If you would, open your Bibles
with me to Lamentations chapter 3. Lamentations chapter 3. Barb
Collins and Steve and I were talking about this a few minutes
ago and I thought that would be good for us to read to open
our service. Lamentations 3. We'll begin reading
in verse 18. And I said, my strength and my
hope is perished from the Lord. Remembering my affliction and
my misery, the wormwood and the gall, my soul hath them still
in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind,
therefore have I hope. Here's why I have hope. It's
of the Lord's mercies that were not consumed, because his compassions
fail not. They are new every morning, Great
is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith
my soul. Therefore will I hope in him.
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that
seeketh him. It's good that a man should both
hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. All right,
let's stand together. Shawn leads us in singing our
call to worship. Jesus the Lord, my Savior is,
my Shepherd and my God. My hope, my life, my joy, my
bliss, and I His grace record. and truth and righteousness and
peace most richly need. In Jesus Christ, our King of
grace, in whom we stand complete. ? In whom we stand complete ?
Dear Lord, forbid that we should boast ? Save in the cross of
Christ ? Here may we confidently trust ? And solemnly rejoice
? And solemnly rejoice As through the wilderness I roam, His mercies
I'll proclaim. And when I safely reach my home,
I'll still adore His name. I'll still adore His name. If you would now turn in your
hymnals to song number 463 and we'll sing All That Thrills My
Soul. Who can cheer the heart like Jesus by His presence all
divine? True and tender, pure and precious,
O how blessed to call Him mine! All that thrills my soul is Jesus,
He is more than life to me. And the fairest of ten thousand
in my blessed Lord I see. Love of Christ so freely given,
grace of God beyond degree. Mercy higher than the heaven,
deeper than the deepest sea. All that thrills my soul is Jesus,
He is more than life to me. and the fairest of ten thousand
in my blessed Lord I see. What a wonderful redemption never
can a mortal know. How my sin, though red like crimson,
can be whiter than the snow. All that thrills my soul is Jesus. He is more than life to me. And the fairest of ten thousand
in my blessed Lord I see. Every need His hands supplying,
every good in Him I see. On His strength we bind we lying,
He is all in all to me. All that thrills my soul is Jesus,
He is more than life to me. and the fairest of ten thousand
in my blessed Lord I see. By the crystal-flowing river
with the ransomed I will sing. and forever and forever. Praise and glorify the King. All that thrills my soul is Jesus. He is more than life to me. And the fairest of ten thousand
in my blessed Lord I see. Well, I think it was last week. I think, I
think it was last week. But in my mind, I think you're
probably wiser to believe Dan than me. So I apologize. That's
a horrible thing to do to a man. I'm so sorry. And Dan's my dear,
dear, dear friend. I am so sorry. It don't take long in the day
for me to humiliate myself. If you would, open your Bibles
with me to Proverbs chapter 3. Proverbs chapter three, beginning
in verse one. My son, forget not my law, but
let thine heart keep my commandments. For length of days and long life
and peace shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake
thee. Mind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of
thine heart. So shalt thou find favor and good understanding
in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all thine
heart, and lead not unto thine own understanding. In all thy
ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not
wise in thine own eyes. Fear the Lord and depart from
evil. It shall be health to thy navel and marrow to thy bones.
Honor the Lord with thy substance and with the firstfruits of all
thine increase. So shall thy barns be filled
with plenty, and thy presses so burst out with new wine. My
son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary
of his correction. For whom the Lord loveth, he
correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth
understanding. For the merchandise of it is
better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof
than fine gold. She's more precious than rubies,
and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared
unto her. Length of days is in her right
hand, and in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways
of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree
of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy is everyone
that retaineth her. We'll end our reading there.
Let's bow together in prayer. Our Father, we come once again
before your throne of grace. Father, we only dare come to
you in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, pleading only His
obedience as our righteousness, pleading only His blood as the
cleansing of our sin, pleading only Him that we can only come
accepted in Him. And Father, I pray that you would
Hear us for Christ's sake, not because of anything that we've
done, but in spite of what we've done, in spite of who we are,
for Christ's sake. Father, would you bless us one
more time in the preaching and hearing of your gospel? Father,
for Christ's sake, would you give each of us here this morning
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ? Enable us to leave here this
morning trusting Christ and Christ alone. and let everything else
fade away. Enable us to set our affection
on the Lord Jesus Christ. Let his name be glorified and
magnified. Father, I thank you for this
week that you've given to us the preaching of your gospel,
the refreshing of your saints by the preaching of our savior.
Father, one more time we beg of you that you meet with us,
enable us to hear word from thee. Enable Chris to preach in the
power of thy spirit. And Father, enable us to hear
in the power of thy spirit. For it's in Christ's name. For
his sake and his glory, we pray. Amen. And unless I've messed
up, we have a special in song from a mother and daughter. And
father and grandfather is going to accompany them on the guitar.
That's what I was told last night. See, I could have been wrong.
They're gonna sing us a special at this time and I know we'll
enjoy it. I in awesome wonder consider
all Thy worlds Thy hands hath made I see the stars I hear the
rolling thunder Thy power throughout The universe displayed Then sings
my soul, my Savior God, to Thee How great Thou art, how great
Thou art Then sings my soul, my Saviour
God, to Thee How great Thou art, how great Thou art When through
the woods and forest glades I wander And hear the birds sing sweetly
in the trees When I look down from lofty mountains grander
And hear the brook, and feel the gentle breeze Then sings
my soul, my Savior God, to Thee How great Thou art, how great
Thou art Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee How great
Thou art, how great Thou art And when I think That God, His
Son not sparing, Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in,
That on the cross My burden gladly bearing, He bled and died, To
take away my sins Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee
How great Thou art, how great Thou art Then sings my soul,
my Saviour God, to Thee How great Thou art, how great Thou art
When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation And take
me home What joy shall fill my heart Then I shall bow In humble
adoration And there proclaim My God, how great Thou art Then
sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee How great Thou art, how
great Thou art Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee I've never met a preacher yet. that wasn't ready to preach after
he heard that song. So I'm sure Chris's heart is
prepared to preach. Chris Cunningham, pastor of the
College Grove Grace Church. Chris is such a dear, dear friend.
And you know, all of these men that I invited to preach here
this weekend, I invited because I like to hear them preach. And
they all have the gift to be able to preach the gospel so
clearly. And Chris certainly is that.
He can preach the gospel so clearly. And I know we've heard a lot
of preaching this weekend. I hope you'll pay attention.
Because this is why I promise you, you might not believe what
Chris is getting ready to preach, but you're going to understand
what he says. I pray God would grant us the faith to believe.
Chris, you can preach Christ to us. Well, that was beautiful. That
was a beautiful. Song beautifully sung and I think that third verse
is. Probably my favorite verse of
any song is so simple and beautiful. When I think of God, his son,
not spare. Sent him to die. How can we even take that in? that on the cross, my burden
gladly bearing, he bled and died to take away my sin. Matthew chapter two. In verse one, Matthew 2, 1, now when Jesus
was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King,
behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying,
where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen
his star in the east and are come to worship him. When Herod
the King had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem
with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes
of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be
born. And they said unto him, in Bethlehem of Judea, for thus
it is written by the prophet. And thou, Bethlehem, in the land
of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah. For out
of thee shall come a governor that shall rule my people Israel.
And then Herod, when he had probably called the wise men, inquired
of them diligently what time the star appeared. And he sent
them to Bethlehem and said, go and search diligently for the
young child. And when you have found him,
bring me word again that I may come and worship him also. When
they had heard the king, they departed and lo, the star, which
they saw in the east, went before them till they came and stood
over where the young child was. But when they saw the star, they
rejoiced with exceeding great joy." Now, this star, in the scriptures, preachers
of the gospel are referred to as God's stars. In Revelation
120, it says, the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest
in my right hand and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven
stars are the angels, and that word is messengers, of the seven
churches. And the seven candlesticks which
thou sawest are the seven churches. So those are the messengers of
the churches, but all of God's people are like this star in
our text. He said, you're the light of
the world. Because Christ is the light of the world. And you
know, I thought about when I, looked at this, why would I preach
a message about preachers? Why would I want to call attention
to preachers? Why would God call attention
to a sinner like this? You remember the story of the
woman of Canaan who cried for mercy and said, my daughter is
grievously vexed with the devil. And she cried unto the Lord and
the disciples were bothered by that and they said, send her
away. And the Lord confronted her. And said, why should I give
the children's bread to a dog like you? And she said, well, Lord, the
dogs, even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the master's table.
If you'll recall, the way that story begins is how, behold,
a woman, a woman. Why would God call attention
to a sinner? Why would he say, look at this
woman of all things? Because you can't look at that
woman. Without seeing the glory of Christ in her. Without seeing
the mercy of God. In his precious son, his long
suffering. Sovereign. Able to save with
a word son. And you remember how the Lord
called John the Baptist, the greatest man born of a woman? Why in the world? Would God brag
on a sinner? Just one reason, behold, the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. And this star in our text, there
are a lot of, one of my favorite things about this star is how
little we know about it. We don't know anything about
the star, really. There are a lot of questions about it, aren't
there? If it was a star like the stars that we know about,
that we are familiar with, then how did it stand above the place
where Christ lay? How did it do that? Would any
star be able to do that? It would be difficult to tell
where a star was over if it was a normal star. But our star is
not an ordinary star here. Lots of so-called stars in the
sky. But you might be able to look
straight up in the air and say, there's a star that's right over
me. But a million other people could say the same thing. It's
right over them, too. And there are many stars and
many false Christs. This star was not like that.
This star didn't have a name, like some stars do. It wasn't
called the North Star. It wasn't any kind of special.
Different stars are different colors, and you can distinguish
them that way. We don't know anything about this one. It doesn't
say, as far as I can tell, that it was a bright star or a beautiful
star. We have one description of it
in verse two. It was his star. It was his. It belonged to him. God's preachers
are his. They're for his glory. That's
all they do. Now, if the Lord uses them and
he calls them and he sends them, they're going to glorify him.
You could say this star was the Holy Spirit because the Holy
Spirit takes the things of Christ and shows them, but how does
he do that? When Philip asked that Ethiopian
eunuch, what are you reading? Do you understand what you're
reading? And he said, how can I accept some man? That's what we are, just some
man. That's it. John was just a voice, just a
voice crying in the wilderness. But you know what he was crying?
There's God's lamb. There's the lamb, the only lamb
that ever took sin away right there. We don't entertain, we don't
motivate just for the sake of motivation. And you know, God's
preachers don't even really counsel people. The way people talk about
that word, and this may be controversial, I don't know. You talk about
making people mad, Donnie. I might make somebody mad. It's
all right. It wouldn't be the first time, would it? We're not
counselors. You don't come to a preacher
for personal advice. I'm sorry, and I'd be glad to
give you my advice, but it's probably going to be stupid. Most of it stinks. You need to
hear from God. You need to hear from God. And
the star just had one purpose. You know, stars have always been
used for many centuries to navigate at night, to get a traveler by
sea or by land to any earthly destination. But this star would
not have been any good at that. It was moving around. You wouldn't
be able to rely on it to get into any earthly destination.
You'd never be able to chart a course to some distant city
by this star. This star was only any good to
you if you were looking for God's son. And the other stars wouldn't
have helped you with that. But this one would. No, our star had to be different
than all the other stars in two ways. It was right where he was. I mean, right where he was, and
I don't know, I can't explain that to you. I don't understand
the science behind that. But it was, it was right where
he was. And you know, his stars are constantly
by his grace seeking that. Don't let me stray, Lord, from
you. Help me to determine not to know anything else among your
people but you and what you did for us on Calvary. Keep me close. Keep me close. And you know what
this star did, too? It followed him. It followed
him. Stars don't do that. They don't
follow people, but his do. This gospel that we preach has
one purpose. There's one reason why there's
a Bible, why there's a gospel, why there are preachers, why
God calls. How are you going to hear without
a preacher? And you're not going to hear what God said unless
God sends a preacher. Listen to John 21, 25, and there
are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they should
be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could
not contain the books that should be written. Can you imagine a
life like that? A short life, but so full of
his mercy and grace and miraculous power to save that you couldn't
even record it all. The world couldn't contain it.
But listen to John 20 verse 30 and many other signs truly did
Jesus in the presence of his disciples Which are not written
in this book It'd be interesting to know what
some of them were Maybe one of these days we will
but these are written That you might believe that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God That's what he's talking about, Donnie. That's
all you need to know. Well, don't you have to know
the doctrine of election? He's the son of God. Don't you
have to believe in sovereignty? He's the son of God. Don't you have to believe that
he redeemed everybody he died for? He's the son of God. and that believing you might
have life through his name. That's our purpose. Look, we're
just like you. You know, if our sink gets clogged,
we get some kind of something and run it down in the drain
and unclog it, you know? And if something needs to be
painted around the house, we'll get some paintbrushing and paint
it. We're just like you. But we really just have one purpose,
though. Just one purpose. The Bible doesn't say a lot of
things. It says the same thing a lot
of times. And in a lot of ways. But one
thing is needful. That star just had one purpose.
It wasn't good for anything else. But that. First John five nine,
if we receive the witness of men, The witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God,
which he hath testified of his son. He that believeth on the
son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not
God hath made him a liar. Somebody's lying. Between you
and God. Paul said, let God be true and
you a liar. That's the truth of it. Somebody's
lying unless God reveals his truth to you and you're able
by his grace to tell what he said to tell what he said Because he believeth not the
record that God gave of his son and this is the record That God
has given to us eternal life and this life's in his son He
that hath the son hath life And he that hath not the Son of God
hath not life." That's just as simple as that star came where
Christ was and said, here he is. Here's God's Son. Here's
the salvation of God. Simeon said, mine eyes have seen
God's salvation in a baby. In a baby. I want like this star,
by God's grace, To do what these men have done as they preach
to you this week, this weekend, to hover over, point to, follow,
shine upon, and stay with Christ. Just stay right there. Don't
ever let us stray, Lord, from the simplicity that's the all-inclusiveness
that's in Christ. The only reason, you know, that
they weren't impressed, they didn't stand there and stare
at the star and worship the star and make a big deal out of the
star. The only reason they mentioned the star in verse two is they
wanted to worship Christ. We want to worship Christ. How's that going to happen? Well,
God's got a star. They saw the star, but they didn't
worship it. They came to worship Him. Let me read you the rest of where
I talked about where John stood and looking upon Jesus as he
walked. He saith, Behold, the Lamb of
God. And listen to the rest of the
context of that after that. And the two disciples heard him
speak and they followed Jesus. That's what historical. When you hear a man speak and
the result of that is you follow Jesus Christ. That's God's star. That's his star. Then Jesus turned
and saw them following and saith unto them, what seek ye? And
they said unto him, rabbi, which is to say, being interpreted,
master, master, where dwellest thou? And he saith unto them,
come and see, come and see. And they came and saw where he
dwelt. and abode with him that day for it was about the 10th
hour and one of the two which heard John speak and followed
him was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. Hearing John speak caused
them to follow God's son. That's, I guarantee you, if you
have a faithful pastor of the gospel of Christ, that's all
he wants. He wants to see you follow him. Not only did they come to worship
him, but he was pleased to cause them to. Look at what happened
in 9 through 11. When they had heard the king,
they departed, and lo, the star which they saw in the east went
before them till it came and stood over where the young child
was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding
joy. And when they were coming to the house, they saw the young
child with Mary and his mother, Mary, his mother, and fell down
and worshiped him. And when they had opened their
treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold and frankincense
and myrrh. That's what they said from the
start. We want to worship him. And look what ended up happening
because God's star stood over where he was. What a, what a
mystery that is that God would use, that God would use these
means. You know, there was there in
Acts chapter 10 when Cornelius prayed and you know what he was
praying for by how his prayer was answered. He's praying to
hear from God because the Lord, the angel said, God's answered
your prayer. And, uh, and then he said, sin for Simon Peter.
There's an angel standing there. Why couldn't the angel tell him
of the gospel? Why couldn't the angel exalt
Christ? He's been in his presence. He said, go get old Simon Peter.
A worthless failure that's not worth shooting. And God answers
your prayer that way. You're gonna hear from God. When the star stood over where
Christ was, it camped right there. And it says they rejoiced to
see the star, because they knew what that meant. They knew they
rejoiced to see. I rejoiced to see Donnie. I rejoiced
to see Brother Mike. I hadn't seen him in so long,
and I was glad to see him. You know why? Because I knew
what that meant. He's going to. He's going to shine on Christ,
and Christ is going to give him the light to do it. How beautiful
upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth
salvation, that saith unto Zion. What's our message? Your God
is sovereign. Your God reigns. He does as he
pleases in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of
this earth. He said, my hand's not shortened that I can't save.
If he wants to save you this morning, he can do it. That old
leper just came to find out whether he would or not. He said, I know
you can, Lord, I know you can. Listen to where Paul quoted that
passage, Romans 10, turn there with me if you would, please,
to Romans chapter 10. That passes, I just read there
from Isaiah 52, how beautiful upon the mountains. Romans 10,
11, for the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall
not be ashamed. For there is no difference between
the Jew and the Greek. For the same Lord over all is
rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they
call on him in whom they've not believed? And how shall they
believe in him of whom they've not heard? And how shall they
hear without a preacher? God doesn't need anybody. He
doesn't need a preacher. He doesn't need us. Paul said,
we're nothing. The ones that God gives the grace
and privilege to plant and water, we're nothing. The one that gets
the glory is God that giveth the increase. But this is the way he's going
to do it now. This is the way he's going to do it. How beautiful are their feet,
because they carry, those feet carried them to where I am. And
they preach the gospel to me. Faith comes by hearing and hearing.
You know, God could, God's God, he could have gotten those wise
men there a million different ways. But he did it by his star. He always does that. He always
does that. There were a lot of other inquiries
that were made as to where they were, but none of those got anybody
there. It was his star that got them
there. And when they saw it, they rejoiced.
But they didn't stand gazing at the star. This is why they
rejoiced when they saw the star. When they were coming to the
house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they
fell down. They fell down at a person. You
know, you picture what they saw, a little baby in a manger. It's
not about what these I see. It's about a person. It's about
who he is. They fell down and worshipped
him and they opened their treasures. They opened their treasures.
The first thing they laid eyes on, this is the, they come into
the house and what did they see the first thing? Well, there's
some cows over there, no? They saw the young child. And he was the only one that
they worshiped. They followed his star for that
one reason, to find and see and worship the Son of God. They
traveled a long way, probably a dangerous way, to get where
he was, but they were determined. They were determined like those
fellas that lowered that man down at the feet of the Savior.
You see, the kingdom of heaven is going to be taken by storm.
It'll be taken by force. Because God's going to put, if
you ever get a glimpse of the Savior, you're getting to Him.
You won't need somebody to beg you to come down an aisle. You're
not going to find Him down there anyway. But you won't need somebody
to beg you. You need a glimpse. You need
the light from heaven to shine down on you. Spiritual light
that reveals who Christ is and who you are and how your sins
can be as white as snow. They were going to get there.
They were determined. The woman with the issue of blood,
she pressed through the throng because she had no other hope.
She'd spent it all and got worse. Blind Bartimaeus wouldn't shut
up because he didn't have any other hope. The woman of Canaan, she wouldn't
go away because she didn't have any hope. Jacob would not let
him go. Why? They were able to worship him
You know why they worshiped him? Because he's the king. He was
born king. He was born king. It calls Herod
king in there. That's just what he thought. The king of the Jews, the king
of his chosen elect people. He's not a Jew, which is one
outwardly. He's a Jew, which is one which God makes a Jew
on the inside. They that to whom he's given
the same faith he gave to Abraham, that's Abraham C. And that was
the very title written over his head. He bearing his cross went
forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called
in the Hebrew Golgotha, where they crucified him and two other
with him. And on either side, and Jesus in the midst, and Pilate
wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was this,
Jesus of Nazareth, the King. The King. At his birth, he was
called the King. As he hung on that cross, he
was called the King. And he proved it all in between
and ever since. And before, he's the King of
glory. He does as he pleases. They saw
a baby in a manger, but they were looking at the King of Glory
who gave himself a ransom for many. Simeon saw a baby and said,
he says he blessed God. He blessed God and said, I'm
ready to die because I've seen the salvation of God. The thief
saw on the cross a bloody, broken, that The Savior, as Donnie described
him, so lacerated and bruised, punched in the face and his beard
ripped out. More than any man before or since. Scripture says more than any
man. He was marred. But he saw the king of glory. who was coming into a kingdom. And the question this morning,
very simply, is have you seen God's King? If you have, I'm pretty sure
it's because God sent his star. I'm pretty sure that's how it
happened. He sent one to me. He sent his star to me. And that star stood over where
Christ was and stayed right there. And I took heed by God's grace
under the gospel of his grace until that day star rose in my
heart. The true star, the Lord Jesus
Christ, have you seen him, the king of salvation, the sovereign
savior of sinners, as God revealed to you in his gospel, his son. If you ever see Him high and
lifted up, you'll worship Him. You'll worship Him. And may He
grant it by His grace that we worship Him together as long
as we live. If He's gracious, we'll worship
Him together as long as we live. And then in a little while, face
to face. Face to face. That'll be even better than this
one. We don't have any idea. I have not seen or heard, but we're
going to see him as he is. As he is. Let's rejoice and look
forward to that day together. And may he grant that we might
worship him with our. Last breath. Maybe. Thank you, Chris. Well, I learned
things about that star I never even thought before. That's so
good. You know, this weekend, Lord
sent us four stars, didn't he? Five, because Roland Browning
read scripture just by reading, preached a message to us, and
they all pointed to the same person. You know, pastors don't get to
sit and listen much, but as I was sitting and listening, just soaking
that in this weekend, Excuse me. My fervent prayer was, Lord,
give me faith to believe. That's my prayer for you, too. And if we don't, it's our own
fault. All right, well, we're going to sing a closing hymn. And once again, our ladies have
prepared a delicious meal for us. So let the men have some
time to set up the tables. Ladies, uncover the dishes and
we'll go through that door. You know the drill. We'll go
around and eat. Before Sean comes and leads us to sing our closing
hymn, let's bow together in prayer. Our Father, we thank you. Oh,
how we thank you for the Lord Jesus Christ. How we thank you
for the one who's high and lifted up, who the heavens cannot contain,
would love us and come and sacrifice himself to wash us from our sin. Father, how we thank you. Nothing could be more undeserved
than that. How we thank you. How we thank
you for the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. And Father, I thank
you for these men that you sent to preach it to us this weekend.
Father, as they return home, and Wednesday night comes around,
and they're with the flock that you've given them to lead, Father,
bless them again. Bless them for your great namesake.
Father, we ask traveling mercies for those who are traveling back
home today. Give them traveling mercies and
be with them. Father, we thank you for this food, ask that you
bless it. We thank you for how richly and abundantly you've
blessed us in this life. We're thankful. Father, we ask
you to forgive us of our many sins, our failures, our weakness, that you would see us and hear
us only in our Lord Jesus Christ. For his blessed name, for his
sake and his glory, we pray, amen. All right, Sean. Okay, if you would, turn in your
hymnals to song number 442 and stand as we sing, Praise Him,
Praise Him. 442. Praise Him, praise Him, Jesus
our blessed Redeemer. Sing, O earth, His wonderful
love proclaim. Hail Him, hail Him, highest archangels
in glory. Strength and honor give to His
holy name. Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard
His children. In His arms, He carries them
all day long. Praise Him, praise Him, tell
of His excellent greatness. Praise Him, praise Him, ever
in joyful song. Praise Him, praise Him, Jesus
our blessed Redeemer. For our sins He suffered and
bled and died. He, our Rock, our hope of eternal
salvation. Hail Him, hail Him, Jesus the
Crucified. Sound His praises, Jesus, who
bore our sorrows. Love unbounded, wonderful, deep,
and strong. Praise Him, praise Him, tell
of His excellent greatness. Praise Him, praise Him, ever
in joyful song. Praise Him, praise Him, Jesus
our blessed Redeemer. Heavenly portals, loud with hosannas
ring. Jesus, Savior, reigneth forever
and ever. Crown Him, crown Him, prophet
and priest and king. Christ is coming, over the world
victorious. Power and glory unto the Lord
belong. Praise Him, praise Him, tell
of His excellent greatness. Praise Him, praise Him, ever
in joyful song. you