The Desire of Christ's Presence

who shall separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. I'm persuaded. Neither life nor death, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able. That's how powerful God's grace is. That's how effectual Christ's salvation is. I can think of a million things that I think would divide me from Him, separate me. He's taken care of all that.

It's a glorious message. If you'll take your Bibles and turn with me to Song of Solomon. Song of Solomon. Text will be found in verse 16. I've entitled this message, The Desire of Christ's Presence. The desire of Christ's presence. This verse 16 is the bride speaking. Everything from before that is the bridegroom speaking. This is the desire of the bride. The desire of the church. Listen. Awake, O north wind, and come thou south. Blow upon my garden. that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat his pleasant fruits. Now, we all know this. I know you here understand this. This book is not a book about marriage and intimacy. Most people take this book and they, I'm sure you can find things in there. If that's what you're looking for, you can find it.

But the sole purpose of this book, the sole reason this book is written in Holy Scripture, it is a picture, as was all the sacrifices and all the other things of the Law and the Prophets, it is a picture of Jesus Christ who is the Husband, the Bridegroom, and the Bride is His Church. The Bride is His Church. Marriage was always given as a picture of that. You can read that in Ephesians, how the husband is to love his wife.

How? As Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. The wife is to serve her husband. How? As the church serves Christ. It's a picture. And so then this picture here, with that in view, we see Christ as the bridegroom, and he begins this chapter with a glorious vision of his bride. He is going to describe to His bride what He sees. And it's very important we see it is from His perspective. You read earlier on in this chapter, the bride says, I am black, but comely. Two distinctly different things.

And every believer recognizes that. But I want you to see, you who are His beloved, you who believe on Jesus Christ, you who are called of the Spirit of God, you who were chosen of the Father, redeemed by the blood of Christ. Everything Christ says in this text about you is true. It's true.

It is written. That settles it. Let's see what He says about His bride. Look at verse 1. He says, Behold, Thou art fair, my love. Says it again. Behold, thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes. Doves mate for life. They're faithful. Thy hairs are the flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead. The hair of the woman is the glory of her. He's talking about glory. She's glorious. She's fair, she's beautiful, she's glorious, and she's faithful.

This is what Christ sees about you. It is written. Now every believer is constantly aware of our sin. No believer, no true believer, is unaware of our old nature that still resides in every one of our hearts. This started when He quickened us by the Holy Spirit.

That's the first thing when you think, He found me out. He found me out. He found me out that I was guilty, that I was a sinner. That's the first thing He exposed about me. Oh, the sweetness of His voice when He came. At least I took care of that. The sweetness of His voice said that He has died. That He has suffered the payment for all my sins.

And by the grace and power of the Holy Spirit, we immediately fled to Him. We fled to Him. We sought Him. We believed Him. We trusted Him. I thought of the picture of Ruth and Boaz. How she came to him in the night and she said, cover me! Cover me. Restore me. How you came. Make me your bride. Protect me. Care for me. Forgive me of my sins.

And oh how sweetly he just covered us. He covered us. Therefore, seeing God was satisfied by His righteous obedience, that God was satisfied by His blood, we cling to Him. We see His blood has forever washed away our sins and His righteousness forever clothes us. Yet the only way we can see what Christ sees is by faith. You cannot look within and see that you're fair. You cannot look at your works and see that you are fair or faithful.

These things are trusted. These things are believed. Christ is all these things. We say with Paul, in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. For to will is present with me. But how to perform that which is good I find not. O wretched man that I am. False religion says, O wretched man that I was. A true believer understands the real nature of his heart, the old man that abides. Yet, for your comfort, for your strength, we should forsake what we feel and what we see for what Christ says. Because what he says is true. And what he says is this.

Thou art fair. Behold, thou art fair. Thou art faithful. And thou art glorious in my sight. Notice this in verse 7, look at this. He goes all out here just in case you misunderstand. He says it again the third time. Thou art fair my love. What does that mean? There is no spot in thee. No spot. No sin. Man, that goes against everything I see and everything I feel. How is it that everything I see and feel is sin and yet He says there is no spot? Why? Because it is not by my work that the sin is not there, but by His. I am not made fair by what I have done or what I can do. I am made fair by what He has done and what His blood accomplished. Go to Jeremiah chapter 50 and look what God says about every believer, everyone who believes on Christ. Listen to what He says. Jeremiah chapter 50 and verse 20.

In those days and at that time, saith the Lord, speaking of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ, after the blood is shed, listen to what He said, after the blood is applied He says, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be, how many?

None. The sins of Judah and they shall not be found. Who's doing the searching? Thus saith the Lord. The Lord is searching. And when the Lord searches, He finds none. Why? For I will pardon them. with my reserve. For his elect, God says this to you, thou art fair. I don't feel fair. What does that have to do with it? Tell me how that entered in. How does that enter into your fairness? I have failed. Okay, what does that have to do with it? Well, I've done good. What does that have to do with it? You see, it has nothing to do with you.

It has everything to do with Christ. He has made us fair. And so in verses 9 through 15, our Lord begins to express His love. He is so captivated with them. Let's look at verse 8 first. Then He calls away His bride. He tells her how glorious and beautiful she is. Now, He calls her away.

He says, come with me from Lebanon, my spouse. With me from Lebanon, look from the tops of Amman and from the tops of Shinar and Hermon. Listen, from the lion's den and from the mountain of leopards. In other words, come with me and escape. Isn't that what He said to you? Come with me and escape. Escape all the beasts of prey that would devour your souls. Come with me. Is that not what happened? Did we not come with Him? Did we not believe on Him?

And now then He expresses His love for us. He said, thou has ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse. Thou has ravished my heart with one of thine eyes and one chain of thine neck. Our Lord condescends to use an earthly passion to describe His love for His bride. You have a young man who falls in love with a woman and man, everything she does is great. Everything she does, she just winks and he falls to pieces to have her. That's the exact idea here. Our Lord said, I am so ravished with you.

Our Lord doesn't have passion like we do. In other words, however high His love is, it's always that high. It never diminishes. Passion diminishes, doesn't it? You've been married for a while, you understand passion diminishes. It just, you know, it doesn't even kill. You still love, but it's still not the same.

Oh, Christ. His church ravishes his heart. What does this mean? When he says come away, it means this. He is going to gather every one of his people. He's not gonna leave one of them. Not one will be left behind. When He says, Come with Me, it's not really a request, it's a command. Come with Me. Come with Me.

Our Lord said this, I have finished the work thou gavest Me to do. Why? That He should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given Him. In John chapter 6 and verse 37 He said, All that the Father giveth Me. What are they going to do? They shall come to Me. There's no question. When He said, Come with Me, is there a question? It's not a question, is it? It's a command, and the Bride heeds the command. Come with Me.

He said, When they come to Me, I will in no wise cast them out, for I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me. And this is the Father's will, that of all He hath given Me, all My Bride, I will lose none of them. I'll lose nothing.

See the great love wherewith he loved us. You see how it is he made us spotless? So ravished with his church that our Lord Jesus Christ condescended to become a man. Take upon himself flesh and bone and blood to suffer in our stead, in order to provide a righteousness for us that we could never provide for ourselves, a covering. You weren't born spotless, you had to be made spotless. You couldn't make yourself spotless. So Christ in love came, and by His own obedience He made for you a righteousness, perfect in every way.

Not missing one stitch. In other words, you who believe, we add nothing to this robe. We add nothing to this righteousness. It's complete. It's perfect. Our Lord Jesus Christ so loved His church that He came and He died in their stead. This is the center and source and sum of the Gospel message. That Jesus Christ shed His blood for sinners. That's who his bride was. You want to see what his bride looked like? You go to Jose and you see what she really looks like by nature. She's a whore. That's what we are by nature.

Isn't it astounding that he didn't wait for us to get better? Said even while we were yet sinners, Christ died. He didn't wait. And when he shed his blood, it was so powerful. so effectual that God himself was satisfied with that payment. How many times did he have to do it? Scripture says he did it once. For by his, he hath perfected forever, by his one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Perfected.

You see how he can say you're fair? Not by your works, by his. Not by your righteousness, but by His. Not by your offering, but by His. He has made us fair. Therefore, you listen, you are fair. I like this in Isaiah 44 verse 22. He said, I have blotted out as a thick cloth. I, who did it? Who blotted out your transgression? He said, I have blotted out your transcripts. How?

As a thick cloud. They didn't have liquid paper or whatever. We used to. People don't even know what that is anymore. It's an old reference. I shouldn't have used that reference. But in the old days, when they blotted out a death, they had ink. And they would just put ink all over it so you couldn't even trace it out anymore. That's what the idea is. He has blotted out.

Your transgression as a thick cloud. As a cloud, thy sins return unto me. Listen, for I have redeemed thee. I have done it. I've already done it. Come to me. Why? You've already been redeemed. So Jesus beholding the beauty and righteousness of His saints. We are spotless and without sin. Jesus now ravished. Now he's going to describe, and I'm going to spend the rest of my time on this idea here. Look at what he says in verse 12.

He said, our garden enclosed, my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Our plants and our orchard of pomegranates and pleasant fruits of camphor, spikenard and spikenard and saffron and camelus and cinnamon. All trees of frankincense and myrrh and aloes and all chief spices, a fountain of gardens. Can you picture that, a fountain of gardens? Not just a garden, but a fountain of them, overflowing with fruit and all kinds of beneficial plants that appeal to the sights and sounds and smells.

You see, that's what you are. You're a garden enclosed. Now the kings of old, gardens were precious. They were precious, especially in the desert land in which this was written. Gardens were very precious. Solomon's especially was a garden. He had closed in a piece of property for himself. The center of the property was a fountain, a well of water.

And then he planted all sorts of Trees, and these trees in here are known for their beauty, their fragrance, their medicinal purposes. They had meaning, they were useful. But you know this, they were only for the king. That's why it says, Thou art a garden enclosed, nobody else gets to enjoy this but me. And the king would walk in his garden, and he would take of his fruits, they were his. And that well would be sealed up. They'd have a gushing well and they'd seal it up and that water would disperse out throughout the garden. You didn't need rain. It was constantly watered, constantly fed, constantly green. He said, that's what you are. That's what you are. You are a constant, ever flourishing, beautiful garden planted for myself.

And that well that is sealed, we know this, it is the fountain of the blood of Jesus Christ. He said in that day there shall be a fountain open. A fountain for sin and uncleanness. Isn't that the fountain we need? Isn't that the fountain that refreshes us? That restores our faith? That causes us to grow? Why is it you haven't quit? Because I know that fountain is still refreshing. That fountain still cleanses me. Otherwise I would have quit a long time ago. The fountain nourishes us, strengthens us. And so it is with every believer, and it is now.

This view that he has given his bride, he says, you're fair, you're beautiful, you're glorious, you're faithful, your lips, your hair, everything is beautiful about you. He says, you're a garden enclosed And this moves the bride then to say what she said.

Awake. Awake, O north wind, come thou south. Blow on my garden. The garden he planted, the garden he purposed, the garden he enclosed, the garden he waters, the garden he feeds. She says, blow upon my garden. It's been given to me. This is my garden. But it wasn't prepared by me. that the spices thereof, what, flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat of his fruits. Three things, our garden. What is this garden? The garden and the fruits of this garden.

Behold how precious you are who believe to Christ. You are precious. He said, The Lord, Zephaniah 3 verse 17 said, The Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, is mighty, he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy, he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. That's what he says about you.

When you think of a garden, do you think of your heart? That's not how he found me. He found my heart to be a barren wilderness. And there was one plant that grew in my heart, sin. The weeds of sin covered my soul. That's how he found me. But it was by the grace and power of God that I had already been sealed off. I had already been chosen. And all that while I was a barren wasteland. You know what? God didn't let me die. Isn't that gracious how long suffering he was with us that in that time before when we were born till the time we were converted, we didn't die. Why? We were closed off. We couldn't die. Why? Because he had purpose to plant the seed of the gospel into our barren parts.

And from that seed would come a garden of righteousness and fruit I think what best describes that is the parable of the sower. Don't you? The sower went out to sow. He sowed the seed and some fell on the wayside. That bird just devoured. It's gone. That's what happens to people who hear the gospel and they sleep. There's some that comes on stony ground and it comes up real fast. And yet, because of some kind of troubles and tribulations, they pretty soon, they just go away.

Then there's the thorny ground here, the one who has all the right leaves and says all the right words. They say, well I'm a Calvinist, or I believe in the doctrines of grace, and this and that. They join the church, they get baptized, they do all the things a real believer does. They have all the leaves. But what? The things of the world choke the gospel. The things of the world are preeminent to the things of Christ, and pretty soon they just go away. But not so for the believer. You see, the Lord prepared our hearts. Our heart was just as bad as the wayside. Our heart was just as bad as the stony ground. Just as bad as the thorny ground.

And you know what He did? He plowed all that up. He took away the stones of our objections. He took away the thorns of this world and the cares of this life, of our self-righteousness. He pulled all that out. What were we when he found us? We were barren. We had nothing. And then what?

He plants the gospel in our hearts and then life. You know, I had life before I knew I had life. I had life. He plants that seed and it grows. He waters it with his blood and his righteousness. This is what he says in Isaiah chapter 44 verse 3 said, I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods on the dry ground. I will pour my spirit on thy seed and my blessing upon thy offspring. And so by the power of the spirit, he planted his word in us. And we see this that everyone who is planted of the Spirit will have fruit. This garden is not going to be barren. The garden that God plants is always going to be fruitful. It's always going to bear fruit.

Isn't that what He said in that parable? He said some 30, some 60, some 100. It may be a difference in measure or number of fruit or amount, but every one of them produces fruit. None of them are barren. This garden is intended to please God. To please God. Is this you? Have you come to Christ? Has this garden been planted in you? Well, here's the hope. You're enclosed. You're kept. This is that garden was protected. No one could get in but the king. That's true about this garden here in the heart. You're enclosed.

In Psalm 92 in verse 13 it says, Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish. Any question in that? They shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall bring forth fruit in old age. They shall be fat. That's not popular today, is it? They should be fat and then flourishing. That's what God says about those who are in Christ.

Now what are these fruits? What are these fruits? Go to Galatians chapter 5. Everyone who's planted, everyone who's planted of God is going to produce fruit. And this, this is true of the bride of Christ. They're going to produce fruit. You read this in verse 22 talking about the fruit of the Spirit. That's important, isn't it? It's not the fruit of the believer. It's the fruit of the Spirit. That tells you the source, right?

Jesus said, I am the vine, you are the branches. A man that doesn't abide in Me does not bear fruit is going to be cut off, but he that abides in Me shall bear much fruit. Now what's producing the fruit? The vine or the branches? Where does the fruit come from? It comes from the vine. The branches can do nothing except they're in the vine. So the fruit that we produce is not of ourselves. It is not the fruit of our character, the fruit of our morality, the fruit of our religious exercises.

See, the world has it backwards. The world wants you to change your habits. They want you to change your, you know, customs. And so they tell you, get up and do something every morning until you make it a habit. Why? They believe by that, that you grow spiritually. They get it backwards.

No. When the Spirit of God works inside of the heart of man, then it comes out. So this is what it is. It is the fruit of the Spirit. Look at this here in Galatians chapter 5 verse 22. He said, But the fruit of the Spirit. And I want you to see these in clusters, like you would see clusters of grapes. Here's the first cluster of fruit. There are three. Look at this, love, joy, and peace. This is the cluster of fruit that describes our relationship to God.

We who had no love for God, now what? Love God. You gotta try to do that. Is that not the desire of your heart to love God? I know this, you are sad because you don't love Him enough. We're like Peter, Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee. I love Thee. But we're pricked in our hearts that we don't love Him as we should. But what do we do? Do you? Do you have to twist my arm to love him? Is that it? You had to put me under some kind of law to keep me to love him? I love him. I love the father that chose me. I love the son that redeemed me. I love the spirit that called me.

Now, where'd that come from? Me? Self-determination? Is that it? Religious exercise, is that what stirs love? No. It's a fruit. It's natural. It just blooms. You don't have to make an apple tree to produce apples, do you? It just goes. If the tree is good, the fruit is going to be good. And the first fruit is love.

We love Christ. We love the Spirit. We love His gospel. And because of this love for God, it flows out to the brethren, doesn't it? So when He gives us that new commandment, love one another, even as I have loved you. Now that's how you're to love me. That's how I'm to love you. But if I see His love, loving you is easy.

Isn't it? It's natural. The second thing, joy. We rejoice in the things we had no interest in. We rejoice in the Gospel. We rejoice in Christ. We rejoice in His presence. Peace. He's made peace with the blood of His cross. We are at peace with God. Doesn't this cause us to want to live peaceably? Isn't this why we should strive to make peace among each other? Because Christ has made peace for us?

The second cluster of fruit is this. First of all, let me put this in here. I'm going to ask you a question. How can we Say we love God. And yet refuse to love our brother. Is that possible? John says it's not possible. He said if you don't love the brother, the love of God is not in you. But because the love of God is in you, the love of brethren is in you. Secondly, look at this second question.

Longsuffering, gentleness, goodness. How longsuffering was God to you? This is a relationship. This is our relationship and attitudes toward others. As we reflect upon how God was long-suffering with us, how then should we be long-suffering with others? Should it not be just natural that we're long-suffering? Seeing how long-suffering He was for us?

Gentleness. How gentle is He with me? How tender. There are times where I think he should come in the greatest of anger, violence, and tear my soul apart because of my skin. That's not how he comes, is it? He comes as the dew on the tender earth. A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench. He's tender. Is that not then our relationship to everyone around us? To be tender? Gentle? Goodness? Oh, is he not good? Is he not kind? Should not that kindness of God in us be manifested outwardly?

It is. The next cluster of fruit is faith, meekness, and temperance. These are what God described as the inward work of God faith. You didn't have any faith, now you do. I love that illustration that woman gave one time. She said, I was unbelieving and then all of a sudden I couldn't help but believe. That's fruit. She didn't determine to believe, she determined the opposite. But in power, God gave her faith, and she could not help but believe. That's the fruit of faith. For by grace you are saved through faith, and that fruit, not of yourself, it is a gift of God.

Meekness. Doesn't faith produce meekness? If we truly believe in our depravity, in God's sovereign grace and election, in Christ's perfect redemption, doesn't that put us down. Doesn't that make us to be meek? Meekness is a fruit of the spirit. You can't produce that. You could put on a monk's robe and you could shave your head and you could, you could tell people how meek you are and you'd be proud all the way. Be so proud of your meekness. That's not a fruit of the spirit.

Fruit of the spirit naturally humbles a man. And temperance, moderation, In other words, a true believer, this fruit sets Christ above every earthly thing. God gives us something good, that's fine to enjoy it so long as it doesn't interfere with the worship and service of Christ. Temperance, moderation. These are things, these are the fruits that God puts in us.

Now let me ask you this, are you fool? Is your fruit basket full? Are your fruits so ripe that you don't need any more? The bride here recognizes her need of growth. She says, awake, wait, something's wrong here. Something's wrong with my garden. So many times we as believers become cold and indifferent to the things of God. And so what is our desire? I want Him. I need Him. But I know this in myself. I can't do it. And so what is she asking? Look at that in your text. Go back there and look at this. She says this. Awake, O north wind, come thou south blow upon my garden. Her garden stagnant. Is your garden stagnant? Is your love stagnant? Faith? Meekness? Temperance? Is it stagnant?

Know this, you can't stir yourself. As religion tries to do that, they get stadiums full of people. What are they trying to do? They are trying to stir you. They are trying to stir the Spirit in you. They can't do that. They can stir the flesh, but they can't stir the Spirit. What do you need? You need the wind of the Holy Spirit.

Now look at this. She sees her need, sees her garden, sees the fruit, sees the need that it needs to be stirred, and she calls upon the wind. Now notice this. I'm gonna paraphrase my notes from now on. Awake, O north wind, and come now south. In other words, providence. She's asking the Lord to come either by the north wind of afflictions or the south winds of warmth and affection. In other words, I don't know what's best. Do you? Do you know how best to grow this garden? Do you know how best to grow your faith, your love, your meekness? You don't know what's best.

Now, I get this. Every believer wants a south wind. Every believer wants that southerly breeze to come in, and the gentle warm rain to come down, and we feel the warmth of His presence, and His love, and His grace. Oh, we want that! Grow my garden that way!

But she's wise, because she really doesn't know what she needs, and neither do you. Believer, who's in control of all problems? Who's the husbandman of this garden? You? No. Only God knows what's best. And I want you to see this. In both cases, north and south winds, north winds of affliction, the south winds of prosperity. Listen to me. God knows how to temper and use both of them so that you grow. The north wind reveals something about Christ that the south wind doesn't. It reveals Him to be a refuge, a shelter, a deliverer, a conqueror, a king.

That's what we need in the south wind, isn't it? We need a very present help in trouble. We need a very present deliverer from danger. We need a very present shelter from the wrath of God and the heat of our troubles. In the south wind, we see Him as our friend. Our companion, the lover of my soul, the warmth of his presence lights my way in such a way that I rejoice and praise and sing.

If I'd have my way, I'd always have the South, but that's not good for me, because I'll never appreciate the South wind unless I have the North wind. How does it feel after the trial? Isn't it more glorious? I think it's why all the people in California are crazy. Because they got a nice summer all year long and I think they don't understand. But that's how we would be. We would be fat and lazy and different if we always had the South. But God knows which wind to use. And notice this, she wants this wind to come for his glory. Look at that, let my beloved come to his garden and eat his pleasant fruits. Notice who's the glory, notice who she's given the glory to for this garden. Who do you give glory for your garden? For this fruit, this fruit of life, this spiritual life, who do you give glory to? Who produces this life? Was it not our Lord?

Lord, come to your garden. The garden you purpose, the garden you enclosed, the garden you planted, the garden that you produce, the well of water that you produce that cleanses us from our sin. It's your garden. Now, come eat the fruits and benefits for yourself. Notice she's not eating it herself. It's all for you. It's all for you.

I'm so thankful that God is by his grace and mercy made us fair, cleansed us of every spot, robed us in his righteousness, called us to come away with him, saved us from every danger. planted the garden of life in our souls, given us the fruit of faith, hope, love, joy, peace, meekness, all the fruits of the Spirit. He's given us these things. And may He blow upon them as He pleases, with afflictions or with a warm breeze of His presence.

Either way, all I want is Him. That's what the bride said. All I want is You. Doesn't matter what comes out, north, south, whatever. As long as you're here. As long as you receive the glory. This is the desire of the believer. Is that your desire? It is if you're planted of God. It is if he has his fruit inside, producing his fruit in you. That's your desire. Is the glory of Christ. The presence of Christ. I do pray he will come and visit us. Either way, affliction or prosperity. We're gonna have the Lord's Supper today. I wanted to have this with you for a long time.

I missed it. you want to see the love of your savior this is a good picture this is the best picture that he is he's made this picture he gave us this picture you that believe scripture says examine yourselves i don't examine anybody take this supper she examined yourselves if you're a believer in christ you may freely eat this and enjoy it because it is a picture of the broken body of our lord jesus christ It is a picture of the offering of his blood for our sins that cleanses us.

And as we eat this, you see how the bread and the wine nourish, they do something. The bread gives us strength and the wine is a symbol of joy. And that's what happens when a believer trusts him. We receive him, we become one with him. This shows our union with him. The scripture says, in the same night in which he was betrayed, they took bread and they break it. And they gave it and gave thanks. Let's do that. Terrence, would you pass it? Chuck, would you help?

Our most gracious father, we thank you for the grace, sin, your only beloved son into the world. I thank you for his righteousness that he's obtained and that his body was broken for us. As we eat this, may we do it as you have required that we do it in remembrance. I'm so thankful that our salvation is not based in a piece of bread, but in the true body of our Lord Jesus Christ that was broken for us. Pray you bless it for your own glory in Christ's name.

He said, take eat. This is my body broken for you. In the same manner, he took a cup. He said, this cup is a New Testament in my blood. This do you as often you drink it in remembrance of me. Let's sing that hymn, Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness. And we'll stand and be dismissed with this hymn. What number is that? Let's see. 580. 580, we'll be dismissed with this, 580. No, let's see. No, that's not it, let's see. four thirty nine four thirty nine.

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