biographies of men who have testified to his power. We have libraries full of books on evidence and apologetics for Christianity, demonstrating the historicity of scriptures, demonstrating the historicity of our faith. And we have volumes and volumes and volumes, libraries and libraries of theology books. And yet how little there is of this simple childlike faith that said, if he healed that fellow, if he's done that, He is who he said he was. He's the Son of God. He's the Messiah. He's the Christ. He can heal me if he will.

Just that simple, childlike faith that causes these beggars to go and sit down by the highwayside. Even among true believers, simple, confident, unhesitating faith is found where we least expect it. I can't tell you how many times I have been recruited in my hesitancy to believe, reproved in my questioning, reproved in my lack of confidence by many of you who with just simplicity have said the Lord promised. With just simplicity in the midst of difficulty, you may not even know how you were speaking the word is sharply proof to me, but in your efforts to try to give me some comfort, some peace about different things that come up here, you just speak with simplicity and say, well, thank God the Lord's on my side. And with just simplicity, you believe God.

I've seen so many who could barely read. They read God's promises and just believe them. They read his word and just believe it. Just believe God's on his throne. Just believe God's ruling everything well. Just believe that Christ will save sinners. Just believe that those who believe have life everlasting because he said it. Just because he said it.

But then we get to studying our theology books. We get to studying things in more detail. And we start figuring God out. We start figuring out how everything fits together. And the theologians sit around and wrestle with harassing questions and doubts all the time. Just constantly harassed with doubts and fears and questions and inconsistencies and things that they can't unravel, things they can't figure out. Oh, God, give me that kind of faith. Read your word. Here's your testimony. Here's your promise. Just to believe God. Believe God without evidence. Believe God in the face of criticism. Believe God when everything seems to run contrary to everything God says. Just believe God. That's called faith, Rex. It's just faith. Just believe God.

So many times we feel like we have to answer the critics and we have to and to the scholars, and we have to appear to be scholastic, and we have to appear to be educated, and we have to appear to be up to the times, and so we start investigating God, and investigating God's Word, and investigating God's Gospel in the light of modern science, and modern philosophy, and modern thought, and modern processes, and we come down to nothing except constantly questioning God. We ought to just believe Him. Just believe Him. If we have need for mercy, if we hope for mercy, we must avail ourselves of every means of grace to our souls.

Now, you may think this is a strange thing to be preaching to a Tuesday night crowd in midweek worship service. In fact, I had tried very hard to prepare and preach this message this past Sunday morning And the Lord simply shut me up to what I preached to you Sunday out of Colossians 3. And here we are looking at this passage of scripture with you sitting here. You who are here most every Tuesday night. You who are here most all the time. You who avail yourselves most consistently of the means of grace.

But I want you to hear this message and I want you to hear this lesson. because we need to hear this as much as anyone else. Now, I know that God Almighty is sovereign. I know that salvation is of the Lord. I know that every chosen, redeemed sinner shall be saved. There's no question about that. Those whom God the Father elected before the world began, he's going to call. I know that. Those whom Christ Jesus bought with his precious blood, he will save. There's no question concerning that. And yet, I know also that every man is responsible for his own soul. I know that we are responsible to use those means of grace which God puts in our disposal.

When these two blind men heard that Jesus passed by, they were found sitting in the way. They were found sitting in the way. What wisdom they displayed. They took up a hopeful position, by the way. If we're going to have mercy, we're going to have to be in the way. And so they got in the way. They put themselves in the master's way.

There they would be most likely to hear any good news that might come along. There they would be most likely to be met by and to meet him who would be compassionate upon their souls. Though they were blind, they weren't deaf. And they used their hearing to the best of their abilities. They got in the way and they listened.

Now, this is what I'm saying to you. Children of God, don't forsake those things which God has promised to bless to your soul's eternal good. Don't neglect them. Do not forsake the house of God, the assembly of God's saints. I can't stress it enough. I can't stress it enough that you You teach this to your sons and daughters. Don't neglect the ministry of the Word of God. Don't do it.

Our Lord Jesus promised, for two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. That was his promise. Now, he doesn't always make himself known in our midst. He doesn't always do that. Sometimes we come in and we hear the word and whether the false is with the preacher or the false is with the hearer, we go out and it seems as though there was nothing there for us tonight. But we recognize this is where the master meets with his people.

And whether I sense it or not, he's there with them. He's there with them. But if ever he will make himself known to you, if ever he manifests himself to you, I know where it's going to be. It's going to be right here. Right here. When he speaks, he'll speak through his word. When he shows himself, it will be through the lattices of his word. When he comes to meet with his people, it will be in his house.

So don't neglect the blessed privilege. of hearing the Word of God and being ministered to from the Word of God. Don't neglect the privilege. Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is. I know we have so many things claiming our attention.

I know that. Young people think they've got, oh, they're so busy, so busy, so busy, so busy. They get a little older and they get the job and settle down in life. Oh, man. Oh, they've got so much to do. So, so much to do. What they don't understand is when you retire, you've got all of their cares and all the grandbaby's cares too, don't you? And they really do. They really do.

Don't ever allow anything or anybody to come between you and the worship of God. I can't stress it enough. I can't do it. I don't suggest any kind of a legalistic regimen or anything of that kind. You folks have opportunity to visit with family and things of that nature. I don't by any means suggest that you neglect that. But I am telling you, don't allow the worship of God. Don't allow the ministry of the word. Don't allow the fellowship of God's saints to ever become secondary to you. Don't ever look at this and say, well, church will be there next week.

We'll do next week. The preacher will be there next week. We'll do next week. The word will be there next week. The Lord understands. He does understand. You can bank on that. He does. Secondly, don't forsake the reading of holistic church. Turn over to 2 Timothy chapter 3. 2 Timothy chapter 3. There's something to be said, a lot to be said. I shouldn't use the word something. There's a lot to be said for simply reading and studying the scriptures. Look at verse 15. Paul writes to Timothy and says that from a child, thou hast known the Holy Scriptures which are able." Able? The Holy Scriptures? Nothing else. Nothing else. The Holy Scriptures are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

I read that, preparing this message for you tonight, and I said, God help me more and more to devote myself to knowing the Scriptures. I want to know this book. What's written in this book is able to make me wise unto salvation. It's able to show me the way of life. It's able to create within me by the power of God's Spirit faith in Christ Jesus through his life, and is able to show me how to walk with him in this life. Noble Holy Scriptures. They're able to make you wise unto salvation.

And don't forsake prayer. Private, personal prayer. I don't pretend to be an authority on prayer. I don't pretend to have answers to half the questions you ask about prayer. I read books on prayer with a great deal of reluctance. I really do, even when they're written by the best of men. And the ones that are not written by the best of men, I don't read at all. I know Rex reads a lot of John Bunyan's works. His works on prayer, good as they are, stretch it pretty far.

They just do. The scriptures, you see, don't give a whole lot of instruction about how to pray. They just don't give a whole lot of instruction about it. The instructions of Scripture are very simple. The instructions of Scripture simply tell us to seek the will of God, the glory of God, and the grace of God. They simply tell us to commit ourselves to the Lord. And they tell us to be very private about the state of prayer. Be very private. Don't make a show of it. But whatever you do, don't neglect private prayer.

Prayer is that with which we communicate to God. God Almighty speaks to us through his word. We speak to God from our hearts in prayer. Prayer is simply the believer with faith going to his father with every care he has. It's just going to your father with confidence he'll take care of things. Going to your father with confidence He'll see to it. Go unto your father with confidence that he'll meet your need. These are God's ordained means of grace. To despise them is to despise his grace. To neglect them is to neglect his grace. To use them is to be in the path of mercy. Now here's the third thing we learn. Our Lord told us, and here we learn it again, that the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence. And so the Bible takes it by force. These men, as they call on the Lord in verse 30, look at that again.

Behold, two blind men sitting 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 uphold their peace. But they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David."

Now, I see here four things that characterize all true prayer. Like I said, I don't even make any pretense of being an authority on it, but I know that wherever true prayer is found, wherever this true opening of your heart to God is found, these four things characterize it.

Faith. These men looked through their blind eyes They looked with their hearts upon the Son of God, this man who passed by, and they called him Lord, Lordst, thou Son of David. That is, they recognized him not only to be a man of prominence, not only to be a prophet with power, but this man is the man of whom the scripture spoke, who comes as the Messiah, the Christ of God, and they believed it. They just believed it.

And prayer is neither more nor less than the cry of faith to God Almighty. The reason we don't pray much is because we don't believe much. That's the simplicity of it. The reason we don't take things to the Lord is because we don't believe he'll take care of things. The reason we get things in our hands and say, I'll work this out is because we don't believe God's more capable than we are. That's the reality of it. Faith turns to the Lord and seeks mercy from the Lord.

Second thing that identifies true prayer is humility. The Lord said, what do you want? And I said, have mercy, have mercy. True prayer seeks nothing from God but mercy. Just mercy. God, I know I don't deserve what I ask of you. Give me mercy. That's how you prayed just a minute ago. Ask God to use us. We're unworthy to be used. We recognize that.

But if you will, in your mercy, use us. Lord, we bring our sons and daughters to you. And we acknowledge, honestly acknowledge, our sons and daughters deserve your wrath. And should you cast them into hell, we will not question your goodness, your mercy, your justice.

But God had mercy, had mercy. Our Lord looked at that Syro-Phoenician woman and said, well, it's not right for me to take the children's bread and give it to dogs. And she said, I know that. But if you just shove a little crumb down my way, I'll be thankful for it. That's called faith. And that's called prayer. And true prayer will always be marked by opportunity.

Prayer says with Jacob, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. God, I won't let you go until you respond to my heart's cry. I won't let you go. I'm not going to give this thing up. I'm not going to give it up. I've just, I've got to have this. I've got to have mercy. Not I've got to have what I prescribe to you. Not I've got to have what I demand of you. But God, I've got to have you. And I've got to have you show me your way. I've got to have you make me know I have your mercy.

That's it. That's it. Not by any means. I'm going to continue to knock. I'm going to continue to seek. I'm going to continue to ask until I get the bread my soul requires. And that's mercy. Mercy. until I'm satisfied that you have shown me and given me mercy, I'm going to continue." And true prayer is always persevering. I guarantee you, if the Holy Spirit of God inspires prayer in your heart, Satan will throw opposition in your way. If the Spirit of God causes you to seek the Lord, Satan will throw many things in your way. These multitudes came along and they said, Don't disturb this crowd. Don't you know who you're talking to?

But these men would not be put on until they received their sign, until they had mercy. Fourthly, learn from this passage of scripture how compassionate the Son of God is to needy sinners. So Jesus had compassion This is another sermon in itself. I'll just give you the thoughts. Our Lord Jesus showed his compassion by what he did. The scripture says here, Jesus passed by. Oh, what word there is there. Jesus passed by. These fellows knew he was passing their way. And he might never pass that way again. He might never come that way again. And he never did. He never did. That means this was the critical hour. If we have mercy, it must be right now. And so they called on him with urgency.

Jesus passed by. Oh, what prevenient graces in here. The Lord Jesus, from old eternity, had set his heart upon these two blind men, not only to give them sight for their bodies, but eyes for their souls with which to see him, so that he might truly give them mercy, his saving mercy. And therefore, in his grace, in his infinite compassion, in his tenderness, in his goodness, he called these two men to be blind.

Now, we look at that, Bobby, and we say, oh, what a pity. We look at these blind beggars, and we see that which causes many confusing thoughts in our minds. Men naturally judge. Well, their blindness is somehow judgment. Our sight is somehow blessing. Better to be blind physically and be brought to the Savior and have eyes with which to see Him than to see everything clearly and never see Him. Oh, blessed poverty! These two fellows were beggars! Beggars! Thank God my boy and I saved him. Blessed grace that in providence brings anyone down to abject poverty, if that may cause them in time to be beggars at the throne of mercy. God give me poverty, give me poverty here and riches there. rather than riches here and poverty forever.

You see, God in his wise providence not only orders the time and place of mercy and grace for his chosen, but he orders all things necessary, all things necessary, whatever they may be. all the pains and difficulties and humiliations and sorrows and poverties and heartaches of life, all things necessary to bring his chosen to be in the way when it's time for the Lord Jesus to pass the way and speak peace to the chosen sinner. I have but one child and I'm so thankful for her. And I have said since before she was born and I say today as much as then. I prefer that God do whatever is needful with her life. If he may be pleased to bring her to the throne of his grace, to life and faith in Christ, no matter how painful it may be to me. rather than that he leave her alone. Oh, pass me not, and pass not thine. Pass me not.

And then we read Jesus stood still. He heard their prayer. The Son of God heard the cry of these beggars and honored him. And he called He called them. It's interesting that when we read, he called them, that we never read and they came. That's just a programming thing. If he calls, they come. And if he calls, you come. And you come when he calls. When he called them, the next thing we read is that he touched them.

He said, what do you want? Lord, that we may receive our sight. And that finger, That finger with which he upholds the world is the word of his power. That finger by which he holds the reins of the universe, that finger touches. And immediately they receive their sign. Immediately. That tells me the last thing I want us to learn here.

Faith always gets what it seeks from God. Always. Faith seeks mercy. Faith does. These fellows talk about claiming the promises, you know. They talk about claiming this, claiming that. These fools who go about it in the name of God, deceiving men's souls. You want a new house? Just claim it. You want money? You just claim it. You want this? Just claim it. Oh, no. That's not faith. That kind of faith is nowhere found in this book. Nowhere. Nowhere except among deceiving men and sorcerers who sought to enrich themselves with deception. And that's the only place you find it in this world. But faith, real faith, seeks mercy. And faith always gets mercy. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Amen. Our Father, we bow before you with faith in Christ our Redeemer, and we seek your mercy. We seek your mercy for the glory of our Savior, your dear Son. And we seek your mercy for the good of your people and for the joy of our hearts. We bring before you our friends, your chosen. These needy souls who are the objects of your love, mercy, and grace from everlasting. Mother Ronnie, Mother Jack, and Becky, their families.

And we commit them to your wise goodness and mercy. If it could be for their good and the good of your kingdom, good of your people, and for the glory of your name, we ask that you will intervene, heal them, raise them up. You promised to do them good. You promised to sustain and strengthen them, to uphold them with the right hand of your righteousness.

And so we commit them into your hands. Oh, what a blessed privilege. What a blessed privilege to commit our friends into your hands. And as we commit our friends into your hands, we commit ourselves. into your hands. God, do with us what you will for the glory of your name, the interest of your kingdom, for our eternal welfare. And we commit to your hands, our sons and daughters. Some of us here are just beginning to raise our children. Some of us have done all we can for our children. And together we commit them to you.

Not one of them deserves your mercy. Not one of them deserves your grace. But we ask our Father that you would be pleased because of your goodness to have mercy upon Shall the dust praise thee? Of what benefit shall be their destruction? God, will you be pleased for the glory of your name to have mercy upon them? For Christ's sake, I pray.

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